katie devin orenstein
@katiedorenstein.bsky.social
"one of the only people in the american theatre with a sense of humor" - sam pinkleton
likes&retweets do not equal endorsement
likes&retweets do not equal endorsement
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it's sort of fun when taylor swift releases new music and everyone becomes an american studies major for half a day
September 25, 2026 at 1:53 PM
it's sort of fun when taylor swift releases new music and everyone becomes an american studies major for half a day
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catching up on my favorite tv show, Merritt Wever Has Been Contractually Obligated to Do a Press Tour cc @jdmchenry.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=3o1J...
youtube.com/watch?v=3o1J...
Merritt Wever’s Late Night Debut & “Primetime” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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September 27, 2026 at 9:25 PM
catching up on my favorite tv show, Merritt Wever Has Been Contractually Obligated to Do a Press Tour cc @jdmchenry.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=3o1J...
youtube.com/watch?v=3o1J...
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Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
September 15, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
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the irish don’t fuck around!
Each one that drops out makes Sheeran look even worse considering they need the money A LOT more than he does
September 15, 2026 at 8:32 PM
the irish don’t fuck around!
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The moviemaker has an idealistic belief that no matter how corrupted mass taste is, people still retain the capacity to receive a vision. (1977)
September 14, 2026 at 6:38 PM
The moviemaker has an idealistic belief that no matter how corrupted mass taste is, people still retain the capacity to receive a vision. (1977)
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The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week.
It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
September 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week.
It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
well, in one piece of good news, the O'Neill Center, the administrators of the National Playwright's Conference, are vehemently banning AI from all stages of the contest pipeline
September 12, 2026 at 3:29 PM
well, in one piece of good news, the O'Neill Center, the administrators of the National Playwright's Conference, are vehemently banning AI from all stages of the contest pipeline
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Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
prospect.org
September 11, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
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“Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.”
Important piece, a chapter from the book Profiles in Cowardice, about capitulation to US authoritarianism
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Important piece, a chapter from the book Profiles in Cowardice, about capitulation to US authoritarianism
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Dartmouth Exception | Jacob Weisberg
Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.
www.nybooks.com
September 11, 2026 at 9:13 PM
“Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.”
Important piece, a chapter from the book Profiles in Cowardice, about capitulation to US authoritarianism
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Important piece, a chapter from the book Profiles in Cowardice, about capitulation to US authoritarianism
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Writer for NBC10 Boston fuckin HATES Mercury
A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected, the cosmos’ version of a grape shriveling into a raisin under the sun.
on.nbcboston.com/J9Q0o0f
on.nbcboston.com/J9Q0o0f
Little Mercury may be shrinking faster than scientists expected
A new study shows that little, wrinkly Mercury may be shrinking faster than expected, the cosmos’ version of a grape shriveling into a raisin under the sun.
on.nbcboston.com
September 11, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Writer for NBC10 Boston fuckin HATES Mercury
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I mean this with all kindness- if you are not actually in danger, stewing over fear is not going to lead to you having a safer, freer or more beautiful life.
It is going to make you a mark for conmen.
If you do have multigenerational trauma, like so many of us do, the answer is trying to treat it
It is going to make you a mark for conmen.
If you do have multigenerational trauma, like so many of us do, the answer is trying to treat it
September 9, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I mean this with all kindness- if you are not actually in danger, stewing over fear is not going to lead to you having a safer, freer or more beautiful life.
It is going to make you a mark for conmen.
If you do have multigenerational trauma, like so many of us do, the answer is trying to treat it
It is going to make you a mark for conmen.
If you do have multigenerational trauma, like so many of us do, the answer is trying to treat it
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Anti Jewish violence is real and horrific. Being a victim of this violence is not the quotidian experience of most Jewish people right now. Encouraging Jewish people to live in terror when they are not actually in danger is deeply manipulative and is used to manufacture consent for genocide
September 9, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Anti Jewish violence is real and horrific. Being a victim of this violence is not the quotidian experience of most Jewish people right now. Encouraging Jewish people to live in terror when they are not actually in danger is deeply manipulative and is used to manufacture consent for genocide
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A comrade asked me to share this link: www.powerthepolls.org - They are seeking poll workers across the country.
Power the Polls
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September 9, 2026 at 4:10 AM
A comrade asked me to share this link: www.powerthepolls.org - They are seeking poll workers across the country.
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No one is coming to save you. However, someone is coming to stand in front of what you want to look at in the grocery store
September 8, 2026 at 6:20 PM
No one is coming to save you. However, someone is coming to stand in front of what you want to look at in the grocery store
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Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
September 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
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BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
September 3, 2026 at 12:57 PM
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
i think at this point i've got 6 dropbox accounts and they're all either full or nonfunctioning
September 3, 2026 at 5:13 PM
i think at this point i've got 6 dropbox accounts and they're all either full or nonfunctioning
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The Centrist Mantra: Voters might not like me, but they should imagine there are far away people who do like me, and vote like those imagined people.
August 31, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The Centrist Mantra: Voters might not like me, but they should imagine there are far away people who do like me, and vote like those imagined people.
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I think the punditariat's audience, which is older people, just cannot even remotely fathom that white nationalists run the country—that they do not believe it when they are told, nor recognize it when they see it. The pundits fall back on threats from the left, which are legible to their audience.
American Nazis existed in the 1980s–90s. They were reported on derisively and known as "neo-Nazis." They were, so far as young me could tell, universally thought of as loser freaks with no real power.
So it must be hard for older people to imagine that young neo-Nazis run today's Republican Party.
So it must be hard for older people to imagine that young neo-Nazis run today's Republican Party.
August 30, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I think the punditariat's audience, which is older people, just cannot even remotely fathom that white nationalists run the country—that they do not believe it when they are told, nor recognize it when they see it. The pundits fall back on threats from the left, which are legible to their audience.
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You can try telling older people that young neo-Nazis run the Republican Party. You can tell them 'this guy Stephen Miller tells Trump what to do.' But for one, they don't think Donald Trump gets told by others what to do, and, no one who is a neo-Nazi could become White House deputy chief of staff.
August 8, 2026 at 9:32 PM
You can try telling older people that young neo-Nazis run the Republican Party. You can tell them 'this guy Stephen Miller tells Trump what to do.' But for one, they don't think Donald Trump gets told by others what to do, and, no one who is a neo-Nazi could become White House deputy chief of staff.
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By contrast, when older people hear about "left-wing radicalism," they know what that is, or at least what the speaker intends by it. Images come to their minds. It means something to them. What comes to mind for most Americans when they hear "right-wing radicalism"? I would expect that it's nothing
August 8, 2026 at 8:32 PM
By contrast, when older people hear about "left-wing radicalism," they know what that is, or at least what the speaker intends by it. Images come to their minds. It means something to them. What comes to mind for most Americans when they hear "right-wing radicalism"? I would expect that it's nothing
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When I say that right-wing radicalism is not 'legible' to older people, I mean they do not quite have a concept of what they are looking at, even on the occasions it is plainly shown to them. Maybe a bit of the problem is labeling—that many don't know what "right-wing radicalism" is supposed to mean
August 8, 2026 at 8:29 PM
When I say that right-wing radicalism is not 'legible' to older people, I mean they do not quite have a concept of what they are looking at, even on the occasions it is plainly shown to them. Maybe a bit of the problem is labeling—that many don't know what "right-wing radicalism" is supposed to mean
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reskeeting with alt text bc this is a funny as hell way to dismiss someone's dumbass argument to their face
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Cottle: My guess is that you then completely reject the idea that we wound up with this wretched administration in part because of the backlash to the excesses of woke, especially alienating young men, who were told they were the problem, just generally speaking.
Bouie: [this line is highlighted] I completely reject that for simple reasons of linear time. This administration was elected in 2024. At peak woke, when Nancy Pelosi was wearing kente cloth, Democrats won a trifecta, right? At the--](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kjklbsuepdppuppsfluytydl/bafkreig2vjgmh4neuc3tfxvzkhrus6m42xkdjchxkob3pounwjxlukyipu)
August 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
reskeeting with alt text bc this is a funny as hell way to dismiss someone's dumbass argument to their face
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can someone please check on Charo
August 26, 2026 at 4:07 PM
can someone please check on Charo