Cat Gray
@catgray14.bsky.social
Tar Heel born, Tar Heel bred. Crazy cat lady. Grammar police. Tea lover. Go Heels!
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just incredible optics here, the president yelling at you about how you should buy less and like it, three weeks before christmas, while standing in front of a bunch of stupefied moronic dipshits holding BIGGER PAYCHECKS signs
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
just incredible optics here, the president yelling at you about how you should buy less and like it, three weeks before christmas, while standing in front of a bunch of stupefied moronic dipshits holding BIGGER PAYCHECKS signs
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When workers have affordable health insurance, they get healthy and stay healthy which benefits their communities and our economy.
4 million Americans are expected to lose coverage if Republicans allow the ACA tax credits to expire and that shock will be felt by everyone.
4 million Americans are expected to lose coverage if Republicans allow the ACA tax credits to expire and that shock will be felt by everyone.
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
When workers have affordable health insurance, they get healthy and stay healthy which benefits their communities and our economy.
4 million Americans are expected to lose coverage if Republicans allow the ACA tax credits to expire and that shock will be felt by everyone.
4 million Americans are expected to lose coverage if Republicans allow the ACA tax credits to expire and that shock will be felt by everyone.
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See also: this is why they hate the ACA.
If you aren't beholden to your company for your healthcare, you might get it in your head that you can walk away and still be happy.
If you aren't beholden to your company for your healthcare, you might get it in your head that you can walk away and still be happy.
This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses.
NEW
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
US labor market flows remained sluggish in October data released this morning, as hiring slowed to nearly the lowest level since early COVID
The hiring rate fell to 3.2%, layoffs rose to 1.2%, quits fell to 1.8%, and job openings rose to 4.6%
December 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
See also: this is why they hate the ACA.
If you aren't beholden to your company for your healthcare, you might get it in your head that you can walk away and still be happy.
If you aren't beholden to your company for your healthcare, you might get it in your head that you can walk away and still be happy.
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If you use the ACA say goodbye to your coverage because you probably won't be able to afford it. And the GOP loves it and hopes you die.
GOP moves to let Obamacare subsidies expire as Trump promises ‘money to the people’ (Politico)
Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are mo...
l.smartnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
If you use the ACA say goodbye to your coverage because you probably won't be able to afford it. And the GOP loves it and hopes you die.
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If ACA subsidies aren’t extended, the CBO estimates 2.2 million people will lose their health insurance in the first year, and even more thereafter (www.cbo.gov/system/files...).
Some of those people will die.
Some of those people will die.
People are going to die because of the pending insurance premium hikes. I know the terrain of discourse is inconsistent and goes through a tumble cycle every 24 hours, but I really think we need to hone in on this reality and drive it home for people.
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If ACA subsidies aren’t extended, the CBO estimates 2.2 million people will lose their health insurance in the first year, and even more thereafter (www.cbo.gov/system/files...).
Some of those people will die.
Some of those people will die.
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December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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For nearly three decades, Miami’s mayoral office has been a Republican stronghold, a symbol of continuity in a city that has otherwise evolved into a vibrant, diverse, and rapidly changing metropolis. That streak is over.
Eileen Higgins will win Miami mayor’s race, CNN projects, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold | CNN Politics
Eileen Higgins will be the next mayor of the city of Miami, according to a projection from CNN’s Decision Desk, breaking a nearly 30-year Republican streak in holding the nonpartisan seat and giving D...
www.cnn.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
For nearly three decades, Miami’s mayoral office has been a Republican stronghold, a symbol of continuity in a city that has otherwise evolved into a vibrant, diverse, and rapidly changing metropolis. That streak is over.
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It seems so painfully clear that Dems could blow this whole thing apart with just a couple weeks of sustained, disciplined messaging sowing distrust and paranoia in WH circles around 'Republicans all talk openly about how they lie and manipulate the dude who they know isn't all there anymore'
Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco
The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of ...
newrepublic.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It seems so painfully clear that Dems could blow this whole thing apart with just a couple weeks of sustained, disciplined messaging sowing distrust and paranoia in WH circles around 'Republicans all talk openly about how they lie and manipulate the dude who they know isn't all there anymore'
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Remember that Elon Musk, the man who’s about to become the world’s first trillionaire, is an immigrant who avoids paying taxes.
He wants you to hate immigrants because it keeps you from recognizing that he’s the problem.
Don’t fall for it.
Abolish the billionaire (and trillionaire!) class.
He wants you to hate immigrants because it keeps you from recognizing that he’s the problem.
Don’t fall for it.
Abolish the billionaire (and trillionaire!) class.
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Remember that Elon Musk, the man who’s about to become the world’s first trillionaire, is an immigrant who avoids paying taxes.
He wants you to hate immigrants because it keeps you from recognizing that he’s the problem.
Don’t fall for it.
Abolish the billionaire (and trillionaire!) class.
He wants you to hate immigrants because it keeps you from recognizing that he’s the problem.
Don’t fall for it.
Abolish the billionaire (and trillionaire!) class.
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I had shingles in my early teen years. I cannot express to you how badly you do not want to get shingles. get the fucking vaccine.
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I had shingles in my early teen years. I cannot express to you how badly you do not want to get shingles. get the fucking vaccine.
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Important detail on Paramount's hostile takeover bid to buy WBD:
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount launches hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros.
The move comes days after Paramount was bested by Netflix in a competitive bidding process to buy Warner Bros.
www.axios.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Important detail on Paramount's hostile takeover bid to buy WBD:
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.
Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/p...
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The Supreme Court is working hard to turn this country into a despot's dreamscape—while making it nigh impossible for good people to make lasting change for the better.
Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.
Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.
December 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The Supreme Court is working hard to turn this country into a despot's dreamscape—while making it nigh impossible for good people to make lasting change for the better.
Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.
Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.
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The fact that SCOTUS is going to tell us who's an American and who's not is THE REASON why the Democrats must stop playing around. It's time to defend immigration as a universal good and in terms of liberty and justice for all.
Accepting rightwing lies as if they're true is how we got here.
Accepting rightwing lies as if they're true is how we got here.
December 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The fact that SCOTUS is going to tell us who's an American and who's not is THE REASON why the Democrats must stop playing around. It's time to defend immigration as a universal good and in terms of liberty and justice for all.
Accepting rightwing lies as if they're true is how we got here.
Accepting rightwing lies as if they're true is how we got here.
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Nothing makes me happier than when Harrison butker misses a field goal. lol. I get a sick joy from it and I will not apologize. 🤭😂
December 8, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Nothing makes me happier than when Harrison butker misses a field goal. lol. I get a sick joy from it and I will not apologize. 🤭😂
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Once again, Trump creates an economic problem due to his efforts to enrich himself and his fellow Deep State buddies and then bails himself out with a $14B Farmer Bailout using the taxes collected from hard-working Citizens. Including those Farmers. It's NUTS! smh
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Once again, Trump creates an economic problem due to his efforts to enrich himself and his fellow Deep State buddies and then bails himself out with a $14B Farmer Bailout using the taxes collected from hard-working Citizens. Including those Farmers. It's NUTS! smh
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Trump claims the bailout is necessary because of ‘Biden‘s policies that hurt farmers’. But farmers know better. This is all on Trump and his completely moronic, unnecessary tariffs and trade wars… www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
Trump Giving Farmers $12 Billion to Blunt Trade War Fallout
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Trump claims the bailout is necessary because of ‘Biden‘s policies that hurt farmers’. But farmers know better. This is all on Trump and his completely moronic, unnecessary tariffs and trade wars… www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
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Before Tom Cotton defended an indefensible murder
He suggested that peaceful protesters should be thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge
And before that, he advocated for Trump to use troops against protesters-implying they should be shot
The MAGA bloodlust will not be sated
He suggested that peaceful protesters should be thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge
And before that, he advocated for Trump to use troops against protesters-implying they should be shot
The MAGA bloodlust will not be sated
Anyone else want to put Tom Cotton on top of a capsized boat in international waters miles away from Venezuela and see how helpless he is?
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Before Tom Cotton defended an indefensible murder
He suggested that peaceful protesters should be thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge
And before that, he advocated for Trump to use troops against protesters-implying they should be shot
The MAGA bloodlust will not be sated
He suggested that peaceful protesters should be thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge
And before that, he advocated for Trump to use troops against protesters-implying they should be shot
The MAGA bloodlust will not be sated
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Absolutely corrupt and undemocratic Supreme Court.
If SCOTUS planned to uphold birthright citizenship, they would’ve left the lower-court rulings untouched. Taking the case is the tell. You don’t grab a 150-year precedent just to admire it. They took it because they intend to change it. Pretending otherwise is denial.
#SCOTUSRot
#SCOTUSRot
December 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Absolutely corrupt and undemocratic Supreme Court.
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Senator Cassidy betrayed his oath as a physician when he confirmed Kennedy.
He doesn’t get to cry crocodile tears now.
He should have voted “No” and protected the American public.
We won’t forget.
He doesn’t get to cry crocodile tears now.
He should have voted “No” and protected the American public.
We won’t forget.
Senator Bill Cassidy is a hepatologist, he confirmed a health secretary who is overseeing the come back of hepatitis B related cirrhosis and liver cancer. That legacy is a choice.
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Senator Cassidy betrayed his oath as a physician when he confirmed Kennedy.
He doesn’t get to cry crocodile tears now.
He should have voted “No” and protected the American public.
We won’t forget.
He doesn’t get to cry crocodile tears now.
He should have voted “No” and protected the American public.
We won’t forget.
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@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
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There is blood on the hands of Donald Trump, RFK, and every Republican who has allowed this sham to go on for far too long. When kids die unnecessarily and once-eradicated diseases darken the doors of terrified families and pediatricians, Americans will know who is responsible.
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
There is blood on the hands of Donald Trump, RFK, and every Republican who has allowed this sham to go on for far too long. When kids die unnecessarily and once-eradicated diseases darken the doors of terrified families and pediatricians, Americans will know who is responsible.
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Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.