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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."

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

I turned on the heat but only downstairs and I’m still sleeping with the window open.

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

Same

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

Omg I hope not! I found that song truly inspiring as a little kid!

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

Mystery outside will be Tilly Norwood

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 3h

Scoop: Bari Weiss had lunch with Norah O'Donnell this week as CBS News brass re-evaluates how to revamp the "Evening News," a top priority for them. Another name in the mix: Tony Dokoupil. And then, I'm told, there's a mystery outsider.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

The Weiss House

As Bari Weiss settles into CBS News, she’s moving fast—taking anchors to lunch, phoning potential hires, and plotting a new “Evening News," with names like Norah O'Donell and Tony Dokoupil in the mix.

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

He’s giving bullies a bad name

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

I didn’t know there was a SPEED RACER movie. The TV show blew my innocent mind as a little kid.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 5h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

“We’re the hottest country in the world right now. We went from a dead country a year ago to the hottest country in the world.”

- 10/8/25

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

MOODY’S: Twenty-two states are either in a recession or on the precipice of a downturn. 👀

@axios.com 🇺🇸
www.axios.com/newsletters/...

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

For sure an ingredient

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 5h

A couple more, for fun

Still from a tv show. A white man in the 80s says ‘Satanism is rampant in America and Canada.’

Still from a tv show. A white teen boy in a clip from the 80s says ‘there’s one kid who is at least seriously involved in satanism.’

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 5h

Thinking Johnny Cash is uncool is a sure sign that the person is an absolute dipshit.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6h

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 5h

Shout out to my fellow gen-Xers who stumble onto this while mildly high.

Image is a still from a 1980s tv news piece, with Jane Pauley paused as she says Devil Worship, Satanism, the Occult.

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

Clapping is the devil’s work!

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

Yeah it’s horrifying!

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

It's just horrifying, for faculty and staff of course, and also for students. My son is a first year college student and I worry all the time that in a few years the whole structure will be totally fucked.

Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 6h

At an academic conference and the most common conversations I've had is stuff like, "How many faculty is your school trying to fire? Do you still have professional development funds? Do you still have an English department?" Fun times!

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

I went to school with a family of Kukuks!

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

Honestly he's earned a peaceful retirement, however he defines that. Not everybody is going to be a media-friendly boy scout type. And that is okay!

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

Amazing how many millions of Americans will be harmed because the GOP wants to protect Epstein's friends and associates.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7h

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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

I've loved Paul Pierce since he played for my hometown Jayhawks. I just want him to have a relatively happy existence doing what he loves best: getting high and hanging out with high-end sex workers.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 7h

"does the president know what is real and what is not" is a legitimate question that should probably get asked a lot more

Portland Is Burning on the Only Screens That Matter

Welcome to my relaunched newsletter, with independent writing and reporting on science, politics, and policy. Read more about it here, and please subscribe at the bottom of this post to support this w...

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

Impressive!

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

This week's @bostonglobe.com books section also includes Laurie Hertzel's review of JOYRIDE, the dizzying new memoir from @susanorlean.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/a...

Prolific profile writer Susan Orlean turns a sharp gaze onto her own exhilarating career - The Boston Globe

This is not a craft book but a memoir, yet 'Joyride' might contain some of the best writing advice you'll ever read.

www.bostonglobe.com

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

In this week's @bostonglobe.com books coverage, a review by @coryoldweiler.bsky.social of Anna North's new novel, BOG QUEEN. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/a...

Anna North’s new novel follows two women: One died 2,000 years ago, the other searches her body for clues - The Boston Globe

Parallel lines never meet in geometry class, but the convergence of parallel narratives is one of the most routine recipes for modern storytelling.

www.bostonglobe.com

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

My @bostonglobe.com column this week features Hester Kaplan, whose book about her father blends biography, memoir, and craft class. I really enjoyed it! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/09/a...

Looking in the pages of a father’s book to finally understand his mysteries - The Boston Globe

Growing up in a book-filled Cambridge house, the middle daughter of two successful writers, it is unsurprising that Hester Kaplan became a writer herself.

www.bostonglobe.com

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