Claire Katz
@ckatz.bsky.social
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Professor, researcher, teacher, philosopher
Professor, researcher, teacher, philosopher
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Claire Katz
@ckatz.bsky.social
· Oct 8
Stolen Valor: How the Humanities “@ Work” Are Hidden in Plain Sight | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Stolen Valor: How the Humanities “@ Work” Are Hidden in Plain Sight - Volume 1
www.cambridge.org
My article, "Stolen Valor: How the Humanities '@Work' are Hidden in Plain Sight," has been published in Public Humanities, an open access journal with Cambridge University Press.
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WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.
Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad
WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.
www.404media.co
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
WE BOUGHT A SUPER BOWL AD.
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If you hear someone saying that they hope lawyers are ready to go to court to protect free and fair elections, I suggest you let them know that my law firm is already litigating more than 80 voting and election cases in 40 states.
February 6, 2026 at 2:36 PM
If you hear someone saying that they hope lawyers are ready to go to court to protect free and fair elections, I suggest you let them know that my law firm is already litigating more than 80 voting and election cases in 40 states.
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BREAKING: Democrat Taylor Rehmet flips GOP-held Texas state Senate seat in special election for district Trump handily won in 2024.
Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP
Democrat Taylor Rehmet has won a special election for the Texas state Senate and flipped a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.
bit.ly
February 1, 2026 at 5:15 AM
BREAKING: Democrat Taylor Rehmet flips GOP-held Texas state Senate seat in special election for district Trump handily won in 2024.
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God bless these people.
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
January 31, 2026 at 8:17 AM
God bless these people.
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A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:55 AM
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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Folks blame government, but: "new work requirements for Medicaid highlight the profits to be made from adding complexity to the safety net. Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants & administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
Corporations are extracting billions from America’s safety net and their payday is about to be supercharged by new rules.
I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it.
@lpeblog.bsky.social
lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...
I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it.
@lpeblog.bsky.social
lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.
lpeproject.org
January 30, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Folks blame government, but: "new work requirements for Medicaid highlight the profits to be made from adding complexity to the safety net. Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants & administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
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Conservatives have been complaining about their "free speech" being violated since Allan Bloom and it always amounts to wealthy, elite ppl complaining "Someone criticized me." Then the same free speech warriors are mum when this happens, or profs are fired at Texas A&M. It's always been a grift.
Odd how the conservative movement's free speech warriors have been quiet about this!
A Law School Dean Signed a Brief Defending Trans Rights. She Lost Her Job Because of It
The revocation of Emily Suski’s job offer at the University of Arkansas sends a chilling message to law professors everywhere.
ballsandstrikes.org
January 27, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Conservatives have been complaining about their "free speech" being violated since Allan Bloom and it always amounts to wealthy, elite ppl complaining "Someone criticized me." Then the same free speech warriors are mum when this happens, or profs are fired at Texas A&M. It's always been a grift.
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“The political questions facing Texas A&M are the most important questions facing the nation as a whole," writes Christoper Hooks.
Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake one of our finest institutions: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/meltdown-at-texas-a-m-university/
Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake one of our finest institutions: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/meltdown-at-texas-a-m-university/
What's the Matter with Texas A&M?
Five presidents in five years. Firings of “woke” professors. Crackdowns on Plato. Inside state leaders' efforts to remake a great university.
www.texasmonthly.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:06 PM
“The political questions facing Texas A&M are the most important questions facing the nation as a whole," writes Christoper Hooks.
Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake one of our finest institutions: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/meltdown-at-texas-a-m-university/
Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake one of our finest institutions: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/meltdown-at-texas-a-m-university/
Texas Monthly always does fantastic long form journalism, but this is an exceptional piece. Worth the read.
For two years, I've been investigating claims that Texas A&M University has been overtaken by the forces of gay race communism. The truth is a little more complicated: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
What’s the Matter With Texas A&M?
Five presidents in five years. Firings of “woke” professors. Crackdowns on Plato. Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake a great university.
www.texasmonthly.com
January 31, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Texas Monthly always does fantastic long form journalism, but this is an exceptional piece. Worth the read.
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“the people united will never be defeated”
There's no better way to end the day. Be well friends. ❤️
There's no better way to end the day. Be well friends. ❤️
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 1:55 AM
“the people united will never be defeated”
There's no better way to end the day. Be well friends. ❤️
There's no better way to end the day. Be well friends. ❤️
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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@timmiller.bsky.social on JD Vance's comments about Renée Good: "He paints her as an enemy...as a domestic foe, he lies about her, he shows no sympathy towards her. And, and he does so in a lecturing, condescending, smarmy way... It's totally, totally sick, and I find him to be repulsive."
January 8, 2026 at 10:17 PM
@timmiller.bsky.social on JD Vance's comments about Renée Good: "He paints her as an enemy...as a domestic foe, he lies about her, he shows no sympathy towards her. And, and he does so in a lecturing, condescending, smarmy way... It's totally, totally sick, and I find him to be repulsive."
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“This libertarian manifesto,” The Sovereign Individual, is “loved by Peter Thiel *** Political operators such as former Tony Blair spokesman Alistair Campbell and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen have embraced the book, too.” 9/28/25 … 1/ theconversation.com/this-liberta...
October 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
“This libertarian manifesto,” The Sovereign Individual, is “loved by Peter Thiel *** Political operators such as former Tony Blair spokesman Alistair Campbell and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen have embraced the book, too.” 9/28/25 … 1/ theconversation.com/this-liberta...
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Pete Hegseth conducted a live fire exercise over I-5 as part of a made-for-Fox stunt for him and Vance which had a misfire that struck a Highway Patrol vehicle and could have killed people?
Who could have foreseen this?
Who could have foreseen this?
October 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Pete Hegseth conducted a live fire exercise over I-5 as part of a made-for-Fox stunt for him and Vance which had a misfire that struck a Highway Patrol vehicle and could have killed people?
Who could have foreseen this?
Who could have foreseen this?
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Sounds … about right.
But still crazy to think those words were spoken aloud.
But still crazy to think those words were spoken aloud.
Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com
By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
www.propublica.org
October 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Sounds … about right.
But still crazy to think those words were spoken aloud.
But still crazy to think those words were spoken aloud.
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com
By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com
Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...
www.propublica.org
October 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com
By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com
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His refusal to believe says more about him than it does about the protester. Every accusation is a confession.
The fact that the Trump admin first reaction to people peacefully exercising their rights is to launch federal investigations against citizens to intimidate them is exactly why we were out there.
October 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
His refusal to believe says more about him than it does about the protester. Every accusation is a confession.
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It's been a week of ostentatious bigotry in American politics, David A. Graham argues in The Atlantic Daily.
It’s Not a Dog Whistle If Everyone Can Hear It
A week of ostentatious bigotry in American politics
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's been a week of ostentatious bigotry in American politics, David A. Graham argues in The Atlantic Daily.
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Newsom with the receipts!
Gavin Newsom Digs Up Old JD Vance Photo To Troll MAGA Fans Who Say They'll Boycott The Super Bowl
www.comicsands.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Newsom with the receipts!
