Reposted by Katherine CatmullNikolaj Bill @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 19hRight. According to most surveys it’s the Out of Staters keeping Texas red. Most native Texans vote blue. Ken Paxton and W in fact aren’t native Texans. 1741
Reposted by Katherine CatmullMara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I 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.  1345003498
Reposted by Katherine CatmullAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Directing 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. 15271643012
Reposted by Katherine CatmullTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41119423104
Reposted by Katherine Catmulljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026not 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.talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 25661341141
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 01/10/2026Didn't know this existed & have been reading up, holy shit what YEAR is this. If you're unconscious you're assumed to be consenting to as many people raping you as wish to; but if you're unconscious and someone swipes your wallet, phone, etc, why that is illegal of course! You could not consent! 030
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 30/09/2026it didn’t help that the ny times ran screaming headlines about it as if they secretly knew it was going to be terrible when it all came out—one of the things they’ve done that angered me the most 180
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 30/09/2026And i want to read something coming from a particular BODY as well—when i edit or teach i beg writers to listen to their bodies and then write from their own physical presence, that’s where that unique magic is 021
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 29/09/2026just this morning my husband mused aloud “oh, I have to remember to do X” and I was like “don’t you need to write that down? Need a pen? Or in your Notes app?” but he never does! yet manages to run a complicated little business. it’s appalling and inexplicable. 011
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 29/09/2026ted kacyzinski died a few years ago but somehow i feel like he does post on bluesky, his voice lives on here 000
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 29/09/2026I 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 010
Reposted by Katherine CatmullEric 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...cbsnews.comTop FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resignsBailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. 331200451
Reposted by Katherine CatmullU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 28/09/2026Finding Backrooms frightening largely due to all the unanchored furniture. 11667100
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 28/09/2026one of my least favorite thing about my beloved perfect cats is that they will engage in loud slurpy personal grooming *while sitting on my lap.* It's like having someone nudge you with their elbow over and over and over for five minutes. 000
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 28/09/2026my little sister's was (actually) "batman," she was already riding that IP gravy train, suckers 070
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 28/09/2026hahaha this is also astros fans, at least the ones On Here 000
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 27/09/2026“Why have my sisters fucking husbands if they say/They love you all?” 010
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 27/09/2026i mean i live in texas and quite like country music (though typically—but not always!— i lean alt- rather than mainstream) and i have never heard that song, that guy needs to calm down 040
Reposted by Katherine Catmullsouthpaw @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.” 19788323
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 26/09/2026wow this is exactly it, thank you! i knew it was a tone i knew! 080
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 25/09/2026large groups of people are less representative of the people than a couple of billionaires, see, also they are influenced by their emotions, unlike billionaires 000
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 25/09/2026I felt the same way but I kinda liked the The Rehearsal, especially the second season. He's doing something pretty interesting although sometimes it is also kind of noooooo 010
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 24/09/2026"cheese and his pronouns" was my name on twitter, I loved that character so much 050
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 24/09/2026I mean historically all forms of writing have produced bad/dumb writing and thoughts, in fact all forms of thinking have produced bad/dumb thoughts, I think I am missing yur point perhaps 000
Reposted by Katherine CatmullTexas 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."kut.orgUT Austin plans to cut Mexican American, African, women's and gender studies majorsThe 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... 02513
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 24/09/2026he’s absolutely brilliant with child actors, none better 030
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 24/09/2026I am actually not a fan of the Raunchfest Buddy Comedies but I feel the same about Macon Blair so I went and absolutely adored it. It is pleasingly dumb but in a smart insightful way 010
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 22/09/2026if i’m trying to do the fairest possible reading here i guess they are both *elements* of musical history? but come on so is the song i just made up for my cat. one is “important” in every meaningful sense, quality, impact, influence, etc, and one is not 000
Reposted by Katherine CatmullAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off. 552595991
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 20/09/2026this sounds marvelous, just snagged it, thank you 000
Reposted by Katherine Catmullshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026succinctly summarizing messy stories in a measured tone that sounds matter-of-fact instead of accusatory is this man’s superpower 181442228
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 19/09/2026the story isn’t absolutely clear but i don’t think the quota is for unlawful voters, just how many they have to “check” 100
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 18/09/2026for some goddamn reason my husband and i are rewatching Ken Burns’ Vietnam series which has a few issues but is imo his greatest work, anyway it’s unbelievably upsetting and shocking so . . . have fun! 020
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 17/09/2026could be awful of course, I don't know—but if I end up hating it it won't be because it's set in a different time period) 110
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 17/09/2026yes! I've read the books, more thn once, just been a while. but changing the time frame doesn't bother me. Like Peter Brooks said of radical/weird Shakespeare adaptations: It's not like we're destroying the text! the idea is to find ways back into the living heart of it. (now: this adaptation + 120
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 17/09/2026isn’t the book set in the 1950s? (haven’t read it recently but it was published in the 1950s) 230
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 16/09/2026i’m in my 60s and for me 60s knowledge has been “you are going to die unbelievably soon” (also i think people are teasing peter who recently turned 40) 000
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 15/09/2026damn what a story! i am fascinated (i was born in slc and have a lot of family there but i think it would be quite a story to anyone!) 010
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 14/09/2026oh good! did y’all talk about how to avoid regulatory capture at all, i’m worried about that 100
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 010
Reposted by Katherine CatmullJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026W/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...nbcnews.comLutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer fundsA top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues. 1773207927
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 11/09/2026haha we were adults and at that point in the movie, we simply walked out, and never saw another Star Wars movie 000
Katherine Catmull @katherinecatmull.com · 11/09/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2001/s...theguardian.comIan McEwan: Only love and then oblivion.Emotions have their narrative; after the shock we move inevitably to the grief, and the sense that we are doing it more or less together is one tiny scrap of consolation. 000
