The skeptical cat
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they are destroying everything and we are really not going to like what replaces it
Ok it’s official, the #xpncountdown includes worst covers as well as best. Case in point: William Shatner’s Common People at 74
December 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Ok it’s official, the #xpncountdown includes worst covers as well as best. Case in point: William Shatner’s Common People at 74
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The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the chemical industry.
This is why you always follow the money.
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...
This is why you always follow the money.
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...
The EPA has approved two new pesticides with "forever chemicals" that will be used on food.
The agency has also announced plans for four additional approvals.
The approved pesticides will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.
The agency has also announced plans for four additional approvals.
The approved pesticides will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the chemical industry.
This is why you always follow the money.
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...
This is why you always follow the money.
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...
Wow
I am a big fan of @polgreen.bsky.social and we had real conversation about the survivors of Epstein and the larger implications of me too
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio... www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio... www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | Epstein and the #MeToo of It All
“You need this renewal. You need new figures who are untouched, who were never part of these awful power games,” the columnist Lydia Polgreen argues.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Wow
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What you have to ask them is this: we are pointing out that military personnel have a duty to not follow illegal orders. Trump was never mentioned. No specific orders were mentioned. Why do you assume it's about Trump? And does that in turn mean that you are aware of his orders being illegal?
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
What you have to ask them is this: we are pointing out that military personnel have a duty to not follow illegal orders. Trump was never mentioned. No specific orders were mentioned. Why do you assume it's about Trump? And does that in turn mean that you are aware of his orders being illegal?
“America, for all its flaws and misdeeds, stands for an idea so much better than the worst parts of its legacy”
What a beautifully tragic story, perfectly illustrating the heartbreaking gap between America's promised ideals and its cruel reality for so many immigrants today. That flag now waves over kids in cages.
My Father’s Flag and the Idea of America
Over decades, across continents, and through harrowing experiences, my family held on to this bit of cloth as a reminder of everything they believed in—and were running toward.
www.thebulwark.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“America, for all its flaws and misdeeds, stands for an idea so much better than the worst parts of its legacy”
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📽️ VIDEO: Donald Trump is using the same tactics authoritarians have used to attack democracies for centuries. Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins the podcast to expose Trump's playbook and share one of her most important maxims of resistance.
Watch below👇
Watch below👇
SCARY: Trump Knows What He's Doing | Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Donald Trump is not as dumb as he looks. Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins us today with a warning about Trump's next authoritarian moves.
Support independent…
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October 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
📽️ VIDEO: Donald Trump is using the same tactics authoritarians have used to attack democracies for centuries. Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins the podcast to expose Trump's playbook and share one of her most important maxims of resistance.
Watch below👇
Watch below👇
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Timeline cleanser 🐈
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Timeline cleanser 🐈
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Ezra Klein, watch this.
September 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Ezra Klein, watch this.
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First Term: Mar-a-Lago is Southern Whitehouse.
Second Term: Whitehouse is Northern Mar-a-Lago.
Second Term: Whitehouse is Northern Mar-a-Lago.
September 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
First Term: Mar-a-Lago is Southern Whitehouse.
Second Term: Whitehouse is Northern Mar-a-Lago.
Second Term: Whitehouse is Northern Mar-a-Lago.
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Ukraine needs to name its military bases after Vladimir Putin and his generals.
by Pete Hegseth
by Pete Hegseth
September 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ukraine needs to name its military bases after Vladimir Putin and his generals.
by Pete Hegseth
by Pete Hegseth
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Yes. There are Hurricanes. But there’s also this …
August 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Yes. There are Hurricanes. But there’s also this …
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It’s more important than ever to understand your right to due process. Here’s what you should know.
youtu.be/metN4EiDtmQ
youtu.be/metN4EiDtmQ
What is Due Process?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
youtu.be
August 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
It’s more important than ever to understand your right to due process. Here’s what you should know.
youtu.be/metN4EiDtmQ
youtu.be/metN4EiDtmQ
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Autocrats follow a predictable playbook. Learn how we can disrupt their rise before revolution or civil war become the only solutions...
hartmannreport.com/p/fourteen-s...
hartmannreport.com/p/fourteen-s...
Fourteen Steps to Tyranny: How Autocratic Breakthrough Happens — And How We Can Stop It
Autocrats follow a predictable playbook. Learn how we can disrupt their rise before revolution or civil war become the only solutions...
hartmannreport.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Autocrats follow a predictable playbook. Learn how we can disrupt their rise before revolution or civil war become the only solutions...
hartmannreport.com/p/fourteen-s...
hartmannreport.com/p/fourteen-s...
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I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument.
Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch
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Opinion | Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims
ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify officers masking their identities.
wapo.st
June 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument.
Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch
Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch
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Please meet Hannah, the 80-something year old patriot who closed out the Langhorne, PA No Kings rally at Congressman Fitzpatrick's office on Saturday.
May we all have the spirit and determination of Hannah.
open.substack.com/pub/thehuman...
May we all have the spirit and determination of Hannah.
open.substack.com/pub/thehuman...
The Rally Was Over, Then Hannah Showed Up
We were hungry, wet, and tired by the time a woman using a walker showed up. Her name was Hannah, and she wasn’t leaving. Not until she had her say.
open.substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Please meet Hannah, the 80-something year old patriot who closed out the Langhorne, PA No Kings rally at Congressman Fitzpatrick's office on Saturday.
May we all have the spirit and determination of Hannah.
open.substack.com/pub/thehuman...
May we all have the spirit and determination of Hannah.
open.substack.com/pub/thehuman...
Gassing people stuck in a traffic jam that they caused
June 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Gassing people stuck in a traffic jam that they caused
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If you read one thing this weekend: And above all, keep faith in the long game. While narcissistic dynamics rely on urgency and alarm, deep change comes from staying calm, clear and connected.
Here’s What We Need To Do To Stop Trump.
www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...
Here’s What We Need To Do To Stop Trump.
www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...
I’m A Psychologist Who Specializes In Narcissists. Here’s What We Need To Do To Stop Trump.
"The same patterns that destabilize families destabilize democracies."
www.huffpost.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
If you read one thing this weekend: And above all, keep faith in the long game. While narcissistic dynamics rely on urgency and alarm, deep change comes from staying calm, clear and connected.
Here’s What We Need To Do To Stop Trump.
www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...
Here’s What We Need To Do To Stop Trump.
www.huffpost.com/entry/psycho...
I think she invented a new art form
May 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I think she invented a new art form
End times fascism is really the best description of the madness engulfing our country, and the world
The rise of end times fascism. An essay by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
End times fascism is really the best description of the madness engulfing our country, and the world
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okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
April 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
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Alienate our allies
Crash the market
Devalue the dollar
Spike prices
Dismantle the federal government
Cause immigrants to live in fear
Make others not want to come here
If you made a blueprint for how to hurt 🇺🇸, it would look a lot like this
Putin is enjoying the show
Crash the market
Devalue the dollar
Spike prices
Dismantle the federal government
Cause immigrants to live in fear
Make others not want to come here
If you made a blueprint for how to hurt 🇺🇸, it would look a lot like this
Putin is enjoying the show
April 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Alienate our allies
Crash the market
Devalue the dollar
Spike prices
Dismantle the federal government
Cause immigrants to live in fear
Make others not want to come here
If you made a blueprint for how to hurt 🇺🇸, it would look a lot like this
Putin is enjoying the show
Crash the market
Devalue the dollar
Spike prices
Dismantle the federal government
Cause immigrants to live in fear
Make others not want to come here
If you made a blueprint for how to hurt 🇺🇸, it would look a lot like this
Putin is enjoying the show
Quite uplifting
🇬🇧 LBC host Matthew Wright: “JC Vance is the world’s worst diplomat.” 👀
How about we just let them change Greenland to “Trumpland” on their little internal maps and they leave those people alone?
How about we just let them change Greenland to “Trumpland” on their little internal maps and they leave those people alone?
March 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Quite uplifting
Jim McGuinn, thank you for playing Robyn Hitchcock's Balloon Man on WXPN! He still does great patter between songs, esp. on his Wednesday night Bandcamp shows. @wxpnfm.bsky.social @robynhitchcock.bsky.social @jmcgnn.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Jim McGuinn, thank you for playing Robyn Hitchcock's Balloon Man on WXPN! He still does great patter between songs, esp. on his Wednesday night Bandcamp shows. @wxpnfm.bsky.social @robynhitchcock.bsky.social @jmcgnn.bsky.social