Reposted by Catie Disabatogwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 17/07/2026This is why, speaking as a reporter who has covered a lot of this stuff, I find it bizarre that a lot of the commentariat don't see where anti-trans stuff is going. Gaines et al are pretty clear about how they see sports as a way to win battles that bathroom stuff didn't like a decade ago. 241920527
Reposted by Catie DisabatoSarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Location of the end of TJ’s Final (MTV’s The Challenge) 031
Reposted by Catie DisabatoFrankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/05/2026I’m about 50 paid subscribers away from being able to reliably fund my own travel to report stories for my newsletter. I’ve got an editor & recently acquired a lawyer & media insurance. If you want to support my independent journalism, pls consider upgrading! www.thefrankiedlc.news/upgrade 214355
Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 18/04/2026got a million spam texts today which means that one of the hundreds of companies that have my phone number had a recent data breach, probably 010
Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Lots to say on this for sure but one of the things is: I do love to see a male athlete in a press conference asked a question about something a female athlete said 031
Reposted by Catie DisabatoFrankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 30/03/2026I've spent the last two days talking to Connecticut Sun fans (story TK) and *every single one* has mentioned how depressing it is for this team to go from independent, women-centered tribal ownership to a Trump-supporting billionaire white man. 27525
Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 31/03/2026wearing my new Melissa Etheridge "Etheridge Nation" baseball shirt and Doc Martens to see the Dodgers is gayer than wearing my Dodgers Pride swag 030
Reposted by Catie DisabatoFrankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 12/03/2026SCREAMING at Holly Rowe leaving the sourcing in her tweet and revealing it came from the league. Holly’s never been a journalist but this is fully amateur hour from a long-time member of the media. 22585111
Reposted by Catie DisabatoSarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social · 04/03/2026This is a brilliant write-up and I agree @catiealert.bsky.social is excellent at writing both basketball and the queer horniness it may invoke! 132
Reposted by Catie Disabatokirstenreach.bsky.social @kirstenreach.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Seeing @catiealert.bsky.social’s book in Defector today felt like running into an old friend. 021
Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Received perhaps the best author scam email that will ever grace my inbox and I am therefore honored to accept the literary recognition titled "The Unwritten Crown of The First Silence” 010
Reposted by Catie DisabatoEmily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 02/03/2026the March horror shopping list is live! feat. new books from @tamikathompson.bsky.social @hachepueyo.bsky.social @v-e-tirado.com @tiffmorris.bsky.social @tkingfisher.com @ivygrimes.bsky.social @ericlarocca.bsky.social @danielkraus.com @haileypiperfights.bsky.social and many more!readjumpscares.comAll the New Horror Books Coming in March 2026March 2026’s new horror books, featuring titles from Daniel Kraus, Alexis Henderson, Kealan Patrick Burke, Vincent TIrado, T. Kingfisher, Eric LaRocca, Luke Dumas and more! 85532
Reposted by Catie DisabatoLesley Ryder @lesleyryder.bsky.social · 28/01/2026A little over a month ago The Athletic ran a piece on Britta Curl “clearing the air” on her transphobic social media activity. Yesterday, Curl posted a video on Instagram with a brand called Fierce Athlete, who actively solicits donations to fight “transgender ideology in sport” 1519270
Reposted by Catie DisabatoMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Anthropic has been valued at $183 billion. They paid off writers for $1.5 billion. Their aim was always to steal as much as possible with little consequence. archive.ph/N0Ead#select... 113333
Reposted by Catie DisabatoFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/01/2026cold-blooded murder by the state. 4594181
Reposted by Catie DisabatoBo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 21/12/2025That's not a "fake debt collecting business," that's a "debt holding business." The difference is negligible but the former implies someone committed fraud. He didn't. His business has the right to hold whatever debts it purchases and may act or not on those debts for whatever reason it chooses. 13615121
Reposted by Catie DisabatoPhil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶 348932082
Reposted by Catie DisabatoDraculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in 4466112399
Reposted by Catie DisabatoAlex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 26/10/2025If you see someone stealing groceries, no you didn’t 3437461625
Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 16/10/2025The girlies at the bookstore at 7:30pm are all buying books with sprayed edges 020
Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 16/10/2025No one follows me on here so I'm going to do a publicist complaint: When I work with people in NY they will send me an email at 6am PT and asked me to reply "within the hour" but if I email them at 6pm I will not hear back until the next morning 020
Reposted by Catie DisabatoKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2025When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys 316101643886
Reposted by Catie DisabatoMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Great command of the language on display here 6539619990
Reposted by Catie DisabatoSarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social · 29/09/2025I've long said that I think Zuck feels fundamentally uncomfortable as a person; not at ease with people, or in his body, which is something many of us have felt but most of us work through. We should talk more about how tech billionaires seem to dislike other humans & think we all feel the same 131
Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I need someone who is both a ball knower and a fashion knower to make some analogies between creative directors going to new fashion houses and WNBA coaches losing their jobs, something like: The Liberty firing Sandy Bronello is like if Demna got fired after after the Fall 2025 men's runway show 131
Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Adding on here that this was true of my publisher as well, but I discovered it a few years ago and made them rectify it 020
Reposted by Catie DisabatoMaris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 03/07/2025The concern about the decline of the male novelist is the dumbest moral panic I’ve seen in a minute. 61110267
Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Every scene in a final destination movie is about noticing objects and then someone dies 030
Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025okay I'll bite, my favorite genres are: - someone has been MURDERED and the killer is one of us!! - this really sexy person hates me and couldn't possibly secretly be in love with me - time loop - there's a romance in my murder mystery - woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown 020
Reposted by Catie DisabatoSarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social · 16/02/2025New On the Bleachers! Me n @zanopticon.bsky.social recap the Super Bowl/halftime show; celebrate Dad (& all) Bods; the Met Gala theme; NHL’s 4Nations tournament; & comedian @joshgondelman.bsky.social catches us up on the NBA! 🔶Apple Podcasts: bit.ly/42TPUrC 🔶Spotify: bit.ly/4i1eSJT 083
Reposted by Catie DisabatoBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 milliontheguardian.comLouisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for itDozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl 33565874225
Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I’m usually really good at decluttering, but I just looked at my drawer of cork tops and I thought to myself, I can’t get rid of any of these cork tops 140
Reposted by Catie Disabato𝖗𝖔𝖔 @astray.cc · 13/12/2024If I owned a bar and someone came in saying "I'm here to start shit, harass your regulars and make your business suck" I would simply kick them out 2033091189
Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 07/12/2024My muscles for writing tweet-like content are totally atrophied but I am going to go back to the gym I swear 060
Reposted by Catie DisabatoSarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social · 26/11/2024We talked to @arif.bsky.social about his epic piece on the rise of sports gambling. How online poker led to daily fantasy, the gross ways sportsbooks bleed players dry & why it makes independent sports coverage even more critical #Onthebleachers @zanopticon.bsky.social pod.link/1710637422/e...pod.linkOn the BleachersA podcast about where pop culture and sports culture collide… inspired by the relationship between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. Every week, culture critic and novelist Zan Romanoff and journalist an... 012