Katie MacBride

Let me know what you think! I’m dying to know if other people think it’s as good as I do.

Self-help can be done well My self has been helped.

I found the one good self help book askasoberlady.substack.com/p/are-all-se...

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

Solidarity is the only way

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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For the past year, we've analyzed hundreds of primary sources spanning nearly a decade—emails, transcripts, texts, recordings, slides & other materials—revealing how a group of Silicon Valley elites sought to capture the psychedelic industry.

Out now: "The Psychedelic Syndicate”

it was touch and go for a second there, but I named 3 animals and the entire room broke out in spontaneous applause

Troops to Portland still on hold, multiplying protest frogs, fact-check on Trump claims: Get caught up It’s not clear when the 9th Circuit panel will issue its ruling, but it will likely come before an Oct. 17 hearing

“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

Quoted post saying that the cdc is being purged of essential “disease detectives”, high level scientists and the entire Washington staff of the MMWR have been RIFed and Erin Kissane saying they can’t overstate how bad it is.

Post from John skiles skinner about mass firings at the cybersecurity and infrastructure security Agency which is the nation’s cybersecurity protection across all levels of government

So they’re using the shutdown as an authorization purge

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

A small black dog sitting at the kitchen table, looking serious, grumpy, and like she’s waiting for a five course meal

When i have to go out for a short time, I’ve been fencing off part of the kitchen for Doris

Came back to find her like this

Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear Recent moves by the president reflect a commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his agenda.

“All of these actions reflect a buoyed commander in chief who feels emboldened to go further after feeling as though he has faced surprisingly little resistance to his ambitious agenda in the first nine months. He has even remarked to aides that he is shocked how easy it has all proven to be.”

@MrAndyNgo Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes. The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence. In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons. photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

The Psychedelic Syndicate: Executive Summary A year-long investigation reveals how a small group of Silicon Valley elites sought to capture the psychedelic therapy industry — using a network of affiliated organizations to scapegoat critics whi

Announcing: "The Psychedelic Syndicate: How Silicon Valley Used Veterans to Hijack the Psychedelic Industry"

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News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

How do I handle family gatherings where sobriety talk takes over? "Half of the time, my sober family members sound like they're talking in code."

We can’t drink; let us have this askasoberlady.substack.com/p/how-do-i-h...

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

A black chiweenie on a leash looking away from the camera with her muzzle covered in dirt

Lookit this gopher hunting psychopath (fortunately she doesn’t seem very GOOD at finding gophers, just hunting them with gusto)

endlessly embarrassing that the powers that be here banned Link. just disqualifying.

Like you realize you haven’t heard them in too long and immediately knew they’re either doing the grossest thing you can imagine or something that has killed them

I’ve never had a puppy this high energy, 100% mischievous, and fearless before and let me tell you, I now viscerally understand why parents get nervous when their kids get quiet

Looking to chat with drinkers who have taken a GLP-1 (for any reason) *and no longer do* about how it affected their alcohol use. This is for my newsletter, and you can be anonymous. katiemacwrites at gmail com! #sourcerequest

Beyond not believing that ten cars rammed them, no rational person believed that was even spatially possible on a Chicago street. It makes no sense!

I wish I could say it’s worth the wait…

If you read it, I’m curious to hear if you agree!

Tiny dog trying to eat a croc

Tiny dog sitting on a chair with her back to me looking like she’s about to say “you’re not my real mom!”

She was so mad that I wouldn’t let her eat my croc that she’s very dramatically ignoring me

Elizabeth Gilbert Falls for the Oldest Trick in the (Big) Book Experience, strength, and NOPE.

I had some issues with the book that didn’t have anything to do with the whole murder plot thing. askasoberlady.substack.com/p/elizabeth-...