Kathryn McMahon
@katoscope.bsky.social
Therapist. Writer. Social justice, nature, stories, dogs, food. BLM. Trans rights are human rights. She/they. 🏳️🌈 🥄 #endometriosis
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Goddamnit now I want to eat everything in this thread.
what are people stress eating?
January 25, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Goddamnit now I want to eat everything in this thread.
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If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
January 24, 2026 at 11:51 PM
If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
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Keep calling, even your Republican Senators.
Senate Republicans appear to be considering agreeing to split the DHS funding from the rest of the spending mega-package, the nyt reports: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
Democrats Vow Not to Fund ICE After Shooting, Imperiling Spending Deal
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Keep calling, even your Republican Senators.
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TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list.
They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.
They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.
January 23, 2026 at 9:11 PM
TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list.
They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.
They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.
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I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
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Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
Absolutely disgusting.
NEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-207
7 Democrats voted YES on the bill:
- Jared Golden
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
- Henry Cuellar
- Tom Suozzi
- Laura Gillen
- Don Davis
- Vicente Gonzalez
One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie
7 Democrats voted YES on the bill:
- Jared Golden
- Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
- Henry Cuellar
- Tom Suozzi
- Laura Gillen
- Don Davis
- Vicente Gonzalez
One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie
January 22, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Absolutely disgusting.
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Congress: *makes itself very small*
January 22, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Congress: *makes itself very small*
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ireland if you open up the citizenship process to people with Irish born great grandparents, i will move there tomorrow and give you all my taxes forever.
January 21, 2026 at 3:10 PM
ireland if you open up the citizenship process to people with Irish born great grandparents, i will move there tomorrow and give you all my taxes forever.
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Soo…I farted and sighed right next to the Bluetooth speaker and Siri played THIS song for me??
Shakira - Whenever, Wherever (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by shakiraVEVO
m.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Soo…I farted and sighed right next to the Bluetooth speaker and Siri played THIS song for me??
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ICE agents get a reward for everyone they detain, even if they get it wrong
Who pays for that reward?
The taxpayer.
Who pays to keep immigrants in detention unnecessarily?
The tax payer.
Yet they want you to believe they can’t afford to give you healthcare or food assistance
Who pays for that reward?
The taxpayer.
Who pays to keep immigrants in detention unnecessarily?
The tax payer.
Yet they want you to believe they can’t afford to give you healthcare or food assistance
January 20, 2026 at 9:28 AM
ICE agents get a reward for everyone they detain, even if they get it wrong
Who pays for that reward?
The taxpayer.
Who pays to keep immigrants in detention unnecessarily?
The tax payer.
Yet they want you to believe they can’t afford to give you healthcare or food assistance
Who pays for that reward?
The taxpayer.
Who pays to keep immigrants in detention unnecessarily?
The tax payer.
Yet they want you to believe they can’t afford to give you healthcare or food assistance
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New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 PM
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
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I did promise to make more textiles this year
Please let your rich friends know
#textiles #illustration
www.sonnyross.com/shop/hand
Please let your rich friends know
#textiles #illustration
www.sonnyross.com/shop/hand
January 20, 2026 at 11:45 PM
I did promise to make more textiles this year
Please let your rich friends know
#textiles #illustration
www.sonnyross.com/shop/hand
Please let your rich friends know
#textiles #illustration
www.sonnyross.com/shop/hand
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on earth we’re briefly too online
January 20, 2026 at 4:48 PM
on earth we’re briefly too online
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Do you know trans youth aged 19 and younger who might want a piece in the second issue of Chrysalis? Submissions are open! www.chrysalismagazine.org/submissions
Submissions | Chrysalis Magazine
www.chrysalismagazine.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Do you know trans youth aged 19 and younger who might want a piece in the second issue of Chrysalis? Submissions are open! www.chrysalismagazine.org/submissions
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I’m tired of hearing and reading that man’s name.
January 19, 2026 at 9:35 PM
I’m tired of hearing and reading that man’s name.
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Super hope we don't go to war this week.
January 19, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Super hope we don't go to war this week.
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This is the actual answer to every question about what Democrats are doing and why. They listen to think tanks and lobbyists who don't share the values of the party base, and they themselves believe in nothing. Its not as sexy as literally being in league with Trump, but the result is the same.
The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant - The American Prospect
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
prospect.org
January 19, 2026 at 4:26 PM
This is the actual answer to every question about what Democrats are doing and why. They listen to think tanks and lobbyists who don't share the values of the party base, and they themselves believe in nothing. Its not as sexy as literally being in league with Trump, but the result is the same.
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~news~: this week I started at The Guardian US @us.theguardian.com as Movement Building reporter, continuing my coverage of protest, repression and resistance against war, LGBTQ rights, policing, labor, and more under Trump.
organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68
organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68
January 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
~news~: this week I started at The Guardian US @us.theguardian.com as Movement Building reporter, continuing my coverage of protest, repression and resistance against war, LGBTQ rights, policing, labor, and more under Trump.
organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68
organizers, advocates—send me your stories! I’m on Signal lex.mcmenamin.68
Well this is terrifying
ABC News reporting 1,500 active duty soldiers are on standby to deploy to MINNESOTA.
The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson, one of the Army's premier infantry formations.
The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare
The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson, one of the Army's premier infantry formations.
The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare
Hundreds of active-duty soldiers on standby, 2 defense officials say
abcnews.go.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Well this is terrifying
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Suspiciously asking my wife who's funding her anytime she criticizes me
January 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Suspiciously asking my wife who's funding her anytime she criticizes me
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A greeting card for my Bluesky friends
January 17, 2026 at 10:53 PM
A greeting card for my Bluesky friends
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And one more thing. Students. If you have a professor who is, for some reason, outsourcing their own job to ChatGPT....drop the class.
If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class.
Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.
If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class.
Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.
January 17, 2026 at 11:00 PM
And one more thing. Students. If you have a professor who is, for some reason, outsourcing their own job to ChatGPT....drop the class.
If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class.
Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.
If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class.
Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.
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Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
January 17, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military
And then there's me. I live about a 15-min walk from a movie theater and rarely go 🙃
"You’re not going to get in the car and go to the next town to see a movie," says Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos
Ted Sarandos commits to 45-day theatrical windows, believes theaters are for city folk
Ted Sarandos commits to 45-day theatrical windows, believes theaters are for city folk
www.avclub.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:23 AM
And then there's me. I live about a 15-min walk from a movie theater and rarely go 🙃