No Ordinary Cat
@noordinarycat.bsky.social
🌄GenX Queer High Desert Social Worker
✈️🛳️with wanderlust 🚞🚙
🦇Oh my Goth! Oh my Goddess!☸️
✈️🛳️with wanderlust 🚞🚙
🦇Oh my Goth! Oh my Goddess!☸️
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Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, U.S. immigration officials have deputized a record number of local police to function as deportation agents, according to a new investigation by ProPublica and @azluminaria.org.
Local Police Join ICE Deportation Force in Record Numbers Despite Warnings Program Lacks Oversight
ICE officials tout an unprecedented expansion of its 287(g) Program, driven by agreements that allow local officers to function as deportation agents during routine policing. But advocates warn such a...
www.propublica.org
June 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, U.S. immigration officials have deputized a record number of local police to function as deportation agents, according to a new investigation by ProPublica and @azluminaria.org.
I work with single moms and families that were lifted out of poverty, homelessness and addiction because they had the opportunity to have free childcare. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I work with single moms and families that were lifted out of poverty, homelessness and addiction because they had the opportunity to have free childcare. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Covert Narcissism and other PD are some of the hardest diagnoses to treat, which is why the therapist in White Lotus is hardly to blame. Plus a wellness coach is not a clinical therapist. www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...
Therapist Explains Why 1 ‘White Lotus’ Character Is So Mean But ‘Strangely’ Alluring
“That's a really meaty narcissistic story,” clinical psychologist Dr. Ramani Durvasula said of the most recent episode of the hit Max series.
www.huffpost.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Covert Narcissism and other PD are some of the hardest diagnoses to treat, which is why the therapist in White Lotus is hardly to blame. Plus a wellness coach is not a clinical therapist. www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...
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The Trump administration has shut down the Veterans Benefits Administration’s Office of Equity Assurance, effectively hobbling internal VA efforts to investigate and eliminate long-standing racial inequities the department itself has acknowledged.
By @vernalcoleman.bsky.social
By @vernalcoleman.bsky.social
The Office That Investigates Disparities in Veterans’ Care Is Being “Liquidated”
The closure effectively hobbles the VA’s efforts to investigate and eliminate long-standing racial inequities that the department itself has acknowledged. “The consequences will be dire,…
propub.li
March 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Trump administration has shut down the Veterans Benefits Administration’s Office of Equity Assurance, effectively hobbling internal VA efforts to investigate and eliminate long-standing racial inequities the department itself has acknowledged.
By @vernalcoleman.bsky.social
By @vernalcoleman.bsky.social
To compassion is to human.
March 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
To compassion is to human.
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Full exchange with Donald Trump and President Zelenskyy
Full White House Video of Donald Trump and President Zelenskyy
YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko
youtu.be
February 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Full exchange with Donald Trump and President Zelenskyy
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Opposition movements always seem hopeless until they’re not. Apartheid existed for decades and then came crashing down rapidly.
Elon Musk, apartheid, and America's new boycott movement
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
www.motherjones.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Opposition movements always seem hopeless until they’re not. Apartheid existed for decades and then came crashing down rapidly.
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#ICYMI: ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one.
The Staffers Helping Elon Musk Dismantle and Downsize the U.S. Government, One Agency at a Time
Musk and his lieutenants are reshaping the government and its mission with the blessing of President Trump. ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with the…
propub.li
February 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
#ICYMI: ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 Musk-affiliated staffers who are helping the world’s richest man dismantle or downsize federal agencies one by one.
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U.S. lawmakers in Munich reportedly handed Volodymyr Zelensky a "piece of paper" today that would have granted Americans the mining rights to half of Ukraine's "future mineral reserves." Zelensky refused to sign.
Zelensky ‘politely declines’ to sign agreement granting U.S. mining rights for half of Ukraine’s ‘future mineral reserves’ — Meduza
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reportedly refused to sign an agreement presented by American lawmakers in Munich that would have pledged half of Ukraine’s “future mineral reserves” to…
buff.ly
February 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
U.S. lawmakers in Munich reportedly handed Volodymyr Zelensky a "piece of paper" today that would have granted Americans the mining rights to half of Ukraine's "future mineral reserves." Zelensky refused to sign.
FAA is next…
One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands.
The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and ...
www.propublica.org
February 12, 2025 at 4:54 AM
FAA is next…
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The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...
youtube.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...
I read Even Cowgirls….upon my post high school US return after living most of my childhood abroad on military bases. Where weird and playful meets mindful and philosophical, he introduced me to unique subculture Americans and I’m still smitten…RIP Tom Robbins www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/feb/09/...
Update: Author Tom Robbins, La Conner resident, dies at 92 | Cascadia Daily News
Legendary novelist — described as 'the most dangerous writer in the world today' — lived in Skagit County for more than 5 decades
www.cascadiadaily.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I read Even Cowgirls….upon my post high school US return after living most of my childhood abroad on military bases. Where weird and playful meets mindful and philosophical, he introduced me to unique subculture Americans and I’m still smitten…RIP Tom Robbins www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/feb/09/...
Still missing this soul every day❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
January 29, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Still missing this soul every day❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
Leaving Greece about a month ago. Still reeling from that trip!
November 25, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Leaving Greece about a month ago. Still reeling from that trip!