Caitlin
@constantcait.bsky.social
Childless cat lady in WNC. Lifelong red-state progressive. I like a lot of stuff, but mostly music, nature, art, books and food. You know, good things.
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Be there. Saturday, October 18th.
www.nokings.org
www.nokings.org
October 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Be there. Saturday, October 18th.
www.nokings.org
www.nokings.org
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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You want to know what a couple of decades of standardized testing has done to literacy rates?
Look around, friends.
Look around, friends.
October 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
You want to know what a couple of decades of standardized testing has done to literacy rates?
Look around, friends.
Look around, friends.
Watching Pam Bondi attack Sen. Whitehouse in lieu of answering a question about photos of Trump with topless girls is how I know there are photos of Trump with topless girls.
October 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Watching Pam Bondi attack Sen. Whitehouse in lieu of answering a question about photos of Trump with topless girls is how I know there are photos of Trump with topless girls.
Please make this guy's fall as hard and humiliating as possible.
THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST
Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.
Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
🧵
Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.
Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
🧵
October 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Please make this guy's fall as hard and humiliating as possible.
Arsonist says there are too many fires as he starts another fire.
David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press
October 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Arsonist says there are too many fires as he starts another fire.
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According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
FUCK THEM KIDS.
These people are literal monsters.
These people are literal monsters.
“Fuck them kids.”
That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
October 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
FUCK THEM KIDS.
These people are literal monsters.
These people are literal monsters.
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Amidst the shutdown and the continued attacks on institutions, individuals, and communities, it's important that we document human toll.
To that end, here's a chance to share anonymously how you and your loved ones are faring in the wake of rapid social and policy change.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
To that end, here's a chance to share anonymously how you and your loved ones are faring in the wake of rapid social and policy change.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
![The Human Toll
The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change.
If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story!
To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco
Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US
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October 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Amidst the shutdown and the continued attacks on institutions, individuals, and communities, it's important that we document human toll.
To that end, here's a chance to share anonymously how you and your loved ones are faring in the wake of rapid social and policy change.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
To that end, here's a chance to share anonymously how you and your loved ones are faring in the wake of rapid social and policy change.
tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
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I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.
Fuckin yikes, man
September 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.
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"The North Carolina AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its September convention backing the call from the United Auto Workers for mass action on May 1, 2028." - @dannydamage.bsky.social for @labornotes.bsky.social
I hear there's interest in general strikes on here...
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
I hear there's interest in general strikes on here...
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
North Carolina AFL-CIO Convention Backs May Day 2028 Plans
The North Carolina AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its September convention backing the call from the United Auto Workers for mass action on May 1, 2028. The resolution directs the state AFL-CIO to cre...
labornotes.org
October 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"The North Carolina AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its September convention backing the call from the United Auto Workers for mass action on May 1, 2028." - @dannydamage.bsky.social for @labornotes.bsky.social
I hear there's interest in general strikes on here...
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
I hear there's interest in general strikes on here...
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
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The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.
He said this out loud.
He said this out loud.
September 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.
He said this out loud.
He said this out loud.
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The ‘what’ economy?
Sen. Roger Marshall: "It seems very disingenuous for the Democrats to be blaming President Trump for these rural hospital struggles. The reason rural hospitals are struggling is because of the bad economy."
September 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The ‘what’ economy?
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People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
September 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
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Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
September 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
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Everytime Butker misses a field goal, a woman gets to leave the kitchen.
September 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Everytime Butker misses a field goal, a woman gets to leave the kitchen.
They're going for every bit of media and tech they can. We're going to have to get very DIY and old school with how we do things if we want to get away from their prying eyes and tentacles.
As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is.
Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?
Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?
September 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
They're going for every bit of media and tech they can. We're going to have to get very DIY and old school with how we do things if we want to get away from their prying eyes and tentacles.
Can we do away with the idea that these guys are all libertarians now?
the authoritarian techbro cult wishes to subjugate humanity - the good news is that these are pathetic creeps and we can beat them
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
September 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Can we do away with the idea that these guys are all libertarians now?
I've also noticed and I don't really understand why so many seemingly intelligent people don't get it. Yeah, it's hard in the moment, but it's a lot harder to live with a damaged reputation and a lack of integrity.
A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.
September 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I've also noticed and I don't really understand why so many seemingly intelligent people don't get it. Yeah, it's hard in the moment, but it's a lot harder to live with a damaged reputation and a lack of integrity.
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There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
September 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
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Kimmel back on air and now Sinclair caving in is an unambiguous good guys win. People stood up for the First Amendment and the right thing and the censorious fascists lost. It’s one skirmish in the wider war. But it is a win.
a large american flag is flying in the wind against a blue sky
ALT: a large american flag is flying in the wind against a blue sky
media.tenor.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Kimmel back on air and now Sinclair caving in is an unambiguous good guys win. People stood up for the First Amendment and the right thing and the censorious fascists lost. It’s one skirmish in the wider war. But it is a win.
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Rest in power, Ms Shakur.
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that knowledge will help set you free.” - Assata Shakur 🥀
September 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Rest in power, Ms Shakur.
Her direction to the photog after peppering him with those Qs was such a boss move. Wendy Suares, I salute you 👏
There’s definitely more to this story. My guess is there’s another scandal about to break.
📌 Reporter Wendy Suares chases after Ryan Walters after he unexpectedly announced he’s stepping down from the superintendent position.
📌 Reporter Wendy Suares chases after Ryan Walters after he unexpectedly announced he’s stepping down from the superintendent position.
September 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Her direction to the photog after peppering him with those Qs was such a boss move. Wendy Suares, I salute you 👏
The funniest part of Katie Miller calling Stephen Miller a "sexual matador" is that we can all see who she's talking about lmao
September 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The funniest part of Katie Miller calling Stephen Miller a "sexual matador" is that we can all see who she's talking about lmao
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This is exactly what the Niemöller poem is about.
You either stand on principle against authoritarianism or you enable it to creep and make it stronger.
You either stand on principle against authoritarianism or you enable it to creep and make it stronger.
September 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is exactly what the Niemöller poem is about.
You either stand on principle against authoritarianism or you enable it to creep and make it stronger.
You either stand on principle against authoritarianism or you enable it to creep and make it stronger.