Catherine Martin, PhD
@flyingmooncat.bsky.social
Professional book pusher, freelance writer, recovering academic. Media history, feminism, cats, and crafts.
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The Black and the Green (St. Clair Bourne, 1983) on @criterionchannl.bsky.social was a great followup to Union. It's about Black activists going from America to Belfast to express their solidarity with the Irish revolutionaries during the Troubles. A beautiful portrait of solidarity as a practice.
November 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The Black and the Green (St. Clair Bourne, 1983) on @criterionchannl.bsky.social was a great followup to Union. It's about Black activists going from America to Belfast to express their solidarity with the Irish revolutionaries during the Troubles. A beautiful portrait of solidarity as a practice.
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges
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Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
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2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
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Woke up hoping for a new chapter of a great fanfic but the writer's chronic pain kept her from writing this week. Instead, I saw that we'd pressured Romania into letting us give sanctuary to sex traffickers/far right radicalizers. There is no better encapsulation of 2025.
February 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Woke up hoping for a new chapter of a great fanfic but the writer's chronic pain kept her from writing this week. Instead, I saw that we'd pressured Romania into letting us give sanctuary to sex traffickers/far right radicalizers. There is no better encapsulation of 2025.
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Folks asking for sources other than NY post, Inside Higher Ed article was published yesterday, link below.
February 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Folks asking for sources other than NY post, Inside Higher Ed article was published yesterday, link below.
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Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago
January 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Not the banner you want seeing over this article from … checks notes … 8 days ago
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
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The thing about “patriotic education” is that if you have to lie about America to love it then you probably don’t really love it. Ultimately their objection to the flawed universalism expressed in the declaration is the idea that the flaws were bad or that the universalism should be realized.
January 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The thing about “patriotic education” is that if you have to lie about America to love it then you probably don’t really love it. Ultimately their objection to the flawed universalism expressed in the declaration is the idea that the flaws were bad or that the universalism should be realized.
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Donald Trump has revoked EO11246 signed by LBJ in 1965, mandating equal opportunities by federal contractors.
January 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Donald Trump has revoked EO11246 signed by LBJ in 1965, mandating equal opportunities by federal contractors.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
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Ok so Trump. Great job bringing TikTok back, that's something I'm sure you'll never stop bragging about. Now about how fast you're taking a wrecking ball to the America's structure & threatening people's rights. Also the CDC can't even ever send us advisories about disease anymore? Overkill.
January 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Ok so Trump. Great job bringing TikTok back, that's something I'm sure you'll never stop bragging about. Now about how fast you're taking a wrecking ball to the America's structure & threatening people's rights. Also the CDC can't even ever send us advisories about disease anymore? Overkill.
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Well this is quite an opener
January 20, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Well this is quite an opener
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TikTok was never going anywhere. The TikTok creator gave millions to Trump and they orchestrated this whole PR stunt just so Trump will be seen as a 'hero' to young people.
It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire
It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire
January 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
TikTok was never going anywhere. The TikTok creator gave millions to Trump and they orchestrated this whole PR stunt just so Trump will be seen as a 'hero' to young people.
It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire
It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire
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In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.
January 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.
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A lesson from the TikTok Affair should be that bipartisan efforts to preserve U.S. national security are vulnerable to the incoming president getting bought off and switching sides for his own personal and political benefit. Not great!
January 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A lesson from the TikTok Affair should be that bipartisan efforts to preserve U.S. national security are vulnerable to the incoming president getting bought off and switching sides for his own personal and political benefit. Not great!
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If law enforcement wants to enter your home, unless you consent, they need a JUDICIAL warrant like a search warrant. And you'll notice cops with search warrants don't ask permission.
If ICE needs your permission to enter, they don't have a judicial warrant. They have an administrative warrant.
If ICE needs your permission to enter, they don't have a judicial warrant. They have an administrative warrant.
January 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If law enforcement wants to enter your home, unless you consent, they need a JUDICIAL warrant like a search warrant. And you'll notice cops with search warrants don't ask permission.
If ICE needs your permission to enter, they don't have a judicial warrant. They have an administrative warrant.
If ICE needs your permission to enter, they don't have a judicial warrant. They have an administrative warrant.
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Ummm… Trump just played a video at his rally that was supposedly showing what the military “used to be” back “in the good old days” when we used to “win wars” vs. the “woke” military of today - by showing clips from… wait for it: APOCALYPSE NOW!!
🤦🏻♂️ I have no words.
🤦🏻♂️ I have no words.
January 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Ummm… Trump just played a video at his rally that was supposedly showing what the military “used to be” back “in the good old days” when we used to “win wars” vs. the “woke” military of today - by showing clips from… wait for it: APOCALYPSE NOW!!
🤦🏻♂️ I have no words.
🤦🏻♂️ I have no words.
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@aoc.bsky.social e-mail going after TikTok & social platforms collaborating with Trump - with a shout out to @bsky.app
January 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
@aoc.bsky.social e-mail going after TikTok & social platforms collaborating with Trump - with a shout out to @bsky.app
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Trump is the icing on a very shitty cake. And we have a lot of work to do to earn the trust of the majority of the world again, if we ever had it in the first place, which is debatable.
We can start by having a citizenry that stands up to Trump in tangible ways.
We can start by having a citizenry that stands up to Trump in tangible ways.
January 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Trump is the icing on a very shitty cake. And we have a lot of work to do to earn the trust of the majority of the world again, if we ever had it in the first place, which is debatable.
We can start by having a citizenry that stands up to Trump in tangible ways.
We can start by having a citizenry that stands up to Trump in tangible ways.
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The last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre said the Justice Department’s recent report “falls heartbreakingly short” and are still calling for reparative action
‘This is a call to action’: Tulsa race massacre survivors express frustration with DOJ report
"At 110 years old, we are weary, but we will not rest until justice for Greenwood is secured.”
www.whatimreading.net
January 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre said the Justice Department’s recent report “falls heartbreakingly short” and are still calling for reparative action
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Or that Brendan Carr, Trump's pick to head the FCC, sent Meta a letter right after the election telling Zuck that fact checking was against the First Amendment and Carr was poised to take action if Meta kept fact checking.
www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...
www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...
January 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Or that Brendan Carr, Trump's pick to head the FCC, sent Meta a letter right after the election telling Zuck that fact checking was against the First Amendment and Carr was poised to take action if Meta kept fact checking.
www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...
www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...
"White evangelicalism has never been about morality or even really faith, but identity — specifically Whiteness. By conflating religious and racial identity, white evangelicals have put a moral gloss on a deeply immoral desire for white supremacy."
www.salon.com/2025/01/09/h...
www.salon.com/2025/01/09/h...
Evangelicals loved Jimmy Carter — until his anti-racism turned them against him
The religious right began with white supremacy — which is why their love of Trump was predictable
www.salon.com
January 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
"White evangelicalism has never been about morality or even really faith, but identity — specifically Whiteness. By conflating religious and racial identity, white evangelicals have put a moral gloss on a deeply immoral desire for white supremacy."
www.salon.com/2025/01/09/h...
www.salon.com/2025/01/09/h...