Joe Gallenstein
@joegallenstein.bsky.social
Father, Husband, Friend, Organizer. Occasional poet. Northern Kentucky.
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Elon Musk reposted to his 229 million followers a since-deleted tweet blaming the left for the shooting. He commented, “The murderous indoctrination needs to stop now.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Conservative influencers blame Brown University shooting on a “leftist activist”
Nothing is known yet about the shooter's motive or political beliefs.
www.motherjones.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Elon Musk reposted to his 229 million followers a since-deleted tweet blaming the left for the shooting. He commented, “The murderous indoctrination needs to stop now.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
Brown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeon
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was one of two people killed at Brown University on Saturday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."
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Already this year, anti-vaccine activists have downplayed the risks of measles and polio.
Now, they’re adding whooping cough to the list, even as cases of the disease surge, killing at least ten babies over the past two years.
Now, they’re adding whooping cough to the list, even as cases of the disease surge, killing at least ten babies over the past two years.
The new CDC leader’s whooping cough scandal
“It continues to be appalling, the type of people RFK Jr. is putting into high-level positions in CDC.”
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Already this year, anti-vaccine activists have downplayed the risks of measles and polio.
Now, they’re adding whooping cough to the list, even as cases of the disease surge, killing at least ten babies over the past two years.
Now, they’re adding whooping cough to the list, even as cases of the disease surge, killing at least ten babies over the past two years.
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Donald Trump has decided that CNN must be sold to a conservative owner. But someone gave their pronouns at a PTA meeting last week. I have never felt more politically homeless.
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Donald Trump has decided that CNN must be sold to a conservative owner. But someone gave their pronouns at a PTA meeting last week. I have never felt more politically homeless.
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This is stunningly good reporting by two bylined reporters and six credited researchers, and it's undermined throughout by links to an "Ask the Post AI" that delivers insipid answers to its own contrived prompts under the guise of "More context on this article"
December 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This is stunningly good reporting by two bylined reporters and six credited researchers, and it's undermined throughout by links to an "Ask the Post AI" that delivers insipid answers to its own contrived prompts under the guise of "More context on this article"
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The president is a lunatic
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
The president is a lunatic
It’s #GivingTuesday, and I am looking for 5 more folks to support @kftc-1981.bsky.social through my fundraising page. Bit.ly/JoeG2025
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It’s #GivingTuesday, and I am looking for 5 more folks to support @kftc-1981.bsky.social through my fundraising page. Bit.ly/JoeG2025
Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday - and I’m hoping to recruit 10 folks to give to @kftc-1981.bsky.social! Help support our work for a more just #Kentucky today, and join me in becoming a sustaining giver at bit.ly/JoeG2025
Picture from a grassroots lobby day around #WelcomeHomeKY campaign!
Picture from a grassroots lobby day around #WelcomeHomeKY campaign!
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday - and I’m hoping to recruit 10 folks to give to @kftc-1981.bsky.social! Help support our work for a more just #Kentucky today, and join me in becoming a sustaining giver at bit.ly/JoeG2025
Picture from a grassroots lobby day around #WelcomeHomeKY campaign!
Picture from a grassroots lobby day around #WelcomeHomeKY campaign!
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@joegallenstein.bsky.social
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My name is Iman.
Donations have become so slow, and I can't handle everything on my own anymore.
There's a whole family depending on me, and every day I'm afraid I won't be able to help them. I'm tired, hungry, and sick
Please don't leave me alone
Any donation,
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Donations have become so slow, and I can't handle everything on my own anymore.
There's a whole family depending on me, and every day I'm afraid I won't be able to help them. I'm tired, hungry, and sick
Please don't leave me alone
Any donation,
chuffed.org/project/help...
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Osama. Osama was studying software development and programming before the war. His university and home were destroyed. He is trying to help his family survive and leave Gaza including his younger brothers Hamza, 20 and Abib, 15.
November 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Osama. Osama was studying software development and programming before the war. His university and home were destroyed. He is trying to help his family survive and leave Gaza including his younger brothers Hamza, 20 and Abib, 15.
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you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
In newly leaked audio, Peter Thiel admits he urged JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral questions — including the ethical development of AI.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
He goes even further, branding Leo “the woke American pope” and suggesting he’s a tool of the Antichrist.
NEW: JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests Pope Leo XIV is Antichrist
In a leaked lecture, Peter Thiel says he’s urged Vance to ignore the pope on moral questions — and simply pray for him.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked
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For many environmental advocates, the COP30 climate negotiations ended this weekend in disappointment.
In part, experts say, that’s because of the United States, which had been noticeably absent from the summit.
In part, experts say, that’s because of the United States, which had been noticeably absent from the summit.
Can the world address climate change without the US?
Even with Trump's America absent, COP30 ended in a weak deal—and a win for petrostates.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
For many environmental advocates, the COP30 climate negotiations ended this weekend in disappointment.
In part, experts say, that’s because of the United States, which had been noticeably absent from the summit.
In part, experts say, that’s because of the United States, which had been noticeably absent from the summit.
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A group of federal workers who were laid off during the government shutdown are accusing the Trump administration of violating the law by failing to rehire them once federal agencies reopened. nyti.ms/43PIXHK
Fired Employees Say Government Won’t Rehire Them After Shutdown
A group of former General Services Administration workers are accusing the administration of breaking the law in refusing to reinstate them.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A group of federal workers who were laid off during the government shutdown are accusing the Trump administration of violating the law by failing to rehire them once federal agencies reopened. nyti.ms/43PIXHK
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Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal prosecutors. n.pr/3XiBDAJ
New limits for rent algorithm that prosecutors say lets landlords drive up prices
Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal prosecutors.
n.pr
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal prosecutors. n.pr/3XiBDAJ
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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If you want to help a family who has raised very little ❤️
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmed. Ahmed was a driver but he lost his car and his home. He is trying to take care of his four children. Fires who is in dental school, Mohammed who finished his final year of high school, Halal, a 7th grader and Bisan, a 5th grader.
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
If you want to help a family who has raised very little ❤️
#GivingTuesday is a week from tomorrow, & I'm trying to recruit 8 more folks to join @kftc-1981.bsky.social by then! Our goal is to get 165 new Sustaining Givers, folks who will join me in donating to KFTC every month to support our work year-round. #HopeIsAHarvest #RootedTogetherKY bit.ly/JoeG2025
November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
#GivingTuesday is a week from tomorrow, & I'm trying to recruit 8 more folks to join @kftc-1981.bsky.social by then! Our goal is to get 165 new Sustaining Givers, folks who will join me in donating to KFTC every month to support our work year-round. #HopeIsAHarvest #RootedTogetherKY bit.ly/JoeG2025
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The final agreement from COP30 does not align with science and leaves millions of people in frontline communities “exposed to the worst impacts and with few options for their survival,” Oxfam Brasil executive director Viviana Santiago told @markhertsgaard of @coveringclimatenow.org.
Backsliding in Belem
Petrostates at COP30 quash fossil-fuel and deforestation phase outs.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The final agreement from COP30 does not align with science and leaves millions of people in frontline communities “exposed to the worst impacts and with few options for their survival,” Oxfam Brasil executive director Viviana Santiago told @markhertsgaard of @coveringclimatenow.org.
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A new Coast Guard policy recasts swastikas and nooses as merely “politically divisive," deletes protections for transgender men and women, and suggests hazing has military utility
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Coast Guard Softens Stance on Hate and Hazing
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A new Coast Guard policy recasts swastikas and nooses as merely “politically divisive," deletes protections for transgender men and women, and suggests hazing has military utility
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
#Kentucky friends!
I'm trying to recruit 10 new sustaining givers to @kftc-1981.bsky.social! Help me reach my goal by donating at bit.ly/JoeG2025 #RootedTogetherKY #HopeIsOurHarvest
I'm trying to recruit 10 new sustaining givers to @kftc-1981.bsky.social! Help me reach my goal by donating at bit.ly/JoeG2025 #RootedTogetherKY #HopeIsOurHarvest
November 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
#Kentucky friends!
I'm trying to recruit 10 new sustaining givers to @kftc-1981.bsky.social! Help me reach my goal by donating at bit.ly/JoeG2025 #RootedTogetherKY #HopeIsOurHarvest
I'm trying to recruit 10 new sustaining givers to @kftc-1981.bsky.social! Help me reach my goal by donating at bit.ly/JoeG2025 #RootedTogetherKY #HopeIsOurHarvest
New #poem from me! Dedicated to my Mom, on her birthday, and in remembrance of my Mamaw! #Poetry joegallenstein.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/y... #UrbanAppalachian
Your Mama’s Holler
I want to take my mom back to Slate Hollow – her momma’s place; to visit fond memories and friendly ghosts
joegallenstein.wordpress.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New #poem from me! Dedicated to my Mom, on her birthday, and in remembrance of my Mamaw! #Poetry joegallenstein.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/y... #UrbanAppalachian
Hey #Kentucky - the #NewPower PAC has weekly #GOTV phone banks for the special election on December 16th! Help elect Gary Clemons to Senate District 37 (in #LouisvilleKY) www.mobilize.us/kftc/event/8...
Phonebank to Elect Gary Clemons for Senate District 37 · Kentuckians For The Commonwealth
Our New Power PAC has endorsed Gary Clemons for Kentucky Senate District 37 in the Special Election. The New Power PAC endorsed Gary because Gary shares the values of our members at Kentuckians For Th...
www.mobilize.us
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hey #Kentucky - the #NewPower PAC has weekly #GOTV phone banks for the special election on December 16th! Help elect Gary Clemons to Senate District 37 (in #LouisvilleKY) www.mobilize.us/kftc/event/8...
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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People are roasting this lede, but NYM is actually correct to print it. Toilet paper is so scarce in prisons that it is sometimes used as a currency.
It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.
It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.
Apparently, Ghislaine Maxwell is living it up in prison with unlimited toilet paper. Here’s what we know about her alleged special privileges at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
Ghislaine Maxwell Is Living It Up With Unlimited Toilet Paper
What we know about the special privileges Epstein’s accomplice is reportedly receiving at her new federal prison camp in Texas.
nymag.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:14 AM
People are roasting this lede, but NYM is actually correct to print it. Toilet paper is so scarce in prisons that it is sometimes used as a currency.
It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.
It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.
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NEW: The most important Sunday read.
Drug courts are saving lives. Red states love them. People depend on them. But Trump could very well blow it all up
via @citizencohn.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/drug-treat...
Drug courts are saving lives. Red states love them. People depend on them. But Trump could very well blow it all up
via @citizencohn.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/drug-treat...
Drug Courts Save Lives. That May Not Save Them From Trump.
An Alabama man’s recovery story shows what the program can do—and what could be lost.
www.thebulwark.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
NEW: The most important Sunday read.
Drug courts are saving lives. Red states love them. People depend on them. But Trump could very well blow it all up
via @citizencohn.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/drug-treat...
Drug courts are saving lives. Red states love them. People depend on them. But Trump could very well blow it all up
via @citizencohn.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/drug-treat...