Katie MacBride
@msmacb.bsky.social
Journalist, librarian, dog spoiler, goat wrangler. I write a free newsletter about
substance use & addiction recovery. Ask me something: askasoberlady.substack.com.
substance use & addiction recovery. Ask me something: askasoberlady.substack.com.
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Katie MacBride
@msmacb.bsky.social
· Aug 20
Gluey brain and leaden bones
Sally helped keep me sober for a decade and a half. Now that she’s gone, everything hurts and nothing makes sense.
askasoberlady.substack.com
I hate that I had to write this but I didn’t know how not to askasoberlady.substack.com/p/gluey-brai...
I knew nothing of snake charmer Rob pre-traitors but holy mother of god
February 15, 2026 at 12:45 AM
I knew nothing of snake charmer Rob pre-traitors but holy mother of god
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NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
February 12, 2026 at 3:22 AM
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Go live??? I’d rather go dead
February 12, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Go live??? I’d rather go dead
Always nice to chat with a fellow traveler 💕 @melissapetro.bsky.social
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askasoberlady.substack.com/p/addiction-...
Talking Addiction, Shame, and Resilience with Melissa Petro
"[I] remember thinking, 'Wow, these bitches are cool. Too bad they don’t drink.'
askasoberlady.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Always nice to chat with a fellow traveler 💕 @melissapetro.bsky.social
askasoberlady.substack.com/p/addiction-...
askasoberlady.substack.com/p/addiction-...
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would love if the takeaway here was people realizing "wow there IS money for political parties to pursue policies they believe in!" then reconsider the last several democratic administrations through that lens
ICE’s pending $30 billion budget exceeds the military spending of nearly every country, including Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and Iran.
ICE + CBP funding for 2026 would total $66 billion, higher than all but 7 militaries worldwide.
ICE + CBP funding for 2026 would total $66 billion, higher than all but 7 militaries worldwide.
After a string of ICE murders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries proposed reforms — and $11 billion more for ICE.
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
February 10, 2026 at 12:05 AM
would love if the takeaway here was people realizing "wow there IS money for political parties to pursue policies they believe in!" then reconsider the last several democratic administrations through that lens
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*my biggest and most exhausted sigh*
"As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts"
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts"
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 AM
*my biggest and most exhausted sigh*
"As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts"
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
"As AI Enters the Operating Room, Reports Arise of Botched Surgeries and Misidentified Body Parts"
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Imagine writing the lyrics “Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy” and then complaining about not understanding someone’s song
February 10, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Imagine writing the lyrics “Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy” and then complaining about not understanding someone’s song
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It's so funny how many people have had their brains pickled by X and Fox News and can't believe that SF remains one of the most amazing cities in the world.
February 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
It's so funny how many people have had their brains pickled by X and Fox News and can't believe that SF remains one of the most amazing cities in the world.
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This is the guy who nerfed Tumblr’s usage with the porn ban btw.
Will Lewis is resigning as WaPo CEO, former Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio is the paper’s new acting CEO and publisher, per memos to staff
February 7, 2026 at 10:48 PM
This is the guy who nerfed Tumblr’s usage with the porn ban btw.
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“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing
Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
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February 7, 2026 at 9:00 PM
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
combining my two loves: talking about drugs and watching tv askasoberlady.substack.com/p/introducin...
Introducing Making A Scene: "All Her Fault" scene deep dive
A (mostly) spoiler-free look Peter's "addicts lie" scene in episode five.
askasoberlady.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:29 PM
combining my two loves: talking about drugs and watching tv askasoberlady.substack.com/p/introducin...
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I genuinely believe we need to do a hard cultural reset about encores. All bands should stop planning them, and only relent if the crowd sounds like they’re going to destroy the venue otherwise.
Encores are so funny like that band allotted time to those songs but they said beg for it piggies
January 23, 2026 at 5:42 AM
I genuinely believe we need to do a hard cultural reset about encores. All bands should stop planning them, and only relent if the crowd sounds like they’re going to destroy the venue otherwise.
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every democrat should be talking like this. all of them.
AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.
January 23, 2026 at 4:49 AM
every democrat should be talking like this. all of them.
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Image-forensic expert Hany Farid confirmed it's a fake.
@donmoyn.bsky.social told me this moves us "closer to the Stalinesque manipulation of images that we think about with authoritarian propaganda, where you really cannot trust materials the state is putting out"
Gift link: wapo.st/4sUEnmr
@donmoyn.bsky.social told me this moves us "closer to the Stalinesque manipulation of images that we think about with authoritarian propaganda, where you really cannot trust materials the state is putting out"
Gift link: wapo.st/4sUEnmr
White House shares doctored image portraying arrested church protester in tears
The photo of an attorney arrested after a Minnesota church protest was edited to make it look like she was crying. The White House’s X post had been seen roughly 2.5 million times by Thursday afternoo...
wapo.st
January 22, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Image-forensic expert Hany Farid confirmed it's a fake.
@donmoyn.bsky.social told me this moves us "closer to the Stalinesque manipulation of images that we think about with authoritarian propaganda, where you really cannot trust materials the state is putting out"
Gift link: wapo.st/4sUEnmr
@donmoyn.bsky.social told me this moves us "closer to the Stalinesque manipulation of images that we think about with authoritarian propaganda, where you really cannot trust materials the state is putting out"
Gift link: wapo.st/4sUEnmr
The cute version of the post got labeled as adult content, so maybe just do me a solid and read it/subscribe to my lil, profoundly unhorny newsletter? open.substack.com/pub/askasobe...
My sobriety can now buy cigarettes and lottery tickets
Plus: Relapse nightmares, a cartoonishly accurate metaphor, and why I write this newsletter.
open.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:53 PM
The cute version of the post got labeled as adult content, so maybe just do me a solid and read it/subscribe to my lil, profoundly unhorny newsletter? open.substack.com/pub/askasobe...
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incredible stuff
January 19, 2026 at 3:45 PM
incredible stuff
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RFK Jr. update
HHS Secretary RFK Jr: "This idea that you should trust the experts, a good mother doesn't do that"
January 15, 2026 at 11:26 PM
RFK Jr. update
Getting some supremely weird emails over this one 🫠 open.substack.com/pub/askasobe...
My husband wants kids, but I'm scared of what they'll inherit.
Genetics heighten or lower a person’s vulnerability to developing a substance use disorder, but there's a whole other side of the equation that matters just as much.
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Getting some supremely weird emails over this one 🫠 open.substack.com/pub/askasobe...
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Grok stands as the clearest example of an AI that is both ideologically aligned and operationally embedded in a social media platform, says @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social. "Its mechanisms should be taken apart under bright lights, in much the same way people learn how to defuse a bomb."
Grok is an Epistemic Weapon | TechPolicy.Press
Elon Musk's Grok claims to be truth-seeking while shaping discourse and amplifying ideology, argues Matthew Kirschenbaum.
www.techpolicy.press
January 13, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Grok stands as the clearest example of an AI that is both ideologically aligned and operationally embedded in a social media platform, says @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social. "Its mechanisms should be taken apart under bright lights, in much the same way people learn how to defuse a bomb."
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The ICE agent who killed Renee Good called her a “f*cking b*tch”.
Now agents are saying “do you think this is a game? That’s how that lady got hurt the other day”
She didn’t get “hurt”. She was murdered.
This is blatant intimidation & illegal.
They want you afraid.
Now agents are saying “do you think this is a game? That’s how that lady got hurt the other day”
She didn’t get “hurt”. She was murdered.
This is blatant intimidation & illegal.
They want you afraid.
January 13, 2026 at 4:26 AM
The ICE agent who killed Renee Good called her a “f*cking b*tch”.
Now agents are saying “do you think this is a game? That’s how that lady got hurt the other day”
She didn’t get “hurt”. She was murdered.
This is blatant intimidation & illegal.
They want you afraid.
Now agents are saying “do you think this is a game? That’s how that lady got hurt the other day”
She didn’t get “hurt”. She was murdered.
This is blatant intimidation & illegal.
They want you afraid.
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I don’t think we need to detract from the specific terror that ICE inflicts on immigrants to acknowledge that a big part of their purpose is to enact violence on those American citizens perceived to be Democratic voters in retaliation for their failure to support Trump.
just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 AM
I don’t think we need to detract from the specific terror that ICE inflicts on immigrants to acknowledge that a big part of their purpose is to enact violence on those American citizens perceived to be Democratic voters in retaliation for their failure to support Trump.
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Will never not be jarring to see armed goons demanding people’s papers on the street in the United States of America like it’s Nazi Germany. Fuckin nightmare scenes.
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
January 13, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Will never not be jarring to see armed goons demanding people’s papers on the street in the United States of America like it’s Nazi Germany. Fuckin nightmare scenes.
what are we doing here
January 13, 2026 at 5:14 AM
what are we doing here
I don’t always post on nextdoor, but when I do, my posts get two automated warnings about inflammatory language
January 12, 2026 at 10:21 PM
I don’t always post on nextdoor, but when I do, my posts get two automated warnings about inflammatory language
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this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
January 11, 2026 at 11:02 PM
this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.