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Retired Kentucky educator. Spending my retirement years promoting Democracy even as a blue dot in a red state 💙
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Blue Kentucky Gal @bluekentuckygal.bsky.social · Oct 20
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Kevin Hassett on Trump publicly pressuring a range of corporate executives to do what he wants them to do: "In the end, he believes in free enterprise"
December 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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QUINTANILLA: So for those fans of capitalism who worry about a company not going along with Trump's pressure campaign on prices, they can resist it without fear of retribution?

HASSETT: Hah -- I think the president respects the DOJ and the FTC antitrust team. He'll adhere to the rule of law
December 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
That’s pretty much what he’s doing already while Stephen Miller runs the country.
December 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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atrupar.com
"the process of dying is still something to be lived"
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2h
Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left.

Sasse is just 53 years old.
Ben Sasse • @BenSasse G... Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I'll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it's a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too - we all do. I'm blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, "Sure, you're on the clock, but we're all on the clock." Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I've got less time than I'd prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can't begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we'd temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer - and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she's off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she's a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we've been driving off-book for six years — but now we've got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn't be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There's not a good time to tell your peeps you're now marching to the beat of a faster drummer - but the season of advent isn't the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what's to come. There's not a good time to tell your peeps you're now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn't the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what's to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle | once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say "hope" when what we mean is "optimism." To be clear, optimism is great, and it's absolutely necessary, but it's insufficient. It's not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you're not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they're gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That's why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city - with foundations and without cancer - is not yet. Remembering Isaiah's prophecies of what's to come doesn't dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity's perspective: "When we've been there 10,000 years...We've no less days to sing God's praise." I'll have more to say. I'm not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God's grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren't the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We're zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I've pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatmen…
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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yasharali.bsky.social
Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left.

Sasse is just 53 years old.
Ben Sasse • @BenSasse G... Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I'll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it's a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too - we all do. I'm blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, "Sure, you're on the clock, but we're all on the clock." Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I've got less time than I'd prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can't begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we'd temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer - and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she's off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she's a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we've been driving off-book for six years — but now we've got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn't be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There's not a good time to tell your peeps you're now marching to the beat of a faster drummer - but the season of advent isn't the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what's to come. There's not a good time to tell your peeps you're now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn't the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what's to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle | once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say "hope" when what we mean is "optimism." To be clear, optimism is great, and it's absolutely necessary, but it's insufficient. It's not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you're not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they're gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That's why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city - with foundations and without cancer - is not yet. Remembering Isaiah's prophecies of what's to come doesn't dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity's perspective: "When we've been there 10,000 years...We've no less days to sing God's praise." I'll have more to say. I'm not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God's grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren't the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We're zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I've pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatmen…
December 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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phds2.bsky.social
CECOT 60 Minutes episode was horrific! People were tortured! Most of the Venezuelan immigrants were never convicted of violent crimes! Light on 24 hours a day! People sent to a black hole to spend days. Sexual beating in the groin with a baton! Heads forced down! Sparse food, filthy drinking water!
December 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
CBS is truly trying to become the Reich’s state media channel.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h
$PSKY 🤡
fintwitter.bsky.social FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 2h
Trump on Truth Social: 'Trump Kennedy Center Honors to Be Broadcast Tonight, on CBS, and Stream on Paramount+'
December 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
“Clinton is in the Epstein files!”

Great. Next time I come across a Clinton rally, someone wearing a Clinton hat, or flying a Clinton flag on their truck, I’ll be sure to let them know.

The rest of us want them ALL held accountable because we aren’t in a cult. Hope that helps.
December 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Sean Duffy says he now has veto power over appropriations passed by Congress and signed into law. He is the dictator over infrastructure funds. If you do something he doesn’t like, you lose the funds passed by Congress. bsky.app/profile/atru...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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kentuckylantern.com
Commentary by Molly Lewis, Kentucky Primary Care Association

Safety net to launchpad: Activate patients to realize return on health care investment

kentuckylantern.com/2025/12/23/s...
Safety net to launchpad: Activate patients to realize return on health care investment • Kentucky Lantern
The gap between health care spending and outcomes should make us pause. Investing in patient activation is how a safety net becomes a launchpad.
kentuckylantern.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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meidastouch.com
The DOJ wants the public to know that while there may be some horrifying things pertaining to Donald Trump in the latest Epstein files release, none of it is true
December 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
So we may have found the single most unpopular thing Trump has done in 2025 - the vainglorious renaming of the Kennedy Center after himself (via Economist/YouGov):

18% approve, 66% disapprove
December 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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joesonka.lpm.org
So that’s what they’ve been hiding…
ashtonpittman.bsky.social Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 11h
DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar:

"Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."
letter says: J. Epstein NOVA 220 Manhattan Correctionio PMSL NYC NY 10007 NETURNTO BENPER nmas 口 INMATE NAME AND REGISTER NÚMBER ARE REQUIRED TO 口 UNATHORIZED PACKA REQUIRE AUTHOREA I EIGHING VARESS OF NO LONGER AT THIS ADDRESS. 85 BS756-970688 x 85756 hoijhhahedl-2112--225a218g7-d2-l2-/2-2118 Dear L. N As you know by now, I have taken the "Short route" home. Good ench! We shared one thing... our love i cains fo yue hage ladies auf' Thad read thais foll Om president allo shares on love o young, nubile girl. When a young beauty walked by loved to grab snatch, Whereas we ended up snatching grub in The mess halls o the sxem "Life is unfai Your Г. Epstein
December 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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katiephang.bsky.social
The Trump DOJ is running scared and so they're putting out this kind of dreck on social media:
December 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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atrupar.com
Epstein to Larry Nassar in 2019: "Our president [Trump] also shares our love of young nubile girls"
December 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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muellershewrote.com
There is also apparently an acknowledgment of the letter at the FBI
December 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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muellershewrote.com
The guardian reported the existence of this letter in 2023 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
Records shed light on Jeffrey Epstein’s state of mind in jail in days before death
Documents show disgraced financier tried to connect with Larry Nassar and underscore failings by federal prison agency
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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klasfeldreports.com
I wondered the same thing: They wanted her to “fully resolve” the motions by then.

That doesn’t seem fully resolved to me.
December 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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katiephang.bsky.social
In the WITAF redaction saga, the Trump DOJ has redacted...the FAX NUMBER for the Legal Department at the Metropolitan Correctional Center:
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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atrupar.com
Peter Navarro: "In an age of AI when all the white collar jobs are going away pretty damn quick, I think maybe it's a good time for people to think about having good blue collar jobs ... give tariffs a chance, because they're working"
December 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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angrystaffer.bsky.social
This is pathetic, even for Trump’s DOJ
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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kentuckylantern.com
Commentary by Delanor Manson

University of Kentucky ‘flags’ Kentucky Nurses Association for cancellation or review as part of federal probe

Recent actions threaten to worsen the shortage of health care workers

kentuckylantern.com/2025/12/22/u...
UK ‘flags’ Kentucky Nurses Association for cancellation or review as part of federal probe • Kentucky Lantern
Kentucky’s health care system faces serious workforce challenges, yet recent federal and institutional actions threaten to deepen those problems.
kentuckylantern.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM