CAGirlinSF
@cagirlinsf.bsky.social
Die hard UCLA alum. SFGiants fan. Passionate liberal & feminist. History nerd, political junkie, Alice Paul & Eleanor Roosevelt stan. ADHD haver. Proud dog mom. Opinions mine. 🏵 she/her
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CAGirlinSF
@cagirlinsf.bsky.social
· Mar 3
Their capacity to just flat out lie is matched only by the capacity of dupes to accept it.
Tuberville: "We're getting to a point now where women and girls sports and getting ready to be extinct. Because already in states across this country, we have high school teams that are made up of totally boys participating against girls."
"Ignorance is strength"--George Orwell, "1984"
@hcrichardson.bsky.social reading your book about Wounded Knee and the political shenanigans of 1890. I feel like I’m reading about current events.
November 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social reading your book about Wounded Knee and the political shenanigans of 1890. I feel like I’m reading about current events.
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The first voice in Ken Burns's The American Revolution documentary is Native American. Interesting choice that already complicates the questions: What is America? What does it mean to be American. #HATM
November 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The first voice in Ken Burns's The American Revolution documentary is Native American. Interesting choice that already complicates the questions: What is America? What does it mean to be American. #HATM
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Dani Rodrik in the NYT the other day with a pretty compelling argument about making service sector jobs into good jobs
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
November 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Dani Rodrik in the NYT the other day with a pretty compelling argument about making service sector jobs into good jobs
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
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NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
@murshedz.bsky.social have you been getting a ton of emails the last couple days from the UCLA store saying "Bruins Win"? Normally they send those out when football does something and there's gonna be a discount. I guess they're desperate at this point.
November 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
@murshedz.bsky.social have you been getting a ton of emails the last couple days from the UCLA store saying "Bruins Win"? Normally they send those out when football does something and there's gonna be a discount. I guess they're desperate at this point.
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All I’m going to say is, they don’t care if he’s had sex with children, but if they find out he’s had sex with another man, they will implode…
They have a fcked up sense of morality.
They have a fcked up sense of morality.
November 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
All I’m going to say is, they don’t care if he’s had sex with children, but if they find out he’s had sex with another man, they will implode…
They have a fcked up sense of morality.
They have a fcked up sense of morality.
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Next time Trump claims to be fighting for Jews — spoiler alert: he doesn’t give a damn about Jews — remember that he keeps hiring Jew haters in his administration. The latest: Paul Ingrassia, the guy rejected by the Senate because he said he likes Nazism & racism.
Paul "Nazi streak" Ingrassia is getting a promotion, because...Donald Trump thinks he deserves it. @timmiller.bsky.social:
November 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Next time Trump claims to be fighting for Jews — spoiler alert: he doesn’t give a damn about Jews — remember that he keeps hiring Jew haters in his administration. The latest: Paul Ingrassia, the guy rejected by the Senate because he said he likes Nazism & racism.
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I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy
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I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.
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“I never thought an unprincipled lying pedophile could end up disappointing me.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
“I never thought an unprincipled lying pedophile could end up disappointing me.”
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PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
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that people use AI technologies in their work and explain that it saves them precious time that they can devote to other more urgent tasks tells me less about the wondrousness of the technologies and more about the overextension and immiseration of workers.
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
that people use AI technologies in their work and explain that it saves them precious time that they can devote to other more urgent tasks tells me less about the wondrousness of the technologies and more about the overextension and immiseration of workers.
Everyone needs to watch (or rewatch) “Wag the Dog” right now. When it came out, everyone assumed whatever Clinton did was a ”Wag the Dog” situation. 30 years later the movie is sadly relevant again.
A quarter of the entire deployed US Navy is now stationed in the Caribbean.
That goes way beyond frighteners.
That goes way beyond frighteners.
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Everyone needs to watch (or rewatch) “Wag the Dog” right now. When it came out, everyone assumed whatever Clinton did was a ”Wag the Dog” situation. 30 years later the movie is sadly relevant again.
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I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE
Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.
boltsmag.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
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Before anyone gets too carried away here.
Anthony Fauci says Marjorie Taylor Greene drove death threats against him
Ex-leader of US Covid response said congresswoman and Fox News sparked ‘credible death threats’ against him and his family
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Before anyone gets too carried away here.
Grab the popcorn! Karma is putting on a show.
Watching right-wingers suddenly discover that Trump is a bad person is wild
November 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Grab the popcorn! Karma is putting on a show.
Catching up on South Park and DYING.
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Catching up on South Park and DYING.
Everything is a giant grift. Even Nixon would blush. Via @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
November 14, 2025
In a transparent attempt to distract from the many times his own name appears in the documents from the Epstein estate members of the House Oversight Committee released Wednesday, President Donald J.
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Everything is a giant grift. Even Nixon would blush. Via @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
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DO NOT WELCOME (the jewish space lasers lady into the tent)
November 15, 2025 at 2:05 AM
DO NOT WELCOME (the jewish space lasers lady into the tent)
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#OtD 13 Nov 1909 suffragette Theresa Garnett attacked Winston Churchill with a horsewhip in Bristol, shouting "Take that in the name of the insulted women of England!" Learn more about this and hundreds of other stories in our book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wor...
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
#OtD 13 Nov 1909 suffragette Theresa Garnett attacked Winston Churchill with a horsewhip in Bristol, shouting "Take that in the name of the insulted women of England!" Learn more about this and hundreds of other stories in our book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wor...
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As Imani Barberin said on another site: “Your broken bodies are profit centers.”
“The disabled people you let die to ‘return to normal’—it was for nothing. Because at the end of the day, [Democrats] are prepared to treat you the fucking same way.”
“The disabled people you let die to ‘return to normal’—it was for nothing. Because at the end of the day, [Democrats] are prepared to treat you the fucking same way.”
They have no healthcare plan. They only have a plan to take away what exists.
November 13, 2025 at 6:12 AM
As Imani Barberin said on another site: “Your broken bodies are profit centers.”
“The disabled people you let die to ‘return to normal’—it was for nothing. Because at the end of the day, [Democrats] are prepared to treat you the fucking same way.”
“The disabled people you let die to ‘return to normal’—it was for nothing. Because at the end of the day, [Democrats] are prepared to treat you the fucking same way.”
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Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”
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I know it's always been the same fucking guys but it's ALL THE SAME FUCKING GUYS
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I know it's always been the same fucking guys but it's ALL THE SAME FUCKING GUYS