Katharine Bono

Biotech, Politics, Whisky,
and their causal dependencies

I'm @katrane on Threads, Insta, BlueSky, Sez

[Katharine Bono @katrane]

My 1st #whisky-tube adventure - vertical flight blind tasting from 3 distilleries

2 #Highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #singlemalts and 1 #Irishwhiskey 🇮🇪

https://t.co/pWpAicXain

[Katharine Bono @katrane]

@MeghanMcCain That's worth nothing. Stop spreading conspiracy theories.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[iza @izamamaa]

Wasn’t her husband assassinated in broad daylight here in the U.S. while Trump was president?

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Apparently Harvard is great for their kids but it’s too woke for your kids

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The Justice Department removed information about the January 6 insurrectionists from its website. @lawfare has preserved and posted it

https://t.co/NDPFbkTPlb

[Katharine Bono @katrane]

@JohnCornyn @jgcOCANADA Stop with all the philosophical innuendo tweets. Your words don't matter unless backed up by action. Do the right thing and oppose the new Trump sycophant.

[Katharine Bono @katrane]

@JohnCornyn No shit. Lindsey Graham told y'all this 10 years ago.

https://t.co/Nyo4JbZI6X

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.

[Katharine Bono @katrane]

My exact thought.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

You know your administration is toxic if freaking Milli Vanilli thinks you will ruin their reputation.

[Katharine Bono @katrane]

@DemocracyDocket How would that even work? The USPS is not going to sort through a stack of envelopes to pull out some against a list of voters.

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

BREAKING: Aimee-Leigh and Baby Billy Freeman have pulled out of the Great American State Fair.

[Katharine Bono @katrane]

And this is why this shit will never end. Cult mentality.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Cornyn: Tonight we've come up short in this primary runoff.  I've always supported the Republican ticket and I intend to do so again in this general election.

[Katharine Bono @katrane]

Or maybe that the voice of reason usually comes from a cat.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Not sure who's sillier on this site, Elon Musk for claiming history's most infamous far right dictator was a socialist, or the climate change sceptics for saying this temperature in May is fine because a few million years ago the surface of the planet was molten lava.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Not sure who's sillier on this site, Elon Musk for claiming history's most infamous far right dictator was a socialist, or the climate change sceptics for saying this temperature in May is fine because a few million years ago the surface of the planet was molten lava.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

They did, it was called America

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the DHS Inspector General just opened an audit into a $38 billion warehouse-to-detention scheme that Kristi Noem and her top adviser Corey Lewandowski rammed through.

ICE bought 11 vacant warehouses in a matter of months, paying 11 to 13 percent above market value.

The properties weren’t even zoned for detention. No working plumbing for thousands of detainees. But Noem and Lewandowski pressured ICE to open them by year’s end anyway.

The result? At least $1 billion already spent on nine facilities. Nearly 50 contractors paid $1.7 billion since Trump took office.

Companies with zero immigration detention experience suddenly winning massive federal contracts.

One firm that didn’t even exist until June 2024 got a $6 million DHS contract this January.

Noem is gone.

Lewandowski is gone.

But the bill is still landing on the taxpayer, and the IG investigation is just getting started.

Accountability cannot end when the perpetrators walk out the door.

Every contract needs scrutiny.

Every dollar needs to be traced.

Every official who steered money to inexperienced contractors needs to answer under oath.
https://t.co/GGvxSniGqM

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

@SpeakerJohnson

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

'She made her position a platform for promoting distortions and undermining public confidence in the very institutions she’d sworn an oath to lead"
From @shaneharris, on Tulsi Gabbard
https://t.co/MRRiCzWGxH

[Katharine Bono @katrane]

@Mpolymer I have several Starbucks mugs, too. It's a souvenir that I use every day.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rubio says that US-led peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine "were not fruitful." Not fruitful?

​Let’s look at the facts: your negotiators visited Russia seven times, and Ukraine zero times. You demanded concessions from Ukraine before negotiations even began, and throughout the entire process.

You pressured Ukraine by cutting off weapons support entirely, constantly badmouthing us, and showing up at our doorstep waving Russian "peace plan" you demanded we sign immediately.

​And now, after Ukraine stands more firmly on its feet without your support, you realize you can't pressure us anymore. So your excuse is that you are tired and leaving?

​How about, for once, you actually support the victim, which is Ukraine instead of terrorist Russian regime? Send your team to Kyiv, support our fight, and apply real pressure on aggressor.

Sanction Russia and seize their shadow fleet instead of handing out sanction waivers. Do that, and maybe negotiations will magically become "fruitful."

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.

Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."

That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.

Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.

Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.