Ryan Kitko
@kitkor.bsky.social
Accidental chemist. Orchid and carnivorous plant enthusiast. Recovering microbiologist. Avid bowler. Failed knitter.
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
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In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."
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What once was largely limited to Stormfront and the fever swamps of the internet just a few years ago is now accepted discourse from the White House.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
What once was largely limited to Stormfront and the fever swamps of the internet just a few years ago is now accepted discourse from the White House.
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The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark, via @anneapplebaum.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark
For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.
www.theatlantic.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark, via @anneapplebaum.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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The Ohio House voted 58-26 Wednesday to pass a bill that would require Ohio public schools to show a video produced by an anti-abortion group about fetal development to students. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/19/o...
Ohio House passes bill requiring public schools show ‘Baby Olivia’ video to students in grades 5-12 • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio House voted 58-26 to pass a bill that would require Ohio public schools to show a video produced by an anti-abortion group about fetal development to students.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The Ohio House voted 58-26 Wednesday to pass a bill that would require Ohio public schools to show a video produced by an anti-abortion group about fetal development to students. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/19/o...
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The Ohio legislature passed SB 293, the bill that takes away the 4-day acceptance window for absentee ballots. It heads to the governor's desk now, our last chance to protect Ohio voters against this harmful & unnecessary change.
Call Governor DeWine now to urge him to veto SB 293! bit.ly/MikeDeWine
Call Governor DeWine now to urge him to veto SB 293! bit.ly/MikeDeWine
November 20, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The Ohio legislature passed SB 293, the bill that takes away the 4-day acceptance window for absentee ballots. It heads to the governor's desk now, our last chance to protect Ohio voters against this harmful & unnecessary change.
Call Governor DeWine now to urge him to veto SB 293! bit.ly/MikeDeWine
Call Governor DeWine now to urge him to veto SB 293! bit.ly/MikeDeWine
The anti-choice activists don't like the fact that Ohio reasonably voted to preserve access to safe and legal abortion care, so they're playing the long game again and hoping this indoctrination pays off in several decades.
Doctors, anti-abortion advocates, and a mother spoke in favor of a bill that would require Ohio public schools to show a video about fetal development to students starting in the third grade ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/30/o...
Ohio anti-abortion advocates support Baby Olivia Act; lawmakers question showing it to third graders • Ohio Capital Journal
Doctors, anti-abortion advocates and a mother spoke in favor of a bill that would require Ohio public schools to show a video about fetal development to students starting in the third grade.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The anti-choice activists don't like the fact that Ohio reasonably voted to preserve access to safe and legal abortion care, so they're playing the long game again and hoping this indoctrination pays off in several decades.
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I always caution people to append the phrase "in mice" at the end of any miraculous medicine story since we can make mice do, basically, anything biologically.
This is different. While it is a study in mice, the mechanism has little to do with mice's uniquely malleable biology.
This is different. While it is a study in mice, the mechanism has little to do with mice's uniquely malleable biology.
If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.
This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, it’s a BFD.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst
The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.
www.umass.edu
October 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I always caution people to append the phrase "in mice" at the end of any miraculous medicine story since we can make mice do, basically, anything biologically.
This is different. While it is a study in mice, the mechanism has little to do with mice's uniquely malleable biology.
This is different. While it is a study in mice, the mechanism has little to do with mice's uniquely malleable biology.
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A pair of Ohio Republican lawmakers want public schools and public universities to teach positive impacts of Christianity on American history. No other religion is mentioned in the bill, named the Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/09/o...
Ohio Republicans want public schools to teach positive impacts of Christianity on history • Ohio Capital Journal
A pair of Ohio Republican lawmakers want public schools and public universities to teach the positive impacts of Christianity on American history. No other religion is mentioned in the bill, named…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A pair of Ohio Republican lawmakers want public schools and public universities to teach positive impacts of Christianity on American history. No other religion is mentioned in the bill, named the Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/09/o...
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Commentary: Chris Gibbs farms 500 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat, and alfalfa hay in Shelby County and a 90-head cow-calf operation. The Trump tariffs are shrinking incomes and exploding expenses for farmers, he says: “We’re in a hell of a mess here" ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/30/o...
Ohio family farmers describe life under Trump tariffs: 'We're in a hell of a mess here.' • Ohio Capital Journal
Chris Gibbs farms more than 500 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat, and alfalfa hay in Shelby County, along with a 90-head cow-calf operation. The Trump tariffs are shrinking incomes and exploding…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Commentary: Chris Gibbs farms 500 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat, and alfalfa hay in Shelby County and a 90-head cow-calf operation. The Trump tariffs are shrinking incomes and exploding expenses for farmers, he says: “We’re in a hell of a mess here" ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/30/o...
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Ohio Republicans just dropped a bill to insert Christianity into public schools. LGBTQ+ communities should be alarmed.
‘HB 486 whitewashes history and leaves out queer communities and other faiths.’
thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/09/30/o...
‘HB 486 whitewashes history and leaves out queer communities and other faiths.’
thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/09/30/o...
Ohio Republicans just dropped a bill to insert Christianity into public schools. LGBTQ+ communities should be alarmed.
'HB 486 whitewashes history and leaves out queer communities and other faiths.'
thebuckeyeflame.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Ohio Republicans just dropped a bill to insert Christianity into public schools. LGBTQ+ communities should be alarmed.
‘HB 486 whitewashes history and leaves out queer communities and other faiths.’
thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/09/30/o...
‘HB 486 whitewashes history and leaves out queer communities and other faiths.’
thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/09/30/o...
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September 30, 2025
September 30, 2025
Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation’s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to m...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
September 30, 2025
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I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
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The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.
The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...
www.propublica.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.
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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
September 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
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“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”
Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
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The federal government cannot withhold Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood for at least the next two weeks, after a district court judge issued a temporary restraining order the same day the organization filed a lawsuit. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/08/r...
Federal judge quickly rules in favor of Planned Parenthood in suit over Medicaid funding • Ohio Capital Journal
The federal government cannot withhold Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood for at least the next two weeks, after a district court judge issued a temporary restraining order the same day the…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The federal government cannot withhold Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood for at least the next two weeks, after a district court judge issued a temporary restraining order the same day the organization filed a lawsuit. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/08/r...
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This is the Washington Post - today - describing the fact that RFK Jr. does not believe that HIV is the cause of AIDS.
It is not controversial at all. It is a fringe, extremist conspiracy based in science denial and it is objectively false.
It is not controversial at all. It is a fringe, extremist conspiracy based in science denial and it is objectively false.
June 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This is the Washington Post - today - describing the fact that RFK Jr. does not believe that HIV is the cause of AIDS.
It is not controversial at all. It is a fringe, extremist conspiracy based in science denial and it is objectively false.
It is not controversial at all. It is a fringe, extremist conspiracy based in science denial and it is objectively false.
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The Ohio Senate has approved a state budget eliminating the Ohio Elections Commission. Negotiators from the House and Senate still have differences to hammer out but both chambers advanced proposals that axe the independent state campaign finance watchdog ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/17/o...
Ohio House, Senate budgets eliminate agency tasked with campaign finance oversight • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio Senate has approved a state budget eliminating the Ohio Elections Commission. Negotiators from the House and Senate still have differences to hammer out, but both chambers advanced proposals…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
June 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Ohio Senate has approved a state budget eliminating the Ohio Elections Commission. Negotiators from the House and Senate still have differences to hammer out but both chambers advanced proposals that axe the independent state campaign finance watchdog ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/17/o...
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Ohio Republican lawmakers are planning to introduce a bill that would completely ban and criminalize abortion, IVF, and some forms of contraception ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/17/r...
Republican lawmakers in Ohio to propose total abortion and IVF ban • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Republican lawmakers are planning to introduce a bill that would completely ban and criminalize abortion, IVF and some forms of contraception.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Ohio Republican lawmakers are planning to introduce a bill that would completely ban and criminalize abortion, IVF, and some forms of contraception ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/17/r...
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The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.
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June 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.
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The Ohio Republicans are really going to do this? Going full in on fetal personhood and overturning the will of the voters?
Ohio lawmakers to introduce bill banning abortion, criminalizing the procedure
Republican lawmakers in Ohio are planning on introducing a bill on Wednesday that would ban almost all abortions and criminalize the procedure.
abcnews.go.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The Ohio Republicans are really going to do this? Going full in on fetal personhood and overturning the will of the voters?
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I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation
June 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation