Katie
@spenceke.bsky.social
Austin, TX
All opinions are my own. Re-posts don’t equal endorsements.
All opinions are my own. Re-posts don’t equal endorsements.
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tonight’s data snapshot on NewsHour
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 AM
tonight’s data snapshot on NewsHour
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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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it does feel fundamentally dysfunctional, right, to beg lawmakers to use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law
January 22, 2026 at 2:19 PM
it does feel fundamentally dysfunctional, right, to beg lawmakers to use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law
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today is the day that donald trump finally became precedential
January 4, 2026 at 2:09 PM
today is the day that donald trump finally became precedential
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The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
January 3, 2026 at 2:52 AM
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
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To all the people who don't care what happens to trans people: that is my son that they are attacking. What would you say if someone attacked your son? “Put on your big boy pants and suck it up.”? “Don’t be a purity pony.”?
“From traveling the world, to using the bathroom, to seeing a doctor, the scope and rapidity of the losses have destabilized a community already existing on the margins of society, aided and abetted by elites and institutions in every social arena.”
The scope of Trump's campaign to drive trans Americans from public life is vast. On the last day of 2025, Evan Urquhart attempts to capture all of what we lost.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
January 1, 2026 at 11:48 PM
To all the people who don't care what happens to trans people: that is my son that they are attacking. What would you say if someone attacked your son? “Put on your big boy pants and suck it up.”? “Don’t be a purity pony.”?
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I wrote this yesterday. It’s my message in a bottle from 2025. May it find you where you are xx
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On Power
Liminal thoughts from a liminal space, "The Perineum" between Christmas and New Year
open.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM
I wrote this yesterday. It’s my message in a bottle from 2025. May it find you where you are xx
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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In the 00s, when the "digital nomad" thing got popular, a bunch of tech bros left the country to avoid taxes, Thiel included (who went to NZ). It always amazed me how they spent $$$$ to buy residency in countries who used that $$$$ to fund their own welfare states. Like, what was the point? ...
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
In the 00s, when the "digital nomad" thing got popular, a bunch of tech bros left the country to avoid taxes, Thiel included (who went to NZ). It always amazed me how they spent $$$$ to buy residency in countries who used that $$$$ to fund their own welfare states. Like, what was the point? ...
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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Texas Democrats just did something historic under the leadership of new state party chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social. We have filed a candidate in EVERY 2026 race.
U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8
U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8
We Did It, Texas Dems, We Did It
Candidates in every legislative, statewide, and federal race. Now it’s time to build power where it counts.
www.lonestarleft.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Texas Democrats just did something historic under the leadership of new state party chair @kendallscudder.bsky.social. We have filed a candidate in EVERY 2026 race.
U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8
U.S. Senate: 1 of 1
U.S. House: 38 of 38
State Senate: 15 of 15
State House: 150 of 150
State Board of Education: 8 of 8
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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We’ll see what happens at SCOTUS with the Texas redistricting appeal, but one important contextual thing is that Texas is *not* being ordered to use a court-drawn map or a map that it drew only under duress.
It is being ordered to use its *own* GOP drawn 2021 map. #txlege
It is being ordered to use its *own* GOP drawn 2021 map. #txlege
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The way we talk about the economy as positioned the losses of workers as male losses, wrong and threatening because of the way they endanger male status. But women are workers, too, and they deserve dignity and decent wages.
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The way we talk about the economy as positioned the losses of workers as male losses, wrong and threatening because of the way they endanger male status. But women are workers, too, and they deserve dignity and decent wages.
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The government has promoted a birth boom while discouraging pregnant people from taking
-SSRIs
-COVID vaccines
-Tylenol
all going against medical consensus & evidence.
We spoke to the people trying to keep their pregnancies healthy in the face of govt misinformation
19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...
-SSRIs
-COVID vaccines
-Tylenol
all going against medical consensus & evidence.
We spoke to the people trying to keep their pregnancies healthy in the face of govt misinformation
19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...
What’s safe? How do we know? The anxiety of pregnancy in America.
The way the government talks about pregnancy has transformed, putting choices about medications, vaccines and care under heightened scrutiny.
19thnews.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The government has promoted a birth boom while discouraging pregnant people from taking
-SSRIs
-COVID vaccines
-Tylenol
all going against medical consensus & evidence.
We spoke to the people trying to keep their pregnancies healthy in the face of govt misinformation
19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...
-SSRIs
-COVID vaccines
-Tylenol
all going against medical consensus & evidence.
We spoke to the people trying to keep their pregnancies healthy in the face of govt misinformation
19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...
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NEW Economist/YouGov
Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among U.S. adult citizens by age
18-29: +5 | -39
30-44: -6 | -14
45-64: +12 | -10
65+: -4 | -10
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among U.S. adult citizens by age
18-29: +5 | -39
30-44: -6 | -14
45-64: +12 | -10
65+: -4 | -10
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
![A multiple line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Views of Donald Trump by age in his second term."
The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of the following people? [Donald Trump] (% with a very or somewhat favorable opinion minus the % with a very or somewhat unfavorable opinion)."
The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "don't know" are not shown."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ke6f766al4swdugyvmvyipuo/bafkreifqum7lgpne6l4l7yf57ousd7heyjlnxp4cn25v6perrhpina3pv4@jpeg)
October 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
NEW Economist/YouGov
Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among U.S. adult citizens by age
18-29: +5 | -39
30-44: -6 | -14
45-64: +12 | -10
65+: -4 | -10
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among U.S. adult citizens by age
18-29: +5 | -39
30-44: -6 | -14
45-64: +12 | -10
65+: -4 | -10
today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Disastrous. “If there’s no one who works at the Office of Population Affairs, there’s no one to administer the Title X family planning program, which is a massively important program for reproductive health and rights in this country."
www.notus.org/health-scien...
www.notus.org/health-scien...
HHS Appears to be Cutting Its Entire Family Planning Office
Almost every member of the Office of Population Affairs lost email access and is unable to tell if they were laid off, workers told NOTUS.
www.notus.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Disastrous. “If there’s no one who works at the Office of Population Affairs, there’s no one to administer the Title X family planning program, which is a massively important program for reproductive health and rights in this country."
www.notus.org/health-scien...
www.notus.org/health-scien...
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Although the Callais case at SCOTUS involves a high-profile congressional redistricting dispute, important to remember that most Section 2 cases (2/3!) continue to involve local government bodies like city councils & school boards. - mostly challenges to at-large systems.
October 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Although the Callais case at SCOTUS involves a high-profile congressional redistricting dispute, important to remember that most Section 2 cases (2/3!) continue to involve local government bodies like city councils & school boards. - mostly challenges to at-large systems.
SNL comes out swinging with the first network appearance of Huntrix. What a get! youtu.be/LW9QJIT_T-A?...
KPop Demon Hunters - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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October 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
SNL comes out swinging with the first network appearance of Huntrix. What a get! youtu.be/LW9QJIT_T-A?...
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60 years ago today, LBJ signed the Immigration Nationality Act of 1965 into law at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
October 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
60 years ago today, LBJ signed the Immigration Nationality Act of 1965 into law at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
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Beverly Hills, California.
February 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Beverly Hills, California.
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Can we get some focus on the perfidy of Speaker Mike Johnson?
So much of Trump’s excesses are made possible because Johnson has disabled the House as a check on the President. He has handed Trump his gavel symbolically and in reality.
We need to focus on Trump’s enablers.
So much of Trump’s excesses are made possible because Johnson has disabled the House as a check on the President. He has handed Trump his gavel symbolically and in reality.
We need to focus on Trump’s enablers.
Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results.
So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.
So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.
September 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Can we get some focus on the perfidy of Speaker Mike Johnson?
So much of Trump’s excesses are made possible because Johnson has disabled the House as a check on the President. He has handed Trump his gavel symbolically and in reality.
We need to focus on Trump’s enablers.
So much of Trump’s excesses are made possible because Johnson has disabled the House as a check on the President. He has handed Trump his gavel symbolically and in reality.
We need to focus on Trump’s enablers.
New brief, hot off the presses!
New Resound Research brief links SB8 abortion ban to increased mental distress in young Texans.
🧠 28% of women ages 18–29 reported frequent poor mental health after the ban.
🔗 Read: resoundrh.org/wp-content/u...
🧠 28% of women ages 18–29 reported frequent poor mental health after the ban.
🔗 Read: resoundrh.org/wp-content/u...
resoundrh.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New brief, hot off the presses!
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New paper finds lack of abortion access leads to "significant economic hardship...lower labor force participation, rising debt, widening income inequality, and heightened housing insecurity." www.nber.org/papers/w34245
Abortion, Economic Hardship, and Crime
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
September 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
New paper finds lack of abortion access leads to "significant economic hardship...lower labor force participation, rising debt, widening income inequality, and heightened housing insecurity." www.nber.org/papers/w34245
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Wow: Texas quietly dropped its lawsuit against Dr. Hector Granados, an El Paso pediatric endocrinologist who Ken Paxton called a "scofflaw" for allegedly violating the state's ban on providing hormones / puberty blockers to trans kids:
apnews.com/article/tran...
apnews.com/article/tran...
Texas drops lawsuit against doctor accused of illegally providing care to transgender youth
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office says one of the first doctors in the U.S. accused of illegally providing care to transgender youth under GOP-led bans was found not to have broken the law.
apnews.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Wow: Texas quietly dropped its lawsuit against Dr. Hector Granados, an El Paso pediatric endocrinologist who Ken Paxton called a "scofflaw" for allegedly violating the state's ban on providing hormones / puberty blockers to trans kids:
apnews.com/article/tran...
apnews.com/article/tran...
OK! 👀
State Rep. James Talarico (D-Austin) will enter the race for the Senate. #txlege
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
State Sen. James Talarico to jump in Texas Senate race
The rising star has been flirting with a bid as Democrats look to flip the Lone Star state.
www.politico.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
OK! 👀