Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 6h“my friend who is a genius” sounds like hyperbole but in this case is just factual 030
Reposted by Amanda KatzRachel 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.theguardian.comControversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-BissauRecommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers 671385621
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7hNot joking. I see a very bright career ahead for this completely unnerving child 1571
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7hI did then find myself having to explain both lizard people and conspiracy theories in general 010
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 8hMet 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 5421
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 8hAs a 48-year-old, I absolutely believe this. There has never not been Raffi and I am now raising baby belugas of my own 4643
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 20hGuy down the street, but it’s a pretty long line to talk to him 130
Reposted by Amanda KatzRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course 603339625
Reposted by Amanda KatzDr 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.comMusk review: Alex Gibney shows Elon, warts and all (mostly warts)May be the most important film of the year. 4357102
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 23hI like this. Sometimes one poem (or book, song, piece of art) can unlock you 1344
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It’s now illegal to be mean to AI agents OR not to give them a visa to your country 0280
Reposted by Amanda Katzmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026this execution by firing squad is brought to you by crypto dot com 351495197
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This 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 2587
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026static.klipy.comPower Rangers Pyramid ExplosionAlt: Power Rangers Pyramid 💥 0170
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This 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 1325
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It probably doesn’t help that the whole white extremist/Jan 6 watchlist got dumped into the ICE hiring roster 04410
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.” 18719
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.” 516259
Reposted by Amanda KatzAlexander 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.” 6411111
Reposted by Amanda KatzThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/10/2026Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay for her efforts to ensure that war crimes and genocide are prosecuted.nyti.msNobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner, WinsMs. 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. 48760191
Reposted by Amanda KatzStars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Loved 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 46822
Reposted by Amanda KatzAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I 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... 8650921849
Reposted by Amanda KatzGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/10/2026NEW: 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. 23700220
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026People do not like the back-to-1650-but-with-LLMs thing 1356
Reposted by Amanda KatzAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026We are ruled by neo-confederate losers who are so miserably fucking stupid that they can’t even do slavery right 220727
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And you have to call the large language models "superintelligence" or you get one of the public executions 0250
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Like a land of white male landowners and serfs, and no science or medicine except for large language models 1251
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Ships 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 47724
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I did like how she kept telling him “not to paper it” in writing, and then they would paper it some more 130
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026WSJ 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.comExclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex AccountText messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece. 1291
Reposted by Amanda KatzPaul Collins @paulcollins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026WSJ, 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.”wsj.comExclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex AccountText messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece. 06710
Reposted by Amanda KatzAlex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026i loved doing this interview with kara and justine! 74712
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you don’t adopt “fetch,” you are literally the enemy of the state and we will rip you limb from limb 3262
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If he’s behind in the polls, this may escalate to him denouncing his own kids 2272
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think he’s really upset about Anne Carson winning. It should have been Lee Greenwood 1190
Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is the ultimate in trying to make fetch happen. Linguists are going to dine out for YEARS 51369
Reposted by Amanda KatzThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 08/10/2026Together, 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. 645887