Catherine Mack
@catobie.bsky.social
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IT GOT BETTER
📍Central MN
📍Central MN
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 AM
IT GOT BETTER
📍Central MN
📍Central MN
Reposted by Catherine Mack
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Ummm...
Pentagon sends ground forces to train in Panama’s jungle for first time in decades
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
Pentagon sends ground forces to train in Panama’s jungle for first time in decades
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
Pentagon sends ground forces to train in Panama’s jungle for first time in decades
Pentagon has begun sending conventional ground forces to Panama to train in the jungle.
abcnews.go.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Ummm...
Pentagon sends ground forces to train in Panama’s jungle for first time in decades
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
Pentagon sends ground forces to train in Panama’s jungle for first time in decades
abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...
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It's only the Aurora Borealis if it's from the L'Aurora region of France. Otherwise it's sparkling light pollution.
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
It's only the Aurora Borealis if it's from the L'Aurora region of France. Otherwise it's sparkling light pollution.
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“But it’s now clear Trump doesn’t even understand why healthcare relies on insurance, why we can’t pay medical expenses out of pocket. Hint: You never know when you’ll need expensive treatment, but should the need arise, only the ultra-wealthy can come up with the cash.”
Republicans Are Damaged by Their Own Cruelty
They’re pathologically unwilling to help Americans in need — and Democrats should hammer this home
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
“But it’s now clear Trump doesn’t even understand why healthcare relies on insurance, why we can’t pay medical expenses out of pocket. Hint: You never know when you’ll need expensive treatment, but should the need arise, only the ultra-wealthy can come up with the cash.”
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One of my favorite things about the tropical dry forests of Guanacaste are the winter visiting Scissor-tailed Flycatchers. They're later than a lot of other N American migrants, but they're starting to show up in good numbers now. When it gets too wet in Bijagua, I just head down to the sun. #birds
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
One of my favorite things about the tropical dry forests of Guanacaste are the winter visiting Scissor-tailed Flycatchers. They're later than a lot of other N American migrants, but they're starting to show up in good numbers now. When it gets too wet in Bijagua, I just head down to the sun. #birds
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The Clash’s Paul Simonon, running into some young street musicians, will make your day. 💕 🎸
@theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk
@theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The Clash’s Paul Simonon, running into some young street musicians, will make your day. 💕 🎸
@theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk
@theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk
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After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...
ICE again prevents Chicago Catholics from bringing Eucharist to immigrant detainees
More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration offici...
www.ncronline.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...
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There was enormous attention on Doug Ford's World Series Ad.
Much less attention on his CDN ad.
Doug is promising to rip up "red tape" to get at the Ring of Fire ore bodies.
People in the region have gone 30 years without drinking water. He refuses to meet them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb5-...
Much less attention on his CDN ad.
Doug is promising to rip up "red tape" to get at the Ring of Fire ore bodies.
People in the region have gone 30 years without drinking water. He refuses to meet them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb5-...
THE OTHER WORLD SERIES AD - MORE RING OF FIRE BS!!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
There was enormous attention on Doug Ford's World Series Ad.
Much less attention on his CDN ad.
Doug is promising to rip up "red tape" to get at the Ring of Fire ore bodies.
People in the region have gone 30 years without drinking water. He refuses to meet them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb5-...
Much less attention on his CDN ad.
Doug is promising to rip up "red tape" to get at the Ring of Fire ore bodies.
People in the region have gone 30 years without drinking water. He refuses to meet them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb5-...
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New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
October 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown
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In 2019, I wrote about my plan to show my kids all of America in the epilogue of HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. I made good on that promise the best I could. Keep fighting for our rights and our country -- don't let our story end this way.
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
In 2019, I wrote about my plan to show my kids all of America in the epilogue of HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. I made good on that promise the best I could. Keep fighting for our rights and our country -- don't let our story end this way.
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
www.hidinginplainsightbook.com
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National parks were the main places I wanted my kids to see, and I wrote about them in THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. Breaks my heart that the book is coming out as Trump tries to make good on his plans to destroy them. I hope my book helps the effort to fight back. www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
National parks were the main places I wanted my kids to see, and I wrote about them in THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. Breaks my heart that the book is coming out as Trump tries to make good on his plans to destroy them. I hope my book helps the effort to fight back. www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
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In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides.
Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
The Last American Road Trip
The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her fami...
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides.
Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
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So, “humanitarian intervention” in Nigeria?
Also, I hear somebody keeps killing Christians on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Might want to look into that.
Also, I hear somebody keeps killing Christians on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Might want to look into that.
Trump says US troops could be on the ground in Nigeria and says, "they're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria, and they have other countries also. You know that. That part of the world. Very bad. They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. Not gonna allow that"
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
So, “humanitarian intervention” in Nigeria?
Also, I hear somebody keeps killing Christians on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Might want to look into that.
Also, I hear somebody keeps killing Christians on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Might want to look into that.
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Joe Biden would have been impeached and removed from office for this answer.
It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.
It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Joe Biden would have been impeached and removed from office for this answer.
It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.
It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.
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From my book THEY KNEW, written in 2021, on Trump's plans. This is what's happening now.
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
From my book THEY KNEW, written in 2021, on Trump's plans. This is what's happening now.
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For the love of God, can just one interviewer push back on this insanity?
There are people seeking political asylum in America. They were not taken out of mental asylums in other countries and brought here.
It's a big mistake with big ramifications, but no one wants to correct Our Special Boy.
There are people seeking political asylum in America. They were not taken out of mental asylums in other countries and brought here.
It's a big mistake with big ramifications, but no one wants to correct Our Special Boy.
O'DONNELL: Are we going to war against Venezuela?
TRUMP: I doubt it. They emptied their mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States of America
TRUMP: I doubt it. They emptied their mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States of America
November 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For the love of God, can just one interviewer push back on this insanity?
There are people seeking political asylum in America. They were not taken out of mental asylums in other countries and brought here.
It's a big mistake with big ramifications, but no one wants to correct Our Special Boy.
There are people seeking political asylum in America. They were not taken out of mental asylums in other countries and brought here.
It's a big mistake with big ramifications, but no one wants to correct Our Special Boy.
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This is a non-sequitur: "I will show that the GOP has drifted further to the right than the Dems have to left."
1. That's not a denial.
2. It ignores that in nationalized elections, the voters will note the most prominent Dems and their views, not the "average Dem member in Congress."
1. That's not a denial.
2. It ignores that in nationalized elections, the voters will note the most prominent Dems and their views, not the "average Dem member in Congress."
The Democratic Party has many faults but alleging that the party’s declining popularity or success is rooted in some sort of global leftward ideological drift is pretty funny.
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is a non-sequitur: "I will show that the GOP has drifted further to the right than the Dems have to left."
1. That's not a denial.
2. It ignores that in nationalized elections, the voters will note the most prominent Dems and their views, not the "average Dem member in Congress."
1. That's not a denial.
2. It ignores that in nationalized elections, the voters will note the most prominent Dems and their views, not the "average Dem member in Congress."
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Dude talks like a Nazi.
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Dude talks like a Nazi.
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Pure cruelty.
Officially, stores cannot give SNAP recipients preferential treatment absent a waiver, w waivers given to places encouraging healthy eating.
So obvs a rule aimed at preventing junk-food places from targeting SNAP.
This is … SO much not that.
And this enforcement is a CHOICE.
Officially, stores cannot give SNAP recipients preferential treatment absent a waiver, w waivers given to places encouraging healthy eating.
So obvs a rule aimed at preventing junk-food places from targeting SNAP.
This is … SO much not that.
And this enforcement is a CHOICE.
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Pure cruelty.
Officially, stores cannot give SNAP recipients preferential treatment absent a waiver, w waivers given to places encouraging healthy eating.
So obvs a rule aimed at preventing junk-food places from targeting SNAP.
This is … SO much not that.
And this enforcement is a CHOICE.
Officially, stores cannot give SNAP recipients preferential treatment absent a waiver, w waivers given to places encouraging healthy eating.
So obvs a rule aimed at preventing junk-food places from targeting SNAP.
This is … SO much not that.
And this enforcement is a CHOICE.
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Yes, an important test for the midterms.
If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Yes, an important test for the midterms.
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We followed the Jays right to the last second and cheered them on.
Few people noticed the huge ad buy Ford ran on the Canadian networks promoting the Ring of Fire mining region.
There is brutal poverty in the Ring of Fire.😒
Doug Ford refuses to treat the Indigenous people with respect.
Few people noticed the huge ad buy Ford ran on the Canadian networks promoting the Ring of Fire mining region.
There is brutal poverty in the Ring of Fire.😒
Doug Ford refuses to treat the Indigenous people with respect.
There was enormous attention on Doug Ford's World Series Ad.
Much less attention on his CDN ad.
Doug is promising to rip up "red tape" to get at the Ring of Fire ore bodies.
People in the region have gone 30 years without drinking water. He refuses to meet them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb5-...
Much less attention on his CDN ad.
Doug is promising to rip up "red tape" to get at the Ring of Fire ore bodies.
People in the region have gone 30 years without drinking water. He refuses to meet them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb5-...
THE OTHER WORLD SERIES AD - MORE RING OF FIRE BS!!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We followed the Jays right to the last second and cheered them on.
Few people noticed the huge ad buy Ford ran on the Canadian networks promoting the Ring of Fire mining region.
There is brutal poverty in the Ring of Fire.😒
Doug Ford refuses to treat the Indigenous people with respect.
Few people noticed the huge ad buy Ford ran on the Canadian networks promoting the Ring of Fire mining region.
There is brutal poverty in the Ring of Fire.😒
Doug Ford refuses to treat the Indigenous people with respect.
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Wait until everyone has to pay the actual *cost* of AI under a profit model. Right now they’re handing it out like crack hoping to get us hooked. Human therapists will be a lot cheaper than those giant server hangars sopping up lakes and rivers.
I had a 45 year old rideshare driver tell me recently that he uses AI for therapy.
I asked him which one. He said “Grok— I like the voice it uses, the tone doesn’t talk down to me like ChatGPT’s does.”
He bragged that he had a 4 hour “therapy session” talking to Grok.
Chat, are we cooked?
I asked him which one. He said “Grok— I like the voice it uses, the tone doesn’t talk down to me like ChatGPT’s does.”
He bragged that he had a 4 hour “therapy session” talking to Grok.
Chat, are we cooked?
November 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Wait until everyone has to pay the actual *cost* of AI under a profit model. Right now they’re handing it out like crack hoping to get us hooked. Human therapists will be a lot cheaper than those giant server hangars sopping up lakes and rivers.
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As a therapist, this is concerning. There is more and more research and evidence that confirms that these AI "therapists" end up causing harm to the user. Whether its encouraging relapse/substance abuse, AI psychosis, or more dramatic suicidal gestures, AI damages the user. Its a scary time.
November 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
As a therapist, this is concerning. There is more and more research and evidence that confirms that these AI "therapists" end up causing harm to the user. Whether its encouraging relapse/substance abuse, AI psychosis, or more dramatic suicidal gestures, AI damages the user. Its a scary time.
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O'DONNELL: What does that mean -- 'send more than the National Guard?'
TRUMP: Well, if you had to send in the Army or the Marines, I'd do that in a heartbeat. We have a thing called the Insurrection Act. I could use that immediately & no judge can even challenge you on that. If I wanted to I could
TRUMP: Well, if you had to send in the Army or the Marines, I'd do that in a heartbeat. We have a thing called the Insurrection Act. I could use that immediately & no judge can even challenge you on that. If I wanted to I could
November 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
O'DONNELL: What does that mean -- 'send more than the National Guard?'
TRUMP: Well, if you had to send in the Army or the Marines, I'd do that in a heartbeat. We have a thing called the Insurrection Act. I could use that immediately & no judge can even challenge you on that. If I wanted to I could
TRUMP: Well, if you had to send in the Army or the Marines, I'd do that in a heartbeat. We have a thing called the Insurrection Act. I could use that immediately & no judge can even challenge you on that. If I wanted to I could