Katherine Krueger

New York

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Co-Owner at Discourse Blog

Writer/editor. Co-owner @discourse_blog.

Articles

LET TRUMP AND ELON FIGHT TO THE DEATH

2 days ago | discourseblog.com | Katherine Krueger

Sure as night follows day, it was absolutely only a matter of time: Elon Musk and Donald Trump are no longer friends and they’re fighting like schoolyard babies online. To which I say: Let them finish each other off Bloodsport style!!Things have deteriorated fast since Musk’s recent exit from Trump’s White House.
It's Time for John Fetterman to Go

3 weeks ago | discourseblog.com | Katherine Krueger

The situation is getting increasingly untenable for everyone’s least favorite pseudo-Democrat, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, whose behavior is reportedly increasingly erratic in public and private.
The Catholic Church Is So Washed

1 month ago | discourseblog.com | Katherine Krueger

Is the Pope Catholic? Of course!!! And as of today, he’s also…American? For the first time ever in the Church’s long, long history?!On Thursday, the second day of the conclave, Robert Prevost was elected the next leader of the Catholic Church, taking the papal name Pope Leo XIV. The 267th Pope is 69, was born in Chicago, and holds a degree in mathematics from Villanova University (get this guy on the Knicks!!).
It's Time to Give the UK to Ireland

1 month ago | discourseblog.com | Katherine Krueger

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It's Time to Give the UK to Ireland

1 month ago | discourseblog.com | Katherine Krueger

Listen, the British have had their chance. In the ensuing, oh, hundreds of years of empire and its collapse, they’ve raped and pillaged the world over, carrying out genocides, famines, and more wars than any casual historian can rattle off. And in light of the UK Supreme Court’s expressly anti-transgender ruling on the “legal definition” of a “woman” as being a “binary” based on “biological sex,” it’s time to try something new: Let’s give the whole bloody thing to Ireland for a change.
The Price of Criticizing Israel Has Never Been Higher

2 months ago | discourseblog.com | Katherine Krueger

It’s been a ghastly week for anyone who dares to criticize Israel. On Wednesday, video emerged of Runeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, being kidnapped in broad daylight by masked, plainclothes feds.
Don't Give the Bastards an Inch

2 months ago | discourseblog.com | Katherine Krueger

Since Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia graduate and permanent legal resident of this country, was torn from his pregnant wife in the middle of the night by ICE and summarily disappeared to a detention center in Louisiana, I can’t get a grip. Even for an administration that’s already made life incalculably more cruel for people around the world, Khalil’s arrest feels like a new rupture in just how far the Trump administration will go to punish its political enemies.
Why Are You Voting for a Single One of These Monsters You Useless Shits

Feb 13, 2025 | discourseblog.com | Katherine Krueger

I’ve been thinking about this line almost on a loop since I first heard it, from Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, leader of the apparent opposition to Donald Trump. “I’m trying to figure out what leverage we actually have,” he told reporters last week. “What leverage do we have? They control the House, the Senate, and the presidency. It’s their government.
No Hell Is Hot Enough for Joe Biden

Jan 17, 2025 | discourseblog.com | Katherine Krueger

It’s difficult to know exactly what to say about the passing of the torch from President Joe Biden to President Again Donald Trump. So I’ll just say this: the latter could not exist without the former. I also know, soul-deep, that Biden has made this world a more violent, a more deadly, and an even more hateful place.
Try Not to Lead a Life That Makes People Celebrate Your Death

Dec 5, 2024 | discourseblog.com | Katherine Krueger

Before I started writing this, I was once again investigating what’s going on with my health insurance. I’ll give you the short version: I am on COBRA after getting laid off of my second job in less than two years (this one, in the tech sector, I held for a record-losing two weeks before being told we, the marketing team, weren’t “meeting targets” set by the corporate overlords). I hadn’t even had time to get my health insurance up and running before getting the axe, and then it became COBRA.