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Gen X, middle child, Leo. I edit the Books section @ the Boston Globe.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · Aug 28

I haven't written this kind of personal essay in years, so it was interesting to revisit this one, originally published in 2018, that @noahmichelson.bsky.social asked me to update.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

A Trump Supporter Sat Next To My 12-Year-Old Black Son On A Plane. I Couldn’t Believe What She Told Him.

"My son is growing up to face dangers made worse by the president this woman voted for."

www.huffpost.com

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 1h

Can anyone confirm that tomorrow’s literature Nobel announcement will be at 7 AM Eastern time?

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 2h

“The same approach” here = murder. Not great.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 5h

We’re all gonna die

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 11h

For 911 calls of the future, AI is on the line

AI might answer your 911 calls

By the end of next year, Montgomery County’s call center hopes to use artificial intelligence to answer nonemergency phone calls. The goal is to lighten the workload for a chronically understaffed center.

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 8h

The President of the United States calling for the imprisonment of elected officials with no legal basis should alarm everyone, regardless of party.

Social post by Donald J. Trump that says: 'Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!'

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 6h

Lemme be succinct for a minute then I'll log off because this is pointless:

The pro-natalist thing is pretty firmly rooted in racism and xenophobia. Anti-immigration sentiment.

You are doing a service to it if you try to remove that component and debate its merits in isolation.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 6h

Thrilled to see this!

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 6h

Tommy Orange got a MacArthur! HELL YEAH!
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Tommy Orange

Illuminating the richness and complexity of contemporary, urban Native Peoples’ lives.

www.macfound.org

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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 6h

oh my fucking god

Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 6h

When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze.

www.latimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 7h

The wedding scene in Too Much is frightening as I help my daughter start planning her wedding to a Brit.

Image is a still from the TV show Too Much. Megan Stalter’s character is saying, of the English wedding guests, “they’re cheerful but they’re not kind, and they’re horny but they’re not warm.”

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 8h

1000%

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 9h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Leaving FilmStruck @leavingfilmstrk.bsky.social · 16d

Another incredible photo of Rev. David Black being assaulted by ICE agents outside an ICE facility in Broadview. Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23h

I've been looking for more reporting on this. NVIDIA has an increasing number of deals where it is paying companies to buy its chips. sounds very bubbly.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 23h

Pray for Dolly

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and Republicans caused the government shutdown.

And now they’re hinting at breaking the law to steal workers’ paychecks.

This is blatantly illegal and we won't stand for it. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

White House looks for a loophole in the law that ensures federal workers get paid after a shutdown

The memo suggests furloughed workers are not entitled to back pay, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed.

www.nbcnews.com

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Well done by @whitehouse.senate.gov

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

When US citizen Leo Garcia Venegas tried to prove his identity by showing federal agents his REAL ID, they dismissed it as a fake and kept him detained, releasing him only after they bothered to run his Social Security number.

Just a few weeks later, they detained him again:

Mass Deportation Is A Threat To Us All

Aided by the Supreme Court and the insidious "Kavanaugh stop," the administration's chaotic mass deportation operations are sweeping up Americans – including children and U.S. military veterans.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 3d

Not long ago -- in my lifetime -- all trans people faced unspeakable violence, including state-sponsored violence, for simply existing

And self-appointed gatekeepers made it as tough as possible for a person to transition.

Anyone who wants to bring back the gatekeeping also wants the violence back

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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 1d

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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