Kara
@karacooks.com
Historian by education. Data geek by profession. Polymath. Autodidact. Political junkie. Foodie. Photographer. Cat person. I swear a lot. She/Her
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Kara
@karacooks.com
· Nov 12
for me, it's following other legal scholars and journos and the repro justice folks since my beat repro and law. I would find some people you trust in key areas and follow them.
I would stay away from the Jack of All Trades style social media folks who cover news like they're a cable news host
I would stay away from the Jack of All Trades style social media folks who cover news like they're a cable news host
How do we tap out of his noise but not the impact of the admin?
A list of useful threads. To be added to as I find them.
How to choose who to follow: bsky.app/profile/angr...
How to choose who to follow: bsky.app/profile/angr...
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AOC to Abby Phillip from Zohran HQ:
“We don’t have to be afraid of our future, we don’t have to be afraid of our young.”
“We don’t have to be afraid of our future, we don’t have to be afraid of our young.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
AOC to Abby Phillip from Zohran HQ:
“We don’t have to be afraid of our future, we don’t have to be afraid of our young.”
“We don’t have to be afraid of our future, we don’t have to be afraid of our young.”
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Just applied for a Sr. Data Analyst job with a company I've been a client of since 2015 and, although I wasn't looking for a job, I'm oddly excited and nervous about this.
I've been with my current company for almost 20 years. The possibility of change is scary.
I've been with my current company for almost 20 years. The possibility of change is scary.
July 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Just applied for a Sr. Data Analyst job with a company I've been a client of since 2015 and, although I wasn't looking for a job, I'm oddly excited and nervous about this.
I've been with my current company for almost 20 years. The possibility of change is scary.
I've been with my current company for almost 20 years. The possibility of change is scary.
5calls.org
Please use this 5Calls NOW to call your House Rep and beg them to vote "no" on the "Big Beautiful Bill Act".
This is the one for all the marbles and it looks like it's going to pass. We need to do everything we can to try to stop it.
Cat picture to help. Finn says "please call now!!!"
Please use this 5Calls NOW to call your House Rep and beg them to vote "no" on the "Big Beautiful Bill Act".
This is the one for all the marbles and it looks like it's going to pass. We need to do everything we can to try to stop it.
Cat picture to help. Finn says "please call now!!!"
July 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
5calls.org
Please use this 5Calls NOW to call your House Rep and beg them to vote "no" on the "Big Beautiful Bill Act".
This is the one for all the marbles and it looks like it's going to pass. We need to do everything we can to try to stop it.
Cat picture to help. Finn says "please call now!!!"
Please use this 5Calls NOW to call your House Rep and beg them to vote "no" on the "Big Beautiful Bill Act".
This is the one for all the marbles and it looks like it's going to pass. We need to do everything we can to try to stop it.
Cat picture to help. Finn says "please call now!!!"
Rewatching ER.
Sister Monica Joan played Dr. Corday's mother. In the same episode that Liza Weil (Gilmore Girls) played the wife of a psych patient who stabs Carter and Lucy.
Everyone was in this show.
Sister Monica Joan played Dr. Corday's mother. In the same episode that Liza Weil (Gilmore Girls) played the wife of a psych patient who stabs Carter and Lucy.
Everyone was in this show.
June 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Rewatching ER.
Sister Monica Joan played Dr. Corday's mother. In the same episode that Liza Weil (Gilmore Girls) played the wife of a psych patient who stabs Carter and Lucy.
Everyone was in this show.
Sister Monica Joan played Dr. Corday's mother. In the same episode that Liza Weil (Gilmore Girls) played the wife of a psych patient who stabs Carter and Lucy.
Everyone was in this show.
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social made comments about Mamdani that are racist, bigoted, and xenophobic.
A sitting Dem Senator should know better and do better. She is executing a racist play out of the GOP playbook.
A sitting Dem Senator should know better and do better. She is executing a racist play out of the GOP playbook.
June 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social made comments about Mamdani that are racist, bigoted, and xenophobic.
A sitting Dem Senator should know better and do better. She is executing a racist play out of the GOP playbook.
A sitting Dem Senator should know better and do better. She is executing a racist play out of the GOP playbook.
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i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.
It’s a real mindfuck when most ppl wanna post about their latest failures/successes, or weird shit they saw in the wild or cool stuff they made…but the country is a cesspool so cool/weird shit seems trite.
June 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
i don't mean to come off as rude but we cannot sustain ourselves on outrage and anger forever. i think it's even more important now to post about other things too. even if it gets less engagement. you never know who will find it cool and interesting.
I don't post these very often, but I have a soft spot for this little guy. He needs a back leg amputated and it's going to cost around $2k. Once it's done he has a foster waiting to take him in and socialize and love him. Please help if you can.
www.gofundme.com/f/give-moses...
www.gofundme.com/f/give-moses...
Give Moses a Chance: Donate for His Recovery, organized by Jennifer Holmes
Moses needs help! This former community cat showed up with a massively in… Jennifer Holmes needs your support for Give Moses a Chance: Donate for His Recovery
www.gofundme.com
June 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I don't post these very often, but I have a soft spot for this little guy. He needs a back leg amputated and it's going to cost around $2k. Once it's done he has a foster waiting to take him in and socialize and love him. Please help if you can.
www.gofundme.com/f/give-moses...
www.gofundme.com/f/give-moses...
Am I being groomed or tasted? I'm a little worried.
April 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Am I being groomed or tasted? I'm a little worried.
Reading @scalzi.com's books would go much faster if I didn't have to keep pausing to Google odd things ... Like pictures of someone snorkeling between tectonic plates.
April 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Reading @scalzi.com's books would go much faster if I didn't have to keep pausing to Google odd things ... Like pictures of someone snorkeling between tectonic plates.
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If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you?
My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.
My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.
March 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
If a law firm won't risk everything to defend itself, what makes you think it will risk anything to defend you?
My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.
My advice: Find a law firm that will not back down and will never bend a knee.
Dems are voting for Trump's nominees in a "business as usual" attitude ... while Elon Musk has staged a coup against the United States government.
UPDATE: 8 Dems voted today to confirm yet another Trump nominee during Musk's coup: Bennett (CO), Gallego (AZ), Hassan (NH), Heinrich (NM), Hickenlooper (CO), King (ME), Lujan (NM), Shaheen (NH). If you're a constituent, don't just call - write an op-ed, protest their office, make clear you care.
The Senate takes 3 votes this afternoon:
1) Go into executive session to consider Russell Vought to be OMB Director
2) Cloture vote for Pam Bondi for Attorney General
3) Confirmation of Christopher Wright for Energy Sec
These should be 3 easy NO votes for Dems. Watch yours and provide that input.
1) Go into executive session to consider Russell Vought to be OMB Director
2) Cloture vote for Pam Bondi for Attorney General
3) Confirmation of Christopher Wright for Energy Sec
These should be 3 easy NO votes for Dems. Watch yours and provide that input.
February 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Dems are voting for Trump's nominees in a "business as usual" attitude ... while Elon Musk has staged a coup against the United States government.
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i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.
February 1, 2025 at 5:43 AM
i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.
If you're serious, sign up for a national strike and be prepared to follow through when we get the numbers.
generalstrikeus.com
generalstrikeus.com
The General Strike
The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.
generalstrikeus.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
If you're serious, sign up for a national strike and be prepared to follow through when we get the numbers.
generalstrikeus.com
generalstrikeus.com
@alexgraydb.bsky.social found you and then it turns out the reason that I couldn't find you to begin with was because I was already following you. Go figure.
January 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
@alexgraydb.bsky.social found you and then it turns out the reason that I couldn't find you to begin with was because I was already following you. Go figure.
Spread information, not panic.
"SALUTE" method
Size/Strength: 5-6 officers
Activity: Harassing people on the street.
Location: Chicago, w of Millennium Park on Mich Ave
Uniform/Clothes: Dark blue uniforms, ICE on the back.
Time & Date: 12:45 pm, Jan 20th
Equipment: Helmets vests and batons
"SALUTE" method
Size/Strength: 5-6 officers
Activity: Harassing people on the street.
Location: Chicago, w of Millennium Park on Mich Ave
Uniform/Clothes: Dark blue uniforms, ICE on the back.
Time & Date: 12:45 pm, Jan 20th
Equipment: Helmets vests and batons
DurangoAnarchists on IG giving an example of what information is actually helpful instead of sharing vague ~*Resistance Vibes*~ nothing burgers 🖤✊🏽
January 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Spread information, not panic.
"SALUTE" method
Size/Strength: 5-6 officers
Activity: Harassing people on the street.
Location: Chicago, w of Millennium Park on Mich Ave
Uniform/Clothes: Dark blue uniforms, ICE on the back.
Time & Date: 12:45 pm, Jan 20th
Equipment: Helmets vests and batons
"SALUTE" method
Size/Strength: 5-6 officers
Activity: Harassing people on the street.
Location: Chicago, w of Millennium Park on Mich Ave
Uniform/Clothes: Dark blue uniforms, ICE on the back.
Time & Date: 12:45 pm, Jan 20th
Equipment: Helmets vests and batons
I have no desire to watch any of it. The media will breathlessly report on every fucked up thing he says and does and I won't be able to escape that part anyway. So why put myself through the torture more than I have to.
I see some people are demanding we watch the inauguration and I'm all, motherfucker, I didn't watch his first one and spent four years actively avoiding the sound of his voice, what makes you think I'm going to do any different this time around
January 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I have no desire to watch any of it. The media will breathlessly report on every fucked up thing he says and does and I won't be able to escape that part anyway. So why put myself through the torture more than I have to.
Great 🧵 where people talk about their favorite Stephen King books. He's always been a great writer who was sadly devalued because some ppl can't see past the "horror" genre label.
I will die on the hill that 11/22/63 is his best book & "Stand by Me" & "Shawshank Redemption" are the best movies.
I will die on the hill that 11/22/63 is his best book & "Stand by Me" & "Shawshank Redemption" are the best movies.
I've never read much Stephen King. I read 'It' when I was 12 after the 1990 miniseries terrified me. I read 'Carrie' last year and found it clever and creepy.
I'm audiobooking 'Salem's Lot' now, and wow: I didn't expect to encounter passages of such extraordinary beauty, wit, and moral insight.
I'm audiobooking 'Salem's Lot' now, and wow: I didn't expect to encounter passages of such extraordinary beauty, wit, and moral insight.
January 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Great 🧵 where people talk about their favorite Stephen King books. He's always been a great writer who was sadly devalued because some ppl can't see past the "horror" genre label.
I will die on the hill that 11/22/63 is his best book & "Stand by Me" & "Shawshank Redemption" are the best movies.
I will die on the hill that 11/22/63 is his best book & "Stand by Me" & "Shawshank Redemption" are the best movies.
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Folks on social media need to practice the art of NOT giving unsolicited advice.
Folks on social media need to practice the art of NOT giving unsolicited advice.
Time for the periodic reminder: the reason "yes, I'm allergic to that too" is in my profile is because no matter what your "helpful" food suggestion is, I am allergic to it. Please do not give me unsolicited food advice. (Please do not give me any unsolicited advice, but especially food.)
January 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Folks on social media need to practice the art of NOT giving unsolicited advice.
Folks on social media need to practice the art of NOT giving unsolicited advice.
So apparently telling people that it's not hard to pre-heat the oven and slide in a frozen pizza is ablest.
Also eating leftovers for lunch the next day is unhealthy becuase it's not "a varied diet".
Also you cannot freeze burritos? (I guess I need to throw out the ones in my freezer.)
Also eating leftovers for lunch the next day is unhealthy becuase it's not "a varied diet".
Also you cannot freeze burritos? (I guess I need to throw out the ones in my freezer.)
January 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
So apparently telling people that it's not hard to pre-heat the oven and slide in a frozen pizza is ablest.
Also eating leftovers for lunch the next day is unhealthy becuase it's not "a varied diet".
Also you cannot freeze burritos? (I guess I need to throw out the ones in my freezer.)
Also eating leftovers for lunch the next day is unhealthy becuase it's not "a varied diet".
Also you cannot freeze burritos? (I guess I need to throw out the ones in my freezer.)
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Elon Musk is a good example of how terrible people become increasingly radicalized into the far right simply because the far right is a community that accepts cruel, terrible people.
It's tempting to say Elon is going "mask off", but I'd wager Elon didn't know who Tommy Robinson was 5 years ago. 1/
It's tempting to say Elon is going "mask off", but I'd wager Elon didn't know who Tommy Robinson was 5 years ago. 1/
January 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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