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Katherine McNamara

@mcnamarawriter.bsky.social
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Author, Narrow Road to the Deep North, A Journey into the Interior of Alaska. Editor/publisher, archipelago.org and Artist’s Proof Editions. Learning to build puppets.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h
right. this isn’t a somber public execution to show people what it means for the state to murder someone. this is a celebration of violence for its own sake. the fact that the nidal hasan is helpless and infirm is no doubt part of the appeal. bsky.app/profile/spir...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h
i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 7h
Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 7h
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in victim's car when ICE agents shot at it.
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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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Spencer Reynolds @sreynolds.bsky.social · 7h
ICE agents have shot yet another person in the street, this time a man in his car in the Bronx while his small child sat in the backseat. www.reuters.com/world/us/per...
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New York City man shot in car with child present by ICE agents, mayor says
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and wounded a man on Thursday in his car with a ​child present in the vehicle in the Bronx borough of New York City, ‌according to the mayor, city po...
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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For 20 years, the National Endowment for the Humanities had a partnership with #NSF to support Documenting Endangered Languages, preserving at-risk languages. That program was located in the #SBE directorate. When #NEH was gutted last year, so too was the program. We stand w/ our NSF colleagues.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I spoke to @kattenbarge.bsky.social about the media coverage of “inconsistencies” in Jane Doe’s case, as well as my own experience with USA Today misusing my words in a story smearing her. As always, Kat understands the way victims are punished from coming forward. This article is a must-read.
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Debunking the smear campaign against the Cornell Jane Doe
Authorities, media outlets, and pundits are lying about this woman. But only her credibility is getting judged.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
After trial, an Ecuadorean judge declares 32 sailors on ships that were attacked by the US Navy—which accused them of being drug traffickers—innocent on all charges, finding that there was no material evidence to support the accusations against them.
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Jueza de Ecuador declara inocentes a 32 tripulantes de barcos bombardeados por EE.UU.
Una jueza de Ecuador declaró inocentes a 32 tripulantes de dos embarcaciones bombardeadas por EE.UU. Es el primero de tres juicios que involucran a 88 personas.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
He will still be president…
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
'Fukuyama has produced a book emblematic of a “centrism” still proudly fighting the last brushfires of the twentieth century long after the wildfires of the twenty-first have swept by them...'
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Francis Fukuyama’s Failures of Imagination
As he looks back on a life in ideas, he is able to see the flaws in his system. But he cannot take seriously the type of politics that might address them.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is horrible and infuriating.
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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. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump wants to remind you that felonies can be fun! He's committed 92 of them, and garnered 34 convictions—so far. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Marjory Wentworth, Springfield area activist & G92 faith group member, tells me tonight: “I have to wonder about the timing and location - the same day of the funeral for Pierre Damas Bal in Springfield. This young man was a victim of Trump's cruel policies, & the rally dishonors Pierre's memory &…
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Special Prosecutor to the Supreme Court: "the grand jury voted unanimously with 19 members concurring that the course of events in the formation and continuation of the conspiracy was such that President Nixon, among a number of others, should be identified as an unindicted co-conspirator..." 👀⚖️
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This quote👇🏾 is from Special Counsel Leon Jaworski the oral argument in United States v. Nixon (better known as the Nixon White House tapes case) in 1974. ⚖️ www.oyez.org/cases/1973/7...
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As @bluegal.bsky.social might say, "Say polarization one more g-dddamn time!" It appears people are catching on to this polarization cop out that @jamellebouie.net makes work of in this video: youtu.be/gwW90Xrfon4 containing real @driftglass.bsky.social vibes.
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Forget about "polarization"; the real problem with American politics is the radicalized right-wing
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/10/2026
It’s a federal crime to send armed federal agents to the polls. So why does the Trump administration keep suggesting it? “The answer is … Donald Trump wants to, to use his words, cheat like hell,” Marc Elias says. This isn't over. Stay close: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In Ending Case against Davey Hearn, Judge Declares: No Crime Was Committed emptywheel.net/2026/10/01/j...
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In Ending Case against Davey Hearn, Judge Declares: No Crime Was Committed - emptywheel
In dismissing the case against Davey Hearn with prejudice, Judge Todd Edelman pointed to the risk posed by Donald Trump's ongoing threats as the harm that requires dismissal with prejudice.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/10/2026
Black text on white page that reads as follows:

New Yorkers who lost their SNAP benefits because of the federal government's expanded work requirements can reapply starting today, October 1.

To find out whether you're eligible to get your benefits back or qualify for an exemption, call 718-SNAP-NOW (718-762-7669), visit nyc.gov/ACCESSHRA, or use the ACCESS HRA app.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As for the "revisionist" part, that's fine.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This guy got a law degree from Harvard and became a White House Fellow reporting to Egil Fucking Krogh (head of the Plumbers). After Watergate he spent an entire lifetime in the insurance industry before deciding to redeem Richard Nixon's legacy, publishing a hackish book with (of course) Regnery
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, can the media stop calling random cranks who write fan fiction about their personal heroes in the past "historians."
Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon aide turned Watergate historian and revisionist, recently gave a two-hour presentation at Justice Department headquarters that laid out his theory that the deep state took Nixon down. The title of his 78-page slide deck: “Watergate As Lawfare.”
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A surveillance tech company is pushing police departments to add facial recognition software to Flock cameras.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Procedural hardball is disruptive, but makes perfect sense from a radical perspective. The whole question is whether there’s a good basis for radicalization. Given [gestures everywhere] the answer’s clearly yes. www.offmessage.net/p/the-new-ra...
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The New Radicals
Democrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To speed up mass deportations, the Trump administration didn't just launch raids—it stripped $200M+ from nonprofit legal aid groups, bringing them to the brink of collapse. Here’s how immigrant legal defense barely survived the campaign to kneecap them:
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First Trump came for immigrants. Then he came for their lawyers.
How legal aid groups survived the administration's attacks—barely.
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Tim Mak @timkmak.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You're probably seeing daily footage of explosions, fires and casualties in Kyiv. Footage that doesn't look like it's coming out of a European capital. I'm going live with Ryan McBeth on why Kyiv looks like a frontline city and if Russia's strategy is working. 12pm ET / 5pm BST Tune in live:
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LIVE SOON: Why Kyiv looks like a frontline city
Starting Sep 30 at 12:00 PM EDT
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ummmm…
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The incompetence is off the charts.
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MAGA Senator Ripped After Confusing Basketball Teams In Embarrassing Attempt To Link Jack Smith And Fani Willis During Senate Hearing
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/09/2026
America has faced challenges like AI before — we survived by building a system of federal oversight and regulation as well as international agreements. President Trump and Speaker Johnson, the world is watching. March us toward the summit, not the chasm.
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March Us Toward the Summit, Not the Chasm
By Governor JB Pritzker
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 30/09/2026
(I think it's remarkable only in that it took this long; some of us were arguing this was a worthwhile tack some time ago, though perhaps it took us getting to the level of "neighbors getting kidnapped off the street by feds" for normal people to realize it was happening)
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CODA: @mattgertz.bsky.social catches Rs revving up the old migrant caravan again. This makes it more urgent for Dems to speak to the fact that immigrants are getting viciously demonized and subjected to cruelty/injustice all around us. Let's not get inured to it: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...
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Fox News is running its midterms migrant caravan playbook again
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Most Americans are pro-immigrant,” Talarico says. “Throughout US history, immigrants have always made us richer and stronger.” Trump's barbarities have opened the way to a new consensus. Talarico is giving voice to it in moral language that Dems can learn from. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Talarico has an immigration plan that in its broad strokes is very humane and pro-immigrant. He says our border should be like a "front porch" with a "lock" and a "welcome mat." Both of those are important. The "welcome mat" in his plan deserves more attention. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've obtained new data showing that in 3 House districts in South Texas, big majorities of Latinos are swinging hard against Trump on immigration. This is where the "multiracial working-class realignment" behind Trump restrictionism was said to be happening. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 30/09/2026
📺 HAPPENING NOW: The Senate will vote on Republicans' latest attempt to sneak a voter ID requirement through the chamber by attaching it to a congressional stock-trading ban. The last-ditch effort comes just as the Senate packs up for the campaign trail. Stream below👇
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U.S. Senate: Floor Proceedings
Floor Activity
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Nick Mortensen @nickmortensen.com · 29/09/2026
I don't know of any podcast that so regularly discusses the term "Remigration" as "Autocratic Despair: The Podcast", so I am sad that I missed that Miller is actually calling it an "Office of Remigration". Talked about the word at length in this episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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The True Texas Project is Our AfD & It's Taken Over Fort Worth
Podcast Episode · Autocratic Despair: The Podcast · September 10 · 1h 3m
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Much love + blessing to all the guys just figuring out how bad it is wrt sexual violence + invite them to consider how basically none of the women (and many folks of other genders) out there are surprised in the slightest by these stats or details bc it's always been this bad + it never changes
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here was what happened on an earlier trip to SCOTUS. It set this nightmare policy into motion. www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-s...
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SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice
Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I dont normally share paywalled links but if yr an academic you may have access to this @chronicle story by some sharp young reporters on an AI situation at Dartmouth. www.chronicle.com/article/dart...
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Dartmouth’s Provost Quietly Used AI in His Published Work. It’s Touched Off a Campus Firestorm.
The incident adds fuel to a debate at the college over its embrace of AI.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Chicago Mayor Bets on Political Potency Of Data Center Resistance talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Chicago Mayor Bets on Political Potency Of Data Center Resistance
‘We Are Not For Sale’ Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson officially kicked off...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lots of good polling for Democrats right now. Keep in mind, however, that polling in the last few cycles has been significantly off (~4 points in big races), generally to the benefit of Republicans. My sense is that this is because voting for Trump drives shame. So respondents simply lie.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not really the point, but I'd suggest that if you own 20 "family farms," they probably aren't "family farms."
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