Biotech, Politics, Whisky, and their causal dependencies I'm @katrane on Threads, Insta, BlueSky, Sez

Bryn Mawr, PA
Joined July 2010
Katharine Bono retweeted
Lula wins in Brazil. The defeat of Bolsonaro is a dagger in the heart of the international MAGA movement
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Katharine Bono retweeted
I live in a small MAGA town. I know MAGA people. I drink with them. I talk to them. I study them. They’re not the loud Twitter yappers, at least most of them. They’re quieter. Slower. But the delusion runs deep, just bottled up in passive smiles and soft voices. A few weeks ago, one of them tried to convert me at a bar. He knew I wasn’t into the Trump cult, but he started soft. Calm voice. Friendly tone. “Mario, you’re white. You can drink a lot, you eat meat, “he was just surprised that I was eating rare burger” and drinking vodka chasing it with Guinness. He also said, “You’re one of us. You should feel proud.” That’s their seduction tactic. Not facts. Not logic. Just subtle tribal grooming. “You’re white. You drink. You belong.” It was almost sweet, in a sad, culty way. Like a Jehovah’s Witness trying to sell you eternal life with a shaky brochure and cheap suit. But let’s talk about the whole ecosystem. The truth. MAGA men? Most are not warriors. They’re out-of-shape, insecure, jealous small-town boys who peaked in high school, still clinging to stories from when they “almost went pro” or “should’ve been in the military.” They’re proud of being able to drink a case of light beer, drive a truck, and scream about freedom while their knees buckle from sugar and rage. They’re easy to manipulate because they don’t ask questions. They don’t read. They react. They memorize memes like scripture and repeat them like gospel. They think being loud equals being right. They think the world is laughing with them. It’s not. The world’s laughing at them, when it’s not just ignoring them entirely. MAGA women? They’re caught in a brutal paradox, constantly screaming about how proud and strong they are, while reshaping every inch of their body to meet a fake beauty standard pushed by the very system they claim to hate. Plastic lips. Inflated cheeks. Eyelashes thick as windshield wipers. Trying to look rich while shopping clearance at Walmart. They scream about “natural family values” while injecting Botox and collapsing into MLM scams that promise empowerment through overpriced lipstick. They mock liberals for being “gender confused” while wearing more synthetic parts than a Barbie made in a Russian factory. Here’s the thing: MAGA America isn’t just backward. It’s boring. MAGA folks are simply subsimple. There’s nothing imaginative about it. No new culture. No innovation. No ideas. They don’t invent, they imitate. They don’t challenge, they chant. It’s the same five phrases over and over. The same flag. The same truck. The same outfit. Patriot cosplay. And that’s why the world doesn’t just hate MAGA. It forgets it. Because once the shouting stops, there’s nothing under the hood. Just cheap beer breath, fake smiles, and a belief that whiteness and loudness are still enough to matter. You want the brutal truth? Even without Trump, even without the cult, most of them would still be irrelevant. Not because they’re evil. But because they chose comfort over growth. Tribalism over truth. Imitation over imagination. They don’t want to understand the world. They want the world to stay small enough to understand them. And that’s the saddest, most humiliating part.
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What are we gonna do!?! NOT EVERYTHING!! When are we gonna do it!?! LATER!!
.@SenBrianSchatz says that if Democrats take the Senate, the party's left wing needs to be strategic about not proposing things "that the president of the United States is guaranteed to veto." "If we want to be more aspirational, if we want to make more bold policy changes... that's for 2028."
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Are we sure this isn't an exorcism?
WATCH: Here’s Donald Trump praying at the Oval Office with Catholic Archbishops and Bishops! I wonder what are they praying about?
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Are hallucinations a stage of dementia? Asking for an enemy...
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Katharine Bono retweeted
At what point will those who backed both Ukraine and Trump admit that they got it horribly wrong?
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Katharine Bono retweeted
We need Gang of 8 brief, order to retain all records, full IG probe, hearings, etc. - just too important to sweep under by Rubio. If the USG (anyone, Musk, WH or DoD) deliberately withheld a force protection measure that ended up killing Ukrainians, and putting US personnel at Embassy Kyiv and American citizens in Ukraine at risk, that is a very big deal.
Not helping the situation that no one outside the DoD itself seems to understand Starlink and Starshield/MILNET/SDN-B, or what Ukraine has access to.
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Katie Zacharia has had a rough week. Rather than defending President Trump and his policies, the new White House press secretary spent the past few days defending her performance at Tuesday’s embarrassing 14-minute press conference and struggling to explain why she’s been identifying herself as a lawyer despite failing the bar exam. Then, she was summarily shown the door. Now that even Trump has acknowledged his new press secretary is a flop, it seems we’ll soon be measuring embarrassingly short White House stints in Zacharias, not Scaramuccis. Read the full update: nymag.visitlink.me/FC-Dk3
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With energy and excitement...
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Katharine Bono retweeted
Those sneaky migrants, not only are they lazy and living off benefits, they're also taking all the jobs!
NEW: 4 in 5 new jobs created in Britain since 2014 were taken by migrants. Reform will make it cheaper to hire Brits, paid for by a levy on migrant workers. It should not be controversial to put the British people first.
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Katharine Bono retweeted
I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.
I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day. And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico.
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That seems like a big deal. #MidtermElections
New - Voter registration - Pennsylvania 🔵 Democrats +25,439 🔴 Republicans +7,114
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Hey, @grocerieswegner , look who's back dropping some grocery knowledge.
OZ: We went grocery shopping. Butter in America is about a buck. Ingraham: Where are you shopping? It’s not a buck.
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Sky News compared the change in diesel price to the change in the probability of the Democrats taking the Senate in the midterms.
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Katharine Bono retweeted
How long did you wait to report Roger Ailes?
.@megynkelly: "If you were violently gang raped repeatedly over the course of an evening, do you think it would take you three weeks to call campus police?... The delay, the chatting with the friends, and the decision to go to campus police says a lot to me."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Kelly herself did not report her own sexual harassment by then Fox News CEO Roger Ailes for over a decade. She repeatedly spoke positively of him in the interim before finally reporting his unwanted sexual advances. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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I need to see how that ended.
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Rally for Governor Shapiro this morning.
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Katharine Bono retweeted
BREAKING: The family of Renee Good, a mother who was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, is suing the Trump administration.
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