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kenworthy.bsky.social
Nora Kenworthy
@kenworthy.bsky.social
4.4K followers 830 following 190 posts
Professor, writer, author of (most recently) Crowded Out. Co-host of @inthemeanwhile.bsky.social. Public health, medical anthropology, tech, politics. Good trouble always.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21h
This week on VIBE CHECK, we talk about white mediocrity: the moral mediocrity of Ezra Klein and the media mediocrity of Bari Weiss, hehe.
An Abundance of White Mediocrity
Podcast Episode · Vibe Check · 10/08/2025 · 58m
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h
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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 19h
"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 23h
In our second installment of “Harrell's Big Business Backers,” we present to you Brad Smith, President and Board Vice Chair at Microsoft, who took home $24M just last year! He wants to keep taxes low for himself and his $3 trillion corporation.
A graphic emulating a baseball card with a headshot of Brad Smith on a green background with floating dollar bills, showing he donated $10,000 The back of the baseball card graphic with bullet points stating that Brad Smith is the president and board. vice chair of Microsoft, was paid 24 million last year, sold tens of millions of dollars of Microsoft shares this year still holds $240 million of stock, and is lobbying against Washington state in the golfing attacks. unlucky businesses model not jumpstart, which Katie helped enact in Seattle. Additional text says what he's buying: for taxes for himself and his $3 trillion dollar corporation.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 1d
We could hear them laughing
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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Nora Kenworthy @kenworthy.bsky.social · 1d
I continue to insist that Seattle has the world’s best fans. This was epic 👌
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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 1d
A gentleman with a "Dump Here 61" shirt caught the Raleigh home run (on a bounce.)
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 3d
This is so incredibly condescending from the Seattle Times. Do you also ask male candidates if they'd considered running for an "easier" office?
A Times profile of Katie Wilson being highlighted in an email. "Katie Wilson shrugged off the idea she might be better suited for a City Council seat, instead aiming for Mayor"
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d
“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.
Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim
A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.
futurism.com
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson:

"Private establishments can partner with us to make it clear that private property is private property and ICE cannot enter establishments without a valid warrant ... If Congress will not check this administration, then Chicago will."
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 2d
"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"
a guy in a frog costume standing facing a line of police and ICE agents in Portland
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Nora Kenworthy @kenworthy.bsky.social · 4d
It definitely contributes, @dataforprogress.org has polled on this, I believe.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d
When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 5d
Absolutely heinous.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d
important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d
wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place
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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 5d
Absolutely INSANE use of passive voice in this CNN piece

just incredible

@katmabu.bsky.social “landed on the ground” during the protest???
At least one other person, who identified herself on social media as Kat Abughazaleh, a former journalist also running for Congress, landed on the ground during that same protest after she was pushed by a federal law enforcement agent in a camouflage uniform wearing a full face covering, sunglasses and a helmet, video by CNN affiliate WBBM showed.
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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d
How can––and should––health workers respond when fascist ICE agents invade our hospitals and clinics? I outlined an anti-fascist approach to caregiving in this essay.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
It’s Time for Health Workers to Defy the Law—Again
When the government obstructs care, caregivers must go underground.
www.thenation.com
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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 5d
What a dark day for press freedom in the United States
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d
Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.
U.S. deports journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador, family says
Mario Guevara, an independent journalist, was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.
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In The Meanwhile @inthemeanwhile.bsky.social · 5d
This week, it’s an episode full of dark times and dark humor bracketed by moments of joy. We talk with the awe-inducing @kashana.blacksky.app 🤩about debt, policing, and how humor is essential to collective resistance. It’s all in her new book The Payback. Tune in! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Ep 19: Dark Humor for Dark Times with Kashana Cauley
Podcast Episode · In the Meanwhile · 10/03/2025 · 1h 4m
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 6d
Just to be clear, we wrote that paragraph long before the App Store removed ICEBlock. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...
So antifa could be a kid in a black mask tossing a brick at a CCTV camera at an ICE facility. Antifa could be the grandma on the sidewalk holding a sign reading “DONALD TRUMP IS A FASCIST.” Antifa is ACAB. Antifa is Fuck ICE. Antifa is No Kings. Antifa might be a reading group, a teach-in, an Instagram solicitation for mutual aid. Antifa could be the ICEBlock app, and the App Store could be providing material support for terrorism.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6d
why is everything so tacky and weird, they're all so tacky and weird
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 6d
reddit occupied government
Ken Dilanian @DilanianMSNBC Follow The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 6d
Cracker Barrel American Eagle War on Christmas: the right needs us to loathe them because that's central to their identity and operations, and if we don't they'll just fabricate it. Not news, but here's a new case of that:
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Open Measures @openmeasures.bsky.social · 6d
American Eagle was dragged into an online outrage cycle after conservative media figures claimed that liberals were offended by the clothing company's ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and a denim-themed pun about her "great jeans."

We checked the data. That wasn't true.

openmeasures.io/american-eag...
Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d
Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 7d
I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...
Ingersoll’s calls for violence are in line with the official Republican position. John Gillette, a Republican state representative for Arizona, called for Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to be hanged on his X account. Two Kansas Republicans alluded to — “joked” — about shooting a former Democratic colleague on the floor of the Kansas House. Louisiana Republican Clay Higgins threatened to jail the mayor of Denver, while Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna threatened to refer him for criminal charges. Arizona Republican Paul Gosar shared an anime video depicting him killing Ocasio-Cortez and attacking then-President Joe Biden. Denaturalization is another favorite Republican threat. Republican Andy Ogles of Tennessee said that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani should be stripped of his citizenship and deported; Ogles later demanded the same for Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois. Texas Republican Brandon Gill, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, and South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace have called for Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized US citizen, to be deported.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 7d
This is so indefensibly insane: Speaker Johnson is refusing to seat Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva because she'll be the 218th vote to release the Epstein files. Johnson swore in Rep Walkinshaw (VA) w/in 24 hours.

Johnson is abandoning his job to instead protect a convicted child sex predator
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d
Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.
russ vought saying "no, its a three year term" when Biden asks for his resignation on the naval academy visitors board
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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 7d
“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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