Kate Thomas

the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it

Chris Wright said these grants were bad investments. Now the administration’s own lawyers admit in court it was “based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state.” No spin left to hide behind, truly.

Like being visited from the ghost of tummy trubs past.

Holy sh*t, THIS ⬇️⬇️⬇️ The classism & obscene hypocrisy is truly mind boggling

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

"One big reason that consumer spending hasn’t tanked is that the richest, we’re-doing-just-fine 10% of Americans account for nearly half of all consumer spending," writes @greenhousenyt.bsky.social.

I never get over being disgusted by their insane greed. These companies are literally *choosing* to pay the people that make the company a success as little as possible so they can shift the $$ that should’ve gone to wages over to corp profits & exec pay. It’s sickening & something’s gotta change.

“It validates to me how absolutely unqualified & inept these people in C-suite positions are that they need a machine/robot to validate their opinions bc they have no real POV and strategy themselves." www.milkkarten.net/p/boss-obses... @milkkarten.bsky.social

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

DC, Maryland, Virginia

A new report from @ips-dc.org looks at the 20 largest low-wage employers in the U.S. Together, they employ ~6.7 million workers. 𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘧 of them are paying less in real terms than they did five years ago.

Hung Cao—who compared abortion to the Holocaust on the campaign trail and claimed combat injuries with no documentation—just became Acting Secretary of the Navy. This is what the collapse of institutional standards looks like in real time.

jfc. Happy Earth 🌍 Day!

Anyone else freaked out about Virginia… ughhhhh I knew it was probably going to be a nail biter but still #VoteYesVirginia

Whewww this article on ADHD, hormones and women being diagnosed later in life hits home. “I feel like my whole life could have been different" www.thecut.com/article/surg...

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

“When insurance, gas, repairs & maintenance are included, the total cost of owning a vehicle has risen more than 40% since January 2020." Cool cool cool so now we can’t afford houses OR cars www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/b...

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

“We should make A.I. companies pay the costs for powering & building data centers, put in place A.I. child safety standards & prohibit the technology from being involved in tasks we can’t trust it to do fairly, like hiring & firing” This is the FLOOR of what we should be doing. x.com/rob_flaherty...

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

“Research shows that banks led by women were less likely to fail during the financial crisis, and companies with more women directors experience less financial distress.” Didn’t really need a study to know this would be true but I’ll take it! theconversation.com/are-women-bo...

Ok this is HORRIFYING & also utterly & totally preventable.

Voters wrongly blame our gov. for inflation but largely take personal responsibility for their wages...when it should really be the opposite. If typical workers' pay had kept pace with productivity over the last 45 yrs, our paychecks would be ~40% larger today.

Genuinely did NOT see this coming but also…DO let the door hit you on the way out? More than once? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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If you’re driving around in unmarked cars, wearing masks, and kidnapping people, you’re not one of the good guys.

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

Love to see my taxpayer dollars hard at work 🙄https://www.axios.com/2025/10/15/trump-self-deportation-ads-noem

Are you f*cking KIDDING ME. How are we back here again?!! jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

Tech giants have spent more than $100 billion on data center construction just this summer in the name of “progress”- but this new report from @mediajustice.bsky.social reveals just how much the opposite of that is happening in Southern communities: mediajustice.org/resource/the...

This is so fucking frustrating. In aftermath of an act that was sooo preventable, so horrible & so unnecessary, THIS is where rightwingers are landing?! How can my brain even register surprise over sh*t like this. You’d think I’d be numb to it now but I just…am not.

In today’s Senate Commerce Hearing the White House endorsed support for federal preemption of state AI laws. The fight against preemption did not disappear with the moratorium—in fact, Sen. Cruz introduced a bill today putting us directly on the path to preemption. A thread on its risks below: 🧵

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS www.arlnow.com/2025/09/10/s...

This is really valuable advice on how to feel—and what do —about the the giant shifts in organic traffic many of us who work in digital have been noticing: www.orbitmedia.com/blog/zero-cl...

The Supreme Court just ruled this meme is constitutional.

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

For when Trump tries to claim that hardly anyone turned out to #FreeDC today

Of the 4 most numerous jobs that AI is set to replace – marketing analysts, customer service reps, sales reps & biz analysts – none of them are unionized. That's not a coincidence. And it highlights a critical vulnerability in how workers are positioned to respond to AI-driven job displacement.

Women make amazing leaders. Happy to see forward momentum with upcoming gubernatorial races (well, the Dem-leaning ones, anyway!) thehill.com/homenews/cam...

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

Super super smart (per usual) by @espiers.bsky.social, per usual on the problem with Democratic media efforts. www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...

“Your hairdresser has to deal with more regulation than your AI company does." We're letting maybe 10 people shape humanity's future with zero public input. No oversight or accountability. Just billionaires in boardrooms deciding our technological destiny. If that doesn't scare you, it should.

"but crime is a real issue, people are worried about crime and you have to take that seriously" No you don't! If people are getting more scared about crime while crime is happening less frequently, it's a made up issue and you should make a point of yelling that all the time