Kathleen Compton
@rtgrl9.bsky.social
📍NC lady
Progressive, artsy, bookish & fond of cursive 🖋️🎨📚✌🏻
Progressive, artsy, bookish & fond of cursive 🖋️🎨📚✌🏻
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
KYUK is the only public radio station in remote Alaska that regularly broadcasts in the Yugtun language, providing a crucial lifeline to Indigenous communities in the area.
After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.
The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:
After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.
The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:
In rural America, public radio saves lives
In remote Alaska, public radio station KYUK is crucial during natural disasters. Without federal funding, how will it survive?
www.motherjones.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
KYUK is the only public radio station in remote Alaska that regularly broadcasts in the Yugtun language, providing a crucial lifeline to Indigenous communities in the area.
After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.
The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:
After Congress slashed its budget, the station isn't sure how it'll survive.
The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
Amid the Trump administration’s recent immigration crackdown, children have been left behind after a parent is detained or deported — often without a formal plan for their care or process for reuniting with their mothers and fathers.
Her dad was taken by immigration agents. Now a 12-year-old girl fears she’s lost her only living parent.
The separation illustrates a tragic consequence of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown: children left behind after a parent is detained or deported.
trib.al
November 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Amid the Trump administration’s recent immigration crackdown, children have been left behind after a parent is detained or deported — often without a formal plan for their care or process for reuniting with their mothers and fathers.
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Texas' newly redrawn congressional maps to stand while an case against them plays out, according to a new order issued on Friday.
Supreme Court allows Texas' new congressional maps to stand while case is appealed
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Texas' newly redrawn congressional maps to stand while an case against them plays out, according to a new order issued on Friday.
www.scrippsnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Texas' newly redrawn congressional maps to stand while an case against them plays out, according to a new order issued on Friday.
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from Congress
"I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026”
"I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026”
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she is resigning from Congress
"I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026”
"I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026”
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The US lets military contractors operate without rules abroad. Now, they’re coming—and selling their services in the homeland.
How a mercenary became a Minneapolis mall cop
After the George Floyd protests, a former military contractor named Nathan Seabrook brought the war home.
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The US lets military contractors operate without rules abroad. Now, they’re coming—and selling their services in the homeland.
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Q: The suggestion you made was that if Zelenskyy doesn't accept it, the US will pull back its support for Ukraine
TRUMP: At some point he's gonna have to accept something. You remember right in the Oval Office I said, 'You don't have the cards'
TRUMP: At some point he's gonna have to accept something. You remember right in the Oval Office I said, 'You don't have the cards'
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Q: The suggestion you made was that if Zelenskyy doesn't accept it, the US will pull back its support for Ukraine
TRUMP: At some point he's gonna have to accept something. You remember right in the Oval Office I said, 'You don't have the cards'
TRUMP: At some point he's gonna have to accept something. You remember right in the Oval Office I said, 'You don't have the cards'
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“If historians someday try to identify exactly when China became America’s geopolitical equal, they might point to the outcome of Mr. Trump’s ill-considered trade war,” Rush Doshi writes.
“If historians someday try to identify exactly when China became America’s geopolitical equal, they might point to the outcome of Mr. Trump’s ill-considered trade war,” Rush Doshi writes.
Opinion | Trump’s Trade War Showed That China Can Stand Up to America
Trump’s ill-conceived tariff war exposed U.S. vulnerabilities, strengthened China’s leverage and undermined America at a pivotal time.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“If historians someday try to identify exactly when China became America’s geopolitical equal, they might point to the outcome of Mr. Trump’s ill-considered trade war,” Rush Doshi writes.
“If historians someday try to identify exactly when China became America’s geopolitical equal, they might point to the outcome of Mr. Trump’s ill-considered trade war,” Rush Doshi writes.
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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“Numerous large companies are siphoning off hundreds of millions of dollars a year in veterans benefits, all to make a quick dollar on what has for decades been a free service.”
This company is spending millions to profit off veterans’ benefits.
An April feature from @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social:
This company is spending millions to profit off veterans’ benefits.
An April feature from @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social:
This Company is Spending Millions to Profit Off Veterans’ Benefits. Why Won’t Lawmakers Stop It?
Veterans Guardian says it’s fighting to give veterans a choice. Critics say they’re guardians of greed.
www.motherjones.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“Numerous large companies are siphoning off hundreds of millions of dollars a year in veterans benefits, all to make a quick dollar on what has for decades been a free service.”
This company is spending millions to profit off veterans’ benefits.
An April feature from @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social:
This company is spending millions to profit off veterans’ benefits.
An April feature from @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social:
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
CNN, CBS, others report that at least 8 Dems have reached a deal to end the shutdown
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
CNN, CBS, others report that at least 8 Dems have reached a deal to end the shutdown
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
I called them both! New Yorkers, so should you
(To reach your state's senators, you can always go through the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121)
(To reach your state's senators, you can always go through the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121)
Oh for the love of
Sharing, since I just googled these so I could leave angry voicemails telling these motherfuckers to hold the line
Schumer's DC office number: 202-224-6542
Gillibrand's DC office number: (202) 224-4451
Sharing, since I just googled these so I could leave angry voicemails telling these motherfuckers to hold the line
Schumer's DC office number: 202-224-6542
Gillibrand's DC office number: (202) 224-4451
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I called them both! New Yorkers, so should you
(To reach your state's senators, you can always go through the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121)
(To reach your state's senators, you can always go through the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121)
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
If you're celebrating California's passing of Prop. 50, don't forget to acknowledge the Black organizers who made it happen.
Racial justice campaigners were Prop. 50's army in the field
For the Black organizers who made it happen, California redistricting was just one more round in a decades-long fight.
www.motherjones.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If you're celebrating California's passing of Prop. 50, don't forget to acknowledge the Black organizers who made it happen.
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Over 90 percent of American voters say it is important for Congress and the President to lower health care costs.
If Trump tells Congressional Republicans to do it, they will.
If Trump tells Congressional Republicans to do it, they will.
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Over 90 percent of American voters say it is important for Congress and the President to lower health care costs.
If Trump tells Congressional Republicans to do it, they will.
If Trump tells Congressional Republicans to do it, they will.
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
Consumers on edge as ACA 'subsidy cliff' looms: 'Quite frankly, it's terrifying'
Consumers on edge as ACA 'subsidy cliff' looms: 'Quite frankly, it's terrifying'
Households are bracing for a sharp increase in their health insurance premiums if Congress doesn't extend enhanced subsidies for ACA marketplace plans.
cnb.cx
November 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Consumers on edge as ACA 'subsidy cliff' looms: 'Quite frankly, it's terrifying'
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
I’ve long thought Trump is good at picking fights that benefit him politically but the fact he’s fighting right now to starve Americans is making me reassess
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I’ve long thought Trump is good at picking fights that benefit him politically but the fact he’s fighting right now to starve Americans is making me reassess
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
Seems like a valid question. Why is ICE considered essential while ATCs are not?
Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨
November 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Seems like a valid question. Why is ICE considered essential while ATCs are not?
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Three weeks after an ICE protest shut down the bridge to the U.S. Coast Guard base near Oakland, the Coast Guard is moving to ensure that such demonstrations can’t happen there again.
Coast Guard seeks control of Oakland bridge after protests
Three weeks after an ICE protest shut down the bridge to the U.S. Coast Guard base near Oakland, the Coast Guard is moving to ensure that such demonstrations can’t happen there again.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Three weeks after an ICE protest shut down the bridge to the U.S. Coast Guard base near Oakland, the Coast Guard is moving to ensure that such demonstrations can’t happen there again.
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
actual communism
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
actual communism
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Wtf
LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.”
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Wtf
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
Our analysis of EPA air monitoring data shows that companies have far underestimated the pollution caused by their facilities.
At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions.
@lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions.
@lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Our analysis of EPA air monitoring data shows that companies have far underestimated the pollution caused by their facilities.
At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions.
@lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
At a U.S. Steel plant outside Pittsburgh, monitors found benzene levels 37 times higher than estimated emissions.
@lisalsong.bsky.social, 📸: @annie-flanagan.bsky.social
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"The immediate results suggest whatever confidence this president enjoyed is now crumbling amid a record length government shutdown, a camouflaged cascade of federal kidnappings, a tariff-battered economy, and the systemic demolition of democratic norms," @jimsaksa.com reports on election night.
Voters Rebuke Trump In Resounding Win for Democracy
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 AM
"The immediate results suggest whatever confidence this president enjoyed is now crumbling amid a record length government shutdown, a camouflaged cascade of federal kidnappings, a tariff-battered economy, and the systemic demolition of democratic norms," @jimsaksa.com reports on election night.
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
A Turning Point USA official inaccurately claimed a high school's math department wore Halloween costumes that mocked Charlie Kirk. Those teachers are now facing a flood of online attacks and death threats. www.wired.com/story/arizon...
Teachers Get Death Threats After MAGA Claims Their Halloween Costumes Mocked Charlie Kirk
A Turning Point USA official inaccurately claimed a high school's math department wore Halloween costumes that mocked Charlie Kirk. Those teachers are now facing a flood of online attacks and death threats.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A Turning Point USA official inaccurately claimed a high school's math department wore Halloween costumes that mocked Charlie Kirk. Those teachers are now facing a flood of online attacks and death threats. www.wired.com/story/arizon...
Reposted by Kathleen Compton
Tonight, we're going LIVE, starting at 8pm ET, to discuss today's election results! Join @jvl.bsky.social, @samsteindc.bsky.social, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, @timmiller.bsky.social, and @lauren-egan.bsky.social, on Substack or YouTube:
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Tonight, we're going LIVE, starting at 8pm ET, to discuss today's election results! Join @jvl.bsky.social, @samsteindc.bsky.social, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social, @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, @timmiller.bsky.social, and @lauren-egan.bsky.social, on Substack or YouTube:
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ah yes, aristocracies — known the world over for their innovation, flexibility and capacity to meet new challenges
Meet Rockbridge, the secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future.
It roots its action in a “controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.”
It’s method: a venture capital approach to politics.
gift link:
wapo.st/3Jsvgrl
It roots its action in a “controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.”
It’s method: a venture capital approach to politics.
gift link:
wapo.st/3Jsvgrl
The secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future
Chris Buskirk put tech elites in power in Trump’s Washington. His efforts are grounded in a controversial theory: An “aristocracy” is needed to move the country forward.
wapo.st
November 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
ah yes, aristocracies — known the world over for their innovation, flexibility and capacity to meet new challenges
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It's Day 35 of the government shutdown, and Dems are splintering.
A critical mass of Dem senators appear to be engaged in serious talks over bringing an end to the stalemate.
A critical mass of Dem senators appear to be engaged in serious talks over bringing an end to the stalemate.
‘People are tired’: Democrats splinter as shutdown nears record
While a critical mass discusses a deal, many are still demanding their colleagues dig in and fight.
www.politico.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It's Day 35 of the government shutdown, and Dems are splintering.
A critical mass of Dem senators appear to be engaged in serious talks over bringing an end to the stalemate.
A critical mass of Dem senators appear to be engaged in serious talks over bringing an end to the stalemate.