Cathy (CHS)
@cathyhsweeney.bsky.social
Nevertheless, she persisted. Librarian, compulsive book buyer and reader, music lover, theatre fan, social justice warrior, ex-news junkie. SciFi geek since 1970.
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Thinking about the many decisions that get made when you turn your notes into a draft and what that looks like when the bot is making all of those decisions, even if you get the "final say" after the decisions have been made. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
February 16, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Thinking about the many decisions that get made when you turn your notes into a draft and what that looks like when the bot is making all of those decisions, even if you get the "final say" after the decisions have been made. www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02...
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It's like this, if you didn't vote for Harris in 24, I'm not catering to you. There was the functional equivalent of a societal GED and you failed. I struggle to listen to people who proudly exclaim their judgment is that poor.
February 15, 2026 at 11:44 PM
It's like this, if you didn't vote for Harris in 24, I'm not catering to you. There was the functional equivalent of a societal GED and you failed. I struggle to listen to people who proudly exclaim their judgment is that poor.
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“Democrats should center the people too evil and/or stupid to have helped defeat Nazis” is one hell of a statement.
February 16, 2026 at 1:52 AM
“Democrats should center the people too evil and/or stupid to have helped defeat Nazis” is one hell of a statement.
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When you ask yourself “Yeah, but did he shoot a puppy?” when weighing who is a worse choice to run DHS.
I don’t mean to ruin anyone’s weekend, but I definitely could see Desantis taking Kristi Noem’s job. They also have never liked each other so wouldn’t shock me if he’s lobbying for it.
February 16, 2026 at 1:59 AM
When you ask yourself “Yeah, but did he shoot a puppy?” when weighing who is a worse choice to run DHS.
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There was one, she just dropped out and endorsed Mills to try and block Platner, because of what he said about sexual assault in the military (she is a survivor).
February 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM
There was one, she just dropped out and endorsed Mills to try and block Platner, because of what he said about sexual assault in the military (she is a survivor).
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Is Bernie capable at 84? Since he’s running for yet another six year Senate term?
If you don’t have this sauce for Sanders, ask yourself why, then sit down.
If you don’t have this sauce for Sanders, ask yourself why, then sit down.
Come on, Janet Mills is only
*looks up age*
Wrf it’s a 6 year term starting next year, people!
And it’s “good news” she’s the front runner because if nothing else I feel sure she’s not in any way a Nazi.
She just has to be fully capable of being a US Senator until she’s 85.
*looks up age*
Wrf it’s a 6 year term starting next year, people!
And it’s “good news” she’s the front runner because if nothing else I feel sure she’s not in any way a Nazi.
She just has to be fully capable of being a US Senator until she’s 85.
February 15, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Is Bernie capable at 84? Since he’s running for yet another six year Senate term?
If you don’t have this sauce for Sanders, ask yourself why, then sit down.
If you don’t have this sauce for Sanders, ask yourself why, then sit down.
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I redirect everyone’s attention to JIM MACKAY, a book-banning, Great Replacement Theory-touting hard right-winger who *has changed his name* to J. GORDON MITCHELL to run as a Democrat in Texas’ 17th Congressional district
I also am baffled that people are assuming this super checkered barely known guy will be super progressive as though we're not living in a post Fetterman universe.
It's nuts that these are the two candidates the respective wings of the Maine Dems have coughed up. I am positive there are, somewhere in the state, a moderate who's not 97 years old and a progressive who doesn't have nazi tattoos.
February 15, 2026 at 5:15 PM
I redirect everyone’s attention to JIM MACKAY, a book-banning, Great Replacement Theory-touting hard right-winger who *has changed his name* to J. GORDON MITCHELL to run as a Democrat in Texas’ 17th Congressional district
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Janet Mills is not 97 years old, nor does she have Nazi tattoos which she tries to pretend away.
Nice try equating the qualified two term governor with a Nazi fuck who joined the military to shoot people for fun. He literally said he wanted to shoot people.
We see the misogyny & ageism. We vote.
Nice try equating the qualified two term governor with a Nazi fuck who joined the military to shoot people for fun. He literally said he wanted to shoot people.
We see the misogyny & ageism. We vote.
February 15, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Janet Mills is not 97 years old, nor does she have Nazi tattoos which she tries to pretend away.
Nice try equating the qualified two term governor with a Nazi fuck who joined the military to shoot people for fun. He literally said he wanted to shoot people.
We see the misogyny & ageism. We vote.
Nice try equating the qualified two term governor with a Nazi fuck who joined the military to shoot people for fun. He literally said he wanted to shoot people.
We see the misogyny & ageism. We vote.
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I didn’t have a valentine on Valentines Day,
But none of us have a president on Presidents Day either.
But none of us have a president on Presidents Day either.
February 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I didn’t have a valentine on Valentines Day,
But none of us have a president on Presidents Day either.
But none of us have a president on Presidents Day either.
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The command to love & welcome the stranger is the most repeated mitzvah (commandment) in the Torah. Repeated 36 times, it is the bedrock of a just society.
Maybe maybe standing up like this will be the beginning of remembering who we are as Americans.
Mayor Mamdani says it beautifully.
Maybe maybe standing up like this will be the beginning of remembering who we are as Americans.
Mayor Mamdani says it beautifully.
This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.
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Welcome The Stranger
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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February 15, 2026 at 5:41 PM
The command to love & welcome the stranger is the most repeated mitzvah (commandment) in the Torah. Repeated 36 times, it is the bedrock of a just society.
Maybe maybe standing up like this will be the beginning of remembering who we are as Americans.
Mayor Mamdani says it beautifully.
Maybe maybe standing up like this will be the beginning of remembering who we are as Americans.
Mayor Mamdani says it beautifully.
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<<taps sign>> Harming someone and demanding gratitude for it is what abusers do.
Tom Homan on Gov. Walz and Mayor Frey: "They ought to be saying 'thank you.'"
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
<<taps sign>> Harming someone and demanding gratitude for it is what abusers do.
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The damage caused by Operation Metro Surge doesn’t disappear just because it’s ending. Families were torn apart. Small businesses lost millions. Students’ learning was disrupted.
We’re focused on supporting our neighbors and small businesses as we move forward. They need us more than ever.
We’re focused on supporting our neighbors and small businesses as we move forward. They need us more than ever.
February 15, 2026 at 5:41 PM
The damage caused by Operation Metro Surge doesn’t disappear just because it’s ending. Families were torn apart. Small businesses lost millions. Students’ learning was disrupted.
We’re focused on supporting our neighbors and small businesses as we move forward. They need us more than ever.
We’re focused on supporting our neighbors and small businesses as we move forward. They need us more than ever.
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'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt
February 15, 2026 at 5:43 PM
'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt
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Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
Wendy Bohon has built a TikTok following as an earthquake geologist. She helps lead earthquake work for the California Geological Survey.
How a TikToker and former actress is helping lead California’s earthquake work
Wendy Bohon has built a TikTok following as an earthquake geologist. She helps lead earthquake work for the California Geological Survey.
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February 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title…
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
“How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work”
Way to devalue my experience.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
That’s going to be one very, very, very, long list….
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
A short note to Kristi Noem
To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one
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February 15, 2026 at 6:06 PM
That’s going to be one very, very, very, long list….
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Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court
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"We're just, you know, making them speak and detaining them if they have an accent, or else detaining them if we are reasonably suspicious that they are not white. It has nothing to do with racial profiling."
Homan: "When they say 'stop racial profiling' -- that's just not occurring. ICE will briefly detain and question somebody based on reasonable suspicion. It has nothing to do with racial profiling."
February 15, 2026 at 5:52 PM
"We're just, you know, making them speak and detaining them if they have an accent, or else detaining them if we are reasonably suspicious that they are not white. It has nothing to do with racial profiling."
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"In at least 4,421 cases, more than 400 federal judges ruled since the beginning of October that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding people illegally as it carries out its mass-deportation campaign."
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
"In at least 4,421 cases, more than 400 federal judges ruled since the beginning of October that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding people illegally as it carries out its mass-deportation campaign."
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Something about Platner rubbed me the wrong way when I saw his first campaign ad. I didn’t like the gratuitous cheap-shot at his own supposed political party for one thing, and it seemed like he was trying too hard to portray himself as a rugged independent.
February 15, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Something about Platner rubbed me the wrong way when I saw his first campaign ad. I didn’t like the gratuitous cheap-shot at his own supposed political party for one thing, and it seemed like he was trying too hard to portray himself as a rugged independent.
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Agreed. He resented the vetting that is always done by a party when there's a new candidate. Like he expected to just be accepted and not have to prove himself.
That shows lack of sophistication & utterly no experience. Add to that his sordid past, love of killing and Nazi tattoo -- and NO THANKS
That shows lack of sophistication & utterly no experience. Add to that his sordid past, love of killing and Nazi tattoo -- and NO THANKS
February 15, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Agreed. He resented the vetting that is always done by a party when there's a new candidate. Like he expected to just be accepted and not have to prove himself.
That shows lack of sophistication & utterly no experience. Add to that his sordid past, love of killing and Nazi tattoo -- and NO THANKS
That shows lack of sophistication & utterly no experience. Add to that his sordid past, love of killing and Nazi tattoo -- and NO THANKS
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I'm sick and tired of people blaming shitty, bigoted decisions on PTSD and other mental health issues.
*I* live with SEVERE PTSD and I've never gotten a Nazi tattoo, either knowingly or unknowingly.
Also, tattoo artists will tell you not to get a tattoo if it doesn't hold deep meaning for you.
*I* live with SEVERE PTSD and I've never gotten a Nazi tattoo, either knowingly or unknowingly.
Also, tattoo artists will tell you not to get a tattoo if it doesn't hold deep meaning for you.
February 15, 2026 at 4:59 PM
I'm sick and tired of people blaming shitty, bigoted decisions on PTSD and other mental health issues.
*I* live with SEVERE PTSD and I've never gotten a Nazi tattoo, either knowingly or unknowingly.
Also, tattoo artists will tell you not to get a tattoo if it doesn't hold deep meaning for you.
*I* live with SEVERE PTSD and I've never gotten a Nazi tattoo, either knowingly or unknowingly.
Also, tattoo artists will tell you not to get a tattoo if it doesn't hold deep meaning for you.
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And reminding everyone that he certainly did not think it was any of those things
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CNN confirms that multiple sources suggest Graham Platner knew his tattoo was a Nazi symbol years prior to launching his campaign — and is now blatantly lying about it.
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February 15, 2026 at 5:10 PM
And reminding everyone that he certainly did not think it was any of those things
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Platner's official story is that he left the Marines and joined the Army because he had forearm tattoos, which the USMC prohibited. However, IIRC, at the time, the USMC did allow up to 2 forearm tattoos, which was all he had. So the story doesn't add up.
February 15, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Platner's official story is that he left the Marines and joined the Army because he had forearm tattoos, which the USMC prohibited. However, IIRC, at the time, the USMC did allow up to 2 forearm tattoos, which was all he had. So the story doesn't add up.
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He's such a transparently obvious dishonest habitual liar, that ALONE should be enough to reject him for public office.
I don't understand how people can not see something so blindingly obvious.
I don't understand how people can not see something so blindingly obvious.
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
He's such a transparently obvious dishonest habitual liar, that ALONE should be enough to reject him for public office.
I don't understand how people can not see something so blindingly obvious.
I don't understand how people can not see something so blindingly obvious.