Katherine J
@jinsights.bsky.social
Democratic-Socialist in NYC. Tofu connoisseur, Slavic history enthusiast, and full time fish.
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Join NYC-DSA Tech Action for our Political Education Series! Exposing the hidden costs of AI, surveillance systems, and algorithmic bias in hiring. Three sessions starting April 16th at 7PM. In-person or Zoom. Check the link for the syllabus and to RSVP! shorturl.at/DVWZz
April 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Join NYC-DSA Tech Action for our Political Education Series! Exposing the hidden costs of AI, surveillance systems, and algorithmic bias in hiring. Three sessions starting April 16th at 7PM. In-person or Zoom. Check the link for the syllabus and to RSVP! shorturl.at/DVWZz
more rantings: how California’s wildfires became a billion-dollar industry for developers, insurers, and even prisons—while taxpayers and vulnerable communities pay the price.
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Playing with Fire
Private Profit, Public Risk, Prison Labor
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January 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
more rantings: how California’s wildfires became a billion-dollar industry for developers, insurers, and even prisons—while taxpayers and vulnerable communities pay the price.
open.substack.com/pub/kjinsigh...
open.substack.com/pub/kjinsigh...
wrote a lil sumthing sumthing on the scary free speech implications of the tiktok ban (not to mention rampant sinophobia...)
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The TikTok Ban
Where Free Speech Met Palestine
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December 18, 2024 at 5:13 PM
wrote a lil sumthing sumthing on the scary free speech implications of the tiktok ban (not to mention rampant sinophobia...)
open.substack.com/pub/kjinsigh...
open.substack.com/pub/kjinsigh...
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "Violence is never the answer...but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands."
"What happens when you turn this into the billionaires run it all, is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny."
"What happens when you turn this into the billionaires run it all, is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny."
December 11, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "Violence is never the answer...but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands."
"What happens when you turn this into the billionaires run it all, is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny."
"What happens when you turn this into the billionaires run it all, is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny."
What does it say about a society where desperation leads to violence while corporations quietly commit their own kind of violence every day?
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kjinsights.substack.com/p/a-nation-d...
A Nation Desensitized to Corporate Violence Finally Feels Something
What one CEO’s death says about capitalism, healthcare, and the violence that we ignore
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December 12, 2024 at 6:55 PM
What does it say about a society where desperation leads to violence while corporations quietly commit their own kind of violence every day?
kjinsights.substack.com/p/a-nation-d...
kjinsights.substack.com/p/a-nation-d...
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As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...
Two Very Different Manhattan Murder Investigations
The NYPD spent countless hours and resources searching for a CEO’s killer, but has made little evident progress on the fatal stabbing of a migrant teen.
hellgatenyc.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:19 PM
As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...
So horrible and sad, are there even words?
"Kherson’s civilians have been, since midsummer, the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with attack drones"
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www.ft.com/content/31b6...
Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones
Southern Ukrainian city of Kherson hit more than 9,500 times as Moscow attempts to drive out residents
www.ft.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:24 PM
So horrible and sad, are there even words?
Gross
This piece is absolute dreck -- the prose so purple it's suffering from near-fatal strangulation -- AND it manages to elide whether McCarthy was having sex with a 16-year-old runaway from foster care. Demerits all around and also jesus christ www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...
Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”
When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...
www.vanityfair.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Gross
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Turns out "OK groomer" is just the Republican motto for Trump's Cabinet nominees.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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November 20, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Turns out "OK groomer" is just the Republican motto for Trump's Cabinet nominees.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Can we stop acting like Trump won some huge mandate? He won’t even hit 50% of the popular vote. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Column | Trump’s 2024 ‘mandate’ isn’t as robust as Biden’s was in 2020
The outcome of the 2024 election looks like a mix of 2000 and 2004, not 2008 or even 2020.
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November 19, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Can we stop acting like Trump won some huge mandate? He won’t even hit 50% of the popular vote. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
Don't miss the latest of @propublica.org's astounding reporting about UnitedHealth: www.propublica.org/article/unit...
Don't miss the latest of @propublica.org's astounding reporting about UnitedHealth: www.propublica.org/article/unit...
How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2024 at 3:17 PM
How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
Don't miss the latest of @propublica.org's astounding reporting about UnitedHealth: www.propublica.org/article/unit...
Don't miss the latest of @propublica.org's astounding reporting about UnitedHealth: www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found.
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
North Carolina offers an especially telling window into what is happening across this once legally segregated region where legislatures are now rapidly expanding and adopting controversial voucher-sty...
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November 18, 2024 at 12:07 PM
NEW: Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer dollars flowing from rapidly expanding voucher-style programs, a @propublica analysis found.
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
www.propublica.org/article/segr...
Any starter packs recommendations for Slavic history, Russia watchers, or Ukraine war updates? 🤓
November 19, 2024 at 2:59 AM
Any starter packs recommendations for Slavic history, Russia watchers, or Ukraine war updates? 🤓
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I just moved to Queens from Manhattan and got my updated library card! Don't forget to support your local libraries more than ever!
November 18, 2024 at 10:09 PM
I just moved to Queens from Manhattan and got my updated library card! Don't forget to support your local libraries more than ever!
heh heh heh laughing through the pain heh heh heh
November 18, 2024 at 10:08 PM
heh heh heh laughing through the pain heh heh heh
I was mad. I was sad. I was 0% surprised.
One Woman's Processing of the Worst Day Ever
Reflections on political disillusionment and the price of progress
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November 18, 2024 at 10:05 PM
I was mad. I was sad. I was 0% surprised.