Katharine Dow
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
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🧵1/ I’m releasing my documentary “A Visit to a Homeless Shelter for Transgender Ugandans” in 5 parts.
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🧵1/ I’m releasing my documentary “A Visit to a Homeless Shelter for Transgender Ugandans” in 5 parts.
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
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Molas, textiles using a reverse appliqué technique by women of the Indigenous Guna people, Panama #WomensArt
December 4, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Molas, textiles using a reverse appliqué technique by women of the Indigenous Guna people, Panama #WomensArt
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Picked up ‘The Christmas Book’ a graphic celebration edited by David Larkin, at the weekend. Here’s an illustration by Edmund Dulac.
‘Many a winter’s night she flies through the streets and peeps in at the windows, and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful patterns like flowers.’
‘Many a winter’s night she flies through the streets and peeps in at the windows, and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful patterns like flowers.’
December 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Picked up ‘The Christmas Book’ a graphic celebration edited by David Larkin, at the weekend. Here’s an illustration by Edmund Dulac.
‘Many a winter’s night she flies through the streets and peeps in at the windows, and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful patterns like flowers.’
‘Many a winter’s night she flies through the streets and peeps in at the windows, and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful patterns like flowers.’
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“Violence, repression, and bloodshed lurk beneath every Southern story. Of course that horror leached into our literature.”
@elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social has a stunningly honest essay about horror and the South in Nighttide Magazine you don’t want to miss.
nighttidemag.com/2025/11/28/g...
@elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social has a stunningly honest essay about horror and the South in Nighttide Magazine you don’t want to miss.
nighttidemag.com/2025/11/28/g...
SO MUCH BLOOD IN THIS EARTH: GENERATIONAL TRAUMA IN SOUTHERN GOTHIC
Violence, repression, and bloodshed lurk beneath every Southern story. Of course that horror leached into our literature.
nighttidemag.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“Violence, repression, and bloodshed lurk beneath every Southern story. Of course that horror leached into our literature.”
@elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social has a stunningly honest essay about horror and the South in Nighttide Magazine you don’t want to miss.
nighttidemag.com/2025/11/28/g...
@elizabethbroadbent.bsky.social has a stunningly honest essay about horror and the South in Nighttide Magazine you don’t want to miss.
nighttidemag.com/2025/11/28/g...
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This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.)
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
IMLS announces "upon further review" that it is reinstating all federal grants to libraries. It leaves out that it's doing this because a federal court told them a few weeks ago that the Trump admin's decision to destroy libraries was not legal.
www.imls.gov/news/stateme...
www.imls.gov/news/stateme...
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants
Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersede...
www.imls.gov
December 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This is really important. Both in the fact of IMLS reinstating grants. (Which have been *crucial* for libraries and civic life across the country. Notably in rural areas.)
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
And in the example that the overall stalwartness and rigor of federal district/circuit courts has made a huge difference.
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Hey folks: this morning we're launching a monthlong fundraiser for @techdirt.com. Over the last year, we've been steadfast in not self-censoring, not capitulating, not sanewashing bullshit. But that's come at a cost. And we need help: rtb.techdirt.com/products/fri...
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December 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Hey folks: this morning we're launching a monthlong fundraiser for @techdirt.com. Over the last year, we've been steadfast in not self-censoring, not capitulating, not sanewashing bullshit. But that's come at a cost. And we need help: rtb.techdirt.com/products/fri...
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In part two, Margaret talks with Robert Evans one more time about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.
@margaret.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
@margaret.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
December 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In part two, Margaret talks with Robert Evans one more time about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution.
@margaret.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
@margaret.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
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29th November marks the start of #ReadPalestine week.
So, I'm delighted to announce the launch of the first Clarion Voices chapbook - MY TWICE-EXILED THRONE, by Khalil Sima’an - published by Feral Angels Press and @clarionpoetry
Tickets are free and can be booked via clarionpoetry.com/events
So, I'm delighted to announce the launch of the first Clarion Voices chapbook - MY TWICE-EXILED THRONE, by Khalil Sima’an - published by Feral Angels Press and @clarionpoetry
Tickets are free and can be booked via clarionpoetry.com/events
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
29th November marks the start of #ReadPalestine week.
So, I'm delighted to announce the launch of the first Clarion Voices chapbook - MY TWICE-EXILED THRONE, by Khalil Sima’an - published by Feral Angels Press and @clarionpoetry
Tickets are free and can be booked via clarionpoetry.com/events
So, I'm delighted to announce the launch of the first Clarion Voices chapbook - MY TWICE-EXILED THRONE, by Khalil Sima’an - published by Feral Angels Press and @clarionpoetry
Tickets are free and can be booked via clarionpoetry.com/events
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A reminder this holiday season and always
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
A reminder this holiday season and always
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Happy Holidays! Every day until Christmas, I'll use this thread to rec a book to help you with your gift list. Let's start with THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN by Giorgio De Maria, translated by Ramon Glazov, and republished with a foreword by moi. Buy from your fav indie. (Alt text = more detail.) 1/?
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Happy Holidays! Every day until Christmas, I'll use this thread to rec a book to help you with your gift list. Let's start with THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN by Giorgio De Maria, translated by Ramon Glazov, and republished with a foreword by moi. Buy from your fav indie. (Alt text = more detail.) 1/?
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We’ve compiled a list that includes important new books from local authors, suggestions on places to find products that will help you look and feel good, unique and interesting local clothing designers, and more. baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-be...
November 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
We’ve compiled a list that includes important new books from local authors, suggestions on places to find products that will help you look and feel good, unique and interesting local clothing designers, and more. baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-be...
Just got my cooy of The Reset Workbook - A Guide to Finding Your Inner Magic in the mail. As author Justin Shiels likes to remind us, joy is worth fighting for, and is indeed revolutionary. #JoyReset
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Just got my cooy of The Reset Workbook - A Guide to Finding Your Inner Magic in the mail. As author Justin Shiels likes to remind us, joy is worth fighting for, and is indeed revolutionary. #JoyReset
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
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From the interview:
My background in public health and choreography taught me that everything is connected if you look closely enough. For anyone starting out, don’t separate your interests. Let them inform one another. The bridges you build between them will become your signature.
My background in public health and choreography taught me that everything is connected if you look closely enough. For anyone starting out, don’t separate your interests. Let them inform one another. The bridges you build between them will become your signature.
My nephew Pioneer Winter is such an inspiration. The more time I spend with him, the better I am as a person.
boldjourney.com/meet-pioneer...
boldjourney.com/meet-pioneer...
boldjourney.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
From the interview:
My background in public health and choreography taught me that everything is connected if you look closely enough. For anyone starting out, don’t separate your interests. Let them inform one another. The bridges you build between them will become your signature.
My background in public health and choreography taught me that everything is connected if you look closely enough. For anyone starting out, don’t separate your interests. Let them inform one another. The bridges you build between them will become your signature.
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"As God is my witness, I thought..."
WKRP Thanksgiving 1978
This excerpt is an homage to The Greatest Turkey Event in Thanksgiving History. Property of MTM Enterprises
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November 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"As God is my witness, I thought..."
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WHAT IF
THERE WAS *ONLY* PIE
A DAY OF PIE
BREAKFAST PIE
SAVORY PIE
SWEET PIE
SOME SORT OF ALCOHOLIC DRINKABLE PIE
PIESGIVING WE WOULD CALL IT AND THE WORLD WOULD THANK US IN PRAYER AND SONG AND IDEALLY PIE
THERE WAS *ONLY* PIE
A DAY OF PIE
BREAKFAST PIE
SAVORY PIE
SWEET PIE
SOME SORT OF ALCOHOLIC DRINKABLE PIE
PIESGIVING WE WOULD CALL IT AND THE WORLD WOULD THANK US IN PRAYER AND SONG AND IDEALLY PIE
WELCOME TO THE DAY OF MANY CALORIES
YOU SHALL CONSUME
YOU SHALL INGEST
YOU SHALL HEAVE YOUR SWOLLEN BODY ONTO THE COUCH MOANING AS YOU DO SO
BUT WAIT
THERE'S STILL PIE
YOU SHALL CONSUME
YOU SHALL INGEST
YOU SHALL HEAVE YOUR SWOLLEN BODY ONTO THE COUCH MOANING AS YOU DO SO
BUT WAIT
THERE'S STILL PIE
November 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
WHAT IF
THERE WAS *ONLY* PIE
A DAY OF PIE
BREAKFAST PIE
SAVORY PIE
SWEET PIE
SOME SORT OF ALCOHOLIC DRINKABLE PIE
PIESGIVING WE WOULD CALL IT AND THE WORLD WOULD THANK US IN PRAYER AND SONG AND IDEALLY PIE
THERE WAS *ONLY* PIE
A DAY OF PIE
BREAKFAST PIE
SAVORY PIE
SWEET PIE
SOME SORT OF ALCOHOLIC DRINKABLE PIE
PIESGIVING WE WOULD CALL IT AND THE WORLD WOULD THANK US IN PRAYER AND SONG AND IDEALLY PIE
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Learn all about the complicated relationship between magic and early Christians by listening to the latest episode of the pod.
youtu.be/oPx9EaXSbQM
youtu.be/oPx9EaXSbQM
Sidequest 27 - Magic and Early Christianity with Dr. Shaily Patel
YouTube video by Bull City Coordinators
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November 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Mo'ne Davis spent years telling people that she was done playing baseball. She did not want to be forever defined by what she did as a 13-year-old in Little League, a decade ago, and she did not feel like there was space for her to do much else. And then she felt differently. On Davis and the WPBL:
Mo’ne Davis Is Finally Ready to Play Baseball Again
More than a decade after becoming a Little League sensation at age 13, Mo’ne Davis is set to make more history as the face of the Women’s Pro Baseball League.
www.si.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Mo'ne Davis spent years telling people that she was done playing baseball. She did not want to be forever defined by what she did as a 13-year-old in Little League, a decade ago, and she did not feel like there was space for her to do much else. And then she felt differently. On Davis and the WPBL:
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'Dr Michelle Taylor, a University of Essex scientist who led the voyage, said: "If anything brushes up against them, they're doomed, unfortunately. Then to be absorbed slowly over time is a grim way of going."
Carnivorous 'death-ball' sponge share.google/pcKssFW9bX1E...
Carnivorous 'death-ball' sponge share.google/pcKssFW9bX1E...
Carnivorous 'death-ball' sponge is team's oddest deep-sea find
The unusual creature lurks more than two miles (3.2km) deep in a trench in the Southern Ocean.
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November 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
'Dr Michelle Taylor, a University of Essex scientist who led the voyage, said: "If anything brushes up against them, they're doomed, unfortunately. Then to be absorbed slowly over time is a grim way of going."
Carnivorous 'death-ball' sponge share.google/pcKssFW9bX1E...
Carnivorous 'death-ball' sponge share.google/pcKssFW9bX1E...
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@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and I went to a frog protest and were shocked to find it was actually about frogs
Turns out Trump is f-ing them up too
hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/sometimes-...
Turns out Trump is f-ing them up too
hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/sometimes-...
Sometimes it's not a metaphor
A frog march that was...just that
hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 AM
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org and I went to a frog protest and were shocked to find it was actually about frogs
Turns out Trump is f-ing them up too
hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/sometimes-...
Turns out Trump is f-ing them up too
hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/sometimes-...
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It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
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This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
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'Three black cats' by Maud Lewis (1903-1970), Canadian folk artist #WomensArt #FridayFeeling
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 AM
'Three black cats' by Maud Lewis (1903-1970), Canadian folk artist #WomensArt #FridayFeeling