Top Cat 🐈‍⬛️
LightNews LightNews
banner
topcat-hq.bsky.social
Top Cat 🐈‍⬛️
@topcat-hq.bsky.social
1.6K followers 180 following 1.7K posts
Introvert. Overthinker. Opinionated. Sarcastic. Book lover. Avoids people. Likes pets. I know things. My posts will mostly be political in nature, so if that's not your thing, you have been warned ;-)
"Be truthful. Not neutral." Christiane Amanpour
Posts Replies Media Videos
topcat-hq.bsky.social
The Royal formerly known as (a) Prince 😁😉
Image of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew
October 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
Silent resistance is still resistance. Do what you can, when you can.

Please read Alt text for further details
U.S. Bomber plane: In 1943, during a bombing mission over Nazi Germany, a U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress was struck by enemy anti-aircraft fire, specifically, 11 shells hit its fuel tanks. Miraculously, none of the shells exploded, allowing the aircraft to return safely despite the odds. When the bomber was later inspected, technicians discovered that the shells were duds. One of them contained a handwritten note in Czech: “This is all we can do for you now.” The note revealed a quiet act of sabotage by forced laborers in German munitions factories, many of whom were Czech prisoners or resistance sympathizers. These workers risked their lives by deliberately disabling explosive shells, knowing that discovery could mean execution. Their silent defiance saved the lives of the bomber crew and became a rare documented instance of resistance from within the Nazi war machine. This story stands as a powerful reminder that resistance during World War II took many forms, not just on battlefields, but in factories, workshops, and even inside the very weapons meant to kill. The Czech note, hidden in steel, was a message of humanity and hope in a time of overwhelming darkness.
September 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
Corruption, corruption, corruption. It's the only way they can win.
And the way they plan to win in 2026.
Extract from https://dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/forensic-copies-of-voting-software?r=51iaxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true Extract from https://dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/forensic-copies-of-voting-software?r=51iaxg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
July 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
HCR’s Letter From An American:
Simon Rosenberg of Hopium Chronicles noted that Trump is “turning the world’s powerful military away from its focus on Russia and China toward a new enemy—the American people themselves.”
tinyurl.com/y6bypa58
Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter From An American – dated June 10, 2025: Simon Rosenberg of Hopium Chronicles noted that Trump is “turning the world’s powerful military away from its focus on Russia and China toward a new enemy—the American people themselves.” He mused: “I’ve been saying that I felt Trump’s dramatic escalation in recent days was driven in part by Musk’s emasculation of him last week. I also wonder whether it’s being driven by Zelensky’s profound humiliation of Putin, and Putin lashing out at Trump for not delivering Ukraine to him.”
June 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
Do you think the crowd and military will all be doing Musk's 'roman salute' as they parade past Felon47 on his birthday - a la Nuremberg rally? 🤔
May 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
"Once you give up the idea that we are all equal before the law & have the right to due process, you have given up the whole game... At that point, all you can do is to hope that the dictator and his henchmen overlook you."
HCR’s Letters from an American, April 13, 2025 tinyurl.com/3e6hypj9
Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American, April 13, 2025: “Once you give up the idea that we are all equal before the law and have the right to due process, you have given up the whole game. You have admitted the principle that some people have more rights than others. Once you have replaced the principle of equality before the law with the idea that some people have no rights, you have granted your approval to the idea of an authoritarian government. At that point, all you can do is to hope that the dictator and his henchmen overlook you.”
April 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
"It’s common for people with narcissistic personality disorder to hurt others... because the person with the diagnosis doesn’t have the capacity for empathy or compassion for those around them."
"reactive and sensitive to real or perceived criticism or defeat"

Sound familiar?
tinyurl.com/yck47dhx
The most common signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder include: grandiosity or exaggeration preoccupation with fantasies of great love, power, or success a sense of entitlement a need for excessive admiration from others beliefs of being “special” and needing to only associate with other high-status people exploitation of others a lack of empathy envy of others arrogant behaviors or attitudes an overestimation of achievements and abilities “They can be very vulnerable, as their self-esteem is extremely low and will be reactive and sensitive to real or perceived criticism or defeat,” adds Bawnik. Folks with NPD are often very charming and engaging, too. They want you in their world, so you can make them feel good about themselves. It’s common for people with NPD to hurt others. This is because the person with the diagnosis doesn’t have the capacity for empathy or compassion for those around them. Potential causes Research from 2021 suggests that causes of NPD are multifaceted, including: genetic predisposition aggressive traits negative developmental experiences, such as trauma or abuse being rejected as a child having a fragile or hurt ego during childhood excessive praise from caregivers
April 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
⚠️🚨...on April 20, 2025, a major inflection point will arrive in the United States. That date marks the end of the 90-day review period President Trump established ... to determine whether invoking the Insurrection Act ... is necessary for border security and mass deportations​. tinyurl.com/54wncptm
The Countdown to April 20, 2025 In 65 days, on April 20, 2025, a major inflection point will arrive in the United States. That date marks the end of the 90-day review period President Trump established through Proclamation 10886 (January 20, 2025), directing the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to determine whether invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 is necessary for border security and mass deportations​.
April 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
Senator Chris Murphy on #TrumpTariffTax : “a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.” HCR's Letters From An American, April 3, 2025 tinyurl.com/a7wahtrs
Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from an American, April 3, 2025: The Trump administration is also undermining post–World War II democracy at home. Last night, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) identified Trump’s tariffs as “a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.” Murphy pointed to Trump’s shakedown of prominent law firms, four of which he has attacked with executive orders. He also pointed to Trump’s attacks on universities, withholding government funding until their administrators bow to MAGA’s ideological demands.
April 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
"His behaviour is no different from a mob boss moving into town and sending his thugs to every business on Main Street, roughing up the proprietors and asking for protection money so they don’t get pushed out of business.” HCR's Letters From An American, April 3, 2025 tinyurl.com/a7wahtrs
Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American, April 3, 2025: Editor of The American Prospect David Dayen… writes that Trump’s tariffs are essentially sanctions on the rest of the world. His behavior is, Dayen says, “no different from a mob boss moving into town and sending his thugs to every business on Main Street, roughing up the proprietors and asking for protection money so they don’t get pushed out of business.” Dayen notes that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued last year for using the extraordinary power of the U.S. economy to force other countries to do as the U.S. wants, creating a U.S. sphere of influence through economic pressure. Extending the comparison to a mob boss, Dayen notes that “protection money” could take many forms: “curbing migration, taking in more U.S. farm exports or weapons systems, reducing industrial capacity in China and forcing more consumption, buying long-dated U.S. debt on the cheap, siding with a war strategy against Iran, literally anything the White House wants.”
April 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
JPMorgan tonight said that they “view the full implementation of these policies as a substantial macro economic shock not currently incorporated in our forecasts” and that “these policies, if sustained, would likely push the US and global economy into recession this year.” tinyurl.com/bdey6385
Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American, 2 April 2025: “Trump claims he is imposing “reciprocal tariffs” and says they are about half of what other countries levy on U.S. goods. In fact, the numbers he is using for his claim that other countries are imposing high tariffs on U.S. goods are bonkers. Economist Paul Krugman points out that the European Union places tariffs of less than 3% on average on U.S. goods, while Trump maintained its tariffs are 39%. “Krugman said he had no idea where that number had come from, but financial journalist James Surowiecki figured out that the White House “just took our trade deficit with [each] country and divided it by the country’s exports to us.” He called it “extraordinary nonsense.” Washington Post economic writer Catherine Rampell posted that she was reluctant to amplify Surowiecki’s theory that the tariff rates were based on such a “dumb calculation,” but then the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative confirmed it.” Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American, 2 April 2025: Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) noted tonight that the tariffs make no economic sense because “[t]hey aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.” Murphy suggests they are a way to make private industry dependent on the president the same way he has tried to make law firms and universities dependent on him. Industries and companies “will need to pledge loyalty to Trump in order to get sanctions relief.” Murphy warns that “[t]he tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship…[s]o that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry. As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.”
April 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
Since I no longer post on the bad site, I thought I would start migrating some predictions I made on there before last Nov's election. Might make for some interesting reading... or not! 😉
Old tweets from 19 July 2024: Another 4+ years of Trump is an existential threat to the world, not just the US : US leaves NATO, stops support to Ukraine Russia beats Ukraine, moves onto rest of EU incl. NATO nations – (nuclear?) war commences... China invades Taiwan, 90% of chip industry collapses – electronics supply chains collapses, no new cars, phones, industrial machinery, computers, etc. US economic policy / tax cuts to wealthy cause massive US inflation. Old tweets from 19 July 2024: US climate change legislation scrapped causing acceleration of climate effects, small nations devastated/destroyed by extreme weather, large nations suffer severe weather events/fires/flooding/hurricanes, etc., millions die. Due to all the above US economy collapses / world economies collapse – billions suffer.
April 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
Arizona senator Mark Kelly: “it’s important we stand with Ukraine.”
Musk: “You are a traitor.”
Mark Kelly: “Elon, if you don’t understand that defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great & keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those of us who do.”
tinyurl.com/352u2euy
Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American dated March 11, 2025: “Musk lashed out at Arizona senator Mark Kelly on social media yesterday, after Kelly posted pictures of his recent trip to Ukraine and discussed the history of Russia’s invasion, concluding “it’s important we stand with Ukraine.” Musk responded: “You are a traitor.” “Kelly, who was in the Navy for 25 years and flew 39 combat missions in the Gulf War before becoming an astronaut, responded: “Traitor? Elon, if you don’t understand that defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those of us who do.”
March 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
“…the Trump administration has arrested and detained a legal resident for expressing an opinion that Trump officials don’t like... Once the principle is established ... officials will use it to silence opposition broadly."
HCR’s Letters From An American, March 10, 2025
tinyurl.com/36djbvr4
Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American dated March 10, 2025: “…the Trump administration has arrested and detained a legal resident for expressing an opinion that Trump officials don’t like, likely using Khalil to launch this extraordinary attack on the First Amendment because they don’t expect Americans to care deeply about his fate. Once the principle is established that the government can arrest and jail protesters, though, officials will use it to silence opposition broadly. “This is the first arrest of many to come,” Trump posted just after noon. “We know there are more students at Columbia who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it.” “Representative Greg Casar (D-TX) posted: “This is illegal, and it endangers the rights of all Americans. In this country, people must be free to express their views—left or right, popular or unpopular—without being detained or punished by the government.”
March 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
“Nobody voted for Elon Musk,” protestors chanted at a Tesla dealership in Manhattan [Saturday] in one of the many protests at the dealerships associated with Musk’s cars. “Oligarchs out, democracy in.”
HCR’s Letters From An American, March 9, 2025
tinyurl.com/yuy8dxbs
Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American dated March 9, 2025: And, once again, Americans are protesting the idea that the role of government is not to protect equality and democracy, but rather to concentrate wealth and power at the top of society. Americans are turning out to demand Republican representatives stop the cuts to the government and, when those representatives refuse to hold town halls, are turning out by the thousands to talk to Democratic representatives. Thousands of researchers and their supporters turned out across the country in more than 150 Stand Up for Science protests on Friday. On Saturday, International Women’s Day, 300 demonstrations were organized around the country to protest different administration policies. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is drawing crowds across the country with the "Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here” tour, on which he has been joined by Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers. “Nobody voted for Elon Musk,” protestors chanted at a Tesla dealership in Manhattan yesterday in one of the many protests at the dealerships associated with Musk’s cars. “Oligarchs out, democracy in.”
March 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
HCR's Letters From An American, "Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told a reporter: “The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely aligns with our vision”." Felon47 and the #MuskRegime have surrendered to Putin. tinyurl.com/2zvhn7sh
Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American, dated 2nd March 2025, “During the 2024 campaign, Trump said repeatedly that he would end the war in Ukraine. Shortly after the election, a newspaper reporter asked Nikolai Patrushev, who is close to Putin, if Trump’s election would mean “positive changes from Russia’s point of view.” Patrushev answered: “To achieve success in the elections, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. And as a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them.” “Today, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told a reporter: “The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely aligns with our vision”.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
HCR’s Letters From An American 25 Feb 2025: “24% of Americans get their healthcare from Medicaid, while the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services say that two thirds of nursing home patients receive Medicaid. Cuts would devastate American families.” tinyurl.com/m666se7w
Quoted Text from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American, dated 25 February 2025: “Shauneen Miranda of the New Jersey Monitor reported the statement of Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) today that 24% of Americans get their healthcare from Medicaid, while the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services say that two thirds of nursing home patients receive Medicaid. Cuts would devastate American families. “For what, because Elon Musk needs another billion dollars?” Murphy asked. “The scope of this greed is something that we have never, ever seen before in this country, and we should not accept it as normal in the United States of America”.”
February 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
HCR’s Letters From An American 25 Feb 2025: “a system that's designed to enrich a clique of elites to take public assets and put them in private pockets while talking about standing up for conservative values” … “a massive transfer of public assets to an oligarch class.” tinyurl.com/m666se7w
Quoted Text from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American, dated 25 February 2025: “In an interview with NPR, the U.S. ambassador to Hungary under President Joe Biden, David Pressman, explained that Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán turned Hungary’s democracy into “a system that's designed to enrich a clique of elites to take public assets and put them in private pockets while talking about standing up for conservative values” in what became “a massive transfer of public assets to an oligarch class.” Trump and MAGAs see Orbán as a model, and it is notable that today the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the agency that manages civilian aviation and that Trump and DOGE gutted, announced it has agreed to use Musk’s Starlink internet system for its information technology networks.”
February 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
HCR’s Letters From An American 25 Feb 2025: “two of Musk’s DOGE employees, Luke Farritor [23] & Gavin Kliger [25], used their access to payment systems to override explicit orders from Secretary of State Marco Rubio & shut off funding to [USAID].” tinyurl.com/m666se7w
Quoted Text from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American, dated 25 February 2025: “Today, once again, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to say who was in charge of DOGE, a day after Matt Bai reported in the Washington Post that two of Musk’s DOGE employees, Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger, used their access to payment systems to override explicit orders from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and shut off funding to the United States Agency for International Development. Bai reports that Farritor is 23-year-old dropout from the University of Nebraska who interned at SpaceX; Kliger, 25, spreads conspiracy theories about the “deep state,” attended Berkeley, and is now installed at the Treasury Department.”
February 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
HCR’s Letters From An American 25 Feb 2025: "If [TRUMP] actually enacted the other tax cuts he promised on the campaign trail—including on tips, overtime, and Social Security payments—that [ADDITIONAL] deficit jumps closer to $11 trillion." That's $11,000,000,000,000 MORE DEBT. tinyurl.com/m666se7w
Quoted Text from Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters From An American, dated 25 February 2025: “Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s top priority is extending his 2017 tax cuts for the next ten years, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates would add $4.6 trillion to the deficit. If he actually enacted the other tax cuts he promised on the campaign trail—including on tips, overtime, and Social Security payments—that deficit jumps closer to $11 trillion. During the campaign, he insisted that the tariffs he promised to levy would make foreign countries make up the money lost by the tax cuts. In addition to being wildly wishful thinking, Trump’s claim ignores the fact that tariffs are actually paid by U.S. consumers.”
February 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
Lincoln: “the same old serpent... says you work & I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it... from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country... it is all the same old serpent.” HCR's Letters From An American 11 Feb 2025 tinyurl.com/269zpxs5
Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson's Letters From An American dated 11 February 2025: "The idea of a small government that serves the needs of a few wealthy people, [President Abraham] Lincoln warned in his era, is “the same old serpent that says you work and I eat, you toil and I will enjoy the fruits of it. Turn in whatever way you will—whether it come from the mouth of a King, an excuse for enslaving the people of his country, or from the mouth of men of one race as a reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the same old serpent”."
February 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
"Musk and Trump appear to be concentrating the extraordinary wealth of the American people, along with the power that wealth brings, into their own hands, for their own ends." Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. (HCR's Letters from an American dated Feb 9, 2025 tinyurl.com/mw6p645e )
Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson's Letters From An American dated Feb 9, 2025. "Musk and Trump appear to be concentrating the extraordinary wealth of the American people, along with the power that wealth brings, into their own hands, for their own ends. Trump has championed further tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, while Musk seems to want to make sure his companies, especially SpaceX, win as many government contracts as possible to fund his plan to colonize Mars." Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson's Letters From An American dated Feb 9, 2025. "The mission of the United States of America is stated in the Constitution. It is a government designed by “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” Far from being designed to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a single man, it was formed to do the opposite: spread wealth and power throughout the country’s citizenry and enable them to protect their rights by voting for those who would represent them in Congress and the presidency, then holding them accountable at the ballot box."
February 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
“The point of all this is to destroy U.S. power in the world,” [Senator Chris] Murphy wrote. “That primarily helps China... the place where all of Trump’s billionaires make their products & want deals to open markets. Think there’s a connection?” 🤔 - Letters From An American: tinyurl.com/4pdfmj9w
Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson's Letters From An American: "On Friday the Trump administration froze all foreign aid appropriated by Congress. “We get tired of giving massive amounts of money to countries that hate us, don't we?" Trump said on Monday, but the truth is that American soft power has been crucial in maintaining U.S. global influence since World War II. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) called it “dumb and murderous,” adding: “Tons of kids are just going to die needlessly” as U.S.-funded food supplies for famine-stricken Sudan stop. “The terrorists will benefit” as U.S. money for prisons holding ISIS members dries up. “The point of all this is to destroy U.S. power in the world,” Murphy wrote. “That primarily helps China, who is INCREASING its aid programs as we disappear. China—the place where all of Trump’s billionaires make their products and want deals to open markets. Think there’s a connection?”
January 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
Felon47's enablers firing more than a dozen lawyers who worked on the criminal prosecutions of the now-president is apparently, "in a masterpiece of gaslighting...", "consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government." 😮 - from HCR's Letters From An American: shorturl.at/H6CqM
Quote from Heather Cox Richardson's Letters From An American dated 28 January 2025: "Last night, legal commentator Joyce White Vance detailed the Trump administration’s attacks on the independence of the Department of Justice. On Monday, Trump’s acting attorney general fired more than a dozen lawyers who worked on the criminal prosecutions of now-president Trump, after reassigning many more. In a statement, an official for the department said that the acting attorney general “does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.” In a masterpiece of gaslighting, the statement added: “This action is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government.” "Vance points out that “[a]n administration can’t fire career federal prosecutors based on their perceived political loyalties.” She continues: “The real witch hunt is here. And it’s a warning to all other federal employees to mind their loyalty if they want to keep their jobs. That’s the point. Trump knows he can’t lawfully fire these people in this manner. He wants to make the point that he’s willing to do it, in hopes others will stay in line” ."
January 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
topcat-hq.bsky.social
Well, he's just pardoned 1,500 'enforcers'. Watch this space. (Letters From An American 22nd Jan 2025) tinyurl.com/yvv3kuu9
Quoted text from Heather Cox Richardson's Letters From An American dated 22nd Jan 2025: "This morning, Meryl Kornfield and Patrick Svitek of the Washington Post, with the help of researcher Alec Dent, reported on Trump’s first meeting with House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate majority leader John Thune (R-SD). Trump frequently repeated, “promises made, promises kept,” but offered no guidance for how he foresees getting his agenda through Congress, where the Republicans have tiny margins. Both Johnson and Thune pointed out that it will be difficult to get majorities behind some of his plans. "According to Kornfield and Svitek, Trump stressed “that he doesn’t care how his agenda becomes law, just that it must.” "
January 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM