PatKaChi
@patkachi.bsky.social
Woman of few words, usually. Not always nice but usually kind. I lost on Jeopardy! Support local journalism. Don’t cross picket lines. Do the right thing.
#UglyDogs
#UglyDogs
Still leaves me helpless
November 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Still leaves me helpless
The biggest mystery about my 30ish neighbors hosting a screaming singalong at 5am is why it’s all 1980s music.
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The biggest mystery about my 30ish neighbors hosting a screaming singalong at 5am is why it’s all 1980s music.
No YOU accidentally ordered lunch from the wrong location and had to get on the El to go retrieve it.
I would never do something so silly.
I would never do something so silly.
October 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
No YOU accidentally ordered lunch from the wrong location and had to get on the El to go retrieve it.
I would never do something so silly.
I would never do something so silly.
That’s gonna leave a mark.
And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
Gaines: I want to challenge AOC to a debate.
October 28, 2025 at 12:43 AM
That’s gonna leave a mark.
Astounding.
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Astounding.
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
Read this.
Belonging is so important.
Belonging is so important.
This is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read. We can use our words and actions to tear each other down, or build each other up and create community. I try to choose the latter.
#SpreadLove
#SpreadLove
With alt:
September 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Read this.
Belonging is so important.
Belonging is so important.
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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
August 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
August 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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I wish I knew German
July 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I wish I knew German
Free idea: a country divided up between the psychopaths and the humans capable of empathy.
Let’s go.
Let’s go.
July 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Free idea: a country divided up between the psychopaths and the humans capable of empathy.
Let’s go.
Let’s go.
I had thought Roberts’s ego would prevent him from cementing his legacy as the dismantler of the republic, but I guess I was wrong.
June 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I had thought Roberts’s ego would prevent him from cementing his legacy as the dismantler of the republic, but I guess I was wrong.
And if you weren’t convinced before, let the Clinton endorsement push you over the edge. MAKE HIM GO AWAY.
If you’re (early) voting today NYC friends, make good choices! Don’t rank the incompetent sex pest who should remain in the shame he slunk off in.
June 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
And if you weren’t convinced before, let the Clinton endorsement push you over the edge. MAKE HIM GO AWAY.
I knew things would be terrible, but even I didn’t imagine this.
June 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I knew things would be terrible, but even I didn’t imagine this.
If you’re (early) voting today NYC friends, make good choices! Don’t rank the incompetent sex pest who should remain in the shame he slunk off in.
June 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
If you’re (early) voting today NYC friends, make good choices! Don’t rank the incompetent sex pest who should remain in the shame he slunk off in.
I’m not a NYer anymore, but don’t threaten me with a good time.
(Exception: Mr. Bouie)
(Exception: Mr. Bouie)
If you rank Zohran 1st you’re voting to make every New York Times Opinion writer insane for several years.
June 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I’m not a NYer anymore, but don’t threaten me with a good time.
(Exception: Mr. Bouie)
(Exception: Mr. Bouie)
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Live your life so millions of your fellow citizens don't take to the streets to tell you to go fuck yourself on your birthday.
June 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Live your life so millions of your fellow citizens don't take to the streets to tell you to go fuck yourself on your birthday.
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One of our friends needs some help, so please chip in if you can and help spread the word. 🙏❤️
It's very difficult for me to ask for help, my remarkable daughter Alex (who just completed a year in Americorp) put together this GoFundMe to help us with the overwhelming expenses for emergency vet care and Rio's hospital stay.
Thank you. #Uglydogs
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rio-r...
Thank you. #Uglydogs
www.gofundme.com/f/help-rio-r...
Donate to Help Rio Recover: Emergency Surgery for Our Family Dog, organized by Alexandra Coats
Help Rio Recover: Emergency Surgery for Our Beloved Family Dog
… Alexandra Coats needs your support for Help Rio Recover: Emergency Surgery for Our Family Dog
www.gofundme.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
One of our friends needs some help, so please chip in if you can and help spread the word. 🙏❤️
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Today's the last day to leave a comment about the proposed restrictions on COVID boosters! If you can, please let the FDA know that everyone should be able to protect themselves and their communities.
The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters.
www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...
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May 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Today's the last day to leave a comment about the proposed restrictions on COVID boosters! If you can, please let the FDA know that everyone should be able to protect themselves and their communities.
<primal scream>
I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.
May 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
<primal scream>
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Ha!
Guys I can explain why for at least 1750 of those years.
Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first US-born pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.
He took the name Leo XIV. trib.al/hGS8mo9
He took the name Leo XIV. trib.al/hGS8mo9
May 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Ha!
I see things have gotten even more stupid this afternoon.
May 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I see things have gotten even more stupid this afternoon.