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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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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the specific language of “break bread with” and “visit him in prison” is so striking to me, used in condemnation this way
DHS includes a bunch of false and defamatory statements in their tweet about Kilmar Abrego Garcia as they prepare to send him to Uganda.
October 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
the specific language of “break bread with” and “visit him in prison” is so striking to me, used in condemnation this way
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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.
www.thecut.com
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.
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With the $45 million being spent on the president's parade here’s what that money could do for veterans instead:
House 3k veterans for an entire year in transitional housing
Provide full PTSD treatment for 3.75k veterans for a year
Deliver job training to 9k veterans through 12-week programs
House 3k veterans for an entire year in transitional housing
Provide full PTSD treatment for 3.75k veterans for a year
Deliver job training to 9k veterans through 12-week programs
June 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
With the $45 million being spent on the president's parade here’s what that money could do for veterans instead:
House 3k veterans for an entire year in transitional housing
Provide full PTSD treatment for 3.75k veterans for a year
Deliver job training to 9k veterans through 12-week programs
House 3k veterans for an entire year in transitional housing
Provide full PTSD treatment for 3.75k veterans for a year
Deliver job training to 9k veterans through 12-week programs
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Today someone I know who has fought for low wage workers his whole life was detained while observing an ICE raid. David Huerta is a citizen and a proud Angeleno. He must be released now. If this can happen to David, it can happen to anyone. It’s unacceptable.
An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!
Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing.
ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him.
seiuca.org/press-releas...
June 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Today someone I know who has fought for low wage workers his whole life was detained while observing an ICE raid. David Huerta is a citizen and a proud Angeleno. He must be released now. If this can happen to David, it can happen to anyone. It’s unacceptable.
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Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there.
What an unbelievable asshole.
What an unbelievable asshole.
June 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there.
What an unbelievable asshole.
What an unbelievable asshole.
I, Saruman, Have Ended My Alliance with the Dark Lord Sauron www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...
I, Saruman, Have Ended My Alliance with the Dark Lord Sauron
“Last year, two mercurial billionaires formed a partnership and vowed to drive the country in a new direction. Donald Trump had the political power...
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June 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I, Saruman, Have Ended My Alliance with the Dark Lord Sauron www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-s...
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“WHO YOU CALLING A BUNCH OF PANSIES?!?”
June 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“WHO YOU CALLING A BUNCH OF PANSIES?!?”
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The attack in Boulder yesterday is concerning for a host of reasons. It not only points to an escalation of antisemitic violence, but will almost certainly be weaponized by the administration to intensify crackdowns on immigrants, activists, journalists, and academics.
Just bad all around.
Just bad all around.
June 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The attack in Boulder yesterday is concerning for a host of reasons. It not only points to an escalation of antisemitic violence, but will almost certainly be weaponized by the administration to intensify crackdowns on immigrants, activists, journalists, and academics.
Just bad all around.
Just bad all around.