Catherine
@itsmecb.bsky.social
Trying to stay engaged without losing my mind. Meditation/Sound/Nature.
Block-maga, crypto and anything resembling a dating profile🙄
Block-maga, crypto and anything resembling a dating profile🙄
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The National Park Service will offer free admission to U.S. residents on President Donald Trump’s birthday next year — which also happens to be Flag Day — but is eliminating the benefit for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth.
National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday
The National Park Service will no longer offer free admission to Americans on Martin Luther King Jr.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The National Park Service will offer free admission to U.S. residents on President Donald Trump’s birthday next year — which also happens to be Flag Day — but is eliminating the benefit for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth.
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Thread.👇
ICE detain breastfeeding mother—rip 6 month old baby out of her arms.
Only reason she overstayed visa was her high risk pregnancy—doctors forbid travel due to health.
Agent told her: "I'm sorry. We've tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders."
San Diego, California
Only reason she overstayed visa was her high risk pregnancy—doctors forbid travel due to health.
Agent told her: "I'm sorry. We've tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders."
San Diego, California
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Thread.👇
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'Big Short' investor Michael Burry accuses AI hyperscalers of artificially boosting earnings share.google/q4ckWedPcIa5...
'Big Short' investor Michael Burry accuses AI hyperscalers of artificially boosting earnings
Burry alleged that "hyperscalers" are artificially boosting earnings by extending the useful life of their computer equipment.
share.google
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
'Big Short' investor Michael Burry accuses AI hyperscalers of artificially boosting earnings share.google/q4ckWedPcIa5...
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Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protest outside Chicago-area ICE facility reut.rs/49lQnWS
Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protest outside Chicago-area ICE facility
Nearly two dozen people were arrested as faith leaders protested on Friday outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago, authorities said, the latest sign of tensions over the Trump administration's aggressive enforcement push.
reut.rs
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protest outside Chicago-area ICE facility reut.rs/49lQnWS
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Again: This entire shutdown fight is one big advertisement for #MedicareForAll
Making a broken system less bad is not a real answer and never was.
Making a broken system less bad is not a real answer and never was.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Again: This entire shutdown fight is one big advertisement for #MedicareForAll
Making a broken system less bad is not a real answer and never was.
Making a broken system less bad is not a real answer and never was.
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THE SUPREME COURT WON’T REVISIT GAY MARRIAGE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
Supreme Court won't revisit landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
Kim Davis asked the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges appealing damages she owed a gay couple after she denied them a marriage license.
www.usatoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
THE SUPREME COURT WON’T REVISIT GAY MARRIAGE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
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"The Zuckerberg compound’s expansion became a concern for Crescent Park neighbours as early as 2016, due to fears his purchases were driving up the market. Then, about 5 years later, neighbors noticed a school appeared to be operating out of the Zuckerberg compound…" www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.
www.wired.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"The Zuckerberg compound’s expansion became a concern for Crescent Park neighbours as early as 2016, due to fears his purchases were driving up the market. Then, about 5 years later, neighbors noticed a school appeared to be operating out of the Zuckerberg compound…" www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
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“In ‘Purge, Merge, and Surge,’ Moynihan details how the administration is creating a federal ‘omniforce’ accountable to Trump that he can use to ‘impose control over Democratic cities, instigate enough unrest to justify escalation, and tamp down any dissent.’”
www.publicnotice.co/p/don-moynih...
www.publicnotice.co/p/don-moynih...
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“In ‘Purge, Merge, and Surge,’ Moynihan details how the administration is creating a federal ‘omniforce’ accountable to Trump that he can use to ‘impose control over Democratic cities, instigate enough unrest to justify escalation, and tamp down any dissent.’”
www.publicnotice.co/p/don-moynih...
www.publicnotice.co/p/don-moynih...
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A traditional Native American ceremony is held at the Broadview.
ICE Facility In Chicago, featuring a spiritual round dance of healing.
ICE Facility In Chicago, featuring a spiritual round dance of healing.
September 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
A traditional Native American ceremony is held at the Broadview.
ICE Facility In Chicago, featuring a spiritual round dance of healing.
ICE Facility In Chicago, featuring a spiritual round dance of healing.
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Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.
September 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
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They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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First Colbert, now Kimmel, and Trump says Fallon and Meyers are next. We now join the ranks of Russia, Nazi Germany, and North Korea—places that persecute comedians and media personalities for dissent.
We won't back down. Make a contribution and join us: https://action.lincolnproject.us/donate
We won't back down. Make a contribution and join us: https://action.lincolnproject.us/donate
The Lincoln Project
The battle against Trump and Trumpism isn't over. Help keep us in the fight.
action.lincolnproject.us
September 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
First Colbert, now Kimmel, and Trump says Fallon and Meyers are next. We now join the ranks of Russia, Nazi Germany, and North Korea—places that persecute comedians and media personalities for dissent.
We won't back down. Make a contribution and join us: https://action.lincolnproject.us/donate
We won't back down. Make a contribution and join us: https://action.lincolnproject.us/donate
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"Trump, Vance, and their propaganda networks do not operate in good faith...The forces of liberalism should stop treating MAGA [as if it] is playing by the same rules...The people operating in good faith need to stop self-flagellating and surrendering preemptively."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Emergency Triad: First, They Came for Jimmy Kimmel
What happens when comedians are held to stricter standards than vice presidents?
open.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
"Trump, Vance, and their propaganda networks do not operate in good faith...The forces of liberalism should stop treating MAGA [as if it] is playing by the same rules...The people operating in good faith need to stop self-flagellating and surrendering preemptively."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
I really want eclipse season to be over.
September 18, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I really want eclipse season to be over.
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For those still keeping track of the lies, now Donald Trump was never an informant for the FBI against Epstein, as confirmed by the head of the FBI.
Enough with the lies. Release the files.
Enough with the lies. Release the files.
September 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
For those still keeping track of the lies, now Donald Trump was never an informant for the FBI against Epstein, as confirmed by the head of the FBI.
Enough with the lies. Release the files.
Enough with the lies. Release the files.
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“Health insurance costs in the United States are on track for their biggest jump in at least five years…
“For the 24 million enrollees of Affordable Care Act insurance plans, costs are expected to rise by more than 75 percent next year…”
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
“For the 24 million enrollees of Affordable Care Act insurance plans, costs are expected to rise by more than 75 percent next year…”
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Why your health insurance may soon cost a lot more
Millions will be paying substantially more for health insurance next year, according to multiple surveys. Insurers cited tariffs and demand for obesity drugs.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
“Health insurance costs in the United States are on track for their biggest jump in at least five years…
“For the 24 million enrollees of Affordable Care Act insurance plans, costs are expected to rise by more than 75 percent next year…”
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
“For the 24 million enrollees of Affordable Care Act insurance plans, costs are expected to rise by more than 75 percent next year…”
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Conversely: Why Use AI When You Could Just Try?
What are we losing by offloading our thinking to A.I.?
Why Even Try if You Have A.I.?
As A.I. grows more powerful, we may be more and more tempted to give up in advance and let it figure out things for us. What will we lose as a result?
www.newyorker.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Conversely: Why Use AI When You Could Just Try?
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The real issue isn’t left vs right.
It’s not white vs black.
It’s not citizen vs immigrant.
It’s not gay vs straight.
The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.
It’s not white vs black.
It’s not citizen vs immigrant.
It’s not gay vs straight.
The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.
September 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The real issue isn’t left vs right.
It’s not white vs black.
It’s not citizen vs immigrant.
It’s not gay vs straight.
The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.
It’s not white vs black.
It’s not citizen vs immigrant.
It’s not gay vs straight.
The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.
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This.👇
September 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
This.👇
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"Kavanaugh penned a concurrence confirming that, yes, the conservative justices are motivated by gutter racism, and they absolutely do intend to shred five decades of jurisprudence. YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT THEY ORDERED THE CONSTITUTIONAL CODE RED, SON! And they’ll do it again." — @lizdye.bsky.social
Brett Kavanaugh explains that SCOTUS really IS doing racism
He showed his whole hood.
www.publicnotice.co
September 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"Kavanaugh penned a concurrence confirming that, yes, the conservative justices are motivated by gutter racism, and they absolutely do intend to shred five decades of jurisprudence. YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT THEY ORDERED THE CONSTITUTIONAL CODE RED, SON! And they’ll do it again." — @lizdye.bsky.social
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You shouldn’t have to walk around with papers in the United States of America to prove that you belong.
All I can say is that this administration should understand Chicago is a place that’s going to protect its people.
All I can say is that this administration should understand Chicago is a place that’s going to protect its people.
Why Gov. Pritzker says Trump's threats to Chicago make him worry about 2026 elections
Steve Inskeep speaks with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker about President Trump's threats to send National Guard troops to Chicago and the future of the Democratic Party.
www.npr.org
September 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
You shouldn’t have to walk around with papers in the United States of America to prove that you belong.
All I can say is that this administration should understand Chicago is a place that’s going to protect its people.
All I can say is that this administration should understand Chicago is a place that’s going to protect its people.
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US immigration agents arrest hundreds at Hyundai plant, mostly Koreans reut.rs/4pgcrHW
US immigration agents arrest hundreds at Hyundai plant, mostly Koreans
Hundreds of workers at a Hyundai Motor car battery facility under construction in Georgia were detained in a raid by U.S. authorities on Thursday, stopping work on a plant that is one of the Korean automaker's major investments in the U.S.
reut.rs
September 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
US immigration agents arrest hundreds at Hyundai plant, mostly Koreans reut.rs/4pgcrHW