Kathleen Geier
@kathygee.bsky.social
Feminist. Socialist. Chicagoan. Lover of film, theater, books, music, travel, dogs. Words @ Baffler, Nation, In These Times. She/her. [email protected]
Late to this, but I strongly recommend this beautiful piece by the great @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social about the transgender legend, Harlow.
www.inquirer.com/life/a/harlo...
www.inquirer.com/life/a/harlo...
Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
www.inquirer.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Late to this, but I strongly recommend this beautiful piece by the great @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social about the transgender legend, Harlow.
www.inquirer.com/life/a/harlo...
www.inquirer.com/life/a/harlo...
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27-year-old Honduran man with end-stage renal failure denied dialysis until he signed a voluntary deportation order. Abolish DHS completely. Arrest most of its leaders.
Family says critically ill man was pressured into deportation order after 'Charlotte's Web' sweep
Relatives of a 27-year-old Honduran man say he was denied dialysis and pressured into signing a voluntary deportation order after being detained during "Operation Charlotte's Web." ICE denies the alle...
www.wfdd.org
December 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
27-year-old Honduran man with end-stage renal failure denied dialysis until he signed a voluntary deportation order. Abolish DHS completely. Arrest most of its leaders.
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VA Democrats are on top of it.
Sounds like Mikie Sherrill and NJ Dems are thinking about it. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
MD, NY, and IL and all other blue states not named CA should be moving heaven and earth to make this happen to save our democracy.
Sounds like Mikie Sherrill and NJ Dems are thinking about it. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
MD, NY, and IL and all other blue states not named CA should be moving heaven and earth to make this happen to save our democracy.
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
VA Democrats are on top of it.
Sounds like Mikie Sherrill and NJ Dems are thinking about it. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
MD, NY, and IL and all other blue states not named CA should be moving heaven and earth to make this happen to save our democracy.
Sounds like Mikie Sherrill and NJ Dems are thinking about it. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
MD, NY, and IL and all other blue states not named CA should be moving heaven and earth to make this happen to save our democracy.
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I am humbly requesting that lawmakers in every Democratic-controlled state spend every waking hour between now and Christmas cooking up new congressional district maps that draw Republicans out of electoral existence
December 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I am humbly requesting that lawmakers in every Democratic-controlled state spend every waking hour between now and Christmas cooking up new congressional district maps that draw Republicans out of electoral existence
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41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
December 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
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 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
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Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...
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i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.
I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.
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this is not ok.
this stuff can never be normal.
Don't ever get desensitized to this kind of hate.
this stuff can never be normal.
Don't ever get desensitized to this kind of hate.
Trump goes on another racist rant about Somalis: "Ilhan Omar should be thrown the hell out of our country, and most of those people -- they have destroyed Minnesota. It's a hellhole right now. Those Somalians should be out of here. They have destroyed out country ... go back to your own country."
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
this is not ok.
this stuff can never be normal.
Don't ever get desensitized to this kind of hate.
this stuff can never be normal.
Don't ever get desensitized to this kind of hate.
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Trump just pardoned a dude who was convicted of using his position as president of Honduras to help cartels smuggle 400 tons of cocaine into the US, but keep going ICE Barbie.
Noem: You have saved hundreds of millions of lives with the Cocaine you’ve blown up in the Caribbean
December 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Trump just pardoned a dude who was convicted of using his position as president of Honduras to help cartels smuggle 400 tons of cocaine into the US, but keep going ICE Barbie.
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"I'm going to tax the everloving shit out of the rich people who made your life miserable and put every masked thug who broke the law or traitor who wrecked the government for their own profit in prison" I admit is too long for a sign, but at the very least this should be the spirit of the thing.
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"I'm going to tax the everloving shit out of the rich people who made your life miserable and put every masked thug who broke the law or traitor who wrecked the government for their own profit in prison" I admit is too long for a sign, but at the very least this should be the spirit of the thing.
FYI Cliff is scheduled to be the next artist featured on Andrew Hickey's great @500songspodcast.bsky.social podcast. I know little about Cliff beyond his wonderful music and that classic movie so I'm especially eager for that episode
RIP to one of the great ones. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/a...
Jimmy Cliff, Singer Who Helped Bring Reggae to Global Audience, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
FYI Cliff is scheduled to be the next artist featured on Andrew Hickey's great @500songspodcast.bsky.social podcast. I know little about Cliff beyond his wonderful music and that classic movie so I'm especially eager for that episode
RIP to one of the great ones. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/a...
Jimmy Cliff, Singer Who Helped Bring Reggae to Global Audience, Dies at 81
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
RIP to one of the great ones. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/a...
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Unemployment among Black women is now at 7.5% — rising for the third straight month.
I'm in Boston today to sound the alarm and discuss how we can address the impact of this crisis in Massachusetts and beyond.
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I'm in Boston today to sound the alarm and discuss how we can address the impact of this crisis in Massachusetts and beyond.
www.facebook.com/share/v/17jv...
Redirecting...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Unemployment among Black women is now at 7.5% — rising for the third straight month.
I'm in Boston today to sound the alarm and discuss how we can address the impact of this crisis in Massachusetts and beyond.
www.facebook.com/share/v/17jv...
I'm in Boston today to sound the alarm and discuss how we can address the impact of this crisis in Massachusetts and beyond.
www.facebook.com/share/v/17jv...
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So Bezos is in them too then?
The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.
November 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
So Bezos is in them too then?
Where I am tonight.
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Where I am tonight.
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Aiming for Joan Didion but being Unity Mitford.
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Aiming for Joan Didion but being Unity Mitford.
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Aiming for Joan Didion but landing on Eva Braun.
November 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Aiming for Joan Didion but landing on Eva Braun.
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I admit to still being fond of the idea of a pope who has at some point taken in a matinee at the Music Box.
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I admit to still being fond of the idea of a pope who has at some point taken in a matinee at the Music Box.
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Is anything noirer than a blackout? Than not knowing what you’ve done, or what you’re going to get for it? Blackout Noir is a brilliantly conceived programme on Criterion, thanks to @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social & @glennkenny.bsky.social. And Black Angel (1946) is aces, it really sucker punched me
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Is anything noirer than a blackout? Than not knowing what you’ve done, or what you’re going to get for it? Blackout Noir is a brilliantly conceived programme on Criterion, thanks to @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social & @glennkenny.bsky.social. And Black Angel (1946) is aces, it really sucker punched me
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Black Angel also has two great noir montages: a countdown to a death sentence, with a whirling clock, whizzing courtroom scenes, and spinning newspaper headlines; and Dan Duryea’s barcrawl, which ends with this shot, which I will be using for memes
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Black Angel also has two great noir montages: a countdown to a death sentence, with a whirling clock, whizzing courtroom scenes, and spinning newspaper headlines; and Dan Duryea’s barcrawl, which ends with this shot, which I will be using for memes
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Never has there been a case of more "good fucking riddance," but it's not unamusing that they're hightailing it right after the first snow storm hit. Chicago has a built-in defense against unserious jagoffs and it's called winter.
News: Feds are said to be on their way out of Chicago in the near future. Via @jmetr22b.bsky.social and me www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Never has there been a case of more "good fucking riddance," but it's not unamusing that they're hightailing it right after the first snow storm hit. Chicago has a built-in defense against unserious jagoffs and it's called winter.
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Republicans constantly attack their Congressional leadership, and they remove leaders who fail to achieve the objectives desired by the base.
This 'infighting' hasn't been a 'distraction' or 'weakness' for them, it has produced victory after victory, including control of all three branches.
This 'infighting' hasn't been a 'distraction' or 'weakness' for them, it has produced victory after victory, including control of all three branches.
Oh yeah - never a convenient time to have some real talk about the dynamic that the Democrats in the Senate are led by bunch of chumps. Certainly not after they created the conditions for yet another base demoralizing surrender.
This kind of activity is just what you should want to see, if your are a Republican, eager to see the opposition distracted by self-destructive infighting.
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Republicans constantly attack their Congressional leadership, and they remove leaders who fail to achieve the objectives desired by the base.
This 'infighting' hasn't been a 'distraction' or 'weakness' for them, it has produced victory after victory, including control of all three branches.
This 'infighting' hasn't been a 'distraction' or 'weakness' for them, it has produced victory after victory, including control of all three branches.
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Yup, and the damage isn’t so much in the story as in the proof of weakness. Trump now knows he has new torture tools to make Dems do what he wants. It’s why at least one of the 7 capitulators oughta be run out of office now, mid session. Get that number down to 6. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Yup, and the damage isn’t so much in the story as in the proof of weakness. Trump now knows he has new torture tools to make Dems do what he wants. It’s why at least one of the 7 capitulators oughta be run out of office now, mid session. Get that number down to 6. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...
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thinking back to when eric cantor got knocked out in a primary in 2014
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
thinking back to when eric cantor got knocked out in a primary in 2014