Kristin Kuster
@kristinkuster.bsky.social
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Mom, Composer, University of Michigan Professor of Composition
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Again, we have to start from a place where we care about what happens to other people. Everything else is bullshit.
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NEW: if you’re planning on taking I-5 to the No Kings rally, you might wanna leave now. In order to disrupt our protests, they’re shutting parts of it down. meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...
meidasnews.com
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Researchers in France looked at more than 500,000 infants and found no connection between Covid vaccination in the first trimester and any of dozens of birth defects, adding to the body of evidence for the vaccines' safety during pregnancy.
Covid Vaccines in First Trimester Not Tied to Birth Defects, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
Holy shit this ongoing thread by @elienyc.bsky.social is riveting, horrifying, exasperating, & IMPORTANT; KEEP WATCHING:
Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.
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"The true value of a liberal arts education is not learning a collection of facts, but learning how to learn. To know what you don’t know, and to know enough to know you need to know more. And then to actually do the work." 🫶
I'm so happy David will be a regular voice here.
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In the middle of a lake, I took a photo of the sun without looking at it, and ended up with this
Sun reflected in water
Okay. Here’s one of the things I go out back & watch when I am reminded of the govt’s fuckery: Mama Turkey & her babies grabbing snacks under our bird feeder. 15 Oct 2025, Ann Arbor.
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Current* conditions near St Joseph, MI:
View looking south over Silver Lake Beach as it meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-14 17:36:12 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in St Joseph: 66.14 F | 18.97 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: WNW at 8.053 mph | 12.9 kph // Humidity: 79%
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Same. Also, Game of Thrones.
It’s like every visit to the ortho/dentist in the 80’s: Madonna played by a trumpet.
Y’all, this bridge is THE most spectacular in the U.S.. Seriously.
Current* conditions near Mackinaw City, MI:
Northeastern view of the Mackinac Bridge in the distance traversing the Straits of Mackinac with Lake Huron in the foreground. // Image captured at: 2025-10-13 16:01:07 UTC (about 12 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Mackinaw City: 61.64 F | 16.47 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: SSE at 5.749 mph | 9.25 kph // Humidity: 88%
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Current* conditions near Alpena, MI:
NE view from Alpena Lighthouse with Lake Huron and North Point in the distance. // Image captured at: 2025-10-13 17:20:01 UTC (about 24 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Alpena: 62.15 F | 16.75 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: ESE at 9.216 mph | 14.83 kph // Humidity: 93%
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Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.
U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
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Fuck. Fuck these fuckers & all of their fucking fuckery.
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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Also how high can Mookie Betts jump??

good god
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I argued yesterday that, by lowering the bar to indicting a former FBI director to "make shit up," Kash and Pam Bondi signed their own arrest warrants.

Either they keep ratcheting up their own abuse, or they'll meet the same fate as Comey.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...
How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller - emptywheel
By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.
www.emptywheel.net
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I was working on the story and he just came out and said it
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
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I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide
This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.
Just by the way, my husband @blucas24.bsky.social is effortlessly cool. FYI. A PSA.