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Cathie (she/hers)
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Clinical Mental Health Counselor/Fierce Advocate/Nonprofit Exec Personal not Professional Content Likely Bots=Instant Block *Flirt in public, not my DMs!* GenX LGBTQ+ and BLM aspiring Ally and co-conspirator. Headshot: Digital Magic Photography and Design
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kashana.blacksky.app
Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.
wishtv.com WISH-TV @wishtv.com · 8h
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.

The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.

🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
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November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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newsguy.bsky.social
A federal magistrate says the criminal case against former FBI director Comey could be in serious trouble because of apparent errors committed in front of the grand jury by the inexperienced prosecutor picked by President Trump to handle the matter. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us...
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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newsguy.bsky.social
The acting head of FEMA resigns. abcnews.go.com/Politics/actin...
Acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson resigns: Sources
Acting FEMA Administrator David Richardson resigned on Monday, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
abcnews.go.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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newsguy.bsky.social
The Times - A network of neo-Nazi fight clubs in England launches a group aimed at children as young as 15 to groom the next generation of fascists. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

White supremacist youth club launched in UK
Active Clubs England, a network of neo-Nazi fight clubs, promotes Albion Youth Club as a route into militant fascism for next generation
www.thetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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newsguy.bsky.social
NewsGuard - In an effort to discredit the Ukrainian Armed Forces and undermine their morale, Kremlin propagandists are weaponizing OpenAI's new Sora 2 text-to-video tool to create fake, viral videos showing soldiers surrendering in tears. open.substack.com/pub/newsgua...
Kremlin Propagandists Weaponize OpenAI's Video Generator
Russian actors are using OpenAI’s Sora 2 text-to-video generator to depict the Ukrainian army as weak and surrendering
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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newsguy.bsky.social
Ahead of his meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Trump tells reporters at the White House that the US will sell F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia.
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
“Baby, don’t worry,” he said. “It’s not a worm.”

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...
I did not like to think about it just as later I would not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny. I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein. Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad. I loved that he was insatiable in all ways, as if he would swallow up the whole world just to know it better if he could. He made me laugh, but I winced when he joked about the worm. "Baby, don't worry," he said. "It's not a worm. ." A doctor he trusted had reviewed the scans of his brain obtained by The New York Times, he said, and concluded that the shadowy figure was likely not a parasite at all. He sighed. It was too late to interfere with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend, but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain.
November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
but at least I did not have to worry about the
worm that was not a worm in his brain.

but at least I did not have to worry about the
worm that was not a worm in his brain.

BUT AT LEAST I DID NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE WORM THAT WAS NOT A WORM IN HIS BRAIN.
but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
sounds familiar

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
Anna Bower exchange with Lindsey Halligan. Anna: as reported by the NY Times. James's ethics disclosures report between $1,000- $5,000 in rent back in 2020. But after that, she didn't disclose additional rental income. I'm still not sure I understand what's incorrect about the NY Times account or my summary of it. Halligan: Anna, You're biased. Your reporting isn't accurate. I'm the one handling the case and I'm telling you that. If you want to twist and torture the facts to fit your narrative, there's nothing I can do. Waste to even give you a heads up. Anna: You've approached me in saying that I've compounded or repeated something inaccurate in the New York Times's account of Nakia's testimony. I am happy to correct it, but I can't do so without a sense of what I supposedly got wrong. I'm sorry. Halligan: Continue to do what you have been and you'll be completely discredited when the evidence comes out. Anna: Ok, thank you. I'd love to talk further when you are more at liberty to be specific.
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
the dating pool for 30-something straight women is so bleak that some are willing to settle for geriatric Kennedys with worms-that-aren't-really-worms for brains
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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whatashrinkthinks.com
CONGRATULATIONS!!

And those stupid weasels can all fuck right off
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
They're all shitty losers who will die alone and unloved, but this charmer is somehow dumber than the rest.

Congratulations, Dr. Turner
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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juliet-turner.bsky.social
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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quillmatiq.com
I don't want AI generated art, I want AI emptied dishwasher
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
It's unsurprising but nonetheless disturbing and disgusting to see how many "Christian" men are out here doing their damnedest to justify the rape and abuse of teenage girls.
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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ericmgarcia.bsky.social
FWIW, Elizabeth Warren and Larry Summers go back years. They had this interaction in 2009 after the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession.
billmoyers.com/2014/09/05/i...
It was a long dinner, with plenty of intense back-and-forth about everything from the bailout, to deregulation, to the foreclosure crisis. I also talked to Larry about an idea I’d been working on for a new consumer financial agency and he seemed interested. We didn’t agree on everything, but I give Larry full credit: I’ll take honest conversation and debate any day of the week over the duck-and-cover stuff I so often saw in Washington that spring. Late in the evening, Larry leaned back in his chair and offered me some advice. By now, I’d lost count of Larry’s Diet Cokes, and our table was strewn with bits of food and spilled sauces. Larry’s tone was in the friendly-advice category. He teed it up this way: I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don’t listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People — powerful people — listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders. I had been warned.
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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charlotteclymer.bsky.social
"I can’t pinpoint an exact moment when things shifted, but somewhere around the halfway mark, I started to lose altitude. It was subtle at first, a quiet descent I barely noticed. Then suddenly I was falling..."

aliaawadallah.substack.com/p/one-democr...
One Democrat’s Year in the Wilderness
Leaving government, losing my footing, and moving through the five stages of grief.
aliaawadallah.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Attorney Barbara Schwabauer explains her decision to leave the Justice Department's Office of Civil Rights rather than comply with a Trump administration order to subpoena the medical records of transgender teens
The Justice Department subpoenaed more than 20 doctors and hospitals that provide gender-related care to minors (including puberty suppressants, hormone therapy and surgeries) accusing them of having “mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology.” Trump had already issued a series of executive orders dismantling protections for trans people, banning them from military service and allowing open discrimination by federal workplaces. The subpoenas demanded patient information protected by privacy law. Barbara Schwabauer, Civil Rights Division: It’s one thing to say we’re no longer going to stand up for trans people in this administration, we’re not going to file briefs in support of them. But to affirmatively go after them? I could not in good conscience continue to be a part of that. These are teenagers.
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Absolutely no way to read this and not conclude that the Department of Justice has been deeply corrupted. And this is from a time when career lawyers were in place, pushing back against illegality. With firings and resignations, the politicization will just get worse.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department (Gift Article)
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
Politico is stirring up trouble, raising the possibility - seemingly out of the blue - that Trump could withhold a security clearance for Zohran Mamdani, denying him information on threats to the city that was quite recently the target of the worst terrorist attack in US history.
An early test of a Mamdani-Trump relationship? Security clearance.
The president has revoked security clearances as a way to punish political enemies.
www.politico.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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helenkennedy.bsky.social
It’s not a recession. It’s a moment of zen.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
* WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER HASSETT: THERE COULD BE A LITTLE BIT OF ALMOST QUIET TIME IN THE LABOR MARKET

@reuters.com #QuietTime
November 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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atrupar.com
LMAO -- Ted Cruz is on Fox News talking about running for president in 2028
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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sorenspicknall.bsky.social
Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
A map showing a town called Deer Park next to a town called Kildeer
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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alisonfrankel.bsky.social
Here’s an example of journalistic dedication. My husband, @danfagin.bsky.social, wrote the butterfly story. To fact-check the rice grains analogy, he asked a rice scientist (yes, there are such a thing) to weigh a dozen grains so Dan could get the average weight of a single grain.
joshchafetz.bsky.social Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 8h
wake up babe, new units of measurement just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The Trump regime has fired an estimated 70 immigration judges since February. This is happening as immigration courts face a record backlog of cases.

Remember: it was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.
brennancenter.org Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 8h
“I think most don’t realize how hard it is to immigrate legally to the United States,” says former senior policy official @margyoh.bsky.social. She explains other surprising facts about the immigration system in a wide-ranging new Q&A:
An Insider’s View of the Immigration System
A former senior immigration policy official offers insight into how the system works and highlights urgent problems that must be addressed.
www.brennancenter.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM