Kat
@katching.bsky.social
Professional candy distributor & cat wrangler.
My unhinged thoughts are my own and not reflective of the smarter people I hang out with
My unhinged thoughts are my own and not reflective of the smarter people I hang out with
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Kat
@katching.bsky.social
· Jan 17
No longer at Propublica. So if you followed me bc of that. I’m sorry! I’m back to being boring! Feel free to unfollow
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Just came back here to share a more detailed obituary written by her friend for the @thesicktimes.org.
It includes her activism in support of 🇵🇸, and her advocacy and support for people with Long Covid.
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
It includes her activism in support of 🇵🇸, and her advocacy and support for people with Long Covid.
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Just came back here to share a more detailed obituary written by her friend for the @thesicktimes.org.
It includes her activism in support of 🇵🇸, and her advocacy and support for people with Long Covid.
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
It includes her activism in support of 🇵🇸, and her advocacy and support for people with Long Covid.
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
I got racially profiled at my poll site on Tuesday. I went to my district’s table. They looked at me, said that I was likely at that other table but that would look me up there anyways. And of course I was listed in there. It’s always been my district.
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I got racially profiled at my poll site on Tuesday. I went to my district’s table. They looked at me, said that I was likely at that other table but that would look me up there anyways. And of course I was listed in there. It’s always been my district.
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Send a letter to your City Council members to demand increased and STABLE funding for our NYC Public Libraries. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
October 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Send a letter to your City Council members to demand increased and STABLE funding for our NYC Public Libraries. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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A good list for people in NYC to share about how people impacted by SNAP cuts might access some food:
open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...
open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...
feed thy neighbor.
mutual aid in times of invented crisis.
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:19 AM
A good list for people in NYC to share about how people impacted by SNAP cuts might access some food:
open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...
open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...
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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
September 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
Thread 👇
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Will you send our petition for a fair contract to your 5 closest friends?
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
September 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Will you send our petition for a fair contract to your 5 closest friends?
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Why is it almost all decent news organizations, even the nonprofits, are so anti-union and so resistant to fairness?
@propublica.org, get it together. The organization isn't hurting for money. In 2023, you were sitting on $75 million in assets. #FairContractNow
(I ❤️ Nonprofit Explorer, btw!)
@propublica.org, get it together. The organization isn't hurting for money. In 2023, you were sitting on $75 million in assets. #FairContractNow
(I ❤️ Nonprofit Explorer, btw!)
September 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Why is it almost all decent news organizations, even the nonprofits, are so anti-union and so resistant to fairness?
@propublica.org, get it together. The organization isn't hurting for money. In 2023, you were sitting on $75 million in assets. #FairContractNow
(I ❤️ Nonprofit Explorer, btw!)
@propublica.org, get it together. The organization isn't hurting for money. In 2023, you were sitting on $75 million in assets. #FairContractNow
(I ❤️ Nonprofit Explorer, btw!)
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We can’t produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help.
Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Fair Contract Now for ProPublica Guild
We, the workers of ProPublica, provide our readers with deeply researched, unbiased news that holds power to account. This work is more important now than ever, but our staff can’t properly contribute...
actionnetwork.org
September 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We can’t produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help.
Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.
September 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.
My parents live in the projects and I think someone is going through a breakup bc I hear Adele blasting instead of the usual music. Rough 2025 ayyyyyyy
September 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
My parents live in the projects and I think someone is going through a breakup bc I hear Adele blasting instead of the usual music. Rough 2025 ayyyyyyy
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I’ve already made a few updates to this guide since publishing it, and will keep adding as I get more good suggestions!
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
July 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I’ve already made a few updates to this guide since publishing it, and will keep adding as I get more good suggestions!
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He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
The camp is to filter out workers for Trumps new Slavery policy where he sells them to businesses.
He says so in this video
Make Americans Slaves Again
He says so in this video
Make Americans Slaves Again
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 AM
He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.
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New:
The Trump Administration Leaned On Poor African Countries to Give Elon Musk’s Company What It Wants
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
The Trump Administration Leaned On Poor African Countries to Give Elon Musk’s Company What It Wants
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
www.propublica.org
May 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New:
The Trump Administration Leaned On Poor African Countries to Give Elon Musk’s Company What It Wants
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
The Trump Administration Leaned On Poor African Countries to Give Elon Musk’s Company What It Wants
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Kristine Villanueva @mango-stine.bsky.social, w/ a new steering committee of engagement journalists, in partnership w/ @objectivejournos.bsky.social, will work on a crowdsourced handbook for reporting on diaspora communities & share findings monthly.
objectivejournalism.org/2025/05/its-...
objectivejournalism.org/2025/05/its-...
It’s time journalism moves beyond crisis reporting in immigrant communities. We need your help to do it.
In partnership with The Objective, a new steering committee of engagement journalists will work on a crowdsourced handbook for reporting on diaspora communities and share findings in a monthly newslet...
objectivejournalism.org
May 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Kristine Villanueva @mango-stine.bsky.social, w/ a new steering committee of engagement journalists, in partnership w/ @objectivejournos.bsky.social, will work on a crowdsourced handbook for reporting on diaspora communities & share findings monthly.
objectivejournalism.org/2025/05/its-...
objectivejournalism.org/2025/05/its-...
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What if the news we took in every day inspired us, helped us connect to one another, and gave us hope and vision for another world? 💭
Learn more, read @lewispants.bsky.social's new column "The Case for Movement Journalism."
Subscribe today! ⬇️
objectivejournalism.org/the-case-for...
Learn more, read @lewispants.bsky.social's new column "The Case for Movement Journalism."
Subscribe today! ⬇️
objectivejournalism.org/the-case-for...
The Case for Movement Journalism
A new limited-run column from The Objective from Lewis Raven Wallace, author of View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity, about why movement journalism matters.
objectivejournalism.org
April 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What if the news we took in every day inspired us, helped us connect to one another, and gave us hope and vision for another world? 💭
Learn more, read @lewispants.bsky.social's new column "The Case for Movement Journalism."
Subscribe today! ⬇️
objectivejournalism.org/the-case-for...
Learn more, read @lewispants.bsky.social's new column "The Case for Movement Journalism."
Subscribe today! ⬇️
objectivejournalism.org/the-case-for...
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Last week, Newark's mayor was arrested while visiting an ICE facility.
Trump is silencing those who hold him accountable.
At the same time, Congress is trying to pass a bill that increases ICE's capacity by $175 billion.
Hear what we can do to stop it: wfpus.org/fromnewark
Trump is silencing those who hold him accountable.
At the same time, Congress is trying to pass a bill that increases ICE's capacity by $175 billion.
Hear what we can do to stop it: wfpus.org/fromnewark
From Newark to All: We Stand Together · Working Families Power
On Friday, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested in handcuffs after attempting to visit a recently re-opened ICE detention facility. ICE shoved members of the Congressional delegation which included…
wfpus.org
May 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Last week, Newark's mayor was arrested while visiting an ICE facility.
Trump is silencing those who hold him accountable.
At the same time, Congress is trying to pass a bill that increases ICE's capacity by $175 billion.
Hear what we can do to stop it: wfpus.org/fromnewark
Trump is silencing those who hold him accountable.
At the same time, Congress is trying to pass a bill that increases ICE's capacity by $175 billion.
Hear what we can do to stop it: wfpus.org/fromnewark
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THREAD: We’ve reported that Veterans Affairs officials have warned that Trump’s cuts are hurting veterans.
VA Secretary Doug Collins called our story a “false narrative,” but did not say anything was inaccurate.
Here’s what our story revealed and how we engaged with the VA.
VA Secretary Doug Collins called our story a “false narrative,” but did not say anything was inaccurate.
Here’s what our story revealed and how we engaged with the VA.
May 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
THREAD: We’ve reported that Veterans Affairs officials have warned that Trump’s cuts are hurting veterans.
VA Secretary Doug Collins called our story a “false narrative,” but did not say anything was inaccurate.
Here’s what our story revealed and how we engaged with the VA.
VA Secretary Doug Collins called our story a “false narrative,” but did not say anything was inaccurate.
Here’s what our story revealed and how we engaged with the VA.
Gun shots or fireworks? It’s that time of year.
The pattern did not match fireworks, but the noise did not match guns.
Sirens; but that can go either way.
We did have a murder last month.
The pattern did not match fireworks, but the noise did not match guns.
Sirens; but that can go either way.
We did have a murder last month.
May 11, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Gun shots or fireworks? It’s that time of year.
The pattern did not match fireworks, but the noise did not match guns.
Sirens; but that can go either way.
We did have a murder last month.
The pattern did not match fireworks, but the noise did not match guns.
Sirens; but that can go either way.
We did have a murder last month.
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1/ 🚨 Yesterday, @propublica.org management confirmed that it will again deny steward representation at disciplinary meetings. Our full statement 👇
May 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
1/ 🚨 Yesterday, @propublica.org management confirmed that it will again deny steward representation at disciplinary meetings. Our full statement 👇
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Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
April 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
Congratulations all!!!
JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
May 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Congratulations all!!!
