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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People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.
February 19, 2026 at 1:03 AM
People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.
Never change, Brattle!
Y’know when the characters in a movie go to see a movie and it feels really meta? Well, with an “Ultimate Double Feature,” we play the first movie up until the point when they enter a cinema to watch a different film… then we play that film… then we go back to the first film to finish that story.
February 19, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Never change, Brattle!
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what id say is that consensus reality is a public good and it takes public policy to create. by the same token it can be insanely profitable for shitheads to pollute the commons if nobody stops them
The idea that we can have a functioning mass-democracy when people are cooking their brains to this extent remains extremely TBD imho.
She needs to go to jail.
February 19, 2026 at 2:25 AM
what id say is that consensus reality is a public good and it takes public policy to create. by the same token it can be insanely profitable for shitheads to pollute the commons if nobody stops them
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Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up
February 19, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up
This is such an important piece.
It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/t...
How did we end up threatening our kids’ lives with AI? - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
February 19, 2026 at 12:20 AM
This is such an important piece.
Who's watching Love Is Blind? I hate it but I love it. I feel so weird seeing faces that cringe when they first see their partner in person. :(
February 18, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Who's watching Love Is Blind? I hate it but I love it. I feel so weird seeing faces that cringe when they first see their partner in person. :(
What a beautiful race for the American men's cross-country sprint relay! Thrilling!
February 18, 2026 at 6:21 PM
What a beautiful race for the American men's cross-country sprint relay! Thrilling!
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This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
This ANTM piece on Netflix is bringing back such wild memories. What a delusional time we were living in, my god.
February 18, 2026 at 4:40 PM
This ANTM piece on Netflix is bringing back such wild memories. What a delusional time we were living in, my god.
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"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls
February 18, 2026 at 2:42 PM
"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls
Another review that I loved editing: @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on Julia Cooke's STARRY AND RESTLESS, a group biography of Gellhorn, West, and Hahn, three pioneering women journalists. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/18/a...
Three daring women who pursued journalism on their own terms - The Boston Globe
“Starry and Restless" is Julia Cooke’s aptly titled biography of pioneering foreign correspondents Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, and Emily Hahn.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Another review that I loved editing: @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on Julia Cooke's STARRY AND RESTLESS, a group biography of Gellhorn, West, and Hahn, three pioneering women journalists. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/18/a...
This is nicely done
February 18, 2026 at 3:57 PM
This is nicely done
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For @bostonglobe.com, I reviewed Tayari Jones's KIN which follows the lives of two "cradle friends," motherless girls born in rural Louisiana in 1941. It's a tender portrait of friendship against the stark backdrop of life under segregation in the deep South. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/18/a...
With ‘Kin,’ Tayari Jones honors the enduring bonds of friendship - The Boston Globe
In her first novel since "An American Marriage," Jones proves she's still a master at propulsive, compelling storytelling.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:44 PM
For @bostonglobe.com, I reviewed Tayari Jones's KIN which follows the lives of two "cradle friends," motherless girls born in rural Louisiana in 1941. It's a tender portrait of friendship against the stark backdrop of life under segregation in the deep South. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/18/a...
Our critic @laurenleblanc.bsky.social found a lot to love in KIN by Tayari Jones. If you've got a subscription to the Globe, please go into the comments and do your thing. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/18/a...
With ‘Kin,’ Tayari Jones honors the enduring bonds of friendship - The Boston Globe
In her first novel since "An American Marriage," Jones proves she's still a master at propulsive, compelling storytelling.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Our critic @laurenleblanc.bsky.social found a lot to love in KIN by Tayari Jones. If you've got a subscription to the Globe, please go into the comments and do your thing. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/18/a...
I'm just so tired of the casual racism in the comments of the newspaper for which I work.
February 18, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I'm just so tired of the casual racism in the comments of the newspaper for which I work.
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AUTOMATIC GOLD MEDAL FOR A GOOD BOY
February 18, 2026 at 1:38 PM
AUTOMATIC GOLD MEDAL FOR A GOOD BOY
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In a blatant violation of NY state and NYC law, NYU Langone has shut down its youth gender clinic and caused a potential forced detransition to its patients. Where is the NY AG and Mayor Mamdani?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...
Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 11:52 AM
In a blatant violation of NY state and NYC law, NYU Langone has shut down its youth gender clinic and caused a potential forced detransition to its patients. Where is the NY AG and Mayor Mamdani?
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/n...
It’s Tormod Frostad time!
February 18, 2026 at 2:31 AM
It’s Tormod Frostad time!
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
Just saw an ad for a cruise ship that promises to bring “European Style to the Caribbean” and I’m like, didn’t that already happen to disastrous consequence?
February 18, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Just saw an ad for a cruise ship that promises to bring “European Style to the Caribbean” and I’m like, didn’t that already happen to disastrous consequence?
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Playboy founder's widow warns Hugh Hefner Foundation about pictures of underage girls
Playboy founder's widow warns Hugh Hefner Foundation about pictures of underage girls
Crystal Hefner said she filed regulatory complaints alleging the Hugh M. Hefner Foundation possesses thousands of pages of the Playboy founder's journals and scrapbooks that may include nude pictures of women, including some who were underage and did not consent to being photographed.
www.latimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Playboy founder's widow warns Hugh Hefner Foundation about pictures of underage girls
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Just in: 50 parents and transgender activists have blockaded the HHS Building in protest of sweeping new rules that could ban trans youth nationwide.
24 were then arrested.
This is the kind of action we need.
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24 were then arrested.
This is the kind of action we need.
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24 Parents And Activists Blockade HHS Headquarters In Protest Against New Trans Youth Care Ban, Arrested
The protestors blocked entrance to the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters to protest a rule that could eliminate trans youth care nationwide.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Just in: 50 parents and transgender activists have blockaded the HHS Building in protest of sweeping new rules that could ban trans youth nationwide.
24 were then arrested.
This is the kind of action we need.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
24 were then arrested.
This is the kind of action we need.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Guess what fuckers, the flip side to "ideas are all that matters" is IDEAS ARE HARD
AI filmmaking is completely unserious.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
February 17, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Guess what fuckers, the flip side to "ideas are all that matters" is IDEAS ARE HARD
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God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses. He didn’t need the Tennessee General Assembly’s help.
They tried this in 1996, when I was a TN State Senator—I was the only Senator to vote NO because I saw it for what it was: politics masquerading as faith.
Faith is personal. The Constitution is clear.
They tried this in 1996, when I was a TN State Senator—I was the only Senator to vote NO because I saw it for what it was: politics masquerading as faith.
Faith is personal. The Constitution is clear.
Senate in Tennessee Backs 10 Commandments' Posting (Published 1996)
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:50 PM
God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses. He didn’t need the Tennessee General Assembly’s help.
They tried this in 1996, when I was a TN State Senator—I was the only Senator to vote NO because I saw it for what it was: politics masquerading as faith.
Faith is personal. The Constitution is clear.
They tried this in 1996, when I was a TN State Senator—I was the only Senator to vote NO because I saw it for what it was: politics masquerading as faith.
Faith is personal. The Constitution is clear.
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Spent today talking to just a few of the Black women who credit Jesse Jackson with their start in national politics. By inviting them in, he ensured they would help shape democracy for years to come. My latest on the coalition he built as part of his towering legacy: 19thnews.org/2026/02/jess...
‘He gave me my wings’: Jesse Jackson opened doors for Black women in politics
Jackson, who died Tuesday, worked to diversify the electorate and brought Black women into Democratic politics who ascended to positions of power.
19thnews.org
February 17, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Spent today talking to just a few of the Black women who credit Jesse Jackson with their start in national politics. By inviting them in, he ensured they would help shape democracy for years to come. My latest on the coalition he built as part of his towering legacy: 19thnews.org/2026/02/jess...