Katie MacBride
Journalist, librarian, dog spoiler, goat wrangler. I write a free newsletter about
substance use & addiction recovery. Ask me something: askasoberlady.substack.com.
- combining my two loves: talking about drugs and watching tv askasoberlady.substack.com/p/introducin...
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- Reposted by Katie MacBrideevery democrat should be talking like this. all of them.
- Reposted by Katie MacBrideImage-forensic expert Hany Farid confirmed it's a fake. @donmoyn.bsky.social told me this moves us "closer to the Stalinesque manipulation of images that we think about with authoritarian propaganda, where you really cannot trust materials the state is putting out" Gift link: wapo.st/4sUEnmr
- The cute version of the post got labeled as adult content, so maybe just do me a solid and read it/subscribe to my lil, profoundly unhorny newsletter? open.substack.com/pub/askasobe...
- Reposted by Katie MacBrideincredible stuff
- very good piece which confirms that weiss is both exceptionally arrogant and totally out of her depth. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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- Getting some supremely weird emails over this one 🫠 open.substack.com/pub/askasobe...
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- what are we doing here
- I don’t always post on nextdoor, but when I do, my posts get two automated warnings about inflammatory language
- Reposted by Katie MacBridethis is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.
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- Reposted by Katie MacBrideCongratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
- If you like receiving presents at unexpected moments, I suggest putting a bunch of bestsellers/popular books you want to read on hold at your local public library. The thrill of a Libby notification is a genuine beacon of hope in these dark and fucked up times.
- this is one of the more infuriating addiction-related stories i’ve read in a long time. what a great example of how the medical establishment is failing the most vulnerable and those who treat them like human beings kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
- Reposted by Katie MacBrideI can't say this loudly enough: THEY ARE TRYING TO NORMALIZE THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS FOR PARTICIPATING IN FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED PROTEST ACTIVITIES.
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- Remember when they wanted federal government so small you could drown it in a bathtub?
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- Reposted by Katie MacBrideExcellent, clarifying piece on the (real) legal pathway that Minnesota has to prosecute the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman today. No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.
- Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.
- Reposted by Katie MacBrideThe sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.
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- Reposted by Katie MacBridekeep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense
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- I know this is not what this is about, but all I can think is “bc of mass casualty events?”
- Reposted by Katie MacBrideImagine having your parents brutally murdered and then having to do this because the fucking President of the United States is so disgusting.
- No actress on earth does ‘mentally unbalanced woman hanging on by a rapidly fraying thread’ better than Claire Danes
- Every fucking time. But ok let’s continue to learn nothing
- Introduce yourself with what almost killed you. Hi, I’m the “floating colon” that twisted into a knot, cutting off blood supply to the organ and thus developing gangrene.
- I know it was not remotely a *good* book—that it was an unequivocally *bad* book—but it’s still wild that Olivia nuzzi claims to have written a book on her phone. I can write a grocery list and a half baked skeet on my phone but that’s about it.
- Not you, probably open.substack.com/pub/askasobe...
- What does it say about my farts if she was completely unfazed by the fireworks?
- Reposted by Katie MacBridelike 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
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- My dog is scared of farts—not feeling great about how she’s gonna handle fireworks
- Reposted by Katie MacBrideYeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox. Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
- Reposted by Katie MacBrideThis is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
- Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as: ⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year ⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year ⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
- Reposted by Katie MacBrideBari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant “we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
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- Years ago, my friend got shingles right before Christmas and I called her shingle bells for like a month, which she did not enjoy. Joke’s on me—I’m the new shingle bells
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- Oh wow the country that bone saws journalists and doesn’t recognize LGBTQ+ rights thought your trans jokes were funny? What an accomplishment
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- Come for the sober introvert party tips, stay for a story about a dog and cocaine (no dogs were harmed either in the story or its retelling) open.substack.com/pub/askasobe...
- Reposted by Katie MacBrideHey, I'm here! And I'm not the only one who's run into this!
- no one is more excited about police/EMS activity than the lady on Nextdoor who posts the location and says “anyone know what’s going on? :(“
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- lol cute
- I’m sorry, I just find it so endlessly charming that my dad paid for the photoshop app and all he does with it is crop pictures you send him and send them back like he’s doing you this huge favor while REFUSING to hear that any smartphone camera allows you do that for free
- World champion of taking an adderall and falling asleep on the couch anyway
- Many thanks to @ryanmarino.bsky.social for chatting with me about ADHD meds, substance use disorders, and that fairly ridiculous Wall Street Journal story about “drug cascades.” askasoberlady.substack.com/p/the-shocki...
- Not to be dramatic, but over my dead body
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- Chiweenie foot warmer: 10/10 recommend
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- Reposted by Katie MacBrideI said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
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- I know this is an old story and who cares it’s a listicle but I care because it’s objectively incorrect and facts still matter; the correct answer for 1993 is Exile in Guyville
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