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Ken Bernstein also @teacherken at the former bird @ kenneth.bernstein.9 at Facebook. Retired Social Studies teacher, Quaker, very progressive, interested in music, int'l football, literature, environment & lots of other stuff. Reachable at gmail.

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A question, and sorry for no image someone who was once in a position to know has said that the FBI case file numbers included in the Epstein files dumps carry information in themselves β€” for example, that if the case involves a potent...

If you have some kinds of law enforcement knowledge/connections, perhaps you can respond to the questions I raise in this post: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

24.12.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Sacred Duty to the Stranger: A Jewish View on Immigration "For You Were Strangers in the Land of Egypt" The question of how a society treats immigrants and refugees is a defining moral test for any nation. For the Jewish people, this is not a contemporary po...

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27.10.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

umm do not several of the Catholic justices on SCOTUS have some connections with Opus Dei?

19.10.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It may not on National Guard issue because authority Trump currently using still subject to judicial review, but once he goes full Insurrection Act SCOtUS will not stop him bc of way the law is written- not subject to court review

19.10.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Video Cameras for National History Day Projects, a project from Mr. Bernstein Help me give my students the technology they need to complete projects for National History Day competitions, which they will all have to do. They will use these video cameras to film their project...

Hi. I currently have a Donors Choose project going on, the link for which is below. Today any donations are receiving matches from some generous donors. Would you please consider helping my students and our school? www.donorschoose.org/project/vide...

17.10.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE | CNN Politics Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.

New - β€œHundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.”

www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

24.09.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2006    πŸ” 790    πŸ’¬ 155    πŸ“Œ 177

Nothing for California or North Carolina after natural disasters, instead Trump is sending money to a long-haired libertarian in Argentina who already blew through $20 billion from the IMF.

24.09.2025 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 444    πŸ” 188    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 7
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Another "Donors Choose" project for my students I teach in a small public magnet middle school, and I teach all 3 grades, 6-7-8. Many of my students are Free and Reduced Meals, have little access to public libraries, and not a lot of books in their...

I have a new Donors Choose:

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

15.09.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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THIS IS IMPORTANT \ DEMS NEED TO PUT HOLDS ON ALL PEOPLE NOMINATED AS REPLACEMENTS FOR THE FLAG OFFICERS BEING FIRED.. YES I AM SCREAMING. REPLACEMENT WILL BE WILLING TO USE MILITARY FORCE UNCONSTITUTIONALLY AGAINST CI...

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23.08.2025 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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just look at the body language & facial expression in that pic, & remember a similar situation after the private conversation in Reykjavik in 2018

18.08.2025 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

one has to wonder if or probably when Trump will move to try to strip Martina of her citizenship

16.08.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Peter Alexander: "What struck me was the looks on the faces of a lot of the American, delegation here. Caroline Leavitt, Steve Witkoff, who came into the room, then left quickly. Leavitt appeared to be a bit stressed out, anxious. Their eyes were wide, almost ashen at times."

16.08.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3069    πŸ” 817    πŸ’¬ 212    πŸ“Œ 103

umm FBI agents are not trained to handle the normal range of arrestable offenses in an urban area. Uniformed police who are trained to enforce the laws that tend to get broken are far better able. This is a waste of resources.

10.08.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just remember this when Trump and Ice try to use Cain joining ICE to brag that”Superman” now supports Ice that to Trump the real Superman would be rounded up and deported by ICE, because he was an undocumented alien who...

For your bemusement

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

09.08.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Back in the saddle again No, I am not a 19th Century woman. And perhaps my title is a bit misleading, because I am not going to riding an equine or any other 4 footed creature. But after a full year off, as a result of moving...

Back in the Saddle Again www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

24.07.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

based on what Trump got out of CBS because of editing Kamala Harris interview, she should note that and sue Fox

15.07.2025 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like watching someone dunk Prometheus's flame in a lake.

15.07.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2368    πŸ” 790    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 17

waste, fraud and abuse

15.07.2025 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1654    πŸ” 631    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 29

Oh shit. Congrats and all.

But how did I vote for an Antonio's eater?

09.06.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

somehow Trump lawyers do not seem to have read Article VI of Constitution - a ratified treaty is considered part of Constitution, and hence any statute in conflict with that treaty is ipso facto null and void

09.06.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

but Joyce, if not used for ordinary domestic law enforcement but merely to provide a perimeter around a federal facility, would that be violating Posse Comitatus?

08.06.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

umm deploying NOT illegal for other than ordinary law enforcement - & it does not take invocation of Insurrection Act. Is not there something in Title X that allows for it?

08.06.2025 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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79 It was May 23, 1946, in a New York City Hospital, that 30 year old Sylvia Livingston Bernstein gave birth to the 2nd and final child of her marriage to Louis Morton Bernstein, then 35. I am that child...

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A reflection fueled by almost 8 decades on this planet. I invite you to read and to comment on this posting at Daily Kos:
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Peace

23.05.2025 07:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Deja Vu all over again? I have been reading a book titled Time On Two Crosses: The collected writings of Bayard Rustin, much of which covers events of which I was aware at the time, including the August 28, 1963 March for Jo...

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... a reflection inspired by reading about the past

13.05.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kenneth Bernstein on Substack In just over 3 weeks I will turn 79. I do not look it, in part because I have spent most of the last 3 decades in classrooms with adolescents. For a variety of reasons, I would like to return to the ...

substack.com/profile/2166...

29.04.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

seems like a clear 1st Amendment violation. That "power" that SecState has if I remember correctly has never been vetted against 1st Amendment protections, which apply to all persons by multiple SCOTUS decisons, by SCOTUS itself

11.04.2025 00:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump actually already can serve a third term and even a fourth and a fifth …. so could Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama. There are no limits on how many terms a President can serve Here are the relevant words from the 22nd Amendment, and note what I ...

Trump actually already can serve a third term www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

31.03.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

was already teaching & was heavily recruited, at up to 3x my teaching salary, 2 come & address the issues about which folks were panicked. I declined. But I would agree bc COBOL effectively got translated into assembler language 4 the particular computer it tended to run like a bat out of hell /end

30.03.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

overseeing COBOL bc I knew so much about difference betw compilers. & btw, while I also became fluent in other languages & could also code in assembler, I found COBOL very easy to code in & to debug quickly, which I learned to do over different "dialects" (eg compilers). During Y2K panic 2/

30.03.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

not that I am volunteering to help, but I would qualify as a COBOL "adept" - but I left the field >30 years ago to become a teacher. I spent almost 20 doing DB, mainly in COBOL. I ported a project mgmt system to almost all computers running COBOL in 70s & 80s, & was invited to sit on committee 1/

30.03.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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