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Katharine Klabusich

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
"This explanation convinced Mr. Hildebrand. He said that he would never bring one of his children to a hospital again and that “if anybody is going to try to force my kids to get the vaccines, they got something else coming.”
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The ghouls at RFKjr's old nonprofit, Children's Health Defense, invited the father of the 8-year-old who died of measles in Texas to congratulate himself for his great decision not to vaccinate her.
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Opinion | I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble.
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Katharine Klabusich @kattyautistic.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
If only he wasn’t anti gay. 🤷‍♀️ It would be fun to celebrate an international leader right now, but all this excitement about him does is for me is clarify how many people are performative on my right to exist.
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Trending - World @trendingworld.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Words from the last 30 minutes 🧭: 1. Trump 2. November ⬆ 3. Good morning 4. Steam ⬆ 5. Thursday 6. Nov 🆕 7. Paris 🆕 8. Donald 🆕 9. Emails 10. Grand 🆕 Ad: @terraprotege.bsky.social.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/11/2025
For context: abcnews.go.com/Politics/eps...
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Epstein offered reporter photos of 'donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen': Email
Among the more than 20,000 Epstein documents released by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday are several email exchanges Jeffrey Epstein.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/11/2025
In *2015* NYT reporter Landon Thomas Jr. had emails from Epstein alleging he had dirt on Donald--photos and accounts of him canoodling with and ogling young girls. Given all that's transpired in the last decade, it seems like journalistic malpractice that we're only seeing this now.
Epstein then replied to Thomas in a series of emails over the next two hours -- in his typical error-ridden style -- first suggesting that Thomas look into Trump's finances before pivoting to more personal subjects. 

In one email, Epstein writes: "would you like photso [sic] of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen." Thomas replied, "Yes!!"

It's unclear whether Epstein possessed such photos or if he ever sent the reporter any photos.

In another email, Epstein suggested that reporters "ask my houseman about donad [sic] almost walking through the door leaving his nose print on the glass as young women were swimming in the pool and he was so focused he walked straight into the door."
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13/11/2025
There's a virtual event for journalists who cover trans issues being offered by @objectivejournos.bsky.social tomorrow. @valorievandieman.bsky.social interviewed the organizer and wrote about the event and its goals for Assigned Media today. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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What Future for Trans Media? — Assigned
An upcoming event for trans journalists hopes to provide a touchstone for media workers caught in the malestrom.
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Laurie Bertram Roberts-Abortion Pills Are Safe @smartstatistic.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Katharine Klabusich @kattyautistic.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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kodinla.bsky.social @kodinla.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This is DoorDash’s “Breakfast Basics Index,” which tracks only 4 items: three eggs, a glass of milk, a bagel & an avocado & excludes coffee, bacon, bread & OJ, all of which have gone up in price this year. They cherry-picked a quirky DoorDash metric and spun it as proof of an economic turnaround.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
i knew it would be bad but i didn’t know it would be comically bad newrepublic.com/post/203018/...

THE NEW REPUBLIC

Trump Finally Reveals His Health Care Plan-and It's Bad
Donald Trump should take his concepts of a plan back to the drawing board.
Edith Olmsted
November 11, 2025 / 10:48 a.m. ET"I want instead of going to the insurance companies, I want the money to go into an account for people, where the people buy their own health insurance. It's so good.
The insurance will be better. It'll cost less.
Everybody's gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs," Trump said during a Fox News interview Monday night. "They're actually gonna be able to go out and negotiate their own health insurance. And they can use it only for that reason, that's the beauty-only for that purpose.
"Call it Trumpcare, call it whatever you want to call it. Anything but Obamacare.
Obamacare is a disaster, just like he was as a president," he added.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Jeffries: We are not going to be lectured by anyone on the other side of the aisle about fiscal responsibility when the bill that you just passed is the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation ever…
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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
You are not "difficult" or "stubborn" or pathologically "hyper independent" for having conflicted or negative feelings about reaching out for help. You're responding to your conditioning & experiences that actually happened. Don't let yourself be shamed for normal reflexes.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/11/2025
This is going to be a big old thread where I dump thoughts, reactions, charts etc from the @iea.org World Energy Outlook 2025 :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkP... www.iea.org/commentaries...
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World Energy Outlook 2025
YouTube video by International Energy Agency
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Katharine Klabusich @kattyautistic.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Direct link — bit.ly/3WY4Ws6 — and QR code for my #SNAPgap needs list. The longest #shutdown in US history means empty cupboards for people who already barely scrape by. Even if the administration relents, it takes time for that $ to get to states & more to hit EBT cards. #SaveSNAP #FoodJustice
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Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
6 Nov 2025 -- Lost in the news last night, a small PA town elects state's first transgender mayor. Eria Deuso of Downington (30 miles west of Philly) won 64% to 35% over her Rep. rival. Can the statehouse be far away? @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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This small Pennsylvania town just elected the state's first-ever out transgender mayor
Eria Deuso has become the first out transgender mayor in Pennsylvania.
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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 06/11/2025
very happy to have two works on view in Rochester, New York as part of MX. MEDIA at Flower City Arts! this exhibition is a partnership with Image Out and features one hundred works from queer artists around the U.S. - opens this friday, November 7th and runs through December 5th, 2025!
pink, white and black graphic 

MX. MEDIA
JURIED BY COMMITTEE

OPENING RECEPTION NOV 7TH 6-9PM 713 MONROE AVE 
ROCHESTER NY
FIREHOUSE GALLERY

IMAGE OUT
FLOWER CITY ARTS CENTER
FIRST FRIDAYabstract paper collage, fiery gem-like warm colorsbrightly colored abstract collage
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Should women have rights? We go through the pros and cons bsky.app/profile/jess...
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🍉Reborn Ruffian🌟 (She/Her) @reburnruffian12.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Republicans: Solar energy can’t make enough electricity! Meanwhile, Australia:
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 06/11/2025
Evanston mayor @danielbiss.bsky.social is launching investigations into reports of immigration agents brutalizing community members. “They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason.”
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Mari 🏳️‍⚧️ @mariposaeldridge.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The corrupt and wealthy 1% is terrified by a socialist being elected, so they are using their puppets to shout "antisemitism", hoping to kneecap Mamdani before he makes any changes.
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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 06/11/2025
Oh well that fixes it
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Running against a bad, unpopular president doing bad, unpopular things works. Thinking a bad, unpopular president is not worth talking about—one narrow election is forever, he’s magic, no one cares—is ridiculous. Shouldn’t need saying, but here we are, so it’s good @gregsargent.bsky.social does.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
It’s not that 2025 voters demanded wokeness, it’s that making politics all about wokeness is absurd. The winners ran on affordability and freedom. Candidates that ran on bigotry (Cuomo, Earle-Sears) got wrecked. If we must put it in these terms, the public is anti-anti-woke. State repression bad.
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Democrats Sweep 2025 Elections, 2024 Narratives Crumble
In state and local elections, American voters repudiated Donald Trump's presidency, and disproved claims of a lasting right-wing cultural shift
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
"Trump canceled your flight" is about as easy as messaging gets.
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FAA reducing air traffic by 10% across 40 'high-volume' markets during government shutdown
The Federal Aviation Administration announced Wednesday that it will reduce air traffic by 10% across 40 “high-volume” markets beginning Friday morning to maintain safety during the ongoing government...
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The last Republican in Maryland's congressional delegation www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...
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Andy Harris’ district will feel the pain if Obamacare tax credits expire
In Maryland's largest counties, 128,000 people take advantage of the tax credits for insurance through the Affordable Care Act. But it's Maryland's smallest, poorest counties where the impact will be ...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Good piece. The... I'm not sure if "more serious" is right, but the version of it Vance and others more openly advocate... is this crackpot idea of giving extra votes to parents, which I wrote about @theunpopulist.net. Nominally that wouldn't discriminate by sex, but it's unabashedly patriarchal.
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JD Vance's Weird Plan to Disenfranchise Childless Cat Ladies
His proposal to give parents more votes won't protect minor children, only dilute the political power of a group he doesn't like
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
oh my god they actually did it lmao
Fox News chyron: by winning, democrats are actually losing
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Trump says we are preparing to invade Nigeria. Apparently that’s what voters said they wanted in the exit polls. Trump: “We’re going to do things to Nigeria that Nigeria’s not gonna be happy about. Guns-a-blazin!”
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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
not an isolated incident btw, gates is just generally an annoying guy who pretends to know math reminds me of how elon musk fakes knowing linear algebra and openly tells people who disagree with him that they're just scripted NPCs. billionaires are probably all like this to some degree
TS: One of the interesting things in the last couple of years in the in the media story around Bill Gates is that a former director of Microsoft, Maria Klawe a last I checked, she was president of Harvey Mudd College, I think in the United States. She’s a mathematician. And she came out about her experience serving on the board of directors with Microsoft, and talked about the infuriating experience of working with Bill Gates because he was so opposed to outside ideas, like increasing diversity at Microsoft, for example, bringing in other female leaders. But she talked about this idea about Gates intelligence and saying that Bill Gates really believes that he is one of the smartest people in the world. But she talked about having conversations — she’s a PhD mathematician with Bill Gates, who dropped out of college, about mathematics. And she talked about how Bill Gates would assert the expertise that he had on mathematics and talk about the whole field of mathematics and an authoritative way, in ways that were just wrong, and that she knew or were wrong, because she herself was an actual authority on mathematics. He doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.But he has a sense of self in terms of his intelligence in terms of his IQ. He I think at this point in his life, he surrounds himself, or is surrounded by people who are constantly genuflecting into him trying to either get his money or his attention, because he’s such a powerful and wealthy figure. There is this idea the emperor has no clothes, whether by design or whether just unwittingly it’s happened. I don’t know that Bill Gates exposes himself to really outside criticism are critical points of views. I don’t know that he understands how much of his charitable work today is really engulfed in criticism, including by the very people he claims to help who are now explicitly publicly asking the Gates Foundation to stop helping because they’re doing so much harm. But I do think to your point that, yes, I think Bill Gates really does have an inflated sense of his intelligence. And that really is a driving feature in the work that he does.
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Katharine Klabusich @kattyautistic.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Someone get my 7th grade algebra teacher stat.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Wild that @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social didn’t think this energy was important to get behind. #zohranfornyc
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 06/11/2025
fucking finallly
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply
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Katharine Klabusich @kattyautistic.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Direct link — bit.ly/3WY4Ws6 — and QR code for my #SNAPgap needs list. The longest #shutdown in US history means empty cupboards for people who already barely scrape by. Even if the administration relents, it takes time for that $ to get to states & more to hit EBT cards. #SaveSNAP #FoodJustice
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Veronica @veronicaeye.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Far Northside! There's an in person 🧊 watch & community defense training on Saturday. Scan QR code to register. Training is being organized by West Ridge neighbors with assistance from Protect Rogers Park. Childcare available & interpretation available in Spanish and Urdu. Wheelchair accessible.
West Ridge ICE Watch & Community Defense Training 

WHERE: Rogers Elementary 7345 N Washtenaw Ave, Chicago, IL 60645
WHEN: Saturday, November 8th arrive at 10:45am, training from 11am - 1pm

Training is being organized by West Ridge neighbors with assistance from Protect Rogers Park
Childcare available & interpretation available in Spanish and Urdu. Wheelchair accessible.

Register at https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/Cek-vbASVxfzs9tXyYGgPQfolKqWuNnzFy3semZbwP4/
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 05/11/2025
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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Katharine Klabusich @kattyautistic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Sure this seems super normal.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/11/2025
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"OpenAI Inc.’s failure to shield internal communications about pirated books from copyright plaintiffs threatens to expose the company to billions in damages and potentially debilitating sanctions." news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/opena...
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OpenAI Risks Billions as Court Weighs Privilege in Copyright Row
OpenAI Inc.'s failure to shield internal communications about pirated books from copyright plaintiffs threatens to expose the company to billions in damages and potentially debilitating sanctions.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 05/11/2025
Bolts reported this fall on the effects this measure could have had on older voters and those with disabilities in the state.
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A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine
Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots. This would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 05/11/2025
RESULT: Maine voters reject Question 1, a ballot measure that would have implemented a barrage of new voting restrictions, especially for mail voting.
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