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State government reporter for @kentuckypublicradio.org — @lpm.org, @weku.bsky.social, WKYU/Bowling Green, @wkmsfm.bsky.social. Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe/BBN. Did a Pulitzer many years ago. DM me news/apocalypse tips! https://www.lpm.org/people/joe-sonka

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Jayson Stark @jaysonst.bsky.social · 6h

In answer to your questions ...

No, I've never seen that before.
No, it didn't happen because I will Strange But True madness to happen.
Yes, we just saw a "grounded into double play" on a ball that looked like a possible slam over the CF wall.
And the catcher recorded both forceouts.

Baseball!

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 6h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 6h

Literally everyone watching that play

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 6h

Your everyday 8-6-2 double play

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 6h

what in the hell just happened in Milwaukee

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 8h

Is it bad that a struggling economy is being obscured by an obvious speculative bubble? stocks.apple.com/AJizc0u9XRqi...

"You have the software and services world accelerating, and becoming almost a monomania for the culture, at the same time that manufacturing remains flat or worse," said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "The Al boom is kind of papering over some other parts of the economy that aren't going well."

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 16h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 9h

Former Kentucky Poet Laureate Gurney Norman died yesterday. Here’s a Q&A with him and @iamflyrock.bsky.social a few years ago.

Q&A: Author Gurney Norman in Conversation with Daily Yonder Publisher, Dee Davis | The Daily Yonder

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, a new email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a

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Tom Eblen @tomeblen.com · 9h

RIP, Gurney Norman, a great Kentucky writer, teacher and mentor. We will miss him dearly. FREE LINK.

www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

Gurney Norman, chronicler of Appalachia, member of ‘KY’s Fab Five’ dies at 88

Gurney Norman was a short story writer and novelist, as well as a UK writing teacher who led UK’s creative writing department for many years.

www.kentucky.com

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 12h

One of the writers best explaining Trumpism right now is not a full-time writer, but @donmoyn.bsky.social, an academic and professor. The Times should give him a column. But for now, you can read his great stuff via his newsletter. Another sharp piece here.

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16h

thinking about the number of divorce papers being filed tomorrow bc fartcoin crashed

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 16h

The Italians I celebrate

Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 1d

Almost that time of year for this account. #BBN

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 1d

*internal polling caveat yada yada

Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 1d

Notable here that Barr, Morris and PACs supporting and opposing those two have raised and spent a crazy amount of money already. Cameron hasn’t spent much of anything. #kysen

Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 1d

Internal Cameron poll for #kysen GOP primary:

Daniel Cameron- 39%
Andy Barr- 22%
Nate Morris- 8%

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 1d

Internal Cameron poll for #kysen GOP primary:

Daniel Cameron- 39%
Andy Barr- 22%
Nate Morris- 8%

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 2d

Let’s go Cubbies

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I have them all over my house

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Unless it is their darkest secret

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 3d

As a child of the 80s, I can say that I've never met a person who likes any form of TRON ever

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 3d

MIT “became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump administration’s higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment… “the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit”

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 3d

More Everything Forever

This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 3d

Some are saying that billionaires being radicalized by doomsday cults could create potential harms to society

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 3d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 4d

Game 5.

a flag with the letter w on it

ALT: a flag with the letter w on it

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 4d

PCA looks like Steve Buechele

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