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Kait’sCritters
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Lover of horses, mountains, sunny days, and the Oxford comma. Kindness, always.
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Kait’sCritters @mares4life.bsky.social · Feb 8
For those who I’ve not yet had the pleasure of meeting (virtually or not), hello! My name is Kaitlyn. I also go by Kait, but only online. I’m living the life that 10-year-old me could only dream of. My husband and I have a small hobby farm with horses and other animals, notably cats and goats.
A large, flat, lush pasture with a treeline in the distance and blue sky above. A selfie I took with my husband with mountains in the background. I am on the left, in a green T-shirt, with black sunglasses and hair that is medium-length on one side and shaved short on the other. He is in a black UGA National Champions shirt, with a black UGA hat and black sunglasses. We are both smiling broadly. Scarlet, a sorrel mustang mare with a light build, red coat absolutely gleaming in the morning sunlight. She is pictured in profile view, body facing the righthand side of the photo but her face turned towards the camera. She has a white blaze, and white markings on her hind legs. She also has a dark brown splotch on her right shoulder. Ziva, a Devon Rex cat with a rich coat of curly, brown hair. She is seated in front of a window, tail wrapped neatly around her feet. Her expression is interested, with eyes gleaming and ears standing up.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 9h
Autism cannot be acquired after birth.

Seems bad that the top people in the US federal government are brain rotted freaks obsessed with children’s genitals.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 20h
Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
One way of thinking about the Trump administration is that the worst people in American government are pushing out the best people in American government
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Their interview, described in a federal lawsuit filed last week by Mr. Driscoll and two other recently fired senior FBI officials, began with benign questions about the gravest threats to the nation and possible adjustments to the FBI's structure, but then took a swerve: Who had Mr. Driscoll voted for? When did he start supporting President Donald J. Trump? And had he voted for a Democrat in the past five elections? He declined to answer those three, noting to the 29-year-old attorney and former podcaster that the questions were inappropriate and potentially violative of the Hatch Act. Mr. Ingrassia asked another question that would in the ensuing weeks take on greater significance: Did Mr. Driscoll think the FBI agents who had "stormed" Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 should be held accountable? Mr. Driscoll said no, since they had been executing legal search warrants.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h
All to cover up the Epstein files.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11h
Horrifically creepy and emblematic of this rape-coded administration, but also a govt employee staying at the fuckin ritz on a business trip shows you how much the DC world has changed since the DOJ muffin scandal of 2011.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4d
It's time to say:

What. An. Idiot.

I am being polite.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."
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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 11h
Rogan really NEEDS to be vocally condemning this. He’s partially responsible for it.

He endorsed Trump on Election Day to his millions of followers. And had just 1 OUT OF EVERY 50 people who voted for Trump in PA, MI and WI had voted for Harris instead, none of this would be happening.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h
Rogan on Trump’s cruel mass deportations, racially profiling non-criminals and ripping apart families: “This is crazy. That shows no heart. You’re not gonna get any reasonable people to go along with that. Any kind person would go ‘this can’t be the only way to do this’.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 13h
“Putting your political opponents in jail because they are your opponents—not because of what they did—is the heart of tyranny. It is an obviously impeachable offense,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the indictment of NY AG Tish James on Trump-ordered charges.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d
So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
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Balint Szilakszi 🇪🇺 @szbalint.eu · 22h
The accurate answer is that google ran internal studies that they are in a monopoly position so degrading result quality just makes the user spend more time in google search, and doesn’t cause people to use google search less.
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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 21h
"Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job" - chant that has become a regular part of the Broadview demonstrations, according to the Rev. David Black, as reported by @jackjenkins.me
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 21h
Greg Bovino is the face of Trump's anti-immigration crackdown in blue cities, staging military-style raids to conduct civil immigration arrests.

“The level of violence has changed since he was put in charge,” Chicago alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez tells TPM.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bo...
Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection
Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland...
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1d
NJ Gov. candidate @MikieSherrill: Jack has said it's his job to support Trump. I think it's the job to support the people of New Jersey. Jack won't say one cross word about Trump, even when he froze gateway tunnel funding. He's even said that New Jerseyans should take on pain for Trump's tariffs
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h
-“we’re the ones saving health care” 🤥 (they just cut $1 TRILLION from Medicaid, he hasn’t had a plan in 10 years)

-He then ignores basic math saying he’ll cut drug costs “500%” (not how it works)

-And says they’re “only cutting Democrat programs” (that help regular folks)
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Que Sera Sara 🐎🦋 @solfabulous.bsky.social · 20h
Here's an idea - a town hall where elected officials are required to sit in an auditorium and listen to their constituents without interruption for 8 hours. Afterward, they write a 4 page structured summary of the event with commentary and it all becomes permanent public record
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 21h
I *really* want more reporting on this because the book was pretty heavily vetted by lawyers in advance of publication….
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 23h
This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1d
In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 20h
We are so close to getting Reaganomics declared an official heresy...
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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 23h
Pope Leo is spitting.

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Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows "exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation," with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty." Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down." The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote. Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."
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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 23h
Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...
Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows "exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation," with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty." Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down." The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote. Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20h
doctors before X-rays: yeah idk man
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h
Wow — REPUBLICAN repthomasmassie drops a mic on @MarshaBlackburn 👀 🔥

(Reminder: Per Jack Smith, Both Marsha & senatorhagerty’s phone records were involved in this because Trump allegedly called them for help in stealing the election)
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Kait’sCritters @mares4life.bsky.social · 22h
I try so hard to be engaged, to witness these things and not become numb with grief and lose hope. But damn, it’s getting harder every day.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 1d
Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 1d
Make no mistake. This nonsense about Antifa is directly tied to the 2026 and 2028 elections. It’s the “crisis” they will use as justification to shut down key voting centers.
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