Vince Katter
@vincekatter.bsky.social
He/him. MKE/WI/USA. Retired IT mgr. Married to retired urban HS English teacher(she/her). Dad/Grandpa. Egalitarian. Episcopal.
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This is such a scoop. For many reasons, including: Trump had made a couple of comments about Omar in the first term, but neither she nor Somali Americans were a Trump obsession at that time.
(But Somalis _were_ a Miller obsession.)
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
(But Somalis _were_ a Miller obsession.)
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Trump officials scrutinized Omar in 2019. They didn’t find citizenship issues.
The earlier review of Omar’s immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 16, 2026 at 1:08 AM
This is such a scoop. For many reasons, including: Trump had made a couple of comments about Omar in the first term, but neither she nor Somali Americans were a Trump obsession at that time.
(But Somalis _were_ a Miller obsession.)
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
(But Somalis _were_ a Miller obsession.)
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in.
The joy on their faces says it all.
The joy on their faces says it all.
October 15, 2026 at 12:11 AM
When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in.
The joy on their faces says it all.
The joy on their faces says it all.
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“Donald Trump is a traitor. And he’s not simply a traitor in the loose sense of someone who commits an act of betrayal…Trump is a traitor in the very particular sense laid out in the U.S. Constitution…’adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.’”
www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump Is a Traitor
And in a sane world, he would be removed from office now
www.americaamerica.news
October 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM
“Donald Trump is a traitor. And he’s not simply a traitor in the loose sense of someone who commits an act of betrayal…Trump is a traitor in the very particular sense laid out in the U.S. Constitution…’adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.’”
www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
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Ho boy, do I have a story for you. The question of how ice breaks has been central to glaciology for well over a century.
Didn't know this was especially controversial. Unsupported vertical ice obviously has a structural limit, determined by the distribution of internal fractures, especially ~vertical ones. Vertically fractured ice becomes a column crushing problem.
Details are what's not known, and consequences?
Details are what's not known, and consequences?
I want to talk a little bit about this new Science paper led by star student Caroline Needle, Catherine Walker and myself. The idea goes back to this controversial new idea called the marine ice cliff instability.
@whoi.edu @umich.edu
@whoi.edu @umich.edu
October 16, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Ho boy, do I have a story for you. The question of how ice breaks has been central to glaciology for well over a century.
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But your lawyer told SCOTUS that one of the reasons the justices should declare former presidents broadly immune from prosecution for criming while in office is so that no future president would try to pardon himself
October 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
But your lawyer told SCOTUS that one of the reasons the justices should declare former presidents broadly immune from prosecution for criming while in office is so that no future president would try to pardon himself
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New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to the tool. A sign of the continuing crack down of AI www.404media.co/accenture-te...
Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month
Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.
www.404media.co
October 15, 2026 at 5:42 PM
New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to the tool. A sign of the continuing crack down of AI www.404media.co/accenture-te...
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"The Christianity I see on the right today is not really interested in Christ as such. It’s a Nietzschean exercise in domination and social Darwinism. So it’s unsurprising that MAGA Republicans can’t make sense of Talarico…who is unashamed of his service-oriented vision of American life."
Editor’s Notes: Fellas, Is It Gay to Be James Talarico?
They need us to hate each other.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 15, 2026 at 6:35 PM
"The Christianity I see on the right today is not really interested in Christ as such. It’s a Nietzschean exercise in domination and social Darwinism. So it’s unsurprising that MAGA Republicans can’t make sense of Talarico…who is unashamed of his service-oriented vision of American life."
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This is not going to end well…
So as y’all probably already know, Trump has a new blonde, Katie Zacharia. She claims to be an attorney, and apparently has been doing so for some time. But while she has a JD from Pepperdine for sure, nobody can seem to find any jurisdiction in which she has been admitted to the practice of law.
October 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
This is not going to end well…
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that’s right
Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP
The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
truthout.org
October 13, 2026 at 11:35 PM
that’s right
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Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father
When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong.
Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid
Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid
October 12, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Looking forward to the same scrutiny being impartially applied to Elon Musk and Melania Trump, whose immigration documents are much much worse than anything alleged about Omar's father
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I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
apnews.com
October 12, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
October 12, 2026 at 12:48 PM
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote.
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October 11, 2026 at 10:09 AM
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote.
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New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment.
www.nber.org/papers/w35854
www.nber.org/papers/w35854
October 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment.
www.nber.org/papers/w35854
www.nber.org/papers/w35854
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© Bruce Cascia.
'Rolling Thunder II.'
Oil on canvas, 2026.
48 x 36 inches.
'Rolling Thunder II.'
Oil on canvas, 2026.
48 x 36 inches.
October 9, 2026 at 6:12 AM
© Bruce Cascia.
'Rolling Thunder II.'
Oil on canvas, 2026.
48 x 36 inches.
'Rolling Thunder II.'
Oil on canvas, 2026.
48 x 36 inches.
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It's far worse. An AI company can FORCE (seriously) a family in a town where they want to build a data center to accept shares in their company that they can't sell for 5 years. Same for any company (tobacco, firearms, porn, etc.)
Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam.
In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not."
www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not."
www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...
Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst
A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...
www.rawstory.com
October 9, 2026 at 12:07 PM
It's far worse. An AI company can FORCE (seriously) a family in a town where they want to build a data center to accept shares in their company that they can't sell for 5 years. Same for any company (tobacco, firearms, porn, etc.)
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Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
October 2, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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No AI for kids. Full stop.
October 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
No AI for kids. Full stop.
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To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center.
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
www.gadgetreview.com
October 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center.
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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The most important political task in America is clawing back wealth from the very rich. The most important ballot measure in America is the California billionaire tax. Oligarchy is at the front door. Time to stop fucking around.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...
The War Against Accumulated Capital
Either pass wealth taxes or learn to love digital feudalism.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
October 7, 2026 at 2:14 PM
The most important political task in America is clawing back wealth from the very rich. The most important ballot measure in America is the California billionaire tax. Oligarchy is at the front door. Time to stop fucking around.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-war-ag...
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Brilliant video from Kansas Governor Laura Kelly talking about her "constituent" Zach Lahn, the Republican running for governor of IOWA who actually lives in Kansas. One of the most brutal political owns I've ever seen. Kudos to all involved.
October 6, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Brilliant video from Kansas Governor Laura Kelly talking about her "constituent" Zach Lahn, the Republican running for governor of IOWA who actually lives in Kansas. One of the most brutal political owns I've ever seen. Kudos to all involved.
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damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry
Trump spends “a ton” of time worrying about future efforts by Democrats to tear down Trump-branded public properties.
@swin24.bsky.social & @andrewperez.bsky.social explain how Trump's forcing officials to brainstorm legal arguments for institutionalizing his cult forever: zeteo.com/p/de-trumpif...
@swin24.bsky.social & @andrewperez.bsky.social explain how Trump's forcing officials to brainstorm legal arguments for institutionalizing his cult forever: zeteo.com/p/de-trumpif...
October 6, 2026 at 6:30 PM
damnatio memoriae is the right thing to do with trump for many reasons and at the top of the list is the fact that it will make him so, so angry
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In the past month, I've started waking once a week at 1am--involuntarily--& being so wired that I can't get back to sleep all night.
Couldn't figure out why. Wasn't doing anything different.
Just realized: I'm scared by what I'm seeing in my research. Nihilistic billionaires toying with our lives.
Couldn't figure out why. Wasn't doing anything different.
Just realized: I'm scared by what I'm seeing in my research. Nihilistic billionaires toying with our lives.
October 7, 2026 at 1:26 AM
In the past month, I've started waking once a week at 1am--involuntarily--& being so wired that I can't get back to sleep all night.
Couldn't figure out why. Wasn't doing anything different.
Just realized: I'm scared by what I'm seeing in my research. Nihilistic billionaires toying with our lives.
Couldn't figure out why. Wasn't doing anything different.
Just realized: I'm scared by what I'm seeing in my research. Nihilistic billionaires toying with our lives.
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This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
October 5, 2026 at 4:33 PM
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead