Kate
@lightningfield.bsky.social
Online privacy, human rights, feminism, Liberation Tech, art.
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if you scale 2026 down to a week, it’s not even 8am on the first day
January 18, 2026 at 3:06 AM
if you scale 2026 down to a week, it’s not even 8am on the first day
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More than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis.
#FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump
#FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump
January 10, 2026 at 7:58 PM
More than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis.
#FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump
#FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump
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you’re already ahead. stay with it. minneapolis stripped these forces of legitimacy (a battle other cities won’t have to repeat). remember they are completely outmanned. their only real advantage is their organizational capacity. out-organize them & the illusion of control will collapse.
I can't describe how bad Minneapolis feels right now. My neighbors are pulling kids out of school. The public schools are offering remote learning until 2/12. We are having conversations in our alleys about how to protect ourselves. It feels like a military occupation with a blockade.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 9:03 PM
you’re already ahead. stay with it. minneapolis stripped these forces of legitimacy (a battle other cities won’t have to repeat). remember they are completely outmanned. their only real advantage is their organizational capacity. out-organize them & the illusion of control will collapse.
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Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
January 10, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.
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i will never get over this rebecca tiffany quote: the goal of yimbyism is a world where "every trans eighteen-year-old who is stuck living with unsupportive family [is] able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space with transit on a minimum wage job."
www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit...
www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit...
January 11, 2026 at 12:38 AM
i will never get over this rebecca tiffany quote: the goal of yimbyism is a world where "every trans eighteen-year-old who is stuck living with unsupportive family [is] able to afford an apartment in a vibrant urban space with transit on a minimum wage job."
www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit...
www.liberalcurrents.com/feminism-wit...
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"I'm calling to demand the immediate dismantling of ICE for the murder of a woman in Minneapolis today and the impeachment of the President for his support of that murder" is the easiest call to my senators and representative I've ever made
January 7, 2026 at 10:08 PM
"I'm calling to demand the immediate dismantling of ICE for the murder of a woman in Minneapolis today and the impeachment of the President for his support of that murder" is the easiest call to my senators and representative I've ever made
Pro tips: 1. Never get the surgery. 2. Doctor-prescribed therapy helps. 3. Improved ergonomics help. 4. Rest works best (and is essential), and it takes a long time b/c this is a nerve issue not a muscular issue. I was diagnosed and had it for years and now am completely cured.
January 7, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Pro tips: 1. Never get the surgery. 2. Doctor-prescribed therapy helps. 3. Improved ergonomics help. 4. Rest works best (and is essential), and it takes a long time b/c this is a nerve issue not a muscular issue. I was diagnosed and had it for years and now am completely cured.
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journalism is cooked at CBS. i’d be packed up tonight. even if you could do your job, you’d still be propping up whatever this is.
just walk out.
you can leave.
if it sucks, hit da bricks.
real winners quit.
just walk out.
you can leave.
if it sucks, hit da bricks.
real winners quit.
Here's the clip of Tony Dokoupil ending tonight's broadcast by absolutely gushing over "ultimate Florida Man" Marco Rubio.
January 7, 2026 at 3:16 AM
journalism is cooked at CBS. i’d be packed up tonight. even if you could do your job, you’d still be propping up whatever this is.
just walk out.
you can leave.
if it sucks, hit da bricks.
real winners quit.
just walk out.
you can leave.
if it sucks, hit da bricks.
real winners quit.
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January 7, 2026 at 3:17 AM
The link to join: www.hilton.com/en/hilton-ho...
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Time to get one of those Hilton Rewards cards I guess!
January 5, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Time to get one of those Hilton Rewards cards I guess!
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“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/h...
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:31 AM
“Imagine calling yourselves the ‘master race’ but forgetting to secure your own website — maybe try mastering to host WordPress before world domination,” techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/h...
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Stupidity is eternal—and more complex than we think. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mu8FDz
Are We Getting Stupider?
Stupidity is eternal—and more complex than we think.
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January 7, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Stupidity is eternal—and more complex than we think. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mu8FDz
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A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview:
"If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."
"If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."
January 4, 2026 at 1:52 AM
A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview:
"If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."
"If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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finally, we're living through precedented times
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 AM
finally, we're living through precedented times
Trump is trying to distract Americans from the Epstein files, from the Obamacare disaster (no tax credits), and from his growing unpopularity (see: the Kennedy Center debacle). He's becoming a war criminal in the process. What a moron. #Venezuela #Obamacare #Epsteinfiles
January 4, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Trump is trying to distract Americans from the Epstein files, from the Obamacare disaster (no tax credits), and from his growing unpopularity (see: the Kennedy Center debacle). He's becoming a war criminal in the process. What a moron. #Venezuela #Obamacare #Epsteinfiles
This is such a good idea and I hope we try it in the US. It starts to re-introduce some of the care and support to families that can build lasting caregiver-family *teams* that support children.
January 1, 2026 at 1:15 AM
This is such a good idea and I hope we try it in the US. It starts to re-introduce some of the care and support to families that can build lasting caregiver-family *teams* that support children.
Good idea.
January 1, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Good idea.
New year's resolutions 🥂.
- Avoid debtor’s prison and repatriation
- read more spanish
- finish mexican citizenship
- write and get published by friends
- lift something heavy enough to kill me
- scream, lots of screaming
- maybe get a socialist elected to congress as a bit
- more screaming, gotta emphasize the screaming
- read more spanish
- finish mexican citizenship
- write and get published by friends
- lift something heavy enough to kill me
- scream, lots of screaming
- maybe get a socialist elected to congress as a bit
- more screaming, gotta emphasize the screaming
January 1, 2026 at 12:31 AM
New year's resolutions 🥂.
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They've started replacing the "welcome to the borough" signs so they say Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani instead of Mayor Adams.
December 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
They've started replacing the "welcome to the borough" signs so they say Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani instead of Mayor Adams.
You don't have to reply. My views are based on lived experience and multiple successful campaigns on a number of topics. If we ever cross paths again, we can chat :)
December 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
You don't have to reply. My views are based on lived experience and multiple successful campaigns on a number of topics. If we ever cross paths again, we can chat :)
Anyway, back to knitting my balaclava :)
December 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Anyway, back to knitting my balaclava :)
In AIDS, because it was often a quick, young death, patients were eager to get the show on the road and unable to wait for generational change (that's why, for instance, there were few patient lawsuits, which might otherwise been a useful strategem--people didn't have years to wait).
December 28, 2025 at 5:32 AM
In AIDS, because it was often a quick, young death, patients were eager to get the show on the road and unable to wait for generational change (that's why, for instance, there were few patient lawsuits, which might otherwise been a useful strategem--people didn't have years to wait).
For instance, my friend John launched AIDS Treatment News, a landmark, fairly technical treatment publication--*before* there was any effective AIDS treatment. What would research into AIDS need to be? What existing drugs might treat it? How to test them? The publication helped frame the research.
December 28, 2025 at 5:29 AM
For instance, my friend John launched AIDS Treatment News, a landmark, fairly technical treatment publication--*before* there was any effective AIDS treatment. What would research into AIDS need to be? What existing drugs might treat it? How to test them? The publication helped frame the research.