Cathryn
write2run.bsky.social
Cathryn
@write2run.bsky.social
Writer. Runner. Reader. Jewish mama.

write2run.com
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"If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. [T]heir neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu."
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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Another guide for turning a lot of AI off in Gmail.
January 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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This is very, very good, and I'm not just saying that because @billiejsweeney.bsky.social writes and helps out with editing for Assigned.
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing
December 31, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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AI is destroying my livelihood as a freelance copyeditor/proofreader and I do not have the skills or inclination to pivot into the more personal, emotionally involved work of content/developmental editing. AI can get in the bin.
December 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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We were in first place in this film award voting.

A film made purely with AI just netted over 150 votes in 12 hours.

Now it's personal.

Please. Help us kick this THING's ass fair and square. ART FOR ARTISTS.

Reshare? VOTE!

www.shortoftheyear.com/audience-cho...
Audience Choice Awards | Short of the Year
Vote for your favorite short films in the Short of the Year Audience Choice Awards. Watch, vote, and support independent filmmakers.
www.shortoftheyear.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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The science behind gender-affirming care has been endorsed by every major medical organization. This isn't about science or medicine. It's about the discomfort many non-trans people feel over the *existence* of trans people.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Dec 18
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday. n.pr/44xQKdD
RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz to announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to announce a package of measures that would together ban gender-affirming care for minors. A press conference is set for 11 a.m. Thursday.
n.pr
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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clause = 📝

claws = 🦞

Claus = 🎅🏻
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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An advent calendar but every day is a full viewing of a muppet Christmas carol
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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presented without comment
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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The 66-page ruling Tuesday by Senior U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson of Colorado is a comprehensive rejection of a tactic regularly used by ICE to meet quotas set by the Trump administration. (via @cprnews.bsky.social)
Court demands end to unjustified warrantless arrests, restricting a tool ICE frequently uses to detain immigrants
Unless reversed on appeal, it is likely to place a severe restriction on ICE’s operations in Colorado.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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RFK Jr unilaterally turned CDC into an anti-vaccine propaganda site.

Do people forget that he has made millions of dollars demonizing vaccines and autism for the last 25 years?

This is his business model.

Watch:
youtu.be/ZZCutMBhjpg?...
Remember when RFK Jr profited off the lie that vaccines cause autism? | excerpts from @WIRED
YouTube video by Andrea Love, PhD
youtu.be
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🚨 Call to action!
The universal Hepatitis B birth-dose vaccine recommendation is under threat at the upcoming ACIP meeting (Dec 4–5, 2025).
🗣️ Public comment prior to the meeting is OPEN until Nov 24
💬 How to submit written or oral comments:https://www.cdc.gov/acip/meetings/index.html
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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I love this lede from NYT's Victor Mather on the death of the penny
November 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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"The materials you authored from sixth through eighth grade are now free and available to the populace (everyone) for adaptation, publication, or general enjoyment."
We Regret to Inform You That Your Middle School Diary Has Lapsed into the Public Domain
This letter is to inform you (the author) that your intellectual property (middle school diary) has officially entered the public domain due to you...
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM