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Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️

@cathygreen67.bsky.social

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Born at 322.18 ppm. (January 2025 - 426.03 ppm.) Cis lesbian w trans loved ones. Advocate for those fighting for their rights, esp children. [Pls use alt text on images.] Writer Reader Dancer Partner Mother Recovering addict

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Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ @cathygreen67.bsky.social · 7h

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 3h

When I say I’m busy it might mean I have other plans with other people or it might mean I need time to be alone in my house and mutter to myself about the general state of things and they are the same amount of busy

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 21h

When the BBC decided to pull its documentary Gaza: How To Survive a Warzone, 13-year-old Abdullah al-Yazuri found himself in the middle of a national row in Britain.

He'd hoped to share and document the "suffering that children in Gaza" face.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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CarrieT 🗽 ⚖️ 🇺🇸 🐶 📚 🛩 🌏 🐘 🗳 ⛩️ 😆 🎶 🪙 🤷‍♀️ @uclabruin1998.bsky.social · 7h

The infamously dangerous Chicken Guy.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.com

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Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ @cathygreen67.bsky.social · 7h

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Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ @cathygreen67.bsky.social · 7h

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Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ @cathygreen67.bsky.social · 9h

I imagine a lot of people will be “course correcting” once the Trumpian era is over!! And pretending they never supported him and his fascist regime in the first place.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 10h

‘Like James Baldwin, she thought social revolution required a reckoning of all relationships, including the individual’s relationship to herself.’

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy

Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

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Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ @cathygreen67.bsky.social · 10h

Yup. These people have no moral compass. Just sway with the wind.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Bénédicte C @benecal.bsky.social · 13h

Was at Berlin’s Toograhie des Terror museum which details WHICH agencies were involved in Nazi violence, run by whom, where they were located, what their roles were, how they carried out political attacks. We need to document the shut happening in America now. And explain how it works tithe naïfs.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16h

We need something like a “Fascistpedia” to keep track of those who collaborated with the regime.

Later, they'll be scurrying to hide their cowardice and moral rot.

A permanent record will guarantee enduring shame.

Let’s give them their own museum.

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HTT- yeah, you prolly know me. @httorg.bsky.social · 14h

Seriously.
As a public health scientist?
I cannot stress enough how poorly prepared this administration is for an ultra deadly & infectious disease like Ebola to make landfall here in the USA.
The best defense for the USA is fast resolution of an outbreak overseas.

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 16h

RIFed:

Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas.

You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.)

Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.

Ebola disease

WHO fact sheet on Ebola: key facts, definition, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, WHO response.

www.who.int

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Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ @cathygreen67.bsky.social · 10h

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𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆 @infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine waking up to "Ana Kasparian did an anti-semitic gesture" and then seeing this leap out at you.

Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ @cathygreen67.bsky.social · 10h

I hadn’t come across the Ana Kasparian “leaving the left” thing til today. But I have heard of The Young Turks.

Transphobia -> Right-wing grift pipeline in progress.

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 22h

People surprised that some formerly sensible left-leaning or liberal women are now apparently full of admiration for white supremacists, rapists and genocide might note that their entry point for far right radicalisation was invariably a belief that transphobia is ‘feminist’. Just saying.

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 5d

If 2025 was a bath bomb it would be a toaster.

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🦋 @occhitristi.bsky.social · 23h

Being neurodivergent means you over-explain EVERYTHING in hopes of clear communication, then get anxious that your over-explanation was irritating and actually made things more confusing 🫤

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Yarn Mayor 🧶 @whatraemakes.bsky.social · 11h

And the idea of trans women tricking straight men into having sex with them is all based on bullshit anyway - often men *knew* going in that their partners were trans, but then when someone *else* found out about it they claimed they were tricked to save their fragile masculinity and identity.

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Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ @cathygreen67.bsky.social · 11h

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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 1d

Today (date), the Slender-billed Curlew was declared extinct. The first bird extinction on mainland Europe in 500 years — on our watch. Extinction is final. No going back. Think about that.

Cathy Green (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈💜🏳️‍⚧️ @cathygreen67.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s a little clip, with sound. From Spamalot. Love the coconuts:

youtube.com/shorts/e7T-7...

Coconut Riding with Monty Python's Spamalot | Stratford Festival 2023

YouTube video by Stratford Festival

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 17h

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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