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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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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 14h

Almost that time of year for this account. #BBN

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 15h

*internal polling caveat yada yada

Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 15h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

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

Let’s go Cubbies

Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 2d

I have them all over my house

Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 2d

Unless it is their darkest secret

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 2d

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 · 3d

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 · 2d

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

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 2d

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 · 2d

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

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

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 · 2d

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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 · 3d

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 · 3d

PCA looks like Steve Buechele

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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🎃 Scare-ah G. 🎃 @sglassmeyer.bsky.social · 3d

did image search for him and literally the first one was him and Andrew Tate

Newest White House sex pest pictures with notorious professional misogynist Andrew Tate

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 3d

Well, at least Philadelphia fans are famous for their forgiveness

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 3d

#BBN !

Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 3d

OH NO. HE. DIDN'T!!!

Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 3d

Oh no that’s brutal…

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 3d

Happ! 🐻

Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 3d

Goddamn Wrigley Field is gorgeous

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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 3d

Several GOP legislators say Gov. Beshear needs to find the funds to bolster Kentucky’s senior meal program, or he should call a special session. From @sylviaruthg.lpm.org #kyga26

Kentucky GOP lawmakers demand more funds for senior meal — even if it takes a special session

Several GOP legislators say the governor needs to find the funds to bolster Kentucky’s senior meal program, or he should call a special session.

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bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 3d

wtaf are you talking about

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 3d

NEW mayoral poll from Quinnipiac, conducted Oct. 3–7 with a 3.9% margin of error: poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Zohran Mamdani - 46%

Andrew Cuomo - 33%

Curtis Sliwa - 15%

NYC Mayor's Race: Adams Exits, Cuomo Gains, Mamdani Up By Double Digits, Quinnipiac University New York City Poll Finds; Who Would Best Represent NYC's Interests Under Trump? Mamdani & Cuomo Ess...

"The numbers changed but the contours of the race haven't. Andrew Cuomo picked up the bulk of Adams' supporters cutting into Zohran Mamdani's lead, but Mamdani's frontrunner status by double digits st...

poll.qu.edu

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 3d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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