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Catherine E. Cullen

@catherineecullen.bsky.social

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Retired Attorney. Lives on the beloved, enchanted sand spit known as Cape Cod. Proud Liberal. 🌊🌊🌊 Proud citizen of MA. Did I mention I read palms? If we don’t know one another, & you DM me without asking, I will block you. 🚫MAGA🚫OnlyFans🚫solicitations

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Catherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social · Jan 21

Trump claims “there are only two sexes” & he’s going to round up & deport all undocumented immigrants. We have a duty to our trans & undocumented brothers and sisters.

So, let’s do this about that:

FROM TODAY FORWARD, ALL OUR PRONOUNS ARE THEY/THEM AND WE ARE ALL UNDOCUMENTED.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 17h

Man of the people, anti-establishment, courageous self sacrifice etc

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Claims he's just a regular journalist doing his journalising on behalf of the silent millions... checks out for me..

Tommy Robinson
stopped at border driving
Bentley with thousands in
cash'
Far-Right activist insulted police
officers after being arrested for
refusing to give them pin to his
phone, court hears

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Pagan Sky @pagansky.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 6h

"There are no moderates in the GOP. There are only scared MAGA and proud MAGA."

Marc Elias

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1h

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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 14h

Iceland canceled its 2025 whaling season, sparing hundreds of fin whales. Iceland’s only active whaling company, Hvalur said it would not participate in the summer whaling season for the 2nd year in a row due to low demand and financial concerns. Wish it was about conservation but I'll take it!

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Tisiphone @tisiphone.bsky.social · 10h

Of COURSE IT WAS YOU,
@missanthrope76.bsky.social My bestie in all the world is the mystery sender!
(Not really a mystery, she just forgot to add a note, as usual 😂)

Love you my Devil Dog friend and love how you love my babies.

🐾♥️

Tisiphone @tisiphone.bsky.social · 12h

OMG WHO DID THIS??🥹♥️
A new dog bed AND the good bones/treats!!
This all came addressed to me but alas, without any info on the sender. 🥺
Fess up, mystery friend - I know it had to be one of you and we love you to bits!
Thank you!! ♥️🐾

Photo of a dog bed with an assortment of bones and treats, being checked out by a blonde Cairn Terrier

A new gray dog bed with an assortment of bones and treats.

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Les LeMieux @leslemieux.bsky.social · 1h

Chris Hayes to Ruben Gallego: Did you get a satisfactory answer when you confronted Speaker Johnso about swearing in your Arizona collegue?

Gallego: No. Mike Johnson is a little creep.....

Hayes: (stifles laugh)

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1h

Every wannabe king forgets the same lesson: Americans don’t kneel. The weak call it chaos. The strong call it a wake-up call. The Constitution doesn’t need worshippers. It needs warriors.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h

An honor to receive the endorsement of
of nearly a dozen Black clergy leaders in Crown Heights today, including Bishop Orlando Findlayter.

I’m grateful for their support, and this powerful and humbling prayer.

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 12h

"Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small."

-Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience.

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Catherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social · 1h

What a great gift!
It’s someone who knows you well enough to know that you’d value nice things for your dog more than a gift for you.

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 11h

Good morning to all you amazing and beautiful people! Here’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” to get your morning going. I hope you have a wonderful day! 😎😻

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Beyond Blonde© @beyondblonde.bsky.social · 10h

And that's why I follow Portia.

PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 11h

As evidenced by how many times randos jump in replies with "You meant", "You forgot", etc.

I'm pretty Seussian about things. I say what I mean and I mean what I say. #QOTD

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Beyond Blonde© @beyondblonde.bsky.social · 10h

Shades of what happened with Jimmy Carter.

𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 12h

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Catherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social · 2h

You’re exactly right, Les.
Mar a Lago was searched on August 8, 2022.
Jack Smith was appointed special counsel on November 18, 2022.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11h

If anyone wonders why we call them wannabe authoritarians, here you go.

They’re now shitting on the Bill of Rights.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11h

“Policy says reporters cannot obtain or solicit any information the Defense Department does not explicitly authorize. Any media who does not sign by 5 p.m. Tuesday has 24 hours to turn in their media credentials and clear out.”

Absolute fucking abomination.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before deadline for signing

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, color me shocked.

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Catherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social · 2h

I think so, too. I didn’t look it up, but I will.

Catherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social · 2h

The VP of the United States reminds me of a 7th grade bully:
Not overly bright
A bit sadistic by nature
Secretly intimidated by his betters
Far too cowardly to bully anyone without his “gang” backing him up.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

The vice president of the United States is a clownish dipshit, Exhibit 64,532

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Catherine E. Cullen @catherineecullen.bsky.social · 2h

Les, I agree with you completely. Besides, Gym, supposedly, wants to question Smith about the execution of the search warrant on Mar a Lago, but Jack Smith wasn’t appointed until after that search, was he?

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