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Kathi
@kathi-kalina.bsky.social
FACTS MATTER!

Science content writer and supervising editor, ballroom dancer, canine scent work handler; Former K12 teacher, mental health professional, tap dancer
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My next book is in the works. It will be part of a multi-volume set.

#factsmatter #bullshit #books
October 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
October 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Stockholm, Sweden | Oslo, Norway —The Nobel Foundation announces the addition of new field for which a prize will be awarded.

THE NOBEL PALM GREASE PRIZE
#nobelprize #palmgrease
October 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
OSLO—Donald J. Trump is awarded the Noble Prize for Art & Poetry.

#NobelPrize #DonaldTrump
October 7, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It’s #BannedBooksWeek!

What’s your favorite banned book? To Kill a Mockingbird is mine.

I have posted in the comments some links to the 2024 list of books and the 2010-2019 Top 100 most banned or challenged books.
October 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Reposted by Kathi
Newsom: "People ask, 'Are you being hyperbolic?' Bullshit we're being hyperbolic. If you're Black or brown, it's here in this country. And so I'm deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing the nation's first bill to address masking ... these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian govt"
September 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Inquiring minds want to know! #RFKjr #HHS #Kennedy
September 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
To the Federal agencies coming to #Chicago — you may want to reconsider.

#Malört #ICE #DHS #FDT #FoxtrotDeltaTango
September 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Reposted by Kathi
August 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Make it happen, Greenland!
August 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Great piece by @wbrangham.bsky.social and @pbsnews.org on how Ben & Jerry’s is recycling food waste into energy.

We need more of this in our country!
How Ben & Jerry’s is recycling food waste into energy
It may sound like the stuff of sci-fi movies, but diverting food waste from the landfill and converting it into electricity has become a real thing. William Brangham visited Ben & Jerry’s Vermont ice ...
www.pbs.org
July 30, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Anyone else think of @latenightseth.bsky.social after completing
Wordle 1,494 on Tuesday? 🔥 #sethmeyers #wordle

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July 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I look at this picture and I wish I could muster up the same prideful and patriotic feelings now as I had in 1977.
#July4 #independenceday
July 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Who else is here today?

I’m at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport

g.co/kgs/p1nMJj5

#StopAlligatorAlcatraz
#ProtectTheEverglades
#GoodTrouble

Cartoon by Bill Day
June 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I’m at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport

g.co/kgs/p1nMJj5

#StopAlligatorAlcatraz
#ProtectTheEverglades
#GoodTrouble

Cartoon by Bill Day
June 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
June 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
When I heard the passing of George Wendt, I immediately pictured this.
(Created with Gemini AI)
#RIPGeorgeWendt
May 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Reposted by Kathi
May 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you know, you know.
#PopeLeoXIV #dibs #Chicago
May 9, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Elmo thinks President Grump is #1!
May 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
In 1999, I had the opportunity to visit Auschwitz. It is one of the most surreal and sobering experiences of my life.
#HolocaustRemembrance #YomHaShoah
Holocaust survivors march in Auschwitz 80 years after camp's liberation
Thousands of people marched through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp in Poland on Thursday in an annual ceremony organisers said would be joined by 80 Holocaust survivors to mark the 80th anniversary of the camp's liberation.
www.reuters.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Reposted by Kathi
Anti-Trump protesters in the US might look to the Czech Republic: ‘We are an example’
Anti-Trump protesters in the US might look to the Czech Republic: ‘We are an example’
Massive, sustained protests led to the 2021 downfall of billionaire oligarch Andrej Babiš, dubbed ‘the Czech Trump’
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Reposted by Kathi
Has anyone noticed that the Republican discourse about North Carolina’s storm recovery vanished after the election? Nothing. Not a peep from them.

Probably because they don’t want you to know THEY LITERALLY DENIED FUNDING FOR NORTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK!

Crazy how that works!
April 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
April 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM