KTW
@katebegins2rock.bsky.social
Author: ARBORIA PARK. Editor, historian. Famed punk rock attendee. Used to write books about girls/women saving their hometowns thru history & music. Wish I could just post about that but we're in crisis.
Delaware/Philly/Front row
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@katebegins2rock.bsky.social
· Nov 23
You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
Reminder that my book is seven years old BUT YOU CAN STILL BUY AND READ IT or get it from the library or something and sequels/prequels at my website and IT'S NEW TO YOU!
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If you’re cutting 9% from your academic budget, while taking a 401,000,000 dollar gift for the athletic department, you’re no longer a university, instead you’re a degree granting athletic academy.
December 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
If you’re cutting 9% from your academic budget, while taking a 401,000,000 dollar gift for the athletic department, you’re no longer a university, instead you’re a degree granting athletic academy.
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Pop culture is steadily getting simpler, dumber, more repetitive, and less innovative, mainly because giant piratic entertainment conglomerates don't like to take risks.
You don't have to passively accept this! Fight it!
You don't have to passively accept this! Fight it!
Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?
An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.
www.theatlantic.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Pop culture is steadily getting simpler, dumber, more repetitive, and less innovative, mainly because giant piratic entertainment conglomerates don't like to take risks.
You don't have to passively accept this! Fight it!
You don't have to passively accept this! Fight it!
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Remember how I've said AI is an attack? This is what I meant
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Remember how I've said AI is an attack? This is what I meant
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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CRUCIAL! by Stephanie Foote
"I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"
"I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"
Project MUSE - Almost Heaven: West Virginia University and the Transcendental Grifter
muse.jhu.edu
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
CRUCIAL! by Stephanie Foote
"I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"
"I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"
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New from 404 Media: DHS’s immigrant-hunting app just got removed from the Google Play Store. Let’s local cops do facial recognition on people, app says to contact ICE or not. I’m told Google workers took issue with app in an internal report. We revealed app in Nov
www.404media.co/dhss-immigra...
www.404media.co/dhss-immigra...
DHS’s Immigrant-Hunting App Removed from Google Play Store
The app, called Mobile Identify, was launched in November, and lets local cops use facial recognition to hunt immigrants on behalf of ICE. It is unclear if the removal is temporary or not.
www.404media.co
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
New from 404 Media: DHS’s immigrant-hunting app just got removed from the Google Play Store. Let’s local cops do facial recognition on people, app says to contact ICE or not. I’m told Google workers took issue with app in an internal report. We revealed app in Nov
www.404media.co/dhss-immigra...
www.404media.co/dhss-immigra...
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"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
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Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Occupy warned about oligarchy in 2011 but nobody listened.
Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
2012: $2 billion
2025: $493.8 billion
Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2025: $240.9 billion
Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2025: $226.9 billion
Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2025: $7.25
It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Occupy warned about oligarchy in 2011 but nobody listened.
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Of course Trump already pardoned the pipe bomb guy.
Pipe bomb guy was furthering Trump's agenda that day.
Pipe bomb guy was furthering Trump's agenda that day.
December 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Of course Trump already pardoned the pipe bomb guy.
Pipe bomb guy was furthering Trump's agenda that day.
Pipe bomb guy was furthering Trump's agenda that day.
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Not a big battle of the civilizations guy but gold toilets fuck yeah is a different argument than Michelangelo fuck yeah
There’s something doubly grating about the pious invocation of “Western civilization” by the sort of incurious dolt who wouldn’t know a Titian canvas, a Beethoven quartet, or a Socratic dialogue if whapped them upside the head.
It has long been clear that unalloyed racism lies at the core of Trumpism, and he is becoming increasingly explicit about this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
December 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Not a big battle of the civilizations guy but gold toilets fuck yeah is a different argument than Michelangelo fuck yeah
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Meet two heroes of our times.
December 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Meet two heroes of our times.
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Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
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these people aren’t “visionaries” they’re drunken blackjack players with a self-replenishing pile of chips and a bunch of sycophantic dopes saying shit like “splitting 10s is genius sir”
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
these people aren’t “visionaries” they’re drunken blackjack players with a self-replenishing pile of chips and a bunch of sycophantic dopes saying shit like “splitting 10s is genius sir”
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This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This really is grotesque: they went through years-long citizenship processes and are now being denied simply because if the country they are from. It’s formalized bigotry.
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Leave it to the NYTimes to "both sides" the question of murder.
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Leave it to the NYTimes to "both sides" the question of murder.
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Has any other sports organization ever given a "peace prize?" What a contrived ego massage for the world's most petulant child.
December 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Has any other sports organization ever given a "peace prize?" What a contrived ego massage for the world's most petulant child.
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Read @ariberman.bsky.social + @pemalevy.bsky.social's definitive look at the chief justice, whose court has spent Donald Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way.
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Read @ariberman.bsky.social + @pemalevy.bsky.social's definitive look at the chief justice, whose court has spent Donald Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way.
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Here's an excerpt -- please read the whole column so The Inquirer will think it's worth it for me to cover the big out-of-town stories (lol...no seriously)
December 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Here's an excerpt -- please read the whole column so The Inquirer will think it's worth it for me to cover the big out-of-town stories (lol...no seriously)
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I say this with no hyperbole: if there’s one public figure I could see carrying out a religious genocide, it’s JD.
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I say this with no hyperbole: if there’s one public figure I could see carrying out a religious genocide, it’s JD.
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special shout-out to the Bernie bro who told me in 2016 that the Supreme Court wasn't all that important, and Hillary's picks would be just as bad as Trump's
December 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
special shout-out to the Bernie bro who told me in 2016 that the Supreme Court wasn't all that important, and Hillary's picks would be just as bad as Trump's
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The Roberts court is a handmaid to authoritarianism.
Democracy dies if justices enable minority rule.
Democracy dies if justices enable minority rule.
SCOTUS conservative justices upholding Texas gerrymander is yet another example of how Roberts court has greenlit the many undemocratic schemes of Trump and his party
They’ve now ruled for Trump and his allies in 90 percent of shadow docket opinions www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
They’ve now ruled for Trump and his allies in 90 percent of shadow docket opinions www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Roberts court just helped Trump rig the midterms
The Supreme Court reinstated the Trump-inspired congressional map in Texas.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The Roberts court is a handmaid to authoritarianism.
Democracy dies if justices enable minority rule.
Democracy dies if justices enable minority rule.
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For decades, supposed experts would tell us how moderate and reasonable John Roberts was. Now it's clear that Roberts is one of the main people dragging us into a dictatorship.
December 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
For decades, supposed experts would tell us how moderate and reasonable John Roberts was. Now it's clear that Roberts is one of the main people dragging us into a dictatorship.