Katie Karnehm-Esh
@karnehmesh.bsky.social
Writer, runner, hiker, dog-lover, old-house restorer, yoga instructor. Episcopalian. Great Basin College Humanities Center coordinator and National Parks enthusiast.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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Abolish. ice. 💔
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Abolish. ice. 💔
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“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
January 24, 2026 at 9:24 PM
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
Emotional support terrierorist
January 23, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Emotional support terrierorist
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state-sponsored child trafficking
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM
state-sponsored child trafficking
I wrote a substack about dogs disguised as a substack about snakes.
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The Year of the Snake
What I needed to live well, with thanks to Hanif Abdurraqib
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January 3, 2026 at 2:18 AM
I wrote a substack about dogs disguised as a substack about snakes.
open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
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If you're rich and powerful enough, rich and powerful Republicans will ignore your crimes -- including child molestation.
November 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
If you're rich and powerful enough, rich and powerful Republicans will ignore your crimes -- including child molestation.
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I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.
November 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I want people to understand that in my youth, a youth that happened somewhere between the youth of Epstein, Trump, Maxwell, ex-Prince Andrew, et al & that of their victims, the term "jail bait" was framed as a compliment.
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AOC leading school tours during the shutdown. Always doing the most.
October 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
AOC leading school tours during the shutdown. Always doing the most.
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Republicans took the day off while all democrats showed up to work. Could you see a republican showing students around just as a nice gesture?
A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.
All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.
So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!
All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.
So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!
October 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Republicans took the day off while all democrats showed up to work. Could you see a republican showing students around just as a nice gesture?
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We can, in fact, oppose ALL political violence, no matter the form, source, or reasoning.
Genocide (& supporting it) is bad.
Ethnic cleansing is bad.
Murdering people in a boat off Venezuela is bad.
Murdering people for Existing While Black is bad.
Shooting someone whose views are repellant is bad.
Genocide (& supporting it) is bad.
Ethnic cleansing is bad.
Murdering people in a boat off Venezuela is bad.
Murdering people for Existing While Black is bad.
Shooting someone whose views are repellant is bad.
September 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We can, in fact, oppose ALL political violence, no matter the form, source, or reasoning.
Genocide (& supporting it) is bad.
Ethnic cleansing is bad.
Murdering people in a boat off Venezuela is bad.
Murdering people for Existing While Black is bad.
Shooting someone whose views are repellant is bad.
Genocide (& supporting it) is bad.
Ethnic cleansing is bad.
Murdering people in a boat off Venezuela is bad.
Murdering people for Existing While Black is bad.
Shooting someone whose views are repellant is bad.
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September 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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This. Times a thousand. Again and again.
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
September 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This. Times a thousand. Again and again.
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Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models
Experts working to benchmark resource use of AI models say new version’s enhanced capabilities come at a steep cost
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Life comes at you fast
August 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Life comes at you fast
This article increasingly horrified me, and made me grateful that I might be out of bachelorette trip demographic. www.thecut.com/article/awkw...
Are You Rude With Money?
Our readers share annoying financial scenarios to avoid when splitting the bill.
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August 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This article increasingly horrified me, and made me grateful that I might be out of bachelorette trip demographic. www.thecut.com/article/awkw...
Dumpster and Dumpster alone is getting me through the horrors. Anyway call your congress people.
July 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Dumpster and Dumpster alone is getting me through the horrors. Anyway call your congress people.
Even worse if you're dual career.
It is very, very hard to move academic jobs, and it gets harder the more senior you become. Doubly hard if you have a dual career situation.
After years of the sneering I've received over working where I work, believe me, if people could just up and change jobs, we would.
After years of the sneering I've received over working where I work, believe me, if people could just up and change jobs, we would.
I'm a Columbia PhD. I'm pissed at Columbia. My friends who teach there are furious.
But it's really not simple. Practically every university in the country has a hiring freeze or is only making limited hires. Even in "good years" a vanishingly small # of people can easily find another position.
But it's really not simple. Practically every university in the country has a hiring freeze or is only making limited hires. Even in "good years" a vanishingly small # of people can easily find another position.
July 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Even worse if you're dual career.
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
I started a post in January, and finished it today. Which kind of lets you know how my mental health (not great Bob!) went this winter. Thanks to @lyz.bsky.social and @theferocity.bsky.social for helping me get some initial ideas going.
open.substack.com/pub/katiekar...
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Midsummer
circling back and letting go
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July 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I started a post in January, and finished it today. Which kind of lets you know how my mental health (not great Bob!) went this winter. Thanks to @lyz.bsky.social and @theferocity.bsky.social for helping me get some initial ideas going.
open.substack.com/pub/katiekar...
open.substack.com/pub/katiekar...
I got to interview Dom Flemons, a hugely talented multi-instrumentalist and performer and music scholar back in January, and wrote about it for Nevada Humanities in May. Here it is on my new Substack!
open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
An Interview with Dom Flemons
My guest post at the Double Down Blog
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July 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I got to interview Dom Flemons, a hugely talented multi-instrumentalist and performer and music scholar back in January, and wrote about it for Nevada Humanities in May. Here it is on my new Substack!
open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
I started a Substack to write about my arts/humanities work in the Wild West. I hope you check it out.
open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
Welcome to High Desert Humanities
A midwesterner meets cowboy country
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July 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I started a Substack to write about my arts/humanities work in the Wild West. I hope you check it out.
open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
open.substack.com/pub/highdese...
If you use the website uketa.com, you are getting triple charged for a UK travel visa, even though they make it look like they are affiliated with the UK government. Ask me how I know.
UK Electronic Travel Authorisation | UKETA.com
Your guide to the United Kingdom’s Electronic Travel Authorization (UK ETA) information and UK ETA application.
uketa.com
June 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you use the website uketa.com, you are getting triple charged for a UK travel visa, even though they make it look like they are affiliated with the UK government. Ask me how I know.
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Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
June 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.
The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year.
Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.