Richard Catalano
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Retired Professor, 40 years developing the science of prevention through positive youth development. Loves democracy and votes 💙💙💙 I repost selected Substacks
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Retired Professor, 40 years developing the science of prevention through positive youth development. Loves democracy and votes 💙💙💙 I repost selected Substacks
I block 🚫 Magats 🚫 DM 🚫 Porn I block those without posts or few posts
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"Putin Is A Ruthless Murderer Who Has No Interest In Peace And Cannot Be Trusted"
I had hoped to take a break this Christmas Holiday but Putin and Trump have made that impossible......
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"I am encouraged that a bi-partisan group of Senators has emerged in recent days to forcefully challenge Trump’s dangerous selling out of Ukraine and Europe - and our own national security - to Putin, Xi, and global autocracy."
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Exclusive: Dr. Amy Acton and the Revolt Against MAGA in Ohio
In an interview with MeidasTouch, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate contrasts steady public service with her opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy’s, treatment of Ohio as a “flyover state.”
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"Donald Trump has doubled down on policies that hit working- and middle-class families hardest, from destabilizing the health care system to waging trade wars that punish manufacturing states like Ohio."
Vote for Amy Acton for Governor!
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Vote for Amy Acton for Governor!
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2025 was horribly challenging--but We are now kicking Trump’s ass!
We are ready for 2026 midterm!
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"in a year from now—if we continue to work together—we will be just days away from the swearing in of a new Congress controlled by Democrats. From there we will press Democratic leaders to take the fight to Trump using every single means available..."
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Merry Christmas to you, too, Mr. President!
December 27, 2025
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"In short, January will be a challenging month for grassroots activists trying to inject quick-set epoxy into the spines of congressional Democrats. So, after the first of the year, we must be back to the barricades, the post office, the keyboard, and the phones."
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And we are happy they are going down with the felon
Rebecca Solnit
"“Trump appears to be disintegrating, rotting, collapsing before our eyes, mentally and physically, and Republicans in Congress—first of all with the vote to release the Epstein files—are breaking from him.”
"“Trump appears to be disintegrating, rotting, collapsing before our eyes, mentally and physically, and Republicans in Congress—first of all with the vote to release the Epstein files—are breaking from him.”
I wrote this a year ago and it hit a nerve. It is still relevant today:
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
We Are on Our Own
From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.
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Time for leadership change in the House and Senate.
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Congress should not let up on contempt for Bondi.
They must bring her b4 committee, under oath.
Except this time when she starts with her CRAP, they must be prepared to have the Sgt. At Arms, put her in cuffs.
Period.
They must bring her b4 committee, under oath.
Except this time when she starts with her CRAP, they must be prepared to have the Sgt. At Arms, put her in cuffs.
Period.
Amen!
It’s hard to believe that one man can cause so much stress, so much fear, so much pain and suffering…a man who took an oath to preserve and protect our Constitution. This man, who is inciting terror across our land, must be removed from office. In a sane world, it would happen immediately.
It may not be sane, but it is our world. Hard to believe the constitutional protections are not as we have believed them to be. Turns out onstage capitalism has wrested control from the people by installing a crook in the White House. We will need a total revamp to protect against this insanity.
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It’s hard to believe that one man can cause so much stress, so much fear, so much pain and suffering…a man who took an oath to preserve and protect our Constitution. This man, who is inciting terror across our land, must be removed from office. In a sane world, it would happen immediately.
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We Are on Our Own
From Marc | Our institutions are not going to save us. Only we can do that.
www.democracydocket.com
I wrote this a year ago and it hit a nerve. It is still relevant today:
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
Each time I have sat down to write something I am bothered by this recurring phrase that I cannot get out of my head. So, this week I am going to just say it out loud: we are on our own. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-a...
Trump is so predictable. His Christmas posts were filled with hate and hostility. Almost word for word of the ones he posts every day. Americans know this is not normal or presidential. He has no filter or self control. Maga says he is being authentic, no, he just thinks he is invincible
A sick sad man. What does this say about the 70M that voted for him
Trump’s Million Document Migraine
A million new Epstein documents didn’t appear by accident. They surfaced because panic leaves fingerprints, delay exposes fear, and selective transparency always reveals exactly who’s sweating.
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"That’s the real takeaway here. Not just that the cover-up is worse than the crime, but that the cover-up is advertising how serious the crime might be."
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Friday Afternoon News Updates - 12/26/25
It may be a holiday weekend, but the news rages on...
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"They are asking why a president who claims innocence would be fighting disclosure so aggressively. Everyone can draw their own conclusions about motive, but the existence of a cover-up is no longer in dispute."
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Congress should not let up on contempt for Bondi.
They must bring her b4 committee, under oath.
Except this time when she starts with her CRAP, they must be prepared to have the Sgt. At Arms, put her in cuffs.
Period.
They must bring her b4 committee, under oath.
Except this time when she starts with her CRAP, they must be prepared to have the Sgt. At Arms, put her in cuffs.
Period.
Reposted by Richard F. Catalano
Trump is so predictable. His Christmas posts were filled with hate and hostility. Almost word for word of the ones he posts every day. Americans know this is not normal or presidential. He has no filter or self control. Maga says he is being authentic, no, he just thinks he is invincible
The Best of the Congress
Real leadership is present, if you know where to look
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Jen's 10 best of Congress. We could add 10 more, but none of these would include current D leadership. Time for the best to be the leaders of the party.
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Important Christmas Day News Updates - 12/25/25
By Ben Meiselas
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"Imagine someone in your life posting about a single topic two hundred times in a morning. You would ask if they were okay...And yet this is the behavior of the person entrusted with nuclear codes, foreign policy, and the rule of law."
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Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS,
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
2nd worst AG in history
Merrick Garland hid this from us for 4 YEARS,
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
and allowed this disgusting monster to be reelected
Meet the GOP Congressman who makes George Santos look like a Christmas Angel
By: Live from the Resistance
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"The walls are closing in on Andy Ogles. When your own treasurer gets blocked from a job because he knows you, it is over.
We have the chance to flip this seat and replace a national embarrassment with a public servant.
Help Mike Cortese clean up the Ogles disaster"
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We have the chance to flip this seat and replace a national embarrassment with a public servant.
Help Mike Cortese clean up the Ogles disaster"
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The Invisible Ten Co-Conspirators
Ten possible co-conspirators sit buried beneath DOJ redactions, protected not by innocence but by silence, delay, and a Justice Department terrified of naming names.
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"[Even_my add]Schumer is now pushing to sue the Justice Department for blowing past a clear congressional deadline. Because when Congress orders a full release and the DOJ responds with a blackout poem, that’s not compliance. That’s contempt."
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Sniffling into 2026: RFK Jr.'s Anti-Vax Crusade | First Draft with Susan J. Demas and Dr. Paul Offit
Nothing ruins Christmas like COVID, RSV, and the flu. And RFK Jr. wouldn't have it any other way. We talk to Dr. Paul Offit, one of the prominent medical experts Kennedy removed from an FDA panel.
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"But Dr. Offit argues that vaccine safety isn’t something you “debate” — it’s something you prove through evidence. What do we do when many Americans would rather trust their favorite celebrity than scientists?"
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Important Christmas Eve News Updates - 12/24/25
Hi all, Ben here.
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"Now, thanks to your resilience, there is hope. The Trump regime is spiraling. More and more Americans are seeing the truth. Now’s the time we must uplift rather than degrade, inform rather than deceive, and defend democratic principles with courage and persistence.
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The Dumpster Fire that was DOGE
New and updated reporting from the NY Times just proves what we knew all along: DOGE was a vanity project and nothing else
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"You can’t fix systemic problems with a chainsaw, hype, and a meme. You need expertise, precision, and real accountability — none of which DOGE delivered. Instead, we just got drama, pain, and no value. Sounds a lot like Convicted Felon Donald Trump."
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Trump’s DOJ Attacks Meidas Before Christmas
By Ben Meiselas
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"The MeidasTouch Network will never bend the knee to this criminal gangster regime. We will continue to fearlessly report on this gangster regime and expose their cover-ups. We will continue to break major stories and fight for our democracy to be restored."
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At risk of sounding like an old cranky person, I am annoyed at how many things that used to work don't work now. The Prime Videos app on Windows has random digital hitches. My wireless controller now cuts out at random intervals for 20-30 seconds. Things that used to just work, now suddenly clunky.
Amen. The world is getting less competent at an alarming rate. Look who we elected president.
Merry Christmas All......
2025 was a good year for us politically and electorally. Let's commit to make 2026 even better....
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"Whatever your version is of how we get to the other side of Trumpism what happened this year - a profound national rejection of him and his regime - was a necessary first step, and it happened."
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