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Catie Disabato

@catiealert.bsky.social
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famous for writing two novels

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This 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.
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Sarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Location of the end of TJ’s Final (MTV’s The Challenge)
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/05/2026
I’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
Award winning sports coverage
THAT DOESN'T CENTER CIS MEN
From journalist
Frankie de la
Cretaz
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Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
got 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
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Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Lots 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
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 30/03/2026
I'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.
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Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
wearing my new Melissa Etheridge "Etheridge Nation" baseball shirt and Doc Martens to see the Dodgers is gayer than wearing my Dodgers Pride swag
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 12/03/2026
SCREAMING 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.
Feels like we are getting closer to a deal ac
Latest league proposal
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Just so you have on background- no attribution to me or the league.. here are some updates •WNBA latest proposal includes:
• A salary cap of $6.2M, up from $1.5M in 2025 - a more than 4x increase.
• An average salary starting at $570K in year one and growing to $850K
in year six - a significant bump for middle tier players.
• Max salaries exceeding $1.3M growing to nearly $2M.
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Sarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This is a brilliant write-up and I agree @catiealert.bsky.social is excellent at writing both basketball and the queer horniness it may invoke!
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kirstenreach.bsky.social @kirstenreach.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Seeing @catiealert.bsky.social’s book in Defector today felt like running into an old friend.
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Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Received 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”
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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
the 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!
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All the New Horror Books Coming in March 2026
March 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!
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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
A heated rivalry of sorts: Didion and Babitz
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Lesley Ryder @lesleyryder.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
A 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”
An article for the athletic. Headline reads A PWHL player was vilified for her social media activity. Now she wants to clear the air

Photo: Britta curl is on the ice. She’s wearing a white and purple hockey jersey

“Britta Curl-Salemme has been accused of being transphobic and politically polarizing. She says she's been misunderstood.”
Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Troy Parla / Getty
Hailey Salvian
Dec. 10, 2025
SAINT PAUL, Minn. - When the Minnesota Frost beat the Ottawa
Charge in Game 2 of the
Drofaccinnal Woman'a HostarExcerpt from the article 

Directly addressing the controversy for the first time, Curl-Salemme told The Athletic she believes the perception of her is a
"misunderstanding."
"If I was actually the way people say that I am, I would hope they would boo me. But it's just not accurate," she said. "The person that has been painted and what has been shared, that sounds like a s—-y person. Someone who's racist, transphobic, hateful and wants people to not exist, I wouldn't like them either."The Fierce athlete page lists all the things they fight

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FIERCE
Athlete
FIGHTING FOR WOMEN IN SPORTS!
DONATE NOW
FIGHTING for Women in Sport
Our Goal is to...
Foster and equip an army of FIERCE supporters who will positively impact the culture of women's athletics
What FIERCE is Fighting
How FIERCE is Fighting
Transgender Ideology in Sport
Deviation of the True Purpose of Sport
Sharing the Truth, Goodness, and Beauty of Catholic teaching, pertaining to the human person, femininity, and the body.
Speaking at public forums, hosting podcasts,
Elite athletic camps and coaches clinics
Toxic Culture of Utility & Winning
at all Costs
Engaging athletic departments, coaches, schools, and athletes throughout the country
Pressure of Immorality & Promiscuity within Sport Teams & Organizations
Praying and working toward the healing of hearts and minds of coaches and athletes.
FIERCE CampaignBritta curl’s video for fierce athlete. She’s brushing her teeth
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Anthropic 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...
Inside one company’s secret plan to ‘destructively scan every book in the world’
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 16/01/2026
cold-blooded murder by the state.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
That'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.
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Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Good 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 🫶
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in
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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
If you see someone stealing groceries, no you didn’t
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Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The girlies at the bookstore at 7:30pm are all buying books with sprayed edges
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Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
No 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
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
When 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
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Great command of the language on display here
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Sarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I'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
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Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I 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
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Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Super interesting
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Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Adding on here that this was true of my publisher as well, but I discovered it a few years ago and made them rectify it
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The concern about the decline of the male novelist is the dumbest moral panic I’ve seen in a minute.
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Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Every scene in a final destination movie is about noticing objects and then someone dies
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Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
okay 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
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Sarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
New 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
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In 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 million
theguardian.com
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
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Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I’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
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𝖗𝖔𝖔 @astray.cc · 13/12/2024
If 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
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Catie Disabato @catiealert.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
My muscles for writing tweet-like content are totally atrophied but I am going to go back to the gym I swear
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Sarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We 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...
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On the Bleachers
A 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...
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