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Rambling & (re)tired

@katsugg.bsky.social
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Academic (quasi-retired), writer, native Texan, aspiring elderly rock climber. “Professional feminist” (per MAGA bio fam). Pubs and interests: media and lit, politics, gender, race, liberalism, the Americas; what’s funny, what’s not.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Jesus Christ. Run your own fucking campaign how you want. But don't go out of your way to give Republicans ammo against Democrats running in other districts. Such stupid assholes.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Private Equity Now Owns 1 in 8 Apartment Units, a 50 Percent Increase Since 2021 Private equity’s expansion into housing comes at the same time as Americans are increasingly struggling to afford rent. truthout.org/articles/pri...
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Private Equity Now Owns 1 in 8 Apartment Units, a 50 Percent Increase Since 2021
Private equity’s expansion into housing comes at the same time as Americans are increasingly struggling to afford rent.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/05/2026
There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.
Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.
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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Good piece, but doesn’t quite say clearly that Dem leadership is on the oligarch/financial system side, as it ever was. Still, “The VRA was the nice version. The version that said: here’s a door, it’s open, your voice has weight, use it. They’ve closed the door. They closed it on purpose...”
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The very definition of an inside job: Trump’s own Justice Dept is pondering settling a case with Trump that he filed against his own IRS. Raw grifting. With taxpayers’ money. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
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Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
It’s worth noting that, absent further intervention by SCOTUS, VRA §2 claims can still succeed post-Callais if the plaintiffs can show discriminatory intent by lawmakers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/04/2026
The fact that people try to shoot Trump or any politician is not evidence that they stand for anything of value. Voters fell under the spell of a bizarre hypnotism in 2024 following Butler and now we’re enduring the consequences.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Hearing the head of the WHCA—who just days ago participated in a Paramount dinner “honoring” Trump— say tonight that the First Amendment is “fragile” because of a random shooter rather than because of the president sitting next to her on the podium is, I guess, exactly as pathetic as you’d expect.
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
You either have bodily autonomy, or you don't. You don't get to decide one group of people shouldn't have bodily autonomy without the justifications and mechanisms used to strip that autonomy being immediately used to strip bodily autonomy from others. Either we all have it or none of us do.
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Harold Kimball @kimballharoldf.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Enron - Complex scheme to cook books. SoftCard - We invented 1.9bn out of thin air. Krafton - Listen to ChatGPT's advice on how to commit fraud. even the crime is getting dumber.
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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So ashamed.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2026
The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it. 15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/02/2026
Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
They aren’t deescalating anything. They’re claiming new extra-constitutional powers. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
What we found is bleak. Attorneys told us they’re struggling to get information in to or out of ICE and Customs and Border Protection facilities, which are holding nearly 69,000 people this month. And detainees often are forced to choose between remaining in crowded, squalid conditions or leaving the country immediately.

Judges in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have ordered the government to facilitate attorney-client communications at Homeland Security buildings. But attorneys say that doesn’t always happen. Even if detainees get the option, some worry they’ll be punished if they take it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/01/2026
no no no no, not her. www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...
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Catherine O'Hara Dead at 71
Catherine O'Hara -- famous for her work in "Schitt's Creek," "Home Alone," and "Best In Show" -- is dead ... TMZ has learned.
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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Hope Dem leadership understands this only counts if they do not cave—they must refuse to fund DHS and ICE on Friday!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This is “Operation PARRIS,” a top reason that DHS is in Minneapolis. The goal is to arrest 5,600 lawfully present refugees and take them to detention centers in Texas to be interrogated about their status. There is NO investigation first. They are arresting everyone; grab first, question later.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I WANT MORE ELECTED DEMS TO SAY "future prosecution of ICE agents."
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 24/01/2026
Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Rare to see discusson of the point @jamellebouie.net makes here. "Most coverage of Trump treats him as president in a functional way, even if he doesn’t perform the civic duties of the office." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o... Rather than designing coverage for a cateory of one — the mad king...1/
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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Very cool—thanks for the update! Today I got gassed by the federal government two times within a few blocks of my house
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account. What the fuck are we doing here?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/11/2025
While pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life. Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.
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“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Random TV observation: it’s kinda cool how Matlock has consistently raised the possibility that the adorable Kathy Bates main character as a lawyer/grieving parent might be a sociopath.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/11/2025
“When asked on the earnings call how high the total tracked population could go, GEO Group executives were bullish.” “‘I don’t know. How high is high?’ Zoley asked rhetorically. ‘We’re the largest monitoring company in the world.’”
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GEO Group Sees Ankle Monitor Growth in Trump Immigration Push
GEO Group Inc., one of the largest private prison operators, said President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown eventually will fill up detention facilities and force the government to use more elect...
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Let's all keep pretending the forces behind this are just 'concerned parents with reasonable questions' rather than deranged bigots
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/10/2025
Abolish ICE.
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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Democrats paying a ton of money to a bunch of consultants who think it’s still 2008 to come up with new campaign strategies instead of just listening to this guy is…a choice
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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
If you‘re saying „we just need to train it more“ - we can‘t. We‘ve reached the stage of enshittification. The web has been flooded with incestuous data. And that‘s after it crawled all of your work illegally.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/10/2025
Q: Can the president tear down anything he wants without oversight? Could he demolish this building or the Jefferson Memorial? LEAVITT: Only for vertical construction will a submission be required. Q: So it sounds like the answer is yes
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/10/2025
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Fortunately once SCOTUS says courts can't stop Trump from sending Texans to kill Oregonians the Democratic leadership will have some strong points about kitchen table issues
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Some things masks can’t hide.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military." The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.
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ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2025
Reminder that Trump campaigned on sending troops into American cities to take out "the enemy from within." Something to consider next time a pundit tells you the election was really about inflation.
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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
This debacle hits hard-had hoped TX higher ed could at least defend the 1st amendment…
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Important piece here. Democrats should investigate this fully. Bring Carr for hearings. He is openly publicizing how he apparently broke the law and used the FCC on behalf of Trump to exort ABC. newrepublic.com/article/2006...
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Trump’s Ouster of Jimmy Kimmel Is Much Worse Than You Think It Is
Anna Gomez, the FCC’s lone Democratic commissioner, tells TNR that chairman Brendan Carr’s move violates both the First Amendment and the Communications Act. Democrats must extract consequences.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 09/09/2025
New York's full-throated defense of this abortion provider is something that I wish we saw modeled across geographies, systems, and industries. The people and institutions who are best funded, most powerful, and most able to fight fascism absolutely must refuse to comply, in advance or otherwise.
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New York attorney general joins landmark legal battle over out-of-state abortion provider
Letitia James will help defend New York’s shield law against a challenge from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Crushing. (exhausted and infuriated yet again by how terrible this country is becoming, and is already)
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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Public schools (like everything else) are an endangered species
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/07/2025
A Texas woman was sent home from an emergency room twice during a miscarriage last year. She ultimately needed a blood transfusion to save her life. “What happened to me was just so wrong,” she said. By Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and @andreasuozzo.com
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After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I do hope that Lia Thomas is surrounded by people who see how grotesque and sadistic this humiliation of her is, and feel angry on her behalf.
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