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Amanda Katz

@katzish.bsky.social

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Writer and editor. Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 7h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 9h

We knew who readers liked! There were stats!

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 9h

The first move is to purge every single columnist readers like. The second is this

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9h

FOUR HOURS A DAY???

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11h

I love the owls at @burrowingowl.bsky.social, NYC etc photos at @garyhershorn.bsky.social, art @guggenheim.bsky.social, general delight at @themerl.bsky.social, excellent baked goods and flowers @eileen4ever.bsky.social, chickens @erikahall.bsky.social

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 11h

Omg didn’t realize they were on here, immediate follow

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

If you’re mostly a news reader, I really recommend also following some people who mostly post delicious food, wondrous handicrafts, art (there are some great museum feeds), or photos of owls. Much improves your day

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

It’s so good. I am a dinner regular but now clearly need to try the breakfast as well

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

I may have bought an entire extra packet of injera to take home last time

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

Living near this place during peak Covid made it an absolutely clutch takeout move, too habeshamarket.com

HABESHA – ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT & CARRY OUT

habeshamarket.com

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

The veggie combo at a good Ethiopian place is an unsurpassable dinner

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

The Oatmeal, ladies and gents. Really thoughtful illustrated essay on the use and misuse of AI art and why it often feels…bad

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you for dredging this up. Did NOT know this and flashing on some Vice book people were passing around on a bus in 2004

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 13h

Truly. I can’t imagine a more wonderful thing to do with money

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14h

Again, the only crime these people have committed is serving the public

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14h

Like in a “sleeps with the fishes” way, or

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 18h

President Trump addressed backpay for furloughed workers, saying that some "don't deserve to be taken care of" and that he'll take care of them in a different way.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14h

😿 Hope this brilliant, talented, and enormously generous person is on the road to health

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14h

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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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

George Pearkes @peark.es · 18h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16h

Actually romantic

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16h

It has a lot of legs and moves only in the dark

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16h

Hmm

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16h

I think people suddenly realize you can have an alcoholic drink that tastes like melted ice cream and get excited, and then just as quickly get not excited

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, this was kind of weird! But I got 19/25 and am satisfied

Rebecca Baird-Remba @thecitywanderer.bsky.social · 1d

How did the Times not include the right answer in the options and repeat this mistake in the answer? Did no one Google to check what MTA stands for or did our editors drop the ball