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Kate Garrick

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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I will pay a company $10 a month to permanently disable every iota of AI that has wormed its way into my life. Maybe that’ll save the stock market!
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Happy birthday!! I forgot Scott’s birthday is your birthday eve!! 😘😘
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We’ve long favored Duotwat, and I sort of love the synchronicity here.
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I would really really love to read the updated Umberto Eco version of this exquisite drama.
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Nuke Them From Hell 💥🌎 @danfellars.com · 07/04/2026
Here’s an easy call script to your rep: “Hi I’m calling to insist that Rep (so and so) along with Minority Leader Jeffries introduce articles of impeachment as a privileged resolution today. The president is not of sound mind and needs to be removed from office immediately.”
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Cuomo whining about parades held up even worse than I expected!
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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off. Leave your comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-... morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...
morethanjustparks.substack.com
BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests
One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
When Trump came to power, he ripped up the peace deal that Obama had made, and used the uncertainty he created as an excuse to bomb Iran, insisting he had ended the problem he had created once and for all, except now he's bombing them again to solve the problem he created and previously solved?
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
"The rich are in general slaves to fear, and submit to courtly power with the trembling duplicity of a spaniel." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
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Silvia Killingsworth @silviakillings.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
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Dumb Runner @dumbrunner.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I saw it too:
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Not your mother's protest here in Portland. High Schooler are out in force as part of the national strike.
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 28/01/2026
The amount of money the US government spent on troops in DC in 2025 ($223m) would have been enough to give the city's ~5,100 homeless residents each $43,000. Instead, federal troops destroyed their meager encampments.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
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Dumb Megan @dmbmeg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
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Conrad Lange Zbikowski @czbi.org · 23/01/2026
Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators filling the streets with signs and banners
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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 22/01/2026
The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?
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Disco @discosaurus.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
Kid in a hat and backpack, maybe 5, getting detained
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Feel free to expand your imagination by donating to one of these organizations. www.standwithminnesota.com
standwithminnesota.com
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/01/2026
One way to show solidarity with people fighting the Trump regime is to contribute here:
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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand Of Darkness
"How does one hate a country, or love one?... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?"
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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 14/01/2026
The amount of organizing happening in a VERY short period of time is truly mind boggling. I've seen things come together in hours that, in the nonprofit & education spaces, would take weeks or MONTHS of planning and coordination. So, so proud of the Twin Cities right now.
The only meaningful pushback against the terror campaign comes in the form of my neighbors, regular people doing extraordinary and difficult work. They are coordinating themselves from the bottom up, grassroots, using phone chat apps. They are patrolling outside schools and immigrant businesses. They are putting in hours tailing ICE agents, blowing whistles, and witnessing the questionable incarceration of vulnerable neighbors. I know many people who have done this work every day, and I am in awe of their courage.  

For better or for worse, the trauma of 2020 prepared many people in the Twin Cities for this moment, pitting armed, well-funded masked men against average people with cell phones and plastic whistles. The only advantages for my neighbors are solidarity, moral clarity and whatever rights remain in this moment.
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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
ICE isn't even a quarter of a century old. Roe was older than that and it got torpedoed *and* that was a former SCOTUS decision. ICE is not. don't be so damp.
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
PDX DSA
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 04/01/2026
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
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Josh Foreman @josh-foreman.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Tumblr user nocryptographer:
I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.
A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.
AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.
Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.
There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.
I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. 
If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... 
then it's real.
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
“People crave original visions” is a lesson book publishing would do well to remember as well.
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
This was my takeaway from Unruly, David Mitchell’s very funny history of the British monarchy through Elizabeth I.
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Natan Last @natanlast.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
nice review of Across the Universe in the @latimes.com! latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-11-24/crossword-history-natan-last "Last’s range and intelligence help sell the importance of the crossword, then and now."
latimes.com
The crossword has a radical history. A puzzle veteran explores why
Natan Last’s book delves into the crossword's century-long story, exploring what the grids we solve reveal about news and culture.
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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Honestly still waiting for someone to show me an AI version of anything that isn’t MORE annoying/worse than the non-AI version.
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kimberly grace @grace8ming.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
folks at the OR dept of human services worked through the night to ensure recipients got their benefits ASAP. because they understood the existential urgency of EATING. so yeah...
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I would like for national political reporters to place a moratorium on “But what will voters in the rest of America think about New York City’s socialist mayor?” We don’t care! Red states are notably full of psycho politicians yet rarely do you see pundits asking Brooklyn people about them.
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I mean, there is a great opportunity here for you to look at them like *they’re* not supposed to be there. Just stare those homeowners DOWN.
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Portland streetscape 10/20/25, at roughly the same time the 9th circuit released its bogus ruling. #portland
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
There are two Portland, Oregons. I live in the real one. open.substack.com/pub/leahsott...
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64. The Absurdity
There are two Portland, Oregons. I live in the real one.
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This move into novels is long overdue. More lit crit!!
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“Pale Fire” the poem is the most criminally underrated poem of the 20th century! (The book too, but that’s maybe not so underrated.)
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Mr. Plywood legit did sponsor our city’s best tennis tournament this summer.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
www.wweek.com/culture/2025...
Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 08/10/2025
Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.
oregonlive.com
Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online
Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold made the comments to state lawmakers Sept. 30, and they drew notice on social media this week.
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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I’ve seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein’s girls. Here’s what’s in them - @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Live from "war ravaged" Portland
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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway
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Kate Garrick @kategarrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
👋👋👋
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