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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 4d

Might be a wash however given that it’s impossible to keep my kid from gravitating to the Glinda pink accessories, despite my best efforts

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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 4d

Lol I will counter that I teared up at Defying Gravity, and seized the opportunity to explain scapegoating and othering to the three young children I was chaperoning

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6d

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 7d

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

You don't have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 8d

I went a couple weeks ago with three young kids for brunch and it was as absolutely brutally bleak as it has ever been up there 💔

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 8d

Hey so we're doing our fall fundraising campaign and I want to share with you why it's so important. 🧵
secure.actblue.com/donate/tap-f...

I just donated to The American Prospect

My donation supports independent, fact-checked, professional journalism, which is now more valuable than ever before.

secure.actblue.com

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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 11d

I essentially stopped drinking when I realized I could not feel the difference from my sober overtired state

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 11d

hundreds of engineers, teachers, or outreach workers sounds good. I'd like a "full force" helping of that, please

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ACRE Campaigns @acrecampaigns.bsky.social · 13d

Billionaire Jeff Yass isn’t interested in justice — he’s interested in control.

Yass wants a Pennsylvania Supreme Court that shields his fortune and advances his agenda — not one that protects the public.

Pa.’s richest man is pouring money in upcoming supreme court election

Pennsylvania’s biggest billionaire has so far spent $1.25 million on a ‘vote no’ campaign in the upcoming Pa. Supreme Court race.

bit.ly

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12d

In light of reports that the Trump Admin has asked SCOTUS to decide the merits of its effort to end birthright citizenship, I’m re-upping my assessment - reluctantly arrived at - of the majority’s likely response to Trump’s unconstitutional demand. I pray I’m wrong. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Facing this Court

A Sober Look at What to Expect in Trump v. Casa And What We Do About It

open.substack.com

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 12d

Mamdani serves a full, nutritious meal in an era where politics is either deadly poison or vacuous junk food. He uses the tried and true "we did, we can, we will" framework that helps abate cynicism but without papering over past harms or present injustice.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 13d

Cuomo could never.

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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 13d

Yes!!! I have been saying here in Philly - as closures are again being pushed - that it’s crazy to treat enrollment patterns as outside our control or influence

jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 15d

That moment when @ichotiner.bsky.social just can’t take it any more

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18d

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Opinion | The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society

www.nytimes.com

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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 20d

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52185/...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20d

This actually happened.

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 21d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 20d

Many mysteries of physics in that house!

jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 20d

Have gotten similar requests

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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 20d

“This is all feeling awfully like home,” a friend of mine from Russia texted me yesterday evening. www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

This Is It

Obedience and Support are the Same

www.unpopularfront.news

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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 20d

Absolutely beside the point, but it’s not like we lack evidence of what happens when you try! (And Shane doesn’t even meaningfully challenge anti-gay or anti-abortion orthodoxy for all that) www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/u...

‘This Is Not of God’: When Anti-Trump Evangelicals Confront Their Brethren (Published 2018)

www.nytimes.com

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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 21d

This yesterday. And today, a “civics education” plan from DOE that consists of shoveling money into the worst of right wing infrastructure. Dark fucking times.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 21d

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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 21d

Can’t wait to read it - these are the kind of structural issues that have loomed largest to me in this recent era, and they need so much more focus

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22d

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

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