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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 1h

Dolly posted a video that she was doing okay so she could quell the rumors. I bet she also had a sit-down with that sister of hers who stirred it up.😅

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 18h

Been listening for a couple of years. Give their pod a try.

How two blond suburban moms gave Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast I’ve Had It has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’

www.theguardian.com

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 2d

Me

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 4d

Color me not surprised.

renlarson.bsky.social @renlarson.bsky.social · 4d

1/ After a natural disaster, people often turn to FEMA for housing aid.

Income is not supposed to play a role.

A @propublica/@TheAssemblyNC analysis found in rural counties hardest-hit by Helene, the highest-income owners typically received more housing aid.

www.propublica.org/article/fema...

Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene

An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

www.propublica.org

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 4d

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 5d

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 5d

Please check this website to see if your book(s) were used to train AI. You may be entitled to compensation from the Anthropic settlement. I filed a claim because all of my books were used.

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Homepage | ANT

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 5d

University conference on censorship canceled on account of panelists being . . . censored.

www.sltrib.com/amplify-utah...

‘I was ordered to lie’: Weber State censorship event canceled, after organizers said school wanted to censor speakers

Weber State University's annual Unity Conference tried to tackle the subject of censorship. Organizers said they canceled when school officials said they would have to censor some of the speakers' mat...

www.sltrib.com

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 5d

FFS

David W. Congdon @dwcongdon.com · 5d

My author, Todd Arrington, was forced to resign as director of the Eisenhower Library and Museum because he wouldn’t give Eisenhower’s personal sword to Trump to use as a gift to King Charles.
www.kake.com/home/directo...

Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword

The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic

www.kake.com

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 1d

Killing education & free speech every day. The latest from the University of North Carolina.

www.wunc.org/education/20...

Who owns a public university syllabus?

Anti-DEI groups claim they belong to the public. University leaders say they are faculty members' intellectual property. A look at the copyright debate.

www.wunc.org

Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 2d

Been listening for a couple of years. Give it a try. #ivehadit

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

How two blond suburban moms gave Democrats an answer to the rightwing media ecosystem

Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan’s podcast I’ve Had It has risen up the charts and created a community with ‘a brand of fuck-you politics’

www.theguardian.com

Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 6d

Generational change.

UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 6d

The number of registered Democrats in NC is declining. So is the number of registered Republicans rising? Find out in this @theassemblync.bsky.social piece by @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social, author of ANATOMY OF A PURPLE STATE 🗳️

www.theassemblync.com/politics/dem...

Democrats Are Losing Members in N.C. But Are the Republicans Gaining?

Much has been made of the decline in registered Democrats. But who is benefiting from that shift, and why, is more complicated.

www.theassemblync.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 7d

Another episode of "They Hate Us" because they aren't just Blue states. There are red voters there, too.

www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...

Republicans Immediately Start Shutdown Payback — And Target A Blue State

The Trump administration announced a hold on a New York infrastructure project and threatened more layoffs for federal workers.

www.huffpost.com

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 7d

Why would they tell you anything? You've lost all credibility as a newspaper since Bezos took over.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 7d

One of the things the Lost Cause did, and still does, is sanitize slavery and even racial violence.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 8d

This here is a winning message and please oh please Democrats stick to this instead of whatever the hell Chuck Schumer has been doing.

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 8d

Trump is laying the groundwork to come after your Social Security if he shuts the government down

Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 8d

👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 8d

I'd love to know what those generals are thinking right now. 🤦‍♀️

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "We're the hottest country in world right now. Putin said that to me."

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 9d

The racism exists in the fabric of America. It isn't just the White House.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 9d

I’m truly sorry. My being called Mrs. instead of Dr. pales by comparison.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 9d

I’m seething and it isn’t happening to me.

JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11d

Now say it publicly.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11d

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18d

Revisiting this piece I wrote in April 2025. "State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

snyder.substack.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18d

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...