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Amanda Katz

@katzish.bsky.social

Writer and editor. Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent.

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A perfect song

14.02.2026 04:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait what is it

14.02.2026 00:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wirecutter | Five toilet seats you’d be proud to snort cocaine off of.

13.02.2026 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1106    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 7

Would you kidnap, lock up, and abuse child asylum seekers if you knew you could make tons of money? For these folks, the answer is an enthusiastic yes

13.02.2026 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

How do you know you are absolutely going to hell? Despite skyrocketing revenue, you're the guy on the for-profit prison shareholder call complaining they STILL haven't caged enough brown people for maximum $$$$$

13.02.2026 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

We are all having different kinds of Friday Feb 13th, and this is one of them

13.02.2026 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"I am loathed"

13.02.2026 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Poop river
Wider than a mile
I’m crossing you in style
Someday

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13.02.2026 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

13.02.2026 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3870    πŸ” 1891    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 48

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13.02.2026 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 323    πŸ” 213    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 9

It's really valuable reporting

13.02.2026 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being β€œserved food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being β€œserved food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees β€” it was for the staff.

13.02.2026 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 9439    πŸ” 4885    πŸ’¬ 784    πŸ“Œ 2196

Another devastating story from a family of asylum seekers, in this case from Russia, trapped inside an American for-profit concentration camp

These stories are so similar to the ones from the Japanese internment camps in WWII -- now recognized as one of the great shames in our nation's history

13.02.2026 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

The concept of β€œlying under oath” is up for grabs right now. All the Trump SCOTUS judges did it about Roe. Kennedy did it to get his post. If one of these fuckers isn’t prosecuted it will be crystal clear that there are zero repercussions for doing so, and everyone will lie forever.

13.02.2026 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1242    πŸ” 337    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 5
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DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

13.02.2026 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6221    πŸ” 1625    πŸ’¬ 259    πŸ“Œ 106
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SCOOP: Ghislaine Maxwell Lied On Her U.S. Citizenship Application Court documents reveal convicted sex trafficker checked "no" to questions about criminal conduct and prostitution-related activities.

migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-ghis...

13.02.2026 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 457    πŸ” 216    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 14

I mean, that is pretty bad, I agree

13.02.2026 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.

13.02.2026 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4693    πŸ” 2079    πŸ’¬ 236    πŸ“Œ 130

So dangerous. It's one thing for these people to try to harm or kill their own children, but it's really another for them to insist that they be allowed to harm or kill our kids, too.

13.02.2026 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

reminds of that old bible story of how people were hungry and jesus conjured himself a security detail bsky.app/profile/carl...

13.02.2026 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1812    πŸ” 416    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 12

They could build a wall around Vought’s home out of the bones of all the children killed from cutting USAID

13.02.2026 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1446    πŸ” 372    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 7

β€œI starved hundreds of thousands of babies to death and took the taxpayer money allocated to feed them to protect myself from people who think that’s messed upβ€œ is the value system now at the heart of Trump’s party. Good Reuters reporting

13.02.2026 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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hold on i gotta take this

13.02.2026 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4817    πŸ” 1339    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s an influencer doing ads for the tetanus shot

13.02.2026 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you know anyone not vaccinating their kids, make sure they read this story. Effective and nauseating use of the second person.

13.02.2026 11:14 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Flying around with her side piece in a private jet to photo ops at concentration camps, all on the taxpayer dime

13.02.2026 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

4yo is refusing to go to sleep on the basis that upstairs, where we are, is boring while downstairs is very interesting

13.02.2026 03:06 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 1
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I'm pretty proud of this poem I made out of the euphemisms that companies used to describe the ICE occupation in corporate communications. Also read the whole story: racketmn.com/corporate-co...

12.02.2026 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 703    πŸ” 240    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 15

Some of the money might not even be going to men

13.02.2026 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 160    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Mom of the year

13.02.2026 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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