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Katknapp

@katknapp.bsky.social
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If I do end up posting, it will mostly be pics of our dogs. Thank you all for the good and thoughtful stories (and the dog pics! and the cat pics! all the animals!).

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4h
JUST UNSEALED: A judge ruled this week that the first Trump admin's "Remain in Mexico" policy illegally subjected thousands of people – many with meritorious asylum claims — to horrifically dangerous and violent conditions and deprived them of access to attorneys. cgrs.uclawsf.edu/en/legal-doc...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 8h
An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22h
Man I really like this essay about life in Marfa, TX, watching the feds come and dick around, trying to build a wall, leaving, perhaps coming back, and just generally menacing "the most beautiful place on earth" by @dessertrat.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/the-most-bea...
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The most beautiful place on Earth
Whatever they build we’ll take back when they get bored and leave
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We try to laugh at how bananas this all is but government ultimately exists to help and protect people. This is the opposite. This guy just CONSTANTLY talks shit about this place I love. People are tough here. Tougher than they should need to be. We’ll endure but it’s so exhausting.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is how historian Robert Paxton defined a certain word that begins with F in his 2004 book.
Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/10/2026
I'm sure the NY Times tomorrow will have another story about Hasan Piker, and not a mention of the VP's "intellectual guru" saying this...
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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 06/10/2026
“Our relatives always cooked not only for themselves,” Liubov told WCK. “To give to children, to treat a neighbor or a relative. If someone doesn’t have something, you have to share.” #ChefsForUkraine
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thankfully someone was there to connect her with resources and hopefully she'll get much-needed support. When you see recent stories about ICE changing tactics, this is what those tactics look like. Quietly abducting people from courthouses with no resistance at all, upending lives in the process.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE took two more people from my local courthouse today. The wife of one of the guys who was taken showed up shortly after. She just had surgery. She was worried about paying rent and feeding her kids. This is happening *every day* in Massachusetts. Lives are being destroyed every single day.
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At exactly 0 times in my entire adult life have Democrats in Congress done what's actually necessary to hold Republicans accountable. I'm hoping this streak will be broken starting in January. But it's easy to see why Republicans think they can just keep getting away with it.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rufo pioneered the tactic of calling any discussions of race Critical Race Theory, and used it to get people fired. He pioneered the strategy of labeling teachers as "groomers" if they talked about gender identity donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-qanoni...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
this is why we don’t do “poor Melania” or write fanfic narratives where the wives of these men are victims. they wake up every day of their marriage and choose this
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.
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How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 03/10/2026
Of recent interest here in Minnesota is that ICE is releasing detainees to satisfy Habeas requests, and then immediately detaining again. This really ought to be national news.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That so-called mainstream outlets see the bigoted ghouls at The Manhattan Institute as worthy of interviews and profiles (rather than derision, scorn, and exile) is evidence of their debasement and an indictment of the mainstream.
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Midwestphoto - Troy Freund @midwestphoto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this is how many millions of Americans feel, @baldwin.senate.gov @democrats.org @wisdems.org, and we need to see you acting like you feel this way, too. #WIunion
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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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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The question presented here couldn't be more consequential. Answering "yes" would require the detention--without any possibility of a bond hearing--of millions of immigrants currently residing in the United States.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The evidence of being repeatedly raped and abused by multiple men as a child was deemed inadmisseable at her trial.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
God almighty, why must we “find common ground” with folks who are kidnapping and torturing kids?
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What I find striking about every one of these “politics are too hostile” takes, is that the emphasis is always on the people with higher standards to lower them to allow violence at the table. How come Cox isn’t telling the right to love their neighbor? Instead it’s come to the table with Trump.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 30/09/2026
this court loves killing democracy and people
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A random tech person @greentechperson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Excellently written argument about what democrat politicians miss when they avoid talking about 'culture war' issues. Could equally apply to the current UK Labour party.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Joe Biden didn't put Trump in jail and he's on the hook for everything that's going on with Trump 2 up until now. That's on him. But we have a chance to course correct and clean up the mess. We can't do that with weak leadership unwilling to protect this country and the people in it.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views
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Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
he is literally immune from any kind of legal limit, at least when it comes to anything related to his personal actions, thanks to the Supreme Court he installed his administration is constrained on occasion but he personally is not our system of government will not survive if we don’t change this
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
these people will happily whitewash and paraphrase unhinged Trump rants to make them seem grammatically coherent and authoritative, but if a young woman says “like” we must keep it in there to make sure you know she’s a bimbo infuriating actually
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 21/09/2026
This is happening to my clients. Makes it impossible for me to know if they're still in Minnesota or even in America. ICE can shuttle them around without my knowledge and, unless they get word to me, I have no way to access them as counsel
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is the same shuffle they’ve always done on immigrant & refugee rights - and are doing with the rights of our trans neighbors. We can’t let them get away with it on any front.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE is shooting immigrants on the street & killing them in their prisons. When the folks begging for your money & votes inevitably get power, they will dismiss these injured & lost lives by saying they need to focus on kitchen table issues instead of accountability. We’ll need to demand justice.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17/09/2026
Republican abortion bans are killing women—and the worst part is, they knew this would happen. Republicans care more about controlling women's bodies than they do about actually protecting them. Abortion rights in all 50 states.
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton.
The case argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. constitutions. It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
$500, some highlighters, and ten days to wrap it up. Treat candidates like we treat teachers.
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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New Yorker dropped him but what is wrong with everyone?? Why pair up with someone trying to destroy the dignity, rights and freedom of so many other people? Not to mention the rest. What the hell is wrong with Bernie Sanders? There are people who KNOW THINGS about AI. www.vox.com/policy-and-p...
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The Steve Bannon-New Yorker controversy, explained
Bannon was invited to appear at the New Yorker Festival — and very quickly disinvited.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you break bread with Steve Bannon, you will never have my support for anything. You are untrustworthy. You are in direct opposition to my survival.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is dope
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
1. Anti-vax websites and influencers oversimplify complicated information. They ignore data that undermine their argument. Scientists are trained not to do this. 2. They make appeals to emotion, which humans find more compelling than facts. 3. They are not constrained by accurate information.
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Dawn of the Dead (1978) @dawnandr0meda.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The richest people on earth are just Homer and that parrot he likes to argue with
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S09E15 - The Bird Homer Likes to Argue with
YouTube video by The Max Power Way
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 15/09/2026
don’t forget this isn’t just a handout to israel, this is an ongoing subsidy program for the u.s. arms industry that acts as a kickback for political donations and pork for congressional districts where weapons manufacturers prop up the local economy
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sorry I don't think that the Democratic party is capable of leading us through the current AI bullshit. I think it should be clearly said so that community leaders emerge.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
👇🎯 It is surreal, but it’s also the direct & inevitable consequence of no one in any senior position from the Reagan or GWB administrations going to jail or facing any personal, legal, or social consequences for the crimes of Iran-Contra & all the awful & illegal things that came afterward in 2001-8
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We want money and housing and healthcare, not a shortcut to living the most basic unfulfilled human existence that a coked up programmer can devise. Some of us are happy. Others of us fully imagine that we can become happy. Many of us aren’t afraid of what that costs.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/09/2026
Incredible Sunday Longreads feature on a family secret, and story, that emerged alongside her grandmother's Alzheimer's.
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The Mother Tongue of All Secrets - The Sunday Long Read
For six decades, in four languages, my grandmother kept a secret. Who was she hiding, and why?
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In my opinion Democrats get nothing nothing NOTHING by betraying trans people. They hurt themselves with a good deal of their committed voter base, and still don’t get the Republican votes they are so fucking obsessed with winning over. Lose-lose! People hate voting for squishy moral cowards!!
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Gus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Kind of a lovely story with this one. Judith Moyers (you might know as creative partner/spouse of Bill Moyers, who passed last year) is now a first-time published poet at 91: www.texasobserver.org/poem-beware-...
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Poem: Beware the Perfect Day
Now is a perfect day, good and fresh, clear and bright...
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