Karen Wickre
LightNews LightNews
banner
kvox.bsky.social
Karen Wickre
@kvox.bsky.social
1.6K followers 1.3K following 130 posts
Stubborn San Franciscan. Connector, reassurer, dog enthusiast, art collector, veteran technology observer and yes, optimist. Wrote Taking the Work Out of Networking. #resist
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
kvox.bsky.social
Karen Wickre @kvox.bsky.social · Nov 9
This cuts close.
Reposted by Karen Wickre
gtconway.bsky.social
Feverishly working on this
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
marawilson.bsky.social
Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.
December 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
footnoted.bsky.social
Good story about Trump & Co’s enrichment scheme but it leaves out two public companies with ties to the Trump family: Alt5Sigma $ALTS and Dominari Holdings $DOMH.
johncassidysays.bsky.social John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 17h
2025 has obviously been a busy year for the Trump businesses, and there's been a lot of good reporting on it in various outlets, some of which didn't get much pick-up. In this year end piece, I pulled some of it together:

www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
The Year in Trump Cashing In
In 2025, the President’s family has been making bank in myriad ways, many of them involving crypto and foreign money.
www.newyorker.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
rincewind.run
they have no move but doubling down, ever, even as they pick losing fight after losing fight and their poll numbers are in freefall

sure, guys, let’s keep having a fight with an astronaut about the war crimes and murder you did, great plan
marcelias.bsky.social Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Admin Intensifies Military Probe Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Launches Command Investigation
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
marcaleigh.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Look at Budapest right now!!

bsky.app/profile/vict...
victinibcn.bsky.social Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d
Hungary: “Resign! Resign!”, citizens crowds chant outside Viktor Orbán’s and president’s offices in Budapest. 🇪🇺🇭🇺
December 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
emilynussbaum.bsky.social
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
bgrueskin.bsky.social
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.

His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."

He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
clarajeffery.bsky.social
Newsom is doing what I predicted he and other governers would: building parallel institutions to the ones the Trump administration is destroying at a federal level: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
kvox.bsky.social
Inaccurate word choices here, NYT: “casts aside caution” and “has revived.” With this guy there was never any caution, and we we have always known.
NY Times story frames analysis of FBI director Kash Patel’s unlawfully brash actions as a new concern for observers. Ed. note: nothing new.
December 16, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
thetnholler.bsky.social
Editor in Chief of Christianity Today Magazine 👇🏽
December 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
smolrobots.bsky.social
Americans asked for comment replied with baffled looks and questions including, "Wait, you can just do that?" and, "Gun...laws...? Like, giving guns more rights...?"
December 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
flipboard.com
Want a smarter way to catch up on the news? 📰

Flipboard’s human editors curate the day’s top stories across U.S. politics, world news, tech, business, sports and more in Daily Edition.

Get the app: about.flipboard.com/download-fli...

#News #USPolitics #Business #Tech #Ukraine
December 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
gregsargent.bsky.social
“We’re Jewish—we grew up knowing how hated we were just for existing,” Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, tells me. "Now he’s trying to take away the exact thing his own family benefited from: that ability to create a life for themselves, to prosper, to build community...to live a rewarding life.”
gregsargent.bsky.social Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h
Finally, Miller's cousin, Alisa Kasmer, gave us her first interview. It's powerful stuff:

newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
dannagal.bsky.social
This. What journalism SHOULD be doing to respond to this moment of democratic crisis (from the always brilliant @sulliview.bsky.social):
Certainly, at minimum, we should see much more collective action on the part of news organizations when Trump attacks journalists or disparages the truth. Certainly, at minimum, there should be public statements of mission that acknowledge that things have changed, and that the news media has a role in addressing it. And certainly, there should be an absolute end to the “both sides” coverage that equates truth and falsehood in the name of fairness. The excellent James Fallows sees progress along these lines; too bad that progress took so darn long and is far from complete.
December 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
talkingpointsmemo.com
Over 2 months in NYC courts, churches & safe houses, @hunterw.bsky.social spoke to 50 migrants, activists, ICE agents & lawmakers

His Undocumented Underground series dives into the Trump admin's extralegal excesses—and the lengths people are going to fight back
talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/life...
Life Inside the Undocumented Underground
During President Donald Trump’s second term, dramatic raids staged by the Immigration...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
dieworkwear.bsky.social
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
NYT headline reads: "The Young People Fixated on Who Gets to Work in America For some Gen Z conservatives, H-1B visas are a hot new topic." Excerpt reads: "Take Mitchell Boone, a 27-year-old Trump supporter. Five years after leaving a computer science program at the University of Missouri, and what he says are over 1,000 job applications later, Mr. Boone claims he has landed just a single job interview. Today, he says he keeps three part-time jobs in Greenville, S.C., and grows his own food to cut down on expenses. Having abandoned hopes of working in tech, Mr. Boone says he is exploring alternative fields like construction or farming. Mr. Boone, who said he voted for Mr. Trump in the last two presidential elections, spoke of his post-grad years with an air of exasperation. But he’s finally settled on an explanation for his bleak economic straits: the H-1B." On his LinkedIn, it says he spent one year at University of Missouri-Columbia, studying computer science from Aug 2022 to Sept 2023. He says he dropped out to join the workforce. Skillset includes Windows and attention to detail.
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
thegodpodcast.com
these days you learn something new and horrible every 5 seconds
December 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
thehighsign.bsky.social
A Few Good Men. Best in Show. A Mighty Wind. Miss Congeniality. Barcelona. All three movies in Linklater's "Before" trilogy. Music & Lyrics. Michael Clayton. All films that were able to be made because of the production company Reiner co-founded in order to give talented filmmakers creative freedom.
truggeri.bsky.social Tyler Ruggeri @truggeri.bsky.social · 1d
without Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock production company we wouldn’t have:

City Slickers, Honeymoon in Vegas, In the Line of Fire, The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise, Dolores Claiborne, Lone Star, Waiting for Guffman, and more - in a six-year period alone
December 15, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
angiecoiro.bsky.social
Imagine having to evince some semblance of respect for Jared Kushner.
December 15, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
lincolnproject.us
Rob Reiner was an American Icon who, through his art and activism, held a mirror up to American culture. His talent, humor, activism, and patriotism will be missed. Our heart breaks at the senseless loss of our friend.
December 15, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
runwithskizzers.bsky.social
we should all watch a rob reiner movie tomorrow, this entire site, just pick one and put it on at like 8pm est
December 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
bubbaprog.xyz
He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.
crobertcargill.bsky.social C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 1d
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.

All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
justinwolfers.bsky.social
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
kvox.bsky.social
nytpitchbot.bsky.social NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d
Donald Trump says that questioning his military campaigns amounts to treason, a crime punishable by death. Democrats predictably disagree. Have the parties fully given up on finding middle ground?
December 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Reposted by Karen Wickre
melissaryan.bsky.social
New from me: Watching wealthy powerful interests capitulate to Trump or embrace him outright this year has radicalized me in ways I never thought possible. open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...
The Great Recoil
The embrace of Trump’s corruption isn't an accident—it’s a calculated backlash against the last decade of progress.
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM