Kate Stepleton
@katestepleton.bsky.social
Child and family well-being researcher with MEF Associates. Opinions my own.
Stop holding your breath everyone, the day is finally here!
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Stop holding your breath everyone, the day is finally here!
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A cooking website I reference often leans way too heavily on clickbait headlines like, "I Can't Stop Making This Easy Fettuccine Alfredo." I'm so sorry for them. I picture one poor reporter, disheveled and dehydrated, surrounded by piles of pasta. Can't stop moving. Always stirring. Never eating.
October 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A cooking website I reference often leans way too heavily on clickbait headlines like, "I Can't Stop Making This Easy Fettuccine Alfredo." I'm so sorry for them. I picture one poor reporter, disheveled and dehydrated, surrounded by piles of pasta. Can't stop moving. Always stirring. Never eating.
A cooking website I reference often leans way too heavily on clickbait headlines like, "I Can't Stop Making This Easy Fettuccine Alfredo." I'm so sorry for them. I picture one poor reporter, disheveled and dehydrated, surrounded by piles of pasta. Can't stop moving. Always stirring. Never eating.
October 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A cooking website I reference often leans way too heavily on clickbait headlines like, "I Can't Stop Making This Easy Fettuccine Alfredo." I'm so sorry for them. I picture one poor reporter, disheveled and dehydrated, surrounded by piles of pasta. Can't stop moving. Always stirring. Never eating.
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"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."
“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief
“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...
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October 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."
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Trans rights are human rights.
September 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Trans rights are human rights.
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The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
September 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.
All that tactical gear - they must have thought he had, like, six or seven sandwiches in there!
The White House posted an insane video of the police arresting the sandwich guy in a safe and wealthy neighborhood.
August 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
All that tactical gear - they must have thought he had, like, six or seven sandwiches in there!
Ok, I'm in. One like = one time I look at my phone after it vibrates and think, "Oh, it's not a text. Just a Bluesky notification. Carry on then."
July 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Ok, I'm in. One like = one time I look at my phone after it vibrates and think, "Oh, it's not a text. Just a Bluesky notification. Carry on then."
Everyone should go listen to the Lost Patients podcast right now. Incredible reporting by @willjames.bsky.social and @sydbrownstone.bsky.social that lays out how we got here and what we can expect if this comes to pass. www.npr.org/podcasts/510...
July 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Everyone should go listen to the Lost Patients podcast right now. Incredible reporting by @willjames.bsky.social and @sydbrownstone.bsky.social that lays out how we got here and what we can expect if this comes to pass. www.npr.org/podcasts/510...
This is excellent stuff. Looking forward to adopting the author's technique when my girls start being exposed to influencers.
July 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is excellent stuff. Looking forward to adopting the author's technique when my girls start being exposed to influencers.
I love my trans brothers and sisters and siblings more fiercely than ever today. I see you, I celebrate you, and I will fight for you.
June 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I love my trans brothers and sisters and siblings more fiercely than ever today. I see you, I celebrate you, and I will fight for you.
One of the things they don't tell you about being a parent is how many of your waking hours you'll spend washing water bottles.
May 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
One of the things they don't tell you about being a parent is how many of your waking hours you'll spend washing water bottles.
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There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.
May 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.
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When Arkansas implemented Medicaid work requirements, 18,000 people lost health care in 7 months — and there were no significant employment changes.
If Republicans do this nationwide, 36 million Americans could lose health care.
Work requirements are CUTS for people who often cannot work.
If Republicans do this nationwide, 36 million Americans could lose health care.
Work requirements are CUTS for people who often cannot work.
May 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
When Arkansas implemented Medicaid work requirements, 18,000 people lost health care in 7 months — and there were no significant employment changes.
If Republicans do this nationwide, 36 million Americans could lose health care.
Work requirements are CUTS for people who often cannot work.
If Republicans do this nationwide, 36 million Americans could lose health care.
Work requirements are CUTS for people who often cannot work.
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I'm having a PEP(per) RALLY!
First friend to grow a fruit wins a prize! 🧪
First friend to grow a fruit wins a prize! 🧪
May 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I'm having a PEP(per) RALLY!
First friend to grow a fruit wins a prize! 🧪
First friend to grow a fruit wins a prize! 🧪
It is a universal truth that whenever the child care program sends a picture of the whole class, it will invariably be your child who is picking their nose.
April 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
It is a universal truth that whenever the child care program sends a picture of the whole class, it will invariably be your child who is picking their nose.
I am every day more convinced that being a billionaire is evidence of moral vacancy.
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan funded a tuition-free private school, starting in 2016, in East Palo Alto and the East Bay. They are now pulling their money and the school will close next year. sfstandard.com/2025/04/23/p...
‘A slap to the face’: Families say Zuckerberg-backed school to close as couple pulls funds
"It's a shock," one parent said. "It was our pride and joy to say our family went to the Primary School."
sfstandard.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I am every day more convinced that being a billionaire is evidence of moral vacancy.
Good news! We don't need feminism anymore because Katy Perry went to space for 11 minutes! We did it, girlbosses!
A crew of six women, including pop star Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos's fiancé Lauren Sanchez, is set to blast off today on an 11-minute Blue Origin flight.
It marks the first all-female space mission in 60 years — hailed as a breakthrough for gender equality in space tourism.
It marks the first all-female space mission in 60 years — hailed as a breakthrough for gender equality in space tourism.
April 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Good news! We don't need feminism anymore because Katy Perry went to space for 11 minutes! We did it, girlbosses!
Gratitude for the chips getting me through this week: chocolate and tortilla
April 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Gratitude for the chips getting me through this week: chocolate and tortilla
Babe, wake up, new Welfare Queen just dropped
Mike Johnson on Medicaid: "What we've talked about is returning work requirements ... you return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing video games all day. We have a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicaid."
April 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Babe, wake up, new Welfare Queen just dropped
Things are...you know.
But on the bright side, I've learned how to make a really fantastic egg and cheese sandwich.
But on the bright side, I've learned how to make a really fantastic egg and cheese sandwich.
April 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Things are...you know.
But on the bright side, I've learned how to make a really fantastic egg and cheese sandwich.
But on the bright side, I've learned how to make a really fantastic egg and cheese sandwich.
The sun came out, so I did the Seattle thing and dropped everything I was doing to move all of my houseplants into the sunbeams.
March 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The sun came out, so I did the Seattle thing and dropped everything I was doing to move all of my houseplants into the sunbeams.
Boosting this!!
If you work in education and are seeing budget and hiring freezes impact athletic departments, I'd love to talk with you! DM me here or email maggie . mertens @ gmail . com
Feel free to share!
Feel free to share!
March 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Boosting this!!
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I wrote a short blog post about the tragedy currently unfolding in the evaluation industry. Trump is destroying vital research capacity and decades of instructional knowledge for pocket change. 1/x
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
The Irreparable Damage Being Done to Federal Policy Research and Evaluation - Roosevelt Institute
Though their goals obviously differed, Republican and Democratic administrations have for decades relied on the work of social scientists both within and outside the government to conduct research on ...
rooseveltinstitute.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I wrote a short blog post about the tragedy currently unfolding in the evaluation industry. Trump is destroying vital research capacity and decades of instructional knowledge for pocket change. 1/x
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...