KellyG
@kg-pdx.bsky.social
Electron wrangler by profession, hobbyist rock nut, suburban socialist, proud Oregonian, and various other things.
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So we have a rapist president, a murderer as Secretary of Defense, a psychopath at HHS, and a dog killer at DHS. Oh, and the child sex abuse enabler at the DOE.
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 AM
So we have a rapist president, a murderer as Secretary of Defense, a psychopath at HHS, and a dog killer at DHS. Oh, and the child sex abuse enabler at the DOE.
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twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
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before and after hegseth's directive
September 30, 2025 at 10:40 PM
before and after hegseth's directive
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I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]
You don’t have to swallow frogs
Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]
Everytime I've convinced myself to subscribe to @thebulwark.com (mostly for JVL content), they do something like host a fawning interview with Ezra Klein or pimp a Josh Shapiro candidacy. And so I get reset to zero.
September 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Everytime I've convinced myself to subscribe to @thebulwark.com (mostly for JVL content), they do something like host a fawning interview with Ezra Klein or pimp a Josh Shapiro candidacy. And so I get reset to zero.
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This AI video of Jesus and a little boy singing Bless the Lord Oh My Soul, while Jesus holds a disembodied child’s foot is so beautiful and spiritually inspiring.
July 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
This AI video of Jesus and a little boy singing Bless the Lord Oh My Soul, while Jesus holds a disembodied child’s foot is so beautiful and spiritually inspiring.
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Won’t be long before we learn of an ICE detention center setting up in a former regional hospital
Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
Big win for the close the hospitals, open the camps caucus today.
July 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Won’t be long before we learn of an ICE detention center setting up in a former regional hospital
Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
Just (8am) dropped off my car at the shop in Wilsonville and was planning to take the WES train to Beaverton and bus/MAX home, but the last WES left at 8:16am and Google let me know that I was screwed. So lets live tweet the way home.
June 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just (8am) dropped off my car at the shop in Wilsonville and was planning to take the WES train to Beaverton and bus/MAX home, but the last WES left at 8:16am and Google let me know that I was screwed. So lets live tweet the way home.
Picking strawberries in the morning, farmer's market tamales for lunch, an afternoon spent telling Trump to go fuck himself... I get in a couple of IPAs this evening and I'll have an OR-gasm.
June 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Picking strawberries in the morning, farmer's market tamales for lunch, an afternoon spent telling Trump to go fuck himself... I get in a couple of IPAs this evening and I'll have an OR-gasm.
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Cannot tell you how often I think about this scene
April 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Cannot tell you how often I think about this scene
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“We shouldn’t talk about immigration, it’s his strongest issue.”
NOT ANYMORE LOSERS. BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT IT
NOT ANYMORE LOSERS. BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT IT
April 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“We shouldn’t talk about immigration, it’s his strongest issue.”
NOT ANYMORE LOSERS. BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT IT
NOT ANYMORE LOSERS. BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT IT
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Very, very important piece about a part of the CECOT story that's gone barely discussed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
April 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Very, very important piece about a part of the CECOT story that's gone barely discussed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
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I think Brian points to something important: pop culture representations of Nazism showed it as something existing outside of history and politics, which did a massive disservice to understanding it as a political force that could emerge in other polities.
Not to be Zizek, lol, but I had the misfortune of watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier on a plane once, it makes me realize Americans have this imagination of fascism taking over institutions that turned out to be true but the grasp of fascism is curiously ideology-less
April 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I think Brian points to something important: pop culture representations of Nazism showed it as something existing outside of history and politics, which did a massive disservice to understanding it as a political force that could emerge in other polities.
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Autism didn’t make them do it. Mental illness didn’t, either. This personal piece from The Big Picture cuts through the excuses and names the real issue: some people are just hateful, and we need to stop giving them cover.
Neither Neurodivergence Nor Mental Illness Made Them Bigots—They're Just Awful People
It's hard to admit your heroes are jerks, but the mentally ill and neurodivergent shouldn't be collateral damage.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Autism didn’t make them do it. Mental illness didn’t, either. This personal piece from The Big Picture cuts through the excuses and names the real issue: some people are just hateful, and we need to stop giving them cover.
Spelling Bee started off on a topical note for me this morning.
April 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Spelling Bee started off on a topical note for me this morning.
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Kinds funny that the NYT hired krugman to write about econ/trade but other things captured his attention and then pushed him out right as it became extremely relevant
April 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Kinds funny that the NYT hired krugman to write about econ/trade but other things captured his attention and then pushed him out right as it became extremely relevant
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BREAKING: The 4th Circuit has *denied* the Trump administration's effort to resist an order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by midnight tonight.
Judge Xinis' order is still in effect. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Judge Xinis' order is still in effect. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
April 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
BREAKING: The 4th Circuit has *denied* the Trump administration's effort to resist an order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States by midnight tonight.
Judge Xinis' order is still in effect. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Judge Xinis' order is still in effect. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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75%
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
75%
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Uhm, it's just a little disturbance folks. Nothing to see here. Lutnick says we'll all be fixing factory robots in no time.
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/06/s...
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/06/s...
April 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Uhm, it's just a little disturbance folks. Nothing to see here. Lutnick says we'll all be fixing factory robots in no time.
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/06/s...
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/06/s...
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On TV at the same time:
NAVARRO: “This is not a negotiation.”
LUTNICK: “Of course they are” open to negotiation. 🤡
NAVARRO: “This is not a negotiation.”
LUTNICK: “Of course they are” open to negotiation. 🤡
April 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
On TV at the same time:
NAVARRO: “This is not a negotiation.”
LUTNICK: “Of course they are” open to negotiation. 🤡
NAVARRO: “This is not a negotiation.”
LUTNICK: “Of course they are” open to negotiation. 🤡
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Woke: Going to college and maybe being a doctor or accountant or scientist or something
America First: Homeschooled about how well slaves were treated as preparation for your career producing “No Fat Chicks” merch
America First: Homeschooled about how well slaves were treated as preparation for your career producing “No Fat Chicks” merch
MacCALLUM: Will American workers make shirts and garments for the same--? Obviously the labor costs are so much cheaper overseas in those places
CHAVEZ-DeREMER: We're gonna onshore, repatriate some of these companies to invest in America directly so that we can build that workforce
CHAVEZ-DeREMER: We're gonna onshore, repatriate some of these companies to invest in America directly so that we can build that workforce
April 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Woke: Going to college and maybe being a doctor or accountant or scientist or something
America First: Homeschooled about how well slaves were treated as preparation for your career producing “No Fat Chicks” merch
America First: Homeschooled about how well slaves were treated as preparation for your career producing “No Fat Chicks” merch
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If Musk doesn't end his evening in a squad car, Wisconsin is just announcing that sufficiently wealthy & connected people get to publicly announce they're committing crimes, and the state will be too afraid to do anything about it. Criminal law is for the poor.
March 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If Musk doesn't end his evening in a squad car, Wisconsin is just announcing that sufficiently wealthy & connected people get to publicly announce they're committing crimes, and the state will be too afraid to do anything about it. Criminal law is for the poor.
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Even the supposed best use cases for AI don't tell a positive story.
March 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Even the supposed best use cases for AI don't tell a positive story.