Kirsten Bakis
Author: King Nyx, Lives of the Monster Dogs. Awards: Bram Stoker, Whiting, Sustainable Arts. Finalist Women's Prize for Fiction. Rep: Janklow & Nesbit. Teach@Yale Writers Workshop. 🌱 💚 she/they
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisAdding a link to a story about Diana with more details of her abduction. She was GOING TO THE DOCTOR BECAUSE SHE HAD A NOSEBLEED AND NOW SHE IS IN A PRISON FULL OF MEASLES. www.opb.org/article/2026...
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisJeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisWait these mini lecterns at Mayor Mamdani’s press conference are so cute. (Video via Josie Stratman)
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- Reposted by Kirsten BakisSwear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisEverything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began. Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
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- Reposted by Kirsten BakisSummers in private: endlessly scheming with the world's most famous pervert to get a young female colleague whom he calls by a racist nickname to fuck him at conferences. Summers in public: "I don't see that many women in my field, it must be because they're bad at math"
- Reposted by Kirsten Bakisthere's certainly plenty to criticize in the Dems' asks but this is why splitting off the DHS funding from everything else was such a big win - there's going to be far less pressure on Dems to end a DHS-only shutdown than there was when "food stamps run out" was on the table
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- Reposted by Kirsten Bakisthe Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisAsimov's actions, and the tolerance-up-to-celebration of it, absolutely drove women out of field and out of fandom, and made it easier for others in the field, writers, editors and fans, to follow his lead for decades. Asimov pinching asses was not about his work. It kept women and their work out.
- Reposted by Kirsten Bakisokay, so we offered up the MILDEST list of requests (mostly like "can they please follow laws") and the GOP responded with "HOW FUCKING DARE YOU, WE WOULD RATHER SHUT THEM DOWN THAN NOT LET THEM DO MURDERS" it sure seems like there is no downside to just saying "sweet, go for it"
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisThousands of Colorado students have taken over downtown Denver, shutting down streets and demanding ICE OUT. Massive energy, and a message echoing across the city that can’t be ignored.✊🏼🙌🏼
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisThis is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisI’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote the food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide COLOR TASTE TEXTURE. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience required. My goal is to help kids avoid food related trauma and offer a balm of kindness for anyone who couldn’t escape it.
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisThis is amazing.
- 🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
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- Reposted by Kirsten Bakisone of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisIn less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.
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- Reposted by Kirsten BakisWhatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙
- Reposted by Kirsten Bakistoday on the pod we tackle that age old question: wtf
- Reposted by Kirsten Bakisagain we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months
- Reposted by Kirsten Bakisto be a bit serious one irony of vance’s life is that he is also an addict: addicted to power and clearly willing to sell anything to get it
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisHoly shit in Berks County too. This article says ICE is planning to open 23 (TWENTY THREE) of these things. Are people gonna wake up or not. Christ Almighty you don't NEED to be wilfully stupid you can just get on the right side of history
- Berks County PA as well. www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...
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- Reposted by Kirsten BakisDHS is tracking people who protest using biometrics and entering them into databases; hunting people who send emails on behalf of asylum seekers; tracking neighbors who help immigrants w/ facial recognition and license plate readers, and Hakeem Jeffries wants more surveillance tech for every agent.
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisThat slogan was always seen as pro-democracy but it seemed perfectly reasonable to assume Bezos was pro-darkness.
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- Reposted by Kirsten BakisThis is civic action. Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside. 130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisSo far, only two have spoken up in favor of the concentration camp. The crowd booed the hell out of them. The mayor told people to stop booing and they booed him too.
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisShoot for the moon! Even if you miss, you might hit a SpaceX rocket
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisPrecinct 9-8 just changed a resolution supporting the abolition of ICE to abolish the entire DHS. Adopted ✅
- Reposted by Kirsten Bakisi’m live at antifa headquarters right now and— oh my god they’re disemboweling newt gingrich
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- Reposted by Kirsten BakisLike, I don't get it. I don't get how people refuse to understand that these men are actively demonstrating themselves to be unsafe, bragging about it, but it's always the women who are the wreckers for naming the obvious.
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisCardiologist Dr. Helen Taussig founded the field of pediatric cardiology. Co-developed the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt in 1944. This groundbreaking surgical procedure treated "blue baby syndrome" saving thousands of infants who previously had no treatment option. #WomensPhysiciansDay #WomenInSTEM
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisI keep saying to people in my life that the problem with writing in these days is that you sound absolutely off your nut for simply saying what is happening.
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisSomeone said Republicans are school shooters and Democrats are the Uvalde cops and man…
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisNEW: Letitia James, the New York attorney general, announced that her office will deploy "legal observers" to document ICE activity in NY. Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisToo many of our Haitian neighbors are stuck in legal limbo. As the fight over Temporary Protected Status continues, we encourage anyone with TPS to use the city’s free immigration legal support and explore every legal pathway available. Call 800-354-0365 to learn more.
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisHave you tried trying?
- Reposted by Kirsten BakisIn more conventional protest settings, though, often property destruction becomes the narrative focus, displacing the structural injustice you're protesting. This was part of the explicit logic of the nonviolent tradition in the US Civil Rights movement, of course, I'm not saying anything new.
- Reposted by Kirsten Bakisholy shit, was not aware john denver was so cool!
- Stumbled upon this satirical song from the 60s called “Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood KKK” on YouTube. Performing this song back in the 60s was brave bruh 😭 “And if you don’t like that then call the cops cuz chances are they’re us” 😭😭 youtu.be/J3TcUA5jE6o?...
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- Reposted by Kirsten Bakishappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
