Catbird49
catbird49.bsky.social
Catbird49
@catbird49.bsky.social
Retired anthropology teacher. Sometimes misanthropologist. Animal lover; avid, eclectic reader; music lover. Firm supporter of human rights—- for ALL humans!!! NO DM's!!!
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U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.

This is the military industrial complex on steroids.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas.

It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...
CANCELLED 60 MINUTES CECOT DOC
YouTube video by eoin higgins
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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If Not Now, When?
It's time for the 25th Amendment www.againstallenemies.net/p/if-not-now...
If Not Now, When?
It's time for the 25th Amendment.
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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December 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Last week Donald Trump was polling at 31%. Mocking Rob Reiner’s passing is going to send him into the 20’s, and his grip on power will be broken. All of a sudden everyone will admit they’ve always hated him.
December 15, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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The lawless lying lunatic you call president and his Republican cult of cons are morally bankrupt. Totally void of decency integrity and morality. These lowlife losers are the cause of the moral decay in America.
December 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Wow, this 🔥

“Corporations that have paid to help him demolish the East Wing … Law firms that capitulated are now doing work for the Donald Trump Commerce Department… Bezos, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump… No one has said anything about the character of this person today.”
December 16, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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For better or worse, public figures are judged when they die — their character, contributions, beliefs. It's undeniable that millions have mourned Rob Reiner's tragic death, celebrating his talent and contributions. I suspect when a certain public figure kicks the bucket, sentiments wont be the same
December 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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What a vile, sleazy, poisonous cockroach that man currently inhabiting the White House is.
December 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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DOES THE UNITED STATES PAY FARMERS NOT TO GROW THINGS?

Yes.

Now they will get a bailout from the American taxpayer?

Bailing them out when they grow things and baling them out when they dont is VERY REPUBLICAN (AKA stupid).
THEY CALL THEMSELVES CONSERVATIVES?

I think they are just CONS.
December 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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There is nothing less rock and roll than kissing a despot's ass.
December 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Yes they are both alive. The woman who wrote it is now in her 70s.

Franklin still is under copyright protection - Kids Can Press own the rights.

It is copyright infringement, & rights holders can issue cease-and-desist orders or file takedowns.

Like Trump does what he is told. They should sue.
December 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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When you've never heard the words: dual citizenship
December 7, 2025 at 10:39 PM
December 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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PSA

Autism is a spectrum because it includes autistic people who have no visible signs of autism, autistic people who have every stereotypical visible sign of autism & autistic people who fall everywhere in between.

We all exist. We are all valid. And we are all deserving of support.
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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ICE thought Minneapolis would fold. Instead, a police chief lit a flare bright enough to burn D.C.’s eyebrows.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The only way to for the public to see complete Epstein files is to leak it. Do it. Now. Anything else is complicit.
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM