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Catherine Morgan

@morgan-2025.bsky.social

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Angry Democrat. Retired university professor. Autocracy starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/Fcvv7ES Lawyers & Legal Scholars starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/FrprBh3 Must reads https://go.bsky.app/VJ2PTUG .. more

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Catherine Anne Morgan, is a British academic specialising in the history and archaeology of Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece. Since 2015, she has been a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She was Professor of Classical Archaeology at King's College London from 2005 to 2015, and director of the British School at Athens from 2007 to 2015. .. more

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Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 14h

One authoritarian bribes another. A new kind of Circle of Life.

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Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 14h

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

Still waiting for the courageous defenders of freedom in the US.

#NobelPeacePrize

Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 12d

Republicans are willing to shut down the government to:
❌ Cut Medicaid
❌ Hike premiums
❌ Slash Medicare
✅ Protect billionaires

This isn’t governing. It’s sabotage. #GOPShutdown

Thanks #UnMuteAlabama

Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 13d

Stephen Crazy Eyes Miller and Russell Vought - the actual dark deep State.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13d

While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country.

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Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 13d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/h...

Now that costs are going up, Republicans will call it ObamaCare (not the Affordable Care Act).

Why Obamacare Bills May Double Next Year

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13d

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Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 15d

Sitting next to a known Trumper in a diner, I heard him say that California is banning masks because "people don't support the police."

I don't know how to counter that count of logic.

I don't know how to find common ground with that person..

Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 15d

Burns describes the “deliberate trauma and casual cruelty” as akin to the McCarthy era but “much more damaging.”

Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks for the shared gift article. I just read it in my paper copy of The Atlantic. It is thoughtful and sobering.

Karen (Harris/Walz Alaskan Democrat) @danceswithseagulls.bsky.social · Aug 30

@johnsipher.bsky.social
By former CIA director William J. Burns:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants

You all deserved better.

www.theatlantic.com

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 15d

They thought they were the kind of highly skilled engineers who could help fulfill President Trump’s goal of reviving American manufacturing.

Mr. Cho was checking his team’s balance sheets in his office when he saw helicopters and armored vehicles outside.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/w...

‘America Is Not a Safe Place to Work’: Koreans Describe Georgia Raid

www.nytimes.com

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Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 17d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

“No matter their motives, two independent journalistic voices, CBS News and CNN, could soon be combined into something potentially almost unrecognizable … And that will put yet another chink in the fragile armor that is America’s democracy.”

Pay attention.

Opinion | The Billionaire Trump Supporter Who Will Soon Own the News

www.nytimes.com

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Reposted by Reece Jones, Will Jennings, Jonathan Wolff , and 7 more Reece Jones, Will Jennings, Jonathan Wolff, Joseph Schafer, Alan Richardson, David R. Miller, Catherine Morgan, Kate Starbird, Greg Linden, Magda Teter

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 17d

Let’s be clear: What Donald Trump said in public, in plain view, on his own social media feed is more corrupt and dangerous than anything Richard Nixon was caught on tape saying in the White House tapes. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/rid-me-of-...

Rid me of this meddlesome priest, Pam!

How mob boss Trump sped through all of Watergate in just a single weekend.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17d

Health insurance costs are about to rise by a record amount.

This is happening after the seven largest publicly traded health insurance companies reported a combined $71 BILLION in profits in 2024.

Instead of addressing this, Trump is spreading misinformation about Tylenol.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 17d

French President Emmanuel Macron called President Donald Trump after being stopped at a New York street blocked off for his US counterpart's motorcade during the UN General Assembly reut.rs/42acMSC

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Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 17d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Opinion | How Can You Cheer Love and Hate at the Same Time?

www.nytimes.com

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Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 22d

He made fun of Trump’s fake grief. Said nothing critical of Charlie Kirk, not that that‘s a criminal act.

Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 25d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

“All of the Valkyries players combined make less than the lowest paid member of the Warriors, who have the same owners and play in the same building.”

“The Valkyries will play at the SAP Center 50 miles south in San Jose” b/c a tennis tournament is in their arena.

Inside the Most Valuable Team in Women’s Sports

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Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 25d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

Promises broken.

But the good news is US negotiator Treasury Secretary Bessent “owns thousands of acres of North Dakota farmland, worth up to $25 million. The properties grow soybeans and corn…”

China’s Snub of U.S. Soybeans Is a Crisis for American Farmers

www.nytimes.com

Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 25d

This is NOT a promotion of the book!

Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · 25d

Can you spot the missing photo? #ConfrontingEvil

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 28d

NEWS: A court just told Trump he can DEFUND Planned Parenthood while they review their case.

In the meantime, 200 Planned Parenthood centers could close.

How many people will be denied cancer screenings, birth control, and STI testing? Millions. It's horrific.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28d

Everyone should be held to the same standards.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 29d

Politico - President Trump tells reporters "we just have to beat the hell" out of "radical left lunatics," following the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

Trump says ‘we have to beat the hell’ out of ‘radical left lunatics’ after Kirk killing

The conservative activist's killer remains at large and authorities have not said what the motive was behind his shooting.

www.politico.com

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 29d

Charlie Kirk did push hate speech.

MSNBC Fires Analyst Who Said Charlie Kirk Pushed Hate Speech

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 29d

Perhaps the guy that was shot at twice by members of his own party should lay off the "violent radical left" rhetoric?

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JenniferCali-Resist Fascism @murphyjencubs.bsky.social · 29d

I just found out MSNBC has brought even further shame on their name for firing @matthewjdowd.bsky.social, one of the ONLY people to not fawn over Charlie Kirk.

Yes, violence is never the answer, but neither is stifling the words of a respected commentator. Do better @msnbc.com

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👻Sewall Fright🎃 @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 29d

Truly bizarre to see people attacked, shamed, and disciplined for saying things about Charlie Kirk that are 1000x less offensive than what Charlie Kirk said about people

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CtlAltDel @ctlaltdel.bsky.social · Sep 10

Media: Why did the President not request flags at half staff following the assassination of House representative Melissa Hortman but has for Charlie Kirk who is not an elected official?

The question that won’t be asked of Karoline Leavitt.

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Catherine Morgan @morgan-2025.bsky.social · Sep 8

Department of Hate, Etc.
open.substack.com/pub/lizadonn...

Just found this Substack, courtesy of Heather Cox Richardson.

Department of Hate, Etc.

Trump's ideas keep coming at us, it's exhausting

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