KaraK
@6wishes.bsky.social
Reader, dog lover, wife, parent, follower of Jesus,ADHD,Iowan.
Too on point. “Fellowship of the Ring”.
December 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Too on point. “Fellowship of the Ring”.
I’m mad I waited so long to start into LOTR. It’s so much easier to follow than I thought it would be. I’m also very glad I didn’t watch the movies (started the 1st, but stopped.). It will be much easier following them having read the books first. Such a great escape from the headlines.
December 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I’m mad I waited so long to start into LOTR. It’s so much easier to follow than I thought it would be. I’m also very glad I didn’t watch the movies (started the 1st, but stopped.). It will be much easier following them having read the books first. Such a great escape from the headlines.
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So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.
December 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.
Diving in for my first time, finally!
December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Diving in for my first time, finally!
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The most important thing to remember about all this fantasy-engineering of the Constitution is Madison's warning: If we suck as a people, no clever constitutional schemes will save us.
November 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The most important thing to remember about all this fantasy-engineering of the Constitution is Madison's warning: If we suck as a people, no clever constitutional schemes will save us.
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LEFT: Grok lying about what the Dems said
RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said
Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis
RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said
Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM
LEFT: Grok lying about what the Dems said
RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said
Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis
RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said
Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis
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A new film on Christian nationalism by young pastors from the Doug Wilson-verse. This is cringe. But it’s also an expression of the theological nexus that formed Hegseth’s Christianity.
"Freedom of religion is a bad idea"
youtube.com/shorts/NGqkG...
"Freedom of religion is a bad idea"
youtube.com/shorts/NGqkG...
"Freedom of religion is a bad idea"
YouTube video by Straight White American Jesus Podcast
youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
A new film on Christian nationalism by young pastors from the Doug Wilson-verse. This is cringe. But it’s also an expression of the theological nexus that formed Hegseth’s Christianity.
"Freedom of religion is a bad idea"
youtube.com/shorts/NGqkG...
"Freedom of religion is a bad idea"
youtube.com/shorts/NGqkG...
🤢🤮
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Montage of clips of Trump making sexual comments over the years about Ivanka. #cdnpoli
Montage of clips of Trump making sexual comments over the years about Ivanka. #cdnpoli
November 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🤢🤮
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If you want to do something about the Epstein files but calling a congressperson's office sounds intimidating, I turned my personal prep into a cheat-sheet on H.R. 4405 (aka the Epstein Files Transparency Act) so you can feel more prepared.
open.substack.com/pub/rachelda...
open.substack.com/pub/rachelda...
How to Call Your Congressman/woman And Ask For the Release of the Epstein Files
A cheat sheet on the Epstein Files Transparency Act
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
If you want to do something about the Epstein files but calling a congressperson's office sounds intimidating, I turned my personal prep into a cheat-sheet on H.R. 4405 (aka the Epstein Files Transparency Act) so you can feel more prepared.
open.substack.com/pub/rachelda...
open.substack.com/pub/rachelda...
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
She’s from a family of immigrants, a woman, a woman of color, and her husband is a librarian? And she’s kicking this off? I love God’s hand in this. #letjusticeraindown #Godwillnotbemocked
REPORTER: Why'd it take so long to get sworn in?
GRIJALVA: *gestures at Johnson* That would not be my question!
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I really like this lady
GRIJALVA: *gestures at Johnson* That would not be my question!
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I really like this lady
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
She’s from a family of immigrants, a woman, a woman of color, and her husband is a librarian? And she’s kicking this off? I love God’s hand in this. #letjusticeraindown #Godwillnotbemocked
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Propaganda and dog whistle politics of the most obvious sort: "divine" is a shout out to evangelicals to circle the wagons despite the evidence. In other words: It's okay to use the devil's means to achieve God's ends. Jesus didn't fall for it in Matt. 4. Neither should any serious Christian.
Uh-oh. Steve Bannon is essentially saying to his fan base "Trump is a pedo but we need him for political power. Suck it."
That's a 180 from Karoline Leavitt this a.m., even after the #Epstein email releases, who says that Decomposing Dictator hasn't done anything wrong.
🦋 bsky.app/profile/ronf...
That's a 180 from Karoline Leavitt this a.m., even after the #Epstein email releases, who says that Decomposing Dictator hasn't done anything wrong.
🦋 bsky.app/profile/ronf...
Sloppy Steve doing damage control with the cult today trying to talk them off the ledge.
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Propaganda and dog whistle politics of the most obvious sort: "divine" is a shout out to evangelicals to circle the wagons despite the evidence. In other words: It's okay to use the devil's means to achieve God's ends. Jesus didn't fall for it in Matt. 4. Neither should any serious Christian.
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50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald began her final voyage across Lake Superior. Less than 36 hours later she vanished.
Five decades later "Why?" is still a mystery.
Starting tomorrow, I'll tell the story of her final hours on the lake - as they happened.
Five decades later "Why?" is still a mystery.
Starting tomorrow, I'll tell the story of her final hours on the lake - as they happened.
November 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald began her final voyage across Lake Superior. Less than 36 hours later she vanished.
Five decades later "Why?" is still a mystery.
Starting tomorrow, I'll tell the story of her final hours on the lake - as they happened.
Five decades later "Why?" is still a mystery.
Starting tomorrow, I'll tell the story of her final hours on the lake - as they happened.
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From my son (who also has non-speaking autism): "This poor man is terrified. He does not deserve such brutal treatment. I am disgusted at the depravity of the ICE agents. A sad commentary on how we non-speaking autistics are treated. Shame, shame, shame."
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM
From my son (who also has non-speaking autism): "This poor man is terrified. He does not deserve such brutal treatment. I am disgusted at the depravity of the ICE agents. A sad commentary on how we non-speaking autistics are treated. Shame, shame, shame."
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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Current & recent reads…nonfiction & historical fiction based on a true story.
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Current & recent reads…nonfiction & historical fiction based on a true story.
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Because the US is descending horrifyingly quickly into fascism, there is now an app that people can use to quickly notify family, friends, and lawyers if they've been kidnapped by these fascists.
#Pinks
#Pinks
October 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Because the US is descending horrifyingly quickly into fascism, there is now an app that people can use to quickly notify family, friends, and lawyers if they've been kidnapped by these fascists.
#Pinks
#Pinks
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For anyone cheering the downfall of government helping programs and saying, “Churches and food pantries need to step up.”
I agree we do need to step up. And we’re taking volunteers.
I agree we do need to step up. And we’re taking volunteers.
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
For anyone cheering the downfall of government helping programs and saying, “Churches and food pantries need to step up.”
I agree we do need to step up. And we’re taking volunteers.
I agree we do need to step up. And we’re taking volunteers.
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The best piece yet about Iowa’s cancer epidemic.
Written by a pro: @tomphilpott.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
Written by a pro: @tomphilpott.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
Of Corn and Cancer: Iowa’s Deadly Water Crisis
All that feed corn and all those soybeans—and those nearly 25 million hogs—produce a lot of nitrate. It’s making Iowans sick and causing them to die. And the politicians aren’t doing a thing about it.
newrepublic.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The best piece yet about Iowa’s cancer epidemic.
Written by a pro: @tomphilpott.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
Written by a pro: @tomphilpott.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2011...
I would love to know if someone is keeping a list of all the ways Trump or his family have enriched themselves during this & his former Presidency.
“You call conflict of interest ‘EXPERIENCE’?”🤔
On 60 Minutes, Witkoff & Kushner try to position their conflicts in the Middle East as to our benefit— as Trumps & friends enrich themselves.
Pathologically corrupt. Where are the Hunter hunters? @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett
On 60 Minutes, Witkoff & Kushner try to position their conflicts in the Middle East as to our benefit— as Trumps & friends enrich themselves.
Pathologically corrupt. Where are the Hunter hunters? @MarshaBlackburn @RepTimBurchett
October 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I would love to know if someone is keeping a list of all the ways Trump or his family have enriched themselves during this & his former Presidency.
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Something I didn't appreciate until my kids started school was just how enmeshed the tech industry is in public ed. Attendance, school lunch, communication, calendars, testing, teaching tools--everything has its own app. There's a lot of money to be made there.
Meanwhile, ed tech companies are salivating--eager to sell "solutions" to families whose schools will now struggle (even more than they already have) to meet their kids' learning needs.
(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)
(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)
October 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Something I didn't appreciate until my kids started school was just how enmeshed the tech industry is in public ed. Attendance, school lunch, communication, calendars, testing, teaching tools--everything has its own app. There's a lot of money to be made there.
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The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
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Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho
October 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho
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I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies
U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.
www.reuters.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.