Catharine Robertson
@cathro.bsky.social
Storyteller, writer, planner, traveler. MFA candidate. Anti-fascist. I ❤️ Baltimore & Arsenal. catharinerobertson.com
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
For followers who are readers, the best books you can read to understand how we got here are @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's Hiding In Plain Sight (the reason Trump File exists) and They Knew. The best for understanding why we're doomed: How Democracies Die. amzn.to/45Xw1B4
Hiding in Plain Sight
Hiding in Plain Sight [Kendzior, Sarah] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Hiding in Plain Sight
amzn.to
September 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
For followers who are readers, the best books you can read to understand how we got here are @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's Hiding In Plain Sight (the reason Trump File exists) and They Knew. The best for understanding why we're doomed: How Democracies Die. amzn.to/45Xw1B4
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
"We have a much better chance of combatting autocracy if people are creative instead of reactive....Do not let Donald Trump be the most important person in your life."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
Mafia State Survival: Your Questions Answered
On Epstein, Trump, and getting by.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"We have a much better chance of combatting autocracy if people are creative instead of reactive....Do not let Donald Trump be the most important person in your life."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...
The Lancet details how the US govt is retroactively changing federal health datasets upon which scientific and public health understanding is built. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Data manipulation within the US Federal Government
A US Department of Veterans Affairs dataset compiling veteran health-care use in 2021
was quietly amended on March 5, 2025. A column titled gender was renamed sex, and
the words were also switched in ...
www.thelancet.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Lancet details how the US govt is retroactively changing federal health datasets upon which scientific and public health understanding is built. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
DC police now referring press inquiries to the White House:
August 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
DC police now referring press inquiries to the White House:
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
One thing that our own Jim-Crow history of domestic fascism reminds us is that in order to maintain a fear-based order, agents of repression must respond to minor provocations with overwhelming, disproportionate force.
Something about how they need to harshly criminalize the throwing of a sandwich at a fascist precisely because it's the kind of expressive act that goes past liberalism's expression as "communicate your ideas" into the articulation of a desire, warning, and even a threat
August 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
One thing that our own Jim-Crow history of domestic fascism reminds us is that in order to maintain a fear-based order, agents of repression must respond to minor provocations with overwhelming, disproportionate force.
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
Mark Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
August 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Mark Luckovich, Atlanta Journal Constitution
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
August 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#JournalismIsNotACrime
August 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#JournalismIsNotACrime
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.
never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
August 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Sickening. Every journalist in America should think deeply about the fact that most American politicians are willing to accept and indeed facilitate the murder of our colleagues.
Last week to submit!
What are your values? How do you know? Yellow Arrow is seeking poetry & CNF by Baltimore writers & artists who identify as women for YA Vignette BLAZE.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/vignette
#poetry #CNF #womenwriters #smallpress #baltimorewriters #literaryjournal
What are your values? How do you know? Yellow Arrow is seeking poetry & CNF by Baltimore writers & artists who identify as women for YA Vignette BLAZE.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/vignette
#poetry #CNF #womenwriters #smallpress #baltimorewriters #literaryjournal
June 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Last week to submit!
What are your values? How do you know? Yellow Arrow is seeking poetry & CNF by Baltimore writers & artists who identify as women for YA Vignette BLAZE.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/vignette
#poetry #CNF #womenwriters #smallpress #baltimorewriters #literaryjournal
What are your values? How do you know? Yellow Arrow is seeking poetry & CNF by Baltimore writers & artists who identify as women for YA Vignette BLAZE.
yellowarrowpublishing.com/vignette
#poetry #CNF #womenwriters #smallpress #baltimorewriters #literaryjournal
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan:
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I've quoted this passage from Trump -- where he states his intent to cause riots and US economic collapse -- so many times. He flat-out announced it on Fox News in February 2014. In my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT I quote my own 2016 essay warning of his plan:
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides.
Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
The Last American Road Trip
The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her fami...
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides.
Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
I wrote about my new book, THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP, and the state of publishing in an autocratic America: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/someday-th...
"Someday, This Will Only Be a Memory"
On my new book, and cold and warm comforts.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I wrote about my new book, THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP, and the state of publishing in an autocratic America: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/someday-th...
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
If Watergate happened today, it would just be Saturday and forgotten the next week.
March 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If Watergate happened today, it would just be Saturday and forgotten the next week.
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
![[“The first people a dictator puts in jail are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreig3dcwrzxtvuj2hkgj2mg3rgwactm77awp4ygvxjuje5q67yact7m@jpeg)
March 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate
February 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
I’m not saying I was ready for this. But I can’t say I’m surprised by any of this.
People like me who write about race, global affairs, colonialism are often labeled race-baiters, activists, etc.
When all this time we’ve been warning of the harm, the authoritarianism America is capable of.
People like me who write about race, global affairs, colonialism are often labeled race-baiters, activists, etc.
When all this time we’ve been warning of the harm, the authoritarianism America is capable of.
February 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I’m not saying I was ready for this. But I can’t say I’m surprised by any of this.
People like me who write about race, global affairs, colonialism are often labeled race-baiters, activists, etc.
When all this time we’ve been warning of the harm, the authoritarianism America is capable of.
People like me who write about race, global affairs, colonialism are often labeled race-baiters, activists, etc.
When all this time we’ve been warning of the harm, the authoritarianism America is capable of.
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
So the FBI could surveil & then assassinate a 21 year old Civil Rights leader in 1969, but is powerless to take any steps to stop--checks notes--a 19 year old who goes by the name Big Balls from defunding and defrauding a $6 Trillion economy? Do I have that right?
February 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
So the FBI could surveil & then assassinate a 21 year old Civil Rights leader in 1969, but is powerless to take any steps to stop--checks notes--a 19 year old who goes by the name Big Balls from defunding and defrauding a $6 Trillion economy? Do I have that right?
“Fail fast” with the entire $6T treasury? I am sick to my stomach knowing how very cavalier and grandiose a 20-something developer can be.
As I reported exclusively this morning, Musk operatives have not only been given admin privileges on the central Treasury Dept payment system that handles 95% of the US govs budget they have also begun rewriting the code base with little or no advance planning or testing.
New Exclusive building on Wired's reporting: Musk operatives have already pushed live to production extensive code changes to the Treasury Department payment system which makes 95% of fed govs payments. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...
February 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“Fail fast” with the entire $6T treasury? I am sick to my stomach knowing how very cavalier and grandiose a 20-something developer can be.
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
OK, "Reclaim the Treasury Payment System" isn't a great rallying cry for getting the masses out in the streets. But if you're in the media and not writing about Musk's ongoing coup and not screaming, "Fire!," then you are doing it wrong
Here's my howl. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Here's my howl. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
The Musk/Trump coup will not be televised | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, why Dems can’t ignore the Chappell Roan vote.
www.inquirer.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
OK, "Reclaim the Treasury Payment System" isn't a great rallying cry for getting the masses out in the streets. But if you're in the media and not writing about Musk's ongoing coup and not screaming, "Fire!," then you are doing it wrong
Here's my howl. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Here's my howl. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Another day, another chance for me to say: Tech will not save us. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is a sleepy part of the Treasury Department. It’s also where, sources say, a 25-year-old engineer tied to Elon Musk has admin privileges over the code that controls So...
www.wired.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Another day, another chance for me to say: Tech will not save us. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
It’s a COUP. Call your reps every single day. It takes 10 seconds. This app has scripts. Phone calls are better than emails. Calls get tallied by staffers as evidence of citizens’ sentiment. Enough sentiment gets a rep to do things like what Van Hollen did yesterday.
5calls.org/issue/elon-m...
5calls.org/issue/elon-m...
Fight Against Elon Musk’s Government Takeover ⭑ 5 Calls
UPDATE (02/02/25): Musk and his DOGE team of personal allies have also now gained access to classified material including high-security intelligence …
5calls.org
February 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
It’s a COUP. Call your reps every single day. It takes 10 seconds. This app has scripts. Phone calls are better than emails. Calls get tallied by staffers as evidence of citizens’ sentiment. Enough sentiment gets a rep to do things like what Van Hollen did yesterday.
5calls.org/issue/elon-m...
5calls.org/issue/elon-m...
Reposted by Catharine Robertson
Remember that time the USA was under a cyber attack from the White House? And people rushed to save crucial scientific, educational, historical, arts, public health, and disaster preparedness information in multiple languages on the Wayback Machine web archive? That time is now. Go! web.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Remember that time the USA was under a cyber attack from the White House? And people rushed to save crucial scientific, educational, historical, arts, public health, and disaster preparedness information in multiple languages on the Wayback Machine web archive? That time is now. Go! web.archive.org
Another day, another chance for me to muse that @sarahkendzior.bsky.social hasn’t been wrong on this—not once.
Musk has access to loot the treasury. www.reuters.com/world/us/sen...
Musk has access to loot the treasury. www.reuters.com/world/us/sen...
Senior US Treasury official to exit after rift with Musk allies, report says
David Lebryk, the top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official, will leave following a clash with allies of billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk over payment system access, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Another day, another chance for me to muse that @sarahkendzior.bsky.social hasn’t been wrong on this—not once.
Musk has access to loot the treasury. www.reuters.com/world/us/sen...
Musk has access to loot the treasury. www.reuters.com/world/us/sen...