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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃

@katekilla.bsky.social

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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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Candice Frederick @candicefrederick.bsky.social · 13h

Questlove’s documentary about Earth, Wind & Fire set to arrive in 2026 thegrio.com/2025/10/13/q...

Questlove’s documentary about Earth, Wind & Fire set to arrive in 2026

The documentary about the legendary band is the first since 2001’s Shining Stars: The Official Story of Earth, Wind & Fire.

thegrio.com

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 14h

If this story is true (guess whether I am putting my money on whether DHS or she is lying), DHS illegally assaulted and arrested this woman, then dragged her through social media hell with all sorts of lies and mockery. I hope her attorneys are relentless.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 14h

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/w...

WGN-TV producer hires attorney to ‘pursue all legal actions’ after ICE detention

Debbie Brockman and her legal team “adamantly deny” allegations that she assaulted federal officers during an immigration enforcement action.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 13h

All because these losers can’t make a human friend.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 18h

"The heartfelt beliefs and concerns of a traumatized nation, as spoken by ordinary citizens? That would be a good story, but I’m not seeing it in Big Journalism." by @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-media-...

The media is largely ignoring the trauma of millions. Here's why.

Plus: Watch George Stephanopolous pushes JD Vance with follow-up questions, cringe at Bari Weiss's pep talk to CBS journalists; and more

margaretsullivan.substack.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 15h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 15h

Local opposition to data centers is bipartisan, with politicians asking themselves "whether voters want their costs to go up to help Meta or Amazon."

As electricity bills rise, candidates in both parties blame data centers

The AI-driven, power-hungry projects are emerging as a new target for America’s emboldened populists.

www.semafor.com

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 15h

Honestly these guys' positively single-minded pursuit of money is the first and only sign you need that they are absolutely fucked up. There's something basically wrong with these assholes, and they end up trying to destroy the only thing that could help them -- human love and community.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 15h

Indianapolis! We're looking for a public editor! Is it you? www.poynter.org/news-release...

Poynter launches public editor project to serve news audiences in Indianapolis - Poynter

Partner newsrooms will publish the editor’s independent analysis of local news coverage across the market.

www.poynter.org

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 16h

They keep trying to solve human problems with bad technology.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 16h

This isn’t surprising but in case you know anybody who needs convincing.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16h

This is the most important politics story in a long time. Twitter has radicalized the young GOP into overt Nazism and white supremacy and the news has spent years pretending not to see.

It’s a gleefully racist and antisemitic party now. Stop pretending otherwise www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 18h

They love to pretend not to know why the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments exist.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 18h

He was something else.

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 18h

And of course, plenty of white people join the NAACP, or support the organization, attend events, etc.

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 18h

Just breaking. He was only 51. Pancreatic cancer. 💔

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 18h

I’m intrigued!

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Coach of the Year Nat Fan Club President @donachaidh.bsky.social · 18h

This is a national disgrace

It should be a national scandal

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 18h

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 18h

Impossible to overstate how powerfully D’Angelo affected listeners and viewers. His beauty and sensuality and mystery and vulnerability. Such a sad loss.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 18h

WHAT????

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19h

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 19h

Aw, thanks. I could literally see this as a Norman Rockwell painting.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 19h

I didn’t say it was an original thought!

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 19h

Just dropped my son off at the airport to return to college after a nice long weekend at home. Was feeling sorry for myself and then I looked over and saw a mom hugging her son goodbye in his military uniform and I realized how lucky I am.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 19h

Not to complain but yes it is!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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