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I’m not a cat

@deathtaxes.bsky.social

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Definitely a real human. Progressive. Equality and equal opportunity for all (but tax the rich). Federal Workers: We deeply appreciate you holding the line. Hang on as long as you can.

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 6h

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I’m not a cat @deathtaxes.bsky.social · 4h

There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 5h

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I’m not a cat @deathtaxes.bsky.social · 19h

All of them.

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mental health pixelslop @lewmo.bsky.social · 22h

good afternoon

an orange and white cat is cuddled by a brown tabby cat

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

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I’m not a cat @deathtaxes.bsky.social · 19h

Not to split hairs, but I don’t think you can do a favor for money. “Favor” is something you do as a kindness with no immediate return for you efforts. Commerce literally requires the exchange of goods (including $) or services. Using favorite here makes it seem like the business is doing extra.

I’m not a cat @deathtaxes.bsky.social · 21h

Laura! Laura! Do the Trump/Kushner family next! How did they make all that money??

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🍁 Danimac67 🍁 @danimac67.bsky.social · 21h

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I’m not a cat @deathtaxes.bsky.social · 22h

Wait, the customer should be submissive to the business or otherwise no “treats”? The customer is not always right, and everyone should be professional and respectful during any business transaction, but it seems odd to characterize it like the business is doing you a favor for money.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 1d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 1d

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I’m not a cat @deathtaxes.bsky.social · 1d

I think the scariest part is how convinced Bannon is that MAGA will control Congress after the 2026 midterms. Suggests to me that they are very confident they can rig it.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Mightymite @mightymite.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, in case anyone forgot, Muskrat and his little band of thieves stole all of our information a while back...

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I’m not a cat @deathtaxes.bsky.social · 1d

Not the first time this has been posted, but deserves remembering, particularly as MAGA refuses to open Congress and negotiate the draconian loss of ACA subsidies.

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Hunty Shade Fish (Marnie Baca) @huntyshadefish.bsky.social · 3d

‼️Killer Cops‼️
10/11/2021
#JermaineJonesJr was an‼️UNARMED‼️Black man who was tased, restrained, & sustained a severe head injury during an encounter w/ deputies #RichardRussell #ParkerLeathers
#ChristopherBrown #AaronPhillips #LeslieGaiter #JohnTarpley & #LoraHucko of #AugustaRichmond sheriff's dept.

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I’m not a cat @deathtaxes.bsky.social · 3d

I’m beginning to believe you are just some MAGA crank. You sure argue like one, i.e. unencumbered by logic or nuance.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

🚨Veteran wrongly detained by ICE, placed on suicide watch in a cell with no clothes. Only a hospital gown and a thin mattress on a concrete floor from Friday to Sunday. Lights on 24 hours/day. WTF, America? 1/2

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 3d

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#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3d

MSNBC is reporting that the DOJ is seeking an indictment of John Bolton.

I can’t stand that guy, and still: THIS IS SO WRONG.

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I’m not a cat @deathtaxes.bsky.social · 3d

Wait until @sincerelylisa.bsky.social finds out he used to approve (drone) airstrikes on innocent people too! It’s almost as if nuance and critical details don’t matter to her!

I’m not a cat @deathtaxes.bsky.social · 3d

Oh shit! Obama is a fascist too!