Cat Lady
@cat-lady-sq.bsky.social
Cats. Books. Progressive politics. Movies. Mountains. Environmentally minded. Writing. Exvangelical. Figure skating aficionado. Travel. But mostly cats.
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Cat Lady
@cat-lady-sq.bsky.social
· Jan 24
My wish for this year, just to survive it. May we all, just survive it.
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Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
October 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
Sort of in relation to this. Compliments instead of just complaints for service. I texted my hairdresser after getting a cut last week, complimented on through video meetings with colleagues and she thanked me for that. Said she only rarely gets feedback of any kind, but usually negative, if any.
You should tell more people you’re proud of their accomplishments, no matter how big or small.
September 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Sort of in relation to this. Compliments instead of just complaints for service. I texted my hairdresser after getting a cut last week, complimented on through video meetings with colleagues and she thanked me for that. Said she only rarely gets feedback of any kind, but usually negative, if any.
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Kevin Levin on Trump’s attack on American history
Check out Levin's Substack post: "Trump's Assault on the NPS is Not a Disagreement Over History. It is an Attack on History Itself." Here is a taste: We need to stop framing this ongoing “review,” ordered by the Trump administration of the National…
Check out Levin's Substack post: "Trump's Assault on the NPS is Not a Disagreement Over History. It is an Attack on History Itself." Here is a taste: We need to stop framing this ongoing “review,” ordered by the Trump administration of the National…
Kevin Levin on Trump’s attack on American history
Check out Levin's Substack post: "Trump's Assault on the NPS is Not a Disagreement Over History. It is an Attack on History Itself." Here is a taste: We need to stop framing this ongoing “review,” ordered by the Trump administration of the National Park Service’s interpretive assets, as a disagreement over history. Only one side in this story is engaged in the interpretation of American history and it is not the Trump administration...
thewayofimprovement.blog
July 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Kevin Levin on Trump’s attack on American history
Check out Levin's Substack post: "Trump's Assault on the NPS is Not a Disagreement Over History. It is an Attack on History Itself." Here is a taste: We need to stop framing this ongoing “review,” ordered by the Trump administration of the National…
Check out Levin's Substack post: "Trump's Assault on the NPS is Not a Disagreement Over History. It is an Attack on History Itself." Here is a taste: We need to stop framing this ongoing “review,” ordered by the Trump administration of the National…
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Those in favor of it should all be ashamed of themselves.
Evangelicals respond to the “Big Beautiful Bill”
As I wrote this morning, Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is ready to pass the House. What are American evangelicals saying today about the bill? Marvin Olasky: Jack Graham is the pastor of a Texas megachurch and a Trump court evangelical. It never…
As I wrote this morning, Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is ready to pass the House. What are American evangelicals saying today about the bill? Marvin Olasky: Jack Graham is the pastor of a Texas megachurch and a Trump court evangelical. It never…
Evangelicals respond to the “Big Beautiful Bill”
As I wrote this morning, Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is ready to pass the House. What are American evangelicals saying today about the bill? Marvin Olasky: Jack Graham is the pastor of a Texas megachurch and a Trump court evangelical. It never ceases to amaze me how tone deaf white middle-class evangelicals are about social class. The "most faith and family centric in history?" Tell that to the millions of families who will lose their health care.
thewayofimprovement.blog
July 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Those in favor of it should all be ashamed of themselves.
Now is the time for folks to be working hard to help get @blakegendebien.bsky.social elected in 2026!
Let’s be clear: Stefanik hates this job. She’s not from NY-21. She loathes the people. She invested a decade of her life with one aim: to get ahead. House leadership, VP stakes, UN Amb nominee-all dashed to end up back in the job she hates.
She will be miserable and unbearable.
She will be miserable and unbearable.
March 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Now is the time for folks to be working hard to help get @blakegendebien.bsky.social elected in 2026!
I’m disappointed for sure.
As some celebrate this news & gloat about karma finding Stefanik, I’m sorry for the people of Upstate NY and the North Country.
They deserve better than an absentee representative who has only ever cared about her future instead of theirs.
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
They deserve better than an absentee representative who has only ever cared about her future instead of theirs.
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
Trump pulls Stefanik's UN nomination
The White House has pulled Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be United Nations ambassador, President Donald Trump announced on Thursday.
abcnews.go.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I’m disappointed for sure.
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It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame
February 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame
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That tracks.
February 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
That tracks.
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February 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My two favorite funny Valentines. 💝 💝
February 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
My two favorite funny Valentines. 💝 💝
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On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"
November 9, 2024 at 9:40 PM
On this day in 1970, Charles Schulz replied to a 10-year-old kid who had written and asked, “What makes a good citizen?"
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Pete Buttigieg is on BlueSky, give a follow and say hello. We’re very happy he’s finally here!
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February 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Pete Buttigieg is on BlueSky, give a follow and say hello. We’re very happy he’s finally here!
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I read this on dark days for a little solace.
February 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I read this on dark days for a little solace.
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Stories hold us together. Stories teach us what is important about life, why we are here and how it is best to behave, and that inside us we have access to treasure, in memories and observations, in imagination.
February 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Stories hold us together. Stories teach us what is important about life, why we are here and how it is best to behave, and that inside us we have access to treasure, in memories and observations, in imagination.
I needed to see this today.
From @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. "If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him."
Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
www.youtube.com
February 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I needed to see this today.
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Happy National Girls & Women in Sports Day!
February 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Happy National Girls & Women in Sports Day!
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February 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”
February 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”
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Well done for making it to the end of January.
Stop whatever you're doing and read a book to reward yourself.
If you don't have a book, then buy one from an indie bookshop, that way you'll be making TWO people happy.
Stop whatever you're doing and read a book to reward yourself.
If you don't have a book, then buy one from an indie bookshop, that way you'll be making TWO people happy.
January 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Well done for making it to the end of January.
Stop whatever you're doing and read a book to reward yourself.
If you don't have a book, then buy one from an indie bookshop, that way you'll be making TWO people happy.
Stop whatever you're doing and read a book to reward yourself.
If you don't have a book, then buy one from an indie bookshop, that way you'll be making TWO people happy.
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When I was 25 I was sad I had not written The Great American Novel. At 55, I realize there's no Great American Novel, there are merely the stories I'm the best person to tell. Don't worry about how others see greatness. Work on being the best version of who you are and what you can do in the world.
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
When I was 25 I was sad I had not written The Great American Novel. At 55, I realize there's no Great American Novel, there are merely the stories I'm the best person to tell. Don't worry about how others see greatness. Work on being the best version of who you are and what you can do in the world.
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One of my absolute favourites.
January 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
One of my absolute favourites.
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Mary Oliver never misses.
January 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Mary Oliver never misses.