Cokie
@cokiea.bsky.social
Rare book crone. Cat lady. Knitter. Gardening enthusiast. Library supporter. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally.
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Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for December 2, 2025 | GoComics
Read Breaking Cat News—a comic strip by creator Georgia Dunn—for today, December 2, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
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December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.
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My best understanding here from occasionally reading freight guy Twitter is that freight traffic has dropped precipitously under Trump (tariffs), the white freight guys want remaining jobs for themselves, so: no more schools that license immigrants
The U.S. Transportation Department is threatening to shut down thousands of truck driving schools, part of the Trump administration's widening crackdown on industry.
Thousands of U.S. trucking schools could lose accreditation under DOT crackdown
The U.S. Transportation Department is threatening to shut down thousands of truck driving schools, part of the Trump administration's widening crackdown on industry.
n.pr
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
My best understanding here from occasionally reading freight guy Twitter is that freight traffic has dropped precipitously under Trump (tariffs), the white freight guys want remaining jobs for themselves, so: no more schools that license immigrants
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sick fucks, truly
Both of these were published in the last 14 months and are part of a larger right wing project designed to build the permission structure for Christians to embrace a selfish, cruel, and fascistic vision of Christianity by redefining one of the central teachings of the New Testament and Jesus Christ
December 2, 2025 at 5:20 AM
sick fucks, truly
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This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
December 2, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This administration is filled with the absolute dumbest, meanest, cruelest pieces of shit.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
And they're so *proud* to be dumb, mean, cruel pieces of shit too. They delight in it. They brag about it.
It's vice signaling as a way of life.
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Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug
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“A UAB physician who used AI to make hospital respirators safer may move abroad because of his parents’ problems with the U.S. immigration system…Tlimat is a critical care physician at UAB with a background in software engineering. He came to the country as a Syrian refugee in 2013.”
UAB physician and AI innovator may leave US due to parents’ immigration limbo
Dr. Tlimat said his life feels like a roller coaster due to his parents’ situation
www.al.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
“A UAB physician who used AI to make hospital respirators safer may move abroad because of his parents’ problems with the U.S. immigration system…Tlimat is a critical care physician at UAB with a background in software engineering. He came to the country as a Syrian refugee in 2013.”
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I played in the NFL, which, I promise you, has access to healthcare strategies that the average person just doesn’t have, and where cost really isn’t an issue.
You don’t do MRIs on a whim.
You don’t do MRIs on a whim.
I agree it’s a bit unusual. But I would think the president has access to healthcare strategies that the average person just doesn’t have and the cost isn’t really an issue.
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I played in the NFL, which, I promise you, has access to healthcare strategies that the average person just doesn’t have, and where cost really isn’t an issue.
You don’t do MRIs on a whim.
You don’t do MRIs on a whim.
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i spent a little while going through the AIDS quilt and picked out a few panels that stuck out to me for one reason or another. may the memories of all these beautiful, far too young souls be a blessing.
December 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
i spent a little while going through the AIDS quilt and picked out a few panels that stuck out to me for one reason or another. may the memories of all these beautiful, far too young souls be a blessing.
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Texas Tech has decided it wants to be a football program affiliated with something equivalent to an air conditioning repair school
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
December 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Texas Tech has decided it wants to be a football program affiliated with something equivalent to an air conditioning repair school
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Quite possibly the greatest friend the gays ever had
It's hard to overstate the impact Taylor had as an AIDS fundraiser. $100 million is an estimate that doesn't include nine-figure bequests to AIDS charities.
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Quite possibly the greatest friend the gays ever had
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When Biden gave the worst debate performance in history, my job as a neutral reporter was to write about it incessantly until he dropped out. When Trump gave the second worst debate performance in history, against Harris, my job was to lend credence to his claim that immigrants were eating pets.
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
When Biden gave the worst debate performance in history, my job as a neutral reporter was to write about it incessantly until he dropped out. When Trump gave the second worst debate performance in history, against Harris, my job was to lend credence to his claim that immigrants were eating pets.
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I wonder if he was smart enough to get Hegseth's order in writing or not
The fall guy. Though he is probably also guilty of first degree murder.
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I wonder if he was smart enough to get Hegseth's order in writing or not
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Opinion | The state of Louisiana owes $172 million to three men who coached or will coach the LSU football team. Here's my scolding op-ed about a blue state's investment in a middle school math tutoring program.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Opinion | The state of Louisiana owes $172 million to three men who coached or will coach the LSU football team. Here's my scolding op-ed about a blue state's investment in a middle school math tutoring program.
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Jeffries: "It even appears that the Trump administration was ready to put forth a plan that would at least have been worthy of consideration, and that Mike Johnson tanked it. So now Mike Johnson wants to act like he's the Speaker of the House?"
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Jeffries: "It even appears that the Trump administration was ready to put forth a plan that would at least have been worthy of consideration, and that Mike Johnson tanked it. So now Mike Johnson wants to act like he's the Speaker of the House?"
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Jeffries refers to Mike Johnson as "deputy speaker"
December 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Jeffries refers to Mike Johnson as "deputy speaker"
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College students are shuffling through school without doing any reading or writing. Tech is trying to automate the making of music. You get called pretentious for insisting that people know basic words. We are regressing by every measure.
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
College students are shuffling through school without doing any reading or writing. Tech is trying to automate the making of music. You get called pretentious for insisting that people know basic words. We are regressing by every measure.
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No offense but I think we underestimate how many of our current problems, both cultural and political, are downstream of the decline in reading, the decline in learning and the loss of interest in the humanities.
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
No offense but I think we underestimate how many of our current problems, both cultural and political, are downstream of the decline in reading, the decline in learning and the loss of interest in the humanities.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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this should help their reputation
December 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
this should help their reputation
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Russia is invading Ukraine. It is important that Ukraine pay the price. Preferably to us directly.
by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff
by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Russia is invading Ukraine. It is important that Ukraine pay the price. Preferably to us directly.
by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff
by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff
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Trump has exploded the cost of healthcare and groceries, ordered extrajudicial killings, destroyed the CDC, lined his pockets with bribes, and pardoned hundreds of unrepentant criminals. But for American voters, the alternative was unthinkable: a raspy-voiced president who wore Hoka sneakers.
December 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Trump has exploded the cost of healthcare and groceries, ordered extrajudicial killings, destroyed the CDC, lined his pockets with bribes, and pardoned hundreds of unrepentant criminals. But for American voters, the alternative was unthinkable: a raspy-voiced president who wore Hoka sneakers.
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It would be nice if @cnn.com acknowledged this story was broken last week by The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-emplo...
December 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It would be nice if @cnn.com acknowledged this story was broken last week by The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-emplo...
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This feels like maga on maga leaking. You don’t leak to Miranda Devine at the ny post unless you consider her to be a legit journalist, If you consider her to be legit then…..
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This feels like maga on maga leaking. You don’t leak to Miranda Devine at the ny post unless you consider her to be a legit journalist, If you consider her to be legit then…..
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The Platonic ideal of an NPR listener post:
The desk isn’t even tiny
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The Platonic ideal of an NPR listener post: