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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 15h

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 29/09/2026

I get that this story must be particularly ghastly to NYCers but why is it breaking anew every 30 minutes, as if the newsroom simply can't believe it

An email inbox with 3 NY Times headlines reading "Breaking news: Man killed in N.Y.C. subway after bag gets stuck" sent at 9:59am, 10:40am, and 11:25am

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...

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Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns

Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 28/09/2026

Finding Backrooms frightening largely due to all the unanchored furniture.

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 28/09/2026

hahaha this is also astros fans, at least the ones On Here

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 27/09/2026

“Why have my sisters fucking husbands if they say/They love you all?”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Beyond two parking tickets for not moving his vehicle during snowstorms, Abdullah has no criminal record in Minnesota and was working legally as a mechanic while his asylum application was pending. He arrived in the United States in early 2023.”

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 25/09/2026

large groups of people are less representative of the people than a couple of billionaires, see, also they are influenced by their emotions, unlike billionaires

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨🚨AAUP Chapter at UT Austin VP Lauren Gutterman: “There's been no direct communication from the provost with faculty in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, no clear explanation about why these degree plans are being shut down," she said."The justification is just entirely lacking."

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UT Austin plans to cut Mexican American, African, women's and gender studies majors

The decision comes after university officials consolidated seven ethnic studies departments into two earlier this year. Faculty within the College of Liberal Arts were told most majors could be consol...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

succinctly summarizing messy stories in a measured tone that sounds matter-of-fact instead of accusatory is this man’s superpower

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 12/09/2026

"Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together." This was the only thing I read around that time that spoke to what I was thinking. The blowback she caught was so ferocious I was stunned

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 11/09/2026

A 9/11 piece by the novelist Ian McEwan, written a day or two after the attacks. These clips are a heartbreaking central paragraph plus the final one, which talks of what the hijackers lacked. But of course it applies to us all, we're all susceptible to brutal certainty & hatred. Link in next post.

A San Francisco husband slept through his wife's call from the World Trade Centre. The tower was burning around her, and she was speaking on her mobile phone. She left her last message to him on the answering machine. A TV station played it to us, while it showed the husband standing there listening. Somehow, he was able to bear hearing it again.We heard her tell him through her sobbing that there was no escape for her. The building was on fire and there was no way down the stairs. She was calling to say goodbye. There was really only one thing for her to say, those three words that all the terrible art, the worst pop songs and movies, the most seductive lies, can somehow never cheapen. I love you.

She said it over and again before the line went dead. And that is what they were all saying down their phones, from the hijacked planes and the burning towers. There is only love, and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against the hatred of their murderers.

The hijackers used fanatical certainty, misplaced religious faith, and dehumanising hatred to purge themselves of the human instinct for empathy. Among their crimes was a failure of the imagination. As for their victims in the planes and in the towers, in their terror they would not have felt it at the time, but those snatched and anguished assertions of love were their defiance.

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 11/09/2026

the comic that kept me alive during the war in Iraq god bless you David Rees

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 11/09/2026

i was an adult on 9/11, horribly shaken by the attack ofc, but the dread that’s stayed with me was turning to GWB for hope—ludicrous now but he was a surprisingly fine TX gov, turned the heat down on immigration—& hearing the words “war on terror.” I actually cried out NO. Read this, it’s superb

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

i spent my whole life believing the president didn't actually have a big ECONOMY BAD/GOOD lever on the resolute desk but then this group of yahoos went and built one and then broke the lever off

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

What's wild about this is the Iranian leadership has a better handle of what Trump truly is than the median American does because so many people swim in the murky media environment here fluffing and covering for him.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 10/09/2026

that’s over a trillion dollars are you fucking kidding me

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

heather mac donald is one of the biggest racists in the public sphere, what a disgrace this is

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 09/09/2026

the colorado—not the important one, the lil one that runs through Austin

talk downtown buildings reflected in misty gray waters

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 06/09/2026

a beautiful thread hidden in comments

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Hyde Park Theatre in Austin, Texas @hydeparktheatre.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

In our venue through September 12: AND SHE WAS LOVED, from Austin poet laureate Zell Miller III's new group, Black Rose ATX. It's dance, it's movement, it's spoken word, it's all that. Come check it out! www.universe.com/events/and-s...

And Sge Was Loved--A Ritual of Healing, A Celebration of Love, A Story of What Remains. A World Premiere One-Act Play by Zell Miller III. Inspired by the loss of his mother, Vernell Miller, and his longtime mentor, theater icon Laurie Carlos, And She Was Loved is a deeply personal journey through grief, memory, and emotional abuse that ultimately transforms into a testament of resilience, healing, and the enduring power of love. Blending the mythology of Peter Pan with hip-hop theater, jazz aesthetics, movement, and gesture language, this powerful new work explores the bitter, the sweet, the love that remains after loss - and the hope that never leaves us.
Runs THURSDAY-SATURDAY FOR TWO WEEK SEPTEMBER 3 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 12. 8PM HYDE PARK THEATRE 511 West 43rd Street Austin TX FEATURING Siobhan Alexis
National and International award winning tap dancer
Introducing Marley Miller
Award winning poet and granddaughter of Vernell Miller
Zell Miller, III Award winning theater artist, Austin Poet Laureate
NOTE: Production contains mentions of suicide ideation and self-harm

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 04/09/2026

i found this weirdly devastating—i was born in SLC., but we moved around through the south (GA, FL, TX) when i was a kid and i’ve lived in Houston or Austin since my teens. but my dad’s from SLC and my mom’s from Minneapolis, how have I utterly lost both their dialects?

my dialect results code heavily southern, most like Houston (ok) or Dallas (NO), least like Salt Lake (where my dad AND I were born) and Minneapolis where my mom was born and raised

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/09/2026

Gloria Steinem, Researcher Who Discovered Existence Of Women, Dead At 92

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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Dolly's Jolene slowed down to 33 rpm sounds like the best ballad Jason Isbell ever sang. youtu.be/doz1QJ7LwjA?...

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Jolene at 33 rpm

YouTube video by Tom Berry

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

for example maybe the next administration renames the lake “Sundar Pichai is a Bitch” i’m just spitballing here

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Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

this is a pretty wild exchange with someone seemingly in a moderator position

Bouie: Sure. Before I do, I want to say two things, just to establish them right now and kind of to say where I stand on some of this stuff. The first thing is: "Woke" is a term that comes from African American vernacular. It has its origins in the 1930s, and it has traditionally meant something along the lines of: Be aware of the ways that this society is not built for you. Be aware of the ways that you may face disadvantage and oppression in this society. Again, this is a term that emerged in Black vernacular in the 1930s. And that is, as far as I'm concerned,
what the term means. And the usage — Cottle: You are exactly one of about 20
people who think that's what the term
means.
Bouie: I know.

Bouie: I know. Cottle: I always love the historical reference,
but that ain't where it's gone. Bouie: I think a lot of Black Americans would agree with me on this point, I'll say that. I think among commentators, sure, not very many people agree with me. Among the
people for whom the term - Cottle: Oh, wait, wait, wait. No, no, no. You can't pull that it's a split between commentators. And like, half of America has
decided what woke is, and it's not that. Bouie: Among Black Americans, it still
means what I just said. So I just want to say Cottle: But beyond the commentators, there's plenty of folks who have decided
something very different.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The term is perhaps overused, but this is genuinely Orwellian.

Google Maps view of Lake Ontario, which now reads "Lake America," in obedience to that demented elderly waddling Nazi toddler.

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 28/08/2026

jesus talk about making up a guy in your head to be mad at: people use y'all here because they use y'all IRL, no one's trying to seem folksy. Also y'all is not an "accent" (now whut ah say whut?), it's a word. As if for exampless this gormless guy used "gormless."

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 25/08/2026

It’s fine, you can’t change the name of anything referenced in “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, it’s a legal document

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 25/08/2026

watching TV w/dad while mom finished dressing for mass (atheist dad in PJs); someone got shot on TV & dad flipped out, jumped up yelling for mom; she ran out in her slip, very unlike her. I was baffled, pitying! did they not know people get shot on TV all the time? it was Jack Ruby shooting Oswald.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Dem. appointees, #SCOTUS has *granted* the Trump administration’s request to freeze a district court injunction that had blocked the mail-in ballots executive order. But Trump’s EO remains blocked by a different injunction in a different case—at least for now:

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 11/02/2026

Not that anyone I know is saying it, but one...concern...I have is that "LLMs help with workflow" gets used to describe "LLMs help me read badly, both more and more quickly." And if the response is "LLMs aren't _meant_ to improve reading ability", that's fine! But maybe: it's still important.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Lincoln! In The Bardo

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 16/08/2026

This new study from @adambonica.bsky.social on how Democratic spam PACs “hook and squeeze” vulnerable elderly donors is so disturbing—starting with the opening disclaimer that both the NYT & Bulwark declined to publish it after a year of legal review.

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Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 16/08/2026

this is random but in my lifetime the term "blue-hair" (referring to a person with blue hair) has gone from meaning one thing (fussy, prudish old woman) to the exact opposite thing (wild 'n' free young woman) and it confuses me every time. could y'all not have waited till I died or something

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

arday was being used by these institutions as a symbol of their own goodness, and then he was used in turn by right-wing opportunists who wanted to smear them. he wasn't entirely a victim, of course, but he also wasn't the only one being dishonest.

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 13/08/2026

Academia was so much better before Woke. Sure, David Hume was never able to secure an academic job because he might have been an atheist. But at least no one made him use the singular "they"

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 13/08/2026

genuinely fascinating enlightening thread

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Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 13/08/2026

these dowd posts are so unbearably painfully perfect

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

These people are not Democrats and should not be listened to or treated like them.

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