Katelyn Burns

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Last Notes

2026-09-21 10:18:23 UTC

Bruh can you imagine
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2026-09-20 10:20:32 UTC

We should maybe have an economy that's completely isn't dependent on the price of oil.

2026-09-20 00:49:15 UTC

This has been my consistent ask and no one is interested in it
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2026-09-18 21:32:13 UTC

Are we at war with NATO?
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2026-09-17 02:18:18 UTC

He did what now
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2026-09-14 17:03:34 UTC

I did not realize that Trump Jr's Russian friend is literally the guy who started the hate campaign against women's Olympic boxer Imane Khalif.
Holy shit.
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2026-09-14 11:59:59 UTC

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights.
No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

2026-09-13 18:20:30 UTC

I think the people who keep pointing out that Obama opposed gay marriage aren't really making a direct correlation with what is happening with trans rights today.
The debate is over TAKING AWAY existing rights. So it would be more like Obama supporting recriminalizing gay sex.

2026-09-11 21:04:05 UTC

This is... to me... a denial that trans people exist. The reference to genetic anomalies is common anti-trans language referring to intersex people.
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2026-09-11 18:54:32 UTC

Do any indy writer mutuals of mine get their health insurance through the Freelancers Union? Would you be willing to chat about it with me?

2026-09-10 12:09:24 UTC

i don't care what the issue is, if your election opponent is running millions of dollars in ads about one single issue, you cannot, under any circumstances, say that your opponent is right about the issue.

2026-09-08 10:20:15 UTC

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Have a friend who used Claude to write company blogs. I told her I think she should write them herself instead. Traffic on the blog dipped, they brought in an SEO expert to looks at why. They said it was obvious the blog was AI and now my friend is writing them by hand again.

2026-09-08 10:13:52 UTC

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I'm just really tired of programmers and others who find this stuff genuinely life changing lecturing everybody else about how it's "changing human nature" or whatever. It isn't, sorry. That's a personal thing for you and your circle.

2026-09-08 10:11:12 UTC

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The inly remotely useful thing I've found is for telling me which SEO terms are trending related to whatever it is I'm publishing, but even then, this is not an important matter to my style of marketing my work.

2026-09-08 10:10:01 UTC

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One way I have tried to incorporate AI into my workflow is by having it scan news headlines for potential story ideas, but it comes up short here too. It's worse than google keyword alerts in my experience.

2026-09-08 10:08:34 UTC

I think one of the reasons I'm an AI skeptic beyond all the environmental and meta economic harms it perpetuates is that AI writing is still dogshit, repetitive, and boilerplate.
I can't imagine ever using it to help me with actual writing, nor should it be designed to do so.

2026-09-07 21:37:36 UTC

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I think there's a genuine disconnect between programmers and creative career folks on this. I have genuinely tried to incorporate this shit in my process and it is basically useless for me.
Pointing that out does not mean I haven't challenged my priors.

2026-09-07 21:33:18 UTC

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WADR i've never seen you challenge your priors on this issue.

2026-09-02 00:42:47 UTC

Everywhere he went, Ed Markey's biggest applause line was about protecting trans people. The Massholes yearn for trans liberation.

2026-09-01 13:03:17 UTC

Seth Moulton is going to eat shit today because he is out of touch with his electorate. He tried to make himself a national media figure by coming out against trans athletes in the midst of voters scrambling to handle the internal trans refugees moving to our state to flee red state anti-trans laws.

2026-07-23 13:27:14 UTC

this has genuinely been a really fun and challenging playthrough so far! i started as Theodoro.
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2026-07-16 11:20:57 UTC

having fun in our spotify comments
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2026-07-13 12:39:33 UTC

this performance made the whole film. if you an actor with that raw of a performance and then the camera pans to a completely jank CGI dinosaur, nobody ends up seeing this film.
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2026-06-30 14:42:43 UTC

second class citizens. fix your hearts or die.
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2026-06-30 14:09:19 UTC

if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die.

2026-06-01 11:26:26 UTC

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2026-05-29 13:12:51 UTC

maybe a long shot but does anyone know of a dc-area podcast/audio recording studio where we might be able to record an episode of cancel me daddy in person?

2026-05-21 17:15:53 UTC

You might have heard about the legal case involving the DOJ sending subpoenas to blue state hospitals for private medical records of trans children.
For my newsletter, I went long on the Texas judge enabling this fuckery. [www.burnsnotice.com/this-federal...](https://www.burnsnotice.com/this-federal-judge-is-more-powerful-than-the-president/ )
[This Federal Judge is More Pow...](https://www.burnsnotice.com/this-federal-judge-is-more-powerful-than-the-president/ )

2026-04-26 00:56:42 UTC

This is all true, Trump called me a fat tranny and threatened to drone strike the UMass campus in retaliation.
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2026-04-18 10:26:37 UTC

"It's just a vibesession" [www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...](https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-04-16/people-are-selling-their-plasma-across-massachusetts-to-deal-with-rising-prices )
[People are selling their plasm...](https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-04-16/people-are-selling-their-plasma-across-massachusetts-to-deal-with-rising-prices )

2026-04-12 19:57:08 UTC

Omg I'm so happy
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2026-04-03 16:27:42 UTC

this is the most common way the Times launders right wing views into its news coverage. this is a news desk problem, not an opinion page problem.
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2026-03-31 11:54:10 UTC

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.
If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.
Everyone give this a share after.

2026-03-09 16:03:41 UTC

For my newsletter, I wrote about the Iranian national myth that their country's culture civilizes its conquerors and how the US will never abandon its tradition of violence and blood. [www.burnsnotice.com/the-us-will-...](https://www.burnsnotice.com/the-us-will-never-civilize/ )
[The US Will Never Civilize](https://www.burnsnotice.com/the-us-will-never-civilize/ )

2026-02-25 15:16:15 UTC

Good news trans peeps, we didn't lose rights at the Supreme Court today.

2026-02-24 19:55:25 UTC

This is like if 2/3 of the people in Wyoming fled the state.
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2026-02-20 14:26:32 UTC

what do you mean i pay my health insurance company $600/mo but they won't pay for anything until i've paid an additional $3800 in a year? the fuck am i paying you for?
(i know how health insurance works, i'm being ironic in my questioning)

2026-02-16 11:07:44 UTC

The average rent in Wellesley, MA is $4200/mo
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2025-11-14 03:21:06 UTC

So the streamer Ludwig recently found out that one of his earliest regular viewers, who was trans, passed away and tonight he's doing a charity stream for the Trevor Project. So far he's raised over $46,000 in about 5 hours. [www.twitch.tv/ludwig](https://www.twitch.tv/ludwig )
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2025-11-13 14:36:08 UTC

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.
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2025-11-10 23:14:42 UTC

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

2025-10-30 23:15:54 UTC

Damn that's crazy
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2025-10-28 00:08:28 UTC

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

2025-10-06 16:13:37 UTC

For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again.
[burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live...](https://burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live-like-this/ )
[We Can't Live Like This](https://burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live-like-this/ )

2025-09-26 18:03:06 UTC

So far there have been zero trans women reported as having visited epsteins pedo island. But lots of people who want you to think trans women are threats to children seemed to have gone there at some point.
Curious...
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#note1ky5…elwd

2025-09-19 13:21:11 UTC

Hi! For many reasons, I've decided to create a new newsletter on Ghost to supplement my Patreon blog. I needed another place besides Patreon to post my work, and I plan on using this as a place to gather and organize all of my work.
Sign up for a free sub! [burns-notice.ghost.io/welcome-to-h...](https://burns-notice.ghost.io/welcome-to-hell-lets-walk-through-it-together/ )
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2025-09-17 20:24:49 UTC

Equality Caucus Rep. Mark Takano calls on Speaker Johnson and GOP House leadership to reign in their party's extreme rhetoric in trans people per this statement that just hit my inbox:
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2025-09-13 20:31:19 UTC

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.
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2025-08-03 13:21:31 UTC

Oh huh just like trans people have been saying for a decade
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#note1v0v…xrgf

2025-07-16 22:08:56 UTC

if you're mad at a trans person for saying they won't vote for Gavin Newsom
too damn bad! this is our lives! it's not a purity test when it's our lives. of course we're a one issue voter, it's our lives
you could just not nominate Newsom! but everyone knows the risk of that now, you have no excuse

2025-06-26 17:39:30 UTC

ok now listening to SMB's interview with Ezra Klein and hoo boy i have issues with her framing of nearly everything.

2025-06-16 16:07:43 UTC

Perhaps this is because we as a society dismissed sending bomb threats to children's hospitals who offer care for trans youth as normal and we excused decades of anti-abortion violence as just the cost of doing business as usual in American politics.
[www.startribune.com/suspect-show...](https://www.startribune.com/suspect-showed-few-signs-of-political-rage-before-lawmaker-shootings/601373498 )
[Suspect showed few signs of po...](https://www.startribune.com/suspect-showed-few-signs-of-political-rage-before-lawmaker-shootings/601373498 )

2025-05-30 14:21:50 UTC

This image from HRC goes so hard
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2025-05-30 01:15:15 UTC

Cis people have no idea just how stupid gender is about to get
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#note193q…clay

2025-05-08 17:53:01 UTC

Papal Chicago Bulls

2025-04-28 12:23:38 UTC

there's this thing in journalism that really gets me mad. the ben smiths of the world will look at you like you're crazy for simply stating what is actually happening all the way up to the moment they report on it themselves with wide eyed wonder, and then its their story that goes megaviral.

2025-04-21 14:54:30 UTC

For my Patreon post this week, I wrote about why TERFs are still complaining about not having friends. [www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...](https://www.patreon.com/posts/you-have-no-127130965?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link )
[You have no friends because yo...](https://www.patreon.com/posts/you-have-no-127130965?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link )

2025-04-19 02:15:30 UTC

A late one here but for MSNBC, I wrote about JK Rowling, the UK Supreme Court judgement on trans rights, and the current state of trans freedom in the English speaking world. [www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/jk-rowling-uk-trans-women-ruling-rcna201947 )
[Opinion | The U.K. Supreme Cou...](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/jk-rowling-uk-trans-women-ruling-rcna201947 )

2025-04-15 12:43:33 UTC

this administration had no problems fishing andrew tate out of a romanian prison
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#note10jp…faye

2025-02-10 04:03:50 UTC

Love your life in such a way that your ex doesn't end up dancing on stage while your rival raps about you being a pedo at halftime of the biggest sporting event of the year.

2025-01-31 19:06:21 UTC

This has been, by far, the worst week of news in my 9 years of covering trans issues.

2025-01-07 00:31:39 UTC

I wrote about Speaker Mike Johnson's first priority fore this congress: banning about 20 total trans athletes from sports. [www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-congress-trans-women-sports-bill-rcna186195 )
[Opinion | The oppressive goal ...](https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/republicans-congress-trans-women-sports-bill-rcna186195 )

2024-12-06 17:11:13 UTC

Whenever I explain that almost 95% of the disinformation that gets laundered through mainstream media comes from 10 people who are all in the same group chat together, people look at me like I'm a conspiracy theorist.
But it's true.
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2024-12-04 18:59:12 UTC

first, Ryan is an anti-trans activist, not a reporter in any sense of the word. secondly, he doesn't mention how long ago this father's kid started transitioning, i could have been years ago, yet Ryan writes as if it happened yesterday and the guy has a thousand yard stare now.
it's farcical.
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#note1l8q…0k5p

2024-12-01 00:04:41 UTC

There is no possible amount of shoplifting that justifies this
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#note138j…f3du

2024-11-19 23:01:06 UTC

I find the whole Capitol bathroom thing just really tiring. I knew it was inevitable but christ...

2024-11-19 14:09:59 UTC

A good litmus tear for how informed you are about trans athletes is whether or not you previously knew that no sports governing body has ever produced a study of actual trans bodies to justify banning trans women from sports.

2024-10-19 15:17:50 UTC

So if it wasn't completely obvious back then, the Olympic boxing scandal was basically a kremlin op.
[www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/10/17/russia-paris-olympics-boxing-gender/ )
[The Putin-backed strongman who...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/10/17/russia-paris-olympics-boxing-gender/ )

2024-10-13 20:19:53 UTC

Yeah you guys are right, she's running a perfect campaign with no flaws and if she loses we can sleep safely at night knowing there were no other paths to follow while their consultants save their careers by blaming trans issues for the loss.