Disgruntled Cat Hermit
@bravethebridge.bsky.social
Writer and EdPub freelancer. I'm here mainly to represent fancy felines and keep vigil over American democracy. Hoping to see old friends and make new.
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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
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Woah I almost forgot Caturday!
Have a tubcat
Have a tubcat
December 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Woah I almost forgot Caturday!
Have a tubcat
Have a tubcat
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James Talarico: Are you aware that this bill removes the writings of Frederick Douglass & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Republican: I am
Talarico: Yet this bill includes writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, and he's not even American. Could that be because he's a white man?
Republican: N-not exactly…
Republican: I am
Talarico: Yet this bill includes writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, and he's not even American. Could that be because he's a white man?
Republican: N-not exactly…
December 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
James Talarico: Are you aware that this bill removes the writings of Frederick Douglass & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Republican: I am
Talarico: Yet this bill includes writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, and he's not even American. Could that be because he's a white man?
Republican: N-not exactly…
Republican: I am
Talarico: Yet this bill includes writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, and he's not even American. Could that be because he's a white man?
Republican: N-not exactly…
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Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
majestic Ani
December 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM
majestic Ani
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"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Lazin' on a winter afternoon
December 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Lazin' on a winter afternoon
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers
--Wordsworth
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers
--Wordsworth
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers
--Wordsworth
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers
--Wordsworth
lap panther thwarts attempt to meet deadline
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
lap panther thwarts attempt to meet deadline
Happy #Krampusnacht! One can only hope.
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Happy #Krampusnacht! One can only hope.
Coffee aisle $ticker $hock: this time next year, will I be skulking on dark street corners to score decaf? ("Ya want water processed? That'll cost ya triple, pal.")
December 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Coffee aisle $ticker $hock: this time next year, will I be skulking on dark street corners to score decaf? ("Ya want water processed? That'll cost ya triple, pal.")
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Support Bolts
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December 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
You can help Bolts continue to provide crucial coverage of local elections. Here's how:
- Repost this = I donate $1.
- Follow @boltsmag.org = I donate $1.
- Donate (link below) + tell me how much = I match your donation.
(Donate monthly = I match a year's worth)
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(Donate monthly = I match a year's worth)
They became refugees because he saved American lives. They rebuilt their lives, and now they need help. I started this fundraiser for a family who've become like family to me. Donations go directly to a local, nonprofit refugee partnership. Big gratitude for shares. #refugees
gofund.me/bafaca6f
gofund.me/bafaca6f
Donate to They're refugees because he was a hero. Help them in crisis., organized by Jody Frank
This is a fundraiser for a refugee family who’ve done everythi… Jody Frank needs your support for They're refugees because he was a hero. Help them in crisis.
gofund.me
December 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
They became refugees because he saved American lives. They rebuilt their lives, and now they need help. I started this fundraiser for a family who've become like family to me. Donations go directly to a local, nonprofit refugee partnership. Big gratitude for shares. #refugees
gofund.me/bafaca6f
gofund.me/bafaca6f
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The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories.
So we made that list for you 👇
So we made that list for you 👇
The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...
www.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The FDA never released a comprehensive list of the drugs it allowed into the U.S. even though they were made by banned factories.
So we made that list for you 👇
So we made that list for you 👇
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We must never believe what we are being told. We must not believe these charlatans who would deceive us for their cynical political, immoral, and godless purposes.
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We must never believe what we are being told. We must not believe these charlatans who would deceive us for their cynical political, immoral, and godless purposes.
Thanksgiving seems like a good time to share my mother's unpublished account of our life with ghosts, complete with floating heads and a self-propelled turkey.
open.substack.com/pub/thingsin...
open.substack.com/pub/thingsin...
November 28, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Thanksgiving seems like a good time to share my mother's unpublished account of our life with ghosts, complete with floating heads and a self-propelled turkey.
open.substack.com/pub/thingsin...
open.substack.com/pub/thingsin...
Best excuse for not exercising: the cat is on the mat. (Thanks, Ani.)
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Best excuse for not exercising: the cat is on the mat. (Thanks, Ani.)
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How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers & Writers Have Always Known
How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers & Writers Have Always Known
Image via Diego Sevilla Ruiz
A certain Zen proverb goes something like this: 'A five year old can understand it, but an 80 year old cannot do it.' The subject of this riddle-like saying has been descr...
www.openculture.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
How Walking Fosters Creativity: Stanford Researchers Confirm What Philosophers & Writers Have Always Known
Ani: "It's not recycling week. The bin is still sitting out there full. You see that, right?"
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Ani: "It's not recycling week. The bin is still sitting out there full. You see that, right?"
Ani lives on the wheel's edge. Why, Ani, why?
November 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Ani lives on the wheel's edge. Why, Ani, why?
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After 20 years in the Navy, Buzz Grambo thought he'd spend his retirement playing video games and watching baseball. Instead, he patrols the streets of Baltimore to protect his neighbors from ICE. He even upgraded his scooter to a Segway that reaches 26 mph to keep up with the agents. My latest:
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
After 20 years in the Navy, Buzz Grambo thought he'd spend his retirement playing video games and watching baseball. Instead, he patrols the streets of Baltimore to protect his neighbors from ICE. He even upgraded his scooter to a Segway that reaches 26 mph to keep up with the agents. My latest:
Wow, I can't wait to be "weened" off the need for affordable healthcare.
Tom Emmer on the debate Republicans are having about the ACA: "We got all these different opinions. Ween the public off it, end it, send the tax credits directly to the American people."
November 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Wow, I can't wait to be "weened" off the need for affordable healthcare.