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katienin.bsky.social
@katienin.bsky.social
Artist, lawyer, mom
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We no longer have an effective legislative or judiciary branch of government. It’s time to face that sobering reality.
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Investigating elected officials for speech is not law enforcement but intimidation. If governors and mayors can be investigated for criticizing federal actions, neither elected officials nor anyone else is truly free to speak. #holdfast
January 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder.

" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."

www.al.com/news/2026/01...
Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants
www.al.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.
December 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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No lies told. It's always been about racism. Always.
December 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Every major news organization should be writing about how insane this is and how, if he takes this country to war (tomorrow?), it is the act of a madman.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Oh wow. Plants in "Cancer Alley" are huge emitters.
Trump excludes 12 Louisiana chemical facilities from new EPA pollution rule
Trump excludes 12 Louisiana chemical facilities from new EPA pollution rule • Louisiana Illuminator
Trump issued what the White House labeled “regulatory relief for certain stationary sources to promote American chemical manufacturing security.”
lailluminator.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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There are ways to mitigate and adapt to extreme events, like stopping the burning of fossil fuels and building early warning systems (or not firing people who make forecasts and coordinate with local officials), but prayer is not one of them.
Mike Johnson on Texas floods: "In a moment like this, we feel just as helpless as everyone else does ... all we know to do at this moment is pray."
July 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Love Sen. Murphy’s candor
WATCH: Sen. Chris Murphy on the intel report showing the U.S. strikes on Iran nuclear program were not as effective as Trump claimed: "We were supposed to get a briefing today. It got canceled. I think it got canceled because they are trying to figure out how to lie their way out of this mess."
June 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Sen. Mike Lee should resign
This is well stated. Mike Lee will forever be associated in my mind with his unbelievably cruel and stupid tweets about the Hortman assassination. He is a disgrace to the Senate and Utah.
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full emails below
June 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It’s been less than six months!!
He’s moving us toward what’s called a “police state.” Random abductions and detentions. Disappeared people. Federal troops on our streets. We won’t stand for it.
June 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Imagine that
Another sign that the dollar’s dominance is in trouble: US importers are increasingly being asked by their foreign counterparties to settle transactions in currencies other than the US dollar, such as euros, RMB, Mexican pesos, and Canadian dollars.
Many Exporters No Longer Want Dollars, US Bank Executive Says
When Paula Comings, the head of currency sales for US Bancorp, talks to US importers, she increasingly hears the same message: Their foreign counterparties no longer want to be paid in dollars.
www.bloomberg.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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🚨INVESTIGATION: Trump's tax bill includes a line advancing a Chilean billionaire's massive mining operation on federal land near some of America's largest sources of freshwater.

The billionaire rented his DC mansion to Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner. www.levernews.com/a-chilean-bi...
A Chilean Billionaire Strikes Gold In The Budget Bill
The budget reconciliation bill includes an environmentally devastating natural resources giveaway to a Chilean billionaire with close ties to the Trump family.
www.levernews.com
June 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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I’m only surprised it took this long under this administration!
May 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Stop calling kidnapping and trafficking people to countries they’ve never been to “deporting.” It’s criminal behavior by a country with no conscience. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan
Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s return
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
From the “Men Suck” file
Among heterosexual couples over age 50, research finds that divorce rates increase significantly when the wife develops a serious illness but the husband does not; however, no such increase is seen when husbands fall ill but wives do not. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/soci...
New Research Reveals a Concerning Emerging Divorce Pattern
Divorce trends among middle-aged adults have revealed a shocking new pattern.
www.psychologytoday.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Threatening to investigate NBC because reporter asks question about gift of jet from Qatar
Trump loses it at Peter Alexander: "What are you talking about? You oughta get out of here ... you're a terrible reporter. You don't have what it takes to be a reporter. You're not smart enough ... Brian Roberts and the people that run that place they ought to be investigated."
May 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Professing ignorance at the highest levels of government!
DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research?

RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research

D: I just read them to you!

R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
May 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Habeas Corpus dates back to the Magna Carta of 1215, No man shall be imprisoned or exiled except by the lawful judgment of his peers or the law of the land.
“Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires the government to provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason.”
Does Kristi Noem even know what habeas corpus is?
The Homeland Security secretary's word salad raised even more questions about the administration's assault on fundamental rights.
www.motherjones.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
We’re living in the weirdest chapter in history
Ashli Babbitt was a terrorist. She was justifiably shot and killed because she was part of a mob trying to murder people in the furtherance of a treasonous plot. The US government, as currently constructed, believes that's a person who should be vindicated and that her family should be rewarded.
May 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Pence: "To have POTUS in Saudi Arabia questioning America's global war on terror & describing is as nation building & interventionist I thought was a disservice to generations of Americans who wore the uniform..particularly giving that speech in Saudi Arabia where 15 of the 19 hijackers hailed from"
May 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Hypocrisy and corruption are a feature not a bug in this administration
The same people losing it over "8647" are all peachy with Roger Stone saying Mark Kelly should be executed.
May 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Yeah, no shit Sherlock and yet there you are, the Secretary of HHS. We couldn't make this shit up if we tried. 🙄
May 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Thoughts and prayers 🙏🏻😢💗
May 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Word.
May 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM