Amanda Katz
@katzish
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Writer and editor. @PostOpinions. Alum @CNN @Slate @BostonGlobeArts @GlobeIdeas @BloomsburyPub. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Migrating elsewhere
Joined March 2010
Maybe the 303 Creative ruling, ranking rights of a woman considering opening a straights-only wedding website biz over those of a protected class of people seeking equal access to services. would make sense if I'd gone to law school?! I wrote about it
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Exactly 90 years ago this summer, Trump's father was arrested at a KKK rally in Queens
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Was it not Jesus who said.
Prominent evangelical leader on Khashoggi crisis: let’s not risk "$100 billion worth of arms sales"
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@CaseyNewton It seems that his eyes are also on the back of his head, in addition to the upside-down ears? He's like a Mr. Potato Head with a capricious owner.
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Today’s NBER news means that over the last 40 years, a recession has begun under every Republican president and no Democratic presidents
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Another OSU wrestler has come forward to say Jim Jordan, currently grilling Michael Cohen in the House Oversight committee hearing, is "sitting here and directly lying" when he claims not to have known university doctor was sexually abusing athletes
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Best. Friday. Night. Ever. Please welcome Clara Jo Swisher Katz, who was a month early but clearly ready to join the good times. @karaswisher & I are ecstatic. ❤️
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This story about one couple being petty and classless to another also contains this bland aside: “One part of the bedroom set-up will be markedly different with the Bidens than it was for the Trumps: the Bidens will be sharing a bedroom”.
Trumps' snub of Bidens historic in its magnitude.
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Incredibly sad story. Texas woman with desperately wanted pregnancy begins to lose it but, under new law, has to go into sepsis before she can get medical care, leaving her with health damage that could prevent her from having kids
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Trump’s America is the cable correspondent having to change from his anti-pandemic mask to his anti-teargas mask on live TV.
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"I, a man with no firsthand knowledge of your sexual assault, will explain to you why my theory of the event is more convincing than your actual experience of it." This should win some kind of mansplaining Nobel
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"No, you're wrong."--Trump to African-American moderator about racial profiling.
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Katie Bouman got her bachelor's in 2011, and now she has led the creation of the first algorithm to show an image of a black hole. What have YOU been up to since college.
Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman w/stacks of hard drives of black hole image data. Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton w/the code she wrote that helped put a man on the moon. (image credit @floragraham). #EHTblackhole #BlackHoleDay #BlackHole
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A lot of families have stories like this: a pre-Roe mom who couldn’t handle one more kid, dead before her time, with all the grief and abandonment that follows. John Turturro on the legacy of his grandmother's botched abortion
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@dansaltzstein Paul McCartney held the door for me on the way into George Plimpton’s house for a party that helped make me late for work on Wall Street the next morning, which was 9/11.
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The Tesla driver who hit and run my car on the way to work this morning has really embraced the ethos of the brand.
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Only if you are completely unfamiliar with reality would you think a significant threat to cis girls is trans girls, as opposed to cis men and boys.
Nikki Haley discussing trans girls in kids sports: "How are we supposed to get our girls used to the fact that biological boys are in their locker room. And then we wonder why a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year."
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Ah, the classic "women claiming to be sexual assault survivors are actually crisis actors paid by a wealthy Jew" midterm campaign strategy.
The very rude elevator screamers are paid professionals only looking to make Senators look bad. Don’t fall for it! Also, look at all of the professionally made identical signs. Paid for by Soros and others. These are not signs made in the basement from love! #Troublemakers.
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Incredible layers to the Florida corruption reported here under DeSantis, including not only steering Covid funds to help a donor with an unrelated building project but putting the donor’s sister in charge of unprotecting the wetlands there.
What a story!!
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We did it! Here’s to the day where nobody has to adopt their own kid. But having this particular coparent by my side is the greatest of gifts, and I am grateful to the law for recognizing our family.
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I'm not sure people understand how angry women are right now.
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People just texting each other your initials and “No” and curse words when you die — a sign you lived a gigantic life.
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One of the most striking things about the Cohen opening statement is how neatly it corroborates literal *years* of reporting that the WH has pushed back on--notably by NYT, WaPo, WSJ, CNN, BuzzFeed. Like finding out your whole shelf of spy novels is true.
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Look at this genuinely uplifting photo.
Massive line of voters in Fairfax, Virginia, on the FIRST DAY of in-person early voting. Some voters say they showed up because they lost faith in USPS to deliver ballots. Officials tell CNN they've never seen anything like this on Day One.
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This woman just gave birth to a baby and then 26 days later gave birth to TWINS, out of her SECOND UTERUS that no one even knew she had. The mom and all three babies are reportedly fine!
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My friends, you got a famous declared sexual assaulter who clearly does not care one fig about abortion to appoint the judges to get rid of Roe and you think HE used YOU? Take the win
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Some personal news.
Some actual news today: She asked. I obviously said yes (see below). So from SF to Brooklyn to DC, come next summer I shall henceforth be known as Mrs. @katzish. Please update your contact lists accordingly❣️
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Absolutely massive amount of music for two people to make but also THOSE FEET, WOW.
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Hat tip to @FoxNews for this classy, pro-journalism move.
Scott Pruitt tried to let only a Fox camera into the room for his announcement today on reducing fuel efficiency standards, CNN reports; Fox informed its competitors, and they created a pool. Pruitt also did not nivite most reporters who cover the EPA.
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“You love sewers,” says @karaswisher. “They’re amazing!” says @PeteButtigieg. Audience laughs. “I would argue that other than books, they’re our most important technology.”
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"Measles virus is so infectious that if an unvaccinated person walks through a room up to two hours after someone with measles has left, there’s a 90 percent chance the unvaccinated person will get sick." Get. Vaccinated. Get. Your. Kids. Vaccinated.
Unaware he had measles, a man traveled from New York to Michigan, infecting 39 people
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67yo retiree lady in rural Iowa: “He gets on Twitter and says the last thing that Fox News told him to say. That’s not presidential. It’s concerning. Are you personally concerned?”
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Well, this is magical: when the NRA holds a conference, gun injuries drop by 20% nationwide for those few days
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Tonight feels like the whole country is hitting a boiling point. Black and poor people have been so disproportionately hurt by the pandemic, and now this killing at the hands of the police. It’s too much to bear.
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Draylen Mason would have found out today he got into Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
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I know it’s fun to indulge childish fantasies like “even though Joe Biden won the election, maybe he didn’t” or “the coronavirus that has killed more than a quarter million people is no big deal.” But at a certain point it’s time to start acting like adults again.
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Little did we realize at the 2009 VMAs that the American people would one day be pawns in the world's most ridiculous proxy war
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This is actually a beautiful love story in which at first a man thinks poorly of bots but then he falls in love.
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Today my kid hurled something so hard and so accurately out of the bath that it smashed the glass protector on my phone. He is 1. So many years of Little League practice ahead.
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Muslims offer to guard Jewish cemeteries. Jews donate to rebuild burned mosques. Such solidarity.
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Ask any small girl and she can tell you that Elsa and Barbie already have kids together, who are ponies.
Ben Shapiro: "The great suspicion is that in Frozen 4, they'll make Elsa a lesbian . If they do that, it is the end of Disney as a company. Predict it. You can write it down. It is April 17th. If they do that in Frozen 4, it will destroy Disney."
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Welp, Post reporting adds a new data point to the almost-too-on-the-nose Patch story about Santos stealing money meant to help a dying service dog: GoFundMe confirms the fundraiser was closed because the organizer (Santos) ghosted
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@TheLincoln @espiers You have no moral authority to write fiction about anyone but yourself, but don't do that either because then you're centering your own experience.
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These tweets by Grassley's chief counsel for nominations, which imply that any hearing of Ford would be just for show, were subsequently deleted, and now the whole account is locked.
Late last night Grassley’s chief counsel, who’d question Ford in a staff interview & prep Grassley’s questioning in a hearing, tweeted that he’s “unfazed” & “determined” to “confirm Kavanaugh,” then confirmed he personally conducted Kavanguah’s questioning & attacked Ford’s camp.
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I have a feeling this may not meet our polling standards.
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This hed, this dek, this byline: whoa. A crystalline legal thinker tells an intimate story.
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“Parents matter” is an amazing euphemism for “a small number of white Christian parents should be able to limit your child’s curriculum to parts that flatter them”.
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Just try to put Betty White below the fold.
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It's weird that Trump is getting really excited again about rolling back healthcare and resuming child separation, the two moves that have brought him the absolute worst PR of the last 2+ years.
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Family culture is real.
Just a reminder: In 1904 Germany kicked out Trump's grandfather Friedrich Trump, forcing him to emigrate to America because he'd ducked required military service.
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It’s weird how Hollywood remains surprised by every single non-white-guy superhero movie that destroys at the box office. Wonder Woman, Black Panther, now this.
Hollywood's box office was off to a slow start this year. Then "Captain Marvel" came along.
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Still cannot believe that Santos—allegedly!—essentially stole puppies from breeders and then pretended they were rescues, adopting them out for a fee which he then also allegedly pocketed. Who does that to baby dogs.
It was after dark when George A. Santos approached the farmer in Pennsylvania’s Amish country looking to buy at least eight puppies. A breeder recounted how the future congressman made off with four golden retrievers, leading to a 2017 criminal charge.
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On testing shortages and delays: “As a region, you could pool your dollars, sit down with national and international suppliers. That said, there’s probably a limit to what states can do. We as a country are just not designed to have absentee federal government.”.
It is *July* and we are hitting four full months of the pandemic here in the United States and this is still happening
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I think another moral here is that if you are a good-looking drag queen, don't quit to do fraud stuff instead.
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So many states are now very dangerous for women of reproductive age, even assuming people are just trying to safely have kids with their partner.
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I did this, and one of the highlights of December was NOT having to take my Covid-positive but symptom-free newborn to the ER. Trust me, moms, you want this.
New CDC study >> "Expectant mothers who get a Covid-19 vaccine while pregnant pass immune protection on to their newborns". Babies under 6 months old are 61% less likely to be hospitalized from COVID-19 if their moms were vaccinated while pregnant.
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Puzzled by people's apparent shock that powerful predatory men generally face few consequences. Did I dream the Access Hollywood tape?.
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I would like more than two sources, but there’s definitely blood in the water.
In all seriousness, this is (if true) the likely tipping point in the House. "Kevin McCarthy sent a dog-abusing swindler of disabled veterans to look after your small business" is the kind of thing that starts dragging down people beyond Santos.
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Strangely, the man looking into this (Preet Bharara) recently lost his job
Scoop: Tom Price bought $90k worth of drug stock, the same day he pushed to kill rule that would hurt co profits.
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We somehow spent $95,000 on the hotel for Melania’s René Bellocq-themed visit to Cairo despite the fact that she didn’t stay there overnight
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Kinzinger reading the Donald Trump Jr texts aloud with the glee of the person who gets to do the plagues at Passover.
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This story is completely nuts — man is forced to serve years in a mental facility after protesting, accurately, that he’s not the person they think he is
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In retrospect, I preferred Infrastructure Week to Nukes 'n' Nazis Week
All along, the Q w/ Trump was how he'd respond to a) high-stakes crisis abroad b) racial (racist) explosion at home. In one week, answered.
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Next time you're having an intense month, think about this woman.
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This makes me fear for my "Uber for ice cream cones" startup
Umbrella-sharing startup loses nearly all of its 300,000 umbrellas in a matter of weeks
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Just 27, about to get married, just hadn’t gotten around to getting vaccinated.
IAN HAWKINS, 27, of Kansas City, Missouri, died of COVID in August. He worked for FedEx and died just three months shy of his wedding.
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The part where a 26yo straight-married Santos gets his high-school-age boyfriend to unwittingly move in with Santos’s wife is real “future GOP congressman” material.
Not the main point of this article. But adds new details on what seems very likely which is that Santos had a sham marriage to commit immigration fraud. In this case he had a boyfriend move in with him w/o telling him his “roommate” was actually his wife.
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New immigration rules would’ve made ’90s Melania Trump a deportation priority:
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You, sir, are a mensch. In addition to this, Mario Salerno is continuing to operate his car repair shop, coming into contact with lots of customers. I hope he stays safe.
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Clearly a tribute to the more than 3700 Americans dying of coronavirus each day by the end of her husband’s term.
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It’s widely considered one of the best post-arraignment-commentary golf clubs.
INBOX: Former President Trump will speak following his arraignment from his New Jersey golf club.
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Good lord. This is really emotional and vivid and scary. I am so glad to hear Susan Mikula is recovering and am wishing health and safety to this couple and to ALL of you. And your loved ones. And their loved ones.
Watch: Rachel @Maddow reports that she's been off the air for most of the past two weeks because her longtime partner Susan Mikula is sick with Covid-19 – so sick that "at one point we really thought that there was a possibility that it might kill her." Mikula is recovering now.
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Congrats to this highly responsible third-grader who got a dangerous weapon out of a public place. Well done, parents.
The superintendent of a Texas school district resigned after a third-grade student found his gun unattended in a school bathroom.
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And that’s all she wrote! Congrats to @karaswisher on an epic final Code after 20 years, and on to the next adventure. #CodeCon
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Seems like a lot of Texas kids are about to fail the AP US history exam.
Morning! ☕️. In the dead of night, the Texas Senate passed a bill that will effectively ban public school teachers from talking about racism, white supremacy or current events. It already passed the House. On its way to be signed into law now.
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A lot of media companies are bending over backward to make sure a very vocal 30% of the country does not call them partisan. Happened to be the same 30% Biden was soberly discussing.
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If the election were tomorrow, Trump knows Fauci would win in a landslide.
The White House shared bullet points about Dr. Fauci that "resembled opposition research on a political opponent," @KristenhCNN writes
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"Of course I condemn!" ALL I WANT IS FREAKING OBJECTS AFTER TRANSITIVE VERBS, I AM A ONE-ISSUE VOTER.
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Are these Timberlands?? After the Chucks? What’s next—Docs? Vans? Some kind of maximally obscure Air Jordan?.
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We all know that guy at work who needs to change everything that wasn’t his idea.
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Dear kids: you rule. Teen journos dig into newly hired principal's CV, discover her PhD is from bogus university; school rescinds offer.
Bless these high school journalists who discovered their new principal was an unaccredited consultant-shyster
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I drank so much coffee I'm illegal in Florida.
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