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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Am confused --no way you are that gullible. Europe has had these protections from the beginning of data and internet security. It's so obviously a monetization question and why our (in the US ) data is simply up for sale.. nothing can be done🙄

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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Thank you for reminding us, truly. It's a piece of the whole project ...

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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This exactly! When it starts, I'm like I actually may hate this game...

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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Please take care of yourself, girl!! Am losing too many folks and you're a fucking star! Your insights have saved me multiple times since 2020 (ie when all turned to shit;)

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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Ok, good to know. Morocco just looked more skilled and invested and I like the deep colonial history part. Not sure which Fifa teams are clear re rape, sexism, abuse, etc tbh. ..

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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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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Am shocked at how much the delivery (the app?) and podcast itself suck. As a quasi-admiring reader+supporter of TNR, this shitshow of difficult interfaces, repetitive journalism, and omipresent AI voices (Sargent and guest sound pretty AI themselves tbh) are killing my vestigial faith in journalism

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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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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Hey, remember his big family machine gun xmas cards? Get a grip…these republican politicians (Massie, Cornyn, Collins, + whoever is still in office) are not ethical lines in the sand. Their presence in the party says it all..

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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Right?! Thank you for remembering and reminding wtf actually happened

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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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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Re the dove and John Kruk, reminds me of the brothers on my husband’s dude league team in Northern Cali (Livermore folk, guys in their 30s -40a mostly). They’d played with Johnson in high school and apparently it was insane—he often had no clue where the ball was going (at 100+mph;)

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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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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Aww;) Was told to advertise that I wrote a book (2 in the end) while teaching a 4/4 load (w a 5hr round trip commute) I had generational adv tbh, but many colleagues didn’t and also wrote great books & papers. But hate too that excellent teachers/ leaders are penalized if they don’t publish.

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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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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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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

God, I loved her—plus she was a major bond with my grandmother, perhaps oddly…Anyway, thank you for the reminder and the affirmation (thought only girls read her tbh;)

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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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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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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Not sure what minimum wage laws can do (believe in them fwiw) but am absolutely certain benign employers respecting and paying fairly for their workers’ labor will help! The system may die but we can try to do better in the meantime.

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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Thank you for working to raise the minimum wage and to make your campaign an equitable workplace. Seriously! But $25/ hr isn’t “thriving” and $20/hr is barely enough to support a person in most US housing markets, esp in places people want to live.

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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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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Thank you!! We need hope, almost as much as we need ethical votes

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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I pointed out that longheld standards of academic freedom as a constitutional 1st amendment right and possible cross-spectrum political wedge-could be proclaimed and institutions could plant their flag on protecting those freedoms for students and faculty alike. Still think that has legs fwiw…

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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I’ve had discussions with admin in the TAMU system, who know it is appalling and wrong. But they too are told to lie. So they try to hold onto some ethical academic standards without calling attention to their institutions. Authoritarianism indeed.

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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

How does an instructor and academic program not lie or misrepresent facts and established knowledge under the regime of surveillance, rules, and punishment the TAMU system has invoked? What happens to students who need and deserve this knowledge?

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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

In TX, most foundational truths (and data and feminist knowledge) in WGS have been declared illegal. Only 2 genders and 2 sexes, male and female and we know what that means, etc. No race, no queerness , no history. How does a prof “teach” with those constraints?

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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

So terrible —and so unsurprising. Hate this for TAMU, for students and faculty in Texas, and for what it foretells. But have been wondering what fac and programs should do when told to lie?

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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Thank you for remembering and documenting—these dumbfucks owe so much to the Supreme Court and others eager to enable their BS. SO many blank checks

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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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Rambling & (re)tired @katsugg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Sorry to hear —why I just didn’t call (i.e. no good option…)

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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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