Kirstin Alvanitakis
@kirstinalv.bsky.social
🎵 Let's love ourselves and we can't fail 🎵
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Sarah Cooper is back on Trump and she absolutely nailed it 🔥
December 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Sarah Cooper is back on Trump and she absolutely nailed it 🔥
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So here she is, a silly and sometimes grumpy, resilient, Lady Gaga-adoring, nature-loving, earnest and sarcastic, smart-beyond-belief, desperate-for-affection teenager who wants to become a fire fighter. She is a girl who won a race and took on the ire of some of this country’s most powerful people.
December 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
So here she is, a silly and sometimes grumpy, resilient, Lady Gaga-adoring, nature-loving, earnest and sarcastic, smart-beyond-belief, desperate-for-affection teenager who wants to become a fire fighter. She is a girl who won a race and took on the ire of some of this country’s most powerful people.
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Whatever your opinion is on trans girls in sports, I hope you'll spend some time with this story her life. I’m not a scientist, so I can’t settle the advantage question for certain, but I do believe that when adults boo a child, they should know more about the child they are booing.
December 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Whatever your opinion is on trans girls in sports, I hope you'll spend some time with this story her life. I’m not a scientist, so I can’t settle the advantage question for certain, but I do believe that when adults boo a child, they should know more about the child they are booing.
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A year and a half ago or so, I read that an entire stadium in Tacoma had booed a trans runner. I wanted to know more. She was 16, and she had stood on a podium in one of the country’s most liberal states and listened to 10,000 people boo her. What I learned surprised me:
wapo.st/49lnBUK
wapo.st/49lnBUK
For young transgender runner, racing wasn’t the hardest thing
Verónica García overcame poverty to become a high school track champion — twice. It made her famous for all the wrong reasons.
wapo.st
December 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A year and a half ago or so, I read that an entire stadium in Tacoma had booed a trans runner. I wanted to know more. She was 16, and she had stood on a podium in one of the country’s most liberal states and listened to 10,000 people boo her. What I learned surprised me:
wapo.st/49lnBUK
wapo.st/49lnBUK
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“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
December 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
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"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
"And I never say no"
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.
We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
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Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
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Thank you, New York Times. I too agree that The Onion had the same level of cultural impact this year that Sabrina Carpenter did.
December 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Thank you, New York Times. I too agree that The Onion had the same level of cultural impact this year that Sabrina Carpenter did.
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I also discussed the most radical film released by a major studio this year.
December 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I also discussed the most radical film released by a major studio this year.
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MAGA may be trying to buy up -- or kill -- the culture. But it pushed back against the regime in all sorts of ways. I wrote about some of them for the @nytimes.com, including the epic return of @theonion.com ...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...
December 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
MAGA may be trying to buy up -- or kill -- the culture. But it pushed back against the regime in all sorts of ways. I wrote about some of them for the @nytimes.com, including the epic return of @theonion.com ...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/o...
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Consumers were less confident in the economy in December as Americans grow anxious about high prices and the impact of President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs. https://to.pbs.org/3MRT4pM
Consumer confidence drops in December to lowest level since U.S. tariffs rolled out in April
Write-in responses to the survey showed that prices and inflation remained consumers' biggest concern, along with tariffs.
www.pbs.org
December 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Consumers were less confident in the economy in December as Americans grow anxious about high prices and the impact of President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs. https://to.pbs.org/3MRT4pM
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Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades.
Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs
Businesses in vulnerable sectors found themselves caught between rising tariffs and beleaguered consumers.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Corporate bankruptcies surged in 2025, rivaling levels not seen since the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, as import-dependent businesses absorbed the highest tariffs in decades.
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Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?
Caller: I am eight
Caller: I am eight
December 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Juice.
Juice.
Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:
December 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Juice.
Juice.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot
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My campaign is now getting third graders fired up about the Geneva Conventions.
December 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
My campaign is now getting third graders fired up about the Geneva Conventions.
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The pilot of a JetBlue flight reported on Friday that he narrowly avoided colliding with a U.S. military aircraft over the Caribbean after an Air Force refueling tanker passed in front of the commercial plane without broadcasting its position, according to air traffic control radio communications.
U.S. Military Plane and JetBlue Flight Nearly Collided Over Caribbean, Radio Traffic Shows
The Air Force refueling tanker was flying without its location transponder activated and could not be detected by air traffic control.
nyti.ms
December 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The pilot of a JetBlue flight reported on Friday that he narrowly avoided colliding with a U.S. military aircraft over the Caribbean after an Air Force refueling tanker passed in front of the commercial plane without broadcasting its position, according to air traffic control radio communications.
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The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned to honor Napoleon in 1806. By the time construction had really begun in earnest, Napoleon had suffered a disastrous military defeat and had been forced into exile.
Trump: We’re building an arc like the Arc de Triomphe. It will be like the one in Paris but it blows it away.
December 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned to honor Napoleon in 1806. By the time construction had really begun in earnest, Napoleon had suffered a disastrous military defeat and had been forced into exile.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
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Excited to join Politicsnation on @msnowreports.bsky.social with the Reverend Al Sharpton at 5:30pm to discuss President Trump’s disastrous economic policies and its impact on Pennsylvanians. #LetsWork
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Excited to join Politicsnation on @msnowreports.bsky.social with the Reverend Al Sharpton at 5:30pm to discuss President Trump’s disastrous economic policies and its impact on Pennsylvanians. #LetsWork