Katie
@ktbobaytee.bsky.social
Don't worry, I can be angry about lots of things at the same time.
Lurie's "comprehensive" vetting form is 5 pages. I had to fill out a 4 page questionnaire to get my dog into a dog walking group.
I'm glad Mission Local is taking this seriously and making sure the person who will represent 80,000 San Franciscans actually bothers to vote themselves.
I'm glad Mission Local is taking this seriously and making sure the person who will represent 80,000 San Franciscans actually bothers to vote themselves.
Records show that shortlisted District 4 supervisor candidate Tiffany Deng was a registered Republican from 2020 to 2022 and missed 9 consecutive elections until this month.
She's no longer a candidate.
missionlocal.org/2025/11/dist...
She's no longer a candidate.
missionlocal.org/2025/11/dist...
Former GOP candidate for District 4, who voted only once since 2019, is out
Wannong “Tiffany” Deng missed nine consecutive elections before voting this month and was a registered Republican until 2022
missionlocal.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Lurie's "comprehensive" vetting form is 5 pages. I had to fill out a 4 page questionnaire to get my dog into a dog walking group.
I'm glad Mission Local is taking this seriously and making sure the person who will represent 80,000 San Franciscans actually bothers to vote themselves.
I'm glad Mission Local is taking this seriously and making sure the person who will represent 80,000 San Franciscans actually bothers to vote themselves.
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once again notice how @jaketapper.bsky.social can't be bothered to even lightly challenge her incoherent response to a basic question
some of these cable news guys really could be replaced by AI for a net improvement
some of these cable news guys really could be replaced by AI for a net improvement
November 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
once again notice how @jaketapper.bsky.social can't be bothered to even lightly challenge her incoherent response to a basic question
some of these cable news guys really could be replaced by AI for a net improvement
some of these cable news guys really could be replaced by AI for a net improvement
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The award-winning article about stormwater management you didn't know you needed.
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The award-winning article about stormwater management you didn't know you needed.
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This is the San Francisco I love.
missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-c...
missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-c...
The S.F. ‘gay dog quinceañera’ that changed hearts—and Hinge dating profiles
Sophie, a Yorkshire Terrier, celebrated her quiñceanera at Santeria, a Castro margarita bar that closed on Saturday night for the occasion.
missionlocal.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This is the San Francisco I love.
missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-c...
missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-c...
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Shawn McCreesh, who wrote today's misty water-colored nostalgia story about Jeffrey Epstein's "Lost New York" at NYT, told St. John's j-school students last year that journalism is great because “It gives you this all-access pass to interact with these people we would otherwise never come across.”
Shawn McCreesh ’15 Shares His Journey to The New York Times
The St. John’s University Division of Mass Communication held a virtual panel featuring New York Times political feature writer and St. John’s alumnus, Shawn McCreesh, as part of the Journalist Series...
www.torchonline.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Shawn McCreesh, who wrote today's misty water-colored nostalgia story about Jeffrey Epstein's "Lost New York" at NYT, told St. John's j-school students last year that journalism is great because “It gives you this all-access pass to interact with these people we would otherwise never come across.”
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What a terrible day to know how to read
November 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
What a terrible day to know how to read
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are the reporters disgusted??????
Cause Michael Wolff was down yonder playing in Epstein's emails ....
and sis was giving ole golden throat advice on how to hide a dead bears body
Cause Michael Wolff was down yonder playing in Epstein's emails ....
and sis was giving ole golden throat advice on how to hide a dead bears body
November 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
are the reporters disgusted??????
Cause Michael Wolff was down yonder playing in Epstein's emails ....
and sis was giving ole golden throat advice on how to hide a dead bears body
Cause Michael Wolff was down yonder playing in Epstein's emails ....
and sis was giving ole golden throat advice on how to hide a dead bears body
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CHOTINER: So you had reasons for visiting the island?
SUMMERS: Is butiful plce
CHOTINER: Is that buttiful or beautiful?
SUMMERS: 51 % of 1. Wmen or seenery, nt shr wich.
SUMMERS: Is butiful plce
CHOTINER: Is that buttiful or beautiful?
SUMMERS: 51 % of 1. Wmen or seenery, nt shr wich.
I am putting my bets on Summers being the first Epstein correspondent to be interviewed by Chotiner: he has exactly the right mix of arrogance and self-righteousness
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
CHOTINER: So you had reasons for visiting the island?
SUMMERS: Is butiful plce
CHOTINER: Is that buttiful or beautiful?
SUMMERS: 51 % of 1. Wmen or seenery, nt shr wich.
SUMMERS: Is butiful plce
CHOTINER: Is that buttiful or beautiful?
SUMMERS: 51 % of 1. Wmen or seenery, nt shr wich.
This was (briefly) my supe and it makes me furious. We deserve competent representation and Lurie couldn't bother to do any kind of vetting before appointing someone wholly unqualified. His entire justification for the pick was her small biz experience and he didn't even check out her business.
Newly appointed San Francisco Supervisor Beya Alcaraz has agreed to resign at the request of Mayor Daniel Lurie following questions about her political qualifications and rocky management of a pet store.
San Francisco’s newest supervisor agrees to resign amid pet store controversies
Beya Alcaraz agreed to resign at Mayor Daniel Lurie's request. Leaked text messages showed she paid for her business by paying employees under the table and writing off personal expenses.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This was (briefly) my supe and it makes me furious. We deserve competent representation and Lurie couldn't bother to do any kind of vetting before appointing someone wholly unqualified. His entire justification for the pick was her small biz experience and he didn't even check out her business.
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This.
Ppl need to understand what's happening here.
The GOP response to the shutdown was: You're gonna cave, or we're going to hurt vulnerable people by shutting off SNAP. The Dems, unwilling to let that happen, caved.
Having watched that, the GOP is now saying: "Give us what we want on abortion or ..."
The GOP response to the shutdown was: You're gonna cave, or we're going to hurt vulnerable people by shutting off SNAP. The Dems, unwilling to let that happen, caved.
Having watched that, the GOP is now saying: "Give us what we want on abortion or ..."
NEWS: Senate Republicans are threatening to block the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies—unless Democrats agree to tougher abortion restrictions.
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This.
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Feminists have long been scared of looking mean, and as a result we’ve been way too nice to antifeminist women. Sorry no, you’re not submissive, servile, and dependent because you’re a woman and that’s just your feminine nature. You’re submissive, servile,and dependent because you lack self respect.
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Feminists have long been scared of looking mean, and as a result we’ve been way too nice to antifeminist women. Sorry no, you’re not submissive, servile, and dependent because you’re a woman and that’s just your feminine nature. You’re submissive, servile,and dependent because you lack self respect.
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VA, and NJ are getting all the attention, but I think this is the bigger state-level story. I suspect few national reporters have spent much time in the Magnolia state, so they don't know how surprising this is.
NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011.
It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat.
“Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.
It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat.
“Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.
Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
VA, and NJ are getting all the attention, but I think this is the bigger state-level story. I suspect few national reporters have spent much time in the Magnolia state, so they don't know how surprising this is.
My dad gave me shit for it when I turned 18 and registered to vote as a Dem, arguing Dems are too busy running run away from what they said they believed in to fight for anything.
That he wasn't running away or triangulating was the most heartening part of Mamdani's campaign.
That he wasn't running away or triangulating was the most heartening part of Mamdani's campaign.
and i’m generally of the view that simply refusing to operate in a defensive crouch does a lot of the necessary political work. “i don’t agree with him but he isn’t a punk” is a real phenomenon!
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
My dad gave me shit for it when I turned 18 and registered to vote as a Dem, arguing Dems are too busy running run away from what they said they believed in to fight for anything.
That he wasn't running away or triangulating was the most heartening part of Mamdani's campaign.
That he wasn't running away or triangulating was the most heartening part of Mamdani's campaign.
I've always thought one of the secrets to Trump's rise was that his rallies are like Dead shows for monsters. People followed him from city to city and they built a community with red hats and tacky Trump merch in place of tie dye.
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I've always thought one of the secrets to Trump's rise was that his rallies are like Dead shows for monsters. People followed him from city to city and they built a community with red hats and tacky Trump merch in place of tie dye.
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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
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He's building a gold-guilded ballroom to host the foreign officials who come to bribe him, while denying millions of hungry kids food. Just how thuddingly obvious, how over-the-top, how florid & theatrical does this story have to get before the media starts honestly telling it?
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
He's building a gold-guilded ballroom to host the foreign officials who come to bribe him, while denying millions of hungry kids food. Just how thuddingly obvious, how over-the-top, how florid & theatrical does this story have to get before the media starts honestly telling it?
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Read the whole thread — this is the kind of energy we need.
With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton.
No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.
No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.
October 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Read the whole thread — this is the kind of energy we need.
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people will complain that there's no longer a shared truth, and blame it on right wing media or fox or the public.
but mainstream media largely abandoned the idea that there should be standards of truth for the right some time back.
but mainstream media largely abandoned the idea that there should be standards of truth for the right some time back.
when I was at Newsweek (in news) people would complain CONSTANTLY about the opinion section publishing utter falsehoods by Benny Johnson and Andy Ngo and just get shrugs in response
October 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
people will complain that there's no longer a shared truth, and blame it on right wing media or fox or the public.
but mainstream media largely abandoned the idea that there should be standards of truth for the right some time back.
but mainstream media largely abandoned the idea that there should be standards of truth for the right some time back.
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Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.
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Notable that the people carrying Trumpism don't act like they believe they're carrying out the will of the public, they act like dictators terrified of a spontaneous uprising so swift and massive it overwhelms their protective services before assistance can arrive.
NEW: Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over military homes that until recently housed senior officers. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Notable that the people carrying Trumpism don't act like they believe they're carrying out the will of the public, they act like dictators terrified of a spontaneous uprising so swift and massive it overwhelms their protective services before assistance can arrive.
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"'I'm sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter,' Mercer said in his email. 'I would strongly suggest dropping this story.'" www.propublica.org/article/paul...
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well…
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"'I'm sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter,' Mercer said in his email. 'I would strongly suggest dropping this story.'" www.propublica.org/article/paul...
See, I'm a special kind if stupid where I misunderstand everything I watch, so inherent criticism flies over my head. Anyway, it won't be Pravda, it'll be the simplistic schlock like Steven Segal churned out combined with Pravda.
Shankar says he's started a production company to make patriotic content. "A lot of our content right now is filled with a little bit of self-loathing, maybe a lot of nihilism — a sense that America’s a force for bad in the world."
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
See, I'm a special kind if stupid where I misunderstand everything I watch, so inherent criticism flies over my head. Anyway, it won't be Pravda, it'll be the simplistic schlock like Steven Segal churned out combined with Pravda.
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”