Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦🪬
@badtoss.bsky.social
Guggenheim Fellow, Prof Emerita and Author: The Gilded Edge (Dutton) and forthcoming, a book on America's home grown Soviet spy (37Ink). Oh, and tennis tweets. Expect them.
Lit rep: Mackenzie Brady Watson
Stacks at https://prendergastc.substack.com
Lit rep: Mackenzie Brady Watson
Stacks at https://prendergastc.substack.com
Pinned
Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epstein’s money comes from “Jewish billionaires” and a “Jewish banking family,” another responds that he was a “sex rabbi.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...
The antisemitism is screaming. The "Jewish Billionaire" trope has now come from the right (Fox) and the left (Occupy) and I've yet to see an apology from either.
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Also, insidiously, among the dozen or so European historical references, there isn't a single Eastern European one! He subtly suggests EEurope does not belong to the "Western civilization" that the US purportedly wants to survive. Finally, for all his emphasis on how European nations should...
February 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Also, insidiously, among the dozen or so European historical references, there isn't a single Eastern European one! He subtly suggests EEurope does not belong to the "Western civilization" that the US purportedly wants to survive. Finally, for all his emphasis on how European nations should...
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Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
February 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
February 15, 2026 at 1:49 AM
i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
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Black pain is so normalised people don't care
When I taught at LSU, I got some gasps when I said plantation weddings were like getting married at a Nazi concentration camp, and I got nods from a lot of other students who understood it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Plantation weddings and pre-civil war fashion: the film that critiques the historical fantasy of Natchez
A documentary about Mississippi examines competing forces: the nostalgic celebration of the old south and the refusal to sanitize the brutal history of enslavement
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Black pain is so normalised people don't care
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"Chicago teen whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer dies" www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...
Chicago teen whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer dies
The Torres family story came to public attention after the teen’s father was detained at a Home Depot in Niles.
www.chicagotribune.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:23 AM
"Chicago teen whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer dies" www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...
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Europe has become the abused spouse grateful just not to be beaten. Believing this jellyfish is a fool's errand.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Rubio Calls For The End Of A Tolerant, Democratic Europe And The Crowd Goes Wild
Just over an hour ago, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for the end of a tolerant, democratic Europe and its break-up into a disparate group of smaller, Trumpist states, and the Europeans in t...
open.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Europe has become the abused spouse grateful just not to be beaten. Believing this jellyfish is a fool's errand.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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in his rendering of the past 30yrs, the worst thing that happened to Europe isn't the resurgence of Ru imperialism but Europe's common market and supranational integration. He may have been a tad softer, but I see no substantive difference from JD Vance's 2025 speech. www.state.gov/releases/off...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference - United States Department of State
SECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you very much. We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world. When this conference began in 1963, it was in a nation – ...
www.state.gov
February 15, 2026 at 2:27 AM
in his rendering of the past 30yrs, the worst thing that happened to Europe isn't the resurgence of Ru imperialism but Europe's common market and supranational integration. He may have been a tad softer, but I see no substantive difference from JD Vance's 2025 speech. www.state.gov/releases/off...
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The Rubio speech is incoherent and hypocritical. He denounces Soviet communism, the threat and division it sowed in Europe, yet has absolutely nothing to say about Ru's current attempt to restore restore the Soviet empire by re-invading and re-subordinating swaths of Europe. What's worse,...
February 15, 2026 at 2:27 AM
The Rubio speech is incoherent and hypocritical. He denounces Soviet communism, the threat and division it sowed in Europe, yet has absolutely nothing to say about Ru's current attempt to restore restore the Soviet empire by re-invading and re-subordinating swaths of Europe. What's worse,...
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NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:25 AM
NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
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Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases
Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.
www.thebanner.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.
Expect more.
This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
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Some drunk woman in her 60s had wedged herself in the doorway of Tesco in the gay village in Birmingham like a cat refusing to get in a box. All four points locked in to stop her husband removing her. In the end a woman off the street lured her out by going “come on bab, we’ll get you some shots”
February 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Some drunk woman in her 60s had wedged herself in the doorway of Tesco in the gay village in Birmingham like a cat refusing to get in a box. All four points locked in to stop her husband removing her. In the end a woman off the street lured her out by going “come on bab, we’ll get you some shots”
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What do you say, @liberalca.bsky.social ?
Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum is an energy systems expert. She is positioning Mexico to participate in the global green economy —from EVs & batteries to Renewables,Critical minerals,HVAC manufacturing. Her Plan Mexico is at a critical juncture. Our report:
netzeropolicylab.com/mexico-green...
netzeropolicylab.com/mexico-green...
February 15, 2026 at 12:56 AM
What do you say, @liberalca.bsky.social ?
This match has been both by terms sublime and shambolic. Shapo has a screamer ejected. Shelton has his thigh tape adjusted. We go to a third. 🎾
February 15, 2026 at 12:54 AM
This match has been both by terms sublime and shambolic. Shapo has a screamer ejected. Shelton has his thigh tape adjusted. We go to a third. 🎾
I taught Alice Wong's work on the (hideously hypocritical and deeply ableist) plastic straw bans. She was one of the giants among us.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3
Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3
Alice Wong
Writer, editor, and disability justice activist. Born on March 27, 1974 in Indianapolis,
IN, USA, she died from an infection on Nov 14, 2025 in San Francisco, CA, USA, aged
51 years.
www.thelancet.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I taught Alice Wong's work on the (hideously hypocritical and deeply ableist) plastic straw bans. She was one of the giants among us.
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When I taught at LSU, I got some gasps when I said plantation weddings were like getting married at a Nazi concentration camp, and I got nods from a lot of other students who understood it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Plantation weddings and pre-civil war fashion: the film that critiques the historical fantasy of Natchez
A documentary about Mississippi examines competing forces: the nostalgic celebration of the old south and the refusal to sanitize the brutal history of enslavement
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:00 PM
When I taught at LSU, I got some gasps when I said plantation weddings were like getting married at a Nazi concentration camp, and I got nods from a lot of other students who understood it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
Shapo, Shelton, Shambles of a break.🎾
February 14, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Shapo, Shelton, Shambles of a break.🎾
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I've said it many times that "this struggling talking bitch was no different the marjorie Taylor Greene. MAGA ALL THE WAY)
February 14, 2026 at 11:55 PM
I've said it many times that "this struggling talking bitch was no different the marjorie Taylor Greene. MAGA ALL THE WAY)
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CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
White people who don't want to vote--it doesn't work unless ALL the white people don't vote.
You're not a serious person if you think voluntary disenfranchisement is a successful tactic when all it does is help Republicans win.
They go out of their way to suppress the vote to cheat themselves into office, which you make unnecessary by refusing to vote & pretending to be principled.
They go out of their way to suppress the vote to cheat themselves into office, which you make unnecessary by refusing to vote & pretending to be principled.
February 14, 2026 at 11:54 PM
White people who don't want to vote--it doesn't work unless ALL the white people don't vote.
Shelton - Shapo is a pretty fun match up so far. Still on serve deep in the first.🎾
February 14, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Shelton - Shapo is a pretty fun match up so far. Still on serve deep in the first.🎾
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The whole sky just exploded in green here in Reykjavík. It was so bright, I didn't even need my flashlight to walk out to my neighborhood beach. It's rare when we get these whole sky engulfing shows.
This season has been something else.
#solarmaximum ftw!
#northernlights #aurora #iceland
This season has been something else.
#solarmaximum ftw!
#northernlights #aurora #iceland
February 13, 2026 at 10:36 PM
The whole sky just exploded in green here in Reykjavík. It was so bright, I didn't even need my flashlight to walk out to my neighborhood beach. It's rare when we get these whole sky engulfing shows.
This season has been something else.
#solarmaximum ftw!
#northernlights #aurora #iceland
This season has been something else.
#solarmaximum ftw!
#northernlights #aurora #iceland
The nerve of this while the Epstein files are demonstrating the broad willingness of men to rape and abuse children.
February 14, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The nerve of this while the Epstein files are demonstrating the broad willingness of men to rape and abuse children.
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Remembrance is not a violation.
February 14, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Remembrance is not a violation.
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Rep. Jason Crow on Rubio's Munich speech: "Not only did he say things I found disturbing, what was also important was what he did not say. He never mentioned Russia once. He never mentioned China once. There was historically revisionism."
February 14, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Rep. Jason Crow on Rubio's Munich speech: "Not only did he say things I found disturbing, what was also important was what he did not say. He never mentioned Russia once. He never mentioned China once. There was historically revisionism."