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Posts by Kate Thomas

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They Thought It Was Burnout or Aging. It Was ADHD. A wave of midlife diagnoses in women is revealing the disorder’s hormonal link.

Whewww this article on ADHD, hormones and women being diagnosed later in life hits home. “I feel like my whole life could have been different" www.thecut.com/article/surg...

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republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

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‘It’s Just Crazy’: High Car Payments Make Ownership Feel Impossible

“When insurance, gas, repairs & maintenance are included, the total cost of owning a vehicle has risen more than 40% since January 2020."

Cool cool cool so now we can’t afford houses OR cars www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/b...

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As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

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Rob Flaherty on X: "[taps the sign] Gonna be the biggest issue of the '28 election and it won't even be close. Question is just what we do to get ready. https://t.co/LLJQmRWodU https://t.co/vr27RXQxOf https://t.co/jKlA5uNvUJ" / X [taps the sign] Gonna be the biggest issue of the '28 election and it won't even be close. Question is just what we do to get ready. https://t.co/LLJQmRWodU https://t.co/vr27RXQxOf https://t.co/jKlA5uNvUJ

“We should make A.I. companies pay the costs for powering & building data centers, put in place A.I. child safety standards & prohibit the technology from being involved in tasks we can’t trust it to do fairly, like hiring & firing” This is the FLOOR of what we should be doing. x.com/rob_flaherty...

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The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

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Are women board members risk averse or agents of innovation? It’s complicated, new research shows The effect of women board members on patent activity hinges on whether the company is meeting performance targets.

“Research shows that banks led by women were less likely to fail during the financial crisis, and companies with more women directors experience less financial distress.”

Didn’t really need a study to know this would be true but I’ll take it! theconversation.com/are-women-bo...

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Ok this is HORRIFYING & also utterly & totally preventable.

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Opinion | Everyone is talking about affordability – and making the same mistake "As lawmakers grapple with the cost of living, they need to remind Americans – again and again – that pay is a policy choice," Heidi Shierholz writes.

Voters wrongly blame our gov. for inflation but largely take personal responsibility for their wages...when it should really be the opposite.

If typical workers' pay had kept pace with productivity over the last 45 yrs, our paychecks would be ~40% larger today.

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High-profile Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene to quit Congress after Trump feud The Georgia representative will leave office in the New Year.

Genuinely did NOT see this coming but also
DO let the door hit you on the way out? More than once? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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If you’re driving around in unmarked cars, wearing masks, and kidnapping people, you’re not one of the good guys.

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as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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U.S. government pays for 2025's most expensive political ad campaign The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.

Love to see my taxpayer dollars hard at work 🙄www.axios.com/2025/10/15/trump-self-de...

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Pretty sure we’re living one

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It is honestly absurd at this point. STOP STEALING CREDIT FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S WORK jfc

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Ezra Klein is Wrong About Abortion Abortion *is* a big tent issue

Are you f*cking KIDDING ME. How are we back here again?!! jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

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we are not well

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The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South - MediaJustice Tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta have spent more than $100 billion on data center construction just this summer, and data centers are expected to pass total US consumer spending as...

Tech giants have spent more than $100 billion on data center construction just this summer in the name of “progress”- but this new report from @mediajustice.bsky.social reveals just how much the opposite of that is happening in Southern communities:

mediajustice.org/resource/the...

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This is so fucking frustrating. In aftermath of an act that was sooo preventable, so horrible & so unnecessary, THIS is where rightwingers are landing?! How can my brain even register surprise over sh*t like this. You’d think I’d be numb to it now but I just
am not.

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In today’s Senate Commerce Hearing the White House endorsed support for federal preemption of state AI laws. The fight against preemption did not disappear with the moratorium—in fact, Sen. Cruz introduced a bill today putting us directly on the path to preemption. A thread on its risks below: đŸ§”

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The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

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Some Arlington pharmacies begin offering Covid-19 shots without prescriptions | ARLnow.com Amid shifting federal guidelines on Covid-19 vaccines, some pharmacies around Arlington are now offering the shots without requiring a prescription. Only days ago, all CVS locations in Virginia requir...

I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS www.arlnow.com/2025/09/10/s...

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Zero Click Marketing? The Truth About Search Traffic in 9 Charts | Orbit Media Studios Zero-click searches are from zero-intent searchers. They just want a quick answer. Here's the truth about search traffic in nine charts...

This is really valuable advice on how to feel—and what do —about the the giant shifts in organic traffic many of us who work in digital have been noticing: www.orbitmedia.com/blog/zero-cl...

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The Supreme Court just ruled this meme is constitutional.

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the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

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Thousands stream down the streets of DC on 9/6/25 to protest Trump’s military occupation of our city

Thousands stream down the streets of DC on 9/6/25 to protest Trump’s military occupation of our city

For when Trump tries to claim that hardly anyone turned out to #FreeDC today

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Of the 4 most numerous jobs that AI is set to replace – marketing analysts, customer service reps, sales reps & biz analysts – none of them are unionized.

That's not a coincidence. And it highlights a critical vulnerability in how workers are positioned to respond to AI-driven job displacement.

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Women make amazing leaders. Happy to see forward momentum with upcoming gubernatorial races (well, the Dem-leaning ones, anyway!) thehill.com/homenews/cam...

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