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Cath Mastro

@cathmastro.bsky.social
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Book lover 📚 educator 🏫 Union strong 💪 💙💙💙 Proud granddaughter of Ukrainian Grandma.

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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I note how Christian Nationalists, who think the public execution of Jesus was the most horrific thing humans ever did, are giddy at the prospect of getting to watch a public execution on live streaming—being so “pro-life” and all . . .
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
💥🤣🤣👍
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Appalachian Blue @republicofcascadia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I feel ya 😪
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Cath Mastro @cathmastro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It won't. It's all performative so he can show how "manly" he is. He sure has some unresolved issues around his masculinity.
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
76 years ago today, Snoopy made his first appearance in ‘Peanuts.’
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE violated nearly 100 court orders in 1 month—now DOJ is attacking the MN federal judges who spoke out @ngertner.bsky.social, @rwpusa.bsky.social, Matthew Seligman & I authored a joint op-ed standing up for judicial independence Full op-ed @ContrarianNews.org 👇 -TN
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We Object! DOJ’s Latest Attack on our Heroic Federal Judges
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
One of the Trump family’s businesses is on its way to becoming a bank. And it’s set to be regulated by a government entity whose leader was appointed by, you guessed it, President Donald Trump.
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Why Trump’s crypto business wants to become a bank
Sen. Elizabeth Warren decries the first family’s latest crypto play as a “clear conflict of interest and corruption.”
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Cath Mastro @cathmastro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
True. If you hsve an Aldi's in your area you'll notice the cashiers are seated (they are a German based company)
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Cath Mastro @cathmastro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sounds like a change in working conditions-no wonder the government is trying to break their union.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MAGA’s favorite Democrat has reportedly been secretly fundraising with Republicans.
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Fetterman’s Secret MAGA Cash Grab Exposed in Leaked Message
MAGA’s favorite Democrat, John Fetterman, has been secretly fundraising with Republicans.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is an example of why Donald Trump is just a simple-minded bought-and-paid-for stooge for tech when he talks about AI being self-regulating.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn…
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’
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Cath Mastro @cathmastro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🙄 Fascists say the craziest things.
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Cath Mastro @cathmastro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Heartbreaking. This is what America has become. No wonder we are on the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist
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Cath Mastro @cathmastro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What could possibly go wrong with convicted felons being able to own guns? I would imagine the same thing that went wrong having a convicted felon as President.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When confronted by current bad economic data showing things getting worse, Republicans blame Biden. When confronted with polls showing dissatisfaction, they say the polls are wrong. When confronted with election results of voter revolts, they say the elections are rigged.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 20/09/2026
This thread contains voting & election information for all 50 states and D.C. Links lead to the state's main elections web page and where and/or how to vote. Please take time to ensure you are registered to vote and know how and where you can vote.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This isn’t funny.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2026
Illinois will not look away and stay silent — we must remain vigilant and prepared. What happened here during Operation Midway Blitz cannot simply disappear from the public record.
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ICE Says It Can't Find Its Own Records Of Teargassing And Arresting Broadview Protesters
ICE's own rules require reports every time an agent uses force. But the agency says it can't find any from its attacks on protesters on Sept. 19, 2025.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
Late last month, ICE put 12 Somali men on a plane and told them they were being deported to Somalia, according to interviews with community leaders, friends, and family members who are in touch with the detainees. Instead, they arrived at the notorious US military base in Cuba.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants at Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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John Tomlinson @johntomlinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'Police are routinely searching the Flock database without providing any legitimate justification, making a mockery of our civil liberties by logging reasons like "LOL" (short for “laugh out loud”), "LMAO" (short for "laughing my ass off"), "sexy," and "idk"...' www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke
With no warrant requirements, limited guardrails, and deficient audit processes, ALPR databases have fostered a culture of unrestricted access to everyone’s location information. This culture of abuse...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16/09/2026
The agency implemented a slapdash method of hiring and firing unqualified officers. The results have been deadly. trib.al/YXWo9Gy
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Horrible
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Once exceptionally rare, illegal deportations — in defiance of court orders or due to ICE screw-ups — are now a routine part of President Trump's mass deportation push. It happened 3 times this past week and more at least 30 times in recent months. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Prosecutors in Poland, Norway and Latvia and police in Britain report that the US Justice Department is stonewalling their investigations and has not answered their Epstein evidence requests for over a year. #OpDeathEaters www.yacnews.com/european-inv...
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European investigators report that the US Justice Department has not answered Epstein evidence requests
Prosecutors in Poland, Norway and Latvia and police in Britain report that the US Justice Department is stonewalling their investigations and has not answered their Epstein evidence requests for over ...
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Cath Mastro @cathmastro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Is he drawing scorn from the Republicans(except Massie)? You know the party that has a lock on the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government right now. Why bother writing about what economists think. He's been undermining our economy his whole 2nd term.
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Cath Mastro @cathmastro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So we can add impaired vision to his list of infirmities 🤔
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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Cath Mastro @cathmastro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Dubious is a pretty big lift. How about lying to get votes?
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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families. Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news. 1/2
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Over four weeks this summer, at least three men murdered their families, killing 12 children among them. 

On July 24, in Michigan, Kristopher Karolkiewicz shot his wife and their six children and set the house on fire. 

On July 31, in Wisconsin, Jeffrey Manke killed his two daughters, 11 and 16. 

On August 23, in Montana, Alan Smith gunned down eight of his relatives -- his parents, his grandmother, his sister, and four children -- at a Sunday dinner. 

Together, the three men killed 17 people, 12 of them children. And within a day or two, each story had vanished from the national news.

Compare this to the coverage of the Lindsay Clancy case. For weeks, the trial of the Massachusetts mother, who killed her three children in 2023, has been a media fixation. 

Cable networks have carried it live. CNN, NBC, the Boston Globe, and others have run day-by-day live blogs. Reporters have packed the courthouse by the dozen, some sitting on the floor for lack of room. And the trial is only the latest chapter: the case has been dissected in the national press and on true-crime podcasts for years.

A mother killing her children becomes a national obsession; a father doing the same quickly becomes yesterday's news.The obvious explanation for the discrepancy is timing: Clancy is on trial, while these three men killed themselves and left no one to prosecute. 

But it doesn't hold up. Men who murder their families do stand trial -- and their cases almost never command this kind of sustained, wall-to-wall attention. 

The true-crime sagas that grip the nation for years overwhelmingly feature women who kill. The gender of the killer, it turns out, matters more than the crime.

The numbers tell a different story than the headlines. Family annihilation in America is neither rare nor evenly distributed. 

According to a 2023 investigation by the Indianapolis Star, drawing on data from the Gun Violence Archive, someone in this country murders their own family roughly once every five days. 

And the people who do it are almost always men -- by expert estimates, some 91 percent of the time. A gun is used in about nine of ten cases. The victims, disproportionately, are children.

The silence has a dangerous cost. Violence by men has become so normalized that even its most extreme form -- a man murdering his own family -- barely registers. And that silence compounds itself: because these killings rarely break through the noise, most people have no idea how common they are, or how overwhelmingly they are committed by men. The pattern disappears into the background, one fleeting headline at a time.None of this diminishes the horror of a mother who kills. It only raises the question: why does that horror seize our full attention, while the far more common version -- committed by fathers, husbands, sons -- slips past us in a day?

--> If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 at 1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788.

--> The Danger Assessment, developed by Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell, is a free tool that helps a woman gauge her risk of being killed by an abusive partner -- 

https://www.dangerassessment.org/DA.aspx

For a potentially life-saving book for older teens and adults about the early warning signs of abusive relationships, myths about abusive personalities, and how to get help, we highly recommend "Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men" at

https://www.amightygirl.com/why-does-he-do-that
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What a list. Imagine if Obama did even one of these things. www.meidasplus.com/p/the-75-mos...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/09/2026
Cofounder of Ms Magazine was a strong advocate for women's rights throughout her life.
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Feminist icon Gloria Steinem dies aged 92
Cofounder of Ms Magazine was a strong advocate for women's rights throughout her life.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is no coincidence. This is a multi-part plan by the GOP to make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat. Please read and share. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Republicans, Trump DOJ press Supreme Court to weaken federal protection against last-minute voter purges
If the Supreme Court accepts their reading, states could have substantially more freedom to run systematic purge program in the final weeks before federal elections — precisely when an erroneous match...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
the largest donor to republicans created a child pornography generator and he is most likely responsible for more child pornography and non-consensual sexual imagery being publicly distributed than any one person in the history of the planet
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/08/2026
“The demolition of the Corporate Transparency Act is just the latest and most dramatic move to cater to the president’s deep-pocketed buddies and fellow cronies,” @cjcmichel.bsky.social argues.
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A Green Light for Crooks
The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption.
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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Cath Mastro @cathmastro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
He sold out the American people again. Emergency appeal 🙄 more like a go sign to let the mango further his path of destruction
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14/08/2026
According to government documents, these investigations were invasive, gathering information on individuals and groups who have never been suspected of committing crimes. trib.al/RD2j3XL
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I spoke to a grandmother today worried about her 21-year-old grandson who's aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. He’s lost 20-25 pounds and is struggling with depression. And so-called leaders like Pete Hegseth aren’t doing a thing about it.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
FYI: @mainenewsroom.com is terrific if you're interested in news and smart takes from the Pine Tree State.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13/08/2026
Another day, another Trump policy to make voting harder. His new target? Nursing homes. Dr. Oz issued a memo that seems designed to intimidate nursing home staff from helping residents vote. I’m calling on Dr. Oz to withdraw this guidance and stop impeding the right to vote.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If That's What Mayor Mamdani Has Been Doing For NYC,Count Me In...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Todd Blanche having his conformation vote at 4:00 AM tells you everything you need to know about how Republicans in Congress operate. They reserve their most toxic moves for the dead of night.
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Norm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Medicaid is vastly misunderstood. Much of it goes to hospitals, kept afloat by it. Most importantly, nearly 2/3 of residence of nursing homes in America are there because of Medicaid. The huge cuts taking effect next year will cause hospital closings and mayhem for seniors.
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Becfella @becfella.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Russia just used a cluster bomb in Kyiv Cluster bombs used against civilians is a war crime This has to end Putin has to be “put away” People can only take so much and there is absolutely no reason for this other than Russia are blood thirsty criminals
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
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