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."
www.huffpost.com
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.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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 […]
www.wabe.org
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
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Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.
The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb
February 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.
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Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)
This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
February 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)
This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
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Happy Presidents’ Day to @errinhaines.bsky.social President of the National Association of Black Journalists and @deborahnarcher.bsky.social President of the @aclu.org and Brittany Fonteno President of @abortionfunds.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Happy Presidents’ Day to @errinhaines.bsky.social President of the National Association of Black Journalists and @deborahnarcher.bsky.social President of the @aclu.org and Brittany Fonteno President of @abortionfunds.bsky.social
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I was talking to a lawyer about a story, and he was like, "Why is no one talking about what's happening to my clients???" and I was like "Well, every single industry in the United States is going through the worst crisis it's ever faced, but journalism was ahead of everyone in that race"
it’s breathtaking to see how this country is in decline by every possible metric
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 16, 2026 at 3:30 PM
I was talking to a lawyer about a story, and he was like, "Why is no one talking about what's happening to my clients???" and I was like "Well, every single industry in the United States is going through the worst crisis it's ever faced, but journalism was ahead of everyone in that race"
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The question is always, if this company is worth a trillion dollars what trillion dollar problem is it fixing and the only possible answer to that question in the instance of A.I. is “wages.”
AI guys insisting on the inevitability of the tech are so irritating. every comparison they make is to something whose utility was immediately apparent. "it does things faster and we can fix its mistakes later and that'll be the job now" does not compare to "metronome that doesn't need winding"
February 16, 2026 at 3:26 PM
The question is always, if this company is worth a trillion dollars what trillion dollar problem is it fixing and the only possible answer to that question in the instance of A.I. is “wages.”
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Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job
Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me
Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me
February 16, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job
Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me
Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me
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This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI.
AI does three main things:
1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive
2) transfer wealth upwards
3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)
AI does three main things:
1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive
2) transfer wealth upwards
3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)
February 16, 2026 at 2:30 PM
This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI.
AI does three main things:
1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive
2) transfer wealth upwards
3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)
AI does three main things:
1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive
2) transfer wealth upwards
3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)
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The other thing is that if we don't want voters to treat voting like a consumer choice, we should stop treating the process like a privilege that only people who can take off work and keep track of complex primary calendars get to enjoy, which is a holdover from Jim Crow.
February 16, 2026 at 3:10 PM
The other thing is that if we don't want voters to treat voting like a consumer choice, we should stop treating the process like a privilege that only people who can take off work and keep track of complex primary calendars get to enjoy, which is a holdover from Jim Crow.
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How many marathons could I run every day if I didn’t have to run them? A million? A billion? A TRILLION???!!!
“By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week.”
A newspaper editor actually said this! @theonion.com is cooked.
A newspaper editor actually said this! @theonion.com is cooked.
A conscientious journalism grad withdraw from a job when she learned the Cleveland Plain Dealer uses AI to write its stories.
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
Now the editor is castigating her and journalism professors for not being “prepared for the workforce.”
You can’t make this shit up.
www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
February 16, 2026 at 1:15 PM
How many marathons could I run every day if I didn’t have to run them? A million? A billion? A TRILLION???!!!
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Writing is thinking.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
“We plan to hire an AI rewrite specialist to ingest the reporting by Hannah and others and use AI to convert it into stories.”
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
The editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said it will use AI to ‘write’ its articles.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...
February 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Writing is thinking.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.