Cattylibrarian
@cattylibrarian.bsky.social
Retired librarian, cat mom, book lover, weather geek.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
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How could you possibly make plans for your long-term security that depend on a country where one of the two political parties—and something like half the citizens—will be opposed to defending you? lnk.thebulwark.com/3K72m0e
America’s Heel Turn
Whose side are we on?
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
How could you possibly make plans for your long-term security that depend on a country where one of the two political parties—and something like half the citizens—will be opposed to defending you? lnk.thebulwark.com/3K72m0e
Birds of a feather.
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Birds of a feather.
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At @propublica.org we reported in April on how ICE Air flight attendants feel about having to transport shackled passengers: www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
At @propublica.org we reported in April on how ICE Air flight attendants feel about having to transport shackled passengers: www.propublica.org/article/insi...
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Here is the post I was responding to, which the New York Times quickly deleted:
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Here is the post I was responding to, which the New York Times quickly deleted:
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Countries that have abortion access, DEI policies or protection for LGBTQ+ people will be considered “human rights violators“ by the Trump regime
We’re in the upside down.
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
We’re in the upside down.
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Countries that have abortion access, DEI policies or protection for LGBTQ+ people will be considered “human rights violators“ by the Trump regime
We’re in the upside down.
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
We’re in the upside down.
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Oh goody. I wonder how much money they’re each gonna make off of this trip?
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Oh goody. I wonder how much money they’re each gonna make off of this trip?
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In addition, foreign visitors without an annual pass will be hit with a new $100 surcharge each time they visit one of the 11 most-visited parks, including Yosemite, Yellowstone, Rocky Mountain, and the Grand Canyon, on top of the regular entrance fee.
Department of the Interior Announces Modernized, More Affordable National Park Access | U.S. Department of the Interior
The Department of the Interior today announced the most significant modernization of national park access in decades, delivering new digital America the Beautiful passes, updated annual pass artwork, ...
www.doi.gov
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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He’s trying to keep people from going to the national parks so that he can gobble up the land and log it or drill it or whatever.
The Trump administration announced that starting Jan. 1, the cost of an annual national park pass for non-U.S. residents will jump from $80 to $250 more than triple the current price.
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
He’s trying to keep people from going to the national parks so that he can gobble up the land and log it or drill it or whatever.
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Remember when Joe Biden was going to “weaponize the justice system against his political enemies” and of course he wasn’t, and it never happened, and then Trump is President now and he’s weaponizing the justice system against his political enemies?
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Remember when Joe Biden was going to “weaponize the justice system against his political enemies” and of course he wasn’t, and it never happened, and then Trump is President now and he’s weaponizing the justice system against his political enemies?
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Is there anything more American than skimming obscene amounts of money off of a charity purported to exist to help the disadvantaged? Well, churches have, too!
Franklin Graham gives himself $720,000/year from one of his charities called "Samaritan's Purse," with, clearly, the emphasis on the purse.
Franklin Graham gives himself $720,000/year from one of his charities called "Samaritan's Purse," with, clearly, the emphasis on the purse.
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Is there anything more American than skimming obscene amounts of money off of a charity purported to exist to help the disadvantaged? Well, churches have, too!
Franklin Graham gives himself $720,000/year from one of his charities called "Samaritan's Purse," with, clearly, the emphasis on the purse.
Franklin Graham gives himself $720,000/year from one of his charities called "Samaritan's Purse," with, clearly, the emphasis on the purse.
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I was just thinking about contributing to the "charity" Feeding America. Until I discovered that the salary for its CEO, Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, was approximately $949,866 in 2024, with her total compensation being $1,113,502. Apparently, feeding America isn't her top priority.
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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The president and his special envoy are primarily concerned with finding a way to make Putin happy by providing a sufficient reward for his brutal and sadistic war of aggression. We have become a country that sells out our friends and embraces the worst people on the planet.
November 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The president and his special envoy are primarily concerned with finding a way to make Putin happy by providing a sufficient reward for his brutal and sadistic war of aggression. We have become a country that sells out our friends and embraces the worst people on the planet.
What is the matter with people? How can they be so inhumane and treat other human beings this way?
“We’re living in a country where we have people who literally can’t afford to breathe.”
“I can’t afford my oxygen”: The human toll of health insurance profits
A veteran physician explains how our system inflates costs and leaves Americans sicker and poorer.
www.motherjones.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 AM
What is the matter with people? How can they be so inhumane and treat other human beings this way?
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The pain of coming to Washington with a sense of mission, only to be subjected to repeated censure votes and strong-arming from the White House, is taking a toll, and providing lawmakers with an easy excuse to seek employment elsewhere. lnk.thebulwark.com/3XOpLXg
From Republican House to Retirement Home
Mike Johnson is watching dozens of his colleagues shuffle off toward the exits.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The pain of coming to Washington with a sense of mission, only to be subjected to repeated censure votes and strong-arming from the White House, is taking a toll, and providing lawmakers with an easy excuse to seek employment elsewhere. lnk.thebulwark.com/3XOpLXg
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We’d like to end today with a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt:
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
Just keep going. Goodnight, heroes.
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
Just keep going. Goodnight, heroes.
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We’d like to end today with a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt:
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
Just keep going. Goodnight, heroes.
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
Just keep going. Goodnight, heroes.
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Trump's DOJ suffers another humiliating blow as its cases fall apart; Trump is mocked and laughed at during a series of high-stakes global summits; DoD threatens a senator with a military trial; and more. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast at 8p ET/5p PT!
LIVE: MeidasTouch RESPONDS to MAJOR BREAKING NEWS - 11/24/25
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November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Trump's DOJ suffers another humiliating blow as its cases fall apart; Trump is mocked and laughed at during a series of high-stakes global summits; DoD threatens a senator with a military trial; and more. Watch the MeidasTouch Podcast at 8p ET/5p PT!
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There has never been a single time, as president or candidate, that Trump has singled out Putin for condemnation for his brutal invasion of Ukraine that murders civilians daily. It is always “both sides” that are to blame according to Trump, Vance and Witkoff. He masquerades as a
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
There has never been a single time, as president or candidate, that Trump has singled out Putin for condemnation for his brutal invasion of Ukraine that murders civilians daily. It is always “both sides” that are to blame according to Trump, Vance and Witkoff. He masquerades as a
Whatever Trump and the MAGAts say, do the exact opposite!
According to Trump and MAGA:
Steve Witkoff - hero and patriot.
Mark Kelly - traitor who should be executed.
Steve Witkoff - hero and patriot.
Mark Kelly - traitor who should be executed.
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Whatever Trump and the MAGAts say, do the exact opposite!
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Jim Clyburn's new book, The First Eight, restores the lives of South Carolina's early Black congressmen and shows how their battles during Reconstruction offer lessons, and warnings, for politics today. n.pr/4ohnG12
In a new book, Rep. Jim Clyburn highlights the Black politicians who paved the way for him
Jim Clyburn's new book, The First Eight, restores the lives of South Carolina's early Black congressmen and shows how their battles during Reconstruction offer lessons, and warnings, for politics today.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Jim Clyburn's new book, The First Eight, restores the lives of South Carolina's early Black congressmen and shows how their battles during Reconstruction offer lessons, and warnings, for politics today. n.pr/4ohnG12
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We have seen the Trump playbook before. In 2020 it was to pressure election officials to overturn the result of a free and fair election. Now it is to intimidate state legislatures to illegal redistrict. We defeated him the and we will do so again.
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
We have seen the Trump playbook before. In 2020 it was to pressure election officials to overturn the result of a free and fair election. Now it is to intimidate state legislatures to illegal redistrict. We defeated him the and we will do so again.
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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
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Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
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This is the cheapest-looking tux shirt ever. And what is that stain on the left side of JD Vance's chest? Is he lactating?
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is the cheapest-looking tux shirt ever. And what is that stain on the left side of JD Vance's chest? Is he lactating?
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Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.
Missouri GOP Now Siccing ICE on Gerrymander Referendum Signature Gatherers
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.
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New #Substack essay... open.substack.com/pub/theantho...
The Lethal Shadow of “America First”
1.3 Million Projected Climate Deaths.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
New #Substack essay... open.substack.com/pub/theantho...
Segregation and inequality is alive in Alaska.
As Alaska ignores requests to fund school repairs, its Indigenous children suffer most because rural schools serve predominantly Alaska Native students — a population that was long forced to attend separate and unequal schools.
By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
By @emilyschwing.bsky.social
A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse.
Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that primari...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Segregation and inequality is alive in Alaska.