Kate Powers

WHAT THE HECK IS IN THOSE FILES?!

Fact check: crime is down. In DC and across the US.

Thread. Because friends don't annex friends. #Never51 #ElbowsUpforCanada

Primary them all! @reptimkennedy.bsky.social not surprised, but so, so disappointed in you.

21. United States v. Nixon In July 1974, the Supreme Court effectively cleared the way for the ouster of a sitting President—in a ruling that may have ultimately *bolstered* the presidency as an institution

51 years ago today, President Nixon announced that he would resign the presidency after a unanimous Supreme Court (in an opinion by a Chief Justice he appointed) ordered him to turn over tapes on which, as it turns out, he had implicated himself in the Watergate cover-up.

Those were the days...

Revising syllabi and building out a course page this afternoon while attempting to breathe through my panic that the semester starts in two weeks.

"Even if white people didn’t explicitly support slavery, Jim Crow, the wealth gap, underfunded schools or police brutality, the vast majority didn’t do anything to oppose these atrocities... [we] never displayed an interest in holding enslavers, segregationists, ... or govt officials accountable."

This thread. RFK, Jr. is going to get people killed.

He responds well to pressure, so your homework this week is to give his office a call at 1-877-696-6775 or email him directly at robert.kennedyjr@hhs.gov and let him know how you feel about his cancellation of mRNA vaccine development, one of the most significant advances in modern medicine.

Respectfully disagree.

We're past approaching fascism we're living its trial run. Hannah Arendt mapped the playbook: isolate citizens, destroy shared truth, create scapegoats, gut institutions from within, and make it all look legal. Your terror is rational. The rehearsal is ending. Time to name what we're watching.

This is fake. He never said this.

Took a visiting friend up to the Falls today. Walked over to Canada. Canadian border agent, as we chatted, said, "I'm not coming over there until after this is over." About 50% fewer people on American Maid of the Mist than the Canadian boats doing the same journey to the Horshoe Falls.

I know this is small potatoes amongst *gestures* everything, but the petulance and acquisitive First Occupant has broken our relationship with our nearest neighbor, Canada, and a whole tourism sector. 1/x

Or at least every mountain.

They were Bunburying!!

Dramaturgical pup, is our Snoops.

Freshly washed poodle?

From the guy who didn't want to track Covid cases because he liked the numbers low.

The ways in which he is alienating us from our long-standing allies with this arbitrary and stupid set of tariffs that we are going to pay are breathtaking.

I am so sorry for you and for the people you support. For all of us, really.

I really thought I was going to be the Artistic Director of a major Shakespeare festival. I have gotten close several times. I would be SO good at it.

On encouraging noncooperation.

Hey, @markpoloncarz.bsky.social, we could use your help. A Bflo community organizer was arrested by ICE today at the Asian market on Niagara Falls Blvd. American citizen. Trying to help illegally detained immigrants. We don't yet know where they took her.

And quite well done, lads.

Brownshirts.

An American citizen was arrested this afternoon in Buffalo, NY while ICE was raiding the Asian market, because she was filming ICE.

Would anyone like to share something with the folx attending the day of solidarity coming up in a couple weeks about the impact of the tariffs, the changed border policies, your feelings abt not coming to the US?

I saw that production! Later I assisted David Leveaux, who had directed it, and got some of the backstage tea about the blossoming romance.