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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃

@katekilla.bsky.social

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Gen X, middle child, Leo. I edit the Books section @ the Boston Globe.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · Aug 28

I haven't written this kind of personal essay in years, so it was interesting to revisit this one, originally published in 2018, that @noahmichelson.bsky.social asked me to update.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

A Trump Supporter Sat Next To My 12-Year-Old Black Son On A Plane. I Couldn’t Believe What She Told Him.

"My son is growing up to face dangers made worse by the president this woman voted for."

www.huffpost.com

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 1h

Whew, I hope so.

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 1h

Aw, thanks. It’s a good thing to have a nice reading spot.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 1h

I love this crazy journey for you!

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 1h

Image shows a chaise longue next to a bookcase. Pillows, a throw blanket, and soft lighting make it appealing.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly I think the original cushion was goose down. But it’s now a non-allergenic down alternative.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 3h

He was something else.

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 3h

Aw, thanks. I just love family histories.

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 3h

What a glorious beast!

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 3h

(Toward the end of her life, I would drive out to visit her in the Berkshires. There was a reliable comic bit because she would invariable ask my name — she had dementia — and when I would say Catharine Tuttle, she’d put a tiny hand to her heart and exclaim, “but that’s MY name!”)

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 3h

I had it basically rebuilt and reupholstered. Sometimes I forget it’s so old and we have this history together. But then I’m suddenly taken with it.

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 3h

Here she is! I have her name, her old chaise, some silver and some china. Very lucky to have known her.

Image is a photograph of a bride from. 1938. Slim, looking tall because she’s standing on a small riser, her long dress’s train swirled around her.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 4h

Amazingly had never looked to see if her 1938 wedding was in the NYT; it was, though a brief mention.

WARWICK, N. Y., July 16.-The marriage of Miss Catharine Tuttle, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Watkins Tuttle of Watkins, N. Y., to Randolph Forman took place here today in Christ Church. The ceremony was performed by the rector, the Rev. Thomas W. Daniel. The bride, who was given in marriage by her brother, Dr. William M. Tuttle of Detroit, wore a gown of ivory satin. Her veil of brussels lace had been worn by Mr. Forman's mother at her wedding. Miss Ruth Briggs of New York was the bride's only attendant. Mr. Forman, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Howard S. Forman of Lee, Mass., had John Queen of South Orange, N. J., for best man. A small wedding breakfast was given by Miss Adaline Terry Tuttle, the bride's aunt, at her home here. Mr. and Mrs. Forman will live in New York.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 4h

Honestly blowing my mind. Can’t wait till he gets to Fanon.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14h

The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 4h

Pathetically realizing I could probably still sleep on it now, at 5’2”.

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 4h

Reading a book right now on my chaise that I took from my great aunt’s house when she died. Sudden full-body sense memory of sleeping on it one very crowded Thanksgiving. My fate as the family’s smallest (though not youngest) child.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 4h

Mandatory SEO training now.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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John Palfrey @palfrey.org · 11h

"He quoted Hannah Arendt's 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' in asserting that the world needs free and objective information."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 6h

Pub date suddenly changed.
We’re pivoting to video.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 6h

NYC, 92st Y: The Aeneid, with translators Scott McGill and Susannah Wright. www.92ny.org/event/scott-...

www.92ny.org

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 7h

Transcendentalist men were trash, especially when compared with Trabscendentalist women.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 8h

He’s so precious! Quite a twinkle in his eye, too 🥰

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Brian Gallagher @bmgall.bsky.social · 9h

Wonderful column by Margaret Sullivan at The Guardian on the terrible, weird choice of Bari Weis by CBS News

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bari Weiss is a weird and worrisome choice as top editor for CBS News | Margaret Sullivan

When Weiss was named editor-in-chief, it was the latest turn in the network’s confounding departure from its roots

www.theguardian.com

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 8h

Given the framing, I guess any criticism of Weiss means I’m “hysterical” and part of a “mob.” But don’t you see any contradiction between journalists covering the news and “entrepreneurs” trying to “sell” it? I sure do.

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