KathCLeSage
@kcl71.bsky.social
Non-fiction editor/proofreader. Late-'80s-#GeneralHospital fan. Mom of 2 teens and 2 doggos. Merry golf widow. Depressed Dem. She/Her
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KathCLeSage
@kcl71.bsky.social
ยท Dec 14
Yes, we have to elect school board directors in 2025, people. Pull yourselves together.
UPDATE: We did it, guys! ๐๐๐ฅณ
NEXT UP: Blue Wave ๐ flipping the House and the Senate in the 2026 midterms.
NEXT UP: Blue Wave ๐ flipping the House and the Senate in the 2026 midterms.
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Really underlines how Amazon the eCommerce platform's business model has shifted toward cheap Temu-grade tat, 'Amazon Brand' garbage and, if it touches books at all, AI-generated eBooks and copy and pasted wikis.
The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
February 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Really underlines how Amazon the eCommerce platform's business model has shifted toward cheap Temu-grade tat, 'Amazon Brand' garbage and, if it touches books at all, AI-generated eBooks and copy and pasted wikis.
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you're deporting and killing people who are on the inside and who have lived most of their lives here.
Johnson doesn't realize it and wouldn't agree with it, but his love/hate line is an argument for amnesty.
Johnson doesn't realize it and wouldn't agree with it, but his love/hate line is an argument for amnesty.
Q: Pope Leo cited Matthew 25:35 to critique Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda. How would you respond to Pope Leo in scripture?
MIKE JOHNSON: Sovereign borders are biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside.
MIKE JOHNSON: Sovereign borders are biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside.
February 4, 2026 at 2:23 PM
you're deporting and killing people who are on the inside and who have lived most of their lives here.
Johnson doesn't realize it and wouldn't agree with it, but his love/hate line is an argument for amnesty.
Johnson doesn't realize it and wouldn't agree with it, but his love/hate line is an argument for amnesty.
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"Murray acknowledged that the Post has struggled to reach โcustomersโ and talked about the competitive media marketplace."
they fired all of their black columnists, turned the Op/Ed section into corporatist agitprop, and infected the journalism with anti-woke cack. "Why we aren't making money?"
they fired all of their black columnists, turned the Op/Ed section into corporatist agitprop, and infected the journalism with anti-woke cack. "Why we aren't making money?"
โItโs an absolute bloodbathโ: Washington Post undergoing significant layoffs as part of โstrategic resetโ
Employees were told Wednesday that the paperโs sports desk would close among other cuts and restructures
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:36 PM
"Murray acknowledged that the Post has struggled to reach โcustomersโ and talked about the competitive media marketplace."
they fired all of their black columnists, turned the Op/Ed section into corporatist agitprop, and infected the journalism with anti-woke cack. "Why we aren't making money?"
they fired all of their black columnists, turned the Op/Ed section into corporatist agitprop, and infected the journalism with anti-woke cack. "Why we aren't making money?"
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This Homan presser is completely incoherent. He started by announcing a drawdown of 700 agents (good!) but then pivoted to whining about "rhetoric" (bad) and suggested there will be more bloodshed if it doesn't stop (grim). Not clear to me that anything is actually changing on the ground here in MN.
February 4, 2026 at 2:21 PM
This Homan presser is completely incoherent. He started by announcing a drawdown of 700 agents (good!) but then pivoted to whining about "rhetoric" (bad) and suggested there will be more bloodshed if it doesn't stop (grim). Not clear to me that anything is actually changing on the ground here in MN.
Yeah, itโs pretty hard to deny weโre building concentration camps when weโre planning to literally warehouse people. ๐คฌ
The idea of buying commercial warehouses and converting them into detention camps is so viscerally chilling to people that it's being opposed even in places which might otherwise support new prisons.
Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed.
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
February 4, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Yeah, itโs pretty hard to deny weโre building concentration camps when weโre planning to literally warehouse people. ๐คฌ
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The idea of buying commercial warehouses and converting them into detention camps is so viscerally chilling to people that it's being opposed even in places which might otherwise support new prisons.
Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed.
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Trumpโs New โPrison Campโ Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICEโs big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:28 PM
The idea of buying commercial warehouses and converting them into detention camps is so viscerally chilling to people that it's being opposed even in places which might otherwise support new prisons.
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I'm old enough to remember when 7 Republican Congress members went to Russia on the 4th of July to commit treason by selling out US democracy
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Seven GOP lawmakers make a misguided trip to Russia
The problem has less to do with seven congressional Republicans going to Russia for the 4th of July and more to do with what they did while they were there.
www.ms.now
February 4, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I'm old enough to remember when 7 Republican Congress members went to Russia on the 4th of July to commit treason by selling out US democracy
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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"The manner in which the exhibits were stored was "completely disrespectful, demoralizing, defiling, and desecration."
gift link
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Presidentโs House slavery exhibits were โnot destroyedโ in storage, judge says after inspection
Michael Coard, leader of the Avenging the Ancestors Coalition, said the manner in which the exhibits were stored was "completely disrespectful, demoralizing, defiling, and desecration."
share.inquirer.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:04 AM
"The manner in which the exhibits were stored was "completely disrespectful, demoralizing, defiling, and desecration."
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Dehumanizing people is part of the playbook.
Aliyah Rahman: "I continue to hear the word 'bodies' because that is how agents refer to usโ'We're bringing in a body'โฆ'We can't use that room, there's already a body in there.' You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you are already being called a body."
February 3, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Dehumanizing people is part of the playbook.
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Trump's ICE has literally CAUSED 2/3 of Minnesota's homicides in the month of January, 2026.
Trump lies: "Minnesota, their crime, because of us -- because we've taken out thousands of criminals -- their crime is down. Not because of anybody else. Because of us."
February 4, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Trump's ICE has literally CAUSED 2/3 of Minnesota's homicides in the month of January, 2026.
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So is the Society for Military History. Too much history is being pulled down ๐๏ธ www.smh-hq.org/archivingres...
Archiving Resources Project | The Society for Military History
www.smh-hq.org
February 3, 2026 at 12:26 AM
So is the Society for Military History. Too much history is being pulled down ๐๏ธ www.smh-hq.org/archivingres...
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Folks:
This is important.
SHEARโthe Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)โis tracking examples of the regime erasing history.
More at the link below.
This is important.
SHEARโthe Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)โis tracking examples of the regime erasing history.
More at the link below.
Please circulate and share this important resource: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...
The Early Republic Tracker
The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the publicโs understanding American history from public historical sites, museโฆ
thepanorama.shear.org
February 2, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Folks:
This is important.
SHEARโthe Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)โis tracking examples of the regime erasing history.
More at the link below.
This is important.
SHEARโthe Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)โis tracking examples of the regime erasing history.
More at the link below.
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Remember her name: Aliya Rahman
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
Itโs powerful. Itโs gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GOโผ๏ธ
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
Itโs powerful. Itโs gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GOโผ๏ธ
February 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Remember her name: Aliya Rahman
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
Itโs powerful. Itโs gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GOโผ๏ธ
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
Itโs powerful. Itโs gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GOโผ๏ธ
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Itโs important to realize that the subtext of Trump freaking out at Kaitlan Collins when she asks him what heโd say to the Epstein survivors is that she may in practice be asking what heโd say to the *Trump* survivors, and they both know that. A well worded question
This isnโt some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epsteinโs sexual abuse.
February 4, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Itโs important to realize that the subtext of Trump freaking out at Kaitlan Collins when she asks him what heโd say to the Epstein survivors is that she may in practice be asking what heโd say to the *Trump* survivors, and they both know that. A well worded question
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โI had 7 bullet holes in my bodyโ
February 3, 2026 at 11:32 PM
โI had 7 bullet holes in my bodyโ
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There is no manner in which ICE agents now present themselves, no language they will direct at citizens or immigrants, no abuse or brutality they undertake, and no slaying they will commit that can at this point shock or surprise me. These thugs are not law enforcement. They are S.A. brownshirts.
February 4, 2026 at 1:51 AM
There is no manner in which ICE agents now present themselves, no language they will direct at citizens or immigrants, no abuse or brutality they undertake, and no slaying they will commit that can at this point shock or surprise me. These thugs are not law enforcement. They are S.A. brownshirts.
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Good time to reup this post from last month.
February 3, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Good time to reup this post from last month.
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Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.
February 4, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.
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James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epsteinโs neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.
February 4, 2026 at 1:36 AM
James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epsteinโs neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.
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apnews.com/article/pent...
MY SENATOR MARK KELLY WENT TO COURT TODAY
Judge Richard Leon, Bush appointed
Stated "You're making me do something the Supreme Court has never done
"ISN'T THAT A BIT OF A STRETCH?"
Judge hopes to rule by next Wednesday
WE STAND WITH SENATOR MARK KELLY
FREE SPEECH
MY SENATOR MARK KELLY WENT TO COURT TODAY
Judge Richard Leon, Bush appointed
Stated "You're making me do something the Supreme Court has never done
"ISN'T THAT A BIT OF A STRETCH?"
Judge hopes to rule by next Wednesday
WE STAND WITH SENATOR MARK KELLY
FREE SPEECH
Judge seems skeptical of legal justification for Pentagon's punishment of Sen. Mark Kelly
A federal judge says he knows of no U.S. Supreme Court precedent to justify the Pentagonโs censuring of a sitting U.S. senator who joined a videotaped plea for troops to resist unlawful orders from th...
apnews.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:04 AM
apnews.com/article/pent...
MY SENATOR MARK KELLY WENT TO COURT TODAY
Judge Richard Leon, Bush appointed
Stated "You're making me do something the Supreme Court has never done
"ISN'T THAT A BIT OF A STRETCH?"
Judge hopes to rule by next Wednesday
WE STAND WITH SENATOR MARK KELLY
FREE SPEECH
MY SENATOR MARK KELLY WENT TO COURT TODAY
Judge Richard Leon, Bush appointed
Stated "You're making me do something the Supreme Court has never done
"ISN'T THAT A BIT OF A STRETCH?"
Judge hopes to rule by next Wednesday
WE STAND WITH SENATOR MARK KELLY
FREE SPEECH
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Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot
February 3, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot
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All states must be ready to hold ICE accountable to the US Constitution and arrest and educate smug thugs like the guy below who thinks he can ignore the Fourth Amendment.
ICE agents entered a NJ building without a warrant, arrested someone. WA state governor Bob Ferguson sent a letter to DHS warning such unconstitutional acts, if done in WA state, may lead to the arrest of ICE agents. See below #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1TwZ...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=1TwZ...
Heated moment feds snaps at New Jersey official: โWe donโt need a warrant, broโ
YouTube video by The Sun
m.youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:27 AM
All states must be ready to hold ICE accountable to the US Constitution and arrest and educate smug thugs like the guy below who thinks he can ignore the Fourth Amendment.
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This made me weepy
February 4, 2026 at 1:38 AM
This made me weepy
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More attention here, please.
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:10 AM
More attention here, please.