Kaitlin D. KT, Ph.D (She/They)

Please read this, friends.

I'm on Elias's dissertation committee. Mike hosted me when I came to speak at Vermillion Pride in 2022, and I was the first author signing that Outside of a Dog bookstore had.

This is the real life impact of these bills.

Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement A moral reckoning.

For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed . Alt: a close up of a Steve Carell 's face with his eyes closed in frustration.

Just saw a video about people going to escape rooms and then getting angry when they ask ChatGPT to help them figure out the clues & get out & it can’t.
And this is why I’m adding a mini lecture on what LLMs actually do at the start of classes this fall.

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

"What is his level of responsibility? What is a fair moral comparison? What consequences should a liberal society impose—if any—on someone like him?"

One Lancet study estimates USAID's destruction by DOGE will cost 14 million lives. It also decimated an entire ecosystem of organizations & careers.

Oh we’re back early 2000’s politics and early 2000’s fashion

Not to keep going on about it, but I see a lot of well meaning takes on the left about the Ian Dunt thing saying, "Well it's bad that when boys search for 'why don't I have a GF?' fasc stuff comes up, but it's complex...."
Pals, Justin is *doing this work on the left and you can help fund it.*

Oh man I forgot there’s also a joke about going to a guilty feminist show as a classic third date in this ep too.

Thinking about literally the discussion on the guilty feminist from *this week* on how men can learn more about how to get laid by reading romance novels - like women on the left keep trying to get help men get laid if they would just listen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

The fact that this is just one example of a larger trend while college enrollment has gone up just gives away the game so bad. Like the hollowing out of higher ed started way before Trump decided to attack it full force.

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

Nothing like going uphill feeling like garbage while you do it and then coming home like I can’t wait to go up again 😂

It’s truly stupid how even a bike ride that shows you all the ways you are out of shape and kicks your butt still feels goddamn amazing after.

What ICE’s Assault on Ventura County, California Means for the Rest of America “Mom is gone. They took her away.” These are the words of an 8-year-old Mexican-American girl I will call Maria, in my hometown of Oxnard, California. She spoke them to her summer school teachers t…

“The terror of ICE has pushed immigrant families in Ventura County to their deaths in ways fast and slow.” @thrasherxy.bsky.social on what these brutal raids signal for the future.

🚨🚨🚨 The Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley is looking for a postdoc on US voting/election policy. Part of a partnership with the Brennan Center running the Voting Laws Roundup. (I have a feeling this work is gonna be important...)

Apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04879

Chicago-area children get deportation letters: Leave or ‘the federal government will find you’ Immigration advocates warn that a growing number of children are now receiving letters from DHS ending their humanitarian parole.

"“They say I have to leave the country immediately,” the young teen whispered in Spanish, barely meeting anyone’s eyes at a Chicago law firm on a recent Friday afternoon.

No explanation. No hearing. And no time."
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/20/t... [gift link]

until everyone got hooked on chat gpt and the like i don’t think i understood what my teachers meant when they said ‘when you cheat, you’re only cheating yourself’

Proposed TX representative maps

The first redistricting proposals for TX are in.

This is what cracking and packing looks like.

This is an intensive gerrymander.

See how the districts spiral in fingers into the cities.

Lizzie Fletcher's district TX7 becomes almost entirely rural.

Really feeling that early 2000s throwback with Texas gerrymandering back in its bullshit.

Texas governor asks lawmakers to pass bathroom bill with flood relief In a special session agenda primarily focused on flood response, Abbott has another ask.

i, one of like 4 trans journalists in the state of texas, wrote about said bill here www.chron.com/culture/arti...

This is the most obvious thing I’ve ever said in a post, but renters are citizens of a city. Full citizens. Because of course they are. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t just clueless about the affordability struggles that cities face — they’re clueless about the essential reality of cities.

Pre-2009, the number of 1st-time homebuyers roughly increased & declined in parallel with the number of housing units completed.

Over past 15 years, that connection disappeared. Even though the # of housing units completed increased 2011-2024, the # of 1st-time homebuyers flatlined—then collapsed.

Worcester's annual Latin American Festival canceled this year The August event was called off amid fears that federal immigration authorities might detain some attendees.

The city of Worcester, MA will not have one of its biggest community events: the Latin American Festival. It typically attracts thousands of people.

Worcester was also the scene of a horrific ICE kidnapping in May.

What a damn shame. This is Trump’s America.
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

People didn’t “used to be fine” without air conditioning during heat waves in the U.S. - a lot more people *just died*.

According to this study, air conditioning has cut heat deaths in the U.S. by around 80% since 1960.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies

Don’t miss your chance to read the new Cambridge Element "Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies" by Amy C. Alexander &
@gefjonoff.bsky.social

Free access available until 16 July

cup.org/44wfkMk

#cambridgeelements #politics

Did Citizens United increase the propensity to form corporations, and LLCs in particular, to conceal one's identity when spending money in politics? Using a diff-in-diff design, I find the answer is "yes, it did!". See working paper (now on SSRN!) below.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Democrats did not talk about trans issues... at all... during the 2024 campaign. They didn't talk about them in 2020, either. At no point in human history has the Democratic Party obsessed over trans issues. It's simply never happened.

Coalition of Immokalee Workers - Wikipedia

We even have a real-life experiment that proves paying farm workers a fair wage can be done. And prices went up so little, PEOPLE DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE.

In 2005, tomato pickers in FL struck a deal with Yum! Brands (Taco Bell, KFC, & others) to guarantee higher wages.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaliti...

When you read stories like this I want you to remember that the fascist never "made the trains run on time." It was always propaganda. They are not interested in governing. They are interested in dominating.