Kate Powers

ME: "Who is your cousin?"
A: "Bobby."
ME: "Bobby who?"
A: "Bobby Duvall."

So for 30 seconds, I got to hold Robert Duvall's Oscar for Tender Mercies. (2)

Random: when I was a little baby director, freshly arrived in NYC, I worked on a scene with two actresses for a workshop. We rehearsed one day at the apartment of Actress A's cousin. It was huge and spacious; the cousin was traveling.

There was an Academy Award on the mantelpiece. (1)

Should you wish to submit a written comment, friends, on the Trump ballroom, you have until March 5th to share your thoughts and feedback: www.ncpc.gov/participate/...

"The Crime of Witness" by Fintan O’Toole in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

"The videos that expose the administration’s mendacity about its own use of extreme violence against peaceful dissent are themselves products of the courage to show up [and] see for yourself."

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

On The Pitt, Dr Al-Hashimi is confronted with several massive errors from her genAI medical transcription program that delayed vital care for a patient, and dismisses them as nothing to worry abt as long as you double check. The perfect distillation of AI boosterism. AI is great even when it isn't.

To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes.

Forth Worth teacher Chanea Bond says sticking with pen and paper keeps generative artificial intelligence out of her American literature classes. n.pr/4c3cdzs

Why you wanna do Jake from Stare Farm like that?

"To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality is a farce." —Paulo Freire

Several, to be fair.

She thinks that the white supremacist patriarchy with which she has aligned herself won't eventually come for her, too.

My apologies. I am sorry if it came off as policing. I didn't intend that, and I appreciate that the impact was a miss. I just honestly had a moment of startle when I saw 'terrifying,' and hearing the way so many are talking abt women right now. I meant an offering to consider, not policing. Heard.

And completing disregarding the point they are offering. Cool.

I hear you, Will. And also, lots of us see you, support you, are learning from you. Stay strong.

Could we talk about how impressive they are? How capable? How effective? Rather than talking about them as 'terrifying'? (Plenty in the US is actually terrifying.)

Can we not do the work of the patriarchy for it when trying to discuss exemplary women athletes?

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

The reason we do mutual aid & the reason why mutual aid is grounded in anticapitalist theory from a long time is that capitalism says your survival depends on what you can do for people. We say, no you deserve to survive by virtue of your humanity. If you can't produce, we will help you survive.

Collective work, collective responsibility. Ujima.

We are. We got our work cut out for us, but we will win.

Almost as if they know that they are violating US and international law.

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

Children in ICE Detention Skyrocket in Trump’s Second Term With a six-fold jump in children in detention, advocates allege harrowing conditions are putting kids’ lives at risk.

"ICE held around 170 children on an average day under Trump ...on some days, ICE held 400 children or more."

www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...

There is no reforming the sturmabteilung. #AbolishICE

I believe that we will win.

Michelle Obama, foreground. Barack Obama, standing behind her, looking at her with love and admiration. They appear to be in a garden.

O, the gorgeous humanity of this. Also, little mayoral lecterns for all the children, please.

OBAMA: “People make excuses for him. They say he’s not serious. Everything a president says is serious!”🔥