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Katie Clark Gray

@katiecgray.bsky.social

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Writer/producer for film, stage, and audio. V.O. artist, recovering playwright. Of course it's "billion-with-a-b," how else would you spell billion. uncomp.ninja

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Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 20d

Got a new piece in @goodtape.com on some of the best journos & podcasters covering AI right now: like @bcmerchant.bsky.social @parismarx.com @404media.co @edzitron.com & more. Check it ouuuut....

Nobody Wants the Future Anymore

As AI comes for podcasting (and everything else), humans are equipping listeners with research, nuance, and ways to fight back.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 16h

Related: the VA state house currently holds a *1-seat Dem majority* - if you want to see those margins grow, i work w/ a group that raises $ for state-level races & down. A state legislature campaign costs ~ 3% of a competitive U.S. Senate race. Meaning your donation $ goes much further.

Virginia - The States Project

[...]Read More... from Virginia

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Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 21h

Though TBF you usually only needed to remember 7 numbers not 10. B/c you were NOT allowed to dial long-distance on your own

Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 21h

Giovanna Gionbongiovi

Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 4d

accurate

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 4d

Sorry luddites but this technology is here to stay and if you are not learning to use these tools then you are falling behind.

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Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 4d

Mannn, I am trying to enjoy this moment of dunking on this man & his dogshit spy necklace, b/c it's going to be so annoying when he gets acquired in like 5 weeks

Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 5d

oh nooooo

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 5d

I am reading it right now! A dude on the subway asked me about it & the convo went like this:
"What's it about?"
"The rise & fall of crypto. It's really funny."
"Oh so it's a comedy?"
"No. Not at all."

Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 6d

The whole key to this piece is in this graf: "Like many dumbasses in his industry, he seemed to conflate 'doing comedy geographically inside a country that commits atrocities' with 'doing comedy while receiving pay directly from the authors of atrocities.'"

Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 6d

In today’s @goodtape.com newsletter: details on presales for forthcoming THREAT ISSUE in print, 2014’s TUSK (new web piece by @rockmarooned.bsky.social), how the Golden Globes & Tribeca Fest are expanding podcast offerings, & why Truman Capote was the godfather of true-crime podcasters. Read on!

The Threat Issue is Nigh 🗣️🗞️

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Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 6d

this man is such a worm

Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 6d

Right! You can't tell me "We're running out of people!" with one breath and "We need to get all these people out of here!" in the next

Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, I mean logically there *should* be no numerical diff btwn these things, but psychologically the difference is huge. A tax penalty for childlessness communicates that the policy is meant to curb bad behavior. (Like taxes on cigarettes). Not having kids is perfectly fine behavior!

Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 6d

Lotta bigots trying to get their fill on mutton & soda bread until the scurvy takes 'em

Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 6d

The thought that "only Gavin can save us" is so fucking disrespectful to the 1000s of regular-ass people actually resisting. A handful of Chicagoans saved a man from being kidnapped by ICE b/c they showed up. We don't have to suck shit from Gavin Newsom b/c he uses hair gel. Get a grip.

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Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 6d

This is such cooked thinking. Leaving aside that he's ignoring JB Pritzker & Tina Kotek & AOC & Jasmine Crockett & Chris Van Holland & Brad Lander & Zohran & dozens of federal judges & EVEN weak-ass pathetic Schumer & Jeffries managing not to cave on the shutdown, *even with that*......

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d

Whichever way history turns, I have a feeling that this will be a historic photo

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Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 6d

DO NOT GIVE THEM IDEAS

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 9d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 9d

Great interview with @bradlander.bsky.social here, worth your time & support for How Things Work!

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 9d

"When Trump sends troops here, how will we stand up to them insistently and make clear New York doesn’t need them, New York doesn’t want them, New York is resisting them?"
I spoke to @bradlander.bsky.social about ICE, Trump, Zohran, and the future of New York.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/brad-lande...

Brad Lander Wants New York City to Resist

The NYC Comptroller talks ICE, Trump, Zohran, and Brooklyn.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 11d

the hero we need

KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 11d

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword

The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

www.kcur.org

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 12d

She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas. by @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2025/10/02/g...

She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.

To keep her in ICE detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.

theintercept.com

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Katie Clark Gray @katiecgray.bsky.social · 12d

what the fuck

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 12d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…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.

chicago.suntimes.com

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 12d

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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