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Catherine Johnston

@cathyanne.bsky.social
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Adoptee, knitter, reader, hiker/runner, thinker, parent, love where I live, good with complicated things. she/her

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
i'm sorry what now
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
should be day 2 stories if Maine/national media pick up on fact Collins' lobbyist husband, Tom Daffron, worked closely - for years - with Scott Reed, a key player in the corruption scandal @andrewperez.bsky.social & @martinpengelly.bsky.social wrote about that in June zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...
zeteo.com
Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC
The Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.
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Eleanor Martinez @northstar1939.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Perfectly states what I've been saying for some time, now.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The US has a dark history of unaccountability.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
nah man, this is an episode of Tom Goes To The Mayor, I dunno what you’re on
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The Liberal Curmudgeon @liberalcurmudgeon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not a vote, not even an interview.
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unpersoned.bsky.social @unpersoned.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If Dems don't do this, they will have failed us entirely.
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Catherine Johnston @cathyanne.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lived 2/3 of my life in CA, but still a RI girl ☺️
Dialect map for a native Rhode Islander
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.
"To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The White House website now has "arcade games" like "Protect the border from the coming horde" and "Border Patrol along the Rio Grande". There are cruel, insane children running the country. www.whitehouse.gov/arcade/
Screen capture from  "Border Patrol along the Rio Grande"  gamesScreen capture from  "Border Patrol along the Rio Grande"  games
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Thank you to the USPS whistleblower. May your courage be contagious.
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Theresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So much truth here! 😢
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My suggestion is to cancel your subscription to any media company that refers to Lake Ontario as Lake America.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
nytimes.com
Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Live your life in a way that no matter how much they make fun of your boobs, your hair, your sex appeal, or your outward appearance… … your legacy is defined by your creativity, your philanthropy, your heart, your spirit, your courage, your inclusiveness & your commitment to helping those in need.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/08/2026
He pays more to fight a wealth tax than he pays in taxes. He pays more to fight a wealth tax than any of us would earn in 10 lifetimes.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/07/2026
Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"just about to hand over my banking info to the same platform used by pedos to make nudes of kids" - x users
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We can make a society that exists for the care and thriving and enjoyment of the actual people rather than for the enrichment of parasitical greed freaks and the comfort of creepy-minded religious bigots. All that's needed is for more people to stop fearing good things and start fighting for them.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 14/07/2026
An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”
Opportunities Narrow for Women as Hegseth Blocks More Promotions
For the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/07/2026
*taps sign*
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Hard to put into words how big of an own-goal it is for the United States to normalize shipping tolls at all, much less tolls at 20%. It's the kind of thing that appeals to someone who has only ever known how to run short-term scams.
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Tim Pierce @unchi.org · 11/07/2026
wheezing
Photo of Patriot Front doofuses, dressed in their dark blue overshirts and khaki caps with a dumb flag-shaped red white and blue logo, and white gaiters covering their mouth, and sunglasses covering their eyes, so their entire face is obscured except for a pathetic nose poking out like a sad micropenis.

Caption reads "spent 4 whole years acting like a paper mask at Costco was the trail of tears just to voluntarily dress like a racist beekeeper in 110-degree heat"
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 11/07/2026
The natsec press and commentators should be saying every day that the Sec of State is also doing the job of the acting National Security Advisor to the President (APNSA) in the White House and the National Archives Director, while also being Sec State and apparently running Venezuela? Legit insane.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I wish the media had the same urgency about the state of Mitch McConnell as they did for Kamala's W-2 from McDonald's in the 80s.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
this is really well said www.liberalcurrents.com/graham-platn... @liberalcurrents.com
There is also the elementary truth that Platner is but one man among millions; we are no more condemned to him than we are to Susan Collins. Neither has a right to rule; that is what democracy means. To say that we should have standards for those who govern us, and hold them to higher ones than we may hold a private citizen, is not elitism. It is a bulwark against everything we’re now fighting against—who can deny that Trump’s dictatorial streak is downstream of his violent entitlement, personal bigotry, and utter lack of moral restraint? His solipsism is a cataclysmic personal flaw, and has proven fatal when applied to the mighty instruments of American power. His personal flaws have a body count that may already number in the millions.
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Wyldefire @wyldefire.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It would be nice if the media was as interested in Ken Paxton as they are in Graham Platner.
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Catherine Johnston @cathyanne.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
abolish ICE
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Evergreen post: He could be impeached tonight and convicted at trial in a few weeks and removed from office immediately thereafter if about 20 people in DC decided to put country over party for the first time in their miserable, self-dealing lives
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Charlie Chaplin felt so strongly about fighting nazism against Germany in 1940 that he broke his silence for the first time ever to deliver this monologue. "The Great Dictator", released that year, was the first time he had spoken in a talking role. Original post
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/07/2026
the Pfizer building is apparently having trouble remaining erect
nytimes.com
Midtown Manhattan Building Evacuated as Officials Warn of Collapse
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/07/2026
Strange. I rarely hear the news talking about fascism or kleptocracy, the real threats we’re currently facing.
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Catherine Johnston @cathyanne.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Hero
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I wrote an essay for the nation's 250th, refusing, first of all, any definition that we are all one thing or another. Mamdani, Good, Pretty, Bad Bunny, and Liu have star turns further on in the piece.
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What is the United States of America now? | Rebecca Solnit
The United States of America is … so many things, horrific and magnificent, good and evil, promising and cursed
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Not being able to get along with Europe’s one fascist leader because she’s a woman kinda gives the whole game away
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
And here is the CENTCOM report that lists 1,700 targets truck in first 72 hours, which also corroborates. If Grok was used for 2,000 in the first 96 hours, then it had to be the technology that was responsible for the strike on the school. Let's stop talking about algae, this is a scandal.
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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Yeah, I've got those same ones.
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Catherine Johnston @cathyanne.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Whoa This is really bad.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15/06/2026
Trump claimed last night’s UFC event at the White House was a "gift to the American people,” but it was a GRIFT.
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Sal Gentile @salgentile.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
man nyc is such a fun place right now. on my way to a mets game (lol) and everyone’s in knicks gear or brazil gear or mets gear or argentina gear. everyone’s on their way to a watch party or a block party. the whole country could be like this if it wasn’t run by miserable pudding brained freaks
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/06/2026
message to @mayor.nyc.gov (2/2): "If trans kids get shut out in NYC, they'll get shut out everywhere. You cannot let that happen. This is life saving care. You know this. Please do the right thing."
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