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@artcat1.bsky.social
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Retired editor/copyeditor. Fiber artist. Cat guardian. Book advocate. Fan of the Constitution. Tao-ish w/ a side of Druid. She/her (trying to keep up but I'm old, so appreciate a little grace). Aspiration: Ornamental hermit. Education Is Everything.

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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
metals and DC is notoriously humid. But I'm sure the felon has, as is his practice, hired "only the best people" and that they will ensure the safety and integrity of the original bronze. Of course they will.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is not my area of expertise, but I wondered if it was safe to put gold over bronze and learned there is something called "galvanic corrosion." This happens when incompatible metals are placed in contact with each in an atmosphere of humidity. Gold and bronze are incompatible
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If only Patroclus had had a ballroom instead of borrowed armor the history of western civilization might have been completely different.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This is wildly incorrect. It is not "one man run amok." It is one man run amok and the hundreds empowered by the Constitution to check him not doing their job.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
No. When Vance ascends from the vice presidency, he will nominate a VP, Congress will approve that person (or someone depending on how obstreperous the process becomes), and then that person is second to the presidency -- like always.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
There is a rise in Marines filing for conscientious objector status in response to Middle East deployments. MARINES. staging.democracynow.org/2026/3/23/pr...
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From Gaza to Iran, Rise of Conscientious Objectors Marks U.S. Soldiers’ “Shift in Consciousness”
With thousands more U.S. Marines headed to the Middle East and President Trump reportedly considering a ground invasion of Iran, we speak with Mike Prysner, executive director of the Center on Conscie...
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
It's a lovely building. The felon will probably demolish that next.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Check/confirm your voting registration here: www.usa.gov/confirm-vote...
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How to confirm your voter registration status | USAGov
Find out how to check your voter registration. Make sure you are still registered to vote and your name, address, and political party affiliation are correct.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
It's hard to give credence to this as it's coming from a man who fled to a country with an actual king at the first moment he could. Hypocrite.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"Trump" and "thought" in essentially the same sentence is something like a contradiction of terms.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
These were my mother's favorite birds. I saw my first robins of the season yesterday. I'm in upstate NY, our late winter was brutal.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Maybe getting a passport should be free? My name is misspelled on my birth certificate. This could be fun. /s
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
He sounds like a spoiled child regardless of the topic.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I didn't realize the Benedict Cumberbatch is, in real life, a code breaking genius and therefore a suitable illustration of the larger point.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I agree he would be a very effective president, but I would like to see Chris Murphy have a career in government longer than 8 years. Maybe not as long as Feinstein, Schumer, Byrd, McConnell or any number of our "eldest statesmen" but longer than 8 years.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I wasn't aware that Maria Corina Machado was a bowler.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
We do nothing but talk about it.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
He was no better when he was younger.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I think we know what that's code for. Get out your ground-penetrating radar and get busy.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
ONE person is not plural "minions."
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
And the rage forgiven, self-forgiven, over and over. And then life goes on.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
And Buchanan.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
He has people who handle all that petty stuff for him. /s
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Not his type. Among other things, too old.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
His ghost writer is up late.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It's the whole job. The WHOLE JOB.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Not much of a vocabulary from this one.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It took them long enough. No credit -- or humor -- in that.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Ummm, Stephen? fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-fin...
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Fiscal Data Explains the National Debt
Check out @FiscalService Fiscal Data’s new national debt page! #NationalDebt
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Oedipus needs a moment.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
They want to be where everybody knows their names.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
What I've read about her makes me disagree that this is abstraction. Her training was scientific illustration (botany) and I believe that her paintings are a kind of realism similar in intention to Aboriginal dreamtime paintings.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
There will be midterm elections. Please stop propagandizing otherwise.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Nevertheless, "God" has a lot to answer for.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I hope the Democratic governors are working on a cohesive plan to hold in escrow the tax monies that usually go to the Feds.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Said by a guy who spends most of his time sitting in a trailer waiting to film the 30 seconds he's on call for that day. The grotesquery of his tone-deafness is downright trumpian.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
And what do you predict Israel will do in this scenario?
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
One difference is that today's "leadership" is thrilled to kill anything that that moves as fast and as spectacularly as possible. Previous administrations had (or pretended to have) some compunction about that.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Michelle Obama.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
countries in Europe (including the UK) and Africa, Russia, and various territories held by countries in the Eastern Hemisphere (including Denmark). 2/end
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This is the kind of assholic thing that we must take seriously when the felon says it. He may think the "Western Hemisphere" is North, South, and Central America but surely someone in his "administration" knows it is comprised of 1/2
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
She's not gone. She's being put in charge of the soon-to-be-announced terror campaign in the Western Hemisphere.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The felon wants to play king? Both of King Charles's sons served. Yes, draft Baron.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
He gets off on causing hurt, harm, and death. It makes him feel powerful; he confuses fear or dread of him with love for him.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Feel the burn.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The draft EO being circulated includes requiring EVERYONE to re-register to vote. (per Aaron Parnes's reporting 2/27/26)
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The survivors already have more answers than you will get from the Clintons. You could just ask them. Publicly. Under oath.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
If a "generation" is 20-30 years, 30x4 is only 120 years which pushes the proposed qualification back to c. 1905 at the earliest. There are, I believe, some "immigrant" people who can trace their North American residency/ancestry back to 1619 or so.
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I should check the news before speculating. Reportedly (from Sec Clinton), they came to an agreement and she finished her testimony. Boebert often puts me in mind of the quote from James Thurber: "While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either."
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artcat1.bsky.social @artcat1.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Since Boebert breached the confidentiality, can an argument be made that all subsequent testimony can/must be public?
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