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Amanda Katz
@katzish
Writer and editor. @PostOpinions. Alum @CNN @Slate @BostonGlobeArts @GlobeIdeas @BloomsburyPub. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Migrating elsewhere
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    Amanda Katz
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    Jul 1, 2023
    Maybe the 303 Creative ruling, ranking rights of a woman considering opening a straights-only wedding website biz over those of a protected class of people seeking equal access to services...would make sense if I'd gone to law school?! I wrote about it
    Opinion | I’m not a lawyer. But I see what the same-sex wedding website case will mean.
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Amanda Katz
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    Aug 12, 2017
    Exactly 90 years ago this summer, Trump's father was arrested at a KKK rally in Queens
    In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens
    From washingtonpost.com
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    Amanda Katz
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    Mar 2, 2020
    How not to use colons
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    Amanda Katz
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    Oct 17, 2018
    Was it not Jesus who said
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    Vox
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    Oct 17, 2018
    Prominent evangelical leader on Khashoggi crisis: let’s not risk "$100 billion worth of arms sales" vox.com/2018/10/17/179…
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    Amanda Katz
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    Jun 1, 2019
    Replying to @CaseyNewton
    It seems that his eyes are also on the back of his head, in addition to the upside-down ears? He's like a Mr. Potato Head with a capricious owner
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    Amanda Katz
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    Jun 8, 2020
    Today’s NBER news means that over the last 40 years, a recession has begun under every Republican president and no Democratic presidents
    Fact check: Do Republican presidents oversee recessions and Dems oversee recoveries?
    From usatoday.com
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    Amanda Katz
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    Feb 27, 2019
    Another OSU wrestler has come forward to say Jim Jordan, currently grilling Michael Cohen in the House Oversight committee hearing, is "sitting here and directly lying" when he claims not to have known university doctor was sexually abusing athletes cnn.com/2018/07/10/us/…
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    Amanda Katz
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    Oct 7, 2019
    Best. Friday. Night. Ever. Please welcome Clara Jo Swisher Katz, who was a month early but clearly ready to join the good times. @karaswisher & I are ecstatic. ❤️
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    Amanda Katz
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    Jan 18, 2021
    This story about one couple being petty and classless to another also contains this bland aside: “One part of the bedroom set-up will be markedly different with the Bidens than it was for the Trumps: the Bidens will be sharing a bedroom”
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    Jake Tapper 🦅
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    Jan 18, 2021
    Trumps' snub of Bidens historic in its magnitude cnn.com/2021/01/18/pol…
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    Amanda Katz
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    Oct 19, 2022
    Incredibly sad story. Texas woman with desperately wanted pregnancy begins to lose it but, under new law, has to go into sepsis before she can get medical care, leaving her with health damage that could prevent her from having kids
    Texas Woman Nearly Loses Her Life After Doctors Can't Legally Perform an Abortion: 'Their Hands...
    From people.com
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    Amanda Katz
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    May 29, 2020
    Trump’s America is the cable correspondent having to change from his anti-pandemic mask to his anti-teargas mask on live TV
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    Amanda Katz
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    Sep 21, 2018
    "I, a man with no firsthand knowledge of your sexual assault, will explain to you why my theory of the event is more convincing than your actual experience of it." This should win some kind of mansplaining Nobel washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politi…
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    Amanda Katz
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    Sep 27, 2016
    "No, you're wrong."--Trump to African-American moderator about racial profiling
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    Amanda Katz
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    Apr 10, 2019
    Katie Bouman got her bachelor's in 2011, and now she has led the creation of the first algorithm to show an image of a black hole. What have YOU been up to since college
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    MIT CSAIL
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    Apr 10, 2019
    Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman w/stacks of hard drives of black hole image data. Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton w/the code she wrote that helped put a man on the moon. (image credit @floragraham) #EHTblackhole #BlackHoleDay #BlackHole