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Cate
@cateclother.bsky.social
Artist, Teacher, Writer, Mom
Founding Editor, Cordella Press
Northern California
It's launch day for our brand new 19th issue, Mother/Land, in which 19 contributors share their words, songs, films, paintings, sculptures, flavors, and fashions, all around themes of motherhood, daughterhood, landscape, mindscape, spirit, and more. 💛 cordella.org
Cordella Press
A biannual online publication with an annual print edition, featuring the work of women-identified and nonbinary creatives.
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March 16, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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The CR passed in the House will provide a blank check for Trump and Musk to continue their savage war against working families, the elderly, children, the sick and the poor in order to lay the groundwork for massive tax breaks for billionaires.

This is a bill I cannot support.
March 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The Giving Tree: A story of handouts. Flat-out socialism. Not to mention the climate-thumper extremism of giving the tree feelings. “Oh no, a tree is sad. It turns into a pathetic little stump. Whatever will we do?” Ridiculous.
Dangerous Children’s Picture Books That Could Be Lurking in Your Home
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Some people are wising up and removing this bawdy board book from impressionable kindergarten classrooms. The title alone ...
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March 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Good morning everyone. It will always be Denali.

Have a peaceful day.
March 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Morning from Kyiv.
I had a slow #warcoffee
and read the news (nothing good is there).

Today is International Women’s Day.
I am sending my solidarity hugs to every woman who sees this message.
We can do more than we think.

The painting: 🇺🇦 Seraphym Charkin, Amazon Woman, 2019
March 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Six years ago, I joined my colleagues to remember Bloody Sunday—a violent turning point in the fight for justice and equality. That march ignited a movement that would forever alter the course of history.

📷 Jonathan Capehart
March 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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The massive income and wealth inequality that exists in America today is literally a matter of life and death.

People in wealthy counties live SEVEN years longer than people in poorer communities. That’s unacceptable.

EVERYONE has the right to a long, happy and productive life.
March 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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This International Women’s Day, Ploughshares turns its full attention to women who are challenging the prevailing view that threats, force, and war are necessary for conflict resolution.

Join us on Zoom on Saturday, March 8 at 10 am PT / 12 pm CT / 1 pm ET

bit.ly/Ploughshares...
March 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Without Congressional action, the World Trade Center Health Program will begin denying care for 9/11 survivors & first responders.

Unacceptable.

I joined NY colleagues in introducing a bill to secure permanent funding for WTCHP, so those impacted get the help they deserve.
Goldman, Garbarino, Gillibrand, Schumer, Nadler, Kean Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Fix World Trade Center Health Program Funding Shortfall
Washington, DC – Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10), Congressman Andrew Garbarino (NY-02), Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Congressman Jerry Nadler (NY-12)...
goldman.house.gov
March 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"It turns out that people would rather read a thoughtful essay with an error in it than one of ChatGPT’s grammatically flawless articles about delving into a thought-provoking tapestry of synergy."
I’m a Typo, and in This Age of AI, I’m the Real Hero
Well, look who just spotted me and isn’t happy about it. You’ve got the same look as you did when that server told you to enjoy your tortellini, an...
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February 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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- Apple pie
- Cold beer on a Friday night
- Measles
Let’s Bring Back Traditional Values (No, Not Those Ones)
Now that we’ve elected a president who promises to make America great again, it’s time to bring back our traditional American values, including: ...
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February 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled “Degenerate Art”: The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online
The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled “Degenerate Art”: The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online
The Nazis may not have known art, but they knew what they liked, and much more so what they didn't. We've previously featured here on Open Culture the “Degenerate Art Exhibition” of 1937, put on by Hi...
www.openculture.com
February 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
Yesterday many thousands of federal employees were terminated. This is a Reddit thread for federal employees that got laid off.
From the fednews community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the fednews community
www.reddit.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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It's time for some GOOD news!

Beth and Paul Garon's "WOMAN WITH GUITAR: Memphis Minnie's Blues," published by City Lights in 2014, will be celebrated as a new Blues Hall of Fame Inductee on May 7, 2025!
bit.ly/3CP0xBh
February 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Trump's agenda threatens our lands, sovereignty, and sacred treaties. We must stay alert and united against his attempts to erase our identity and sell out our future to corporate interests. Our ancestors fought hard for our rights - we won't let them be taken away!
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
February 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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February 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.
February 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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WATCH Senator Andy Kim call out Trump and Musk
February 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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10 states use funds from STOLEN Indigenous lands to fund prisons. A stark reminder of the ongoing legacy of colonialism and land theft. Stand with Native communities to demand justice and reparations! #LandBack
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10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands
State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling
ictnews.org
February 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Olfunke Grace Bankole on writing a multigenerational, multi-perspective novel that resists traditional immigrant narratives (interview by @riggstah.bsky.social)
In "The Edge of Water," A Prophecy Unravels a Nigerian Family’s Pursuit of the American Dream - Electric Literature
Olufunke Grace Bankole discusses fictionalizing Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in her debut novel
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February 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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February 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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The website for the U.S. Agency for International Development went dark Saturday afternoon as lawmakers and aid workers braced for the possibility that the agency might be shut down.
End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say
A sense of crisis among aid groups was growing as U.S.A.I.D.’s website went dark.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Breaking News: The Trump administration revoked Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Venezuelans in the U.S., leaving them vulnerable to potential deportation.
Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S.
The decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status signals that President Trump will continue to dismantle a program that aims to protect migrants from potentially dangerous countries.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM