Catherine
@kasperkat.bsky.social
Old and increasingly grumpy. Science fan dismayed by where we are heading🤦🏼♀️😿😿Avid reader. Baroque music would be favourite. Soon to retire after 45 years as a doctor, mostly a psychiatrist working with cancer services and palliative care.
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For what it's worth, I'm very much enjoying the switch to Qobuz
January 10, 2026 at 11:20 PM
For what it's worth, I'm very much enjoying the switch to Qobuz
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To people reading this. You can't just stop using spotify. You need to go in and deactivate your accounts. Otherwise they still show as "Active" to shareholders and make the company look more profitable than it is.
January 10, 2026 at 11:04 PM
To people reading this. You can't just stop using spotify. You need to go in and deactivate your accounts. Otherwise they still show as "Active" to shareholders and make the company look more profitable than it is.
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So...it's the white women that are longing for battle...not the cosplay warriors dressed in camouflage, waving guns around? Huh? WTF? LOL.
January 11, 2026 at 12:50 AM
So...it's the white women that are longing for battle...not the cosplay warriors dressed in camouflage, waving guns around? Huh? WTF? LOL.
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Op-Ed in the National Catholic Reporter is not pulling any punches.
“The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith”
“The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith”
January 10, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Op-Ed in the National Catholic Reporter is not pulling any punches.
“The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith”
“The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith”
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The Sikh Volunteers are out as usual, helping bushfire impacted areas. Details below, if you’re able to help with donations #victorianbushfires
The Melbourne based Sikh Volunteers Australia have been out providing meals + drinks to people in the #VictorianBushfire areas today + they’ll be there every day they’re needed. If you can chip in a few $’s to help them go to: sikhvolunteersaustralia.org/donation/
Give them a follow on FB too.
Give them a follow on FB too.
January 11, 2026 at 1:34 AM
The Sikh Volunteers are out as usual, helping bushfire impacted areas. Details below, if you’re able to help with donations #victorianbushfires
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Spotify hosts ICE ads. I’ve finally got off my butt to sign up to Tidal and quit Spotify. If everyone does the same, maybe they’ll pay attention.
January 10, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Spotify hosts ICE ads. I’ve finally got off my butt to sign up to Tidal and quit Spotify. If everyone does the same, maybe they’ll pay attention.
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Bizarre how obsessed Bhattacharya is with a random Canadian professor. I suppose I should be flattered? 🙏
Meantime, he has to live with the fact that he’s enabling a cruel & anti-science authoritarian regime.
Meantime, he has to live with the fact that he’s enabling a cruel & anti-science authoritarian regime.
And as people resign in protest from his failed, incompetent leadership, Podcast Jay bemoans the fate of his tweets in 2020.
January 11, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Bizarre how obsessed Bhattacharya is with a random Canadian professor. I suppose I should be flattered? 🙏
Meantime, he has to live with the fact that he’s enabling a cruel & anti-science authoritarian regime.
Meantime, he has to live with the fact that he’s enabling a cruel & anti-science authoritarian regime.
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As Always The Awesome Sikh Volunteers Australia Folks are on the ground helping #auspol #VictorianBushfires
THANK YOU 😊
THANK YOU 😊
The Melbourne based Sikh Volunteers Australia have been out providing meals + drinks to people in the #VictorianBushfire areas today + they’ll be there every day they’re needed. If you can chip in a few $’s to help them go to: sikhvolunteersaustralia.org/donation/
Give them a follow on FB too.
Give them a follow on FB too.
January 9, 2026 at 8:18 PM
As Always The Awesome Sikh Volunteers Australia Folks are on the ground helping #auspol #VictorianBushfires
THANK YOU 😊
THANK YOU 😊
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You have the means.
You’re on borrowed time.
Don’t wait until he cancels your ability to vote him out.
He & his cronies have been planning ALL of this for years.
He is not listening to any of you - he doesn’t care. He is a psychopath.
You’re on borrowed time.
Don’t wait until he cancels your ability to vote him out.
He & his cronies have been planning ALL of this for years.
He is not listening to any of you - he doesn’t care. He is a psychopath.
January 11, 2026 at 12:32 AM
You have the means.
You’re on borrowed time.
Don’t wait until he cancels your ability to vote him out.
He & his cronies have been planning ALL of this for years.
He is not listening to any of you - he doesn’t care. He is a psychopath.
You’re on borrowed time.
Don’t wait until he cancels your ability to vote him out.
He & his cronies have been planning ALL of this for years.
He is not listening to any of you - he doesn’t care. He is a psychopath.
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On Sunday night I'll be publishing the third entry in the PROOF series on Renee Good. It may be the longest in the series—and I already know it'll be the most upsetting.
Curatorial journalism excels at finding corners of urgent breaking news stories almost no one has seen; this report will do that.
Curatorial journalism excels at finding corners of urgent breaking news stories almost no one has seen; this report will do that.
January 11, 2026 at 12:51 AM
On Sunday night I'll be publishing the third entry in the PROOF series on Renee Good. It may be the longest in the series—and I already know it'll be the most upsetting.
Curatorial journalism excels at finding corners of urgent breaking news stories almost no one has seen; this report will do that.
Curatorial journalism excels at finding corners of urgent breaking news stories almost no one has seen; this report will do that.
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The doctor who was prevented from administering aid was indeed a medical doctor. He doesn't wish to speak to the media but I know his identity and can confirm the person who tried to help Renee Good and was prevented to by ICE is indeed an internal medicine doctor in Minnesota.
January 10, 2026 at 11:11 PM
The doctor who was prevented from administering aid was indeed a medical doctor. He doesn't wish to speak to the media but I know his identity and can confirm the person who tried to help Renee Good and was prevented to by ICE is indeed an internal medicine doctor in Minnesota.
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Fleeing the scene of a shooting is often cited as evidence of guilt in a court of law.
January 10, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Fleeing the scene of a shooting is often cited as evidence of guilt in a court of law.
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“The Oglala Sioux Tribe is seeking answers after four enrolled members were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis.”
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
ICE detains and holds four Native Americans, tribal leader says
Oglala Sioux Tribe demands action after ICE detains four members in Minneapolis. Tribal attorneys work to confirm identities and secure release.
www.newsweek.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:39 AM
“The Oglala Sioux Tribe is seeking answers after four enrolled members were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis.”
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
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We have to be clear about what the Trump Administration is doing: They are taking basic American virtues and freedoms — the ability to speak truth to power and freely — and turning them into crimes. We must see through this.
January 11, 2026 at 1:43 AM
We have to be clear about what the Trump Administration is doing: They are taking basic American virtues and freedoms — the ability to speak truth to power and freely — and turning them into crimes. We must see through this.
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👇
The CDC changed the universal vaccine schedule & no longer recommends
Rotavirus
Hepatitis A & B
Meningitis
Influenza
RSV
I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis.
We all are going to be caring for a lot more now.
In our already overflowing hospitals
Rotavirus
Hepatitis A & B
Meningitis
Influenza
RSV
I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis.
We all are going to be caring for a lot more now.
In our already overflowing hospitals
January 10, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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Part of the reason that the shootings keep happening is that immigration officials appear to have taken no steps to rein in agents who shoot civilians, Parente said.
Chicago Woman Shot by Border Patrol Reacts to Minneapolis ICE Killing: “Of Course This Happened”
“Unfortunately, it is going to continue to happen,” said the lawyer of Marimar Martinez, another woman who was shot by a federal agent in October.
interc.pt
January 11, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Part of the reason that the shootings keep happening is that immigration officials appear to have taken no steps to rein in agents who shoot civilians, Parente said.
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Authorities have foiled a plot to use an international livestock carrier ship to drop 525kg of cocaine into the ocean off Western Australia's coast. Strangely, our military wasn't used to blow the ship out of the water. 🤔
A 6th man has been arrested.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
A 6th man has been arrested.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Sixth man charged over alleged livestock carrier cocaine bust
A sixth man is charged over an alleged plot to import half a tonne of cocaine into Western Australia using an international livestock carrier.
www.abc.net.au
January 11, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Authorities have foiled a plot to use an international livestock carrier ship to drop 525kg of cocaine into the ocean off Western Australia's coast. Strangely, our military wasn't used to blow the ship out of the water. 🤔
A 6th man has been arrested.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
A 6th man has been arrested.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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Cashing in with fascism
These 10 companies stand to rake in $1 billion by 2027 by helping ICE track down and round up immigrants.
Cashing in on cruelty.
Cashing in on cruelty.
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deporta
theintercept.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Cashing in with fascism
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good time to sign up for ICE observer trainings in your area if you haven’t yet!
and to figure out what your local hotline for reporting ICE sightings (which anyone can do) is!
and to figure out what your local hotline for reporting ICE sightings (which anyone can do) is!
January 11, 2026 at 12:47 AM
good time to sign up for ICE observer trainings in your area if you haven’t yet!
and to figure out what your local hotline for reporting ICE sightings (which anyone can do) is!
and to figure out what your local hotline for reporting ICE sightings (which anyone can do) is!
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Ross had every incentive to stay and provide FBI (and ideally MN) crime scene investigators his firsthand account, including his cellphone video, to ensure his exculpatory evidence and testimony was preserved
3) Shortly after the shooting, several agents -- possibly including Ross -- hop into an unmarked SUV and flee the scene.
I can't begin to describe how improper this is for an active investigation. Normally, you'd separate the witnesses so they don't, erm, get their stories to coincide.
I can't begin to describe how improper this is for an active investigation. Normally, you'd separate the witnesses so they don't, erm, get their stories to coincide.
January 11, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Ross had every incentive to stay and provide FBI (and ideally MN) crime scene investigators his firsthand account, including his cellphone video, to ensure his exculpatory evidence and testimony was preserved
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Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
January 11, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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US “justice” system is severely compromised from top to bottom especially if there is any element of politics or foreign policy involved yet Canberra is prepared to render unto Trump a fellow Australian just on America's say so.
We've surrendered our self-respect.
michaelwest.com.au/rendering-an...
We've surrendered our self-respect.
michaelwest.com.au/rendering-an...
Rendering an Australian citizen to the corrupt regime of Donald Trump - Michael West
The Albanese Government wants to render Australian citizen Dan Duggan to the corrupt authoritarian regime of Donald Trump.
michaelwest.com.au
January 10, 2026 at 11:29 PM
US “justice” system is severely compromised from top to bottom especially if there is any element of politics or foreign policy involved yet Canberra is prepared to render unto Trump a fellow Australian just on America's say so.
We've surrendered our self-respect.
michaelwest.com.au/rendering-an...
We've surrendered our self-respect.
michaelwest.com.au/rendering-an...
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This is an image of a federal agent shooting chemical munitions at a crowd at point blank range in Minneapolis on the day Renee Good was executed
Whatever your feelings on law enforcement, understand they don't apply here whatsoever because ICE categorically *has nothing to do with law enforcement*
Whatever your feelings on law enforcement, understand they don't apply here whatsoever because ICE categorically *has nothing to do with law enforcement*
January 11, 2026 at 1:58 AM
This is an image of a federal agent shooting chemical munitions at a crowd at point blank range in Minneapolis on the day Renee Good was executed
Whatever your feelings on law enforcement, understand they don't apply here whatsoever because ICE categorically *has nothing to do with law enforcement*
Whatever your feelings on law enforcement, understand they don't apply here whatsoever because ICE categorically *has nothing to do with law enforcement*