Katie Carper

I would rather interact with authentic dumbness than fake intelligence

As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

Just speaking for myself but I was completely fine not knowing what Matt Yglesias thought about basically anything

the navy isn't as much of a surprise but i was not expecting we'd get the United States Marines in the national divorce

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

“A taker, you say?” 👇👇💪

Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Today, while protecting Palestinians, Brad Lander & a group of American rabbis & others were taken by the IDF. Releasing Brad isn't enough, the Israeli govt must release them all.   If this is how they treat Americans, imagine how they treat Palestinians. Trump & Rubio's silence fuels this impunity.

In this vein I find it helpful to remember Elizabeth Anderson's argument that the point of education is not to reward merit, but to create it.

I was so moved by this Christian dad’s response to a despondent trans kid whose father wouldn’t support their care on “Christian” grounds. It’s never OK to use Christ as a weapon of hate. God is love. 💗 www.reddit.com/r/cisparentt...

I left x despite having a large following bc I don’t want to make free content for the world’s wealthiest racist. It’s not worth it to me.

read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.

I'm not responding individually to people tonight. I'll just say: You cannot spend half of your time yelling On Here about Nobody Doing Anything and the other half saying that Anything That Happens Is Not Going To Change Anything.

We have reached sorry receiver like Crabtree levels in the first half #gohawks

Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former

There are more Cornell frat boys accused of raping one woman than there are trans athletes competing in all of NCAA sports.

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

“Can you give my dad back? I miss him.” 💔 ICE kidnapped her father Luis at a DOT inspection. Her mother says he is legal and did everything the right way. #AbolishICE

Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.

Spoiler alert and whatnot. You don't have to completely understand how someone lives their life in order to LET someone live their life.

I can think of another pretty big one.

“Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman signals a rural medicine woman shift in culture,” like what the hell. High school grade for this: D

Al might destroy the world before the end of this decade, but it’s giving lazy, mediocre, untalented people the chance to make art so I’d say it’s worth it.

I’m cracking up about Starbucks supporting the letter while also relocating staff to Nashville, a city that is empirically more dangerous, so they don’t have to pay taxes that could be spent on public safety here in Seattle.

New: Seattle residents call on Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, Alaska Airlines, other major employers to stop fighting the proposed taxes that would give the city resources to properly address serious social issues that lead to public safety problems.

You guys won’t believe this screenplay I’m writing. There’s a real chance it could wipe out humanity.

There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”

You know who really did show up? Canadian police officers, firefighters, and medical personnel came to NYC, on and off duty, traveling independently or in groups to stand with Americans and help shoulder the enormous burden of recovery and cleanup at Ground Zero. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

if I were the New England Patriots, I would simply decline to play the Seattle Seahawks

If “we need to do this to win Texas” means throwing away human rights for all then no, Texas is not worth winning. If it wouldn’t be moral to do it in Mississippi in 1962 then it’s not ok in Texas in 2026. Under any circumstances.

I received all of these checks. They changed my life, and made it possible for me to start the business I'd always dreamed of (AI-generated scam phone calls targeting elderly people). Donald Trump showed up for ME.

This was always going to end in an attempt at literal vote-buying--apparently to the tune of $1.35 trillion.

they did it. they reached the pinnacle of Seahawks Game Pre-Commercial Footage Of People Throwing Fish At The Famous Seattle Fish Market. there is no need for any more after this, the genre has been perfected

Protect trans kids.

Sam! 😫

HHS Replaces Childhood Vaccination Schedule With List Of Recommended Animal Bites https://theonion.com/hhs-replaces-childhood-vaccination-schedule-with-list-of-recommended-animal-bites/

Nation’s Quiet, Gangly Kids In Cargo Pants Announce Plans To Be Freakishly Good At Cross Country https://theonion.com/nations-quiet-gangly-kids-in-cargo-pants-announce-plans-to-be-freakishly-good-at-cross-country/

Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

What an incredible, purposeful, artistically rich, intentional life.

We shouldn't discount the fact that at least part of the data center backlash (and by extension the broader techlash) is because people feel like the tech industry has not given them anything cool, inspiring, beautiful, or useful in a long time