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@chriscat.bsky.social

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Photographer, practicing Stoic, aspiring watercolorist, nature journaling, polar wanderer, PNW sagebrush steppes, gra-mama, owned by felines, retired hospital pharmacist, liberal AF, Elected official. Moral compass in good working order. 🦋💙

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🐈‍⬛ ChrisCat 🦋💙 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇨🇭🚨✊🏻🐈‍⬛ @chriscat.bsky.social · Feb 22

Start an Antifacist Book/Documentary Club!!!!! onoffense.substack.com/p/i-want-you...

I Want You! To Start an Antifascist Book Club

Explore key books and resources to understand and resist authoritarianism, and learn how local book clubs can empower you to go on offense for democracy.

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Yarvin is a real & present danger along with his buds like Thiel, Elon et al. Have you heard about California Freedom or Freedom Cities, which would grant public lands (maybe they have to pay?) to build their own cities w/little to no accountability to do f<>k-all. It’s dystopian as hell.

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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 18h

Trump biographer Michael Wolff says Epstein showed him Polaroids of Trump with topless teenage girls

When asked if she's seen those pics, AG Pam Bondi wouldn't say "No!"

And litigious Trump hasn't sued Wolff for defamation

#ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 18h

Guy who is zip-tying American children and shooting pastors on the head with pepper balls wants Peace Prize.

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Trump et al is nothing more than a robber baron for out times. And he isn’t even subtle about it.

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 18h

Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 #NobelPeacePrize. Well deserved!

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Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.

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The heart of a humanitarian? Sure, buddy. Everyday he shows how ‘humane’ he and his regimen is.

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Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, dear leader. You are a loser once again. Please note she won for promoting democratic rights in her nation, whilst you are busy stripping away ours. #Loser #Nobel

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Donald Trump did NOT win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado received the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democratic rights in her country.

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Oh dear…and a Venezuelan won it. He’ll say the Nobel Prize committee is Tren d’Agua…..LOL.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18h

Ha! I love this headline in TIME.

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No, it is not antifa/hamas lovers - it’s me. I’ll be there. An old middle-class white lady who wants better for her fellow citizens than what these goons have in store for us, esp those that are women, BIPOC, LGBTQ, immigrants & the future of young people. F<>k Johnson & the lies he rides in on.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18h

Betcha 20 bucks nine out of ten MAGA cultists don’t get this meme.

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I believe that the people want fair access to healthcare, not a goddamn triumphal arc. Will it have IQ47’s exploits carved into it? The unbuilt wall? His 2 impeachments? His convictions? His visage next to Epstein’s? His gold toilet? The lamentations of his own people? #ETTD

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Ironic considering how often they scream they want ‘FreeDUMB’.

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F<>k her & the Nazi she rode in on.

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Everyday I find myself on the verge of tears. I’m doing things to resist: ran for office, weekly protest, write/call legislators, attend big rallies, try to talk to people about the danger. The complacency & ‘both sides are the same’ is discouraging. It is so maddening. It’s beyond stupid.

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe Pritzker can offer to send in the IL National Guard

Chron.com @chron.com · 2d

Details surrounding the bloody string of shootings remain murky, police said.

4 dead in Houston-area shooting rampage starting in Sugar Land

Details surrounding the bloody string of shootings remain murky, police said.

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Governor Maura Healey @massgovernor.bsky.social · 2d

Never in the history of our great country has another President threatened to jail a Governor for disagreeing with him. I stand with Governor Pritzker and hope all Americans do as well. This is authoritarian insanity.

Donald Trump’s not fighting crime, he’s abusing power to attack opponents.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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theresaotis.bsky.social @theresaotis.bsky.social · 12d

😂😂😂😂

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theresaotis.bsky.social @theresaotis.bsky.social · 10d

I have to agree 😂😂

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theresaotis.bsky.social @theresaotis.bsky.social · 8d

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I live in eastern WA. I’m traveling in UT. In a conversation a guy from OH tells me that Seattle is ‘soooo bad, dangerous, full of gangs etc’. I reassure him that Seattle is fine & Portland isn’t a war zone regardless of what he hears on the news. No troops needed.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

We told anyone who would listen that boiling learning down to a multiple-choice question assessment at the end of each year would lead to teaching to the test. That teachers would feel forced to teach test-taking strategies rather than teaching life strategies

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Silencing Mockingbirds

Reading is resistance

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Kash was begging for a Community Note

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