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Cathy Arroyo
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Life long contrarian, liberal social democrat, love is love, equality for all, navy veteran (77-85), engineer, problem-solver, member of League of Women Voters, certified Deputy Register (AZ voter registration), 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
The circus spits out another entertaining international cluster-fuck..... 🤦‍♀️

apnews.com/article/kash...
FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws
On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed.
apnews.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In the Navy, 77-83, I taxied off base to buy bras, req'd for uniform, cuz the on base uniform shop didn't carry any. I wore men's boots - no women's avail. I berthed at a nearby base - my base didn't have women's barracks.
Things made better thanks to the DACW.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Hegseth dissolves women’s military committee over ‘divisive feminist agenda’
Move puts end to group started in 1951 to give the Pentagon counsel on issues related to women in armed services
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Damn. You know the world's gone crazy when a liberal democrat like me agrees with Ted Cruz 😳 🤦‍♀️

#IStandWithLateNight
#freedomofspeech
September 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Cabaret, the reality...
Now joined by Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon 🥺
September 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Another corporate maga asskisser practicing censorship in the name of the fascist republican administration.

#protectfreedomofspeach

www.cnbc.com/2025/09/17/c...
ABC pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' off air 'indefinitely' over Charlie Kirk comments
Jimmy Kimmel suggested that Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, was aligned with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement.
www.cnbc.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
We need more people like this to step up for the 2026 mid-terms.

“If you don’t build the movement, it won’t be there when the day for action comes. It’s thankless. People live their entire lives building something they may never see succeed. And you do it anyway.”

newrepublic.com/article/1996...
The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Taking on Susan Collins
Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.
newrepublic.com
September 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Oh, look, not a trans or gender fluid person, not gay or lesbian, not a person of color or a woman.

Just another white boy getting a lenient sentence for abusing a young girl for 5 years, from age 7-12.

www.ksl.com/article/5136...
Former BYU baseball starter sentenced for sexually assaulting young girl for 5 years
Candon Dean Dahle was handed a suspended prison sentence and put on probation for eight years after being accused of sexually assaulting a young girl over a five-year period.
www.ksl.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Oh, look, not trans or gender fluid, not gay or lesbian, not a person of color, just another fascist republican giving old white men a bad name.

Just a little scam against DQ by exposing his own grandchildren to street drugs. So well planned, he's caught on camera 🙄

www.wral.com/news/local/s...
NC county elections chair accused of putting cocaine, MDMA in granddaughters' ice cream
The chairman of the Surry County Board of Elections was charged after Wilmington police said they found evidence he placed illegal narcotics in his granddaughters' ice cream.
www.wral.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The fascist republican admin's "desire to please a political base will result in death & disability of vulnerable children & adults"

"For the good of the nation & the world, the science at CDC should never be censored or subject to political ... interpretations,"

www.npr.org/2025/08/27/g...
CDC director is out after less than a month; other agency leaders resign
"Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention," the Department of Health and Human Services wrote in a social media post. Her lawyers said she had neither resi...
www.npr.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
We must not look away....

from the fascist republican administration's enforcers - the American Gestapo... proudly embracing and advertising their atrocities.

We must not look away....
We will have our Nuremberg.

#marygeddry

marygeddry.com/p/ice-barbie...
August 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This was home-grown terrorism incited by the fascist republican administration and their worm-addled "health" administrator.

Ruling by fear, intimidation, and bully tactics.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...
CDC staffers voice frustration over Kennedy’s anti-vaccine rhetoric in wake of shooting
CDC staffers are voicing frustration over RFK Jr.’s past vaccine comments, following Friday’s shooting at the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta that left one officer dead.
www.yahoo.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Asshole fascist republican administration strikes again.

www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...
HHS to Cut Medicare, Medicaid Funding for Hospitals Performing Child Gender Transitions | National Review
www.nationalreview.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
In today's edition of FAFO:

Plus, one less Texas republican voter.

www.thetimes.com/world/africa...
US hunter gored to death by buffalo he was tracking in South Africa
Asher Watkins was killed by ‘unwounded’ animal, nicknamed the Black Death on Bambisana reserve
www.thetimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Did you hear the Trans Sec'y, Sean Duffy, wants to build a nuclear reactor on the moon?

Yep. It's true
Of course, people are laughing.
I see an excuse to move nuclear materials to the moon for use as weapons.

Don't underestimate their desire to bully the world - to build their fascist empire.
August 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Oh, look, not a drag queen or a POC, or a trans person, a gender fluid person, or a woman.

Just another lying. white, male Trump supporter.

Just like the rest of the fascist republican administration.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...
MAGA Champion Who Said Trump Would Fight Child Predators Is Arrested on Charges of Being a Child Predator
A fervent Trump supporter who said that he was casting his 2024 vote to fight child trafficking is now being charged with 10 counts of possessing child pornography. Scott Soucek of Sturgeon Bay, Wisco...
www.yahoo.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Not a POC, not a drag queen, or a trans person, or a gender fluid person, or a woman.

My parents used to live just west of Anaconda, MT. I've visited many times. Everybody has a gun.

So much for the "if everybody has a gun, there won't be any mass killings" belief.

nbcmontana.com/news/local/c...
4 people dead after shooting in Anaconda bar, suspect at large
The city of Anaconda is on lockdown after an active shooter situation was reported by the Granite County Sheriff's Office.
nbcmontana.com
August 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I remember the days when our military wasn't politicized.
I'm a proud veteran, and this is some serious bullshit perpetrated by our fascist republican administration.
I stand with Jen Easterly.

cyberscoop.com/jen-easterly...
Army Secretary forces West Point to rescind appointment given to Easterly
The United States Military Academy abruptly ended the appointment of Jen Easterly to a high-profile academic position in West Point’s Department of Social Sciences, according to a memorandum issued We...
cyberscoop.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM