@karenkolbe.bsky.social
Psychotherapist. Person with opinions. Journalist, briefly. Former latchkey and theater kid. “Objectivity” isn’t real; own your biases. Hate fascists, MAGAs, bros. Love democracy, a free press, cooking, true crime, hiking, cycling, swearing
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“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”
BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 13, 2026 at 12:41 AM
“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”
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“I have a sick feeling in my stomach all the time.”
If you feel this way, you’re not alone.
It’s not just political stress. It’s moral and psychic injury. 🧵1/
If you feel this way, you’re not alone.
It’s not just political stress. It’s moral and psychic injury. 🧵1/
The Emotional Toll of Living With Institutional Betrayal - Dame Magazine
What happens to us when institutions protect power instead of people? From Epstein to ICE, institutional betrayal is inflicting trauma and moral injury.
www.damemagazine.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:42 PM
“I have a sick feeling in my stomach all the time.”
If you feel this way, you’re not alone.
It’s not just political stress. It’s moral and psychic injury. 🧵1/
If you feel this way, you’re not alone.
It’s not just political stress. It’s moral and psychic injury. 🧵1/
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If you're currently a student at a college with a faculty member who showed up in the Epstein files, I'd like to talk to you about the campus response for an article. You can reach me at [email protected] or millionbear.44 on Signal.
February 13, 2026 at 12:14 AM
If you're currently a student at a college with a faculty member who showed up in the Epstein files, I'd like to talk to you about the campus response for an article. You can reach me at [email protected] or millionbear.44 on Signal.
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Yikes — Epstein showing appreciation for @GovBillLee pal Betsy Devos making it harder to report sexual abuse on campuses
February 12, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Yikes — Epstein showing appreciation for @GovBillLee pal Betsy Devos making it harder to report sexual abuse on campuses
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Today's newsletter: New piece: after the Guthrie kidnapping, the Kirk assassination, and both Minneapolis shootings, the same thing happened every time. People asked AI to "enhance" blurry footage. AI invented faces.
www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...
www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...
Computer, Enhance
People keep running crime footage through AI thinking they’re helping. They’re not.
www.readtpa.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Today's newsletter: New piece: after the Guthrie kidnapping, the Kirk assassination, and both Minneapolis shootings, the same thing happened every time. People asked AI to "enhance" blurry footage. AI invented faces.
www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...
www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...
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A Democratic lawmaker Thursday had a serious warning for former Fox News host and current U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.
Senator has blunt warning for Trump prosecutor Jeanine Pirro: 'Preserve your records'
A Democratic lawmaker Thursday had a serious warning for former Fox News host and current U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro. Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) announced that she declined an interview with Pirro and Attorney General Pam Bondi, refusing to talk to them after she and f...
bit.ly
February 12, 2026 at 11:20 PM
A Democratic lawmaker Thursday had a serious warning for former Fox News host and current U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.
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Pam Bondi served as AG of Florida from 2011 to 2019,
the same state where Jeffrey Epstein was a resident, and the same period when victims actively brought civil suits to Florida courts seeking to overturn his controversial 2008 non-prosecution agreement.
www.yahoo.com/news/pam-bon...
the same state where Jeffrey Epstein was a resident, and the same period when victims actively brought civil suits to Florida courts seeking to overturn his controversial 2008 non-prosecution agreement.
www.yahoo.com/news/pam-bon...
Pam Bondi ‘could have tried Epstein’ while Florida AG, law professor says
Bondi served as Florida’s first female attorney general from 2011 to 2019
www.yahoo.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Pam Bondi served as AG of Florida from 2011 to 2019,
the same state where Jeffrey Epstein was a resident, and the same period when victims actively brought civil suits to Florida courts seeking to overturn his controversial 2008 non-prosecution agreement.
www.yahoo.com/news/pam-bon...
the same state where Jeffrey Epstein was a resident, and the same period when victims actively brought civil suits to Florida courts seeking to overturn his controversial 2008 non-prosecution agreement.
www.yahoo.com/news/pam-bon...
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Trump on the SAVE America Act: "It will assure the security of our crooked elections"
February 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Trump on the SAVE America Act: "It will assure the security of our crooked elections"
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1. A passport, which more than half of Americans don’t have and costs at least $130
OR
2. A birth certificate PLUS your photo ID with matching names, which nearly 70 million married women lack
OR
3. Military services papers (not a military ID alone) with sensitive info.
I’m voting NO.
OR
2. A birth certificate PLUS your photo ID with matching names, which nearly 70 million married women lack
OR
3. Military services papers (not a military ID alone) with sensitive info.
I’m voting NO.
February 10, 2026 at 6:23 PM
1. A passport, which more than half of Americans don’t have and costs at least $130
OR
2. A birth certificate PLUS your photo ID with matching names, which nearly 70 million married women lack
OR
3. Military services papers (not a military ID alone) with sensitive info.
I’m voting NO.
OR
2. A birth certificate PLUS your photo ID with matching names, which nearly 70 million married women lack
OR
3. Military services papers (not a military ID alone) with sensitive info.
I’m voting NO.
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There seems to be some confusion about the SAVE America Act. If it becomes law, you will NOT be able to vote with your drivers license alone.
You’d need:
You’d need:
February 10, 2026 at 6:23 PM
There seems to be some confusion about the SAVE America Act. If it becomes law, you will NOT be able to vote with your drivers license alone.
You’d need:
You’d need:
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Trump said he was the most qualified person in America to be in charge of public health. bsky.app/profile/fact...
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Trump said he was the most qualified person in America to be in charge of public health. bsky.app/profile/fact...
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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I'm willing to give all the credit for this to the Dog Rates guy.
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February 12, 2026 at 11:33 PM
I'm willing to give all the credit for this to the Dog Rates guy.
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Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?
February 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort
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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
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The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.
Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate
Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
www.kut.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.
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I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
Against the gamblification of the world.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
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If Pam Bondi was a waitress.
February 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
If Pam Bondi was a waitress.
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Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
February 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
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At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:23 PM
At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
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Just discovered yet another severe harm ICE is causing: huge cutbacks at our hospitals, because patients won't come in, because ICE hangs out inside the building or by the doors and abducts people. Crushing our medical system alongside our schools and our businesses.
February 12, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Just discovered yet another severe harm ICE is causing: huge cutbacks at our hospitals, because patients won't come in, because ICE hangs out inside the building or by the doors and abducts people. Crushing our medical system alongside our schools and our businesses.
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House Republicans are calling for an investigation into Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show over “widespread twerking and pelvic thrusts.”
Fact.
Apparently inflation, border policy, and the debt can wait…but hips at halftime demand immediate federal oversight.
Fact.
Apparently inflation, border policy, and the debt can wait…but hips at halftime demand immediate federal oversight.
February 12, 2026 at 7:29 PM
House Republicans are calling for an investigation into Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show over “widespread twerking and pelvic thrusts.”
Fact.
Apparently inflation, border policy, and the debt can wait…but hips at halftime demand immediate federal oversight.
Fact.
Apparently inflation, border policy, and the debt can wait…but hips at halftime demand immediate federal oversight.
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3.) The fact that a right-winger with a cute accent was pleasant to you on your trip to Texas does nothing to excuse the actions of the scum they elect.
February 12, 2026 at 7:25 PM
3.) The fact that a right-winger with a cute accent was pleasant to you on your trip to Texas does nothing to excuse the actions of the scum they elect.