Richard Catalano
@fabiancat.bsky.social
Retired Professor, 40 years developing the science of prevention through positive youth development. Loves democracy and votes πππ I repost selected Substacks
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Retired Professor, 40 years developing the science of prevention through positive youth development. Loves democracy and votes πππ I repost selected Substacks
I block π« Magats π« DM π« Porn I block those without posts or few posts
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The Best of the Congress
Real leadership is present, if you know where to look
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Jen's 10 best of Congress. We could add 10 more, but none of these would include current D leadership. Time for the best to be the leaders of the party.
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Important Christmas Day News Updates - 12/25/25
By Ben Meiselas
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"Imagine someone in your life posting about a single topic two hundred times in a morning. You would ask if they were okay...And yet this is the behavior of the person entrusted with nuclear codes, foreign policy, and the rule of law."
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Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS,
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
2nd worst AG in history
Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS,
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
Meet the GOP Congressman who makes George Santos look like a Christmas Angel
By: Live from the Resistance
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"The walls are closing in on Andy Ogles. When your own treasurer gets blocked from a job because he knows you, it is over.
We have the chance to flip this seat and replace a national embarrassment with a public servant.
Help Mike Cortese clean up the Ogles disaster"
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We have the chance to flip this seat and replace a national embarrassment with a public servant.
Help Mike Cortese clean up the Ogles disaster"
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The Invisible Ten Co-Conspirators
Ten possible co-conspirators sit buried beneath DOJ redactions, protected not by innocence but by silence, delay, and a Justice Department terrified of naming names.
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"[Even_my add]Schumer is now pushing to sue the Justice Department for blowing past a clear congressional deadline. Because when Congress orders a full release and the DOJ responds with a blackout poem, thatβs not compliance. Thatβs contempt."
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Sniffling into 2026: RFK Jr.'s Anti-Vax Crusade | First Draft with Susan J. Demas and Dr. Paul Offit
Nothing ruins Christmas like COVID, RSV, and the flu. And RFK Jr. wouldn't have it any other way. We talk to Dr. Paul Offit, one of the prominent medical experts Kennedy removed from an FDA panel.
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"But Dr. Offit argues that vaccine safety isnβt something you βdebateβ β itβs something youΒ proveΒ through evidence. What do we do when many Americans would rather trust their favorite celebrity than scientists?"
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Important Christmas Eve News Updates - 12/24/25
Hi all, Ben here.
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"Now, thanks to your resilience, there is hope. The Trump regime is spiraling. More and more Americans are seeing the truth. Nowβs the time we must uplift rather than degrade, inform rather than deceive, and defend democratic principles with courage and persistence.
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The Dumpster Fire that was DOGE
New and updated reporting from the NY Times just proves what we knew all along: DOGE was a vanity project and nothing else
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"You canβt fix systemic problems with a chainsaw, hype, and a meme. You need expertise, precision, and real accountability β none of which DOGE delivered. Instead, we just got drama, pain, and no value. Sounds a lot like Convicted Felon Donald Trump."
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Trumpβs DOJ Attacks Meidas Before Christmas
By Ben Meiselas
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"The MeidasTouch Network will never bend the knee to this criminal gangster regime. We will continue to fearlessly report on this gangster regime and expose their cover-ups. We will continue to break major stories and fight for our democracy to be restored."
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At risk of sounding like an old cranky person, I am annoyed at how many things that used to work don't work now. The Prime Videos app on Windows has random digital hitches. My wireless controller now cuts out at random intervals for 20-30 seconds. Things that used to just work, now suddenly clunky.
Amen. The world is getting less competent at an alarming rate. Look who we elected president.
Merry Christmas All......
2025 was a good year for us politically and electorally. Let's commit to make 2026 even better....
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"Whatever your version is of how we get to the other side of Trumpism what happened this year - a profound national rejection of him and his regime - was a necessary first step, and it happened."
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Miss Democracy's Christmas Eve Scandal Sheet
Christmas Eve Special Edition | A scandal sheet from Miss Democracy.
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"To summarize: take from the poor, give to the rich, raid the churches, post the suffering online, pardon the drug trafficker, conduct the boat strikes, hide the evidence, suspend the wind farms, collect the corporate tribute."
Not Christian values. Despicable!
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Not Christian values. Despicable!
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Reposted by Richard F. Catalano
At risk of sounding like an old cranky person, I am annoyed at how many things that used to work don't work now. The Prime Videos app on Windows has random digital hitches. My wireless controller now cuts out at random intervals for 20-30 seconds. Things that used to just work, now suddenly clunky.
I love how Pam Bondi and the MAGA DOJ openly, shamelessly, and maliciously go after Trump's enemies, but Merrick Garland sat paralyzed for four years, terrified that prosecuting Trump for literally treasonable offenses would violate norms, precedent, and decorum. He must be so proud.
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The Trump DOJ is running scared and so they're putting out this kind of dreck on social media:
Oh, now they are telling the truth? Oh, ha, ha
Will Johnson Make It Through the Year as Speaker? | Susan Demas & Edwin Eisendrath LIVE
The Trump administrationβs handling of the Epstein files shows open contempt for the law, transparency, and survivors. It's not a bureaucratic stumble.
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"The refusal to comply with disclosure requirements, coupled with performative gestures about βprotecting survivors,β underscores how power is being shielded while accountability is mocked, especially under figures likeΒ Pam BondiΒ andΒ Donald Trump."
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2 "... History will not struggle to understand what happened here. It will struggle to understand why it was tolerated."
Suzie Wilesβs Inadvertent Indictment of Trump
Take it from his closest aide: heβs a corrupt liar
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1"...the problem is not simply Trump. It is the world around him: a presidency that normalizes lying, bargains over constitutional violations, and treats abuses of power as management challenges rather than moral lines."
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Thereβs No Turning This Sinking Ship Around
The slippery slope gets slipperier
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"Donald is exactly who heβs always been; heβs incapable of change and that may finally be working to our advantage. He doesnβt know it, of course, but ultimately, itβs going to be his insistence that heβs always right that will be his downfall. Iβm here for it."
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Fourth & Democracy | A State in Trumpβs Image, and Distractions over Epstein Files β Are We in Purgatory or Hell?
Welcome to Fourth & Democracy, where the playbook meets the public square.
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" Those are the people who carry the emotional weight of a nation. And if we prepare them, support them, and refuse to let them fall through the cracks, they will help carry us across the finish line β not just toward survival, but toward something better."
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Reposted by Richard F. Catalano, Rosemary A. Joyce
The Trump DOJ is running scared and so they're putting out this kind of dreck on social media:
Reposted by Richard F. Catalano
I love how Pam Bondi and the MAGA DOJ openly, shamelessly, and maliciously go after Trump's enemies, but Merrick Garland sat paralyzed for four years, terrified that prosecuting Trump for literally treasonable offenses would violate norms, precedent, and decorum. He must be so proud.
Iβve made a copy of the 60 Minutes INSIDE CECOT segment. If Substack takes it down, Iβll put it up on my website. I know there are cleaner copies out there, but I kinda like the punk rock bootlegged version. The link is in my pinned post if you havenβt seen it yet.
Here it is!
Reposted by Richard F. Catalano, Eric D. Knowles
Iβve made a copy of the 60 Minutes INSIDE CECOT segment. If Substack takes it down, Iβll put it up on my website. I know there are cleaner copies out there, but I kinda like the punk rock bootlegged version. The link is in my pinned post if you havenβt seen it yet.
Obsolete Man Wants To Bring Back Obsolete Ships
The (Get this!) "Trump Class" battleship is announced
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25th Amendment or impeachment now. What are you waiting for, him to declare he owns the US Treasury and Fort Knox? Get this guy out of office while there is still something left of the Government.
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Ohio EPA considers allowing data centers to dump wastewater in state waterways.
Ohio EPA considers allowing data centers to dump wastewater in state waterways
A proposed Ohio Environmental Protection Agency permit that would allow data centers to release wastewater into Ohioβs lakes and streams, under certain conditions, garnered concerns during a public he...
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Despicable
Americaβs Pirate-in-Chief
A president plays pirate king, seizing tankers, rewriting history, daring international law, and reminding the world that grievance, not strategy, now sets Americaβs course.
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"This isnβt about stabilizing markets or protecting Americans at home. This is about optics. Itβs about Trump playing pirate king, waving the skull-and-crossbones of βAmerica Firstβ while daring anyone to challenge him."
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Reposted by Richard F. Catalano
Ohio EPA considers allowing data centers to dump wastewater in state waterways
A proposed Ohio Environmental Protection Agency permit that would allow data centers to release wastewater into Ohioβs lakes and streams, under certain conditions, garnered concerns during a public he...
www.daytondailynews.com
Ohio EPA considers allowing data centers to dump wastewater in state waterways.