kath2cats
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kath2cats
@kath2cats.bsky.social
Stubborn, opinionated, Jewish, believer in facts.
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Please note that any "centrist" pundit who blithely discusses the "merits" of arguments for eliminating birthright citizenship is either a fascist enabling fascism or a clueless clown enabling fascism.
December 7, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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The new chair of a federal vaccine panel remade by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he felt as though he and his committee members were “puppets on a string.”
RFK Jr.’s Top Vaccine Adviser Says He Feels Like Puppet ‘on a String’
The new chair of the panel remade by Kennedy oversaw the overturning of the hepatitis B birth-dose guidance.
on.wsj.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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6 December 1928 | Dutch Jewish girl, Betje Polak, was born in Rotterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in October 1942. She did not survive.
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Children at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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the difference is that rfk's job does not require him to be trustworthy or have integrity
Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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"USCIS directed its employees to halt adjudicating all immigration pathways for people from 19 countries deemed to be 'high risk.'"

“People are devastated and they’re frightened. People were plucked out of line. They didn’t cancel the whole ceremony.”
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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The Trump administration late Tuesday paused all immigration applications from 19 countries the president earlier had listed for restricted travel into the United States, a move that freezes processing for green card holders and citizenship applications ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/04/r...
Trump administration puts a hold on immigration applications from 19 nations • Ohio Capital Journal
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration late Tuesday paused all immigration applications from 19 countries the president earlier had listed for restricted travel into the United States, a move that…
ohiocapitaljournal.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Imagine having to post such pathetic nonsense at your boss, who is using *his* 120+ hour work weeks to publicly post stuff like this

bsky.app/profile/beng...
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Imagine having a job where you know for a fact you'll get fired instantly if you're not spending your "120 hour work weeks" nonstop glazing the hell out of your boss on social media.

Puts a new light on why Grok is so eager to tell people to kill themselves, huh
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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What's hilarious is that competent programmers, as well as people studying programming for the very first time, know that all code you write after about 4 hours is garbage. Totally useless, none of it worth salvaging.

Actual programmers hear "I coded for 36 hours" and hear "I gooned for 36 hours"
Working 36 hours straight on Thanksgiving so Grok says Elon is in better shape than LeBron
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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The goal: inoculate 90% of girls in parts of Pakistan to immunize them against the infection that causes cervical cancer. "Our biggest challenge was to counter misinformation," says a spokesman. n.pr/4qRdM8Q
A first-time HPV vaccination campaign sees some success -- and strong resistance
The goal: inoculate 90% of girls in parts of Pakistan to immunize them against the infection that causes cervical cancer. "Our biggest challenge was to counter misinformation," says a spokesman.
n.pr
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Speaking as a GAC provider: for years now, NYT has been a reliable spigot of medical misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation (true facts presented in a way that misleads). NYT has goaded the anti-trans political machine as much as any institution in our country. I will never forget it.
Billie Jean knows what she's talking about. She was the primary source for this story on anti-trans bias at NYT we ran last year.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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WV emergency food bank funding decreased in state budget ahead of SNAP freeze westvirginiawatch.com/2025/11/06/w...
WV emergency food bank funding decreased in state budget ahead of SNAP freeze • West Virginia Watch
West Virginia’s food banks received less state funding this year in a budget bill signed six months before SNAP benefits were delayed.
westvirginiawatch.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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when we have public power coast to coast, we'll do this and make electricity free 24/7/365
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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We still have a set of climate technologies that save tons of money and drive affordability. That list is longer today and gets longer every year. Most of these technologies have achieved less than 10% penetration into households and can be accelerated.
October 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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1000% riveting.
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that there is literally no empirical evidence that economic growth will just continue if the world heats up to, say, 3°C by 2100.

Continued growth is just *assumed* in every economic model of the relationship between temperatures and growth.

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November 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Russ Douthat being thrown out of polite society onto the sidewalk with a push just slightly harder than necessary; he doesn’t quite fall but he stumble-runs for 3-4 steps. “Watch your step, sir,” the guard murmurs in a slight mid-Atlantic accent.
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Posing the question should get you politely but firmly ejected from society by a large man dressed like an usher at the opera.

He just appears with a tight smile and quietly suggests that it would be best if you don’t cause a scene.
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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buying into AI
August 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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The first teaser for “Michael,” the long-waited Michael Jackson biopic, is out:
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Can we fix this problem that did not happen with something that does not exist?
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Having exhausted their well of blaming Millennials for every problem, the brilliant minds at the NYT have moved on to blaming...women.
Y'all are really pushing all of the Black journalists out of the industry, so that you can ask trash questions like this?

Embarrassing.

Some questions are harmful in and of themselves. It doesn't matter what's said in the debate, or who "wins."

Pretending that this is not trash, is weakness.
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Letter from a climate activist: “It is time for every leader to prove that they value people over polluters. My generation will not stop pushing for policies that match the science and protect our future.”
LETTER: “Youth climate activist urges leaders to prioritize science over politics.” So proud of @sophiamathur.bsky.social for speaking truth to power. We made a pinky promise 8 yrs ago to do our part to tackle the climate crisis & she lives up to it every day! www.baytoday.ca/letters-to-t...
LETTER: Youth climate activist urges leaders to prioritize science over politics
'Climate change is here, it is deadly, and it is stealing the dreams of young people like me'
www.baytoday.ca
November 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Fuentes flap is tearing apart the Heritage Foundation. Good. archive.is/2025.11.06-1...
archive.is
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM