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Kate Rothwell

@kroth.bsky.social
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I wrote books as Kate and also under the name Summer Devon

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h
A list of things Rebecca Good says USG has never returned after seizing the car she owned with Renee. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A list of items including last year's Halloween costume, 12-foot jumper cables, and a metal dog kennel.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 5h
Few moments ago, an unmarked car with two federal agents tried to leave the Allen Hosptial, NYPD helped clear the way as protesters attempted to block the road. Several happening nowZ
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 5h
killing people to entertain the masses www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 6h
ICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City
The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti...
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 8h
Duh. What's causing it is the threat of violence and abuse. Hello again, closet.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10h
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here is what you can do to help me: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tying health insurance to employment makes workers easier to exploit, bc when you get fired you don’t just lose your job, you might also die or go bankrupt…
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legal cat 🐾 @legalcat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
just extremely sad
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Curtis Flowers, wrongly imprisoned, enduring six trials, dead at 56
Curtis Flowers, a Black man whose six trials for murder in Mississippi became a landmark case for racial bias in jury selection, has died, according to the Montgomery County coroner.  Flowers …
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OPB @opb.org · 08/10/2026
A sharp rise in immigration arrests in broad daylight across the Portland metropolitan area is sparking fears among advocates that another federal operation could be underway. At least nine people were confirmed detained on Tuesday across Gresham, Troutdale and parts of eastern Portland.
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Sudden spike in immigration arrests around Portland metro spark fears of new surge
At least nine people were confirmed detained on Tuesday, according to immigrants’ rights advocates. Detentions resumed Wednesday in Washington County.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This your article? theonion.com
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 08/10/2026
Reminder: Trump’s FBI dismantled the team investigating Susan Collins 👀 The FBI was looking into whether Susan Collins helped a donor land Navy contracts in exchange for campaign cash. Then Trump took office and got rid of the team leading the investigation.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've played poker at dozens of casinos in my life, from the fanciest palaces in Las Vegas to crappy riverboats in the Midwest, and I can say that the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City was -- by a fucking mile -- the dirtiest, dingiest, cruddiest casino I have ever experienced in my life.
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Señor Sabelotodo @senorsabelotodo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Make America Pre-modern Again:
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Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mine in today’s @newyorker.com
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
UPDATE: holy shit. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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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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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 08/10/2026
The Postal Service is slowing delivery across the country. Will your mail ballot be affected? Find out if your ZIP code is affected by checking out our interactive map: demdock.com/4BcR5RR
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
She led a team of 100 The Woman Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions Has Died www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Will Smirk for Food (he/him) #FBR @smirk4food.com · 07/10/2026
ProPublica documented 506 U.S. citizens detained during Trump’s immigration crackdown, including at least 70 children and teens. DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake. The report lays out the cases, videos and court records. buff.ly/vT9Y7Kx
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump…
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I've been meaning to do a post, but all these pressers violate DOJ's pre-election rules, which Todd Blanche swore were sacrosanct when he represented someone charged over a year before an election.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The wrong platform for science
Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
In 2024, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed one of the country’s most extreme book-banning laws...a decision that’s now coming back to haunt him as he tries to get people to buy his own book. @smencimer.bsky.social reports: bit.ly/3TEJcnd
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 06/10/2026
Fox News told viewers that most people held at Delaney Hall had final deportation orders. The data showed 84 percent did not. Thanks to @johnknefel.bsky.social and @mmfa.bsky.social for checking Fox's "worst of the worst" claim against the data. mediamatters.org/immigration/f…
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Annnd he changes his mind AGAIN Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Trump Does Not Plan to Reimburse Taxpayers for Promotional Ads
A day after the president said his super PAC would pay for the ads, which had drawn bipartisan backlash, officials said that he meant moving forward. A new taxpayer-funded ad aired Tuesday.
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dang…wonder if they’ve tried this with famous/influential men? How to Destroy a Reputation in Hollywood, as Told in 5 Women’s Lawsuits www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
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How to Destroy a Reputation in Hollywood, as Told in 5 Women’s Lawsuits
Five women have said they were the targets of malicious public relations campaigns that were spearheaded by three influential players.
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
apnews.com/live/trump-m... so he changed his mind. Trump hasn't committed to reimbursing taxpayer funds spent on ads, White House official says</b>
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Live updates: Trump says his super PAC will pay for taxpayer-funded ads
Trump says his super PAC will pay for taxpayer-funded ads, Trump criticizes election officials in Arizona over ballot error, Trump approves firing squad for Fort Hood shooter.
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
apnews.com/live/trump-m... More than $11 million in taxpayer-funded pro-Trump ads have run so far
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Live updates: Trump says his super PAC will pay for taxpayer-funded ads
Trump says his super PAC will pay for taxpayer-funded ads, Trump criticizes election officials in Arizona over ballot error, Trump approves firing squad for Fort Hood shooter.
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bought for millions more than their market price Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left (Gift Article)
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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🫥😵‍💫😶🫡🫣 @cricket31415.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Has anyone seen thst thry passed as act to RENAME social security last week??!? I just learned of this - www.asppa-net.org/news/2026/10...
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Congress Gives its OK to Renaming Social Security Claiming Ages
The Senate on Sept. 29 passed The Claiming Age Clarity Act, a measure that would rename the Social Security claiming ages and would require the Social Security Administration to update accompanying la...
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FanOfWalt @fanofwalt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is how this admin treats our own military. Imagine how it’s treating kidnapped immigrants. bsky.app/profile/raws...
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Army Lt. Col. Arturo Lincón was hit by shrapnel that damaged an artery supplying blood to his brain and put him at risk of a stroke, the AP reported. Rather than being admitted to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, he was sent to Army barracks and "told to schedule outpatient appointments,"
AP reported.
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 06/10/2026
if you're angry about Megyn Kelly being a disgusting rape apologist, instead of just hoping she steps on a rake that smashes her teeth out, consider this:
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VoteVets @votevets.org · 05/10/2026
When an Iranian drone struck Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, on March 1st, there were no sirens, no air defenses, and no plan to care for the wounded. Six American service members were killed that day, and the ones who survived are now speaking out. They all deserve better. apnews.com/article/iran...
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Exclusive: Soldiers and Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly Iranian drone strike
U.S. troops wounded in a drone attack that killed six soldiers in Kuwait question Army leadership over safety and say the military medical system failed them.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump wants the NYT to be arrested over their reporting on his empty rally seats. Sorry sir, this isn't North Korea, just yet.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dispatch from southwest Florida, where I watched ICE and Border Patrol work with local cops as they arrested hundreds of immigrants.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Donald Trump tweeting "USA STRONG!" and someone quoting "Jar Jar Binks after seeing you bench press 250lbs"
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Um, no thanks
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ah Romancelandia. I miss it sometimes but then again. #RareLondon Why authors are saying, nope, naw. Uh no. ilona-andrews.com/blog/going-t...
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Going to London. Not Going to RARE. - ILONA ANDREWS
You know things are bad when the "Zen" butterfly header shows up. A first time convention organizer made an LGBTQI+ book event in Melbourne, Australia. The event coincided in some way with RARE Austra...
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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Voters having the memory of a goldfish when it comes to the horror of right wing authoritarianism is super not good
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Florida's state government has been under continuous Republican control since 1999, spanning roughly 27 years.
Social media post:
[image of Byron Donalds speaking at a podium]
"We're going to lower insurance premiums 20% in the state of
Florida."
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Another happy wealthy criminal pardoned by Trump. Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Formerly black dog
Grey muzzled old one-eyed dog with a glimpse of teeth
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
1. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I really wish the world’s most dangerous, extreme anti-vaccine activist & conspiracy theorist, RFK Jr, who is a eugenicist & a MAHA dude who repeatedly peddles vile lies, had not been put in charge of the US health system Here he is telling truly horrific, dangerous lies about HPV & COVID vaccines
RFK Jr saying that the HPV vaccine increases the risk of cervical cancer & the Covid vaccine increases the risk of Covid—these are 2 dangerous lies
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Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org · 03/10/2026
Do not miss this: the incomparable @rickhasen.bsky.social, interviewed by the incomparable @micahloewinger.bsky.social for @onthemedia.bsky.social: “Trump’s Guide to Stealing an Election.” www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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Trump's Guide to Stealing an Election | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The Supreme Court has denied a bid by the Trump administration to restrict mail-in voting. On this week’s On the Media, hear about the attempts, successful and not, to turn election c...
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Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Looks like Sen. John Curtis, a Republican from Utah, may have retrieved his spine from its hook in the Senate cloakroom.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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