@catladylibrarian.bsky.social
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
issuu.com/idsnews/docs...
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What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?
October 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?
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If you march, protest, call, write-
Be sure to remain peaceful. Nothing pisses off republicans more than decency & civility.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
Be sure to remain peaceful. Nothing pisses off republicans more than decency & civility.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
October 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
If you march, protest, call, write-
Be sure to remain peaceful. Nothing pisses off republicans more than decency & civility.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
Be sure to remain peaceful. Nothing pisses off republicans more than decency & civility.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks
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And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland
October 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland
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ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
October 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans
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FRIENDLY REMINDER:
Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.
Trump and Republicans in Congress are choosing to shutdown the government rather than help 22 million Americans afford their health insurance.
Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.
Trump and Republicans in Congress are choosing to shutdown the government rather than help 22 million Americans afford their health insurance.
September 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
FRIENDLY REMINDER:
Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.
Trump and Republicans in Congress are choosing to shutdown the government rather than help 22 million Americans afford their health insurance.
Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.
Trump and Republicans in Congress are choosing to shutdown the government rather than help 22 million Americans afford their health insurance.
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Welcome to Trump’s America, where they fire Karen Attiah and Matthew Dowd for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s right-wing extremism and applaud Brian Kilmeade for suggesting we murder the homeless.
September 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Welcome to Trump’s America, where they fire Karen Attiah and Matthew Dowd for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s right-wing extremism and applaud Brian Kilmeade for suggesting we murder the homeless.
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They are so fucking good at gaslighting, it never ceases to amaze.
September 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
They are so fucking good at gaslighting, it never ceases to amaze.
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Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏
This shit is happening in Florida, too, only more quietly. Deans are regularly strangling readings, grants, entire courses. They do it all verbally. No paper trail, no policies cited, just vague threats about the need to "follow the laws." Colleagues in China report less surveillance over teaching
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
September 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏
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No one should be permitted to own a weapon that has the power to kill or maim dozens of people in seconds, at the mere touch of a button. No one. The fetishization of weaponry and death is a sickness and needs to be treated as such.
August 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
No one should be permitted to own a weapon that has the power to kill or maim dozens of people in seconds, at the mere touch of a button. No one. The fetishization of weaponry and death is a sickness and needs to be treated as such.
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*resets "days since republicans spoke in favor of slavery" counter back to zero*
Sen. Hagerty on his legal rationale for not counting undocumented immigrants in the census: "There's a constitutional interpretation I think that has been misapplied that goes back to slavery days and what portion of a person is going to be counted."
August 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
*resets "days since republicans spoke in favor of slavery" counter back to zero*
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Read this letter.
And to hell with Paramount.
And to hell with Paramount.
A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda.
This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵
This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵
August 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Read this letter.
And to hell with Paramount.
And to hell with Paramount.
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I know nobody under 30 will believe me, but this is the sort of scandal that ended careers, back in the before-times. Congressional hearings, weeks worth of Nightline reports, the whole works. The press _lived_ for this stuff.
What good is being VP if you can't abuse your power to have the Army Corps of Engineers making your kayaking trip more ideal by changing the waterflow of a lake?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
August 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I know nobody under 30 will believe me, but this is the sort of scandal that ended careers, back in the before-times. Congressional hearings, weeks worth of Nightline reports, the whole works. The press _lived_ for this stuff.
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Texas is drawing its new maps, and it’s worse than just gerrymandering. It’s redlining. Democrats need to fight back tooth and nail. Watch Rick Wilson explain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=619s...
July 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Texas is drawing its new maps, and it’s worse than just gerrymandering. It’s redlining. Democrats need to fight back tooth and nail. Watch Rick Wilson explain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=619s...
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Nice of Nevada to give a man with repeated mental problems a fucking machine gun.
July 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Nice of Nevada to give a man with repeated mental problems a fucking machine gun.
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I do not care that you are not “surprised.” Please. You have no idea how tiresome it is when you post that something horrible, fascist, authoritarian is “not surprising.” Nothing is “surprising” anymore. But a lot of it is horrible and frightening. Let’s deal with it together.
July 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Are we great yet?
July 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Are we great yet?
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Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.
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Ok sure, but what does that have to do with the USA? Oh wait...
Secret police, from the dictionary:
"a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public."
"a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public."
July 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Ok sure, but what does that have to do with the USA? Oh wait...
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Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
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I am no fan of Springer, but to preempt objections that this is hyperbolic language, the Nazis literally banned the same journals and justified the decision using very similar rhetoric.
"Woke science" seems to be the new "Jewish physics".
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature
The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I am no fan of Springer, but to preempt objections that this is hyperbolic language, the Nazis literally banned the same journals and justified the decision using very similar rhetoric.