Katherine Alejandra Cross
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Sociologist, Mistress of Information Systems || Techy TransLatina Ph.D Candidate @UW iSchool || The Saturday Paper VG Columnist || Contributing Editor Liberal Currents ||📍Seattle || 🏳️⚧️ || Author of LOG OFF; order here! https://www.littlepuss.net/shop
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Trans Panic? More Like Trans Apathetic
2025 shows trans rights aren't electoral poison. The truth? Most people just don't care that much.
www.liberalcurrents.com
I took on the mythology of the "Kamala is for they/them" ad. Since the morning after the 2024 election, trans people have been scapegoated for Harris' loss, with that infamous ad at the centre of recriminations.
But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.
But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.
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An arsonist hit a Mississippi synagogue Saturday. Seven Torahs were damaged or destroyed in the fire.
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
mississippitoday.org
January 11, 2026 at 3:59 AM
An arsonist hit a Mississippi synagogue Saturday. Seven Torahs were damaged or destroyed in the fire.
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
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Same synagogue:
“On Sept 18, 1967, Ku Klux Klan members planted a bomb that destroyed much of the Rabbi’s office and part of the library.
“Two months later, the same Klan members bombed the Nussbaum home while the rabbi was home with his wife. No one was hurt.”
www.isjl.org/mississippi-...
“On Sept 18, 1967, Ku Klux Klan members planted a bomb that destroyed much of the Rabbi’s office and part of the library.
“Two months later, the same Klan members bombed the Nussbaum home while the rabbi was home with his wife. No one was hurt.”
www.isjl.org/mississippi-...
January 11, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Same synagogue:
“On Sept 18, 1967, Ku Klux Klan members planted a bomb that destroyed much of the Rabbi’s office and part of the library.
“Two months later, the same Klan members bombed the Nussbaum home while the rabbi was home with his wife. No one was hurt.”
www.isjl.org/mississippi-...
“On Sept 18, 1967, Ku Klux Klan members planted a bomb that destroyed much of the Rabbi’s office and part of the library.
“Two months later, the same Klan members bombed the Nussbaum home while the rabbi was home with his wife. No one was hurt.”
www.isjl.org/mississippi-...
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1973: Model Trains & Accessories and Power Controllers from Hornby
(+Train Set; Passenger Train Set; Goods Train Set; and Extra Track Pack)
(+Train Set; Passenger Train Set; Goods Train Set; and Extra Track Pack)
January 10, 2026 at 11:00 PM
1973: Model Trains & Accessories and Power Controllers from Hornby
(+Train Set; Passenger Train Set; Goods Train Set; and Extra Track Pack)
(+Train Set; Passenger Train Set; Goods Train Set; and Extra Track Pack)
I'm writing a sci-fi erotica story where one little detail is that a matriarchal space pope finally blesses her planet's baseball team's name, which references the species' faith, and now they're on their way to the Worlds Series.
Chicago has the mandate of heaven
January 11, 2026 at 6:46 AM
I'm writing a sci-fi erotica story where one little detail is that a matriarchal space pope finally blesses her planet's baseball team's name, which references the species' faith, and now they're on their way to the Worlds Series.
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Chicago has the mandate of heaven
January 11, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Chicago has the mandate of heaven
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Okay I looked it up. “goombah” is a bigoted slur against nonbinary folks.
January 11, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Okay I looked it up. “goombah” is a bigoted slur against nonbinary folks.
Posting this *on* Twitter is adding insult to injury.
Of course not. That would make the tech bros that Solomon is sucking up to very angry.
What an absolutely useless waste of a Cabinet minster.
What an absolutely useless waste of a Cabinet minster.
January 11, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Posting this *on* Twitter is adding insult to injury.
Since 2016, I've been telling people that Trump is emotionally exoskeletal. There are no hidden depths, no secret heart. You can trust that what he says at any given moment is exactly what he feels *at that time*. It might change; it likely will. He's an emotional amoeba lurching between impulses.
All art about Trump will end up being pro-Trump propaganda simply by virtue of writers and directors giving him more depth than he has. There really is nothing else there. He's just a mobster. He has *no* depth. Zero. None. He likes steak and blondes and gold. That's all there is to him.
January 11, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Since 2016, I've been telling people that Trump is emotionally exoskeletal. There are no hidden depths, no secret heart. You can trust that what he says at any given moment is exactly what he feels *at that time*. It might change; it likely will. He's an emotional amoeba lurching between impulses.
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It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.
I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
January 11, 2026 at 5:55 AM
It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.
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I think, if you’ve been around long enough*, at this point you have an obligation to (i) know that the struggles are longer than any event or war, and (ii) spread messages that bias to resilience and long-term engagement and strength
*anyone over Bluesky’s Age
*anyone over Bluesky’s Age
January 11, 2026 at 5:19 AM
I think, if you’ve been around long enough*, at this point you have an obligation to (i) know that the struggles are longer than any event or war, and (ii) spread messages that bias to resilience and long-term engagement and strength
*anyone over Bluesky’s Age
*anyone over Bluesky’s Age
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This is an "administrative warrant". It's not signed by a judge and is therefore unlawful. ICE agents carry stacks of these around in their cars and just fill them out on the fly.
Make sure everyone knows what this looks like, as they have already started going door-to-door in some neighborhoods.
Make sure everyone knows what this looks like, as they have already started going door-to-door in some neighborhoods.
January 10, 2026 at 3:57 PM
This is an "administrative warrant". It's not signed by a judge and is therefore unlawful. ICE agents carry stacks of these around in their cars and just fill them out on the fly.
Make sure everyone knows what this looks like, as they have already started going door-to-door in some neighborhoods.
Make sure everyone knows what this looks like, as they have already started going door-to-door in some neighborhoods.
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i'm going to maintain caution until i see reporting that beyond reports of a nebulous "plan" that's not from the world's third dumbest newspaper.
January 11, 2026 at 4:43 AM
i'm going to maintain caution until i see reporting that beyond reports of a nebulous "plan" that's not from the world's third dumbest newspaper.
Geopolitically, it would mean the US divides by zero. We do not know what will happen, and anyone who claims to know what comes next is lying to you.
But I have a strong feeling that it's not a world I'd want to live in.
But I have a strong feeling that it's not a world I'd want to live in.
i mean i think a world where the US genuinely break NATO and launch an invasion of Greenland looks so alien to us that we will not be able to understand it
The thing I think folks struggle to appreciate with this stuff tho is however hard it is to wean Europe off US tech is *at least as hard* as it will be for US tech to get back into Europe after that type of transition kicks into high gear
January 11, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Geopolitically, it would mean the US divides by zero. We do not know what will happen, and anyone who claims to know what comes next is lying to you.
But I have a strong feeling that it's not a world I'd want to live in.
But I have a strong feeling that it's not a world I'd want to live in.
I try very hard not to race to respond to breaking news events. First and foremost, I don't want to give you my raw, off-the-cuff emotional response. That's private, and only for loved ones who want to listen.
I want to give you the best of me, insofar as I'm able.
I want to give you the best of me, insofar as I'm able.
January 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
I try very hard not to race to respond to breaking news events. First and foremost, I don't want to give you my raw, off-the-cuff emotional response. That's private, and only for loved ones who want to listen.
I want to give you the best of me, insofar as I'm able.
I want to give you the best of me, insofar as I'm able.
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The End of History 2: 2 Fast 2 Furious
January 11, 2026 at 3:32 AM
The End of History 2: 2 Fast 2 Furious
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When my trans friends unleash their powers.
January 11, 2026 at 1:59 AM
When my trans friends unleash their powers.
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Too many pull-quotes, just read it
I took on the mythology of the "Kamala is for they/them" ad. Since the morning after the 2024 election, trans people have been scapegoated for Harris' loss, with that infamous ad at the centre of recriminations.
But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.
But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.
Trans Panic? More Like Trans Apathetic
2025 shows trans rights aren't electoral poison. The truth? Most people just don't care that much.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Too many pull-quotes, just read it
*buzzes in* What is 'the correct response to fascist terror?'
Second, and probably most importantly, it's tactically wrong. "No point discussing political opposition to fascism, there won't be elections anyway" cedes victory to your enemies. It's defeatism and nihilism.
January 11, 2026 at 12:57 AM
*buzzes in* What is 'the correct response to fascist terror?'
This is the elite American pundit class in a nut shell: ethics is for knowing which knife and fork to use, not for the great moral questions of our age. They are worse than useless, they are a necrotising blight on the civic spirit.
A man who has written numerous books about morality cannot say whether it’s immoral to murder someone because they mildly inconvenienced you
January 11, 2026 at 12:47 AM
This is the elite American pundit class in a nut shell: ethics is for knowing which knife and fork to use, not for the great moral questions of our age. They are worse than useless, they are a necrotising blight on the civic spirit.
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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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When NIMBYs say that California is full and their cities can’t accommodate more housing, they are saying that queer people trying to get out of red states are on their own.
New research confirms what many of us see: there's a large internal migration of LGBTQ people in the US, especially trans people, to friendlier states & cities.
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
Since 11/2024, 9% of all trans people have moved to another state, 43% have considered moving.
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
January 11, 2026 at 12:36 AM
When NIMBYs say that California is full and their cities can’t accommodate more housing, they are saying that queer people trying to get out of red states are on their own.
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Episcopalians going *hard*
“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills.,not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire
Redirecting...
www.facebook.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Episcopalians going *hard*
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To square the circle of how this fits in with the “protect women’s sports” crusade, the whole point of that movement is to protect sports for their chosen class of women as participants and keep women’s sports subservient to men’s sports in terms of investment and interest.
The conservative rhetoric around protecting women makes more sense once you understand that victims exist purely as a hypothetical for them. Once a victim actually claims the label, they become a threat. This is also why they prefer dead women to living victims.
January 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
To square the circle of how this fits in with the “protect women’s sports” crusade, the whole point of that movement is to protect sports for their chosen class of women as participants and keep women’s sports subservient to men’s sports in terms of investment and interest.