Kathryn Tewson

Kathryn Tewson

@kathryntewson.bsky.social

Good in a crisis and at no other time First initial last name at gmail dot com Signal:@KathrynTewson.06

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New policy: people who come into my mentions to scold me for how I engage with bad-faith users are getting blocked. Y’all clearly are looking for a different online experience than the one I provide, so I’ll just help you along to it.

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Is a call for civility *always* a call to oppression? Maybe, maybe not, I'm not in the proper position to address that idea with the vigor and care such an absolute statement would warrant. But I'm pretty fucking comfortable saying that it is so here.

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i will say it until my lungs run empty 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦

chelsea bridge 🩸@secretaboutbox.bsky.social

i will never not be militant about trans rights cis people: demand nothing less than full, unequivocal rights for trans people and do not accept from anyone the idea that it is naive to demand it we deserve what you have

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This will go down as one of the most incredible screwups in recent campaign history, and it happened because brain-fried Republicans like Ramaswamy can't imagine that voters don't actually want politicians to be gigantic assholes. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-rama...

publicnotice.coVivek Ramaswamy discovers that voters have their limitsAsking “What would Trump do?” is a bad way to make campaign strategy.

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Replying to @brunodias.dev

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

Rep. Jayapal is one of our Washington State Congressional representatives, currently up for re-election. Vote for Democrats who fight!

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

(Her election is not a particularly hotly contested one — she got 84% of the votes in the primary and her opponent got 11% — but vote for the folks who will fight for you even if you don’t have to, because the rest of the party is watching!)

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NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

newrepublic.comTrump’s Vile Prosecution of Ilhan Omar Is About to Run Into a WallIf they retake the House, Democrats will have plenty of ways to act against Trump’s corrupt prosecutions. Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin say they’re going to use them.

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Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Thirty years ago I was on a high-volume high-aggro mailing list, and when someone lost it like this the tradition was for someone to take the text of the message, alphabetize it, paste it into a reply, and say “these words didn’t appear to be in any particular order so I alphabetized them for you”

Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social

checking in on the president of the united states

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Thirty years ago I was on a high-volume high-aggro mailing list, and when someone lost it like this the tradition was for someone to take the text of the message, alphabetize it, paste it into a reply, and say “these words didn’t appear to be in any particular order so I alphabetized them for you”

Hemry, Local Bartender@bartenderhemry.bsky.social

checking in on the president of the united states

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Ursula Vernon: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of your blorbo King: MY blorbo?! Vernon: yes Vernon: YOUR blorbo King: from my stories?!? Vernon: yes Vernon: from your stories

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Mary Shelley: sup fuckers? King: mary! ursula ruined blorbo! Shelley: what Poe: you know, blorbo! Lovecraft: our blorbo! Shelley: Shelley: what

This is an amazing and informative interview with a truly remarkable person.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Musk thinks he's this scary badass, but he might as well have typed "While you were running for office, I studied the blade." Somebody pants this dork and stuff him in the Gatorade cooler.

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

Like, I grew up in Texas, I am aware of all the possible shades and nuances with which one’s heart can be blessed, and yet the biting clarity with which “We did not” translates to “FUCK no” is still a revelation

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Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

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wait a democrat is polling +3 in montana’s congressional race and he is a smokejumper that looks like this? why has no one told the thirsty masses?

My man here thinks the statute of limitations tolls when the defendant flees the jurisdiction after pleading not guilty open the schools

jcar8mm.bsky.social@jcar8mm.bsky.social

You know damn well that this attorney for his $10,000 bucks negotiated something to get the potential charges knocked down or virtually eliminated. You also know that the SOL tolls if you leave the state to avoid prosecution. So obviously something happened to make the case go away.

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Just going to be straight here — no pun intended: I am the only journalist who has been covering this issue in depth, was often the only journalist at hearings, and was the only one explaining what DOJ was actually arguing here. Support my work if you can: www.lawdork.com/subscribe

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "Now the media and the Democrats in the state of Ohio are obsessed because Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is and call Amy Acton a liar"

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LOLOLOLOL holy shit, Marisa is out here finding the good shit

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

It’s a hoax if you wait for years to report your rape, or months, or weeks, or days

Christopher Mathias@letsgomathias.bsky.social

New: Bernadette Greene-Placentia would like you to know the story of her rape is not an "October Surprise" or a "hoax," as prominent MAGA influencers have suggested, concocted to win votes My interview w/ the congressional candidate, for @talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com/news/dem-can...

Probably hours or minutes, too Don’t get me wrong! There’s definitely a right time to report your rape! It’s just that whatever time you actually reported it, that was definitely the wrong one