Katznbooks
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Constant reader, accidental acquirer of too many cats. Binges on genealogy. Deprived of a peaceful old age. Starts more craft projects than finishes. Former Democrat. No DMs please.No sex, no solicitations for money.
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There are flyers circulating and even mailers showing up in people’s mailboxes in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District that list the wrong date for the upcoming special election. Voters are being told to vote on the incorrect day.
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
There are flyers circulating and even mailers showing up in people’s mailboxes in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District that list the wrong date for the upcoming special election. Voters are being told to vote on the incorrect day.
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Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
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31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM
31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Trump said today he'll be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Hernandez, who was convicted of drug trafficking and weapons charges in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Waging a drug war on Venezuela while pardoning a narco-terrorist takes hypocrisy to a level once thought impossible.
Waging a drug war on Venezuela while pardoning a narco-terrorist takes hypocrisy to a level once thought impossible.
November 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Trump said today he'll be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Hernandez, who was convicted of drug trafficking and weapons charges in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Waging a drug war on Venezuela while pardoning a narco-terrorist takes hypocrisy to a level once thought impossible.
Waging a drug war on Venezuela while pardoning a narco-terrorist takes hypocrisy to a level once thought impossible.
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THIS
SHOULD NOT HAPPEN IN
OUR COUNTRY
OUR TEACHERS
Understand the importance
of our VOTE
This noble profession
Get everyone you know to vote
SHOULD NOT HAPPEN IN
OUR COUNTRY
OUR TEACHERS
Understand the importance
of our VOTE
This noble profession
Get everyone you know to vote
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
THIS
SHOULD NOT HAPPEN IN
OUR COUNTRY
OUR TEACHERS
Understand the importance
of our VOTE
This noble profession
Get everyone you know to vote
SHOULD NOT HAPPEN IN
OUR COUNTRY
OUR TEACHERS
Understand the importance
of our VOTE
This noble profession
Get everyone you know to vote
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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So proud and excited. We need more Native People ruling our country!
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
So proud and excited. We need more Native People ruling our country!
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Happy Native American Appreciation Day 🦃
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Happy Native American Appreciation Day 🦃
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The Native Americans would agree with that.
Can’t blame them either.
Can’t blame them either.
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
The Native Americans would agree with that.
Can’t blame them either.
Can’t blame them either.
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Where it's written is in Supreme Court decisions hobbling voting rights, enabling corruption via campaign cash flow, and granting presidents way more leeway than the founders wrote into the Constitution.
I want to know where it's written, that at 49.8% popular vote, the laws don't apply to you, or your team.
Also where 49.8% allows you to gut the government and constitutional rights of those who voted you in.
Also where 49.8% allows you to gut the government and constitutional rights of those who voted you in.
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Where it's written is in Supreme Court decisions hobbling voting rights, enabling corruption via campaign cash flow, and granting presidents way more leeway than the founders wrote into the Constitution.
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We have so much to be thankful for if we just take the time to consider how much worse everything could actually be. 🙏
#HappyThanksgiving2025_Everyone 💖
#HappyThanksgiving2025_Everyone 💖
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We have so much to be thankful for if we just take the time to consider how much worse everything could actually be. 🙏
#HappyThanksgiving2025_Everyone 💖
#HappyThanksgiving2025_Everyone 💖
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Happy Thanksgiving! Today, we remember that 450,000 Minnesotans need food assistance — including almost 150,000 kids and 11,000 veterans. In a time of economic turmoil, food banks and nutrition programs are a lifeline, and we must ensure they are able to support those in need.
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Today, we remember that 450,000 Minnesotans need food assistance — including almost 150,000 kids and 11,000 veterans. In a time of economic turmoil, food banks and nutrition programs are a lifeline, and we must ensure they are able to support those in need.
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Our System Is Brutal And Unfair….
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Our System Is Brutal And Unfair….
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FYI: the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan” was negotiated and begun by…. Donald Trump
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
FYI: the “disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan” was negotiated and begun by…. Donald Trump
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) faced backlash after he took to social media to air his grievances about the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City.
'Sad sack' GOP lawmaker mocked for airing 'petty' Thanksgiving parade grievances
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) faced backlash after he took to social media to air his grievances about the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City."Would it kill y'all @Macys to have some Country Music as part of the Parade?" Burchett whined in a Thursday morning post on X."Is there anything you ...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) faced backlash after he took to social media to air his grievances about the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City.
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Over 200 men were sent by Kristi Noem-in violation of a court order-to the CECOT prison for terrorists
She claimed they were criminals. In reality, most had no criminal records, and many had valid claims for asylum
They were tortured. Beaten. Sexually abused. Even shot.
THERE MUST BE JUSTICE
She claimed they were criminals. In reality, most had no criminal records, and many had valid claims for asylum
They were tortured. Beaten. Sexually abused. Even shot.
THERE MUST BE JUSTICE
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Over 200 men were sent by Kristi Noem-in violation of a court order-to the CECOT prison for terrorists
She claimed they were criminals. In reality, most had no criminal records, and many had valid claims for asylum
They were tortured. Beaten. Sexually abused. Even shot.
THERE MUST BE JUSTICE
She claimed they were criminals. In reality, most had no criminal records, and many had valid claims for asylum
They were tortured. Beaten. Sexually abused. Even shot.
THERE MUST BE JUSTICE
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like trump’s architect saying no to his grotesque ballroom plans — the experts who actually have to do this insane shit are just not gonna comply
Holy shit
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
like trump’s architect saying no to his grotesque ballroom plans — the experts who actually have to do this insane shit are just not gonna comply
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There isn’t no excuse for attacking National Guard members, including self defense. With very few exceptions, the National Guard has behaved professionally.
Not sure we could say the same about ICE. Detentions without due process are unconstitutional. Possible to argue it’s a form of kidnapping.
Not sure we could say the same about ICE. Detentions without due process are unconstitutional. Possible to argue it’s a form of kidnapping.
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 AM
There isn’t no excuse for attacking National Guard members, including self defense. With very few exceptions, the National Guard has behaved professionally.
Not sure we could say the same about ICE. Detentions without due process are unconstitutional. Possible to argue it’s a form of kidnapping.
Not sure we could say the same about ICE. Detentions without due process are unconstitutional. Possible to argue it’s a form of kidnapping.