Kathryn Padgett
@kathrynannna.bsky.social
You must have misheard, I said I’m “into resting”
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We can participate in democracy and be flawed while also having non-negotiable. No nazis. No racists. We aren’t abandoning trans people. Triple the minimum wage. Universal healthcare. Reproductive freedom. Etc etc etc. Stand for something! Appeasement accomplishes very little.
October 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
We can participate in democracy and be flawed while also having non-negotiable. No nazis. No racists. We aren’t abandoning trans people. Triple the minimum wage. Universal healthcare. Reproductive freedom. Etc etc etc. Stand for something! Appeasement accomplishes very little.
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The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
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Deeply ironic to see people still clinging to the notion that facts that contradict someone's pre-conceived worldview can persuade when they are surrounded by evidence this is not the case.
August 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Deeply ironic to see people still clinging to the notion that facts that contradict someone's pre-conceived worldview can persuade when they are surrounded by evidence this is not the case.
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I don’t know how to get regular, busy people to really grasp this.
My friends tell me horror stories about being pols straight up demanding a bribe for a meeting about constituent needs. Calls to reps where they are low key mocked. Private equity eye rolling at boycotts. Etc etc etc
My friends tell me horror stories about being pols straight up demanding a bribe for a meeting about constituent needs. Calls to reps where they are low key mocked. Private equity eye rolling at boycotts. Etc etc etc
Hardly an original observation, but much of the trouble in American politics stems from the fact that the people with the most influence are those who are least dependent on having public institutions that operate effectively, and in the interest of the country as a whole.
July 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I don’t know how to get regular, busy people to really grasp this.
My friends tell me horror stories about being pols straight up demanding a bribe for a meeting about constituent needs. Calls to reps where they are low key mocked. Private equity eye rolling at boycotts. Etc etc etc
My friends tell me horror stories about being pols straight up demanding a bribe for a meeting about constituent needs. Calls to reps where they are low key mocked. Private equity eye rolling at boycotts. Etc etc etc
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NEW: As Senate Republicans approach the Friday deadline to pass Trump’s rescissions package, voters reject the proposed billions of dollars in cuts to global aid and public broadcasting.
We find that less than 30% of voters want cuts to these programs.
www.dataforprogress.org/datasets/pol...
We find that less than 30% of voters want cuts to these programs.
www.dataforprogress.org/datasets/pol...
July 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
NEW: As Senate Republicans approach the Friday deadline to pass Trump’s rescissions package, voters reject the proposed billions of dollars in cuts to global aid and public broadcasting.
We find that less than 30% of voters want cuts to these programs.
www.dataforprogress.org/datasets/pol...
We find that less than 30% of voters want cuts to these programs.
www.dataforprogress.org/datasets/pol...
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Imagine trying to explain to someone in 1999 that one day Teen Vogue would be such a powerful progressive political media force that one of the world's richest men would seek to destroy it at enormous financial cost
July 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Imagine trying to explain to someone in 1999 that one day Teen Vogue would be such a powerful progressive political media force that one of the world's richest men would seek to destroy it at enormous financial cost
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'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
July 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
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Shout out to all of us cosmopolitans from nowhere
June 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Did not think America's flop era would be this stupid and embarrassing.
May 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Did not think America's flop era would be this stupid and embarrassing.
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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
Enraging to see lib politicians & pundits focus on “problems” that don’t meaningfully exist when at this moment SO MANY MEANINGFUL PROBLEMS EXIST. Its both a tell and a trap.
Supporting bathroom, sports and healthcare bans for trans people means signing on to a moral panic about problems that DON'T EXIST.
When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.
When people say Democrats should "moderate" on these issues, they are suggesting that we legislate a group out of public life based on lies.
March 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Enraging to see lib politicians & pundits focus on “problems” that don’t meaningfully exist when at this moment SO MANY MEANINGFUL PROBLEMS EXIST. Its both a tell and a trap.
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book