Kate Tuttle
@katekilla.bsky.social
Gen X, middle child, Leo. I mostly write about books.
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Kate Tuttle
@katekilla.bsky.social
· Aug 28
A Trump Supporter Sat Next To My 12-Year-Old Black Son On A Plane. I Couldn’t Believe What She Told Him.
"My son is growing up to face dangers made worse by the president this woman voted for."
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I haven't written this kind of personal essay in years, so it was interesting to revisit this one, originally published in 2018, that @noahmichelson.bsky.social asked me to update.
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One of the lessons I hope people take away from Jesse Jackson’s life and the outpouring of remembrances small and large is that progress is made and measured in every act and utterance against oppression and not measured solely in legislative or electoral victories.
February 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM
One of the lessons I hope people take away from Jesse Jackson’s life and the outpouring of remembrances small and large is that progress is made and measured in every act and utterance against oppression and not measured solely in legislative or electoral victories.
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Thank you to Toby Buckle for citing my recent piece in this article:
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February 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Thank you to Toby Buckle for citing my recent piece in this article:
nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/we-were-righ...
nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/we-were-righ...
Jesse Jackson meant so much to me. I went door-to-door registering voters in Kansas for him in 1984 and 1986. Poor white people were suspicious -- "does this mean I have to vote for him?" -- and then kind of amazed when I said, "no, he just wants you to be able to VOTE." 1/
February 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Jesse Jackson meant so much to me. I went door-to-door registering voters in Kansas for him in 1984 and 1986. Poor white people were suspicious -- "does this mean I have to vote for him?" -- and then kind of amazed when I said, "no, he just wants you to be able to VOTE." 1/
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Everything in this administration is grift.
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
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Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Everything in this administration is grift.
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Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇
February 17, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇
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All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
February 16, 2026 at 5:46 PM
All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.
Brooks Robinson, George Brett, Bo Jackson, Big Papi
Saw this on MLB Network's Hot Stove this morning, so; Mt. Rushmore of your FAVORITE baseball players since today is President's Day? Mine: Ken Griffey Jr., Joey Votto, Tony Gwynn, and Greg Maddux.
February 17, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Brooks Robinson, George Brett, Bo Jackson, Big Papi
This short piece by Andrea Joyce to explain the different ice (and aesthetic venue) preferences of figure skating vs short track skating is actually super informative. (I did just get a little high, so my third eye is open or whatever.)
February 17, 2026 at 1:27 AM
This short piece by Andrea Joyce to explain the different ice (and aesthetic venue) preferences of figure skating vs short track skating is actually super informative. (I did just get a little high, so my third eye is open or whatever.)
I totally object to the New York Lottery, but I have to confess I love their ad about all the Benjamins with like 50 sassy old men dressed like Benjamin Franklin.
February 17, 2026 at 1:25 AM
I totally object to the New York Lottery, but I have to confess I love their ad about all the Benjamins with like 50 sassy old men dressed like Benjamin Franklin.
A witch hunt is when powerful actors persecute innocent people they wrongly claim are evil, and a moral panic is when powerful actors invent something to stoke fear. Neither term applies here. These men are actually themselves powerful actors, and they are both evil and frightening.
Noah Rothman on the Epstein files: "It is a witch hunt. It‘s a moral panic."
February 17, 2026 at 12:21 AM
A witch hunt is when powerful actors persecute innocent people they wrongly claim are evil, and a moral panic is when powerful actors invent something to stoke fear. Neither term applies here. These men are actually themselves powerful actors, and they are both evil and frightening.
This is the point that I wish everyone could see more clearly. The problem is hed & dek, which are all most people see.
as there often is, there's a big discrepancy between the tone of the story itself (fine) and the social media post promoting it (featuring the quote with the verbatim "um's"). The social post will unfortunately be read by 500x as many people as the body of the story!
February 16, 2026 at 11:13 PM
This is the point that I wish everyone could see more clearly. The problem is hed & dek, which are all most people see.
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Breaking: Scam is a scam.
Google’s AI Overviews Can Scam You. Here’s How to Stay Safe
Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths.
www.wired.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Breaking: Scam is a scam.
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The NYTimes often doesn't quote Trump at all, instead reframing his words with a summary falsely suggesting coherent thought, in contrast to the gibberish he actually said. They also don't mention how he routinely mumbles and slurs even prepared remarks, like here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zsd...
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The NYTimes often doesn't quote Trump at all, instead reframing his words with a summary falsely suggesting coherent thought, in contrast to the gibberish he actually said. They also don't mention how he routinely mumbles and slurs even prepared remarks, like here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zsd...
Other people I love right now: the kid who punched his pro ICE classmate, the new J-school graduate who turned down a job after learning the paper used AI.
I love a lot of people, but the person recreating Heated Rivalry using only Calico Critters in Instagram Reels is really moving up in the rankings today.
February 16, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Other people I love right now: the kid who punched his pro ICE classmate, the new J-school graduate who turned down a job after learning the paper used AI.
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RIP Frederick Wiseman <3 <3
February 16, 2026 at 8:43 PM
RIP Frederick Wiseman <3 <3
The new Teddy Wayne novel, coming in June, is ridiculously addictive.
February 16, 2026 at 8:16 PM
The new Teddy Wayne novel, coming in June, is ridiculously addictive.
I love a lot of people, but the person recreating Heated Rivalry using only Calico Critters in Instagram Reels is really moving up in the rankings today.
February 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM
I love a lot of people, but the person recreating Heated Rivalry using only Calico Critters in Instagram Reels is really moving up in the rankings today.
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🚨BREAKING: A group of civil rights organizations including the NAACP have asked a federal court to protect voters’ personal information after the FBI seized ballots and other election materials during a raid on Fulton County. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Civil rights groups ask court to protect Fulton County voter data seized by FBI
The federal government should be expressly banned from copying or sharing the seized records, the groups said.
www.democracydocket.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:41 PM
🚨BREAKING: A group of civil rights organizations including the NAACP have asked a federal court to protect voters’ personal information after the FBI seized ballots and other election materials during a raid on Fulton County. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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It is absolutely a choice.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:58 PM
It is absolutely a choice.
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
For poetry and other literary readings as well! (You know who never went long? Seamus Heaney)
I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
February 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM
For poetry and other literary readings as well! (You know who never went long? Seamus Heaney)
I've decided that since I was President of the National Book Critics Circle for two years (2018-2020) I will be celebrating myself this Presidents Day, so there.
As a woman who grew up very invested in the idea that government can help people, that politics matter, and that the unrealized ideals of America matter, it's a bitter thing to mark Presidents Day when we have this president instead of two women who came so close to being the first female POTUS.
February 16, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I've decided that since I was President of the National Book Critics Circle for two years (2018-2020) I will be celebrating myself this Presidents Day, so there.
I love talking about books on podcasts! This one with Atlanta's own Bill Nigut was a lot of fun. There are some audio issues that made me cringe but I hope others might find the conversation interesting. www.wabe.org/podcasts/in-...
Kate Tuttle
Boston Globe books section editor Kate Tuttle joins host Bill Nigut to discuss recent and upcoming book releases. Kate previously lived in Atlanta where she wrote for the New York […]
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February 16, 2026 at 4:05 PM
I love talking about books on podcasts! This one with Atlanta's own Bill Nigut was a lot of fun. There are some audio issues that made me cringe but I hope others might find the conversation interesting. www.wabe.org/podcasts/in-...
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A book I highly recommend on electronic slot machines—which fully convinced me they should be illegal for how they systematically mislead our brains—is Natasha Dow Schüll‘s ADDICTION BY DESIGN
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis.
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake.
The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0
www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...
From Pill Mills to Prop Bets: Prediction Markets and Mobile Sports Betting Apps Are Fueling America’s Next Addiction Crisis
Against the gamblification of the world.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:52 PM
A book I highly recommend on electronic slot machines—which fully convinced me they should be illegal for how they systematically mislead our brains—is Natasha Dow Schüll‘s ADDICTION BY DESIGN
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many
Gamified online gambling seems much worse, & is becoming much more ubiquitous
It will immiserate so many