Katie
@lerewsky.bsky.social
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it probably shouldn't make it worse that Renee Nicole Good was a pretty fine poet but it does
2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
poets.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:23 AM
it probably shouldn't make it worse that Renee Nicole Good was a pretty fine poet but it does
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
12 days of work in 107 days.
With full pay and benefits.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
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I'm so touched that I've been endorsed by local citizen journalist, @taylordahlin.com. Taylor's coverage of the campaign and commitment to holding our leaders accountable is such an asset to our city.
Read about Taylor's recommendations here: taylordahlin.com/f/2025-minne...
Read about Taylor's recommendations here: taylordahlin.com/f/2025-minne...
November 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I'm so touched that I've been endorsed by local citizen journalist, @taylordahlin.com. Taylor's coverage of the campaign and commitment to holding our leaders accountable is such an asset to our city.
Read about Taylor's recommendations here: taylordahlin.com/f/2025-minne...
Read about Taylor's recommendations here: taylordahlin.com/f/2025-minne...
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Mayor Frey's default answer is to call everyone extreme, but even Nancy Pelosi and I agree it's time to take a real stand against Trump. The Mayor would rather throw in the towel because the same people who spent money putting Trump in the WH are bankrolling his campaign.
October 29, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Mayor Frey's default answer is to call everyone extreme, but even Nancy Pelosi and I agree it's time to take a real stand against Trump. The Mayor would rather throw in the towel because the same people who spent money putting Trump in the WH are bankrolling his campaign.
Zoom in for the list of demands. In support of this demand!
i made it inside mayor frey’s office where 13 members of MIRAC have been staging a sit in since 2:30 until he meets with them regarding their demands. they are expecting police soon
“unfortunately, the mayor is not going to meet you” says he’s not in the office
“unfortunately, the mayor is not going to meet you” says he’s not in the office
October 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Zoom in for the list of demands. In support of this demand!
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My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
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lol this is what they fired him for saying
September 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
lol this is what they fired him for saying
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Really not doing much to help with that "we aren't committing genocide" argument there...
A retired Israeli general said 50 Palestinians should be killed for every Israeli killed on 7 October, and also:
"It doesn't matter if they're children...I'm talking about a message for future generations. From time to time, they need a Nakba to feel the cost..."
www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
"It doesn't matter if they're children...I'm talking about a message for future generations. From time to time, they need a Nakba to feel the cost..."
www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...
Israel's ex-military intelligence chief said 50,000 Gaza deaths were 'necessary'
Leaked audio recordings broadcast Friday reveal remarks by Israel's former chief of military intelligence about the price he believed Palestinians should pay for Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
www.npr.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Really not doing much to help with that "we aren't committing genocide" argument there...
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How f’d up is America?! Emmitt Till would have been 84 today! How old are your grandparents?!? America makes you believe that his murder was sooo long ago meanwhile…
August 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
How f’d up is America?! Emmitt Till would have been 84 today! How old are your grandparents?!? America makes you believe that his murder was sooo long ago meanwhile…
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1/ Early on in President Trump’s second term, I spent a few weeks observing Chicago’s immigration court to get a sense of how things were changing.
One afternoon in March, the case of a 27-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker caught my attention.
I want to tell you his story 👇
One afternoon in March, the case of a 27-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker caught my attention.
I want to tell you his story 👇
July 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
1/ Early on in President Trump’s second term, I spent a few weeks observing Chicago’s immigration court to get a sense of how things were changing.
One afternoon in March, the case of a 27-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker caught my attention.
I want to tell you his story 👇
One afternoon in March, the case of a 27-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker caught my attention.
I want to tell you his story 👇
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"In his conversation with Senator Van Hollen, Aguilar recalled witnessing a woman dying before his eyes after being hit with a stun grenade fired by an American contractor. He said she died “Not from the IDF, not from starvation, not from trampling because Hamas incited a stampede. We killed her.”
New — I wrote about Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Aguilar, a former contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and his harrowing stories of what he witnessed while being there under the guise of distributing food aid to starving Palestinian civilians:
The Green Beret of Gaza
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation contractor Anthony Aguilar describes witnessing war crimes.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
"In his conversation with Senator Van Hollen, Aguilar recalled witnessing a woman dying before his eyes after being hit with a stun grenade fired by an American contractor. He said she died “Not from the IDF, not from starvation, not from trampling because Hamas incited a stampede. We killed her.”
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Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
July 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.
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The video is shocking - but felony charges have been filed: against the protestors who are being beaten up.
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
July 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The video is shocking - but felony charges have been filed: against the protestors who are being beaten up.
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
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Venus Williams has Sjögren’s syndrome.
Linking health care with jobs means people with disabilities or chronic illnesses either cannot quit working or face not being able to have health insurance because they can’t work.
Now remember that 300,000 Black women lost jobs in the last 3 months.
Linking health care with jobs means people with disabilities or chronic illnesses either cannot quit working or face not being able to have health insurance because they can’t work.
Now remember that 300,000 Black women lost jobs in the last 3 months.
Venus Williams just won her first match in two years and at the end when they were interviewing her about what a miracle it was, she said she had to come back and play a match; they told her she was on cobra and she’s always at the doctor so **she needs the health insurance**
Venus Williams literally a millionaire working for healthcare coverage
July 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Venus Williams has Sjögren’s syndrome.
Linking health care with jobs means people with disabilities or chronic illnesses either cannot quit working or face not being able to have health insurance because they can’t work.
Now remember that 300,000 Black women lost jobs in the last 3 months.
Linking health care with jobs means people with disabilities or chronic illnesses either cannot quit working or face not being able to have health insurance because they can’t work.
Now remember that 300,000 Black women lost jobs in the last 3 months.
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America in a nutshell.
July 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
America in a nutshell.
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Monsters they are. Monsters.
Another flight of third-country deportees has now landed in Eswatini, a small country in Southern Africa. Via @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/u...
Trump Administration Resumes Third-Country Deportation Flights
www.nytimes.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Monsters they are. Monsters.
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At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine.
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
July 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
At the DeSantis Everglades detention camp, people with green cards are being held in terrible conditions, with maggots in the food, the lights kept on 24 hours a day, and delayed access to medicine.
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
One guy had his Bible taken and was told "here there is no right to religion."
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July 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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I flagged this in April and have been howling it into the void. Trump wants Black & Latino incarcerated U.S. citizens sent to CECOT in El Salvador, Congo, South Sudan. These are the “homegrown” Trump talked about with the Salvadoran PM.
Please. Take this seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Please. Take this seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners
Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners
open.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I flagged this in April and have been howling it into the void. Trump wants Black & Latino incarcerated U.S. citizens sent to CECOT in El Salvador, Congo, South Sudan. These are the “homegrown” Trump talked about with the Salvadoran PM.
Please. Take this seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
Please. Take this seriously.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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I commend @rubenbolling.bsky.social on this.
It's clever and well-done.
It's clever and well-done.
July 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I commend @rubenbolling.bsky.social on this.
It's clever and well-done.
It's clever and well-done.
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"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.'
But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women."
www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...
But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women."
www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...
RFK Jr. sent Congress 'medical disinformation' to defend COVID vaccine schedule change
A document circulated to members of Congress misinterprets studies and cites debunked research, scientists say. It could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety.
www.npr.org
June 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.'
But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women."
www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...
But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women."
www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...
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Let's RVC our way to Mayoral leadership, Minneapolis!
1. @dewayneforminneapolis.com
2. @omarfatehmn.bsky.social or @jazzformayor.bsky.social
3. Senator Fateh or Jazz Hampton
No one else, Minneapolis. Rank. No. One. Else.
1. @dewayneforminneapolis.com
2. @omarfatehmn.bsky.social or @jazzformayor.bsky.social
3. Senator Fateh or Jazz Hampton
No one else, Minneapolis. Rank. No. One. Else.
After two weeks away to attend my mother’s funeral, I am returning to Minneapolis and to our campaign more determined than ever to fight for a city that cares for all of us. Thank you for giving me the grace and space to step away to tend to my family and my grief.
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June 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Let's RVC our way to Mayoral leadership, Minneapolis!
1. @dewayneforminneapolis.com
2. @omarfatehmn.bsky.social or @jazzformayor.bsky.social
3. Senator Fateh or Jazz Hampton
No one else, Minneapolis. Rank. No. One. Else.
1. @dewayneforminneapolis.com
2. @omarfatehmn.bsky.social or @jazzformayor.bsky.social
3. Senator Fateh or Jazz Hampton
No one else, Minneapolis. Rank. No. One. Else.