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Catherine Dill

@catherinedill.bsky.social
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Formerly known as atomic_pickles, but still thinking about atomic pickles. Fancies: gardens, birds, mountains & rocks, satellites, Delftware, N95s. She/her. Only personal views reflected.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 03/09/2026
female bald eagles are bigger and beefier than males, so Freedom the Eagle should really sell with an enormously muscular wife
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 01/09/2026
"I've seen some reaction implying that this is a "return" to 9/11 politics," writes @attackerman.bsky.social "All I would say is that over the past 25 years, these politics have never disappeared—they’ve only gone into occasional abeyance."
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It's Always 9/11 Somewhere
A desperate ruling class returns to 9/11 politics as its hold on power slips. This is a clue as to the function of Islamophobia in the United States
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Catherine Dill @catherinedill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you parked a mobile guillotine on east capitol, it just got towed.
Black truck with some sort of guillotine in the bed. Black truck with some sort of guillotine in the bed being towed towards us capitol building. Black truck with some sort of guillotine in the bed being towed by us capitol.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I love tech companies undermining every aspect of our ability to have a shared reality! Yay!
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This whole essay is fantastic and if you're a liberal Jew living in the year 2026 it will make you feel less insane, this paragraph in particular jewishcurrents.org/the-shame-of...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is a far bigger threat to the Jewish people in the long run than anything Zohran Mamdani could ever say or do. www.972mag.com/israeli-sett...
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What an Israeli settler pogrom feels like
For the first time in my life, I found myself completely helpless. My car was engulfed in flames, but all that mattered to me was my family's survival.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 07/07/2026
Folks, we got em. Thanks @catherinedill.bsky.social for the lead and possibly saving this precious babies life!!! 🪶
A killfawn chirping in grass, unfortunately the only one of the brood. Catherine saved one nearby from certain death several days ago, unsure if it was this one
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"and another thing: i haven't lost the Mandate of Heaven. please don't put in the newspaper that i lost the Mandate of Heaven."
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 04/07/2026
Looking back on 250 years of the history of the republic, and I would say it is not entirely good or bad. It is both,
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Hey folks we don’t need AC we are in a new zone
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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This is California. It’s home to 11.8% of Americans, has the fourth largest GDP in the world, is global hub for culture and technology, and is one of the most reliably blue states in the country. The only problem is that every Democrat they elect is the Antichrist.
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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Hmmm…wonder why wildfire season might so be bad…as the agency’s own website says, the size and number of wildfires on DOI land has increased significantly since 1992. (1/x)
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 25/04/2026
Wow this is incredible how come more people don't know about this??? 🪶 🐣
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
invoke the 25th and start impeachment anyway
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 07/04/2026
This is going around from a planespotter in UK ~40 minutes ago. Just to pre-bunk some things: - The cruise missiles on the pylons are JASSMs (conventional-only), not AGM-86 (nuclear-only). - AGM-86 is a good deal longer (thus not two rows in line), and different livery <more>
B-52 directly above the photographer with 12 visible cruise missiles on the pylons.
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Catherine Dill @catherinedill.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I don’t have anything profound to add the discourse, but I am begging this country to take the loss today to prevent greater strategic defeat and, most importantly, preserve life tomorrow. There is simply no justification for this president to remain in office and for this war to continue.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We cannot allow him to wipe out a civilization. And I also worry that if he opts for devastating air strikes that don't involve nuclear weapons, it will somehow be reported as "cooler heads prevailing". No, that's unacceptable. It's all unacceptable and he has to be removed from having these powers.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Home.
Earthset from the moon.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 07/04/2026
So - I ask that more people get smart on these weapons and understand how even a single-kiloton nuclear strike would usher in a tremendous strategic defeat for a generation of Americans; or at least, greatly raise the likelihood of mass atrocity in years ahead. Knowledge as a form of accountability.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This war may end up the most devastating thing that happens to the US and the world in the 21st century (or, maybe TACO Tuesday, though I doubt it). It's definitely a moment for people in institutions to do something. For us, is it time to panic? I'd love to hear theories of why not. 14/14
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
this is where I’m at in my analysis & study. This is not normal (or constitutional). We are in mortal danger Trump has already caused incredible suffering & death & destruction. Every day risks he will do much worse. Trump must resign or be impeached & removed. He cannot be left in power.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Catherine Dill @catherinedill.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Chag sameach, the only way to leave the narrow place is together, all of us. May we all pass through to safety and wholeness.
An overhead picture of a Seder plate and related items. Surrounding the Seder plate from right to left are a small glass of water, an empty glass, daffodils, salt water, two lit candles, wine, matzah, a Haggadah, and empty white plate. The Seder plate itself has a roasted beet at the center, surrounded by horseradish, parsley, charoset, and egg, an orange, tomatoes, green olives, and a small silver spoon.
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Catherine Dill @catherinedill.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Blessed to have seen rule #1 plastered against the side of a building today!
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Catherine Dill @catherinedill.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I had somehow forgotten about this!
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Oh no there are going to be so many German tourists in r/roadtrip asking about a day trip to Death Valley in the middle of summer because of this
Screenshot from the very good torched showing the promotional material about the superbloom, clearly in a desert because, as Alissa has written, “The photo LA28 has chosen to illustrate "LA in full bloom" is indeed a well-known superbloom-viewing spot. It's so famous I knew exactly where it was: Henderson Canyon, located in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, in San Diego County.“
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
On Trump's "nuclear dust."
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Yeah it’s probably best nobody does this
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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
dying laughing at the strava data for the guy running laps on the french carrier
it’s a guy running circles on an aircraft carrier that’s in motion
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
war bad (we should do less)
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Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I keep seeing this framing like Bremmer's. It is wrong. Instead: 1. Iran was developing an ICBM when Khamenei imposed a 2,000-km range limit. 3. The programs shifted to space launch. 4. Khamenei lifted the restriction in October 2025 after the June attacks. 5. Now he's dead, and here we are.
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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.
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Tobita Chow @tobitac.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
She could have been any one of us.
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is exactly the energy we need from elected leaders right now. No equivocation, no bullshit. Get the fuck out.
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Catherine Dill @catherinedill.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
But to be clear even if the administration had secured a narrow congressional authorization this broadly destabilizing military action would still be imprudent, amoral, and unacceptable to me.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.
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A Criminal Empire
The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream
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Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Invading Venezuela is a small price to pay to maintain an oligarchy that pretends to be a democracy (and if the price indeed ends up being small, then it will be the first of many invasions) www.un-diplomatic.com/p/evil-peopl...
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Evil People in An Evil System Doing Evil Shit
Venezuela is the price of oligarchy (and not the last)
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Don't you usually have to traditionally...defeat and occupy a country before you announce that you're occupying that country?
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Nor is this even limited to heads of state. In theory, we could legally take down a nation's entire air defense network in order to serve a federal warrant against a two-bit drug courier or bad check writer in their territory
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
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