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Kat Tenbarge
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Independent journalist covering internet culture, politics, and media @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
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For a quick and easy costume may I recommend Peter Thiel’s vision of the Antichrist
Kat is wearing red devil horns, black lipstick and a black t-shirt that says “Do not talk to me about AI I will kill myself” Kat is wearing red devil horns, black lipstick and a black t-shirt that says “Do not talk to me about AI I will kill myself”
November 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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On top of everything else, JD Vance can't even get "reek" versus "wreak" right. Pitiful
An excerpt from a typical annoying post on X from JD Vance: "Third, posts like this wreak of anti-Christian bigotry. Yes, Christians have beliefs. And yes, those beliefs have many consequences, one of which is that we want to share them with other people. That is a completely normal thing, and anyone who's telling you otherwise has an agenda."
October 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Yeah, it’s been a real asset for Democrats to have Elon Musk take over the platform and turn it into an official propaganda arm of Donald Trump’s campaign and now administration. Having left-leaning takes you personally disagree with there would definitely be worse than that
In this screenshot of his Bluesky post, journalist/pundit Ryan Grim shares a take: “It is so lucky for Democrats that this kind of discourse is no longer on Twitter where the national media and politicians would see it. Better for it to be sealed off in this asylum. This is genuinely just insane.” The take in question is historian Kevin Kruse saying “Robert Byrd seemed to genuinely repent for his past and spent decades atoning for it, to the point where the NAACP mourned his death as the loss of a civil rights champion. People can indeed change. But there's no sign of a similar arc of sincere repentance and reckoning in Platner's case.”
October 30, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This new doc on HBO is about the appalling conditions, state violence, and corruption inside Alabama prisons. A lot of it was filmed by men inside on contraband cell phones. Highly highly recommend
The poster for “The Alabama Solution,” a new HBO Originals documentary about injustices inside the Alabama prison system. Much of it was filmed on contraband cell phones by inmates. The poster says “The truth from the inside out” and it shows a Black man filming on an iPhone from inside cell bars.
October 22, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Tonight for my friends I made apple cider blondies, baked Brie with goat cheese and apple cider jam, and baked pumpkin cream cheese dip
A white plate with apple cider blondies stacked on them A white plate with a red Le Creuset cocotte dish filled with a melted Brie topped with honey goat cheese, sage brown butter, and apple cider jam. Surrounding it are pumpkin crackers, pistachios, unbaked Brie, and green apple slices A white plate with a red Le Creuset cocotte dish filled with a baked pumpkin cream cheese dip, surrounded by Brie, green apple slices, pistachios, and pumpkin crackers
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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I went on @mattxiv.bsky.social’s podcast to talk about the irresponsible, immature media whitewashing of Charlie Kirk and how only men like him receive this kind of attention in death youtu.be/unXhfSyk9h8?...
September 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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This was giving me deja vu from when I was reporting on Brendan Carr and Project 2025 last year. So I did a super quick review of his tweets and yeah he posts this creepy GIF of Jack Nicholson a LOT. Including to Brian Stelter multiple times
FCC Chair Brendan Carr replies to a tweet expressing dismay about his use of the Jack Nicholson GIF with the same GIF FCC Chair Brendan Carr replies to a positive tweet about him with the Jack Nicholson GIF FCC Chair Brendan Carr replies to another tweet with the Jack Nicholson GIF FCC Chair Brendan Carr replies to Brian Stelter with the Jack Nicholson GIF
September 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Jimmy Fallon is safe because what will NBCUniversal do with the world’s worst theme park ride without him as its IP?
A promotional sign for the world’s worst theme park ride, Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon, at Universal Studios
September 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/c...
A quote from a Hindustan Times article that says “In one exchange that has again gone viral, Kirk was asked during a public forum how he would respond if his own daughter, at the age of 10, were raped and became pregnant. His response underscored his rigid opposition to abortion in any circumstance. ‘That’s awfully graphic,’ Kirk said. ‘But the answer is yes, the baby would be delivered.’”
September 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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This is also the exact vibe of Charlie Kirk obituaries. Nary a mention of how he said he’d hypothetically force his daughter to deliver her rapist’s baby at age 10
The iconic Twitter meme that says “this how the photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family” and a picture of a white family riding a jet ski together
September 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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As a reporter who frequently deals with frivolous legal threats, this passage astonished me—that someone can effectively weaponize a million-dollar punishing legal campaign against someone who did nothing illegal or even wrong, regardless of whether the litigious party even has the funds to do so
So far, Bi has worked with nine different attorneys. She racked up almost $750,000 in legal bills in 2024 but paid less than half; the law firm where Elizabeth Sperling works, owed $200,000, said it “intends to initiate a proceeding”; her appeals lawyer, also owed $200,000, keeps threatening to send her to collections. “I cannot pay you because if I do, then I cannot get another lawyer,” Bi explained. She needs the money to pay her next retainer. Lawyers never ask Bi about money: “They see my profile and they assume I can pay.”
September 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Also I got to see some frogs today :)
A frog on the ground near Mystic, Connecticut
August 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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The state of news and politics in this country is simply untenable
A post on X from popular streamer Connor Eats Pants announces that “Alleged Mother of Elon Musk’s Child… Ashley St. Clair gives her FIRST live interview since news broke… straight from the Battle Bus.” The announcement means that St. Clair will speak with Connor while playing the video game Fortnite with him in a stream broadcast live to his audience.
August 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
A transcription of a conversation between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and podcast host Theo Von on Von's podcast, in an excerpt from the Atlantic article "AI is a mass-delusion event" by Charlie Warzel: "Sam Altman: I do guess that a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time. Theo Von: Do you really? Altman: But I don’t know, because maybe we put them in space. Like, maybe we build a big Dyson sphere around the solar system and say, “Hey, it actually makes no sense to put these on Earth.” Von: Yeah. Altman: I wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but, like, we’re stumbling through this."
August 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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I scrolled past this Instagram ad for a “Labubu meet & greet” at a restaurant in Staten Island and thought it was satire at first. Stuff of nightmares
An Instagram ad for a restaurant in Staten Island called Corrado’s Cucina that is having a “Labubu Meet & Greet” on August 26. It features an image of a person wearing an unofficial Labubu costume that is nightmarish in the same sense that the off-brand Mickey and Minnie characters in Times Square are
August 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Compelling pitch
An email subject line that says "Story idea - Why we are stupid and what can be done about it"
August 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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At any given time I have several Eater tabs open. I literally just went to a sandwich shop in Miami TODAY on Eater’s recommendation and had the best cuban of my life
A fresh cuban sandwich at Sanguich in Little Havana, Miami
August 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Me whenever a conservative insults the New York City subway (courtesy of the New York Transit Museum)
An exhibit sign at the New York Transit Museum that says “The subway is… a revolutionary idea” An exhibit sign at the New York Transit Museum that says “The subway is… a work of art”
July 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I’m so happy to see Amber Heard and her daughter happy and thriving despite the harassment campaign that tried to destroy her life. She just made her stage debut in Jeremy O. Harris‘ new play “Spirit of the People.” These photos are by Hunter Abrams and Sam Lee for Vogue
Amber Heard laughing and holding her daughter in a photo by Hunter Abrams and Sam Lee for Vogue. She just made her stage debut in Jeremy O. Harris‘ new play “Spirit of the People.” Amber Heard in a photo by Hunter Abrams and Sam Lee for Vogue. She is standing in the woods and smiling at the camera. She just made her stage debut in Jeremy O. Harris‘ new play “Spirit of the People.”
July 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I’ve always thought people should pay more attention to Epstein’s “main client” Les Wexner, the billionaire behind Victoria’s Secret. His name is all over Ohio State
An excerpt from the July 17 Wall Street Journal article about Donald Trump sending Jeffrey Epstein a birthday card: “Epstein was Wexner's money manager at the time. The longtime leader of Victoria's Secret wrote a short message that said: ‘I wanted to get you what you want... so here it is....’ After the text was a line drawing of what appeared to be a woman's breasts. Wexner declined to comment through a spokesman. Wexner's spokesman previously told the Journal that the retail mogul ‘severed all ties with Epstein in 2007 and never spoke with him again.’”
July 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Here's an excerpt about the kind of hate comments I get from women for writing about misogynistic smear campaigns and where it's coming from.
Some of the women told me they are survivors and that they believe Lively is lying. “Jessica” wrote “It is such a joke that MeToo couldn’t get justice for the women assaulted by Trump or Diddy or actual horrifying male predators, but the NYT is ok with it being used to take down a nobody director like Baldoni even though he is innocent until being proven guilty. […] We have to believe all women before the trial even fucking starts?” This commentary, to me, illustrates the crux of the issue these women have with my coverage. They blame the injustices women experience on other women. Their misogyny is internalized, and they externalize it by joining smear campaigns against women like Lively and journalists like me who see their misogyny for what it is. They choose not to see the irony in blaming victims for victim-blaming. I first encountered this pattern of women victim-blaming other women when I covered Depp v. Heard. Even before I publicly said I believed Heard, back when I was still trying to make sense of the global pile-on, some of the women who had previously applauded my work denounced me just for pointing out that Heard had some evidence for her claims. As the trial went on and I identified more of the smears against Heard, I noticed that some of my most aggressive detractors were women and self-identified survivors. I believed they were abused, but it took me a while to understand why they were using their victimhood as a sword to cut down other victims.
July 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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He famously used to be even weirder. I used to use this guy as the prime example of why you shouldn't quote-tweet outrage bait because it gives them what they want and boosts their engagement.
A series of Nick Adams tweets from 2022: "It starts with Fortnite and boneless wings. It ends with gender pronouns and communism." "Turn off the Fortnite and open the Bible." "Don't forget to set your clocks back. I'm setting mine back to '1775' when this country had balls, and the chicks didn't." "Less Fortnite, more Bibles." "Raise your sons to be like Tim Tebow, not Will Smith."
July 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Presented without comment
A Nick Adams tweet from March 28: "Feminists cope and seethe at the very thought of my existence. I am an alpha male." A Nick Adams tweet from March 28: "If you have to say 'I'm an alpha male,' then you are most certainly NOT an alpha male."
July 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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He's a known troll. He has done so many variations of this tweet
A Nick Adams tweet from August 7, 2024: "I went in for a black coffee today when a gaggle of leftist college girls started talking about Tim Walz being picked for VP. They were not pleased. One even mentioned a disturbing claim about Walz drinking over a gallon of horse semen? Women everywhere are flocking to Trump!" A Nick Adams tweet from September 5, 2024: "I was just out grabbing a quick hot black coffee. Overheard a table full of unmarried millennial women speaking in hushed tones about Brittany Mahomes’ support of President Trump. They all said they respected her for speaking up and would be turning on the Chiefs-Ravens game tonight to watch her. Kamala isn’t ready for what’s coming." A Nick Adams tweet from September 9, 2024: "I overheard a group of childless women in their 30s at Publix. They were all cat owners and were deeply troubled over the reports of Haitian immigrants eating cats in Springfield, Ohio. “I was all-in for Kamala until I heard about this…” the blonde in a bright blue yoga outfit proclaimed. They nodded in agreement, and a brunette chimed in, “I don’t know what I’d do if a migrant ate my sweet calico cat, Hillary… I…” she stammered before breaking down into tears. “I’m voting for Trump; it’s not worth the risk,” the redhead said affirmatively, “and I’m not ashamed to say it anymore.” I stepped over and congratulated her for her bravery and support of the president. We engaged in a firm group hug, and I invited them over for dinner at my place. The tides are turning. Kamala has lost the cat ladies!" A Nick Adams tweet from November 4, 2024: "I was finishing up my leg squats at the gym today, an alpha male never skips leg day, when I overheard three suburban moms on the elliptical machines horrified by Mark Cuban's disrespectful comments about Trump and the women he hires. They were shocked and dismayed Kamala Harris would allow such a misogynistic pig to represent her campaign. "Karoline Leavitt and Kayleigh McEnany are strong and intelligent women!" "Kellyanne Conway was the first female campaign manager to win a Presidential election!" "Ivanka hasn't done bad for herself, either!" There was a lot of talk about staying home tomorrow or even potentially voting for President Trump. Kamala Harris just keeps making unforced errors."
July 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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This is Trump's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Malaysia
A Nick Adams tweet with a picture of himself in a hot tub between two men: "We had several extremely attractive women begging to join us. I told them to get bent. The hot tub is for alpha males." A Nick Adams tweet from September 27, 2024: "Every time I go to the gym women won't stop undressing me with their eyes. We need alpha male only gyms where I can pump and thrust in peace." A Nick Adams tweet from August 5, 2024 with an image that shows a man in clear disapproval, a faded image of Kamala Harris, and the words "I don't date people who support Kamala Harris." Adams' tweet says "I have had to turn down a LOT of very attractive women lately. I'm not going to apologize for standing on my principles!" A Nick Adams tweet from December 27, 2024 that features a picture of pop singer Dua Lipa and her fiance Callum Turner. It says "Woke singer Dua Lipa is engaged to British actor Callum Turner. I'm unbothered by this news. I have never had any interest in dating Dua Lipa, because I am not attracted to leftist women who support woke causes. I hope Callum knows what he's getting himself into."
July 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM