Reposted by KatieHolly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026canny strike by trains, the natural enemy of planes 148653
Reposted by KatieDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026New from Lauren Supplee at Can We Still Govern? The US government had gradually become better at producing and using evidence. This evidence-based infrastructure is largely invisible, important, and one more thing gutted by Trump. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-system...donmoynihan.substack.comThe System for Using Evidence to Improve Federal Programs Has Been GuttedHere’s How We Fix It 3467180
Reposted by KatieDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I still cant get over how utterly bad his taste & sense of aesthetics are. Everything he puts up/wants to make is actively ugly 2364
Reposted by KatieJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026You fundamentally just cannot fight and win a war like this. There isn’t a military on earth that could effectively operate when your leadership is waffling back and forth on decisions on a daily basis for months on end. It’s not sustainable. None of this is sustainable. 421478280
Reposted by KatieJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"As long as that remains the case, any demands that politics stay out of – you can insert any industry here – are summoning a world that does not exist, cannot exist and has never existed." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comIf you really hate it when music and film stars do politics, here’s the answer: give us politics that works | Nesrine MalikThe problem is not famous people speaking out, as they always have. It is the feeling that leaders have failed, obliging celebrities to fill the vacuum, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik 1408
Reposted by KatieDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026What’s really peculiar about the “rapture” theology is that it’s based on a really convoluted and selective reading of scripture, dates back no further than the 19th C, is rejected by the Orthodox, Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed, and is basically contradicted by the Apostle’s Creed. But… 17486110
Reposted by KatieJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Macklemore thing is more proof that pro-Israel activists have just lost the ability to persuade. All it can do is browbeat anyone opposed to them. That doesn't work when you're -25 in public opinion. 103517410
Reposted by KatieAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends. 24948391996
Reposted by KatieRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Not really the point, but I'd suggest that if you own 20 "family farms," they probably aren't "family farms." 703493626
Reposted by KatieSE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/09/2026will stancil's mentions are if summer classes in a community college were also Combat 970628
Katie @distracts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We've got to find the people dating ChatGPT to get that argument and they're probably too busy on hot internet dates 000
Reposted by KatieBrian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026There was some logic to it once upon a time. But even when it paid dividends, it caused real collateral damage to actual liberalism. www.offmessage.net/p/ai-risk-ne... 113221
Reposted by Katie祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My kid asked me what‘s something I teach my students and I said “That if you write what you have to say on paper then—unlike devices—no one has access to it except you and whoever else physically interacts with the paper” and you guys, it made an immediate impression 336188
Reposted by KatieBrendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When you spend enough time in academia you will notice class based distinctions on career outcomes that have more to do with culture than with talent or work. You’ll also notice the improbably high share of faculty members who had at least one parent who is/was a faculty member.  1247272
Reposted by KatieMarcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026At the end of the day, the discussion brings me back to a quite general question/belief: How can our ethics, morals, politics, and allocation of resources align so that doing the best for one’s own child can be directly in alignment with and not in conflict with serving all children and their needs? 24912
Reposted by KatieBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Nationalize these companies (after the current administration is gone) 36515
Reposted by Katiethe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I’m sure everybody’s noticed but just a reminder, between now and the election the vibes are gonna be real off around here. they won’t get better after either but from now to the election they will also be off 241938209
Reposted by KatieLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 20/09/2026There's some kind of party invite spam thing that's been going around on email and it's honestly been kind of nice to see the names of old friends I haven't talked to in many years and know that they're a dumb shit who clicks on whatever. 41108
Reposted by KatieRick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed 754523773
Reposted by KatieCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Not an exaggeration to say when authoritarian thugs distort scientific research toward their own petty or prejudiced tastes, economies suffer, national security is compromised, people die. Exact proportion of each of those consequences varies from one authoritarian state to another, but all happen 12745172
Reposted by KatieDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The difference between, say, the opioid epidemic and shoving gambling apps in front of everyone is that no-one has plausible deniability about the effects of gambling. It will absolutely ruin lives and families. They may as well be promoting cigarettes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...nytimes.comHow DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose 9606108
Reposted by Katiemolly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026as you get older you really begin to understand how many hinges the human body has 1465492
Reposted by KatieMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Congratulations to Mellody & George on the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art! 18 years in the making, it is 5-stories high, filled with some of the greatest artwork, props & memorabilia you'll ever see. An instant Los Angeles LANDMARK Thanks (again), George!!! 426197302853
Reposted by KatieAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026lol the lesson of today is: You cannot solve systemic problems without systemic or collective fixes. Individual proximity is simply not enough. 325741
Reposted by Katie"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026As an aside, I think one of the essential skills being trained in college that the 'college is for training workers' paradigm devalues to its peril is the ability and willingness to treat dry, academic matters as serious and worth getting right, rather than dismissing them. 4868112
Reposted by Katie"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026But I cannot stress enough: we have spent decades de-prioritizing and defunding the humanities broadly in secondary and post-secondary education and then we're all surprised-Pikachu-face when we are suffering from systematic leadership failures in exactly those skills and knowledge domains. 1055876
Reposted by Katie"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Decades and decades of a national policy and zeitgeist that amounts to 'nobody needs to care about social studies' and we're now in an unwinnable war with a foreign country whose culture and leadership we did not understand based around geography we ignored. 🤷♂️ 271026183
Reposted by KatieDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026One more example of how a personalist regime they cannot conceive of a bipartisan institution to the point they would prefer to destroy it if they cannot repurpose it to their ends. See, also, much of the rest of the federal government, our military, science, higher education etc. 422036678
Reposted by KatieMark Simpson-Vos @simpsonvos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Reader, I sobbed at the end of this. Because ALL our children deserve better than the world we are bequeathing them.nytimes.comIn Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice. 48832
Reposted by KatieRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I graduated med school in 2014. I was taught-and saw-how hard melanoma was to treat, like a death sentence Since then, new treatments have made it possible for people w/ the most advanced melanoma, like Jimmy Carter, to live to 100! We are killing ourselves by letting them destroy American science 3634301029
Reposted by KatieProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”propublica.orgEctopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ... 6019751056
Reposted by KatieBi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"I’ve just gotten disillusioned about the political landscape. There’s not a clear political group I map onto now." 251361
Reposted by KatieBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Well that makes sense of the murder spree. Prosecute everyone. 12763861753
Katie @distracts.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I fully agree with this. If it's not on American soil, Americans will just shrug and move on. And even ON American soil, it's got to be more dramatic and with a higher death toll than slaughtering a classroom full of kindergarteners, a story we are sadly used to. 000
Reposted by KatiePavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026You simply cannot "individual responsibility" yourself into 300 million individual-scale Centers for Disease Control 6504106
Reposted by KatieStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I feel like the U.S. in the Iran War is probably the most disproportionate war in human history in terms of the "lack of fucks given" to "fuckworthy strategic implications" ratio. 1161088
Reposted by KatieIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/07/2026Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years" 10084462472
Reposted by KatieRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Spelled his name wrong. 1487137332166
Reposted by KatieGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 12/07/2026We're gonna find out that an hour ago someone placed a $100,000 Polymarket bet that Mitch McConnell would outlive Lindsey Graham 161929301
Reposted by Katie🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Having Boomer parents forces you to realize that 71 is a baby. 91418
Reposted by KatieRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I always love a good conspiracy. 136357371028
Reposted by KatieAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026I was speaking with Mitch McConnell by phone for twenty minutes when he said, "hey, what's Lindsay Graham doing here?" 643772654
Reposted by KatieJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I mean this only half in jest: Was Lindsey Graham just a puppet controlled by McConnell who ceased to exist when he did?? 1542939
Reposted by Katie🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12/07/2026They have to move the dead Senators quickly so Bobby Jr. doesn't try to eat them. 848990
Reposted by KatieLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026You'd think the center would see Mamdani's popularity for scoring tons of small Ws and selling them to the public as evidence that Bidenism had potential but just failed on promoting itself. Instead we just get more whining because they just run on negative polarization at this point 1857157
Reposted by KatieLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The problem isn't that Biden got no credit from the left, it's that he got no credit from anyone. The administration was, at its best, a rolling communications failure. Making this case is more friendly to Biden than judging him by the central "did he stop Trump?" question 4787199
Reposted by Katie📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I was looking through old photos and found this Accidental Renaissance Painting of the cats 233747617
