Katherine Stewart
@katherinestewart.bsky.social
Money, Lies, and God; The Power Worshippers & other books
@nytopinion, @religionreport & Forkosch awards
Katherinestewart.me, https://substack.com/@katherinestewartbooks
No DM, plz email at goodnewskatherine (@) gmail dot com
@nytopinion, @religionreport & Forkosch awards
Katherinestewart.me, https://substack.com/@katherinestewartbooks
No DM, plz email at goodnewskatherine (@) gmail dot com
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The Best of Books 2025
The very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers.
www.foreignaffairs.com
So grateful for the inclusion of Money, Lies and God www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/best-b...
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
Deputy Secy of State Christopher Landau says the US “cannot pretend that we are partners” w/ NATO nations because the European Union—of which many are members—pursues “policies of civilizational suicide.”
Landau is a former clerk of SCOTUS Justice Thomas. Stephen Miller lobbied for his appointment.
Landau is a former clerk of SCOTUS Justice Thomas. Stephen Miller lobbied for his appointment.
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Deputy Secy of State Christopher Landau says the US “cannot pretend that we are partners” w/ NATO nations because the European Union—of which many are members—pursues “policies of civilizational suicide.”
Landau is a former clerk of SCOTUS Justice Thomas. Stephen Miller lobbied for his appointment.
Landau is a former clerk of SCOTUS Justice Thomas. Stephen Miller lobbied for his appointment.
"European capitals were told there should be “no surprises” ahead: The Pentagon has already communicated its intention to reduce its contribution to NATO, but the latest briefings carried a significantly sharper ultimatum."
www.kyivpost.com/post/65690
www.kyivpost.com/post/65690
US Promises Pre-Christmas Arms Boost for Ukraine, Pushes for Europe-Led NATO by 2027
Senior US defense officials warned European partners that while military aid to Kyiv is set to rise, Washington will no longer anchor NATO’s conventional defenses past 2027.
www.kyivpost.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
"European capitals were told there should be “no surprises” ahead: The Pentagon has already communicated its intention to reduce its contribution to NATO, but the latest briefings carried a significantly sharper ultimatum."
www.kyivpost.com/post/65690
www.kyivpost.com/post/65690
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“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Kagan dissent: " Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting." www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supr...
Supreme Court allows Texas to use redistricting map challenged as racially discriminatory
Updated on Dec. 5 at 8:58 a.m. The Supreme Court on Thursday gave the green light to Texas’ efforts to be able to use a new congressional map favorable to […]
www.scotusblog.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Kagan dissent: " Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting." www.scotusblog.com/2025/12/supr...
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia
President Donald Trump's envoys were to meet Thursday with Ukrainian negotiators for the third time in two weeks to press his plan to end the war as his administration eased economic pressure on Russi...
www.france24.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
Bari Weiss has a CBS town hall set with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk.
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
Bari Weiss to moderate CBS News town hall with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk
Exclusive: event, scheduled to air on 13 December, will focus on ‘grief, faith, politics, and more’, according to internal files
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Bari Weiss has a CBS town hall set with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk.
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.
The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”
Via Jeremy Barr
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
New: “Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad’s Election”
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
Here’s How Much Eric Trump Is Worth
Crypto took the real estate heir’s fortune and supersized it, briefly making the president’s second-oldest son a billionaire in early September.
www.forbes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New: “Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad’s Election”
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
Van Epps had to wait 48 fewer days for his swearing in than Adelina Grijalva.
US Rep. Matt Van Epps (R-Tennessee) was sworn in by Speaker Johnson to succeed Mark Green (R).
Van Epps was elected Tuesday in Tennessee's 7th District.
House now 220R-213D. 2 vacancies (for now): TX-18 (Turner/D) & NJ-11 (Sherrill/D).
Van Epps was elected Tuesday in Tennessee's 7th District.
House now 220R-213D. 2 vacancies (for now): TX-18 (Turner/D) & NJ-11 (Sherrill/D).
December 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Van Epps had to wait 48 fewer days for his swearing in than Adelina Grijalva.
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
so now if you worked in content moderation you are visa-blackballed like you'd be if you're friends were all al qaeda
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
so now if you worked in content moderation you are visa-blackballed like you'd be if you're friends were all al qaeda
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
“.. what looked like a Trump premium has suddenly turned into a Trump drag ..”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“.. what looked like a Trump premium has suddenly turned into a Trump drag ..”
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
As the President and his family grift billions via meme coin schemes, foreign deals, palaces in the sky etc, he calls America's affordability crisis a “fake narrative” and “con job” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Trump Calls Affordability a ‘Con Job’ as His Edge on the Economy Slips
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
As the President and his family grift billions via meme coin schemes, foreign deals, palaces in the sky etc, he calls America's affordability crisis a “fake narrative” and “con job” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
"By shifting government decisions to AI systems they must know are unsuitable, these tech elites avoid a political debate they would probably lose. Instead, they create a nationwide IT crisis that they alone can fix."
Probably the most consequential piece I wrote this year was “Anatomy of an AI Coup” as part of my fellowship with @techpolicypress.bsky.social this year: www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...
Anatomy of an AI Coup | TechPolicy.Press
DOGE is gutting federal agencies to install AI across the government. Democracy is on the line, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
www.techpolicy.press
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 AM
"By shifting government decisions to AI systems they must know are unsuitable, these tech elites avoid a political debate they would probably lose. Instead, they create a nationwide IT crisis that they alone can fix."
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED. www.wired.com/story/what-i...
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED. www.wired.com/story/what-i...
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @MotherJones
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
www.motherjones.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @MotherJones
"Like so many Phyllis Schlafly knock-offs before her, Stuckey has built a career on arguing that women can’t be equal to men. That way, she gets to relish being an ambitious career woman, while enjoying male support...that she would never get insisting that women are equal."
Why read past headlines: You, savvy, know who Allie Beth Stuckey is. Don't worry. I am brief in the set-up for the n00bs.
But what is more interesting is how she uses gender to normalize a vile idea, that caring for others is immoral.
www.salon.com/2025/12/01/m...
But what is more interesting is how she uses gender to normalize a vile idea, that caring for others is immoral.
www.salon.com/2025/12/01/m...
MAGA's war on empathy was started by a woman
Allie Beth Stuckey weaponizes her gender to sell the idea of a cold-hearted Jesus
www.salon.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"Like so many Phyllis Schlafly knock-offs before her, Stuckey has built a career on arguing that women can’t be equal to men. That way, she gets to relish being an ambitious career woman, while enjoying male support...that she would never get insisting that women are equal."
Horseshoe theory is real
It’s been a while since I’d heard about George Galloway…but thanks to Facebook’s algorithm I now know that he’s crafting a totally normal political persuasion that embraces both Fidel Castro and Tucker Carlson. Makes sense.
December 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Horseshoe theory is real
So grateful for the inclusion of Money, Lies and God www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/best-b...
The Best of Books 2025
The very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
So grateful for the inclusion of Money, Lies and God www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/best-b...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Honored to be included in the list www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/best-b...
The Best of Books 2025
The very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Honored to be included in the list www.foreignaffairs.com/lists/best-b...
"Federal government now openly says it will use its supercharged spy capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions." www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
"Federal government now openly says it will use its supercharged spy capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions." www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
"The main problem they want to solve is the public relations problem that’s arisen from their terrible ideas."
November 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"The main problem they want to solve is the public relations problem that’s arisen from their terrible ideas."
Reposted by Katherine Stewart
AI conference flooded by AI slop .... www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
AI conference flooded by AI slop .... www.nature.com/articles/d41...