Cat Corrigan
@dinosorcery.bsky.social
Future dietitian, cosplay nerd, childless cat lady.
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You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
April 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
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I reported on economics full-time in 2020. It taught me there are no incentives to have a baby in the US. Women in the US have to pay for pre-natal, medical and child care, earn less, do most of the parenting and chores, get promoted less, and are now at 27% higher risk of maternal mortality.
April 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I reported on economics full-time in 2020. It taught me there are no incentives to have a baby in the US. Women in the US have to pay for pre-natal, medical and child care, earn less, do most of the parenting and chores, get promoted less, and are now at 27% higher risk of maternal mortality.
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Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
April 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
It is blatantly unconstitutional.
My mom just lost the right to vote. I feel sick to my stomach.
🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
April 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
My mom just lost the right to vote. I feel sick to my stomach.
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Trump is now saying certain favored companies will be exempt from tariffs.
Oh really?
In 1773, Britain exempted the East India Trading Company from tariffs on tea.
It led to the Boston Tea Party.
Oh really?
In 1773, Britain exempted the East India Trading Company from tariffs on tea.
It led to the Boston Tea Party.
April 10, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Trump is now saying certain favored companies will be exempt from tariffs.
Oh really?
In 1773, Britain exempted the East India Trading Company from tariffs on tea.
It led to the Boston Tea Party.
Oh really?
In 1773, Britain exempted the East India Trading Company from tariffs on tea.
It led to the Boston Tea Party.
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The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
April 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.
Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Where is our humanity?
April 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Where is our humanity?
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As long as I live, I will never understand why they would rather elect a singularly worthless white rapist as president than an exceptionally impressive black woman.
April 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
As long as I live, I will never understand why they would rather elect a singularly worthless white rapist as president than an exceptionally impressive black woman.
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Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
April 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.
The job was helping people with disabilities.
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Today, US Senator Jim Banks (R) was approached by a fired HHS employee. He told the employee that he “probably deserved to be fired” and that the employee “looks like a clown”. This is what the entire Republican party thinks of HHS workers. Video in article. www.nbcnews.com/video/fmr-hh...
Fmr. HHS employee confronts senator
Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”
www.nbcnews.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Today, US Senator Jim Banks (R) was approached by a fired HHS employee. He told the employee that he “probably deserved to be fired” and that the employee “looks like a clown”. This is what the entire Republican party thinks of HHS workers. Video in article. www.nbcnews.com/video/fmr-hh...
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Fine. If it's about jobs and the economy...
69% of the US GDP is from STEM and 24% of the US workforce works in STEM.
#standupforscience
#scienceforall
#handsoffourscience
ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb2024....
www.fticonsulting.com/~/media/File...
69% of the US GDP is from STEM and 24% of the US workforce works in STEM.
#standupforscience
#scienceforall
#handsoffourscience
ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb2024....
www.fticonsulting.com/~/media/File...
The STEM Labor Force: Scientists, Engineers, and Skilled Technical Workers | NSF - National Science Foundation
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workers make important contributions to improve the nation's living standards, economic growth, and global competitiveness. This report touches...
ncses.nsf.gov
March 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Fine. If it's about jobs and the economy...
69% of the US GDP is from STEM and 24% of the US workforce works in STEM.
#standupforscience
#scienceforall
#handsoffourscience
ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb2024....
www.fticonsulting.com/~/media/File...
69% of the US GDP is from STEM and 24% of the US workforce works in STEM.
#standupforscience
#scienceforall
#handsoffourscience
ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb2024....
www.fticonsulting.com/~/media/File...
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.
March 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.
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If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
March 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.
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The guy whose daddy bought his way into Wharton, the guy whose grades were so shitty he's never disclosed them – that guy just destroyed the Department of Education. This is what dystopia looks like. This is what Fascism looks like.
March 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The guy whose daddy bought his way into Wharton, the guy whose grades were so shitty he's never disclosed them – that guy just destroyed the Department of Education. This is what dystopia looks like. This is what Fascism looks like.
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
March 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
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“We lean left because we tend to be better informed”.
March 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
“We lean left because we tend to be better informed”.