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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 · 6h
“my friend who is a genius” sounds like hyperbole but in this case is just factual
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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 10h
“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h
It was really high-level
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h
Not joking. I see a very bright career ahead for this completely unnerving child
Halloween display on a stoop including a haunting lizard-headed homunculus who once in a while would suddenly move
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h
I did then find myself having to explain both lizard people and conspiracy theories in general
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 8h
Met a terrifying lizard-headed mini man today that I initially thought was an animatronic part of a family‘s very ambitious Halloween display but which, the mom confided, was actually her son. Unbelievable game for 10 or 12 years old. My kids walked an extra mile to try to see him again after dinner
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 8h
As a 48-year-old, I absolutely believe this. There has never not been Raffi and I am now raising baby belugas of my own
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 20h
Guy down the street, but it’s a pretty long line to talk to him
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22h
That’s lovely
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 10/10/2026
"Oscar-winner Alex Gibney’s 4-hour documentary about Elon Musk may be the most important film of the year." www.rogerebert.com/reviews/elon...
rogerebert.com
Musk review: Alex Gibney shows Elon, warts and all (mostly warts)
May be the most important film of the year.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 23h
I like this. Sometimes one poem (or book, song, piece of art) can unlock you
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It’s now illegal to be mean to AI agents OR not to give them a visa to your country
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I honestly don’t know. Clearly they don’t think so
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
this execution by firing squad is brought to you by crypto dot com
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a pretty bad argument when you’re setting up a two-tiered racist police state and have gotten a Supreme Court justice to argue that racial profiling for this purpose is fine. The man isn’t “doing” anything besides not being part of your racially denoted uberclass
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I would remain white at all times
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Power Rangers Pyramid Explosion
Alt: Power Rangers Pyramid 💥
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is great. A city trying to break off a tiny piece of AI to regulate given the federal government’s total lack of interest in any related rules or laws
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Every relationship needs a collector and a WTFer
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It probably doesn’t help that the whole white extremist/Jan 6 watchlist got dumped into the ICE hiring roster
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“No crime, however grave, justifies genocide. To respond to atrocity with atrocity is to abandon the very values international law was created to protect.”
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“The attorney general’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan.”
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/10/2026
Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay for her efforts to ensure that war crimes and genocide are prosecuted.
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Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner, Wins
Ms. Pillay, a South African lawyer, led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ok now you sound like my wife. COLLECT them
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Can’t believe I’m missing this
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Loved ones of USS Abraham Lincoln’s crew were reunited with their Sailors nearly 11 months after seeing them last. Among them, 122 new fathers who met their children for the first time. 🎥: Alison Bath
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/10/2026
NEW: The Trump Administration has denied our request for emergency assistance after storms in August. Our communities are still picking up the pieces, but this President is playing politics instead. Illinois will keep fighting to help our people recover and rebuild.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes. What's going on here is incredibly unpopular
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
People do not like the back-to-1650-but-with-LLMs thing
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We are ruled by neo-confederate losers who are so miserably fucking stupid that they can’t even do slavery right
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ship 'em in, ship 'em back (or wherever)
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And you have to call the large language models "superintelligence" or you get one of the public executions
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Like a land of white male landowners and serfs, and no science or medicine except for large language models
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ships transporting people of color to prison colonies in chains? Public executions? A time before disease innoculation? Increasingly, the "great again" year Trump is trying to reset to sounds like it's in the 17th century
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Some people really didn’t absorb that message
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I did like how she kept telling him “not to paper it” in writing, and then they would paper it some more
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WSJ from yesterday with sharp reporting on what seem to be plain old bribery demands from Guilfoyle, unfortunately exposed when the guy being solicited didn’t feel he was getting enough for his money www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
wsj.com
Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Paul Collins @paulcollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WSJ, bringing the receipts: “[Ambassador Guilfoyle] reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed AmEx - in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail…. She warned Deters repeatedly not to commit talk of money or payments to text.”
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i loved doing this interview with kara and justine!
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Jesus. Wishing safety to everyone there
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If you don’t adopt “fetch,” you are literally the enemy of the state and we will rip you limb from limb
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If he’s behind in the polls, this may escalate to him denouncing his own kids
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think he’s really upset about Anne Carson winning. It should have been Lee Greenwood
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the ultimate in trying to make fetch happen. Linguists are going to dine out for YEARS
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thinking about this again (Anne Carson, Red Doc>)
So much 
human cruelty is simply 
incidental is simply
brainless. Simply no 
common sense. You could 
take the entirety of the 
common sense of humans 
and put it in the palm of 
your hand and still have 
room for your dick.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/10/2026
Together, the Bulwark community raised $575,000 for the Haitian Support Center, helping it provide basic necessities and support to families under enormous strain. Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible.
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