Catherine Patterson
@cpatters.bsky.social
California transplant to Arizona, cat mom, software architect, home chef, reader, and crazy board gamer.
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TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
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😠 Supt. Tom Horne is pushing to gut critical components of AZ teaching and bilingual education standards, using Trump’s anti-DEI Executive Order as an excuse to continue his decades-long attacks.
🗣️ SPEAK UP: Use our email to raise your voice and stop this overreach: bit.ly/StopDEIoverreach
🗣️ SPEAK UP: Use our email to raise your voice and stop this overreach: bit.ly/StopDEIoverreach
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
😠 Supt. Tom Horne is pushing to gut critical components of AZ teaching and bilingual education standards, using Trump’s anti-DEI Executive Order as an excuse to continue his decades-long attacks.
🗣️ SPEAK UP: Use our email to raise your voice and stop this overreach: bit.ly/StopDEIoverreach
🗣️ SPEAK UP: Use our email to raise your voice and stop this overreach: bit.ly/StopDEIoverreach
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It’s an explicit propaganda network. In case someone needed any more evidence.
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
It’s an explicit propaganda network. In case someone needed any more evidence.
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From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
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Dramatic increase in conflicts over #water in 2024 compared to previous years.
pacinst.org/announcement...
pacinst.org/announcement...
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Dramatic increase in conflicts over #water in 2024 compared to previous years.
pacinst.org/announcement...
pacinst.org/announcement...
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
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P.S. No one is scared of a socialist when we have literal Nazis working in the White House...
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
P.S. No one is scared of a socialist when we have literal Nazis working in the White House...
The powers that be couldn't handle political reporting from a magazine geared for young people.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The powers that be couldn't handle political reporting from a magazine geared for young people.
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What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
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very important thread on the absolute nazi shit happening at ICE 👇
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
October 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
very important thread on the absolute nazi shit happening at ICE 👇
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Left: Veteran and U.S. citizen George Retes, pinned by immigration officers in Camarillo, CA in July, before he disappeared for days
Right: George on Capitol Hill today, trying to tell as many members of Congress his story as possible
Right: George on Capitol Hill today, trying to tell as many members of Congress his story as possible
October 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Left: Veteran and U.S. citizen George Retes, pinned by immigration officers in Camarillo, CA in July, before he disappeared for days
Right: George on Capitol Hill today, trying to tell as many members of Congress his story as possible
Right: George on Capitol Hill today, trying to tell as many members of Congress his story as possible
I put away the cutters for zip ties because Chandler is fairly blue and the police department is right there.
October 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I put away the cutters for zip ties because Chandler is fairly blue and the police department is right there.
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𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞.
See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : www.brainonllm.com
See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : www.brainonllm.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞.
See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : www.brainonllm.com
See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : www.brainonllm.com
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Odd, how MAGA couldn't draw enough attention to imaginary children being molested in #Pizzagate, but when it comes to *real* children being molested in #Epsteingate, they desperately want our attention to be elsewhere.
October 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Odd, how MAGA couldn't draw enough attention to imaginary children being molested in #Pizzagate, but when it comes to *real* children being molested in #Epsteingate, they desperately want our attention to be elsewhere.
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"The university needs to reject an offer from the Trump administration that would guarantee it preferential access to federal funding. The cost? All Penn would need to do in exchange is sell its soul," writes Jonathan Zimmerman.
Please, Penn — stand up to the Trump administration this time | Opinion
The university needs to reject an offer from the Trump administration that would guarantee it preferential access to federal funding. The cost? All Penn would need to do in exchange is sell its soul.
www.inquirer.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"The university needs to reject an offer from the Trump administration that would guarantee it preferential access to federal funding. The cost? All Penn would need to do in exchange is sell its soul," writes Jonathan Zimmerman.
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The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.
October 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.
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I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
October 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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Tell me how ICE is different from the Gestapo?
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Tell me how ICE is different from the Gestapo?
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Some active weather is possible across northern third of California Mon-Tue (north of SF Bay Area). A weak offshore low will generate modest mid-level atmospheric instability & draw in mid-upper moisture from southeast...leading to some lightning amid hot temps. #CAwx #CAfire
June 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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"I didn't think they'd go after MY clean energy company!"
June 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"I didn't think they'd go after MY clean energy company!"
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"If passed...By 2035 the US would emit 1 billion tons of additional carbon pollution compared to its current trajectory..would also lead to a massive wave of clean energy project cancellations at a time when America is already running out of electricity due to a surge in demand from AI data centers"
It’s so important to understand WHY the new Senate bill has such drastic provisions to kill renewable energy
Fossil fuel industry lobbyists and Big Oil-funded activists have been ALL OVER the GOP in recent weeks, telling them that clean energy jobs are “fentanyl jobs” and “a cancer”
Fossil fuel industry lobbyists and Big Oil-funded activists have been ALL OVER the GOP in recent weeks, telling them that clean energy jobs are “fentanyl jobs” and “a cancer”
The Senate is about to destroy clean energy to give tax cuts to billionaires
The bill could pass within the next 24 hours.
heated.world
June 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"If passed...By 2035 the US would emit 1 billion tons of additional carbon pollution compared to its current trajectory..would also lead to a massive wave of clean energy project cancellations at a time when America is already running out of electricity due to a surge in demand from AI data centers"
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It’s weird that the GOP wants China to dominate the future of energy.
G.O.P. Bill Adds Surprise Tax That Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power
www.nytimes.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
It’s weird that the GOP wants China to dominate the future of energy.
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Pretty galling that we're still the only place that's reported on this. We're not even a news outlet! www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...
Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt's Nazi Staffer
Nathan Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign for making a transparently neoNazi video featuring the Governor, and has only doubled down on his white nationalism since.
www.liberalcurrents.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Pretty galling that we're still the only place that's reported on this. We're not even a news outlet! www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...