Katy Read

Like many writers, I have rituals. Before writing, I pour coffee, open the window by my desk, and attempt to read the entire internet.

@MacFamilyDog @Suzierizzo1 (Speaking of “the logic.”)

@MacFamilyDog @Suzierizzo1 Biden and Obama didn’t have the files — the DOJ did, and they functioned separately under normal presidencies. But also, nobody was asking them to. Now people are. So ask yourself: If there’s nothing there, why doesn’t Trump just do it and get it over with?

Why do think Trump decided to go to War with Iran? 1. The Midterms 2. Epstein Files 3. Netanyahu 4. All of the above

@CaitlinPacific @KBAndersen I always remember a friendship chart showing different levels of friendship or something like that and the very top box said “reserved for Mick and Keith.” Hilarious! (This was long before Keith’s “Life” came out, of course.)

@KBAndersen Oh of course! Even as I was remembering this incident I was thinking - wasn’t that maybe Spy? You guys really were the center holding everything together. Please, please relaunch, for the country’s betterment

Anyone remember when Andy Warhol’s diaries were published with out an index and people were losing their minds trying to find out if they were in it, and then a great American complied an index, sold separately? Could someone do it for the Epstein papers?

@skylarromines @AlanRoberts You don’t believe in differences in people’s metabolism? I have a neighbor who’s so skinny his legs are the size of my arms. And his meals are HUGE.

@AlanRoberts So the meds made you hungrier and you ate more and gained 50 lbs. Now you still eat the same amount and don’t understand why you’re not losing weight? Eat less. You will lose weight.

The correlation to blue hair and the lack of critical thinking skills should be studied

Calling it now, the hottest trend of 2026 will be dogged pursuits. Determined, persistent, and stubborn efforts to achieve things, refusing to give up despite difficulties, opposition, or discouragement, much like a dog relentlessly following a scent. Bookmark this.

Take a moment to look at the inhumanity captured in this extraordinary photo running on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis @StarTribune. It shows federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant directly into his face. The scene reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s. We look back at those old photos and wonder how the authorities could have behaved so savagely; many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tried to drive away, arresting 5-year-old schoolchildren on the street, or holding a man down and spaying chemicals into his face. Thanks to the Star Tribune reporters and photographers for documenting this work; they create accountability, they make democracy work, and they make all of us in journalism proud.

@Simbastinks @TreeKoalar @JoJoFromJerz Yes it’s a little like when you take your kids to get ice cream and your 5-year-old drops hers and starts crying so you give her yours.

@TreeKoalar @JoJoFromJerz It is his. The woman who gave it to him clearly thought that he deserved it more than she does.

The current president of the United States of America just told the world that he’s going to invade another country because he wasn’t given a peace prize.

@saturniidae72 @letsdanceon @robertwrighter @johnhawkinsrwn @CHSommers She dropped her son off that morning. She got shot at 9:37 am. That’s unlikely to allow “several hours of following, harassing and impeding.” And where is the evidence she did that for even 10 minutes? This is wishful thinking by people who want to defend the shooter.

@letsdanceon @robertwrighter @johnhawkinsrwn @CHSommers Several hours of following, harassing, and impeding ICE officers is several hours of committing crimes. This woman was a fool. It’s not surprising her poor choices led to a bad end.

It took about three seconds for the masked ICE agent who approached Renee Good's car to escalate from "Get out of the car" to "Get out of the fucking car!" It was when he reached her car and immediately grabbed her door handle (at the moment he said 'fucking car') that she started to back up. Now imagine that he'd acted like a real cop is trained to act--walked up to her (open) window and engaged in civil conversation (maybe saying, Ma'am, could you please get out of the car?). And imagine he hadn't been wearing a mask--and maybe was even dressed more like a police officer, complete with a badge featuring his ID number. Chances are high that Good wouldn't have freaked out and tried to flea. But Trump--and Stephen Miller, who I gather is the de facto head of ICE--have clearly signaled that they not only tolerate but actually applaud thuggish, intimidating behavior directed at Americans who are perceived as Trump's ideological enemies. You won't hear any complaints from them about an armed, masked man dressed like a DIY militiaman yelling "Get out of your fucking car!" at a woman in her thirties who, so far as I can tell, hadn't done anything wrong. (Far from obstructing the agent's pickup truck, she had paused before turning onto the street and politely waved it on, leaving it plenty of room to pass. If it had done so rather than stop, she'd still be alive.) Trump and Miller bear some measure of moral responsibility for the death of Renee Good. And the political reaction against them in the wake of this tragedy should prominently include specific demands about changing the rules of conduct for ICE agents--and also the rules of apparel, starting with a ban on those creepy masks.

@meghan_daum “Doing whatever she does” are the key words. She didn’t hit him hard, if at all, with her car. Any disruptions she caused beforehand are unclear from videos. Looks like she was waving cars past. She may have figured driving away was the best choice, given what we’ve seen ICE do.

Well said.

After several frustrating days of phone calls to = corporate, @VerizonSupport's X team to the rescue! I now have the loyalty discount, plus credit for potential savings during the past 6 mos if I'd known the discount was available. Thank you for making it right, Kaye & VS!

After several frustrating days of phone calls, @VerizonSupport's X team came through! I received the loyalty discount going forward, plus a credit for what I would have saved during the past six months if I'd known the discount was available. Thank you, Kaye & @VerizonSupport!

@VerizonSupport To clarify, “lying” was literally what the Verizon agent said about her colleague. An appropriate word. If she suspects I received misinformation, she should say “mistaken.” But no, she said the other (very nice) agent was “lying” … and she’s the one I’m supposed to believe?

@VerizonSupport .@VerizonSupport can you tell me what the agent's motivation would be to "lie" to a customer about a discount and/or refund that doesn't exist? I also got a text. Should I spread the word not to trust what Verizon customer support says on the phone because they might be "lying"?

.@Verizonsupport on 1/3, Verizon support person said I was eligible for a loyalty discount, would get 6 months refunded. Sent text confirming. Refund never arrived. Today's support says last week's person was "lying" to me. Lying? Really?? That's how your support team works??

@VerizonSupport .@VerizonSupport and there's no sign that my bill online has gone down at all. In fact, it's gone up.

@ChrisMartzWX @annbauerwriter Dude, Charlie Kirk and Renee Good are not the same. Yes, it’s tragic that either is dead! But one spent years debating, insulting and accusing the left; the other is someone nobody had heard of or would have recognized three days ago who was killed for driving a car in a street.

“But. . . but she had children!” So did the debate guy. Then you laughed about his murder, popped a Champagne bottle and threw a celebration. Nobody on the right (that I have seen) is happy that Renée Good is dead. But a crap ton of people on the left were happier than a tornado in a trailer park to see Kirk bleed out. We are not the same.

.@VerizonSupport please tell me how to connect with an agent. I've sat on hold forever, can't schedule a callback, can't get automated assistant to understand the problem. YOU ARE OVERCHARGING ME BY $200

@JoyceCarolOates For example, liberals don’t widely insist the Trump assassination attempt was staged, despite the Secret Service letting Trump pose dramatically immediately after the shooting, the magically healing ear, the mysterious assassin. We kind of need proof.

@JoyceCarolOates People on the left don’t usually fall for those things as easily. If liberals tried to claim that rightwing billionaires were eating dogs and cats or drinking babies’ blood, people would want evidence. Trump and JD were telling the Haitian lie long after it was publicly debunked.

I think it was when Bill O'Reilly was interviewed by Stephen Colbert that O'Reilly said what he seems to have assumed that people already knew, that his "Bill O'Reilly" TV personality on Fox was largely a performance; & that The Colbert Report was hilarious, in mimicry of that performance. unfortunately, most viewers assume that these personae are serious. far-right viewers are most susceptible. liberals are stymied. even if we understand that primitive politics is a kind of pro wrestling, how can we react? it is very hard to counter an elusive, parodying sort of politics in which disinformation, exaggeration & outright lies are just props. (as in "eating cats in Ohio.)

@JoyceCarolOates I’ve long thought some are playing the far-right role: Tucker Carlson, JD Vance, Congress members who support Trump, even Trump himself to an extent. You can tell because they’ve all said things that are the opposite of what they say when they’re in character (not MTG, though).

MTG certainly seems to be another person entirely from the coarse, aggressively "conservative" public persona she had presented to the world for years. is rightwing bellicosity mostly a ruse? are these people--(i.e., rightwing politicians)--just playing roles, hoping to provoke the most primitive responses in their constituents? in this article, MTG seems entirely changed. now reasonable, & with principles. but now--retiring from politics! (or so she has said.)

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