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Kate Sometimes

@bestsloth.bsky.social

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Politics. Packers. Frenetic neuro-spicy, feral, VERY profane GenX IT nerd. Annoying-ass wife, mom, cat herder. SoCal native, ex-PNW, Wisconsin adoptee, now🇨🇦neighbor. 🇲🇽 ancestry. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️friend. She/her/hers. Auto DM gets you a block.🖕DJT.

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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · Jan 27

My personal anthem at the moment. A little on the old side, but it makes me smile.

New Radicals - You Get What You Give (Official Music Video)

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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine being stuck at LAX and having to listen to ICE Barbie while in line for security.🤮

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

LAX flights grounded due to equipment outage, FAA says reut.rs/490u093

LAX flights grounded due to equipment outage, FAA says

The Federal Aviation Administration said on Sunday there was a ground stop at the Los Angeles International Airport due to an equipment outage.

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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2h

Where’s the NatGuard?

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

Four dead, at least 20 injured in South Carolina island shooting reut.rs/42BTohy

Four dead, at least 20 injured in South Carolina island shooting

Four people were killed and at least 20 injured in a shooting at a restaurant in a South Carolina island town on Sunday, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said.

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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 3h

I’m increasingly convinced that they’re going to pull the trigger ahead of or on Saturday. They really don’t want any of us in the streets. #NoKings

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 5h

If I have to see this in the airport before my business trip next month TSA is going to be cleaning up piles of barf.

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 7h

I woke up this morning hoping.
Once again, my dream is denied.

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 15h

…and pose for a selfie w/o a mask so we can post it on all of our social media accounts!

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 22h

This is a good thing. Our military deserves to be paid. But also, it removes a bludgeon the MAGAs have been using against Dems in their lame-ass blame game.

‘Pay our troops!’ Trump announces plan to circumvent government shutdown

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he had directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “use all available funds” to pay military service members to circumvent the ongoing government shutdown...

www.rawstory.com

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 23h

She was one of my all-time favorites. I hate when they leave us.

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 1d

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 1d

Heartless people can’t have a “cardiac age”.

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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 1d

My father had Alzheimer’s. I can corroborate.

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Wait, WUT?

Melania Has Been Secretly Working With Putin for Months

The first lady has been engaged in talks with the Russia leader over the war in Ukraine.

www.thedailybeast.com

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

How incredibly appropriate!

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Overall, it sounds like the soiree was just a massive MAGA circle jerk.

I hope the cleaning crew wears PPE.

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

They're building the case that the protests will need to be quelled. I expect more MAGA types will be in front of cameras in the coming week to continue to stoke this bullshit.

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

This is what I said earlier this week. Trump and MAGA want to bash heads on the 18th. I don't think the protest was THE pretext for the deployments, but they certainly think they're going to get some propaganda value out of any unrest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

What a disingenuous little fuck this tool is.

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Can you imagine being so needy and demanding that you send surrogates out to do interviews that claim you were cheated...by the NOBEL COMMITTEE?

How sad. How pathetic.

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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Cry harder, MAGAts!

a baby is laying on a couch and making a funny face while looking at the camera .

ALT: a baby is laying on a couch and making a funny face while looking at the camera .

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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Cry harder, MAGA scum.

'What an absolute joke!' MAGA melts down after Nobel Peace Prize Trump snub

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its annual Nobel Peace Prize Friday to one Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician and leader of a resistance movement against President Nicolas Maduro, spa...

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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Assuming the shutdown persists into next month, I have a business trip. I'm already contending with having to fly through EWR, but this on top of it? I may not survive the flights!

ICE Barbie Blasts MAGA Message at Airports Hit by Shutdown Chaos

Kristi Noem’s smiling face will greet weary travelers as they queue for security amid the federal impasse.

www.thedailybeast.com

Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

I can't help but wonder if the committee's statement when awarding the prize wasn't a veiled shot at Dear Leader.

"When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist."

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuela's María Corina Machado

"When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist," the committee said.

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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

the handmaid 's tale is being shown on hulu originals

ALT: the handmaid 's tale is being shown on hulu originals

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Kate Sometimes @bestsloth.bsky.social · 2d

Cenk is still around? Who knew??