Kelli Klymenko
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Kelli Klymenko
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· Oct 20
It was an honor to speak at the No Kings march — standing with so many voices for freedom and democracy. We will not let them take it away. We’ll fight, like Ukrainians fight — with courage, unity, and hope. ✊🏼
🎥 Vyto Starinskas / Verde Independent
#NoKings #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere
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#NoKings #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere
Wupatki National Monument reminds me why the Southwest has always felt like home.
Shaped by volcanoes, water scarcity, and human intelligence, this landscape holds deep geological time and living Indigenous history right on the surface.
Stone, fire, water, and people — briefly aligned.
Shaped by volcanoes, water scarcity, and human intelligence, this landscape holds deep geological time and living Indigenous history right on the surface.
Stone, fire, water, and people — briefly aligned.
Wupatki: Stone, Fire, and the Memory of a Landscape
A place shaped by volcanoes, water scarcity, and human intelligence
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Wupatki National Monument reminds me why the Southwest has always felt like home.
Shaped by volcanoes, water scarcity, and human intelligence, this landscape holds deep geological time and living Indigenous history right on the surface.
Stone, fire, water, and people — briefly aligned.
Shaped by volcanoes, water scarcity, and human intelligence, this landscape holds deep geological time and living Indigenous history right on the surface.
Stone, fire, water, and people — briefly aligned.
Every other wealthy nation guarantees health care to its people.
We don’t — and we spend more, suffer more, and punish people for getting sick.
That’s not failure. That’s a choice.
We don’t — and we spend more, suffer more, and punish people for getting sick.
That’s not failure. That’s a choice.
This System Is Broken — And We’re Done Pretending Otherwise
The end of ACA subsidies didn’t cause the crisis. It exposed a system designed to punish people for getting sick.
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Every other wealthy nation guarantees health care to its people.
We don’t — and we spend more, suffer more, and punish people for getting sick.
That’s not failure. That’s a choice.
We don’t — and we spend more, suffer more, and punish people for getting sick.
That’s not failure. That’s a choice.
If your reach suddenly collapsed, you’re not imagining it.
I wrote a practical guide to Facebook’s algorithms — what actually causes throttling and what helps distribution recover — so you can work within the system instead of fighting it.
I wrote a practical guide to Facebook’s algorithms — what actually causes throttling and what helps distribution recover — so you can work within the system instead of fighting it.
A Practical Guide to the Facebook Algorithm for Artists & Creators
What the data shows — and how to read it without losing your voice
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
If your reach suddenly collapsed, you’re not imagining it.
I wrote a practical guide to Facebook’s algorithms — what actually causes throttling and what helps distribution recover — so you can work within the system instead of fighting it.
I wrote a practical guide to Facebook’s algorithms — what actually causes throttling and what helps distribution recover — so you can work within the system instead of fighting it.
There’s a moment when you stop pretending the problem is smaller than it is.
Citizens United, dark money, billionaire power, and a captured Supreme Court didn’t happen by accident.
This is where clarity begins.
Citizens United, dark money, billionaire power, and a captured Supreme Court didn’t happen by accident.
This is where clarity begins.
Citizens United and the Bought Court
How Billionaires Captured Our Democracy — and How We Take It Back
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
There’s a moment when you stop pretending the problem is smaller than it is.
Citizens United, dark money, billionaire power, and a captured Supreme Court didn’t happen by accident.
This is where clarity begins.
Citizens United, dark money, billionaire power, and a captured Supreme Court didn’t happen by accident.
This is where clarity begins.
This is exactly the problem: billionaire-driven AI shaping our economy and politics while pretending it’s “innovation.” I break down why this shift is dangerous — and why we can’t ignore it anymore.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/wehavefr...
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/wehavefr...
December 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is exactly the problem: billionaire-driven AI shaping our economy and politics while pretending it’s “innovation.” I break down why this shift is dangerous — and why we can’t ignore it anymore.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/wehavefr...
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/wehavefr...
Sedona Arts Center has been the creative heart of Sedona since 1958. It’s a place where artists grow, careers begin, and community takes shape. Art sustains us. Community lifts us. We shape the future together.
The Heart of a Creative Community
Art sustains us. Community lifts us. Together, they shape the future.
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Sedona Arts Center has been the creative heart of Sedona since 1958. It’s a place where artists grow, careers begin, and community takes shape. Art sustains us. Community lifts us. We shape the future together.
I grew up in a country that knew exactly who Russia was.
Now I’m watching a sitting American president reshape our national security strategy to match Putin’s worldview — and the Kremlin is openly praising it.
I broke down the pattern — the doctrine, the history, the shift — in today’s full piece.
Now I’m watching a sitting American president reshape our national security strategy to match Putin’s worldview — and the Kremlin is openly praising it.
I broke down the pattern — the doctrine, the history, the shift — in today’s full piece.
THE UNITED STATES OF RUSSIA
How an American political movement got captured — and why we can’t pretend not to see it anymore.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I grew up in a country that knew exactly who Russia was.
Now I’m watching a sitting American president reshape our national security strategy to match Putin’s worldview — and the Kremlin is openly praising it.
I broke down the pattern — the doctrine, the history, the shift — in today’s full piece.
Now I’m watching a sitting American president reshape our national security strategy to match Putin’s worldview — and the Kremlin is openly praising it.
I broke down the pattern — the doctrine, the history, the shift — in today’s full piece.
Reposted by Kelli Klymenko
The next Democratic administration should expand the court.
There’s no other way to redeem SCOTUS at this point.
There’s no other way to redeem SCOTUS at this point.
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The next Democratic administration should expand the court.
There’s no other way to redeem SCOTUS at this point.
There’s no other way to redeem SCOTUS at this point.
Reposted by Kelli Klymenko
Trump hints at walking away from Ukraine and calls Europe ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’
Trump hints at walking away from Ukraine and calls Europe ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’
US president presses Zelenskyy to accept his peace plan and recycles far-right tropes on European immigration
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Europe live – latest updates
Donald Trump has hinted he could walk away from supporting Ukraine as he doubled down on his administration’s recent criticism of Europe, describing it as “weak” and “decaying” and claiming it was “destroying itself” through immigration.
In a rambling and sometimes incoherent interview with Politico, a transcript of which was released on Tuesday, the US president struggled to name any other Ukrainian cities except for Kyiv, misrepresented elements of the trajectory of the conflict, and recycled far-right tropes about European immigration that echoed the “great replacement” conspiracy theory. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Trump hints at walking away from Ukraine and calls Europe ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’
Russia invaded Ukraine — and there’s no moral universe where a dictator gets rewarded for it.
Trump’s envoys meeting Putin in secret isn’t diplomacy. It’s betrayal.
Democracies don’t side with invaders.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Trump’s envoys meeting Putin in secret isn’t diplomacy. It’s betrayal.
Democracies don’t side with invaders.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Saying It Clearly Again (For Those in the Back)
Because some people are getting far too comfortable with authoritarianism.
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Russia invaded Ukraine — and there’s no moral universe where a dictator gets rewarded for it.
Trump’s envoys meeting Putin in secret isn’t diplomacy. It’s betrayal.
Democracies don’t side with invaders.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Trump’s envoys meeting Putin in secret isn’t diplomacy. It’s betrayal.
Democracies don’t side with invaders.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Reposted by Kelli Klymenko
Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery.
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix, and Kushner's involvement only strengthens that case
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix, and Kushner's involvement only strengthens that case
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery.
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix, and Kushner's involvement only strengthens that case
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix, and Kushner's involvement only strengthens that case
There’s a moment when a society realizes the danger wasn’t the technology — it was the people who quietly put themselves in charge of it.
My latest piece dives into how billionaire-controlled AI is reshaping power, truth, and democracy in ways most people still don’t see clearly.
Free on Substack
My latest piece dives into how billionaire-controlled AI is reshaping power, truth, and democracy in ways most people still don’t see clearly.
Free on Substack
Billionaire AI: The Threat We’re Still Pretending Not to See
Billionaires, Power, and a Democracy They No Longer Need
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
There’s a moment when a society realizes the danger wasn’t the technology — it was the people who quietly put themselves in charge of it.
My latest piece dives into how billionaire-controlled AI is reshaping power, truth, and democracy in ways most people still don’t see clearly.
Free on Substack
My latest piece dives into how billionaire-controlled AI is reshaping power, truth, and democracy in ways most people still don’t see clearly.
Free on Substack
Deep time is fragile, too. What we protect — and what we choose not to take — says everything about us.
I wrote about a moment in the Petrified Forest that made that painfully clear.
Full piece:
I wrote about a moment in the Petrified Forest that made that painfully clear.
Full piece:
The Land Remembers
Photography, Deep Time, and Conservation
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Deep time is fragile, too. What we protect — and what we choose not to take — says everything about us.
I wrote about a moment in the Petrified Forest that made that painfully clear.
Full piece:
I wrote about a moment in the Petrified Forest that made that painfully clear.
Full piece:
What happened to Rep. Grijalva isn’t an accident. It’s part of a trajectory: raids, force, denials, escalation. Look at the direction of the force — not the excuses.
Full breakdown:
Full breakdown:
When Force Becomes the First Language of Government
There’s a point in every slide toward authoritarianism when something happens that should make everyone stop. Yesterday in Arizona, that moment arrived.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
What happened to Rep. Grijalva isn’t an accident. It’s part of a trajectory: raids, force, denials, escalation. Look at the direction of the force — not the excuses.
Full breakdown:
Full breakdown:
So much of what we were taught was a story designed to hide the truth. This is the pattern — erase, replace, repeat. We’re living through another chapter of the War on Memory.
✨ New on Substack:
✨ New on Substack:
The War on Memory
Revisionist history, white supremacy, and why “never again” requires telling the truth
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
So much of what we were taught was a story designed to hide the truth. This is the pattern — erase, replace, repeat. We’re living through another chapter of the War on Memory.
✨ New on Substack:
✨ New on Substack:
Reposted by Kelli Klymenko
Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
December 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map
Reposted by Kelli Klymenko
⚡️Several Ukrainian children abducted by Russia forcibly sent to North Korea, expert tells US Senate.
Several Ukrainian children abducted by Russia forcibly sent to North Korea, expert tells US Senate
"12-year-old Misha from the occupied Donetsk region and 16-year-old Liza from occupied Simferopol were sent to Songdowon camp in North Korea, 9,000 km from home," Rashevska testified. "Children there ...
kyivindependent.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
⚡️Several Ukrainian children abducted by Russia forcibly sent to North Korea, expert tells US Senate.
Reposted by Kelli Klymenko
While unionized Starbucks workers are on strike for a fair contract, don’t cross the picket line!
Show solidarity — like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.
Listen to what they had to say.
Show solidarity — like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.
Listen to what they had to say.
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
While unionized Starbucks workers are on strike for a fair contract, don’t cross the picket line!
Show solidarity — like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.
Listen to what they had to say.
Show solidarity — like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.
Listen to what they had to say.
Support local art this weekend — the Holiday Market at Sedona Arts Center is filled with 40+ local artists, ceramics, jewelry, paintings, photography, gifts and more. Community art matters. Local artists matter. ✨
✨ Why Community Art Matters So Much Right Now
How local creativity keeps us connected — especially in a moment like this
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Support local art this weekend — the Holiday Market at Sedona Arts Center is filled with 40+ local artists, ceramics, jewelry, paintings, photography, gifts and more. Community art matters. Local artists matter. ✨
What’s happening inside ICE right now isn’t “enforcement” — it’s unchecked authoritarian violence.
This morning’s piece is about the danger of letting that become normal.
This morning’s piece is about the danger of letting that become normal.
ICE, Vigilantes, and the Line We Will Not Cross
When the State Hides Its Face: Accountability Ends & Authoritarianism Begins
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What’s happening inside ICE right now isn’t “enforcement” — it’s unchecked authoritarian violence.
This morning’s piece is about the danger of letting that become normal.
This morning’s piece is about the danger of letting that become normal.
Wow. CBS just confirmed Kushner and Witkoff are heading to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin — right now for “private talks.”
This is exactly the pattern I wrote about yesterday: shadow diplomacy, foreign influence, and a U.S. political faction aligning itself with the Kremlin behind closed doors.
This is exactly the pattern I wrote about yesterday: shadow diplomacy, foreign influence, and a U.S. political faction aligning itself with the Kremlin behind closed doors.
Kushner and Witkoff to meet with Putin in Moscow Tuesday as Trump pushes for Russia-Ukraine deal
President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and special envoy Steve Witkoff are meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday to discuss the war in Ukraine.
www.cbsnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Wow. CBS just confirmed Kushner and Witkoff are heading to Moscow to meet with Vladimir Putin — right now for “private talks.”
This is exactly the pattern I wrote about yesterday: shadow diplomacy, foreign influence, and a U.S. political faction aligning itself with the Kremlin behind closed doors.
This is exactly the pattern I wrote about yesterday: shadow diplomacy, foreign influence, and a U.S. political faction aligning itself with the Kremlin behind closed doors.
Reposted by Kelli Klymenko
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Russia started this war and Russia is the only country that can stop this war.
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Russia started this war and Russia is the only country that can stop this war.
Reposted by Kelli Klymenko
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.
And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
Over the past few years, I’ve watched something unsettling happen: artists aren’t losing their audience — algorithms are erasing them.
Today’s Substack is about that quiet disappearance, and why human creativity still matters more than ever. ✊🏼
Today’s Substack is about that quiet disappearance, and why human creativity still matters more than ever. ✊🏼
The Quiet Erasure of Human Creativity
An Algorithm Is Not an Audience
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Over the past few years, I’ve watched something unsettling happen: artists aren’t losing their audience — algorithms are erasing them.
Today’s Substack is about that quiet disappearance, and why human creativity still matters more than ever. ✊🏼
Today’s Substack is about that quiet disappearance, and why human creativity still matters more than ever. ✊🏼
“A hostile foreign power infiltrated the highest levels of the U.S. government — and we have the recording to prove it.”
A lot came to light this week, and I needed space to lay it out clearly. Here’s the full reflection on what’s happening — and why it matters for every democracy watching.
A lot came to light this week, and I needed space to lay it out clearly. Here’s the full reflection on what’s happening — and why it matters for every democracy watching.
The Betrayal of Every Ukrainian
A hostile foreign power infiltrated the highest levels of the U.S. government — and we have the recording to prove it.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“A hostile foreign power infiltrated the highest levels of the U.S. government — and we have the recording to prove it.”
A lot came to light this week, and I needed space to lay it out clearly. Here’s the full reflection on what’s happening — and why it matters for every democracy watching.
A lot came to light this week, and I needed space to lay it out clearly. Here’s the full reflection on what’s happening — and why it matters for every democracy watching.