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into my plants, vhs, kicking it with my kid, and us politics. scientist teaching defense attorneys about faulty forensics. questionable music taste. new england coded. if you know me irl, no you don’t. 🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 6d

this tool lets you report ice and other law enforcement when you see them. it also displays a heat map of where law enforcement currently is, with fairly granular detail.

even better, no app for install tracking. use a vpn. stay safe and smart.

ICE Tea Watch

Report and track ICE and law enforcement presence anonymously.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1h

It's utterly devastating to see decades of progress for the disability community being wiped out in just a few months.

There was of course much work to be done, but now that effort will have to be devoted to clawing back the gains now being ripped away.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 10h

sometimes i put it on 0.7 speed to trick my brain into thinking it’s sleepier than it is

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 10h

and now i’m watching a spotify podcast episode she did about it lolol (laughing bc otherwise i would do violence)

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 10h

saturday morning gossip

a man in the park told my mother randomly that our dead relatives died so she could write a book. then she went and saw the long island medium.

now, she’s quitting her job and telling everyone she’s been writing a book for two years about our estrangement.

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 10h

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 22h

god they’re foaming so hard for violence and they’re not even trying to hide it anymore

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 22h

you might be on to something here

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

50° for friday night baseball, someone invent a heated bubble boy suit

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

ahah i fucking wish

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

my sister will be seeing my ex-husband in person for the first time since we separated six years ago and (makes sign of the cross)

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t realize he’s 4! That’s a hard choice, so def respect trying school. My son is 8 and still doesn’t use meds bc he has decent care at school. I know that’s not the case everywhere or for every kid, and you’ve got to do right by the little dude

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Gift link!

Inside Billionaire Peter Thiel’s Private Lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

By Nitasha Tiku, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Gerrit De Vynck

@nitasha.bsky.social @gerritd.bsky.social

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 1d

excuse me?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

work notes when you take them: shorthand! easy! intelligible!

work notes when you try to use them:

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

good luck. they probably will recommend guanfacine (non-stimulant) at first. TBH, i’ve been on stimulants before and now I’m on guanfacine and my personal opinion is that guanfacine rocks. no crashes, effects last ~24h. my body is helllaaaa calm compared to on adderall.

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

if something’s not true, happy to work together and figure it out/delete it, but: no, i will not fact check everything posted here! there’s a reason this isn’t a work account under my real name!

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

guys, if you’re using someone named legalcat as a legitimate journalistic source, i think i found the bigger problem

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

maybe it’s a boston thing, but people don’t adjust how they dress here much unless it gets below 55°

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

i didn’t know you could see the difference between 65° and 85° on video, my bad

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

apparently from calif. recently but i’m still glad to see it happening

Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 1d

I think I remember this from earlier this year, it was in a town or city near LA, not Chicago? It's good to see, but people are probably recycling clips now.

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

it was 84° in chicago on monday

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

the video’s not mine, friend. i only know what i know until i learn better. (i’m actually a human and not a cat, if that helps your understanding of things.)

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

i think it’s this strip on the right.

i’m glad it happened somewhere, but sad it’s misinformation about chicago

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legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

if you could read, you’d be so mad to see we’re currently discussing this

legal cat 🐾👻 @legalcat.bsky.social · 1d

we’re sussing it out! i didn’t realize

Cate @midcatecrisis.bsky.social · 1d

I think I remember this from earlier this year, it was in a town or city near LA, not Chicago? It's good to see, but people are probably recycling clips now.