Katha Pollitt
@kathapollitt.bsky.social
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Poet, essayist, columnist at The Nation, cat lover. Older but probably not much wiser.
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April Verrett
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Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes. That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services. This is why people are mad as hell.
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Benjamin Dreyer
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Stevie Kilner
2 days ago
If anyone would like to see a photo of a cat that wishes it was a red panda, this is your lucky day.
#Caturday
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝
3 days ago
When your life becomes a case study in karma.
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Erica Vladimer
2 days ago
First & foremost,
@lindseyboylan.bsky.social
is more than deserving of this endorsement. Second & just as important, fuck this headline. Lindsey didn’t accuse Cuomo of harassment. Cuomo harassed Lindsey. Period. She is not an accusor. She is a survivor-advocate. Show some respect. Report the truth.
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3 days ago
We should be learning from other countries...
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I'm fundraising for the New York Abortion Access fund in the National Network of Abortion Funds Fundathon. Please give and help poor women get the care they need. All amounts welcome! Please reskeet.
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New York Abortion Access Fund 2026
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Clara Jeffery
3 days ago
They're putting a real crew together
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Nita Cosby
3 days ago
Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas.
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Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women
The two women died during miscarriages. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to their deaths.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tmb-disciplines-doctors-ngumezi-crain-cases?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=4-17
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Butterflies Katz ⓥ
3 days ago
#wildlife
#WildlifeCrossings
More photos of wildlife crossings in comments. Great idea!
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Clara Jeffery
5 days ago
Yessssss
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
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Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/virginia-tax-breaks-confederate.html
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
5 days ago
We will be taxing the ultra-wealthy and global elites.
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Hochul Proposes Tax on N.Y.C. Second Homes That Are Worth $5 Million
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/nyregion/hochul-pied-terre-tax.html
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NY Times Pitchbot
8 days ago
It seems suspiciously like the person feeding positive J.D. Vance stories to the press is none other than Vance himself. by John Barron
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Robert Reich
9 days ago
In his first 100 days, Zohran Mamdani has: -Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by gig companies -Cracked down on predatory landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets This is what leadership looks like.
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Katie Martin
11 days ago
"this seems like a legitimate misunderstanding"
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The Analyst
12 days ago
THIS SUMS IT UP AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN:
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Aaron Rupar
11 days ago
TAPPER: When Trump threatened to kill the entire Iranian civilization, did that bother you as a diplomat? MARK RUTTE: I'm not commenting. What I want you to know is I support the president
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
12 days ago
www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
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Everyone please read this alarming article on the rollback of women's progress in the workplace during the Trump administrations. The authoritarian playbook always includes pushing women back into the 1950s, minus the prosperity.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...
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Opinion | I’ve Covered Women in the Workplace for 15 Years. Something Alarming Is Happening.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/women-workplace-dei-feminism.html
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Susan DuBose
13 days ago
"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get." ~ Tracy Chapman Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht
#Booksky
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Kepano Kolohe
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
14 days ago
“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián
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The Progress Network
14 days ago
🇱🇺Luxembourg has enshrined abortion rights in its constitution, the second country, after France, to do so.
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Luxembourg becomes second country worldwide to enshrine abortion rights in constitution
Large majority in parliament backs amendment to Luxembourg’s highest law, with ‘freedom’ to have an abortion added to constitution
https://www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/luxembourg-becomes-second-country-worldwide-to-enshrine-abortion-rights-in-constitution/138838058.html
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Poem of the Day. I liked this poem because of its combination the bureaucratic and the bizarre.
poets.org/poem/you-shi...
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有 識: Have Knowledge
Have you ridden in a streetcar? / Can you describe the taste of bread?
https://poets.org/poem/you-shi-have-knowledge
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Y.O.L.O.0311
14 days ago
Facts spoken by an ex-trumper...
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Gracie Perez
15 days ago
Happy Saturday!😍💖My Kinder team and I are really hoping to give each one of our students a Summer bucket🫶Any help or share would be greatly appreciated☺️💖I have also added gift cards to help with the purchase of these items❤️
#clearthelist
#title1
#Kinder
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That Librarian: Amanda Jones
19 days ago
This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance.
gofund.me/f7704eb98
Read what happened to this hero:
www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...
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Rutherford County Library Board fires director after she refuses to relocate 132 children's books
Dr. Lu-anne James called the board's order to move books with LGBTQ+ themes to the adult section an unlawful act of viewpoint discrimination.
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherford-county-library-board-fires-director-after-she-refuses-to-relocate-132-childrens-books
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Anna Horford
18 days ago
They’re not ready to hear this 👀
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Karoli
18 days ago
Donald Trump's father received birthright citizenship. His grandfather was a German immigrant.
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Shipwreck
18 days ago
That’s one hell of a cover…..
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19 days ago
Rain puddle reflection, Chartres street, New Orleans
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Done! If you can please chip in for this heroic librarian.
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Mark Hamill
20 days ago
Let's focus on something we ALL agree on:
#ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
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20 days ago
. Just so everyone remembers . . . . .
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Adam Serwer
19 days ago
Extremely fucked up. They should be getting at least two
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Dr. Mar 💙
20 days ago
Accountability brings consequences. And consequences are the only language corruption understands. Money and political power do not outrank the Constitution. They just need a wake up call and it’s coming at the midterms.👇
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Josh Marshall
20 days ago
using graduation of US Marines as an opportunity to harvest some of their relatives for deportation
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Robert Reich
19 days ago
Complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau doubled in 2025. But under Russ Vought's tenure heading the CFPB, the agency has been gutted. It's now easier than ever for shady banks, lenders, and credit card companies to pick your pocket. And it's all because of the Trump regime.
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Joyce White Vance
22 days ago
Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and also the best guarantee we can hold free and fair elections this November. Today, it was shining brightly.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Well Done America!
This was Boise, Idaho, today.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/well-done-america?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Courtney Milan
24 days ago
Hey everyone! You have until MARCH 30, 2026 to file a claim in the Anthropic Settlement. If you have questions about filing--or if you aren't sure if you've filed correctly--call the settlement administrator at 1 877-206-2314.
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🦃 Seth Masket 🦃
24 days ago
Pilot on my flight: “Air travel is not fun right now. Please be nice to each other. I don’t want to be on CNN. Let’s just go home.”
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Michelle Goldberg
28 days ago
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Jessica Valenti
27 days ago
You good, Ohio??
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Ygrene
28 days ago
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
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Ron Filipkowski
29 days ago
Let’s put an unhinged malignant narcissist sundowning into dementia in control of the most powerful military force in the history of mankind because what could go wrong.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
about 1 month ago
after Charlie Kirk died pundits like Ezra Klein praised his "hard conversations" with students. under the higher ed backlash he helped start, the real hard-to-have conversations are about gender, race, sexuality, protest. the feminists touring colleges with academic bans:
@us.theguardian.com
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Say gay: feminist magazine reclaims Charlie Kirk-style campus tours after Florida DEI cuts
Florida restricted teaching around sex, gender and race. Lux is now giving students a forum for these issues
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/lux-magazine-florida-charlie-kirk-dei
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My new @thenation column. With thoughts on anticarceral feminism and "the Epstein class."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Gisèle Pelicot Shows Us Why “Shame Must Change Sides”
Fifty-one ordinary men raped an unconscious woman. Her case reveals the limits of anti-carceral feminism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gisele-pelicot-hymn-life/
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My new @thenation column. With thoughts on anticarceral feminism and "the Epstein class."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Gisèle Pelicot Shows Us Why “Shame Must Change Sides”
Fifty-one ordinary men raped an unconscious woman. Her case reveals the limits of anti-carceral feminism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gisele-pelicot-hymn-life/
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨
about 1 month ago
"California is pledging to put 7.5 million acres under tribal stewardship in the state’s first-ever tribal stewardship policy." Absolutely *phenomenal* news & essential. We need this, across Turtle Island, fast. We don't time. But WOW. What an amazing thing to see in my lifetime.
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California pledges to open 7% of its land and waters to Indigenous tribes — a step toward healing a 175-year-old broken promise
The new plan aims to bring at least 7.5 million acres of land and coastal waters under the care of Indigenous tribes — representing the acreage the U.S. promised and failed to hold for tribal reservat...
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-03-17/california-pledges-to-open-land-waters-to-indigenous-tribes
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Ms. K
about 1 month ago
My Donors Choose project is being doubled today! What would normally be an over $1,000 project to replace tattered books now needs $584 to make this project happen. Any donation is greatly appreciated!
www.donorschoose.org/project/best...
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Best Laid Schemes Of Mice And Men: Replacing Books, a project from Ms. Kartak
Help me give my students new books that don't have pages falling out! We read Of Mice and Men in our English 10 class as a whole book unit. We have had our current set of books for quite some t...
https://www.donorschoose.org/project/best-laid-schemes-of-mice-and-men-repla/10141896/?rf=email-system-2026-03-proposal_approve-teacher_7628214&challengeid=21686203&utm_swu=7781&utm_source=dc&utm_medium=page&utm_campaign=project&utm_term=teacher_7628214
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