Kathleen
@kathleencarson.bsky.social
Doomers are complying in advance. I block on sight. Guaranteed one egregious typo per post.
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The demonization of Somalis is no different than the demonization of Haitians before the election. It's a political attack and has to be actively fought—not through half-measures or expressions of tepid concern but by demanding decency from society and respect for all of humanity.
January 2, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The demonization of Somalis is no different than the demonization of Haitians before the election. It's a political attack and has to be actively fought—not through half-measures or expressions of tepid concern but by demanding decency from society and respect for all of humanity.
My godmother died this morning after a long, long illness.
The last conversation I had with her (this week) included her telling me "we don't do that" about anti-Mexican bigotry in her clearest middle school teacher manner.
The last conversation I had with her (this week) included her telling me "we don't do that" about anti-Mexican bigotry in her clearest middle school teacher manner.
January 2, 2026 at 10:07 PM
My godmother died this morning after a long, long illness.
The last conversation I had with her (this week) included her telling me "we don't do that" about anti-Mexican bigotry in her clearest middle school teacher manner.
The last conversation I had with her (this week) included her telling me "we don't do that" about anti-Mexican bigotry in her clearest middle school teacher manner.
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@kenwhite.bsky.social do you generally recommend clients run a website completely awash in user-generated revenge porn, including of minors? And, of course, they provide an extremely badly safeguarded AI that is easily prompted to provide that material.
Asking for Grok's owner and/or nemesis.
Asking for Grok's owner and/or nemesis.
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 2:05 AM
@kenwhite.bsky.social do you generally recommend clients run a website completely awash in user-generated revenge porn, including of minors? And, of course, they provide an extremely badly safeguarded AI that is easily prompted to provide that material.
Asking for Grok's owner and/or nemesis.
Asking for Grok's owner and/or nemesis.
While home, went to visit childhood teacher and friend who is in the hospital dying. She had a Lady of Guadalupe fleece blanket on her bed and my mom asked her where she got that. She said she heard some group was selling raffle tickets for them as a fundraiser and were having a hard time +
December 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
While home, went to visit childhood teacher and friend who is in the hospital dying. She had a Lady of Guadalupe fleece blanket on her bed and my mom asked her where she got that. She said she heard some group was selling raffle tickets for them as a fundraiser and were having a hard time +
I'm back at my childhood home, deep in the rural part of a ruby red state. I'm listening to my dad, an old farmer, and my BIL, a retired auto sector exec, talking about how it is an embarrassment that we don't have universal healthcare.
December 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I'm back at my childhood home, deep in the rural part of a ruby red state. I'm listening to my dad, an old farmer, and my BIL, a retired auto sector exec, talking about how it is an embarrassment that we don't have universal healthcare.
Wild. Very lucky this didn't come with some extreme weather.
December 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Wild. Very lucky this didn't come with some extreme weather.
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Great video by @anamariecox.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?si=gYx...
That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad | An Editor’s Note
YouTube video by Ana Marie Cox
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Great video by @anamariecox.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?si=gYx...
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Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)
December 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)
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Genuinely appalling that Princeton would publish this, much less that they're still promoting it. On the face of it this would seem to be at least plausibly defamatory.
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Genuinely appalling that Princeton would publish this, much less that they're still promoting it. On the face of it this would seem to be at least plausibly defamatory.
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Far too many fundamentally misunderstand what voting is. It's not a form of personal moral expression; it's a large scale harm v benefit equation, & that takes certain sympathetic & critical thinking skills, of which there's a woeful dearth in this country.
Dumb & mean. That's what we are, mostly.
Dumb & mean. That's what we are, mostly.
December 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Far too many fundamentally misunderstand what voting is. It's not a form of personal moral expression; it's a large scale harm v benefit equation, & that takes certain sympathetic & critical thinking skills, of which there's a woeful dearth in this country.
Dumb & mean. That's what we are, mostly.
Dumb & mean. That's what we are, mostly.
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happy to allow Republican converts who have seen the light and realized Trump is a monster to come groveling to us and apologize for all the years of calling us hysterical
*taps earpiece* what’s that now? they expect to be given power in the party they shat on? sorry you must have the wrong number
*taps earpiece* what’s that now? they expect to be given power in the party they shat on? sorry you must have the wrong number
December 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
happy to allow Republican converts who have seen the light and realized Trump is a monster to come groveling to us and apologize for all the years of calling us hysterical
*taps earpiece* what’s that now? they expect to be given power in the party they shat on? sorry you must have the wrong number
*taps earpiece* what’s that now? they expect to be given power in the party they shat on? sorry you must have the wrong number
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funhouse mirror wikileaks
I just don’t think this is going away
people are going to play amateur sleuth with the redactions, people are going to invent brand new conspiracy theories, people are going to rightfully complain that they aren’t releasing everything
there’s no out here
people are going to play amateur sleuth with the redactions, people are going to invent brand new conspiracy theories, people are going to rightfully complain that they aren’t releasing everything
there’s no out here
Garcia: In our initial estimation—It could be that we're only getting about 10% of what the DOJ has. And of that 10%, 5% of that has already been released. And the other 5% is highly redacted. So we're getting very little so far
December 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
funhouse mirror wikileaks
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“Any DOJ official who does not comply with this law will be subject to prosecution for obstruction of justice,” Ro Khanna said in a House speech this week. “If Pam Bondi does not comply with the law, she will be held either in inherent contempt of Congress or subject to impeachment.”
Let’s go.
Let’s go.
December 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
“Any DOJ official who does not comply with this law will be subject to prosecution for obstruction of justice,” Ro Khanna said in a House speech this week. “If Pam Bondi does not comply with the law, she will be held either in inherent contempt of Congress or subject to impeachment.”
Let’s go.
Let’s go.
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The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever
Freedom of speech, in the liberal ideal, was about limiting the power of the elites.
Now, in this twisted form, it is about forcing us to listen to elites and silencing the masses.
Now, in this twisted form, it is about forcing us to listen to elites and silencing the masses.
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
December 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever
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“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
The problem is *never* not having any ideas. It always figuring out what ideas are minimally feasible, what you can get buy-in to, and will actually accomplish what you want.
"That's a great great idea but it'll never work."
"That's a great great idea but it'll never work."
I just saw someone yell “they’re just using it to generate ideas!”
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
And
I hate to say it
But if you work in the ART DEPARTMENT and you need a death machine stuffed with your colleagues’ work to give you ideas
Quit.
December 20, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The problem is *never* not having any ideas. It always figuring out what ideas are minimally feasible, what you can get buy-in to, and will actually accomplish what you want.
"That's a great great idea but it'll never work."
"That's a great great idea but it'll never work."
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Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974
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I don't want to hear one goddamn word from anyone who spent the smallest amount of energy detracting from the effort to elect Biden/Harris in 2024.
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I don't want to hear one goddamn word from anyone who spent the smallest amount of energy detracting from the effort to elect Biden/Harris in 2024.
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Trump’s Chief of Staff says Trump & Jeffrey Epstein were “young, single playboys together.”
Epstein wasn’t a “playboy.” He was a convicted sexual predator.
That language shows the moral rot in the White House surrounding the Epstein investigation.
#releasethefiles
Epstein wasn’t a “playboy.” He was a convicted sexual predator.
That language shows the moral rot in the White House surrounding the Epstein investigation.
#releasethefiles
December 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Trump’s Chief of Staff says Trump & Jeffrey Epstein were “young, single playboys together.”
Epstein wasn’t a “playboy.” He was a convicted sexual predator.
That language shows the moral rot in the White House surrounding the Epstein investigation.
#releasethefiles
Epstein wasn’t a “playboy.” He was a convicted sexual predator.
That language shows the moral rot in the White House surrounding the Epstein investigation.
#releasethefiles
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Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Glad Rolling Stone published this, especially given the loud silence from the rest of the media on this grim watershed moment in US political history.
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It’s still wild to me the NYT drove out Paul Krugman but keep around guys who appear in the Epstein files
lol, lmao, lol, lmao
December 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It’s still wild to me the NYT drove out Paul Krugman but keep around guys who appear in the Epstein files
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They literally had to invent it from scratch! Not just the pyramid. Math!
December 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
They literally had to invent it from scratch! Not just the pyramid. Math!