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Kristen Richardson

@kristenrichardson.bsky.social
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Author of The Season: A Social History of the Debutante (W.W. Norton: 2019). Repped by the Wylie Agency. American/British writer, wanderer, gardener, leisurely city cyclist, and currently a farm restorer.

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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Managing the onslaught of full-bore stupidity is really tiring.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My only relative in Arlington is my great-great-grandfather, an admiral who became widely known in the 1920s for a scathing article criticizing what he saw as the Navy's excessive, inefficient spending, so I hope he haunts the living shit out of these sociopaths.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Richie Neal is the worst and I voted for Whalen, but this county is filled with extremely old white people who like to talk about “experience” so idk. I hope Whalen pulls it out.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
100% huge fucking loser And Moulton was the one with the old man views in the race.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Being against bike lanes is the number one red flag there’s deeper, darker views a person holds that we just don’t know about
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I don't know what caused this but I could get on board with the thing about bike lanes
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Sarah Goodyear @sgoodyear.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The culture of violence in the United States is normalized by automotivity
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/02/2026
You gotta admit, the staffers in the background keeping it real are the best part.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
What’s currently on my needles:
A knitting project in process—a hat that says “fuck ice”
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
People have critiqued this as performative, but there‘s a long tradition of radicalism in fiber arts and this shop has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from pattern sales. So maybe stop and rethink that “performative” with gender bias in mind. www.nytimes.com/2018/03/14/t...
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Some of the Most Provocative Political Art is Made With Fibers (Published 2018)
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
the nyt style section vs. der spiegel
The New York Times
When a Coat Becomes a Symbol of Conflict
How the choice of outerwear for Gregory Bovino, the president’s Border Patrol chief, turned into part of the deportation story.Gregory Bovino
Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look
Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It would be hard to convince me that the title "children's pastor" is not a confession.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
May their lawsuits bring the college to its knees
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/12/2025
Facebook made an algorithm that gave Boomers whatever they wanted, and they destroyed democracy, and then all those FB product managers went over to OpenAI and made ChatGPT, and now they've made a chatbot that tells Boomers whatever they want to hear, and... well, this should go great.
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CaptainChihuahua @captainchihuahua.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This is a great example that the US president is a lunatic. Listen carefully 🙈
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.BBC
'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed
Emily Atkinson
Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST
2 min read

A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed.

Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat.

Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
There's no bigger loser
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 05/11/2025
"we love new york city," lies cuomo in his concession speech
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
+1 we all deserve this
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Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I think a controlled burn of this space would usher in A Time of National Healing™ just sayin
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I want freedom from religion more than I could possibly express
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 01/10/2025
I wrote about The Hunting Wives, Erotic MAGA, and the literally libidinal appeal of fascism for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World
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A high heel, jammed into a human mouth, forever
Sean T. Collins on The Hunting Wives
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/09/2025
A bunch of toxic LA NIMBYs are whining about SB 79, the amazing housing bill the CA legislature passed recently. It's on the governor's desk, and reportedly he's getting cold feet. Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, please have some spine on the most important issue in your state. Just sign it.
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Homeowners denounce SB 79 vote - Beverly Press & Park Labrea News
Legislation awaits governor’s signature
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Thinking about Hitler gathering his Wehrmacht commanders for the famous Obersalzberg speech a week before invading Poland in 1939 . . . like do we really need to say it's "unclear" why they did this when they accounced an invasion of US cities?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This hearing has me at the END of my sanity. The END.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Media discovering groypers for the first time reminds me of when they first encountered incels. Those of us who study misogyny or followed Gamergate had been screaming about incel culture and violence for years. Coverage of hate groups is far too reactive.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
RFK Jr on his way to help Rudy Giuliani
Police car that reads “Poliolice” on the side
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...
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Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Cuomo is a suburban boomer who does not belong here
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I want my EU citizenship back so badly. I think about it all the time.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I really hope the attacks on Mamdani galvanize New Yorkers to put the Democratic Machine in NY to bed forever. They are trash and we've always deserved to have our progressive values reflected in leadership.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Musk has adjusted Grok’s algorithm so it’s now a neo-Nazi. Pretty cool that almost every progressive commentator, elected official and organization still uses Musk’s X algorithm to communicate with the public! Good job guys.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The relief I am feeling omg
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
25-point polling error across the board for the first round of voting.
Dozens of polls that showed Cuomo up on average about 15 points.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
god same.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This seems to be the correct answer. The dads idolize men like Trump and the sons follow their dads. We are looking for a “crisis” among young men but i think its actually middle aged men who have gone insane because many of us never really grew up bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I hope y'all are following what's happening in Maine, because it does seem like there is mounting evidence that simply telling Trump "no" is an effective strategy. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/30/t...
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Trump's Throwing Everything at Maine | Washington Monthly
Governor Janet Mills offended the president’s delicate sensibilities and thus began a war on this bucolic corner of New England.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I mean this is my dream
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Idk how we do anything meaningful without a full clearing of the decks in Congress, leaving, like, forty people.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The hoods should go back to their original white.
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Ian Ayres is the Yale law professor who ticked the box on the PSAT for people interested in being considered for an award as the nation’s top Black student so yeah he is a troll
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Kristen Richardson @kristenrichardson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
There's a woman in a friend's local FB group who is passing off paint-by-numbers paintings as her own art and has been talking about "her process" and what's driven her to art and she is on the verge of getting busted and it is giving me life.
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
~129,000 people have moved out of abortion-banned states since Dobbs. Researchers say this "highlights that reproductive healthcare access has a measurable effect on residential decisions," which... seems entirely reasonable seeing as these laws are life-threatening. @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social
jezebel.com
New Research Shows People Are Moving Out of Abortion-Banned States
Almost 129,000 people have moved out of abortion-banned states since Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, according to a new study.
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