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Kindler

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After decades working in public policy on sustainability, gaining advanced degrees in Poli Sci & Environmental Policy, blogging on Virginia politics at Blue Virginia and more, I’ve launched my own journal on Substack (https://kindler.substack.com)

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Trump’s 'Smash Sparrows' Campaigns: Because Dictatorships are Really, Really Stupid." My latest on Substack:

Trump’s “Smash Sparrows” Campaigns

Because Dictatorships are Really, Really Stupid

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 16h

One more example of why it pays to elect Democrats.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 19h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah. TikTok is out. It's an arm of the ruling fascist party at this point.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 17h

The GOP appears desperate to lose the election going on right now in Virginia by the largest margin possible. I will be knocking on doors for @abigailspanberger.com this weekend in order to help them in that endeavor as much as I can.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 23h

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 19h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 22h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 21h

Tom Wolfe called the ‘70s the Me Decade but nothing can ever match the depth of pathological narcissism to which we have now descended.

Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks to the wonders of plastic surgery, bleach, posing, etc.

Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 1d

The LGBTQ community needs to be aware that the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia thinks that breaking up their marriages, allowing them to be fired simply for being who they are and banning them from adopting children is, in her words “not discrimination.”

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 1d

"Sears Campaign Tries, Fails to Explain Away Sears’ Position Opposing Gay Marriage: 'Not Discrimination'" - @vademocrats bluevirginia.us/2025/10/new-...

DPVA press release on last night's debate, specifically Sears' opposing gay marriage

Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic, informative discussion here on our looming energy crisis between @costasamaras.com and @chrislhayes.bsky.social, who gets it more than just about anyone in mainstream media.

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

If you want the podcast version of this post: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

or the video version: youtu.be/f6536KWBZAc?...

Trump admin is like a “cartoon throwing thumbtacks in the road” impeding renewable energy process

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 1d

Every day, it’s like watching my once great country committing suicide.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 1d

It’s hard to award the Nobel Peace Prize to a guy that maybe brokered a temporary peace deal after he ordered 500 tons of nutrient rich biscuits destroyed instead of saving the lives of desperate, starving babies.

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 1d

Freedom of speech is a beautiful thing.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Who does Johnson think he’s fooling?! Dude sent the House home early to dodge a vote on releasing the Epstein files, and he’s keeping them away for the same reason.

Congress is still getting paid, but Johnson won’t bring the House back to fund the military. This is on him, not the Democrats.

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 1d

Putting the Justice Department in the hands of criminals - what could go wrong with that?

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”

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10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room.
Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Winsome Earle-Sears says her opposition to marriage equality or her support for LGTBQ+ Americans being fired for being gay is "not discrimination." #VAGov

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

Upload your scanned ID they said. It will be fine they said.

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 1d

Shapiro: “I’m the Commander-in-Chief of the Pennsylvania National Guard.”

Trump will not use it for his chaos. 🔥

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Kindler @kindler.bsky.social · 1d

Could they possibly have followers who still believe after all these years that this long promised, forever unseen better-than-Obamacare plan will suddenly materialize?

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Bob Cesca @bobcesca.bsky.social · 2d

From the memory hole: There was a hostage release and ceasefire deal in place by the Biden administration 10 months ago. It was allowed to expire in March, under Donald Trump, and now it's been revived and rebranded, with Donald taking full credit like always.

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