Catherine Schwalbe
catherineaartist.bsky.social
Catherine Schwalbe
@catherineaartist.bsky.social
Artist. Rabblerouser. Sister. Aunt. Friend.
“The distinguishing factors between art and life are irrelevant.” Fluxus philosophy
Fired Speechwriter From First Trump Term Appointed to Lead the Institute of Peace www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/a...
Fired Speechwriter From First Trump Term Appointed to Lead the Institute of Peace
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July 28, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My first alabaster carving - 1980ish, catching prisms through glass block window. Happy Pride y’all. There is room for all of us on this planet. 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍🫀🫶🏼
June 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Right here
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.
May 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
This.
Why are ICE agents masked to begin with? Our law enforcement officers shouldn’t be anonymous. Ever.
May 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Too true.
May 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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April 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This Friday! Thank you Piloto Nieves and Zentli Restaurant! www.instagram.com/p/DIL-eMnRA6...
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April 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Worst two-day stock market crashes in the U.S. by percentage loss:

1. 1929 (the Great Depression)

2. 1987 (Black Monday)

3. 2008 (the Great Recession)

4. YESTERDAY AND TODAY

And while this happened, the man responsible for it was golfing and dining with enemies of America.
April 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Scum.
Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”.

He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.

The job was helping people with disabilities.
April 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
See you on the streets today! 3.5%! www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
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April 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?
April 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This
A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.”

She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.
March 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
This
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
On Wisconsin.
March 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Reposted by Catherine Schwalbe
“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison
March 26, 2025 at 11:33 PM
What a fowl mess.
RFK Jr and Brooke Rollins want to let bird flu run through flocks to identify the birds that are immune so that we can breed them.

The problem is that production birds are hybrids, and we don’t breed them. You’d think at least one of these two assholes would know that.
March 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Thanks for my postcard @marc-fischer.bsky.social ! Also pictured… the post office of #Boykin, AL. Home of #GeesBend quilters. I think I will write the quilters I met last week and think about our federally funded, every nook and cranny delivery, in the beautiful and awful nation.
March 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Impeach
Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."
March 17, 2025 at 3:08 AM