David Kesling
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David Kesling
@dpkesling.bsky.social
Non-accordion player. Very tidy.
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April 18, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Fewer dolls
by @deAdder
Substack:
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May 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.
An exhibit honoring victims of gun violence is taken down at ATF headquarters
The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.
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May 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025
On his social media feed yesterday evening, President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on who is the greatest scientific mind in history.
May 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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May 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I don’t think most people understand that within elite Trump circles a real goal is to put a major university out of business. To show that it can be done. Can it? We don’t know yet. But we should know that’s the ambition.
April 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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BREAKING: China orders its airlines to halt any further deliveries of Boeing jets as trade war with the US expands
China Orders Halts to Boeing Jet Deliveries as Trade War Expands
China has ordered its airlines not to take any further deliveries of Boeing Co. jets as part of the tit-for-tat trade war that’s seen US President Donald Trump levy tariffs of as high as 145% on Chine...
www.bloomberg.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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“In Russia, dissent can cost critics their business licences, liberty and even their lives. It seems a matter of time before other less besieged western legal systems hear petitions by US citizens for asylum.”
Trump is halfway to making America a police state
The president’s refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point
www.ft.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Today is Mister Rogers' birthday.
Today is Big Bird's birthday.
And spring has officially sprung.

A beautiful day in the neighborhood, indeed.
March 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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So... yes... empathy is a sin now. It sure feels like it sometimes in some circles.
Thanks @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social, I am now both sad and amused.
March 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Ask yourself:

Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this?

Why would any decent human being do this?
March 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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March 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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“Tesla investors are having another rocky day, with shares down as much as 7%.

“The stock is headed for a ninth-straight weekly loss, and now sits 53% below the all-time highs reached in mid-December.”
Tesla stock price crash continues on BYD battery tech, RBC downgrade — Business Insider
Tesla stock is barreling toward a ninth-straight weekly drop, falling another 7% on Tuesday. Shares have now plummeted 53% from record highs reached in mid-December. There are two new factors behind t...
apple.news
March 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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March 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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March 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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See, this is the sort of thing that leads me to the conclusion that Trump and company are intending to lock their control in for decades.

Nobody does this if they think it will someday be turned around on them.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Lays Groundwork for Investigating People Pardoned by Biden
He questioned the validity of pardons granted by his predecessor, signaling that the administration could move to investigate those given legal immunity.
www.wsj.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.
March 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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This is how you win a Club Championship!
March 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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I'm very fond of Hungary.
Huge protests against Orban in Budapest.
March 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Okay we need @rickreilly.bsky.social to weigh in on this momentous achievement in the history of golf

www.amazon.com/Commander-Ch...
March 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.
Brown University Surgeon and Professor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Test. Cases. Any little infraction. But don't think they can't make up infractions...they already are.
A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house surrounded by military guards. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
Milwaukee-area woman deported to Laos though she's never been there, doesn't speak the language
As Donald Trump pushes the mass deportation of immigrants, Yang believes she is one of the first Hmong Americans to be deported to Laos recently.
www.jsonline.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM