Katie
@distracts.bsky.social
child-laden cat lady - bookworm - texan
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The strictly business-brained NFL exec who months ago foresaw the February 2026 vibes and then hired Bad Bunny
January 28, 2026 at 2:28 AM
The strictly business-brained NFL exec who months ago foresaw the February 2026 vibes and then hired Bad Bunny
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Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users
Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
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People who may want to have children in the future should bear this in mind: tear gas can have serious consequences for female reproductive health. The data on this isn't great but I would at least recommend ensuring you have a quality respirator or mask on at all times.
February 2, 2026 at 5:53 AM
People who may want to have children in the future should bear this in mind: tear gas can have serious consequences for female reproductive health. The data on this isn't great but I would at least recommend ensuring you have a quality respirator or mask on at all times.
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"The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength."
Amazing report from @crimethinc.com on the recent general strike in #Minneapolis. crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/c...
Amazing report from @crimethinc.com on the recent general strike in #Minneapolis. crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/c...
February 2, 2026 at 6:29 AM
"The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength."
Amazing report from @crimethinc.com on the recent general strike in #Minneapolis. crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/c...
Amazing report from @crimethinc.com on the recent general strike in #Minneapolis. crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/c...
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Amon Bundy being anti-Trump is yet another sign that “has any real principles at all” is increasingly the most salient dividing line in politics.
February 2, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Amon Bundy being anti-Trump is yet another sign that “has any real principles at all” is increasingly the most salient dividing line in politics.
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I remember @jfallows.bsky.social posting that experience with Chinese state media prepared him for what Fox became during the 2010s. I think that news of people being paid to watch the Melania film or tickets being handed out for free should be similarly familiar to anyone who lived in China before.
February 2, 2026 at 7:16 AM
I remember @jfallows.bsky.social posting that experience with Chinese state media prepared him for what Fox became during the 2010s. I think that news of people being paid to watch the Melania film or tickets being handed out for free should be similarly familiar to anyone who lived in China before.
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👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of
student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.
student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.
Folks are dying from winter storms and the power has been out for a week but the government can spend big money on detention camps. bsky.app/profile/cost...
How many times in your life have you heard a member of Congress or someone on TV say “we can’t afford it” when talking about something small but very important? It’s been happening my entire life. We can’t afford it? They’re putting seven times the annual budget of the EPA into immigrant detention.
February 2, 2026 at 3:34 AM
👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of
student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.
student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.
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Yeah man Texas is mainly a suburban state. The metroplex doesn't swing as much as Atlanta because it's less meds n eds, but your typical Texan lives in a city or subdivision. Saying this isn't a big deal because downtown Fort Worth ALSO went blue is weapons grade ass backward cope.
February 2, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Yeah man Texas is mainly a suburban state. The metroplex doesn't swing as much as Atlanta because it's less meds n eds, but your typical Texan lives in a city or subdivision. Saying this isn't a big deal because downtown Fort Worth ALSO went blue is weapons grade ass backward cope.
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DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
February 2, 2026 at 3:58 AM
DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?
DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.
C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?
DR: Now look
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Note the shift after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported
February 2, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Note the shift after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported
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because intelligent, interrogative interviewing can get you shut out of access, most U.S. media - especially TV news - actively *discourages* it in political reporting. Contrast the UK, where the unavoidable status of the BBC paradoxically meant it could be much bolder, setting the norm for others.
like i'm not trying to be mean to op here but Isaac is literally a good interviewer who can use subtext and knows what he's trying to get at. This is the baseline competency I'd expect most access reporters to be at in a normal universe. But we don't live in that.
February 2, 2026 at 4:56 AM
because intelligent, interrogative interviewing can get you shut out of access, most U.S. media - especially TV news - actively *discourages* it in political reporting. Contrast the UK, where the unavoidable status of the BBC paradoxically meant it could be much bolder, setting the norm for others.
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Larry Summers, seen here somehow managing to have the worst gender politics in the room while in a one on one conversation with JEFFREY FUCKING EPSTEIN.
February 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Larry Summers, seen here somehow managing to have the worst gender politics in the room while in a one on one conversation with JEFFREY FUCKING EPSTEIN.
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Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.
February 1, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.
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GOP Rep. Thomas Massie: “How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.”
#EpsteinFiles
#EpsteinFiles
February 1, 2026 at 8:17 PM
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie: “How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.”
#EpsteinFiles
#EpsteinFiles
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Am I positive that video shows the president shitting himself on camera? No.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
February 1, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Am I positive that video shows the president shitting himself on camera? No.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
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1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
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Elon Musk is claiming he’s risked everything to protect kids from sexual abuse mere weeks out from laughing while his AI chatbot was generating nearly 8,000 sexual abuse images per hour that overwhelmingly targeted girls and young women
February 1, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Elon Musk is claiming he’s risked everything to protect kids from sexual abuse mere weeks out from laughing while his AI chatbot was generating nearly 8,000 sexual abuse images per hour that overwhelmingly targeted girls and young women
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Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
February 1, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
February 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
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Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires.
Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess.
Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining.
Documentarian: Exactly.
Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?
Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess.
Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining.
Documentarian: Exactly.
Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?
February 2, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires.
Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess.
Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining.
Documentarian: Exactly.
Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?
Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess.
Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining.
Documentarian: Exactly.
Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?
Artists can't cancel on events at the Trump center if there IS no Trump center
February 2, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Artists can't cancel on events at the Trump center if there IS no Trump center
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multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.
BREAKING: ICE has halted "all movement" at a Texas detention facility due to measles infections, DHS confirms.
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
cbsn.ws
February 2, 2026 at 1:27 AM
multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.
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Sorry, y’all, it’s DEI Settlement now
This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement
February 1, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Sorry, y’all, it’s DEI Settlement now