Kelli Klymenko

The New “Transparency” Trick: How Power Hides the Truth in Plain Sight Trump’s sudden call to release the Epstein files isn’t honesty — it’s a familiar tactic of control, delay, and protection for the powerful.

The performance of honesty is often the surest sign the truth is being managed.

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Most people shoot in one predictable way. Better photos start with composition — change your angle, shift your subject, get lower.

Even macro shots (like this bee) come alive with the same approach.

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Keyhole Sink might be one of the most overlooked archaeological sites in northern Arizona.
The basalt walls are covered in Sinagua petroglyphs — spirals, animals, patterns — all carved around 700–1,000 years ago.
It’s impossible to stand there and not feel the weight of that history.

I Can’t Be Silent Right Now — And Neither Should You My grandparents survived Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. What’s happening in America today looks too much like the history they begged us not to repeat.

My family lived through regimes that taught me what silence costs. I wrote about why speaking up matters right now — for all of us.

DEAR MEN: This Was Never Just About You A reflection on power, patriarchy, and the world my daughters are inheriting.

This piece has been unfolding slowly. It’s about patriarchy, autonomy, and the systems women are still forced to navigate — written from my perspective as a feminist and a father.

This Moment Deserves More Than a Caption Why I’m choosing depth over noise — and hoping to build something real with you.

A lot of my writing lives in fragments on social media.
I finally built a place where the full version can live.
If you’d like to read more, here’s where it begins.

The desert doesn’t rush.
It sharpens itself slowly — edge by edge, season by season.
There’s something comforting about that.

This was the post that started it — seen in millions of feeds, shared across the world (literally), and was built only on empathy and truth.

Then the system stepped in.

🔗 facebook.com/share/1FUjZJ6Ps4

#RealReach #EmpathyOverAlgorithms #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere

✊🏼 We keep showing up.
Empathy shouldn’t need an algorithm.
We’ll keep telling the truth anyway — because connection is stronger than control.

#WeHaveFriendsEverywhere #EmpathyOverAlgorithms #RealReach

🔍 The silencing illusion.
Creators think they’ve lost momentum.
Communities think interest is gone.

But it’s not burnout or boredom — it’s the system deciding who gets heard.

💰 The profit filter.
Pages that monetize, boost posts, or push ad-friendly content get rewarded.

Civic voices, compassion, or reflection get labeled “sensitive.”
It’s not moderation — it’s monetization.

👉 The algorithm blames you.
It reads the silence it created as “declining engagement.”

Then it pushes your reach even lower — a feedback loop that punishes authenticity.
Low reach → low engagement → lower reach.

😶 They hide your work.
Your audience doesn’t vanish — Meta just stops showing your posts.

Reach drops from tens of thousands to a few dozen.
The algorithm misreads silence as disinterest — and you get buried deeper.

After a viral post, Meta runs an “engagement cooldown.”

It throttles your next few posts — to see if your momentum was real or if you’ll pay to “boost” it.
If you don’t, reach collapses. It’s not a glitch — it’s the design.

You go viral — organically.
No ads. No ragebait. Just empathy, truth, and community.

Your message spreads because people care, not because you paid for reach.
Meta says that’s what they want — until it actually happens. Then the system flags you.

The cost of going viral — on Meta.
What happens when you build real connection… and the system decides that’s bad for business.

A short explainer — from empathy to algorithm.
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#Algorithms #CivicVoice #Creators #SocialMediaTruth #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere

Thank you — that means a lot. I just try to put into words what so many of us have been seeing and feeling, and I’m grateful it resonated with you.

The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court to block a judge's order that the U.S. Department of Agriculture provide full November food stamp benefits to 42 million low-income Americans.

We’re not here to change anyone’s minds.
We’re here to remind each other — the quiet, the steady, the ones who still care — that decency still matters, and truth still counts.

We have friends everywhere. ✊🏼

Fascism wins through silence.
If you’re afraid to lose business or family, remember: they’re stealing your rights, your history, your country.
Don’t sell to MAGA. Don’t serve fascism.
We lift each other up — we fight back together. ✊🏼

The United States of Russia — and the Commonwealth States of Epstein.
Dutch intel just cut back sharing with the U.S. after finding info from the White House reached the Kremlin.
Our allies see the treason. MAGA can’t — cults never do. ✊🏼

It was an honor to speak at the No Kings march — standing with so many voices for freedom and democracy. We will not let them take it away. We’ll fight, like Ukrainians fight — with courage, unity, and hope. ✊🏼
🎥 Vyto Starinskas / Verde Independent
#NoKings #WeHaveFriendsEverywhere

I have a few words to say today — not for myself, but for everyone who still believes this country belongs to the people.

We’re stronger than fear.
Kinder than hate.
Far more united than they want us to be.
And we have friends everywhere.

See you in the streets. ✊🏼

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

History doesn’t just repeat — it warns. In Weimar Germany, Nazis staged fights then claimed only they could save the nation. Sound familiar? Trump + MAGA brand liberals “terrorists,” deploy troops for Fox war-zone images, erase right-wing violence, and unleash threats. Call it what it is: fascism.

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

Are we great yet?

Phang: So, as we can see you have a DHS official—you clearly hear him say on that body cam footage, “I am arresting the mayor. Even though he stepped out, I’m going to put him in cuffs.”

Who told him to do it? He says: the Deputy Attorney General… And who’s that? Todd Blanche.

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Unease grows at the Justice Department as Trump's threats get even more blunt President Trump is directing the Justice Department to prosecute his perceived political enemies, upending the career ranks and raising questions about selective prosecution.

President Trump is directing the Justice Department to prosecute his perceived political enemies, upending the career ranks and raising questions about selective prosecution.