Kathryn Wilcken
@lute42.bsky.social
Small business owner. I make chainmaille and gemstone jewelry for a living.
My home is full of orchids, bonsai trees and ball pythons. I love all kinds of animals, including the less- lovable ones.
My home is full of orchids, bonsai trees and ball pythons. I love all kinds of animals, including the less- lovable ones.
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Home from work and I don’t know what the hell to do. In a minute the sun will rise on life in a homicidal thieving dictatorship cooking up World War and Depression. But the midterms! You don’t think the billionaires, white house, congress and high court are going to allow another election. Do you?
January 7, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Home from work and I don’t know what the hell to do. In a minute the sun will rise on life in a homicidal thieving dictatorship cooking up World War and Depression. But the midterms! You don’t think the billionaires, white house, congress and high court are going to allow another election. Do you?
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This is awesome!!
January 4, 2026 at 2:32 PM
This is awesome!!
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Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
January 6, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.
Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.
It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.
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Mark Kelly is not in the Epstein files.
Take a minute to read the Senator's response to the #RegimeRetribution plans to censure, demote, and reduce Kelly's well earned retirement pay.
Keep fighting, Senator Kelly!
We have your six. 🫡
And thank you for your continued service to our country.
Take a minute to read the Senator's response to the #RegimeRetribution plans to censure, demote, and reduce Kelly's well earned retirement pay.
Keep fighting, Senator Kelly!
We have your six. 🫡
And thank you for your continued service to our country.
January 5, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Mark Kelly is not in the Epstein files.
Take a minute to read the Senator's response to the #RegimeRetribution plans to censure, demote, and reduce Kelly's well earned retirement pay.
Keep fighting, Senator Kelly!
We have your six. 🫡
And thank you for your continued service to our country.
Take a minute to read the Senator's response to the #RegimeRetribution plans to censure, demote, and reduce Kelly's well earned retirement pay.
Keep fighting, Senator Kelly!
We have your six. 🫡
And thank you for your continued service to our country.
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Never forget: Donald Trump is an illegal president, constitutionally disqualified for the deadly insurrection he incited 5 years ago today.
One year ago Congress failed our nation by certifying his election in violation of 14.3.
This is all on them.
Start making amends: IMPEACH, CONVICT, REMOVE.
One year ago Congress failed our nation by certifying his election in violation of 14.3.
This is all on them.
Start making amends: IMPEACH, CONVICT, REMOVE.
January 6, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Never forget: Donald Trump is an illegal president, constitutionally disqualified for the deadly insurrection he incited 5 years ago today.
One year ago Congress failed our nation by certifying his election in violation of 14.3.
This is all on them.
Start making amends: IMPEACH, CONVICT, REMOVE.
One year ago Congress failed our nation by certifying his election in violation of 14.3.
This is all on them.
Start making amends: IMPEACH, CONVICT, REMOVE.
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Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
January 5, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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If U.S. foreign policy is being shaped by Donald Trump’s resentment over a Nobel Peace Prize he didn’t get to control, then we have a far bigger problem than Venezuela.
World affairs cannot be run by wounded pride.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
World affairs cannot be run by wounded pride.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
A Nobel Prize, a Bruised Ego, and the Danger of Letting Trump Run the World
If U.S. policy toward Venezuela is being shaped by Donald Trump’s resentment over a Nobel Peace Prize he didn’t control, then the problem isn’t strategy—it’s his fitness to wield power at all.
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:26 PM
If U.S. foreign policy is being shaped by Donald Trump’s resentment over a Nobel Peace Prize he didn’t get to control, then we have a far bigger problem than Venezuela.
World affairs cannot be run by wounded pride.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
World affairs cannot be run by wounded pride.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
January 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
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I made it a meme.
January 5, 2026 at 6:40 PM
I made it a meme.
Any day now I expect the drunken idiot in the Pentagon will rename the military the ‘whermacht’; the Army ‘Heer’, the Navy ‘kriegsmarine’ and the Air Force ‘luftwaffe’.
January 4, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Any day now I expect the drunken idiot in the Pentagon will rename the military the ‘whermacht’; the Army ‘Heer’, the Navy ‘kriegsmarine’ and the Air Force ‘luftwaffe’.
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“Somehow, Dick Cheney returned.”
January 4, 2026 at 6:25 PM
“Somehow, Dick Cheney returned.”
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Makes about as much sense as what Trump just did!
January 4, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Makes about as much sense as what Trump just did!
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NOW: Thousands are marching in New York City against Trump’s war on Venezuela, demanding an end to bombing, occupation, and illegal intervention. People are in the streets because the U.S. has just crossed every line imaginable.
January 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
NOW: Thousands are marching in New York City against Trump’s war on Venezuela, demanding an end to bombing, occupation, and illegal intervention. People are in the streets because the U.S. has just crossed every line imaginable.
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Bombing and occupying Venezuela is an illegal act of war against a sovereign nation. Only Congress has the ability to declare war, but Speaker Johnson and the Republican majorities in the House and Senate have rolled over and gave up our Article One powers.
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Bombing and occupying Venezuela is an illegal act of war against a sovereign nation. Only Congress has the ability to declare war, but Speaker Johnson and the Republican majorities in the House and Senate have rolled over and gave up our Article One powers.
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Wonder how much his oil buddies paid him to do this?🤔
Its ALWAYS about the MONEY....
Its ALWAYS about the MONEY....
January 3, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Wonder how much his oil buddies paid him to do this?🤔
Its ALWAYS about the MONEY....
Its ALWAYS about the MONEY....
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Sprinkles Cupcake Doctrine
He's doing foreign policy like a private equity firm.
Trump: "We're going to stay [in Venezuela] until such time as the proper transition can take place…We're going to run it, essentially, until such time."
January 3, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Sprinkles Cupcake Doctrine
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It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.
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trump just wants to take Maduro’s place as dictator, and to steal Venezuela’s oil.
January 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
trump just wants to take Maduro’s place as dictator, and to steal Venezuela’s oil.
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So, he just bombed a sovereign country, kidnapped the duly elected leader and his wife and is now telling the Nobel Committee‘gimme a Nobel Peace Prize or else’?😳
January 3, 2026 at 12:54 PM
So, he just bombed a sovereign country, kidnapped the duly elected leader and his wife and is now telling the Nobel Committee‘gimme a Nobel Peace Prize or else’?😳
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January 2, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Jack Smith's deposition must be bigger news
"There is no historical analog for what..Trump did..[H]e was free to say he thought he won..He was even free to say falsely that he won..But..he was not free to..violate federal law and use knowingly false statements..to target lawful government function"
"There is no historical analog for what..Trump did..[H]e was free to say he thought he won..He was even free to say falsely that he won..But..he was not free to..violate federal law and use knowingly false statements..to target lawful government function"
January 2, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Jack Smith's deposition must be bigger news
"There is no historical analog for what..Trump did..[H]e was free to say he thought he won..He was even free to say falsely that he won..But..he was not free to..violate federal law and use knowingly false statements..to target lawful government function"
"There is no historical analog for what..Trump did..[H]e was free to say he thought he won..He was even free to say falsely that he won..But..he was not free to..violate federal law and use knowingly false statements..to target lawful government function"