Kim D
@kimkitee.bsky.social
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Good morning. Five years ago today, Jan 6, 2021, insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
Lincoln warned that government “of the people, by the people, for the people” must not perish.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social's article is worth a full read today.
Lincoln warned that government “of the people, by the people, for the people” must not perish.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social's article is worth a full read today.
January 5, 2026 (Monday)
Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Good morning. Five years ago today, Jan 6, 2021, insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
Lincoln warned that government “of the people, by the people, for the people” must not perish.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social's article is worth a full read today.
Lincoln warned that government “of the people, by the people, for the people” must not perish.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social's article is worth a full read today.
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REP. GOLDMAN: “Trump promised oil executives if they gave him $1 billion for his campaign, he’d do right by them. They gave about $500 million. This is a massive gift in violation of international law, essentially just co-opting an entire country's natural resources for the benefit of 🇺🇸 Companies.”
January 4, 2026 at 4:16 AM
REP. GOLDMAN: “Trump promised oil executives if they gave him $1 billion for his campaign, he’d do right by them. They gave about $500 million. This is a massive gift in violation of international law, essentially just co-opting an entire country's natural resources for the benefit of 🇺🇸 Companies.”
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I’ve been wondering for the last year when we’d get to the library destruction phase and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I’ve been wondering for the last year when we’d get to the library destruction phase and here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...
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We’re sleepwalking into a disaster
5 million-plus kindergartners now live in counties where schools don’t have “herd immunity” for measles, Washington Post reporters found.
WaPo also built a tool to look up your own county.
Exceptional, and alarming work by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.
(Gift link.)
WaPo also built a tool to look up your own county.
Exceptional, and alarming work by @laurenweberhp.bsky.social @caitlingilbert.bsky.social et al.
(Gift link.)
U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
wapo.st
January 1, 2026 at 3:19 AM
We’re sleepwalking into a disaster
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It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.
January 1, 2026 at 2:01 AM
It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.
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POLITICO: “House Republicans decided to publicly release the transcript of special counsel Jack Smith’s Dec. 17 closed-door deposition on New Year’s Eve — while most of Washington was tuned out for the holiday…” www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
January 1, 2026 at 4:17 AM
POLITICO: “House Republicans decided to publicly release the transcript of special counsel Jack Smith’s Dec. 17 closed-door deposition on New Year’s Eve — while most of Washington was tuned out for the holiday…” www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Jim Jordan was really scared on Jan. 6 after being in contact with the White House, Mark Meadows told Jack Smith’s team.
This comes out in testimony before Jordan’s own committee, which Jordan initially chose not to make public and then decided to release in the final hours of 2025.
This comes out in testimony before Jordan’s own committee, which Jordan initially chose not to make public and then decided to release in the final hours of 2025.
December 31, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Jim Jordan was really scared on Jan. 6 after being in contact with the White House, Mark Meadows told Jack Smith’s team.
This comes out in testimony before Jordan’s own committee, which Jordan initially chose not to make public and then decided to release in the final hours of 2025.
This comes out in testimony before Jordan’s own committee, which Jordan initially chose not to make public and then decided to release in the final hours of 2025.
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In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."
December 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
In case you were wondering, Jack Smith's testimony was the *opposite* of "total exoneration."
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Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
December 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
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Millions of peoples' health insurance skyrockets in a few hours. Let's check in on the president.
Trump, celebrating New Year's at Mar-a-Lago, bids $100,000 for a painting
January 1, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Millions of peoples' health insurance skyrockets in a few hours. Let's check in on the president.
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Just finished reading the Jack Smith transcript. I've highlighted what I consider to be stand-out moments, and our team at MSW Media will be cutting together a highlight reel for you. Stay tuned!
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 AM
Just finished reading the Jack Smith transcript. I've highlighted what I consider to be stand-out moments, and our team at MSW Media will be cutting together a highlight reel for you. Stay tuned!
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On Jack Smith deposition, now released:
100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.
Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.
What Smith says is far more incriminating.
100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.
Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.
What Smith says is far more incriminating.
December 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
On Jack Smith deposition, now released:
100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.
Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.
What Smith says is far more incriminating.
100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning.
Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print.
What Smith says is far more incriminating.
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The new “Trump class” battleship program appears “optimized more to produce a scary-looking vessel than to address the rapidly changing threats to American military power on the open seas,” Phillips Payson O’Brien argues:
Ukraine Sees the Future of Naval Warfare. Trump Doesn’t.
The balance of power is shifting toward cheap drones and away from expensive ships.
bit.ly
December 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The new “Trump class” battleship program appears “optimized more to produce a scary-looking vessel than to address the rapidly changing threats to American military power on the open seas,” Phillips Payson O’Brien argues:
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I don't recall a time when saying Merry Christmas was ever banned under Biden or Obama. How strange.
December 27, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I don't recall a time when saying Merry Christmas was ever banned under Biden or Obama. How strange.
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This is excellent. Do read.
A year-end special from me:
The 25 Worst Villains of the Trump Admin, in ranking order. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
The 25 Worst Villains of the Trump Admin, in ranking order. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
25 Worst Villains of the Trump Admin
The worst of the worst, ranked 1-25.
open.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This is excellent. Do read.
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Yes, choosing just 500 was a near-impossible task. Here's 1-100, which spans from January through February:
500 Worst Things Trump Did in 2025
Part 1-100, January-March 2025.
www.meidasplus.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Yes, choosing just 500 was a near-impossible task. Here's 1-100, which spans from January through February:
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I wanna a continuously updated list of all that Trump has named after himself.
And I want it to be called the Turkmenbashi Tracker.
www.theguardian.com/world/2006/d...
And I want it to be called the Turkmenbashi Tracker.
www.theguardian.com/world/2006/d...
The personality cult of Turkmenbashi
From rotating gold statues of himself, to renaming the months in honour of his family, Saparmurat Niyazov's rule was authoritarian and eccentric.
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I wanna a continuously updated list of all that Trump has named after himself.
And I want it to be called the Turkmenbashi Tracker.
www.theguardian.com/world/2006/d...
And I want it to be called the Turkmenbashi Tracker.
www.theguardian.com/world/2006/d...
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We're ruled by people in all three branches of government and across the tech/corporate landscape who think it's bad that this happened and wish the mob had prevailed, plain and simple. It's clarifying.
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We're ruled by people in all three branches of government and across the tech/corporate landscape who think it's bad that this happened and wish the mob had prevailed, plain and simple. It's clarifying.
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And they took the family groceries to boot. I keep hoping that each & every person who is participating as ICE officers has their identity revealed. May their families be embarrassed & ashamed of their actions. May their children be horrified to have a parent who willingly did this.
#FuckIce
#FuckIce
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
And they took the family groceries to boot. I keep hoping that each & every person who is participating as ICE officers has their identity revealed. May their families be embarrassed & ashamed of their actions. May their children be horrified to have a parent who willingly did this.
#FuckIce
#FuckIce
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My column this week. Tommy Tuberville has repeatedly shown contempt for vast swathes of the state he wants to govern. And Alabama voters can’t dismiss his recent threats against Muslims as performative. Making him governor will allow him to harass innocent people over the way they worship God.
Don't ignore the threat that is Tommy Tuberville | Alabama Reflector
Don't dismiss the senator's escalating attacks on Muslims as performative. Tuberville has already shown contempt for vast swathes of Alabama.
alabamareflector.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
My column this week. Tommy Tuberville has repeatedly shown contempt for vast swathes of the state he wants to govern. And Alabama voters can’t dismiss his recent threats against Muslims as performative. Making him governor will allow him to harass innocent people over the way they worship God.
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Flashback post and yep, still our favorite.
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Flashback post and yep, still our favorite.
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Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
December 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.
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"we're trying to shut down science that produces results we don't like, it's a very worrisome trend. And we have seen this other times in history, and it never really ended well."
White House pushes to dismantle leading climate and weather research center
The Trump administration says it plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, which is the nation’s premier atmospheric science center. The center was founded in 1960 a...
www.pbs.org
December 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"we're trying to shut down science that produces results we don't like, it's a very worrisome trend. And we have seen this other times in history, and it never really ended well."
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We have normalized terror for children. We have institutionalized trauma and called it “preparedness”
This is not normal.
This should never be normal.
@resist.bot can help you contact your representatives
This is not normal.
This should never be normal.
@resist.bot can help you contact your representatives
December 15, 2025 at 6:27 AM
We have normalized terror for children. We have institutionalized trauma and called it “preparedness”
This is not normal.
This should never be normal.
@resist.bot can help you contact your representatives
This is not normal.
This should never be normal.
@resist.bot can help you contact your representatives