geri katz
@gerikatz.bsky.social
Minneapolis, she/her. Lefty Jew, recovering union staff, healthcare nerd, history hobbyist. Tell your dog I said hi. 🍉
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it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
This seems bad.
(Honestly surprised it took them this long, with all the other questionable international decisions this admin has made.)
(Honestly surprised it took them this long, with all the other questionable international decisions this admin has made.)
One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean:
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
"United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
This seems bad.
(Honestly surprised it took them this long, with all the other questionable international decisions this admin has made.)
(Honestly surprised it took them this long, with all the other questionable international decisions this admin has made.)
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Tucked into a spending bill that is part of the deal to end the government shutdown is a provision that would allow GOP senators to personally sue the federal government for as much as $500K over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lawful search of their phone records.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Shutdown Deal Lets GOP Senators Personally Sue Over Jack Smith Probe
$500K For Election Subversion Tucked into a spending bill that is part...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Tucked into a spending bill that is part of the deal to end the government shutdown is a provision that would allow GOP senators to personally sue the federal government for as much as $500K over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lawful search of their phone records.
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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From a St Paul Dept of Safety and Inspections email: construction permit for a new $11m CBP building construction permit at 670 Bayfield Street next to the downtown StP airport. Note location right near the runways. "Great" place to deport from! @mollycoleman.bsky.social @melvincarter.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
From a St Paul Dept of Safety and Inspections email: construction permit for a new $11m CBP building construction permit at 670 Bayfield Street next to the downtown StP airport. Note location right near the runways. "Great" place to deport from! @mollycoleman.bsky.social @melvincarter.bsky.social
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Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
Trump on Ilhan Omar: "I look at somebody who comes from Somalia...and she comes in and tells us how to run our country. 'The Constitution says this, the Constitution says that.' The whole thing is crazy."
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.
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A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11.
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11.
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
A local affordable housing activist who partners with my org is facing eviction (for some real b.s. reasons). She needs a relatively small amount of money to keep her family in their home. Can you help?
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A local affordable housing activist who partners with my org is facing eviction (for some real b.s. reasons). She needs a relatively small amount of money to keep her family in their home. Can you help?
Late to the party but Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein was spectacular. It’s streaming on Netflix now if you haven’t seen it.
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Late to the party but Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein was spectacular. It’s streaming on Netflix now if you haven’t seen it.
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Elections show strong support for Dem policies.
Dem Senators cave.
Every single person says it’s a huge mistake and they shouldn’t do it.
Duckworth canary bill on ACA extension fails on party lines.
Dem Senators get a chance to vote again and still fucking cave!
What was the point of this.
Dem Senators cave.
Every single person says it’s a huge mistake and they shouldn’t do it.
Duckworth canary bill on ACA extension fails on party lines.
Dem Senators get a chance to vote again and still fucking cave!
What was the point of this.
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Elections show strong support for Dem policies.
Dem Senators cave.
Every single person says it’s a huge mistake and they shouldn’t do it.
Duckworth canary bill on ACA extension fails on party lines.
Dem Senators get a chance to vote again and still fucking cave!
What was the point of this.
Dem Senators cave.
Every single person says it’s a huge mistake and they shouldn’t do it.
Duckworth canary bill on ACA extension fails on party lines.
Dem Senators get a chance to vote again and still fucking cave!
What was the point of this.
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The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The Trump administration State Department is taking money that's supposed to be used for helping vulnerable refugees around the world and using it to bribe corrupt governments into taking people that ICE can't deport to their home countries.
"Force underpaid workers to smile will bring back customers" is the 2025 version of "beatings will continue until morale improves"
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Force underpaid workers to smile will bring back customers" is the 2025 version of "beatings will continue until morale improves"
The University of California used to be considered one of the greatest higher educational institutions in the world.
UCPD has charged four UC Berkeley undergrads with *felony vandalism* because they attempted to hang a cardboard bug on Sather Gate.
4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation
UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.
www.dailycal.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The University of California used to be considered one of the greatest higher educational institutions in the world.
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I dunno man, if you can’t keep 20% of the people you lead to hold the line, maybe you’re not up for the job?
SCOOP: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
Scoop: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
"We let him know what we were doing," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I dunno man, if you can’t keep 20% of the people you lead to hold the line, maybe you’re not up for the job?
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Mark Kelly notably declines to endorse Chuck Schumer as the leader of Senate Dems going forward
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Mark Kelly notably declines to endorse Chuck Schumer as the leader of Senate Dems going forward
If you're not already boycotting, don't shop at Target, Amazon, and Home Depot this holiday season. Don't give your money to the corporations that are funding and enabling authoritarianism! weaintbuyingit.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
If you're not already boycotting, don't shop at Target, Amazon, and Home Depot this holiday season. Don't give your money to the corporations that are funding and enabling authoritarianism! weaintbuyingit.com?fbclid=IwY2x...
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Read one (1) history book and tell me this is ok
New:
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers
He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command."
www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...
![STEWART RHODES (FOUNDER, OATH KEEPERS): And one other thing I want to say is that President Trump, as commander in chief, always has absolute authority to call all of us up as the militia because every one of us — in federal statues defining the militia, it's every able-bodied male from age 17-45. And for us veterans, it goes up to age 64 because of our prior training and experience.
Right now, under federal statutes, President Trump can call us up as the militia if he sees it necessary, especially for three purposes: to repel invasions, to suppress insurrections, and to execute the laws of the union. And right now, we see all three of those in play.
...
And the militia is all of us. So the National Guard is part of the militia, which is why it's completely lawful for him to use the National Guard as he has, and he should do more of that, I think, across the country.
...
He could just say given the circumstances of an invasion, insurrection, and resistance against federal law being being enforced, I'm calling up the militia, ordering all the men to come together [in] every county, put the veterans in charge of training and organizing all the other men and just have them stand too and await his orders. He can do that and I think he should do that. And so that's what I'll be advocating for from him. So from the bottom, from down the rank and file, we can let President Trump know that we're ready to serve, encourage him to do that, call us up as a militia, order us all to come together in our counties under his command, which gives you complete legal sanction to do what you're doing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:af7tqcetuyt352aolf3znlxe/bafkreialm4skuozqobejpd6vx4m6kuwsgtidxmmxvj3ftcff6otiuyohiy@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Read one (1) history book and tell me this is ok
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I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I am not going to let Schumer and 8 center-right Democrats bring me down. We won on Tuesday. We're gonna keep winning. Just keep telling the stories of what the Trump administration is doing and how it's making lives so much harder, about the corruption, the incompetence, the violence.
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I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
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OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Oscar Isaac Was ‘Not So Open to Working With Disney’ After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Said He’d Return to ‘Star Wars’ if Disney Does ‘Not Succumb to Fascism’
Oscar Isaac was not open to working with Disney after Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and will only return to 'Star Wars' if the studio avoids fascism.
variety.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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People who I love dearly knew and loved Ra’Lasia and this shrine was destroyed before they were able to see it.
Rest in power, Ra’Lasia.
Rest in power, Ra’Lasia.
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
People who I love dearly knew and loved Ra’Lasia and this shrine was destroyed before they were able to see it.
Rest in power, Ra’Lasia.
Rest in power, Ra’Lasia.
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Someone put up shrines for murdered trans people at Powderhorn Park. I first saw them a week ago and now half of the photos are missing. One of the shrines was for Ra’Lasia Wright, who was murdered just outside of the park.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Someone put up shrines for murdered trans people at Powderhorn Park. I first saw them a week ago and now half of the photos are missing. One of the shrines was for Ra’Lasia Wright, who was murdered just outside of the park.
That said, anyone with a Dem senator should be calling them to demand Schumer’s resignation as minority leader. He orchestrated this, he is a terrible leader, a terrible negotiator, and needs to step down.
Everything is terrible, but how many lefty Minnesotans were pleasantly surprised that BOTH of our US Senators voted against the cave? It's a small comfort, literally the least they could have done, but still.
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
That said, anyone with a Dem senator should be calling them to demand Schumer’s resignation as minority leader. He orchestrated this, he is a terrible leader, a terrible negotiator, and needs to step down.
Everything is terrible, but how many lefty Minnesotans were pleasantly surprised that BOTH of our US Senators voted against the cave? It's a small comfort, literally the least they could have done, but still.
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Everything is terrible, but how many lefty Minnesotans were pleasantly surprised that BOTH of our US Senators voted against the cave? It's a small comfort, literally the least they could have done, but still.