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Kate Harding

@kateharding.bsky.social
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Author and bookseller in Chicago. Owner of @jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ahem, from more than 3 years ago www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
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Trump Reportedly Wants to Bring Back Firing Squads and Air Executions on Television If Re-Elected
“The [former] president believes this would help put the fear of God into violent criminals. He wanted to do some of these [things] when he was in office"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Just today: - The Trump admin announced the first public execution since 1936. - Trump tried to incite a race war against Somalis. - Trump said anyone using the phrase AI is "THE ENEMY" - The NYT reported on a potential ICE plan to deport migrants on military boats and ferries.
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
TIL Denny Hastert and Jim Bakker were still alive a couple days ago. Huh.
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The first two are also my first two, and the whole list is great.
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't think it's the same (but honestly, I don't really know what Librela is). It's not a magic bullet, but I can see the impact on his quality of life. Costs about $150 at my vet, but only $76.50 of that is the actual drug.
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't know if it would help with whatever this is, but monthly Librela shots make a big difference for my old guy's arthritis pain. Might be worth asking if it's worth a try?
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Finally, sure, why not. This is 11 years old now! There are newer books you should definitely read. But I worked on this for a long time and went into some black holes that scared my loved ones. I hope it's still of use. bookshop.org/a/105044/978...
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Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--And What We Can Do about It
In the era of #metoo, a clear-eyed, sharp look at rape culture, sexual assault, harassment and violence against women--and what we can do about it. "A timely and brilliant book." (Jessica Valenti) E...
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2) Our Guys, Bernard Lefkowitz. Before Steubenville, there was Glen Ridge. Deep dive into how a culture protects rapists and abandons victims. Will make you say "These motherfuckers" at least once a chapter. bookshop.org/a/105044/978...
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Our Guys
A shocking true-crime story of America's jock culture and the hidden world of unrestrained adolescent sexuality in one seemingly idyllic suburban town. In March 1989 a group of teenage boys lured a re...
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some book recommendations, tired old feminist edition: 1) Fraternity Gang Rape, by the late cultural anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday. She uses the term to refer to any organized group of men, but that certainly includes actual frats. bookshop.org/p/books/frat...
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Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus
This widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and disturbing detail, the nature of fraternity gang rape. Drawing on interviews with both victims and fraternity m...
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The guy who raped me in college had been reported to the school for doing the same thing to a different woman, before I ever got there. They made him write a letter of apology.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
other things found in an old photo folder: this remarkable headline about the time the Mets went all-out for one special fan
newspaper headline: "Mets Blow a Save and Fan 18 Times in Opening Loss"
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yay!!
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Taps sign bsky.app/profile/kate...
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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Macklemore joining the ranks of media professionals who’ve discovered that one of the consequences of free speech is finding out which of your colleagues are cowards.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
He literally just launched an illegal and unprovoked war in the Middle East that will take a really long time to lose
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@SoliSolstice

what blows my mind about everybody neglecting human experiences in favor of being on their phone 14 hours a day is that like 95% of you suck at being on the phone. can’t post for shit, 100 unread wikipedia articles in your tabs, getting groomed on discord. you are not good at it
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Resharing because I’ve heard from so many women, in the US and abroad, who are in the same boat. This is a global phenomenon.
losingmyperspicacity.beehiiv.com
GenX women are washed, apparently
Losing My Perspicacity, July 27, 2026
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day, everybody
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A wee algorithmic chuckle. First, an image of a tweet by @acyn, quoting professional 5th-place whiner Riley Gaines on a WNBA game: "It was a bunch of disgruntled lesbians" and "the entire arena was booing Sophie Cunningham." Then, an unrelated skeet by @proptermalone, which reads "hurts to see somebody else living my dream."
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from
A flow chart I have created with multiple questions and the answers determine where you're from.

Question 1 is do you call it a hydro bill (which then branches down to ON, QC, BC, MB) or an electric bill (which then branches down to SK, AB, NS, NB, PEI, NL)

Question 2 is do you call it a cabin (BC, MB, AB, SK) cottage (ON and atlantic) camp (northern Ontario) chalet (QC) or bungalow (Cape Breton)

To delineate BC from MB: do you call it dinner or supper

To delineate southern Ontario rural or big city: have you heard of a stag & doe

To delineate SK from AB: do you call a hoodie a bunnyhug

And finally to delineate NL from the other atlantic provinces: whaddayat? (Correct answer: dis is it b'y)
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A new @bmj.com study has found that between a minimum of 24.5% to a maximum of 97.7% of the NFL players who died between 2016-2021 had CTE. This means a huge portion of those who will play this week *already have the disease.* www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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CTE in football players is a health crisis. It’s time for us to stop watching
A new study offers more evidence that America’s biggest sport produces life-altering head trauma. The NFL will never turn itself off, so it’s on fans to do so
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
DON'T WEAR THE EATING DISORDER SURVEILLANCE JEWELRY
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Before the WHI study that in 2002 publicized a wildly overblown all-caps CANCER SCARE, 30 percent of menopausal women used hormone-replacement therapy. By the early 2020s, it was less than 5 percent. What’s happening now isn’t a trend — it’s a corrective
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 02/09/2026
Goofy takes like this (the piece, not the post) are so deeply rooted in fatphobia + ableism. It's also what holds a lot of people back from body-movement-stuff that probably would indeed make them feel better, b/c they think if they're not at the gym at 6am for 90min every morning there's no point.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
every republican president of my lifetime has been an unmitigated disaster, and I've got a pretty large sample set at this point
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Happy birthday, Judy!
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Marcy @deadheadgirly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Hill I'll die on: Caitlin Clark isn't a generational talent. She's one of the first in what appears to be a long line of incredibly talented players coming out of the NCAA. These players are the results of years of putting resources into girls sports. They will only get better. #WNBA
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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
You can just stop saying woke and use other words.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
live your life so no one has to think “but…” when talking about how terrible ICE is lol
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

Jennifer Nelson
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What the fuck
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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Neutral in the culture war"
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Not sure if you can count how many sexual awakenings can be traced back to one actor in one role, but Curry in Rocky Horror has to be near the top of the list.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
No one's saying you're not allowed; they're saying you're bad at it. A stronger education in the humanities might have made you better at reasoning.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
One thing I remember and hardly anyone seems to is that there's a sort of sexual revolution interregnum when all sex was good (seen from the adult male perspective, which it mostly was) including sex with children, which was publicly defended. Feminism, mostly, is what changed that.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18/08/2026
The marchers for Keshi Golden have posted up in the lobby of the Cook County office building as a few CPD and building security officers try to corral the situation. "Eileen Burke come on out, we've got some shit to talk about!" the marchers chant
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Exactly this!
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In general if some Democrat runs on a "we have to shut down the podcasts until we figure out what's going on" I'd probably vote for that person (unless they were Gavin or Rahm of course)
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I don't care if Bluesky's numbers are down. I use it to follow a few hundred weirdos who post too much. If this place folds they'll move someplace else and I'll follow them. You don't have to care if your baseball team makes money and you don't have to care if your social media platform is growing.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
im a small government conservative and i want the presidents secret police force to have lightning gloves
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The thing I will never, ever get is why people want to write professionally but don't want to read books or generate their own work. Do you think there's actually glory in it? Money????
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I've had both a surgical procedure (morcellation) and an implant (Cartiva) that are no longer done, for scary reasons. Both worked amazingly for me.
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Jess, the amount of my life that's now devoted to word retrieval 😭😭😭
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed
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Phillip Anderson @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Make no mistake here. This is Trump objectively taking the side of Iran, a nation we are currently at war with, over the Americans in Minnesota because he hates the governor and the fact that a majority of voters there did not vote for him
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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Your food processor has a chute that fits your dick. Should you?
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.
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