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@jkoteen.bsky.social

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Pragmatic Northwesterner. Patriot. Climate/energy professional. I will follow back in the interests of building community for positive change. 🚫trolls, crypto scams, porn, jerks, and nazis. Can’t believe I have to explicitly say no Nazis.

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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 15m

Today I learned, courtesy of a local coffee shop artist, that “Adelita” is a term dating back to the Mexican Revolution for a woman who fights for justice.

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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. In my lifetime, there has never been a Congress that has failed in its duty the way this Republican-dominated Congress has.

JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 10h

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition…to infuse food with pork for centuries, but it did.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 1d

Luckily the brave voters of Florida have banned chem trails . . . But are still have failed to take action against the Swamp Ape

www.preventionweb.net/news/florida...

Florida bill would ban 'chemtrails' and 'geoengineering.' But what are they?

The coming ban on weather modification may have good intentions, weather experts said this week, but it conflates legitimate geoengineering research with conspiracy theories about chemtrails.

www.preventionweb.net

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 2d

Arc de Trump 😐

A CBS News reporter asked Trump who the new monument is meant to honor.

Trump: “Me.”

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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 2d

He wasn’t tripping, he was prostrating himself.

JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 2d

It should be noted that @politico.com barely even treats this as a scandal, basically parroting the talking points : just kids out having fun, not actual racists seeking to dehumanize and kill their American neighbors.

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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 2d

Because the press has presented Trump with their backsides for his use in Jeffrey Epstein style.

JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 2d

They said to me “sir, you have no idea how grateful I am that you have destroyed our local economy, put small businesses into bankruptcy, and turned our nation’s capitol into a third world police checkpoint…antifa was everywhere until you came in, and so were the pedophile pizza shops. Thank you!”

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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 2d

Gosh. If they want us to stop calling them fascists, they should stop being fascist.

JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 2d

Every city should do this. More participation is better.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

🚨BREAKING: New York Court of Appeals UNANIMOUSLY UPHOLDS state law moving most county and town elections to even-numbered years. By aligning them with state and federal elections, it will boost voter turnout.

Another victory for voters and defeat for the GOP! www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

🚨 Onondaga County v. New York

Learn more.

www.democracydocket.com

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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 2d

First they ignored us, then they mocked us, now they are going to fight us and then we will win.

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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 2d

Am pretty sure it was anti-antifa

JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 2d

Merkin was not on my bingo card. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin

Merkin - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d

All of this, in violation of the Constitution.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3d

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 2d

What he said.

JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 3d

This is a great read. Thanks

JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 3d

I remember being invited to a wine pairing at one of these places (with the best wine selection in town) featuring natural and orange wines. This article sorta sums up my reaction. apple.news/A7dgBjtSYTn2...

The Case Against Orange Wine — Vanity Fair

Wine doesn’t need to be reinvented. Or orange.

apple.news

JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 3d

The only thing that can stop a bad man with a clarinet is a good man with a clarinet.

JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 3d

I thought it was “destroying our pure essence” I saw it in a documentary about RFK JR, i think it was called “Dr. Strangelove”

JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 3d

The reason they had to blur it out was:
A: because the vice president was unable to control his urges and had already soiled several copies, or
B: Mike Johnson’s son had found his father with a copy of it.

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JK @jkoteen.bsky.social · 3d

Wait… Bari Weiss slept with all those guys? I guess that would make a certain type of sense.