Cath
@cathbrennan.bsky.social
Generally curious person. I read a lot and sometimes write.
From November 25 (some people say the 28th) through December 2, here are some suggestions of how to observe the beginning of the holiday season.
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Blackout!
Blackout – modified from Blue Diamond Gallery Creative Commons Image Here’s your holiday reminder that oligarchs and our government continue to collaborate in victimizing anyone not in their …
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November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
From November 25 (some people say the 28th) through December 2, here are some suggestions of how to observe the beginning of the holiday season.
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Sustained resistance - protest, boycott, strike.
Compromise, and throwing marginalized groups under the bus isn't "#resistance" — it's complicity and enabling. Resistance *starts* with sustained —not momentary— non-cooperation.
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Sending everyone love and hope and strength — today and everyday. ❤️🕊️💪🏽
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Sending everyone love and hope and strength — today and everyday. ❤️🕊️💪🏽
The 'Leopards Will Eat Your Face' Theory of Power | A Resistance History Dispatch
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
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November 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Sustained resistance - protest, boycott, strike.
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Allowing these ICE kidnappings to become a common occurrence works to normalize this cruelty. This is how the “first they came” poem happens. No one speaks out or resists until, inevitably, they come for you. It’s up to our communities to look out for themselves when the systems meant to, wont.
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Allowing these ICE kidnappings to become a common occurrence works to normalize this cruelty. This is how the “first they came” poem happens. No one speaks out or resists until, inevitably, they come for you. It’s up to our communities to look out for themselves when the systems meant to, wont.
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Jeff Bezos systematically dismantled the Washington Post. Now, he’s looking to purchase Condé Nast and CNBC.
Paramount & CBS have bent the knee.
Tech billionaires are manipulating their platforms’ algorithms to favor fascists.
NPR & PBS have been defunded.
This is state propaganda in the making.
Paramount & CBS have bent the knee.
Tech billionaires are manipulating their platforms’ algorithms to favor fascists.
NPR & PBS have been defunded.
This is state propaganda in the making.
The Oligarchs' Coup Against the Free Press Is Happening Now
The American information space is not merely changing; it is undergoing a hostile takeover. It is a deliberate, coordinated campaign by a new class of oligarchs out of Silicon Valley that includes Jef...
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July 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Jeff Bezos systematically dismantled the Washington Post. Now, he’s looking to purchase Condé Nast and CNBC.
Paramount & CBS have bent the knee.
Tech billionaires are manipulating their platforms’ algorithms to favor fascists.
NPR & PBS have been defunded.
This is state propaganda in the making.
Paramount & CBS have bent the knee.
Tech billionaires are manipulating their platforms’ algorithms to favor fascists.
NPR & PBS have been defunded.
This is state propaganda in the making.
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Mass question: Are you somebody I gave an explanation of the Five Petals of Thought? If so, please DM. If not, please rebleat (or whatever we're calling it).
July 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Mass question: Are you somebody I gave an explanation of the Five Petals of Thought? If so, please DM. If not, please rebleat (or whatever we're calling it).
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Boycott Amazon Prime Days
Economic boycott of Amazon during Prime Days
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July 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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fyi: please remember that 3.5% of the population nonviolently protesting has to be sustained. we. cannot. afford. to. stop.
nothing will instantly change. trump isn’t going away via a magic wand. we are in this, not for a day or two or even a month. this is a fight that will last for years. resist.
nothing will instantly change. trump isn’t going away via a magic wand. we are in this, not for a day or two or even a month. this is a fight that will last for years. resist.
June 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
fyi: please remember that 3.5% of the population nonviolently protesting has to be sustained. we. cannot. afford. to. stop.
nothing will instantly change. trump isn’t going away via a magic wand. we are in this, not for a day or two or even a month. this is a fight that will last for years. resist.
nothing will instantly change. trump isn’t going away via a magic wand. we are in this, not for a day or two or even a month. this is a fight that will last for years. resist.
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We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
June 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
The posters Lori and I took to the Hands Across Chicagoland” demonstration today
May 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The posters Lori and I took to the Hands Across Chicagoland” demonstration today
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Art and Culture: Señor Rafael, Coyoacan, UNAM, & Xochimilco
We booked a ten-hour tour for Tuesday! Lori and I arrived at our meeting point, Cafe Miga, at 7 a.m., hoping to get breakfast before 7:50, when the tour bus was scheduled for boarding. Aaand&…
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April 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Estimated attendance at the Hands Off protest in Lisle Illinois was 3,000!
April 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Estimated attendance at the Hands Off protest in Lisle Illinois was 3,000!
Chilling
I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”
I beg to differ. This is curated failure. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
I beg to differ. This is curated failure. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
I Know Exactly What They Are Doing
Rural foresight
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April 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Chilling
Hey, @durbin.senate.gov , can we donate to you and get you to use the money to buy @booker.senate.gov dinner and some throat lozenges? Signed, one of your constituents
Home | U.S. Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois
The Official U.S. Senate website of Dick Durbin
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April 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Hey, @durbin.senate.gov , can we donate to you and get you to use the money to buy @booker.senate.gov dinner and some throat lozenges? Signed, one of your constituents
New blog post about Mexico
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Mysterious Teotihuacan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
We can’t say Andres didn’t warn us. He said we wouldn’t see everything at Teotihuacan on a brief tour, and he was right. I’ve wanted to see Teotihuacan ever since reading The Dawn of Everything by …
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April 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
New blog post about Mexico
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New post about the Mexican vacay!
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Mexico, Part Two: Take Your Time!
The author describes their first full day in Mexico, highlighting a visit to the National Museum of Anthropology, where they interacted with the knowledgeable guide, Andres. Key exhibits included m…
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March 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
New post about the Mexican vacay!
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Trump Admin sets up portal for polluters to get exemptions to clean air rules.
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March 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Trump Admin sets up portal for polluters to get exemptions to clean air rules.
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I wrote a blog post about our first night in Mexico: brennancm.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/b... with
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March 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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While Musk was making a fool of himself politically, the Chinese were making a fool of him technologically--five minute charging for EVs!
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Tesla, Big Oil have a weakness in common
They're way behind the technological curve
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March 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
While Musk was making a fool of himself politically, the Chinese were making a fool of him technologically--five minute charging for EVs!
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Good thread. The more I think about it the more the "Zelenskyy shouldn't have made him angry" argument sounds like someone making terrible excuses to the partner of an abusive man.
3/ sure the ambush view is right I think this explanation tells us even more about official Washington today. In a way that "all he had to do" argument really IS the ambush argument. What these people are really saying is that Trump was insisting on a ritual humiliation. And all Zelensky had to ...
March 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Good thread. The more I think about it the more the "Zelenskyy shouldn't have made him angry" argument sounds like someone making terrible excuses to the partner of an abusive man.
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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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I like that I'm seeing a lot of people saying in addition to not buying anything tomorrow they're going to use the day to cancel Prime subscriptions, switch to duck duck go, libro.fm etc. If this gets people thinking about their consumption habits like that it's a great thing.
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February 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I like that I'm seeing a lot of people saying in addition to not buying anything tomorrow they're going to use the day to cancel Prime subscriptions, switch to duck duck go, libro.fm etc. If this gets people thinking about their consumption habits like that it's a great thing.