Catblossom
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The Trump Admin will fire you for having a Pride flag on your desk but downplays & normalizes swastikas & nooses?
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The Trump Admin will fire you for having a Pride flag on your desk but downplays & normalizes swastikas & nooses?
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
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Yesterday, President Trump tried to justify the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by saying "things happen."
Today, Senate Republicans blocked a resolution that condemned his murder.
The Republican party's refusal to stand up for a free & fair press endangers journalists worldwide.
Today, Senate Republicans blocked a resolution that condemned his murder.
The Republican party's refusal to stand up for a free & fair press endangers journalists worldwide.
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Yesterday, President Trump tried to justify the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by saying "things happen."
Today, Senate Republicans blocked a resolution that condemned his murder.
The Republican party's refusal to stand up for a free & fair press endangers journalists worldwide.
Today, Senate Republicans blocked a resolution that condemned his murder.
The Republican party's refusal to stand up for a free & fair press endangers journalists worldwide.
Which is *terrifying* - because it's often nurses who save us from overworked doctors who are rushing & make mistakes, or who can't be bothered to listen.
Good nurses are absolutely the front and bottom line of medical care in this country.
Good nurses are absolutely the front and bottom line of medical care in this country.
So we will have nurses who have no education and who are paid minimum wage...
Doctor Here 👋
-The Department of Education just said nursing is no longer a professional degree.
- #Nursing is one of the most important and respected professions. Our healthcare system depends on them.
- #Nurses save lives!! They must be respected as professionals!
#medsky #publichealth
-The Department of Education just said nursing is no longer a professional degree.
- #Nursing is one of the most important and respected professions. Our healthcare system depends on them.
- #Nurses save lives!! They must be respected as professionals!
#medsky #publichealth
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Which is *terrifying* - because it's often nurses who save us from overworked doctors who are rushing & make mistakes, or who can't be bothered to listen.
Good nurses are absolutely the front and bottom line of medical care in this country.
Good nurses are absolutely the front and bottom line of medical care in this country.
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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the child I was at 15.
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the child I was at 15.
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
Additionally, they are cutting support for school libraries nationwide.
Does your school library have a credentialed librarian?
Is it open every day?
Do students visit every week?
Can they drop in to get a new book, or only go when their class does?
Does your school library have a credentialed librarian?
Is it open every day?
Do students visit every week?
Can they drop in to get a new book, or only go when their class does?
Not you? Your kid’s in AP classes?
Ask them about their relationship with ChatGPT. Better yet, look at their browsing history.
Professors are shouting that your kids cannot read and your local public school district won’t buy books or include them in the curriculum!!
Ask them about their relationship with ChatGPT. Better yet, look at their browsing history.
Professors are shouting that your kids cannot read and your local public school district won’t buy books or include them in the curriculum!!
November 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Additionally, they are cutting support for school libraries nationwide.
Does your school library have a credentialed librarian?
Is it open every day?
Do students visit every week?
Can they drop in to get a new book, or only go when their class does?
Does your school library have a credentialed librarian?
Is it open every day?
Do students visit every week?
Can they drop in to get a new book, or only go when their class does?
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It's in the fucking name. That it happens to so many of us that it's never just the one person who is harmed.
It's me, too.
It's me, too.
November 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
😡
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That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."
November 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."
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Do you want to see the best takedown of Megyn Kelly? Watch an actual 14 year old give an open message to Megyn about how horrible she is. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMTpjmpn/
Here’s a reminder from an actual 14 year old about what a child even IS. If adults are out here debating the “acceptable age” of abuse, then kids aren’t the ones who need to grow up. ✨sources✨ https:/...
TikTok video by eloise
www.tiktok.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Do you want to see the best takedown of Megyn Kelly? Watch an actual 14 year old give an open message to Megyn about how horrible she is. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMTpjmpn/
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our crossing guards do mission impossible and I am so thankful for all of them, but JFC the fact that we need "Guards" to simply ensure drivers don't run over school children?
This is what is so twisted about our auto obsessed culture that we don't even see how we've completely normalized this.
This is what is so twisted about our auto obsessed culture that we don't even see how we've completely normalized this.
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
our crossing guards do mission impossible and I am so thankful for all of them, but JFC the fact that we need "Guards" to simply ensure drivers don't run over school children?
This is what is so twisted about our auto obsessed culture that we don't even see how we've completely normalized this.
This is what is so twisted about our auto obsessed culture that we don't even see how we've completely normalized this.
It super sucks. All the doctors are using them now & I really hate saying 'no, thank you' when I'm asked if it's ok for them to use assistive note-taking. I know they have a lot on their plates & I'm sure scheduling has tightened to 'allow' for the use of this new tech. But ew.
It's ok to say no.
It's ok to say no.
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It super sucks. All the doctors are using them now & I really hate saying 'no, thank you' when I'm asked if it's ok for them to use assistive note-taking. I know they have a lot on their plates & I'm sure scheduling has tightened to 'allow' for the use of this new tech. But ew.
It's ok to say no.
It's ok to say no.
By my calculations according to her Wiki article, Megyn Kelly has a daughter who's around 14/15.
I wonder how she would feel if her own daughter was subject to the attentions of a grown man.
Epstein & friends were/are child rapists. There's no weaseling that, nor excusing it 😡
I wonder how she would feel if her own daughter was subject to the attentions of a grown man.
Epstein & friends were/are child rapists. There's no weaseling that, nor excusing it 😡
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
By my calculations according to her Wiki article, Megyn Kelly has a daughter who's around 14/15.
I wonder how she would feel if her own daughter was subject to the attentions of a grown man.
Epstein & friends were/are child rapists. There's no weaseling that, nor excusing it 😡
I wonder how she would feel if her own daughter was subject to the attentions of a grown man.
Epstein & friends were/are child rapists. There's no weaseling that, nor excusing it 😡
Oh so *that's* why I got a 'your stars are expiring!!' email out of the blue 😹
Suck it, Sbux. Pay your workers (and let them organize!)
Friends, don't cross those picket lines today. Make your coffee at home or try out someone else 💚
Suck it, Sbux. Pay your workers (and let them organize!)
Friends, don't cross those picket lines today. Make your coffee at home or try out someone else 💚
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Oh so *that's* why I got a 'your stars are expiring!!' email out of the blue 😹
Suck it, Sbux. Pay your workers (and let them organize!)
Friends, don't cross those picket lines today. Make your coffee at home or try out someone else 💚
Suck it, Sbux. Pay your workers (and let them organize!)
Friends, don't cross those picket lines today. Make your coffee at home or try out someone else 💚
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
Ooh, but see...I just read this book 🙀
Ravi is in a cresty mood this morning! And showing off the multi-colored skin patch behind his eyes 💙🤍🧡
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November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Ooh, but see...I just read this book 🙀
What the actual?! This is wild.
Everyone needs to know that our current administration is making literal two year old children 'represent' themselves in immigration court.
Absolutely evil.
Everyone needs to know that our current administration is making literal two year old children 'represent' themselves in immigration court.
Absolutely evil.
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What the actual?! This is wild.
Everyone needs to know that our current administration is making literal two year old children 'represent' themselves in immigration court.
Absolutely evil.
Everyone needs to know that our current administration is making literal two year old children 'represent' themselves in immigration court.
Absolutely evil.
This seems important 😬
During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals.
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient
Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This seems important 😬
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ASKING OUR REPRESENTATIVES TO ACTUALLY REPRESENT US IS NOT FIGHTING IT’S JUST ASKING YOU TO DO THE FUCKING JOB WE PAY YOU FOR
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
ASKING OUR REPRESENTATIVES TO ACTUALLY REPRESENT US IS NOT FIGHTING IT’S JUST ASKING YOU TO DO THE FUCKING JOB WE PAY YOU FOR
How come it's only "unity" when party leaders like it, and not when the actual electorate does? Looking at what happened in NYC recently & scratching my head.
Feels like rather than unity you want us to fall in line?
Run better candidates, make better policy, stand up & fight.
Feels like rather than unity you want us to fall in line?
Run better candidates, make better policy, stand up & fight.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:19 PM
How come it's only "unity" when party leaders like it, and not when the actual electorate does? Looking at what happened in NYC recently & scratching my head.
Feels like rather than unity you want us to fall in line?
Run better candidates, make better policy, stand up & fight.
Feels like rather than unity you want us to fall in line?
Run better candidates, make better policy, stand up & fight.
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Stuff like this empowers the worst people to exercise their worst impulses. Some 57 year old white lady is going to report a 24 yr old who’s just trying to pay her fucking rent with a 3rd job for not smiling and get her fired because her manager is an asshole. Gross. Keep boycotting.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Stuff like this empowers the worst people to exercise their worst impulses. Some 57 year old white lady is going to report a 24 yr old who’s just trying to pay her fucking rent with a 3rd job for not smiling and get her fired because her manager is an asshole. Gross. Keep boycotting.
Hahaha just tried to drive in my reading glasses?
'Why is the far away stuff...blurry?'
Went back for real glasses
'Why is the far away stuff...blurry?'
Went back for real glasses
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Hahaha just tried to drive in my reading glasses?
'Why is the far away stuff...blurry?'
Went back for real glasses
'Why is the far away stuff...blurry?'
Went back for real glasses
Marcel!!! 😻
I need to introduce you to someone. This is my new friend Marcel who has moved in with us. He has one eye and FIV and he is perfect!
November 8, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Marcel!!! 😻
😹 This was kind of my first thought on hearing her announcement on NPR today. Like, did she not just witness the mayoral election? And I know NY state is more than NYC, but...I don't feel like that electorate is super open to Republican ideology at this moment.
I don’t know what kind of cocaína
Elise Stefanik is on, but I promise you, she’s not going to become the Governor of New York.
We’re a Democratic majority.
We will NEVER vote for a Donald Trump sycophant and member of MAGA.
Girl, get a psychiatric evaluation.
Elise Stefanik is on, but I promise you, she’s not going to become the Governor of New York.
We’re a Democratic majority.
We will NEVER vote for a Donald Trump sycophant and member of MAGA.
Girl, get a psychiatric evaluation.
November 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
😹 This was kind of my first thought on hearing her announcement on NPR today. Like, did she not just witness the mayoral election? And I know NY state is more than NYC, but...I don't feel like that electorate is super open to Republican ideology at this moment.
This is beautiful! I am thrilled with a return to accessibility and also my petty little heart loves that it will make them mad.
I would love it more if they could just not be trash, but here we are.
I would love it more if they could just not be trash, but here we are.
The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.
Judge orders White House to use American Sign Language interpreters at briefings
The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.
n.pr
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is beautiful! I am thrilled with a return to accessibility and also my petty little heart loves that it will make them mad.
I would love it more if they could just not be trash, but here we are.
I would love it more if they could just not be trash, but here we are.