Kathy Petz
@michigankathy.bsky.social
Fiber arts enthusiast, local Democratic election official. Indivisible member, part time empty nester. Very happily married. No DM’s
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Wow. NINE former heads of the CDC sound the alarm www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Wow. NINE former heads of the CDC sound the alarm www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported.
In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.
In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.
The Trump admin has freed Jose Hernandez Reyes because he can testify against Abrego Garcia.
Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for:
—DUI w/ a handgun;
—cocaine possession;
—illegally transporting migrants; and
—drunkenly firing a gun.
Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt
Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for:
—DUI w/ a handgun;
—cocaine possession;
—illegally transporting migrants; and
—drunkenly firing a gun.
Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt
Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
wapo.st
June 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The Trump admin in a nutshell; in order to justify their own mistake, they’re going to release a violent felon with five deportations so he can testify against the guy with no criminal record they mistakenly deported.
In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.
In other words, the story is always more important than the principle.
Good, more of this please
one Catholic tradition I would like to bring back in America is priests getting arrested in political protests
I want to see some Father Daniel Berrigan energy out in these streets
I want to see some Father Daniel Berrigan energy out in these streets
Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.
June 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Good, more of this please
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This was three months ago.
April 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This was three months ago.
Philadelphia was rocking!
April 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Philadelphia was rocking!
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It never got a lot of attention, but Aber put a WHOLE LOT of child predators w/ties to law enforcement in prison.
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...
Former US attorney for Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber found dead at 43
Jessica Aber, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), was found dead Saturday morning, the Alexandria Police Department said. She was 43 years old. The cause and circumstance...
www.nbcwashington.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It never got a lot of attention, but Aber put a WHOLE LOT of child predators w/ties to law enforcement in prison.
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...
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Every time I walk past a bank, I face an ethical question. Should I just rob it? It's a stumper.
When Meta started developing its flagship AI model, employees faced an ethical question, Alex Reisner writes. The program would need to be trained on a huge amount of high-quality writing to be competitive with products such as ChatGPT. Should they just pirate it?
Read more: theatln.tc/1P6gPreS
Read more: theatln.tc/1P6gPreS
March 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Every time I walk past a bank, I face an ethical question. Should I just rob it? It's a stumper.
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So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
March 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
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Perhaps the most concise way to think about this is that Musk has pranced around bragging about cracking down on fraud and abuse, finding the bad guys. Meanwhile what he's actually done is enable perhaps the biggest splurge of fraud and tax cheating in history. For him and his pals.
So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.
To review what we from @washingtonpost.com are reporting out of the IRS today:
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
- Projected tax revenue this year is down 10% ($500 billion) as Trump's downsizing is emboldening tax cheats
- IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE to assist on mass deportations
March 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Perhaps the most concise way to think about this is that Musk has pranced around bragging about cracking down on fraud and abuse, finding the bad guys. Meanwhile what he's actually done is enable perhaps the biggest splurge of fraud and tax cheating in history. For him and his pals.
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every person involved in this needs to be in prison
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
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New — A viral story about the Dropkick Murphys getting banned from X was reported by multiple reputable news outlets. But as @jsweetli.bsky.social learned through simple reporting, the story was totally false.
For The Handbasket she explains her work, and exposes major holes in current journalism:
For The Handbasket she explains her work, and exposes major holes in current journalism:
How a false story about an anti-Trump band went viral
News outlets reported the Dropkick Murphys were banned from X by Elon Musk. As Jacqueline Sweet easily found, it wasn’t true.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
New — A viral story about the Dropkick Murphys getting banned from X was reported by multiple reputable news outlets. But as @jsweetli.bsky.social learned through simple reporting, the story was totally false.
For The Handbasket she explains her work, and exposes major holes in current journalism:
For The Handbasket she explains her work, and exposes major holes in current journalism:
The absolute worst thing I could imagine would be having one of my kids die. I cannot possibly imagine saying that the thing that killed them is “not as bad a they’re making it out to be.”
Parents of the child who died of measles have joined RFK-founded Children's Health Defense. Anti-vaccine groups excel at swooping in for tragedy, offering parents a cause.
“Don’t do the shots,” her mother said, measles is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.”
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
“Don’t do the shots,” her mother said, measles is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.”
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old's measles death
Anti-vaccine influencers see the child’s death as proof — not of the danger of measles, but of their own debunked theories.
www.nbcnews.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The absolute worst thing I could imagine would be having one of my kids die. I cannot possibly imagine saying that the thing that killed them is “not as bad a they’re making it out to be.”
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Parents of the child who died of measles have joined RFK-founded Children's Health Defense. Anti-vaccine groups excel at swooping in for tragedy, offering parents a cause.
“Don’t do the shots,” her mother said, measles is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.”
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
“Don’t do the shots,” her mother said, measles is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.”
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old's measles death
Anti-vaccine influencers see the child’s death as proof — not of the danger of measles, but of their own debunked theories.
www.nbcnews.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Parents of the child who died of measles have joined RFK-founded Children's Health Defense. Anti-vaccine groups excel at swooping in for tragedy, offering parents a cause.
“Don’t do the shots,” her mother said, measles is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.”
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
“Don’t do the shots,” her mother said, measles is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.”
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Remember 1983’s “The Day After”? There was a woman who wouldn’t stop making her bed as the sirens were going off. It drove me crazy at the time; now I understand.
the weird thing about the descent into fascism is how normal everything else seems.
kids have birthday parties. folks go on vacation. neighbors say good morning. people walk their dogs. joggers wind their way through their early-morning exercise.
yet the power grab slowly grows.
kids have birthday parties. folks go on vacation. neighbors say good morning. people walk their dogs. joggers wind their way through their early-morning exercise.
yet the power grab slowly grows.
March 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Remember 1983’s “The Day After”? There was a woman who wouldn’t stop making her bed as the sirens were going off. It drove me crazy at the time; now I understand.
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6/ “There is…the problem of adults who are not productive members of society … [T]he most profitable disposition is to convert them into biodiesel… Okay, just kidding,” but “it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal … is a humane alternative to genocide.” - Moldbug aka Yarvin
January 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I think there's some truth to this. The faster everything falls apart here, the sooner they can play out their narrative of "saving" humanity from itself. It's deeply sociopathic
Musk and Thiel and their bunch think most of humanity are surplus. They don't see themselves as having customers or even businesses in the conventional sense. I think they're honestly hoping to provoke mass riots in the belief that we'll off ourselves or that they can have us all gunned down.
March 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I think there's some truth to this. The faster everything falls apart here, the sooner they can play out their narrative of "saving" humanity from itself. It's deeply sociopathic
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We’re getting a very special (and especially destructive) mix of populist nationalism (trade wars) and Grover Noqquist-style drown-the-government-in-a-bathtub austerity.
apnews.com/article/irs-...
apnews.com/article/irs-...
apnews.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
We’re getting a very special (and especially destructive) mix of populist nationalism (trade wars) and Grover Noqquist-style drown-the-government-in-a-bathtub austerity.
apnews.com/article/irs-...
apnews.com/article/irs-...
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Doge has itemized $10bn in savings; but all of those were revised down to $19m due to errors and now have been removed from the list.
So essentially there are zero itemized savings from DOGE as of today.
So essentially there are zero itemized savings from DOGE as of today.
March 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Doge has itemized $10bn in savings; but all of those were revised down to $19m due to errors and now have been removed from the list.
So essentially there are zero itemized savings from DOGE as of today.
So essentially there are zero itemized savings from DOGE as of today.
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Musk here isn’t simply being stupid.
He’s purposely defining Nazism down. The claim that there weren’t Nazis until, in effect, 1939, is ridiculous—but it is an attempt to stop people from correctly calling out elements of Nazism today as long as or until there’s not an actual world war or genocide.
He’s purposely defining Nazism down. The claim that there weren’t Nazis until, in effect, 1939, is ridiculous—but it is an attempt to stop people from correctly calling out elements of Nazism today as long as or until there’s not an actual world war or genocide.
Elon Musk says that as long as you aren't "committing genocide and starting wars" you are "not a Nazi"
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-te...
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-te...
March 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Musk here isn’t simply being stupid.
He’s purposely defining Nazism down. The claim that there weren’t Nazis until, in effect, 1939, is ridiculous—but it is an attempt to stop people from correctly calling out elements of Nazism today as long as or until there’s not an actual world war or genocide.
He’s purposely defining Nazism down. The claim that there weren’t Nazis until, in effect, 1939, is ridiculous—but it is an attempt to stop people from correctly calling out elements of Nazism today as long as or until there’s not an actual world war or genocide.
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This will cause riots in the streets in every American city!
Is this what it takes to turn up the heat?
We Told Maga. We Told Them They Are Coming For You!!!
Oh, Yah they thought it wasn't them!
Is this what it takes to turn up the heat?
We Told Maga. We Told Them They Are Coming For You!!!
Oh, Yah they thought it wasn't them!
March 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This will cause riots in the streets in every American city!
Is this what it takes to turn up the heat?
We Told Maga. We Told Them They Are Coming For You!!!
Oh, Yah they thought it wasn't them!
Is this what it takes to turn up the heat?
We Told Maga. We Told Them They Are Coming For You!!!
Oh, Yah they thought it wasn't them!
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Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.
March 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.
@repdean.bsky.social I would love to see you there
March 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
@repdean.bsky.social I would love to see you there