@kfunk937.bsky.social
My thing, cradle to grave, is mostly healthcare. Later, disaster litigation tourism. Housing 1st; medical attendance; and fed. (<--Lower-case.)
Raised by pirates. Bad pacifist.
Raised by pirates. Bad pacifist.
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I’ve been posting about this since 2022, but looks like it’s time to do so again: treating giving up territory as something Zelenskyy could OR would do, if he weren’t politically ambitious &/or afraid of his compatriots is both HOWLINGLY ignorant—and proof of utter disdain for Ukrainian sovereignty.
December 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I’ve been posting about this since 2022, but looks like it’s time to do so again: treating giving up territory as something Zelenskyy could OR would do, if he weren’t politically ambitious &/or afraid of his compatriots is both HOWLINGLY ignorant—and proof of utter disdain for Ukrainian sovereignty.
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This is not culture wars. This is saving lives.
Internally displaced younguns need places to land.
More broadly applicable, yes. Very much so.
Myself, cis/het, negotiated my exit to graduate highschool at 16. Outta there.
Kids without that option should have outreach.
This is not culture wars. This is saving lives.
Internally displaced younguns need places to land.
More broadly applicable, yes. Very much so.
Myself, cis/het, negotiated my exit to graduate highschool at 16. Outta there.
Kids without that option should have outreach.
December 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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This is not culture wars. This is saving lives.
Internally displaced younguns need places to land.
More broadly applicable, yes. Very much so.
Myself, cis/het, negotiated my exit to graduate highschool at 16. Outta there.
Kids without that option should have outreach.
This is not culture wars. This is saving lives.
Internally displaced younguns need places to land.
More broadly applicable, yes. Very much so.
Myself, cis/het, negotiated my exit to graduate highschool at 16. Outta there.
Kids without that option should have outreach.
Sooner or later, one wonders why their lab was situated otop a bauxite mine
JOKE
But, seriously
JOKE
But, seriously
December 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Sooner or later, one wonders why their lab was situated otop a bauxite mine
JOKE
But, seriously
JOKE
But, seriously
I have mixed feelings about minors on the interwebs.
Generally speaking, I think there's more potential harm than good, as with my immediate person, who's exceptionally vulnerable to manipulation and, worse, exploitation (albeit technically older than I).
1/x
Generally speaking, I think there's more potential harm than good, as with my immediate person, who's exceptionally vulnerable to manipulation and, worse, exploitation (albeit technically older than I).
1/x
December 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I have mixed feelings about minors on the interwebs.
Generally speaking, I think there's more potential harm than good, as with my immediate person, who's exceptionally vulnerable to manipulation and, worse, exploitation (albeit technically older than I).
1/x
Generally speaking, I think there's more potential harm than good, as with my immediate person, who's exceptionally vulnerable to manipulation and, worse, exploitation (albeit technically older than I).
1/x
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They were working on an mRNA application for glioblastoma when Elon/RFK laid wreck to everything.
[My father died of glioblastoma.]
[My father died of glioblastoma.]
This hit me like a gut punch, because I lost a good friend to glioblastoma. I wish Jason Collins a speedy & full recovery, knowing that Stage 4 Glioblastoma has always been terminal.
Hoping for a cure.
Fuck cancer!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/688...
Hoping for a cure.
Fuck cancer!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/688...
Former NBA player Jason Collins announces he has Stage 4 brain cancer
Collins started experiencing symptoms while trying to pack for a US Open trip.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:20 PM
They were working on an mRNA application for glioblastoma when Elon/RFK laid wreck to everything.
[My father died of glioblastoma.]
[My father died of glioblastoma.]
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"Are you overwhelmed with your holiday judge-shopping? This year, try Mandamus!"
December 12, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Are you overwhelmed with your holiday judge-shopping? This year, try Mandamus!"
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BREAKING: DOJ has filed a mandamus petition at the DC Circuit, seeking to stop next week’s contempt proceedings before Judge Boasberg. They have also filed a motion to stay the proceedings directly with Boasberg.
![JORAL ARGUMENT NOT SCHEDULED]
No. 25--
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
In re DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity, et al.,
Petitioners.
On Petition for a Writ of Mandamus to the United States
District Court for the District of Columbia
Case No: 1:25-cv-00766-JEB
PETITION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS
BRETT A. SHUMATE
Assistant Attorney General
YAAKOV M. ROTH
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General
TIBERIUS DAVIS
Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General
Civil Division
U.S. Department of Justice](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifgrkondpcwk3xzgalmpz5i4jgbmvrcfwxqwry5qyy5fbkwr45a3u@jpeg)
December 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
BREAKING: DOJ has filed a mandamus petition at the DC Circuit, seeking to stop next week’s contempt proceedings before Judge Boasberg. They have also filed a motion to stay the proceedings directly with Boasberg.
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Among many other things, this is a story about how real journalism works to expose the propaganda crew Hegseth has installed at the Pentagon.
1/ MUST READ: @dfriedman.bsky.social asked the Pentagon about a Goodreads page linked to the email of a top official that featured pornographic books. Then, MAGA influencer—and newly minted member of DOD press corps—Jack Posobiec threatened to smear him.
Quite the coincidence!
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Quite the coincidence!
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I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
ow.ly
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Among many other things, this is a story about how real journalism works to expose the propaganda crew Hegseth has installed at the Pentagon.
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BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis orders the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration custody
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis orders the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration custody
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I don’t know Bobby. But I have loved ones who have waged similar fights to survive. And every gift in the battle, no matter the size, is a blessing beyond measure. For the giver as well as the recipient.
Bobby has been at the Reagan Medical Center at UCLA in LA for more than 9 weeks. But a temporary setback of an emergency surgery is keeping him here for approx 2 weeks -- really praying for Christmas!
We really need to continue funding his outpatient room!
Chip in $20, $27, $35, $50, $100 or more:
We really need to continue funding his outpatient room!
Chip in $20, $27, $35, $50, $100 or more:
December 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I don’t know Bobby. But I have loved ones who have waged similar fights to survive. And every gift in the battle, no matter the size, is a blessing beyond measure. For the giver as well as the recipient.
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If you're feeling scuzzy,
from reading about Nuzzi ...
... here is something a whole lot worse!
I have highlighted a few bits in the comments.
from reading about Nuzzi ...
... here is something a whole lot worse!
I have highlighted a few bits in the comments.
This story about Trump administration intervention on behalf of Andrew and Tristan Tate is very good, and nauseating. (Gift link.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
How a Manosphere Star Accused of Rape and Trafficking Was Freed
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
If you're feeling scuzzy,
from reading about Nuzzi ...
... here is something a whole lot worse!
I have highlighted a few bits in the comments.
from reading about Nuzzi ...
... here is something a whole lot worse!
I have highlighted a few bits in the comments.
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When a group of blue state attorney's general submitted a strident defense of trans healthcare to Trump's FTC, no one in the media covered it.
No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.
No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.
State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned
Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
When a group of blue state attorney's general submitted a strident defense of trans healthcare to Trump's FTC, no one in the media covered it.
No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.
No one, that is, except for @valorievandieman.bsky.social of Assigned Media, in one of our most read stories of 2025.
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In November 1990, LIFE Magazine ran a now-legendary photograph of AIDS activist David Kirby’s last moments. Just out of frame was another eventual victim of AIDS, and the reason Therese Frare was in the room at all; Peta, a two-spirit caretaker with their own story to tell.
By @piperbomb.bsky.social
By @piperbomb.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s @gingerthompson.bsky.social pursues the question:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 1: The Business of Care
Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape. The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
projects.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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NEW: Federally funded community health centers receive grants in exchange for serving patients regardless of their ability to pay.
But ProPublica found at least five across the country filing lawsuits and garnishing paychecks to collect unpaid bills.
But ProPublica found at least five across the country filing lawsuits and garnishing paychecks to collect unpaid bills.
These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills.
Federally funded community health centers receive grants in exchange for serving patients regardless of their ability to pay. But ProPublica found at least five across the country garnishing patients’ paychecks to collect unpaid bills.
www.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
NEW: Federally funded community health centers receive grants in exchange for serving patients regardless of their ability to pay.
But ProPublica found at least five across the country filing lawsuits and garnishing paychecks to collect unpaid bills.
But ProPublica found at least five across the country filing lawsuits and garnishing paychecks to collect unpaid bills.
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Tammi Hamby was just arrested for staging a fake kidnapping of her own daughter to teach her a lesson.
Turns out she's the same Christian woman who crusaded to remove LGBTQ books from the library in the name of child safety.
The hypocrisy is WILD.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-christia...
Turns out she's the same Christian woman who crusaded to remove LGBTQ books from the library in the name of child safety.
The hypocrisy is WILD.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-christia...
A Christian mom who tried to ban LGBTQ books just got arrested for kidnapping her own daughter
From censoring LGBTQ books to staging a kidnapping, Tammi Hamby’s crusade shows how Christian Nationalist power harms the very communities it claims to protect
www.friendlyatheist.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Tammi Hamby was just arrested for staging a fake kidnapping of her own daughter to teach her a lesson.
Turns out she's the same Christian woman who crusaded to remove LGBTQ books from the library in the name of child safety.
The hypocrisy is WILD.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-christia...
Turns out she's the same Christian woman who crusaded to remove LGBTQ books from the library in the name of child safety.
The hypocrisy is WILD.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/a-christia...
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That’s another horrendous ACIP meeting on the books. This clown show did a lot more than weakly recommend delaying the HBV birth dose and compare vaccines to planes.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/say-hello-...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/say-hello-...
Say Hello to Hepatitis B, Baby
Anti-vax ACIP are bumbling their way to higher rates of pediatric liver cancer...and worse
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
That’s another horrendous ACIP meeting on the books. This clown show did a lot more than weakly recommend delaying the HBV birth dose and compare vaccines to planes.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/say-hello-...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/say-hello-...
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Happy Cloudflare is down once again to all who celebrate
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Happy Cloudflare is down once again to all who celebrate
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I have a fun presentation for you to watch, all about the AI-nuclear powered future Trump and Tech would love to deliver unto us all
‘Atoms for Algorithms:’ The Trump Administration’s Top Nuclear Scientists Think AI Can Replace Humans in Power Plants
A presentation at the International Atomic Energy Agency unveiled Big Tech’s vision of an AI and nuclear fueled future.
www.404media.co
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I have a fun presentation for you to watch, all about the AI-nuclear powered future Trump and Tech would love to deliver unto us all
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EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: The Biden staffer wrongfully questioned by the FBI is NOT the pipe bomber. 😆😆😆😆😆
"My phone is blowing up haha. Omg," he texts me.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
"My phone is blowing up haha. Omg," he texts me.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
In its chaotic Jan. 6 probe, the FBI wrongly questioned a Biden staffer about Capitol pipe bombs
A Capitol rioter yelled the name "John Richter" on the floor of the Senate. Months later, the FBI showed up at the wrong John Richter's house.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: The Biden staffer wrongfully questioned by the FBI is NOT the pipe bomber. 😆😆😆😆😆
"My phone is blowing up haha. Omg," he texts me.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
"My phone is blowing up haha. Omg," he texts me.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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America does not have capital punishment for selling or smuggling drugs and none of these people were arrested or tried. There could have been mountains of cocaine in open view on the deck of the boats and it still would have been murder of unarmed civilians.
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
America does not have capital punishment for selling or smuggling drugs and none of these people were arrested or tried. There could have been mountains of cocaine in open view on the deck of the boats and it still would have been murder of unarmed civilians.
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Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Additional background, here: www.kansas.com/news/state/a...
December 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Additional background, here: www.kansas.com/news/state/a...