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Kim Kankiewicz

@kimkankiewicz.bsky.social

Author of Bellwether: A Telephone Operator, a Landmark Court Case, and the Women Whose Voices Connected a Nation (Union Square 2026). History and culture writer. Words in The Atlantic, NPR, Salon, Washington Post. she/her

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Liberals Get So Upset About Every Little Jeans Ad and Blatant Corruption Scandal Some hyper-sensitive Americans love to cry buckets of liberal tears over every minor provocation, like the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad or how the polic...

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06.08.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or Leila's Hair Museum in Independence. sweetlit.com/issue-13-1/g...

02.08.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Coincidentally, my book research involved visits to several telephone museums, including the one in Abilene. But I'm going with the Jim the Wonder Dog Museum in Marshall, Missouri, in answer to this question.

02.08.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This was an especially satisfying and disheartening episode of an always satisfying and disheartening podcast.

17.06.2025 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The regime has now arrested, handcuffed/decked:

β€’ Judge
β€’ Member of Congress
β€’ US Senator
β€’ Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC/

A Trump supporter just assassinated a Dem leader in MN.

And Sen. Dems are about to vote w/ Republicans to give Trump a gift on crypto - as early as maybe today.

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Eager to read this.

23.05.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I nodded at every sentence of this essay while an automated voice read it to me from my phone.

08.05.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, this essay. I drove past that Confederate flag before filling my gas tank in Paducah last week, and I'm finding comfort in sharing the road with @jeanettemrozinski.bsky.social and her witness of resistant beauty.

25.04.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

so much depends upon your exposure to modernist poetry

21.04.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Two Coke Zero bottles with β€œShare a Coke with…” labels, the first labeled β€œWilliam” and the second β€œCarlos.”

Two Coke Zero bottles with β€œShare a Coke with…” labels, the first labeled β€œWilliam” and the second β€œCarlos.”

I have drunk
the third Coke Zero
that was in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for after school

Forgive me
it was delicious
so sweet
and so cold

21.04.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is the reminder I needed after a family member’s screed about LPJ. Apparently her ownership reveals β€œOperation Signalgate” as a deep state plot because she’s been photographed with Ghislaine Maxwell and The Atlantic ran a story debunking child pedophile conspiracies.

27.03.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Resistance is alive and well in the United States Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent β€” and also becoming more strategic.

@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.

19.03.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1580    πŸ” 663    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 98

I saw this on Facebook too, so it’s definitely true.

20.03.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Usually when I hear someone loudly explain something to their table mate at any local coffee shop, it's the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement. Today, it's a plan for democratic action. #Missouri #resistance

11.03.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Here we have a Texas government official telling a Baptist minister what they are supposed to believe

05.03.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
(above images of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk) The only MINORITY DESTROYING the COUNTRY is
BILLIONAIRES.

(above images of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk) The only MINORITY DESTROYING the COUNTRY is BILLIONAIRES.

19.02.2025 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3198    πŸ” 963    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 27

Please consider updating this setting & providing alt text for media going forward as folx with vision loss & other disabilities deserve equitable access to your posts on BlueSky as those of us who can see that @lambdalegal.bsky.social refused to take just a few minutes to invest in accessibility! πŸ™πŸ½

13.02.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

14.02.2025 04:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I believe you're right.

09.02.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I frequently think about the beetle sex scene in North Woods and imagine Daniel Mason chortling at his typewriter, delighted by his audacity. #booksky

09.02.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Having facilitated a Navigating Grief in BIPOC Solidarity series, which delved into Collective & Ancestral Grief, Disenfranchised & Suffocated Grief, Movement Grief, Anticipatory Grief, Carceral Grief, Disability Grief, Climate Grief, etc, so sharing those resources: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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Sheriff had no idea HSI agents were going to raid Liberty restaurant Video from Friday morning showed Homeland Security agents inside El Potro Mexican CafΓ© in Liberty. The Clay Co. Sheriff had no idea they were coming.

fox4kc.com/news/sheriff...

08.02.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

State-sponsored terrorism in our neighborhood.

08.02.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.

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It’s infuriating.

26.01.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I took some time with this. Here is my full report at Law Dork on Trump's order revoking Executive Order 11246: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-fede...

23.01.2025 23:27 β€” πŸ‘ 325    πŸ” 113    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 6

Two months ago, I wondered if it was justifiable to devote my writing life to a 60-year-old sex discrimination case with so many urgent things happening every day. I didn’t expect a 60-year-old policy to become urgent again. 12/12

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Based on a century of telephone company history, not to mention more widespread historic resistance to diversity hiring, these modest gains would not have occurred without legal pressure. 11/12

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Hispanic representation rose from 2.5 to 3.9 percent of the workforce and from 0.7 to 2.1 percent of managers. 10/12

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Black representation increased from 10.6 to 12 percent of the total Bell System workforce and from 2.3 to 5.6 percent of management employees. 9/12

25.01.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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