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Cat Howell 🦋💫

@cat1957.bsky.social
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Born again writer, organic hypnosis practitioner, data nerd, fact finder, avid reader 📚🦋💫 #writer #books #shortfiction #mysterywriting #writingcommunity #writing #poetrycommunity #poetry #storyteller #writesky #achypnotherapy #organicunconsciousprocessing

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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Story prompt from @authorspublish #writingprompt #storyprompt #6wordstory ‘The dark shadow creeps ever closer’
Shadow of a man on stone steps
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
There were 19 hijackers: 15 were Saudi Arabian, 2 were from the United Arab Emirates, 1 was Egyptian, and 1 was Lebanese. #nine~eleven #WorldTradeCenterAttacks
"25 years ago today America was attacked by zero Afghans, zero Iranians and
zero lraqis." On a photo of of New York with the World trade Centre on fire after the attacks.
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Rome is saved! He’s not the messiah! I’m a naughty boy 🤣
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A poem ~ The Seeds of the Soul
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
😂🤣😂
joe heenan @joeheenan
During lockdown I wrote a script & sent it to various people.
I have just received this email from someone at Netflix.
Never give up on your dreams


Script Inbox:

Dear Mr Heenan,
Thank you for the script, it's one of the best we have ever read.
The writing is superb, it's tense, funny & non stop action.
The only problem is it's the script to Die Hard.
You literally sent us the script to Die Hard & changed the title to
Mr No Shoes and the Shooty Shooty Bang Bang
Christmas.
Never contact us again
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
#WritingPrompt Say it without saying it. The Metaphorical/The Senses/The Confession or The Evasion ~ using nuance and imagery rather than direct statements "It is freezing”
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
If you're a #writer, write "I lied." Without writing, "I lied." *The truth could not have been further from my lips
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow [Muslim] citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.” --George W. Bush, six days after 9/11
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
#rss365 #Fleeting As it crashes The sand is awash The water and foam they are fleeting Repeat repeat wave after wave Forever
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Forgiveness #forgiveness #CatHowell
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
3 WIPSnips from the first Clearwater Haven Mystery ~ ‘Lara’s Return’ (a working title)
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
So. Much. Winning. 🙄 #trumptariffs #trumpeconomy #trumptaxes #corporateamerica #fdjt
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Knock Knock Who’s there? Hike Hike who? Unsuspecting son. Dad waiting with bated breath. Sets the perfect trap. 💥😆
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
UKs bases in other countries around the world make those countries sitting targets. Please keep the people in Greek Cyprus where the bases are safe☮️✌️
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Keir Starmer when you were running for Labour leader you promised to introduce this legislation to stop the UK being dragged into illegal wars - it's time to show you were serious about that.
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Time to move from files to trials #TrumpEpsteinFiles
A former Deutsche Bank compliance officer told the FBI she was fired in 2018 after flagging suspicious activity in accounts linked to Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner, offering yet another example of how they operated above the law.
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
There’s about 14.6 terabytes of archived data still to process. Massive compared to the latest release of files. If that’s the amount of data they have on Epstein, but have only released 300GB, that means just two per cent of the actual Epstein data has been released. #ReleaseTheFiles #Epstein
open.substack.com
Epstein files: transparent, incompetent or a cover-up?
Despite the Trump administration’s claims, the Epstein scandal is not over because victims have not received justice and most of the files have not been released, writes Kiran Moodley.
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Good question…..
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The United States opposes any efforts to incorporate European preference in the EU Defense Procurement Directive. 😆😆😆😆 He just doesn’t get it 🤷‍♀️
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
How to retouch a wannabe dictators portrait…
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Some #writers humour to cheer you day #GrammerJokes
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Woopsie😳 Hypocrite of the first degree. #TrumpEpsteinFiles #Epstein
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
#ReleaseAllTheFiles Vance seems to have gone awful quiet lately…Massie doesn’t want him to get away with it👍
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A growing wave of business leaders has had their careers derailed after the recent release of millions of files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. #ReleaseAllTheFiles #EpsteinTransparency
cnn.com
‘This is not over.’ Corporate America’s Epstein reckoning gathers steam | CNN Business
A growing wave of business leaders has had their careers derailed after the recent release of millions of files linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
#epsteincoverup #epsteinsurvivorsjustice
"Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs."
Rep. Ro Khanna
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
February 17, 2026
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 17, 2026
Trump’s White House website welcomes visitors with a pop-up that reads: “WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE!” But on this heavy news day a year into Trump’s second term, it is increasingly clear that as his re...
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
#booksky #writersky #authorsky #amwriting #writingcommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...
inventingrealityediting.com
Ready Your Story for Submission to Publisher
When submitting a story to a magazine or a book publisher, your manuscript should appear in a specific format. Following this format is important for a number of reasons. First, the format makes re…
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“As the airplane took off, Epstein started touching me forcibly in between my legs, and I freaked out. I realized, this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped. They whisked me away to the island. I was stuck there. They never arranged any modeling opportunities, I was completely conned."
aol.com
Epstein survivor tells CBS News how she was trafficked, and assaulted
Juliette Bryant says not long after meeting Jeffrey Epstein, he assaulted her, and she realized, "this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped."
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Rufe quoted from 1984 about rewriting history “As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto 'Ignorance is Strength,' this Court is asked to determine whether the federal government has the power to dissemble + disassemble historical truths. It does not.”
newsweek.com
Judge issues scathing slavery order against Trump admin
The U.S. District Judge Cythina Rufe invoked George Orwell’s 1984 as she called for the restoration of a slavery-related exhibit.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico. Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
youtu.be
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Guys I found the best Epstein Files email. The one that illuminates an elite class that's cocooned themselves into an unaccountable shell of wealth and privilege, fighting to protect their secrets and offenses. I could write a novel about this email. prospect.org/2026/02/17/e...
prospect.org
The Quintessential Epstein Files Email - The American Prospect
Jeffrey Epstein and his friends standing up for Mary Jo White against Elizabeth Warren tells you everything about the class war at the heart of the files.
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
BREAKING: New Mexico lawmakers have unanimously approved a full investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch This $2.5M bipartisan “truth commission” with subpoena power will hear survivor testimony, identify who knew, and examine potential political ties. #Epsteinfiles #justiceforvictims
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
#votebymail
NEW RULE:
If it's SAFE to mail tax refunds, social security checks, stimulus checks, draft registrations, prescription drugs, passports, your driver's license or the actual ID you'd USE TO VOTE... then it's safe to vote by mail.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I finally started to upload all of my “Echoes of the Unknown” podcast episodes to YouTube. I have 53 episodes to date, and YouTube can add three per day. As a result, I should be caught up in about two weeks! 😃 I think my pod is now available on ALL podcast platforms! 🎧 youtube.com/@echoesofthe...
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Illegal alien voting since 1982 is 99 electionfraud.heritage.org/search? 99 😳 this is #Heritage.org own website. The Save Act is not about illegal aliens it’s about restricting voters rights. #notovoterid
Search for ineligible alien voting on the Heritage site showing 99 in the period since 1982
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
FCC & CBS force Stephen Colbert to not air an interview with James Talarico. Instead, Stephen Colbert’s sit-down with the Texas State Representative currently running for Senate was posted to the late-night program’s YouTube page—the URL for which Colbert was not allowed to share on-air.
latenighter.com
Colbert Says CBS Pulled Guest Amid FCC Scrutiny, Posts Interview on YouTube Instead
Stephen Colbert explained on Monday night’s Late Show that CBS lawyers told him “in no uncertain terms” that he could not have James Talarico, a Democratic Texas state representative currently running...
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. The stock market is not the economy…
Poor person sleeping on a bench with Newspapers to keep warm that read “corporate profits soar” and “stock market surges to record high”
Cartoon reads “CORPORATE PROFITS SOAR
STOCK MARKET SURGES TO RECORD HIGH
WE NEED TO STOP
MEASURING "THE ECONOMY"
BY HOW WELL
RICH PEOPLE ARE DOING.”
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
How’s you #401Ks y’all
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
#PrettiGOOD PRETTI GOOD
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Touché #notovoterid
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!) This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937
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Estel Cooper @estel62.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
#RebeccaSolnit - a writer and public intellectual and activist who has been involved in environmental and human rights issues for more than three decades. #thebeginningcomesaftertheend bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Notes on a World of Change
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
“Focus on culture and the power of ideas, on ordinary people, grassroots movements, & the power of civil society when individuals come together, that gives you a very different view of what power is and how it shapes history ~ look at those sectors, you see something building, and you see momentum”
meditationsinanemergency.com
Auspicious Omens and Excellent Insubordination
I started this out as a letter to a friend who's feeling down about where we as a nation are at in this moment, and I am still learning how this newsletter thing works so thought I could use the newsl...
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The Trump administration is using the fact that Alex Pretti had a gun (legally with a permit to carry in Minnesota) as a justification for his killing, even though the traditional conservative movement’s position is that the Second Amendment exists as a safeguard against tyranny. #hypocrisy #irony
vox.com
So what if Alex Pretti had a gun?
The unbearable hypocrisy of pro-gun conservatives defending the Minneapolis killing.
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
#murderonthestreets #Minnesota
Texas 2.1 MILLION
UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS.
Florida 1.6 MILLION
UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS
Minnesota 130,000
UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS

IT'S NOT ABOUT UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS
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Cat Howell 🦋💫 @cat1957.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
DHS says there is body-worn camera video from #fatalshooting of #AlexPretti Independent review board is needed for both killings
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