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-...
Classic Aquarius bullshit
Aquarius, or the Water-bearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us
February 14, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Classic Aquarius bullshit
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WHAT????
‘Suicide is only one option': Social Security staff newly assigned to phone duties raise concerns over training
www.govexec.com/management/2...
www.govexec.com/management/2...
‘Suicide is only one option': Social Security staff newly assigned to phone duties raise concerns over training
Experts and SSA employees question wisdom of telling callers in crisis that suicide is an option.
www.govexec.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
WHAT????
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Is it too much to ask that the chief executive of OpenAI read one (1) history book or understand anything about human nature? The answer is "yes", apparently. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
February 12, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Is it too much to ask that the chief executive of OpenAI read one (1) history book or understand anything about human nature? The answer is "yes", apparently. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
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roses are red
some humans are trans
and that won’t change
with your bigoted bans
some humans are trans
and that won’t change
with your bigoted bans
Roses are red
Rainbows are queer
fascist white supremacy
has always been here
Rainbows are queer
fascist white supremacy
has always been here
Roses are red
History is relevant
The return of the Nazis
Is the living room's elephant
History is relevant
The return of the Nazis
Is the living room's elephant
February 14, 2026 at 12:10 AM
roses are red
some humans are trans
and that won’t change
with your bigoted bans
some humans are trans
and that won’t change
with your bigoted bans
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This story and interview are hard to read, but this woman is probably among the toughest humans who has ever lived. Few can say they would have the courage and bravery to talk so openly about what she endured. GIFT LINK. (and content warning, of course)
‘They All Tried to Break Me’: Gisèle Pelicot Shares Her Story
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:33 AM
This story and interview are hard to read, but this woman is probably among the toughest humans who has ever lived. Few can say they would have the courage and bravery to talk so openly about what she endured. GIFT LINK. (and content warning, of course)
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Lulu Garcia-Navarro is such a pro
February 14, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Lulu Garcia-Navarro is such a pro
Okay
February 14, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Okay
This is the guy I wanted to see! The peppiest figure skater!
February 13, 2026 at 9:43 PM
This is the guy I wanted to see! The peppiest figure skater!
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You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
If the "this how a child dies of measles" piece in the Atlantic move the needle at all, good for it. It strikes me uneasily as a piece of journalism -- I would much prefer Bruenig report deeply from inside a real family's real story than create this hypotethical.
February 13, 2026 at 7:58 PM
If the "this how a child dies of measles" piece in the Atlantic move the needle at all, good for it. It strikes me uneasily as a piece of journalism -- I would much prefer Bruenig report deeply from inside a real family's real story than create this hypotethical.
Sitting here with the horrific cold that seems to be going around, feeling wretched. And then this man sends me a care package with kleenex and cough drops and hot tea and healing face masks and candy and -- my body still hurts but my soul is dancing around.
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Sitting here with the horrific cold that seems to be going around, feeling wretched. And then this man sends me a care package with kleenex and cough drops and hot tea and healing face masks and candy and -- my body still hurts but my soul is dancing around.
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Shit i guess somebody better go tell Frantz Fanon, Simone de Beauvoir, W.E.B Dubois, bell hooks, Judith Butler, Alain Locke, Harriet McBryde Johnson, Paulo Freire, Hannah Arendt, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., & just a shit ton of other people that they can't be scholars & activists. Damn 🫤. 🫠
lmao so uh a student just came up to me and told me that a classmate asked their professor about the talk I gave the other day and the prof said 'it seems like she's trying to be a scholar and an activist but you can't do both'
(the student who relayed this to me had a similar 'lmao uhhh' reaction)
(the student who relayed this to me had a similar 'lmao uhhh' reaction)
February 13, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Shit i guess somebody better go tell Frantz Fanon, Simone de Beauvoir, W.E.B Dubois, bell hooks, Judith Butler, Alain Locke, Harriet McBryde Johnson, Paulo Freire, Hannah Arendt, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., & just a shit ton of other people that they can't be scholars & activists. Damn 🫤. 🫠
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"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
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One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.
a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate'
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
www.thepinknews.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.
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What a story:
“Lewandowski and Noem, both married, have denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship.
“The pair have been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country”
1/
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
“Lewandowski and Noem, both married, have denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship.
“The pair have been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country”
1/
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
www.wsj.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 AM
What a story:
“Lewandowski and Noem, both married, have denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship.
“The pair have been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country”
1/
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
“Lewandowski and Noem, both married, have denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship.
“The pair have been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country”
1/
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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“Scholarly attention has rightly focused on the forced reproduction of enslaved Black women, but that focus need not come at the expense of understanding the position of enslaved Black men, who were also denied sexual autonomy, including the ability to choose with whom they would have children.”
Black Men Endured Sexual Exploitation Under Slavery. Their Story Is Rarely Told.
Historian Thomas A. Foster discusses his new book Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men.
truthout.org
February 12, 2026 at 10:31 PM
“Scholarly attention has rightly focused on the forced reproduction of enslaved Black women, but that focus need not come at the expense of understanding the position of enslaved Black men, who were also denied sexual autonomy, including the ability to choose with whom they would have children.”
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Well yeah it was and is a transnational fascist plot to take over western democracy and destroy the world
This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing
February 13, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Well yeah it was and is a transnational fascist plot to take over western democracy and destroy the world
Grade A mothering
Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
February 13, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Grade A mothering
Everyone who’s had the shitty cold that is not a flu or Covid or RSV, how long has it lasted?
February 13, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Everyone who’s had the shitty cold that is not a flu or Covid or RSV, how long has it lasted?
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People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
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"Donald Trump Jr.... is now an advisor to Kalshi and Polymarket, which was forced out of the U.S. under Biden but is now staging a U.S. comeback. The president's social network, TruthSocial, is also planning to launch its own prediction market service."
Scam site for scammers.
Shut 'em down.
Scam site for scammers.
Shut 'em down.
Kalshi in court over 19 federal lawsuits. What's the future of prediction markets?
Apps that let people wager on current events have experienced explosive growth in Trump's second term. But one of the leading markets is tied up in lawsuits that cloud the industry's future.
www.npr.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:21 AM
"Donald Trump Jr.... is now an advisor to Kalshi and Polymarket, which was forced out of the U.S. under Biden but is now staging a U.S. comeback. The president's social network, TruthSocial, is also planning to launch its own prediction market service."
Scam site for scammers.
Shut 'em down.
Scam site for scammers.
Shut 'em down.
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Unless the retreat brings the two dead innocent people back to life and frees the thousands penned up in inhumane detention camps, it does not.
Minneapolis retreat could undercut Democrats’ message as shutdown looms
Minneapolis retreat could undercut Democrats’ message as shutdown looms
The end of the Trump administration's Minnesota operation comes as immigration hawks have pushed Trump officials to avoid caving to Democratic policy demands.
dlvr.it
February 12, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Unless the retreat brings the two dead innocent people back to life and frees the thousands penned up in inhumane detention camps, it does not.
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Glad to see a Columbia administrator speaking the plain sense about AI so many college leaders refuse to contend with. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Glad to see a Columbia administrator speaking the plain sense about AI so many college leaders refuse to contend with. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
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If you're currently a student at a college with a faculty member who showed up in the Epstein files, I'd like to talk to you about the campus response for an article. You can reach me at miles_klee@wired.com or millionbear.44 on Signal.
February 13, 2026 at 12:14 AM
If you're currently a student at a college with a faculty member who showed up in the Epstein files, I'd like to talk to you about the campus response for an article. You can reach me at miles_klee@wired.com or millionbear.44 on Signal.