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Katie MacBride
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Journalist, dog lover, goat wrangler. I write a newsletter about
substance use & addiction recovery: askasoberlady.substack.com. It’s free and I have low self-esteem; please subscribe. Librarian always.
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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social · Aug 20
I hate that I had to write this but I didn’t know how not to askasoberlady.substack.com/p/gluey-brai...
Gluey brain and leaden bones
Sally helped keep me sober for a decade and a half. Now that she’s gone, everything hurts and nothing makes sense.
askasoberlady.substack.com
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samadams.bsky.social
I found the one exception to my belief that journalists should be paid for their work
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 AM
msmacb.bsky.social
I will read this but with god as my witness, I will not pay for it with actual dollars. We’re all already paying for it with our souls, our nightmares, our inability to know peace ever again
Excerpt from lizza p2. “She did it again. It was four years later. Another presidential campaign. Another book project. Another candidate whom she had profiled. Another note—a poem, according to Olivia—though this time from the candidate to her. “Yr open mouth awaiting my harvest,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services, had written to my then-fiancé. “Drink from me Love.” He continued, “I mean to squeeze your cheeks to force open your mouth. I’ll hold your nose as you look up at me to encourage you to swallow. ‘Dont spill a drop’. I am a river You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you. My Love.”
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
msmacb.bsky.social
Ahahhahahahaha my partner saw a clip of the mamdani/trump meet and assumed it was AI
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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jamellebouie.net
you know what? good advice.
nikkimcr.bsky.social Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 5d
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?

Mamdani: I've spoken about --

Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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maureenjohnsonbooks.com
Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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davidnir.com
Today is the day that Zohran Mamdani truly became president
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
msmacb.bsky.social
And Mamdani has such “One Day More” vibes
joshuaerlich.bsky.social Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 5d
Trump will absolutely be won over by enthusiasm and energy and believing in something. he's a musicals guy. he's a showman.
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
Trump will absolutely be won over by enthusiasm and energy and believing in something. he's a musicals guy. he's a showman.
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
msmacb.bsky.social
Imagine Trump trying to pronounce “Zohran.”

I bet he calls him Xena
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
msmacb.bsky.social
Kinda seems like it’s not actually about security
Business Insider headline: flyers without real id may have to pay $18 to clear security
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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mikecaulfield.bsky.social
Wait until they hear about the drug cascade that untreated ADHD tends to lead to.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
Anyone: How are you?
Me, waking up every day in 2025:
Christine Baranski on THE GILDED AGE. She’s sitting next to Cynthia Nixon and saying, “as you may know, things could not be worse with us.
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
msmacb.bsky.social
If you’re wondering if there’s a not-alarming way to tell people you’re spending Thanksgiving alone with your dog and four goats, I can assure you, there’s not.
askasoberlady.substack.com/p/opting-out...
Opting out of holiday hubbub
The importance of protecting your weirdness (and occasionally being willing to let it go).
askasoberlady.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
msmacb.bsky.social
Maybe I am just a dumb naive baby but my jaw literally dropped
Seattle times: U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika — an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and the deaths of more than 400,000 U.S. troops who died fighting in World War II — as a hate symbol, according to a new policy that takes effect next month.
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
The CDC has updated its vaccine safety page to promote long-discredited claims about vaccines—namely that they cause autism.

The page links to a number of studies, including one by anti-vax allies of Robert Kennedy Jr.

www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
CDC Changes Vaccine Safety Page to Promote Vaccine Misinformation
It is the latest move by Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services to attack vaccines.
www.importantcontext.news
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 AM
msmacb.bsky.social
What if I don’t want my consciousness expanded? my consciousness is not like working so well that I want more of it
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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jamellebouie.net
this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
greatunclebob.bsky.social Great Uncle Bob @greatunclebob.bsky.social · 9d
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
🎯🎯
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action.

Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?
November 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
msmacb.bsky.social
Great headline
Headline from The Guardian: Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’
November 18, 2025 at 10:56 PM
msmacb.bsky.social
I hate Halloween what do you mean you’re going as the water tower above mark sanford’s South Carolina home?
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
Darren Rovell @darrenrovell Follow i feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous content. 11:21 PM - 19 Oct 2016
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
msmacb.bsky.social
Idk how I seem to work all the time, accomplish so little, and am so tired by 5 pm I can hardly function.

All of which is to say, if I owe you an email, I’m sorry. Just know I’m feeling guilty about it while half passed out on my couch
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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janespane.bsky.social
He wrote this with a straight face and mailed it out.
Absurd email from Mark Guiducci, Global Editorial Director, Vanity Fair. "As Vanity Fair West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi writes about Hollywood, "The paradox is that the place in America where people migrate when they wish to become known is in fact an ideal place to disappear." She knows firsthand. A political reporter who was 21 years old when she first interviewed Donald Trump, Olivia exiled herself to Malibu detonated, learng no part of her life spared from the blast. Olivia's first book, American Canto, is as much a work of poetry as it is boldly contemporary nonfiction, a reckoning that stares down the nation's soul as well as her own. Today, she shares the exclusive excerpt with our readers."
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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oliviamesser.bsky.social
genuinely perfect that the interview with Olivia was done by Jacob Bernstein, the child of Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein, who themselves had a monumental scandal that involved romance, adultery, and the highest echelons of the literary and journalism worlds
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM