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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started

@gothamgirlblue.com
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Defiance posting. Vibes: Enraged 🔴 Not a Democrat anymore. Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Going to keep fighting anyway. Pay me for ideas: patreon.com/gothamgirlblue

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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Cornell 7 we’re all talking about? That story was broken in the work of Cereese Qusba, who is a reporter at The Ithaca Voice and a news editor at The Cornell Daily Sun, two independent newspapers. She is still herself, a student at Cornell University.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 15h
How did I just find out that Ben Rice can speak Spanish?
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Dani @hidingsomewhere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My apartment manager is a dick so getting September rent after the last $60 of my phone is priority so I don’t get evicted.
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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 15h
Still a bit short I know everyone is struggling but
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lumpenpoledancer @daturabombs333.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you would like to help me, dinner tonight and at the risk of being TMI, some pads and max pads. Can show receipts for either. Ran out of the UberEats gift card, so covering food again. Out of the sanitary stuff. The latter also means increased pain and emotion levels, already sucked 😢
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PSL_4Loko @psl4loko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The whole speech is good, but this part in particular is particularly relevant now. www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/publ...
A screenshot of a section of the linked speech by former President Harry Truman:

I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.

But when a Democratic candidate goes out and explains what the New Deal and fair Deal really are--when he stands up like a man and puts the issues before the people--then Democrats can win, even in places where they have never won before. It has been proven time and again.
We are getting a lot of suggestions to the effect that we ought to water down our platform and abandon parts of our program. These, my friends, are Trojan horse suggestions. I have been in politics for over 30 years, and I know what I am talking about, and I believe I know something about the business. One thing I am sure of: never, never throw away a winning program.
This is so elementary that I suspect the people handing out this advice are not really well-wishers of the Democratic Party.
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himham @himham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Good Place:

Kentucky figured it out? Kentucky?
This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 27/09/2026
Uh, I am actually more concerned of the popularity of a military coup in a country very explicitly designed to reject a military coup???? Like why is that preferred over him getting kerplatzed mid-gibberish?
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 26/09/2026
I have not done an in-person interview in 9 (!!!) years, but when I was, it never ever occurred to me to bring any food or beverage into the interview. If I needed sustenance beforehand, it was up to me to prepare and be done before walking in. But race and gender had a major impact on my approach…
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rudetuesday @rudetuesday.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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A lot of people look forward for their chance to bully others. Cruelty is unfortunately exciting in a positive and desirable way for them.
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nami says @namioshiro.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
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✫✫LVN✫✫ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Tropical Bird • #ProtectJho @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
$200/ $2500.
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ODB @obitron.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Unfortunately, it is an incredibly common experience for queer people of color to enter queer spaces and find white queers who victimize themselves as if no one has ever felt what they're feeling and no one has ever been attacked in such a way and no one understands that I'm just a lil bean.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 14/02/2024
The real distinguishing feature of Grant and Sherman was that they fought the Confederacy to fuck them up, not to placate them. That’s the exact energy Democrats need to have with the ideological heirs of the Confederacy in the GOP.
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi folks. If you saw this, you know the administration plans to only accept white South Africans next year. Tomorrow is Congress's formal say before the determination is signed. Please check this brief thread on why I'd like you to speak out for the Afghan people still in limbo...
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20/09/2026
Gmar hatima tovah
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 22/09/2026
But why the lie of energy tho?
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 21/09/2026
You can just say you failed every history class you ever took. You don’t have to post absurd questions on the internet to prove it.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/09/2026
Wishing my Jewish comrades a meaningful fast and bright things ahead in the new year. G'mar Chatimah Tovah.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 21/09/2026
Ehhh, not enough of this conversation is being had amongst non-white New Yorkers in gentrifying hoods Internal transfers (transplants) are now more likely to be white and affluent than previous waves and that has been consciously sought by earlier admins and warped the responses in the convo
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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I wish the people actually cared about the safety of children playing sports because I don't think children can consent to playing tackle football and it should be illegal to have it in public schools.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My cat has been sick, which has made me feel so terrible and anxious, I can hardly function. She's 19.5 years old and has been with me forever. I fear we're nearing the end and I love her so much. If you have a pet, please give them a kiss for me. Take them out for a walk tomorrow; give them a treat
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 16/09/2026
It’s because it’s the same play that was done by crypto exchanges ahead of blowing up. AI is dangerous, of course, but not in the way we are being warned. (Just like crypto was dangerous as an unregulated security rather than as an emerging market.) They’re just begging for too big to fail status.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 15/09/2026
Yet I was on a thread on social media yesterday where many people found Glass Onion passé because “Elon Musk sucks” was apparently “too obvious” as a message
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 13/09/2026
It’s a rough day as a tennis fan and a political observer who is anti-abuser… Might need to take a break from the internet
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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If somehow you, reader, don’t know why we all fucking hate Zverev, aside from his totally uninteresting tennis, it’s because he’s a piece of shit.
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Alexander Zverev domestic abuse charges: What to know
As Alexander Zverev plays in the French Open, his domestic abuse trial began on Friday. Here's what to know about the case.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 13/09/2026
Went to Coyote v Acme and it was great. It’s both the movie we deserved and the movie we need right now
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/09/2026
We are opening 51 safe overnight locations for New Yorkers, especially those living in basement apartments or low-lying areas who need a safe place to stay. Locations are listed at on.nyc.gov/SafeLocations and are also available by calling 311. Service animals and pets are welcome.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 10/09/2026
The most successful right wing social engineering project was “urban renewal,” suburban sprawl, and the inherent car-dependence of society to accommodate it. tl;dr: suburbs are why we have fascism
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 09/09/2026
Still awake, riding adrenaline from watching the most phenomenal day of tennis I have ever witnessed and the pain of an organ trying to work its way out of my abdomen
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Marcello Graziano 🇺🇦 @marcellograz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fun fact: at least 6.5 countries have period leave. The 0,5 is Japan, where law does not mandate said leave to be paid. Old law: introduced in 1947.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 09/09/2026
Radical proposal: uterus people are compensated for enduring periods
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/09/2026
My Anglophilic boarding school in MA had prefects and I discovered this was just traditional boarding school stuff, not something different and magical
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 07/09/2026
You can tell this is true because when Michelle Obama made healthy eating and exercise her issue as First Lady, this same movement failed to coalesce around her and in fact she met a ton of resistance from the same people who made RFK Jr possible
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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 07/09/2026
🇫🇷 U.S.-based journalists at Le Monde are on strike this Labor Day! Journalists at the largest national newspaper in France are protesting several unfair labor practices and asking for management to negotiate in good faith and take its proposals seriously.
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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 06/09/2026
🚨🚨🚨BLUESKY 38 IS AI SLOP🚨🚨🚨 PLEASE DO NOT PARTICIPATE sorry to ruin everyones fun 💔💔💔
screenshot of bsky3d, with the 'source on tangled' source code link circledscreenshot of the repo, with CLAUDE circled in multiple locations
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 06/09/2026
Look, I don’t have any moral standing on HP—I left it after reading about “happy enslaved race that becomes purposeless and alcoholic when given freedom” and noped out. But to defend the books as a cis person is a failure of moral and cognitive imagination. Have a higher standard for yourself.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
my beloved sister-in-law Kristy (my sister Cat’s wife) is a medical caseworker for CAP NW, formerly Cascade AIDS Project. Their annual AIDS Walk helps fund so many programs for LGBTQ+ Portlanders. please toss Kristy’s walk team a few bucks if you’re able! www.aidswalknorthwest.org/fundraiser/k...
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AIDS Walk Northwest 2026
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 04/09/2026
Oh, and I’m officially bluesky age: turned 38 last Wednesday
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
so infuriating that trans people worked for decades to get covered by anti-discrimination protections in blue states but when major medical institutions in blue states categorically refuse to give us medical care they freely offer to cis people, blue state AGs just refuse to enforce said statutes
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 04/09/2026
I did such a good job not posting about my vacation while I was away from home that I forgot to mention that I got a staff-led tour of the US Capitol
A view of the US Capitol rotunda through a glass ceiling over a member- and staff-exclusive route into the Capitol Visitor Center A picture of tributes to Rosa Parks and Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune in Statuary Hall, the former House Chamber in the US Capitol The inner ceiling of the US Capitol rotunda, with a faux carved frieze and a ceiling painted with an invocation of the Greek pantheon mixed with historical US figuresA cute Black woman with green and tortoiseshell glasses taking a selfie in front of the East facade of the US Capitol
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/09/2026
Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade.
We’re eliminating AI use for students in 2-K through 8th grade for the upcoming school year.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 04/09/2026
Gotta be me in 2026. FDR got polio as an adult in the late teens/early 20s; I don’t need any of that thank you very much And we haven’t even gotten into how easy it was to go around shooting people like…
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 04/09/2026
My husband considers himself a “non-political” person in that he watches news, researches candidates, and votes frequently, but considers that his responsibility as a citizen and nothing more. No Kings was his first protest, and I am certain he wasn’t the only one engaged for the first time.
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