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Amanda Katz

@katzish.bsky.social
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Writer and editor. Host of the newsletter Porch Party (sign up! porchpartynews.com). Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent. Bostonian by birth, New Yorker by disposition, currently in DC.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14m
Have never seen this before—a real message in a bottle from the era of physical media
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1h
OTOH, in some cases dudes rock www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6_FUa...
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Ben & Ming | NYC Creators on Instagram: "My friend’s go-to Chinese takeout order is four chicken wings, pork fried rice, no vegetables. So I had to take him on a Flushing food crawl 🥟 📍 Henan Feng W...
6,133 likes, 76 comments - bingbuzz on September 30, 2026: "My friend’s go-to Chinese takeout order is four chicken wings, pork fried rice, no vegetables. So I had to take him on a Flushing food crawl...
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
WARNING: Moose will try to diagnose what is wrong with your broken vehicle.
Road sign of smashed car and moose
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1h
This explains so much
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 4h
1938 ad for cardboard boxes goes way harder than it needs to
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Men Materials Methods
Coordinated for distinctive paperboard packaging
Container Corporation of America

A giant hand grasps three vector lines  and pills them down into an open box in a black and white poster
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2h
Also bears never try to lead an online mob of other bears to identify and torment bear victims
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 2h
This was the argument for why I had to stand when I was a cashier at a clothing store, and it didn't make me more attentive or hospitable. It just made my feet hurt so much that after my shift, I had to sit in the car for 15 minutes before I could stand to press the gas pedal
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2h
This is so random. Why? How would this improve the experience for travelers in any way?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4h
Breaking news: The Supreme Court said Tennessee can move forward with the execution of 50-year-old Christa Pike. The decision appears to extinguish the last possible reprieve for Pike, who as an 18-year-old helped carry out the murder of Colleen Slemmer in 1995.
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Supreme Court allows execution of Tennessee woman to proceed after delay
An appeals court had paused Christa Pike’s execution to consider her claim that sexual abuse she faced as a child should impact her punishment.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 8h
Strange. It seemed like everything was going so well
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 9h
I wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...
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The Most Unlovable Man in New York City
On being chronically single and my visit to the love psychic
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 9h
Look, we've all been there
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 9h
Bits of this are pretty good, though "Sometimes the constituent created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated, and due on the 15th."
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 10h
Mr. Cardamom comes through! This seems like a cool project—a hip-hop-themed public high school emphasizing music, history, entrepreneurship, art, technology, etc. More on it here www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11h
This is so good, how have I never seen this
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23h
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11h
Man, pretty intense to name a staffer dead of that. I mean, soon it'll be all of us, but still, way to get there first
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11h
Don't fraud me, bro
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h
Without trying to diagnose anything, it is clear that Trump has undergone significant physical and cognitive changes in the last few years and there must be a lot of compensations, aid, and workarounds happening to keep this plane in the air
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 13h
The newly competitive races & places this year are a necessary reminder that “battleground” is a dynamic term and it is rarely a waste of resources to invest in candidate recruitment and/or infrastructure in deep red places because you never fucking know!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12h
Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years halted
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Tennessee’s first execution of a woman in 200 years halted
The state governor and supreme court earlier refused calls for clemency for Christa Pike, who was convicted of murder
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h
With support from the Trump administration, parents are putting their children’s lives at risk by leaving them unvaccinated for measles and giving them raw milk. Genuinely shocking people are willing to experiment on their babies like this
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 15h
This young woman, just 21, has already been driven out of the state. Another guy in this story has young kids who only know him as Dad and can no longer take his son to the men’s room. Sensitive reporting (as always) by @caseyparks.bsky.social
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22h
This is actually great. The AI that prepared this clearly knows it would be safer to give Trump his own special country, the Unites States, while someone else runs the USA
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ok I mean that could be literally anything
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I need this duets album
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We just got distributed a second cat through the system so are all set, but maybe you’re in the DC area and looking for two tiny cuties?
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you are invited to her gallery opening
A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Missed this Greg Sargent joint exploring options to shut down or curtail Stephen Miller’s ethnic cleansing office within State, should Democrats retake the House
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Juniper Tree 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To *default* to trafficking US residents, with jobs and families here and mostly no criminal record, to third countries, in what has been found by lower courts to be an illegal policy, seems insane. There is no pressing need for this
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just one of your facedown frozen American lake children that you see sometimes. The billionaires’ children are not facedown on a frozen lake, just sayin’
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That second sentence is doing QUITE a lot of work
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Student journalists at both Dartmouth and Cornell absolutely leading the coverage right now
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait, the cult-like, billionaire-pushed school that has driven kids to mental health breakdowns and that families have fled in droves? Read the Wired story about it here www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not to generalize, but it’s hard to overemphasize the extent to which many Americans are just Done with Bullshit
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tfw you’re deeply in touch with the audience
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you making more than $-8 billion??? Well congrats, you’re outearning Anthropic! (Yes, that is NEGATIVE eight billion, I’m almost sure you’re doing better)
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seems legit
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 28/09/2026
We've all heard about that NYT poll showing Collins with a 3-point lead. That's an outlier. Nearly every other recent poll shows Jackson with a small lead, and, to this point, none of them fully reflects the impact of the ProPublica exposé.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Look, if their definition of "healthy" includes "unnecessarily giving your newborn brain damage from measles" it might also include "letting accused rapists ask panel questions"
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really can't get excited by "Choosin' Texas" or by arguing over it. It's fine. I was irritated the last line of the chorus isn't "He's choosin' Texas over me," which would close out the rhyme scheme more effectively than the half-assed "by myself/I can tell," but then I'm not the one printing $$$
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it’s so funny that people were like “OMG a 2PM Oval Office announcement, is Trump going to end the war in Iran or invade Cuba?!?!” and it turns out, no, he’s just going to rant about how good the economy is + how elections are rigged and then fall asleep
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