Caitlin Dixon
@editcait.bsky.social
Film editor, writer, baker of bread, taker of walks. Obsessed with politics, hates fascists, loves books. Stand by for pictures of cat and sourdough loaves. I never posted at the Other Place, but who knows, maybe I'll start here
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Caitlin Dixon
@editcait.bsky.social
· Feb 1
You know, we could have elected Kamala Harris
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You can’t build solutions with the people who want the problems
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
August 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
You can’t build solutions with the people who want the problems
Bove and Vought and Miller are cartoon villains. You recoil from their reptilian evil. If we couldn't bring ourselves, as a Republic, to cast these obvious goons out of public life, heaven help us.
July 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Bove and Vought and Miller are cartoon villains. You recoil from their reptilian evil. If we couldn't bring ourselves, as a Republic, to cast these obvious goons out of public life, heaven help us.
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The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions
Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.
www.gelliottmorris.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?
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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
June 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
Every time they profile a person who regrets voting for Trump--someone who is surprised at a personal harm to themselves, thanks to the brute policies of this regime--at some point in the article, this person will reveal that even knowing what they now know, they still wouldn't vote for Harris.
May 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Every time they profile a person who regrets voting for Trump--someone who is surprised at a personal harm to themselves, thanks to the brute policies of this regime--at some point in the article, this person will reveal that even knowing what they now know, they still wouldn't vote for Harris.
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Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)
April 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)
Look. My dad was mean. He was verbally abusive to my brother and verbally and physically abusive to my mom.
They were always shushing me from calling out his bullshit, to not "make him mad." I did it anyway.
He never abused me the way he abused them.
A lesson for the appeasers out there.
They were always shushing me from calling out his bullshit, to not "make him mad." I did it anyway.
He never abused me the way he abused them.
A lesson for the appeasers out there.
April 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Look. My dad was mean. He was verbally abusive to my brother and verbally and physically abusive to my mom.
They were always shushing me from calling out his bullshit, to not "make him mad." I did it anyway.
He never abused me the way he abused them.
A lesson for the appeasers out there.
They were always shushing me from calling out his bullshit, to not "make him mad." I did it anyway.
He never abused me the way he abused them.
A lesson for the appeasers out there.
so, opposite of pump and dump? Crash and feast?
April 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
so, opposite of pump and dump? Crash and feast?
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I keep remembering how the first thing an abuser does is cut you off from friends and family. This feels like the global political version of that on an unimaginable scale.
April 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I keep remembering how the first thing an abuser does is cut you off from friends and family. This feels like the global political version of that on an unimaginable scale.
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A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.
April 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.
For the first time, I began to cry during my daily call to my representative, so there's that
April 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
For the first time, I began to cry during my daily call to my representative, so there's that
Interestingly I failed the last Wordle of the Biden Presidency so my streak is a daily reminder of just how many -- or few -- days it's taken to bring the country to each new crisis.
74. It's 74 days.
74. It's 74 days.
April 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Interestingly I failed the last Wordle of the Biden Presidency so my streak is a daily reminder of just how many -- or few -- days it's taken to bring the country to each new crisis.
74. It's 74 days.
74. It's 74 days.
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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
Good election news today. But I'm struck by the fact that if Trump had been at all honest about his intentions--to steal your social security, alienate every ally, end due process, make sure your food and random diseases sicken and kill you, tank the economy--he would have lost.
April 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Good election news today. But I'm struck by the fact that if Trump had been at all honest about his intentions--to steal your social security, alienate every ally, end due process, make sure your food and random diseases sicken and kill you, tank the economy--he would have lost.
Booker's historic and breathtaking speech, 20-point swings toward Democrats in Florida districts that Trump won handily, and Susan Crawford winning in Wisconsin despite Musk's donning a cheese hat and writing wildly illegal checks--today is better than most.
April 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Booker's historic and breathtaking speech, 20-point swings toward Democrats in Florida districts that Trump won handily, and Susan Crawford winning in Wisconsin despite Musk's donning a cheese hat and writing wildly illegal checks--today is better than most.
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SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
March 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source.
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
I gotta say, this fairly typical side-by-side headline placement is part of what makes me feel like my brain is melting these days. (NY Mag, this time)
March 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I gotta say, this fairly typical side-by-side headline placement is part of what makes me feel like my brain is melting these days. (NY Mag, this time)
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There’s always been corruption and self-dealing in the U.S., but Musk and Trump are doing it all so publicly that I’m struggling to think of anything comparable in history.
It’s downright cartoonish. We live in a cartoon reality where the bad guy’s criminal acts can be understood by a toddler.
It’s downright cartoonish. We live in a cartoon reality where the bad guy’s criminal acts can be understood by a toddler.
March 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
There’s always been corruption and self-dealing in the U.S., but Musk and Trump are doing it all so publicly that I’m struggling to think of anything comparable in history.
It’s downright cartoonish. We live in a cartoon reality where the bad guy’s criminal acts can be understood by a toddler.
It’s downright cartoonish. We live in a cartoon reality where the bad guy’s criminal acts can be understood by a toddler.
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🚨"In recent weeks, the administration has pulled back on efforts to fight racial discrimination in voting, weakened protections against foreign interference in our voting systems, and potentially laid the groundwork to increase Trump’s personal control over independent agencies, among other steps."
Trump’s Plan to Control Elections Is Coming Into Focus
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🚨"In recent weeks, the administration has pulled back on efforts to fight racial discrimination in voting, weakened protections against foreign interference in our voting systems, and potentially laid the groundwork to increase Trump’s personal control over independent agencies, among other steps."
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We're watching an incredibly rapid state collapse--faster than pretty much any except those involving tanks in the streets--in real time. I say this as a person who's been in places with tanks in the streets. And as one who reads enough to know that the first lie of fascism is inevitability.
March 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We're watching an incredibly rapid state collapse--faster than pretty much any except those involving tanks in the streets--in real time. I say this as a person who's been in places with tanks in the streets. And as one who reads enough to know that the first lie of fascism is inevitability.
I understand being old was the worst sin in a president, good thing we got rid of the old guy, dodged a bullet there
March 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I understand being old was the worst sin in a president, good thing we got rid of the old guy, dodged a bullet there
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.