Jonathan M. Katz
@katz.theracket.news
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Jonathan M. Katz
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· Nov 10
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Larry Summers is on the board of OpenAI
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Larry Summers is on the board of OpenAI
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there's a lovely James C. Scott line about how "the same mechanisms can be used to track cholera or round up Jews"
Bureaucracy is essential to freedom, it’s just hard to see this because not only can it enable tyranny, the mechanisms that make freedom possible superficially resemble tyranny as well. Postal services and secret police alike keep standardized registries of the names and homes of the citizenry.
Look it's weird to say "the city is liberation. Bigness is liberation. Bureaucracy is liberation." But it so often is. The village is inherently tyrannical. Sherly Jackson knew this.
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
there's a lovely James C. Scott line about how "the same mechanisms can be used to track cholera or round up Jews"
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Few on here would admit to not loving reading. Until today. Today is when we all collectively realized learning to read was a mistake.
I’m sorry but this is the master prose stylist whose incisive writing is too good to let ethical quandaries get in her way
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Few on here would admit to not loving reading. Until today. Today is when we all collectively realized learning to read was a mistake.
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
What made it particularly jarring was that the last thing I read before it was a few chapters of @elongreen.bsky.social’s latest. And my God the come down from that to this.
This is a syntactical nightmare
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
What made it particularly jarring was that the last thing I read before it was a few chapters of @elongreen.bsky.social’s latest. And my God the come down from that to this.
sup babe
just vaulting
sphere of meme ya know
just vaulting
sphere of meme ya know
Who up vaulting from their sphere of meme?
November 18, 2025 at 4:41 AM
sup babe
just vaulting
sphere of meme ya know
just vaulting
sphere of meme ya know
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And the fact that this paragraph opens with the construction “People often, often people…” is a dead giveaway that
-this is a first draft
-her editor barely gave her line edits
-the copy editor was rushed
-this is a first draft
-her editor barely gave her line edits
-the copy editor was rushed
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
And the fact that this paragraph opens with the construction “People often, often people…” is a dead giveaway that
-this is a first draft
-her editor barely gave her line edits
-the copy editor was rushed
-this is a first draft
-her editor barely gave her line edits
-the copy editor was rushed
Now let’s be fair, she probably just thinks she’s sexting him
Everyone thinks they're fucking Hunter S. Thompson 🙄
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Now let’s be fair, she probably just thinks she’s sexting him
I’m sorry but this is the master prose stylist whose incisive writing is too good to let ethical quandaries get in her way
November 18, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I’m sorry but this is the master prose stylist whose incisive writing is too good to let ethical quandaries get in her way
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Hi @ktla.com, I broke this story for @lataco.bsky.social yesterday. We were the first news outlet to publish the surveillance footage and report that Rodriguez is a federal agent. Disappointing to not see a "first reported by" credit or link to our website in your story. Do better.
ICE agent arrested for pulling gun on Southern California teen, lawyer says
ICE agent arrested for pulling gun on Southern California teen, lawyer says
A 45-year-old Riverside County man, who reportedly works as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, is accused of illegally detaining a minor at gunpoin…
ktla.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Hi @ktla.com, I broke this story for @lataco.bsky.social yesterday. We were the first news outlet to publish the surveillance footage and report that Rodriguez is a federal agent. Disappointing to not see a "first reported by" credit or link to our website in your story. Do better.
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a two party system with one party completely & utterly devoted to a man who responds this way when asked by a woman about credible accusations he sex trafficked underage girls - like there’s no reforming a party like that
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
people.com/donald-trump...
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
a two party system with one party completely & utterly devoted to a man who responds this way when asked by a woman about credible accusations he sex trafficked underage girls - like there’s no reforming a party like that
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Because basically, underneath all the cosplay and bravado and very real violence, these people are idiots, recruited for this task for that exact reason.
Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Because basically, underneath all the cosplay and bravado and very real violence, these people are idiots, recruited for this task for that exact reason.
American Canto
Canadian Stanza
Polish Quatrain
Burundian Iamb
Surinamese Anapest
Canadian Stanza
Polish Quatrain
Burundian Iamb
Surinamese Anapest
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 AM
American Canto
Canadian Stanza
Polish Quatrain
Burundian Iamb
Surinamese Anapest
Canadian Stanza
Polish Quatrain
Burundian Iamb
Surinamese Anapest
DiplOMaCY AnD PROFiT MaY InTertWINe
November 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
DiplOMaCY AnD PROFiT MaY InTertWINe
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@katz.theracket.news : Trump keeps treating the Caribbean as his personal shooting gallery, with the death toll from missile strikes on civilian boats he accuses (without offering evidence) of drug smuggling now reaching eighty. theracket.news/p/operation-...
Operation Southern Spear(ed)
The world's largest aircraft carrier nears Venezuela and the administration lies about drug stats as the Nobel Peace Prize wannabe eyes another war.
theracket.news
November 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
@katz.theracket.news : Trump keeps treating the Caribbean as his personal shooting gallery, with the death toll from missile strikes on civilian boats he accuses (without offering evidence) of drug smuggling now reaching eighty. theracket.news/p/operation-...
I’m not going to share any of it but this guy’s online bio is over 4300 words and way more everything than you’re prepared for
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I’m not going to share any of it but this guy’s online bio is over 4300 words and way more everything than you’re prepared for
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Also helps to know that the colonies feared that parliament’s taxes would be to create an “American Establishment” of the British Army, paid for by the Americans - they saw what this did to Ireland and did NOT want to become Ireland
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Also helps to know that the colonies feared that parliament’s taxes would be to create an “American Establishment” of the British Army, paid for by the Americans - they saw what this did to Ireland and did NOT want to become Ireland
“Stopping Transgender for everyone”
Trump: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide."
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 AM
“Stopping Transgender for everyone”
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I find this pretty striking - we're not even offered the standard "here's why Mamdani's victory is actually trouble for the left" kind of gymnastics, the strategy really seems to be to hope no one notices
it is wild that Labour is doing exactly what the reactionary centrists recommend and is absolutely destroying its base of support as a result, and yet reactionary centrists in the US are just utterly silent about the complete failure of their program.
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I find this pretty striking - we're not even offered the standard "here's why Mamdani's victory is actually trouble for the left" kind of gymnastics, the strategy really seems to be to hope no one notices
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Somehow the horny love letter from Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein’s failson to the tabloid hack who tried to blow up her engagement and career by sexting with a 70-year-old RFK Jr was even worse than that description would suggest.
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Somehow the horny love letter from Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein’s failson to the tabloid hack who tried to blow up her engagement and career by sexting with a 70-year-old RFK Jr was even worse than that description would suggest.
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It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats