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Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

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writer, film + culture critic, producer, full-time bisexual ✨
I used to write about movies. now I make podcasts and write about movies.

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Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

we won. bittersweet :)

a graphic with a yellow and red background and the key art for the podcast Lemme Say This. it reads: Signal Awards, 4th ANNUAL SIGNAL AWARD Winner, Wondery, Lemme Say This.

October 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM

Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

I just wanna boop all the people talking about the midterms on the nose. boop!

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Another tough pill to swallow? Violence works. For them. Fascists use violence while claiming to be victims. They create chaos that “requires” their authoritarian solution. Then they purge anyone who opposes them. Meanwhile, democrats keep insisting on following rules that fascists completely ignore. They file lawsuits. They write editorials. They vote on resolutions. And fascists just laugh and keep consolidating power.

The statistics are brutal. Fascist takeovers prevented after winning power democratically: zero. Average length of fascist rule once established: 31 years. Fascist regimes removed by voting: zero. Fascist regimes removed by asking nicely: zero. Most were removed by war or military coups, and tens of millions died in the process.

September 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM

Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

to wit:

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A Texas family is demanding answers after 34 year old Jessie Mobley Jr. collapsed while dining at KFFO Afro Steakhouse in Houston.

Instead of calling 911, staff allegedly carried his unconscious body outside and left him propped against a wall, assuming he was homeless.

His body was discovered the next morning by a cosmetology student arriving for class. Mobley's family says he could have been saved if staff had acted and are calling for accountability as outrage grows over the restaurant's silence.

September 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM

Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

"This isn't really about the intent or any condemnation. It's just a matter of critically engaging with something we admire. Sadly, we are in a climate where thoughtful interrogation is now a forbidden idea. Even now, I know that people are going to see the headline and say, "Oh, no, not another think piece."

August 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM

Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

feel like this is not quite the endorsement they think it is.

screenshot reading "Netflix members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they so the shows and movies themselves," Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.

May 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM

Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

Grace's decision to let the vampires in mirrors the actions of the Asian legal orgs who got affirmative action repealed. in this essay I will...

April 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM

Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

went looking for some old tweets. sent these straight to my therapist. everything I said would happen did, and we're still going. I told him I was intimately familiar with the mistakes y'all like to make. I want him to say I was right TO MY FACE

link in tweet: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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1. I keep saying it and it's more obvious every day, but we are in for a *massive* shift in geopolitical power over the next few years. 5 November 2023

2. well... I'm starting to feel a lot less hysterical for thinking we're in for a massive shift in geopolitical power over the next few years. this country is not going to survive the next election, and when that happens, it'll be a free for all. more wars are coming 😵‍💫 13 October 2023

a bound book with the title "Times I was right and no ody listened."

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NEW: The Trump admin is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority, known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, to speed up deportations of certain immigrants in the coming days. It is expected to come in the form of a presidential proclamation.

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For context; This was the law used to justify Japanese internment.

March 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM

Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

more of this please

But Schriver was adamant at the start of his news conference that there is support in Michigan for his resolution, adding without evidence that same-sex marriage has hurt Michigan's family structures.

February 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM

Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

everyone loves us, we're so amazing.

a graphic for the best entertainment podcast nominations at the Ambie awards. the nominees are Infamous, Lemme Say This, Rattled and Shook, Scamfluencers, Kid Nation, The Road to Joni and The Wonder of Stevie.

February 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM

Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

obsessed with this headline about out coat of arms changing.

headline for Loop News: Coloniser ships to go: Bill to put steel pan on T&T Coat of Arms

The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts said the National Emblea of Trinidad and Tobago...

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January 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM

Cate Young

@ninjacate.blacksky.app

ah, so the Dems hate us too! noted. never thought building the life I want would make me an "indentured servant" but I guess that's my punishment for immigrating "the right way" like they've always been whining about. and naturally, the entire debate is happening without us, our voices or our input.