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-...
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From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.
February 16, 2026 at 1:26 AM
From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.
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If you want to learn what SSPE is like, there are real stories from real people about the devastation measles can wreak even years later
The return of measles will mean the return of SSPE.
If you don't know what that is, read this. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...
If you don't know what that is, read this. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...
What Measles Did to My Family
My mom always told me that measles was what made my sister sick. I was 8 when she finally explained the whole thing.
www.voicesforvaccines.org
February 16, 2026 at 2:08 AM
If you want to learn what SSPE is like, there are real stories from real people about the devastation measles can wreak even years later
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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
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This is all quite horrifying
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
February 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
This is all quite horrifying
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"The Crime of Witness" by Fintan O’Toole in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
"The videos that expose the administration’s mendacity about its own use of extreme violence against peaceful dissent are themselves products of the courage to show up [and] see for yourself."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
"The videos that expose the administration’s mendacity about its own use of extreme violence against peaceful dissent are themselves products of the courage to show up [and] see for yourself."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
February 16, 2026 at 12:05 AM
"The Crime of Witness" by Fintan O’Toole in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
"The videos that expose the administration’s mendacity about its own use of extreme violence against peaceful dissent are themselves products of the courage to show up [and] see for yourself."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
"The videos that expose the administration’s mendacity about its own use of extreme violence against peaceful dissent are themselves products of the courage to show up [and] see for yourself."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
www.cbsnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
Not one dime for this cruelty.
www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
The NBA all star game feels like a bad video game.
February 15, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The NBA all star game feels like a bad video game.
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The awfulness of the first sentence here is obvious. As for the second sentence, I don't think they do and I don't think they do.
February 15, 2026 at 7:38 PM
The awfulness of the first sentence here is obvious. As for the second sentence, I don't think they do and I don't think they do.
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In the middle of a once-in-a-generation attack on academia and the humanities by the right in the US, as people are losing funding and jobs, and we don't even know if our disciplines will make it out alive, Tyler Austin Harper decides that it was time to attack the Mellon Foundation.
hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
February 15, 2026 at 8:34 PM
In the middle of a once-in-a-generation attack on academia and the humanities by the right in the US, as people are losing funding and jobs, and we don't even know if our disciplines will make it out alive, Tyler Austin Harper decides that it was time to attack the Mellon Foundation.
Horrifying
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 15, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Horrifying
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Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact
February 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact
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“Billionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good and natural thing. Epstein funnelled as much as $20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology. In exchange, Epstein himself, who could barely read and write, was empowered to hold forth at Harvard”
About Epstein, Edge, eugenics, and finding my name in the Epstein files.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 6:35 PM
“Billionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good and natural thing. Epstein funnelled as much as $20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology. In exchange, Epstein himself, who could barely read and write, was empowered to hold forth at Harvard”
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I don't know how many more ways to say "you need to start fucking listening to the people who warned you that exactly this would happen."
LLM/GPT-type "AI" recreate patterns in pursuit of matching statistical correlations on which they're trained. They make shit up.
Do Not. Put this. In healthcare
LLM/GPT-type "AI" recreate patterns in pursuit of matching statistical correlations on which they're trained. They make shit up.
Do Not. Put this. In healthcare
October 26, 2024 at 5:34 PM
I don't know how many more ways to say "you need to start fucking listening to the people who warned you that exactly this would happen."
LLM/GPT-type "AI" recreate patterns in pursuit of matching statistical correlations on which they're trained. They make shit up.
Do Not. Put this. In healthcare
LLM/GPT-type "AI" recreate patterns in pursuit of matching statistical correlations on which they're trained. They make shit up.
Do Not. Put this. In healthcare
All the best people are in this boat, it seems.
I’m menopausal, I have ADD, I smoke a lot of weed, and I’ve had COVID twice.
I can’t remember shit and I never know what’s going on.
I can’t remember shit and I never know what’s going on.
February 15, 2026 at 5:57 PM
All the best people are in this boat, it seems.
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And we’re got big news! Next year’s artist in residence is none other than @roxanegay.bsky.social!!!! Imagine getting to study writing with her AND me!!! At the same time!! APPLY!!!
You there, smart person, come study with me at Harvard Medical School! Our program is so fun! The application deadline is March 13.
Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health
The Master of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health is a nine-month Harvard Medical School graduate program for those interested in using storytelling to make a difference in health. The Master of Sc...
ghsm.hms.harvard.edu
February 15, 2026 at 3:26 PM
And we’re got big news! Next year’s artist in residence is none other than @roxanegay.bsky.social!!!! Imagine getting to study writing with her AND me!!! At the same time!! APPLY!!!
Hey Hudson Valley friends: what's the best coffee shop or other place to hang out and get a little work done while someone is touring Bard? (Not for me, and yes I know about Botstein and Epstein.)
February 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Hey Hudson Valley friends: what's the best coffee shop or other place to hang out and get a little work done while someone is touring Bard? (Not for me, and yes I know about Botstein and Epstein.)
The best thing about having this cold that has totally sapped my energy is that I'm learning I don't NEED to respond to everything I see on here. It's okay to have a thought and not type it out. Crazy how new this feels lol.
February 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
The best thing about having this cold that has totally sapped my energy is that I'm learning I don't NEED to respond to everything I see on here. It's okay to have a thought and not type it out. Crazy how new this feels lol.
This is SUCH a good piece.
Wrote about the Turning Point USA Super Bowl halftime show and the Melania movie as the latest in a larger project to make the American right *seem* far more popular and culturally relevant than it actually is.
badfaithtimes.com/nothing-real...
badfaithtimes.com/nothing-real...
Nothing Real Can Emerge From The American Right's Unreality
The idea that the US is split exactly down the middle politically and culturally infiltrates everything
badfaithtimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:44 PM
This is SUCH a good piece.
Jesus
February 15, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Jesus
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The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it
You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????
February 15, 2026 at 12:26 PM
The thing about Casablanca being the greatest film of all time is people don't believe you and then they watch it
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this sentence is supposedly just about hockey
“instead of being better than their neighbors to the north, the Americans leaned into being meaner, heavier and generally more irritating”
www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
“instead of being better than their neighbors to the north, the Americans leaned into being meaner, heavier and generally more irritating”
www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
They’re the World’s Most Hated Hockey Players—and America’s Greatest Hope
Matthew and Brady Tkachuk are despised across the NHL. They are also the linchpins for a U.S. squad hoping to become Olympic champions for the first time since 1980.
www.wsj.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:10 AM
this sentence is supposedly just about hockey
“instead of being better than their neighbors to the north, the Americans leaned into being meaner, heavier and generally more irritating”
www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
“instead of being better than their neighbors to the north, the Americans leaned into being meaner, heavier and generally more irritating”
www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
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This 10 year old boy was chased down by ICE in South Jersey. I am beyond outraged, both as an American and as a father to two boys.
Our system is broken. The first step to fix it is for ICE to leave our state.
Our system is broken. The first step to fix it is for ICE to leave our state.
A 10-year-old boy recounted fleeing Thursday morning as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation began near his school bus stop in Lindenwold, New Jersey, saying, "We all were scared."
"We were all scared," says child who ran as ICE operation unfolded near New Jersey school bus stop
Dylan, who is a U.S. citizen, told CBS News the day seemed normal — until he heard his classmates suddenly start shouting "ICE."
cbsn.ws
February 14, 2026 at 6:04 PM
This 10 year old boy was chased down by ICE in South Jersey. I am beyond outraged, both as an American and as a father to two boys.
Our system is broken. The first step to fix it is for ICE to leave our state.
Our system is broken. The first step to fix it is for ICE to leave our state.
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Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.
February 15, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.