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Eternal HellCat War

@eternalcatwar.bsky.social

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poster Internet Himbo, biomedical R&D consultant, cat dad, IDIC 🖖 , staunch trans rights defender 🏳️‍⚧️ do not step to me re: covid unless you have had more than three (3) therapeutics EUA’d by the FDA, seriously shut the fuck up

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 3h

Imagine serving 15 years and making O-5 rank and your job is carrying around luggage for nazi barbie

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 4h

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

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Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 5h

oh god I love the TOWs lmao

Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 5h

da veggie gremlin

Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 5h

Just air fry the whole sandwich

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Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 6h

I lol’d

Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 6h

what the fuck

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 6h

I used to “play” (lose) at scrabble against a USC department chair as a teenager and I’m pretty sure he did this quite a bit

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12h

Vance spent years being fellated and fawned over as this intellectual titan of the New Right with piercing insights into the American psyche that you just HAD to pay attention to, and he really is just the most vilely demagogic bottom-feeder we've seen in national politics in a long, long time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎 @cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 16h

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 7h

Read my words. Ty.

Arrests and Protests at the Broadview ICE Facility

The Department of Homeland Security says that eleven people were arrested Saturday at a protest outside of the Broadview ICE facility.

www.turtlediaries.net

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

They like Trump and want to help him rule us like a king

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 6h

Why aren’t media outlets unmasking these scumbags?

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 9h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 6d

This isn’t actually a thread of different posts. It’s all just different cultivars of a single post

The “That's On Me, I Set the Bar Too Low” meme, but edited to reference Brassica oleracea. Text as follows:

Jake: I'm an expert on vegetables
Jess: Oh yeah? Name ten vegetables
Jake: Brassica oleracea
Jess: That's on me, I set the bar too low.

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Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 6h

radishes, brassica, and brassica

Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 6h

grifters and fascists got elected again

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Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 7h

turns out people don’t like living in shitty police states

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 7h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 14h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 7h

it looks like the alpha and omega of poop

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 7h

Like it really cannot be overstated how much Bovino is attempting to look the part of an obergruppenführer it’s undeniable.

Greg Bovino channeling his inner ss in an image from earlier today of him in host ss style uniform

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Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 7h

unhinged shit my dogg

Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 7h

right? what a wild move

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 7h

This, but for JRPGs

Scissors @rningscissors.bsky.social · 8h

Devour Your Nice Things
Burn the fancy candle.
Wear the special-occasion dress.
Pop the good bottle.
Scribble hurry slowly on the first page
of your leather-bound notebook.
Gorge on your pearls,
your cashmere, your silks.
Use the high-end eyeshadow
until the silver pan winks back.
Baptize your wrists in Baccarat Rouge,
a little extra for the collar.
Devour your nice things—
don't let the best go cold on your plate.
The anticipation of living is empty calories
and you were meant to be full.
Elise M Powers

Eternal HellCat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 7h

I have seen so many iterations of this and this is likely the best

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