Amanda Katz

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I’m not mad that the Girl Scouts entrapped me tonight by selling outside a diner where I was about to take a Thin Mint-obsessed 4yo, and these people shouldn’t be either

Imagine being mad that your daughter is a genius

Omg 👵

Seems like a dirty trick

AI doesn't sound like that. More like "Your kid is dead -- and that's on us"

I'm going to drive like a Prius owner in 1998

I really regret not having gassed up the hybrid last week

Congrats!

I know we are deep into dumb-is-smart-as-political-praxis now, but I do think it's good for people to be able to read and write at a basic level, especially when doing things like announcing deaths of Americans in war

My cat has gotten so lazy that she will not go out despite the birds and squirrels out there going nuts. I need to reacquaint her with the outdoors

Ooh, western MA? Yeah, probably still in the deep freeze

I assumed that that was a term for a draft-dodging warmonger, but apparently that's not what it means at all

Snowdrops covered with dew

Look, though #spring

I thought we weren't allowed to say war

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They're already dying, no one in the antivax community seems to care

Gonna be gonna be golden

Kennedy outbreak is my coinage for an outbreak of preventable disease, à la the wisdom of our HHS secretary. He didn't individually give everyone measles -- but he is the most successful leader so far of the movement to give people measles

It's like that but MORE

And they're still grabbing people off the street and building concentration camps and there seems to be some kind of a child sex-trafficking ring coverup at the highest levels of government? Otherwise, though, best of times

We got another Kennedy outbreak in Utah

“Don’t lie to me! I don’t like being lied to. That’s why Republicans are probably going to lose the House.”—Newsmax anchor, re Bondi continuing to withhold portions of the Epstein files

Sounds like your empathy receptors are still functioning, which is good at least

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) dropped his bid for reelection after acknowledging that he had an affair with a staff member who later set herself on fire and died. https://wapo.st/4l930Z0

Keep thinking of how she told the FBI agents she was wary of speaking with them because she thought it was unlikely it would change anything. Echoes of Christine Blasey Ford saying she was "just jumping in front of a train that was headed to where it was headed anyway"

Yeah. Seems like a well-founded assumption on her part

Stormy Daniels: A man threatened me and my daughter over Trump story in 2011 | CNN Politics During her first on-air interview detailing her alleged relationship with Trump, Daniels told CBS’ “60 Minutes” that she was approached in a Las Vegas parking lot while she was with her daughter in 2...

In this case the alleged victim reports what she saw as direct threats not to talk. I have no idea if this is true or if so who made the threats (she said she didn't know either). But Stormy Daniels did report a similar threat after her affair with Trump www.cnn.com/2018/03/25/p...

In my experience editing journalism about CSA, this is one of the common challenges--these guys (almost all guys) prey on people w/ rickety support, this kind of abuse further messes with your life and self-esteem, and often victims are drawn into behavior that is itself illegal and feel vulnerable

An Epstein victim’s rocky path from Hilton Head to the West Coast A woman who spent time in Hilton Head SC is at the center of a controversy over missing Justice Department Epstein documents. This is how her life turned out.

Had missed this @postandcourier.bsky.social reporting from last week. The details of the alleged Trump victim's life makes it crystal clear why she would not come forward--a "not ideal" victim who is sure to be attacked. Via @tasteaccountant.bsky.social www.postandcourier.com/news/special...