Kevin Ford

Kevin Ford

@easywind.bsky.social

"History's page will be neatly carved in stone. The future's here, we are it, we are on our own.” -John Perry Barlow

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Thank you sir for taking the time to care about the tragic events that killed and critically injured our brave Canadian military personnel in Wainwright Alberta at a time when your country is being bombed 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇦

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Police have shared that three children, ages 5, 8 and 11, and one teacher were fatally shot at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon. A 7-year-old was also injured. America's gun violence crisis is killing our babies. Enough is enough.

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Damn this is a read. Rest easy Dolly. You did much more than good.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

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Dolly Parton supported so many important causes, among them donating a million dollars to COVID vaccine research early in the pandemic, which saved millions of lives. She will always be remembered as a champion of the people.

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I want to repeat it: it was a direct hit. Russian drone targeted Kyiv Lavra monastery in a direct hit. A building that is almost 1000 y.o. When I say Russia wants to erase us and our culture, this is what I mean

Aww, man. 🥸😕

NPR@npr.org

Known for his puffy hair, oversized handlebar mustache and a love for puns, Gene Shalit joined Today in 1970 and became arts editor in 1973. He was a middle-of-the-road critic, known for his wit and intelligence. n.pr/3QfcpDw

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Pretty wild that one of the two parties decided that pretending someone who talks like this — dementia, general stupidity, whatever — is deserving of more reverential deference than anyone in American history

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "What a job our military is doing with respect to drugs coming in by sea. Meaning, drugs coming in by water. A lot of people know what I mean by 'sea.' They think I'm taking about vision."

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OK and now we have information that the shooter was believed to be targeting admin officials. This is how this is supposed to work! Info comes out piece by piece and we don't assume. Graaaaagh. apnews.com/article/whit...

apnews.comAccused gunman at correspondents' dinner was believed to be targeting top officials, Blanche saysActing Attorney General Todd Blanche says the accused gunman who tried to storm the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is believed to have been targeting members of the Tru...
Danielle Kurtzleben@titonka.bsky.social

People. Stop treating this as an assassination attempt until we know it was an assassination attempt.

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The individuals referenced here are adjudicated terrorists. They were found guilty of conspiring to use force against their own government to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. A conservative, Trump-appointed judge applied terrorism enhancements to their sentences.

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As someone with autism, I’m tired of hearing the same false “causes” over and over Tylenol, vaccines, you name it. #Autism isn’t a conspiracy or a mystery to scare people about. If you want to understand, start by listening to us.

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Replying to @mitchellepner.bsky.social

As a devout Christian: it is more troubling to me that he oppresses the poor and has an ever-growing toll of war-dead that he is responsible for. I frankly couldn’t care less about his idolatry as the God he serves (Mammon) has been clear for some time.

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Hegseth barely had the resume or temperament to be a small town councilor, and yet 50 senators + JD Vance confirmed him as the leader of a massive department with a nearly $1 trillion budget whose decisions can have grave consequences for millions of people here and around the world

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Replying to @onestpress.onestnetwork.com

This was the presser opening: "Formerly, press conferences worked in a way that the propaganda media asked questions that were written for them by govt... We will now give the floor to those Hungarian outlets who are still independent."

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This your daily reminder Russia is terrorist state who invaded Ukraine for no reason and can end this war easily by just stopping bombing civilians in Ukraine , by releasing all the people they kidnapped and returning all the Ukrainian kids they stole for their Putinjugend

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That he's pissed at right-wing crazies who've turned against him is less important than the fact the most powerful man in the world is manifestly insane.

Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social

Trump just posted a wall of text blasting Tucker Carlson/Candace Owens/Megyn Kelly/Alex Jones, who have been increasingly speaking out against him on Iran and calling for his removal from office He also rebuts Owens’ conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron is a man & Jones’ conspiracy re: Sandy Hook

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It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

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New U.S. bargaining position has no mention of the strait, or proxies, or ballistic missiles. Basically the president is begging for a return to the Obama nuclear deal but with Iran adding a massive new revenue source.

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Replying to @qasimrashid.com

Iran Deal by Obama: •0 Americans killed •0 Iranians killed •0 bombs dropped •$0 spent on war Iran Ceasefire by Trump: •15 American soldiers killed, ~700 injured •1900 Iranian civilians killed, 26,000 injured •$45 BILLION in taxpayer money wasted •18 countries bombed or involved in war 3/3

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Let’s not forget that Donald Trump threatened to destroy an entire civilization. We move so quickly through our insane new cycles. But this outrage should be a keeper and not cast quickly to the side because Trump again decided not to make good on an absurd and extreme threat.

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In 4 weeks Trump has transformed Iran from a country where people poured into the streets to overthrow the regime into a country where people poured into the streets to stop America. Great work.

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

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Replying to @froomkin.bsky.social

Makes you wonder why a group of senators and members of the house months ago felt the need to remind service members not to follow illegal orders. Here we are.

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Sorry, America, but as a democracy we own the actions of our leader. We may despise Trump. But his actions are on us, will be associated with us by history and the world. Our democratic and institutional failures have put a genocidal monster on the world stage.

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They oversaw a very important social media influence operation for the Kremlin, got caught, fled. And now they're not just back, they're guests at Donald & Melania Trump's Easter Egg Roll at the White House.

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I'm sure the Gold Star families who lost loved ones in this Iran attack will be comforted by this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "See that nice drape? When that comes down right now you see a very very deep hole, but in about a year and half you're gonna see a very very beautiful building. In fact, it looks so nice I think I'll leave it and save money on the doors. I believe it will be the most beautiful ballroom."

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They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

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Replying to @normative.bsky.social

I know this is becoming something of a mantra but it is really disheartening to be reminded constantly how many seemingly normal folks out there are just completely bereft of the most rudimentary degree of basic decency or moral sense.

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Trump issued an EO aimed at increasing production of glyphosate, a chemical in weedkiller that has been linked to cancer. He’s also directed the rollback of environmental protections over our air, water, and how much pollution corporations can produce. “Make America Healthy Again.”

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Replying to @justinling.ca

I appreciate that the internet has made everyone into an amateur investigative journalist. But actual investigative work requires aggressively checking, double-checking, and trying to poke holes in your own work — not just rushing to publish because you want to believe it's true.

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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

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that stage of society when school children share the bond of having endured the camps together

Elizabeth Shockman@eshockmanwrites.bsky.social

The two children who returned to MN today say they saw one of their Valley View schoolmates at a detention center in TX. This is a child whose family was last in contact with the school on January 9. No one has known where they were until now.

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Replying to @nhannahjones.bsky.social

People often disparage the press — and we often get it wrong — but almost everything you know about this administration is not because pundits go on tv or social media and pontificate but because of relentless reporting from real journalists at institutions that give them resources to do so.

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Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

The agents appear dismissive of his constitutional concerns. "I'm not getting into the legality of everything," one agent responds tersely.

Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Replying to @harrylitman.bsky.social

Meanwhile, elsewhere in MN: bsky.app/profile/bunn...

jen sometimes aph 🌻@bunnibytz.bsky.social

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social