Katie Scofield
@ktscofield.bsky.social
Teach Texas and Federal Government at a CC. Living with Chronic Lyme. Love to spoil my Schnauzers.
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once again I am cursed with literacy
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
once again I am cursed with literacy
It's finally cool enough to wear this sweater I bought on clearance at Talbots at the end of the season, and have been wanting to wear. But when I put on it with my pearls I realized it had strong middle aged teacher vibes. Then I realized I am, in fact, a middle aged teacher now 😅
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It's finally cool enough to wear this sweater I bought on clearance at Talbots at the end of the season, and have been wanting to wear. But when I put on it with my pearls I realized it had strong middle aged teacher vibes. Then I realized I am, in fact, a middle aged teacher now 😅
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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Taking over a party from within is a real thing that happens. There’s precedent for it at multiple points in American Trump JUST DID IT to the GOP.
Creating a new viable party hasn’t happened since 1856.
Creating a new viable party hasn’t happened since 1856.
There’s a two party duopoly in this nation.
Is it great? No! Is it reality? Yes.
Creating a third party means building up an entirely new infrastructure from scratch and then fighting both R & D.
Taking over the Dem Party is an easier and more effective route. It’ll take time, but it’s worth it.
Is it great? No! Is it reality? Yes.
Creating a third party means building up an entirely new infrastructure from scratch and then fighting both R & D.
Taking over the Dem Party is an easier and more effective route. It’ll take time, but it’s worth it.
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Taking over a party from within is a real thing that happens. There’s precedent for it at multiple points in American Trump JUST DID IT to the GOP.
Creating a new viable party hasn’t happened since 1856.
Creating a new viable party hasn’t happened since 1856.
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Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Remember when Brett Favre took $5 million in TANF funds to build a stadium, and then we never heard about it again? This is all I can think about when Rs complain about how people use SNAP.
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Remember when Brett Favre took $5 million in TANF funds to build a stadium, and then we never heard about it again? This is all I can think about when Rs complain about how people use SNAP.
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#Cancer treatment being banned by #ExecutiveOrder. Sane country we have here.
And #breastcancer in men is usually far more deadly
And #breastcancer in men is usually far more deadly
Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
#Cancer treatment being banned by #ExecutiveOrder. Sane country we have here.
And #breastcancer in men is usually far more deadly
And #breastcancer in men is usually far more deadly
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Just an FYI: Next week Oct 13-19 is the week for Texas residents to apply to Texas Public Colleges for free through Apply Texas. #academicsky
October 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Just an FYI: Next week Oct 13-19 is the week for Texas residents to apply to Texas Public Colleges for free through Apply Texas. #academicsky
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The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
September 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
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autism moms and transphobic parents are basically the same phenomenon.
They want to believe that the kid being different, not what they expected is due to an external damage, that hurt their child.
Their property.
Because they do see kids as property.
They want to believe that the kid being different, not what they expected is due to an external damage, that hurt their child.
Their property.
Because they do see kids as property.
September 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
autism moms and transphobic parents are basically the same phenomenon.
They want to believe that the kid being different, not what they expected is due to an external damage, that hurt their child.
Their property.
Because they do see kids as property.
They want to believe that the kid being different, not what they expected is due to an external damage, that hurt their child.
Their property.
Because they do see kids as property.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton is attempting to make an example of Beto O’Rourke.
Paxton has filed a barrage of baseless charges against him for actions in 2025—identical to actions he carried out in 2021 without issue: raise funds to support a quorum break by Democratic members of the #txlege.
Paxton has filed a barrage of baseless charges against him for actions in 2025—identical to actions he carried out in 2021 without issue: raise funds to support a quorum break by Democratic members of the #txlege.
Why the Texas AG is trying to lock me up and what we're doing to fight back and win.
open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
open.substack.com/pub/betoorou...
They're trying to make an example out of us
Why we've got to stand and fight when so many others bend the knee
open.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Texas AG Ken Paxton is attempting to make an example of Beto O’Rourke.
Paxton has filed a barrage of baseless charges against him for actions in 2025—identical to actions he carried out in 2021 without issue: raise funds to support a quorum break by Democratic members of the #txlege.
Paxton has filed a barrage of baseless charges against him for actions in 2025—identical to actions he carried out in 2021 without issue: raise funds to support a quorum break by Democratic members of the #txlege.
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"Be loud for America" is a great line, tbh. I can picture it on t-shirts and bumper stickers, etc.
September 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"Be loud for America" is a great line, tbh. I can picture it on t-shirts and bumper stickers, etc.
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2. I created this list and it's been viral. Some actions that are not protesting or voting. There's something for everyone on the list. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting
Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting A list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics. Here was their original list of 25 actions. I’ve added a lot of things and edited other things. [Not...
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August 27, 2025 at 1:47 PM
2. I created this list and it's been viral. Some actions that are not protesting or voting. There's something for everyone on the list. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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As I say anytime anyone asks, it’s gotta be more fun to be in the movement than to not be in the movement.
In an ethnographic study of youth political organizations, one of my PhD students found that the primary driver of engagement wasn't concern about particular issues but rather the chance to do something fun together with friends (eg, make posters for rallies, or go to meetings with free food).
August 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
As I say anytime anyone asks, it’s gotta be more fun to be in the movement than to not be in the movement.
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Frankly I'm just tired of these incessantly wrong people keeping their highly paid jobs as consultants.
Give me new bad ideas, at least
Give me new bad ideas, at least
August 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Frankly I'm just tired of these incessantly wrong people keeping their highly paid jobs as consultants.
Give me new bad ideas, at least
Give me new bad ideas, at least
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You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
August 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
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We're gonna need a bigger truth and reconciliation commission.
August 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We're gonna need a bigger truth and reconciliation commission.
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The underrated "don't be like Hitler" jurisprudential canon
(Also explains Skinner v. OK)
(Also explains Skinner v. OK)
August 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The underrated "don't be like Hitler" jurisprudential canon
(Also explains Skinner v. OK)
(Also explains Skinner v. OK)
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Calling all #NEISvoid, and all #MedSky folks.
I have a series of questions I'd like to ask and would love if you could check out the thread and spread the word so we get good responses.
This is a thread where you CAN reshare every part if you like, because each poses a different question ❤️🧵
I have a series of questions I'd like to ask and would love if you could check out the thread and spread the word so we get good responses.
This is a thread where you CAN reshare every part if you like, because each poses a different question ❤️🧵
August 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Holy heck.
So this guy in the 1850s escaped slavery, traveled the world, went to Australia, got his story of How Shitty Slavery Is published because in Australia he had more rights than even in the USA 'north', and then it got lost to time.
UNTIL IT GOT HAULED OUT OF THE ARCHIVES.
So this guy in the 1850s escaped slavery, traveled the world, went to Australia, got his story of How Shitty Slavery Is published because in Australia he had more rights than even in the USA 'north', and then it got lost to time.
UNTIL IT GOT HAULED OUT OF THE ARCHIVES.
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots
Lost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This comprehensive edition includes Jacobs's narrative in full alongside a full-length biog...
press.uchicago.edu
August 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Holy heck.
So this guy in the 1850s escaped slavery, traveled the world, went to Australia, got his story of How Shitty Slavery Is published because in Australia he had more rights than even in the USA 'north', and then it got lost to time.
UNTIL IT GOT HAULED OUT OF THE ARCHIVES.
So this guy in the 1850s escaped slavery, traveled the world, went to Australia, got his story of How Shitty Slavery Is published because in Australia he had more rights than even in the USA 'north', and then it got lost to time.
UNTIL IT GOT HAULED OUT OF THE ARCHIVES.