Vince Katter
@vincekatter.bsky.social
He/him. MKE/WI/USA. Retired IT mgr. Married to retired urban HS English teacher(she/her). Dad/Grandpa. Egalitarian. Episcopal embedded in a welcoming congregation with all of the pronouns represented. Linear feet of old SF novels in library > 100.
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To me, January 6 was part of a trinity of events during Trump’s first term, all of which are best understood in relation to each other.
Namely:
• Charlottesville
• June 1, 2020 (clearing of Lafayette Square/Trump Bible photo op)
• Jan 6
If they ever make a movie, it should include all three.
Namely:
• Charlottesville
• June 1, 2020 (clearing of Lafayette Square/Trump Bible photo op)
• Jan 6
If they ever make a movie, it should include all three.
January 6, 2026 at 2:23 PM
To me, January 6 was part of a trinity of events during Trump’s first term, all of which are best understood in relation to each other.
Namely:
• Charlottesville
• June 1, 2020 (clearing of Lafayette Square/Trump Bible photo op)
• Jan 6
If they ever make a movie, it should include all three.
Namely:
• Charlottesville
• June 1, 2020 (clearing of Lafayette Square/Trump Bible photo op)
• Jan 6
If they ever make a movie, it should include all three.
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Instead check out @zeteo.com @propublica.org @flaminghydra.com @404media.co @wired.com @marisakabas.bsky.social and the like.
If you've got an independent site or individual journalist you love, add them to the replies here.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Instead check out @zeteo.com @propublica.org @flaminghydra.com @404media.co @wired.com @marisakabas.bsky.social and the like.
If you've got an independent site or individual journalist you love, add them to the replies here.
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Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
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@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
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January 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
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Every American should be ashamed of who we are and what we have become as a nation today. We have a long history of military misadventures and even crimes but the attacks we have been conducting on Venezuela are among the most wanton, egregious and least defensible acts we’ve ever conducted.
January 3, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Every American should be ashamed of who we are and what we have become as a nation today. We have a long history of military misadventures and even crimes but the attacks we have been conducting on Venezuela are among the most wanton, egregious and least defensible acts we’ve ever conducted.
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Tax billionaires into millionaires
Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️
The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly.
It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.
January 2, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Tax billionaires into millionaires
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Our son depends on 24-hour care to live independently. That is now in jeopardy because payments are being delayed. We are figuring out if he can return to his home & if his staff will work without pay. His precarious Jenga tower of services is falling down around him...This is beyond a disaster!
You've probably been following the story about fraud in MN. I wrote about the people who provide services who are being driven into bankruptcy, thanks to the Walz' administration decision to hire Optum AI to screen all payments. It's a disaster.
Perry: Trusted providers are being unfairly swept up in Minnesota’s fraud crackdown
As the state's new anti-fraud screening system went into effect, the Holland Center expected to receive $212,000 in payments. It instead received $22,000, David M. Perry writes. If nothing changes soo...
www.startribune.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Our son depends on 24-hour care to live independently. That is now in jeopardy because payments are being delayed. We are figuring out if he can return to his home & if his staff will work without pay. His precarious Jenga tower of services is falling down around him...This is beyond a disaster!
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1/ Smith explains that Trump’s statements about supposed election “fraud” are different from anything in the historical record because they were not merely complaints about an unfair election,
January 1, 2026 at 1:06 PM
1/ Smith explains that Trump’s statements about supposed election “fraud” are different from anything in the historical record because they were not merely complaints about an unfair election,
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Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939
December 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939
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"Accelerated reading course." Herblock on the persistence of segregated schools nearly 13 years after the Brown v Board decision, April 1967.
December 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Accelerated reading course." Herblock on the persistence of segregated schools nearly 13 years after the Brown v Board decision, April 1967.
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December 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Surprise, surprise
DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.
December 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Surprise, surprise
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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Note: there are religious groups — including entire Christian denominations — that hold deeply held religious views that could be classified as some of these “agendas”.
Our new golden age of free speech, where opposition to immigration enforcement can trigger a federal investigation
December 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Note: there are religious groups — including entire Christian denominations — that hold deeply held religious views that could be classified as some of these “agendas”.
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Microsoft keeps airing big flashy commercials showing people using Copilot on Windows to do all kinds of things... and we keep making @superantonio64.bsky.social test those exact prompts and discovering nothing actually works www.theverge.com/report/84705...
Microsoft’s holiday Copilot ad is wrapped in empty promises
I don’t want Copilot for Christmas.
www.theverge.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Microsoft keeps airing big flashy commercials showing people using Copilot on Windows to do all kinds of things... and we keep making @superantonio64.bsky.social test those exact prompts and discovering nothing actually works www.theverge.com/report/84705...
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One of the biggest mistakes Dems made in transition is in not having Jack Smith testify openly about Jan6 before Durbin lost his gavel.
December 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
One of the biggest mistakes Dems made in transition is in not having Jack Smith testify openly about Jan6 before Durbin lost his gavel.
solving extreme poverty worldwide is clearly then not a resource constraint as such - more of the will to do it, and finding the best way to do it w/o lining the pockets of the corrupt.
According to a new report by a group of anti-poverty researchers, the cost of completely ending extreme poverty would be $318 billion per year. Using targeted direct cash transfers, it would cost around 0.3% of global GDP to ensure that virtually everyone has enough to pay for the absolute basics.
The low, low cost of ending extreme poverty
Less than Americans’ holiday shopping, actually.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
solving extreme poverty worldwide is clearly then not a resource constraint as such - more of the will to do it, and finding the best way to do it w/o lining the pockets of the corrupt.
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Every single person in this picture should be in prison by 2030, just as Bolsonaro is.
We cannot avoid imposing consequences and still have a democracy. We should dedicate ourselds to that effort and demand our representatives call for it too.
We cannot avoid imposing consequences and still have a democracy. We should dedicate ourselds to that effort and demand our representatives call for it too.
This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛
December 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Every single person in this picture should be in prison by 2030, just as Bolsonaro is.
We cannot avoid imposing consequences and still have a democracy. We should dedicate ourselds to that effort and demand our representatives call for it too.
We cannot avoid imposing consequences and still have a democracy. We should dedicate ourselds to that effort and demand our representatives call for it too.
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It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
If He Builds It, Tear It Down
Pendulums must swing.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It is important to promise, now, that whatever Trump builds at the White House will be torn down as soon as he leaves.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...
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Damnit this is good writing, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social.
December 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Damnit this is good writing, @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social.
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
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When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
December 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...