Kate Thomas
@katethomas.bsky.social
This place is way better than the hellscape Twitter has become. Abortion is healthcare & AI *needs* to be regulated 💫
Genuinely did NOT see this coming but also…DO let the door hit you on the way out? More than once? www.bbc.com/news/article...
High-profile Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene to quit Congress after Trump feud
The Georgia representative will leave office in the New Year.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Genuinely did NOT see this coming but also…DO let the door hit you on the way out? More than once? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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i have been telling you all for years that suburban white women from Northern Virginia are the vanguard of American democracy
god bless the winemoms
god bless the winemoms
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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If you’re driving around in unmarked cars, wearing masks, and kidnapping people, you’re not one of the good guys.
October 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
If you’re driving around in unmarked cars, wearing masks, and kidnapping people, you’re not one of the good guys.
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as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life
and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility
and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility
October 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life
and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility
and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility
Love to see my taxpayer dollars hard at work 🙄https://www.axios.com/2025/10/15/trump-self-deportation-ads-noem
U.S. government pays for 2025's most expensive political ad campaign
The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.
www.axios.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Love to see my taxpayer dollars hard at work 🙄https://www.axios.com/2025/10/15/trump-self-deportation-ads-noem
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Pretty sure we’re living one
@mikeflanaganfilm.com can we get a George Orwell horror series?
October 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Pretty sure we’re living one
Are you f*cking KIDDING ME. How are we back here again?!! jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...
Ezra Klein is Wrong About Abortion
Abortion *is* a big tent issue
jessica.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Are you f*cking KIDDING ME. How are we back here again?!! jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...
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Tech giants have spent more than $100 billion on data center construction just this summer in the name of “progress”- but this new report from @mediajustice.bsky.social reveals just how much the opposite of that is happening in Southern communities:
mediajustice.org/resource/the...
mediajustice.org/resource/the...
The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South - MediaJustice
Tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta have spent more than $100 billion on data center construction just this summer, and data centers are expected to pass total US consumer spending as...
mediajustice.org
September 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Tech giants have spent more than $100 billion on data center construction just this summer in the name of “progress”- but this new report from @mediajustice.bsky.social reveals just how much the opposite of that is happening in Southern communities:
mediajustice.org/resource/the...
mediajustice.org/resource/the...
This is so fucking frustrating. In aftermath of an act that was sooo preventable, so horrible & so unnecessary, THIS is where rightwingers are landing?! How can my brain even register surprise over sh*t like this. You’d think I’d be numb to it now but I just…am not.
Fox News is just forging ahead tonight as though a card-carrying Democrat gunned down Charlie Kirk. The narrative is impervious to facts.
September 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is so fucking frustrating. In aftermath of an act that was sooo preventable, so horrible & so unnecessary, THIS is where rightwingers are landing?! How can my brain even register surprise over sh*t like this. You’d think I’d be numb to it now but I just…am not.
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In today’s Senate Commerce Hearing the White House endorsed support for federal preemption of state AI laws. The fight against preemption did not disappear with the moratorium—in fact, Sen. Cruz introduced a bill today putting us directly on the path to preemption. A thread on its risks below: 🧵
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s recent Times op-ed on AI regulation seems like a reasonable middle ground. But it is also a reminder of a threat on the horizon: an industry-scripted federal standard that would effectively eclipse state legislation, write Kate Brennan, Sarah Myers West, and Amba Kak.
The Storm Clouds Looming Past the State Moratorium: Weak Regulation is as Bad as None | TechPolicy.Press
Blind trust in the benevolence of AI firms is not an option, write AI Now Institute's Kate Brennan, Sarah Myers West, and Amba Kak.
www.techpolicy.press
September 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
In today’s Senate Commerce Hearing the White House endorsed support for federal preemption of state AI laws. The fight against preemption did not disappear with the moratorium—in fact, Sen. Cruz introduced a bill today putting us directly on the path to preemption. A thread on its risks below: 🧵
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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.
I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS www.arlnow.com/2025/09/10/s...
Some Arlington pharmacies begin offering Covid-19 shots without prescriptions | ARLnow.com
Amid shifting federal guidelines on Covid-19 vaccines, some pharmacies around Arlington are now offering the shots without requiring a prescription. Only days ago, all CVS locations in Virginia requir...
www.arlnow.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS www.arlnow.com/2025/09/10/s...
This is really valuable advice on how to feel—and what do —about the the giant shifts in organic traffic many of us who work in digital have been noticing: www.orbitmedia.com/blog/zero-cl...
Zero Click Marketing? The Truth About Search Traffic in 9 Charts | Orbit Media Studios
Zero-click searches are from zero-intent searchers. They just want a quick answer. Here's the truth about search traffic in nine charts...
www.orbitmedia.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is really valuable advice on how to feel—and what do —about the the giant shifts in organic traffic many of us who work in digital have been noticing: www.orbitmedia.com/blog/zero-cl...
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The Supreme Court just ruled this meme is constitutional.
September 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The Supreme Court just ruled this meme is constitutional.
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the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile
BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
September 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile
Of the 4 most numerous jobs that AI is set to replace – marketing analysts, customer service reps, sales reps & biz analysts – none of them are unionized.
That's not a coincidence. And it highlights a critical vulnerability in how workers are positioned to respond to AI-driven job displacement.
That's not a coincidence. And it highlights a critical vulnerability in how workers are positioned to respond to AI-driven job displacement.
September 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Of the 4 most numerous jobs that AI is set to replace – marketing analysts, customer service reps, sales reps & biz analysts – none of them are unionized.
That's not a coincidence. And it highlights a critical vulnerability in how workers are positioned to respond to AI-driven job displacement.
That's not a coincidence. And it highlights a critical vulnerability in how workers are positioned to respond to AI-driven job displacement.
Women make amazing leaders. Happy to see forward momentum with upcoming gubernatorial races (well, the Dem-leaning ones, anyway!) thehill.com/homenews/cam...
thehill.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Women make amazing leaders. Happy to see forward momentum with upcoming gubernatorial races (well, the Dem-leaning ones, anyway!) thehill.com/homenews/cam...
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I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers
Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.
www.axios.com
September 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
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Super super smart (per usual) by @espiers.bsky.social, per usual on the problem with Democratic media efforts. www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
August 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Super super smart (per usual) by @espiers.bsky.social, per usual on the problem with Democratic media efforts. www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
“Your hairdresser has to deal with more regulation than your AI company does." We're letting maybe 10 people shape humanity's future with zero public input. No oversight or accountability. Just billionaires in boardrooms deciding our technological destiny.
If that doesn't scare you, it should.
If that doesn't scare you, it should.
The AI doomers are not alright. Is it time to listen?
The AI Doomers Are Getting Doomier
The industry’s apocalyptic voices are becoming more panicked—and harder to dismiss.
www.theatlantic.com
August 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“Your hairdresser has to deal with more regulation than your AI company does." We're letting maybe 10 people shape humanity's future with zero public input. No oversight or accountability. Just billionaires in boardrooms deciding our technological destiny.
If that doesn't scare you, it should.
If that doesn't scare you, it should.
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"but crime is a real issue, people are worried about crime and you have to take that seriously"
No you don't! If people are getting more scared about crime while crime is happening less frequently, it's a made up issue and you should make a point of yelling that all the time
No you don't! If people are getting more scared about crime while crime is happening less frequently, it's a made up issue and you should make a point of yelling that all the time
August 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"but crime is a real issue, people are worried about crime and you have to take that seriously"
No you don't! If people are getting more scared about crime while crime is happening less frequently, it's a made up issue and you should make a point of yelling that all the time
No you don't! If people are getting more scared about crime while crime is happening less frequently, it's a made up issue and you should make a point of yelling that all the time
Emory is my alma mater and I couldn't agree more -- IT IS INDEED THE FUCKING GUNS.
An active shooter at Emory. This makes me sick. It’s the fucking guns.
August 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Emory is my alma mater and I couldn't agree more -- IT IS INDEED THE FUCKING GUNS.
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Me three months ago:
My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good
August 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Me three months ago: