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Cathy (CHS)

@cathyhsweeney.bsky.social
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Nevertheless, she persisted. Librarian, compulsive book buyer and reader, music lover, theatre fan, social justice warrior, ex-news junkie. SciFi geek since 1970.

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brent sewer socialist🚰🌹 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 17h
I’ve never been in denial about it but I do think today was the first day I truly realized how much antisemitism is spreading and being normalized in online far-left circles. It’s scary and frightening and is only going to get worse if the left insists it’s not a problem.
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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 2h
🎯 'A man raped her' instead of 'she was raped.' Have you ever read a headline that reads "A bank was robbed by a suspect?" Nope. It's "A suspect robbed a bank."
Christina Ricci in front of a patterned wall with the text: Maybe we should start talking about how many men out of 3 will sexually assault someone... instead of how many women out of 3 will be assaulted. Lets shift the ownership..
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 54m
Trump has insisted on so many flyovers of DC that they are regularly interrupting normal air traffic and also crowding the ones DC used to have for service member funerals. And insane price tags for all of this: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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From birthday celebrations to murderous dictators, Trump brings out the jets
The President's military flyovers are torturing DC-area residents.
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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 3h
Might as well light the Constitution on fire at this point.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h
the rampant misandry is because of the continual rape
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 2h
The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 3h
I’ll give credence to JCO’s take on romance as soon as she can name me one romance novel she’s read in the last ten years. People really think there’s nothing to know in this genre, don’t they?
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1h
He then said that he’s helpfully explained that more women being able to sue their colleges for allowing rape to go unpunished would mean more revenue for the firm that defended them.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1h
Thinking of that time after Biden got elected, when a VERY fancy lawyer and Dem strategist called me on the phone like, “Moira, everyone at my firm is mad that the Title IX rules are going to be stricter, because it will be bad for our university clients to have to punish rape.”
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 1h
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf writes more:
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We Keep Failing Women
It is the badge of a degraded democracy that certain men will not be held to account.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 1h
The culture that raises and enables men like the “Cornell Seven” is the same culture that elected Trump, confirmed Kavanaugh, and platforms men like Russell Brand.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1h
Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.
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reneedodson.bsky.social @reneedodson.bsky.social · 1h
$2.98 when Biden left office, it’s over $4.00 now. The lying is meant to piss us off every day.
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 1h
It was only a few years ago that DOGE fired a whole bunch of tech folks and Trump hired a part time news anchor to head the DoD. I'm sure none of those things are relevant though. 🤷‍♀️
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
Trump: "Super intelligence -- we've changed the name officially, by the way. I signed the document. We don't call it artificial intelligence. Because it's not artificial. It's real. It's a terrible world. It's amazing it loved on so long, actually."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1h
anyway character driven stories are not, in fact, easy to generate by a thing that doesn't understand human emotion
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Centrist Madness Election Center @centristmadness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Biden dementia theory has been conclusively disproven, as has the theory that he didn’t use leverage to force Israel to accept a ceasefire (which they did multiple times). No one will ever admit they got these things wrong.
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is wild to have Biden out and about doing events, giving speeches, and meeting random members of the public on planes and trains and taking pictures and what not, 2 years after leaving office, and yet there are *still* people who will breathlessly scream about how he clearly had dementia
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Cathy (CHS) @cathyhsweeney.bsky.social · 2h
Well, so long as people watched (they didn’t), I guess that’s what matters (to Trump).
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phillycheryl @phillycheryl.bsky.social · 2h
Went in. Told vet extra innings. Vet looked at cat for 1 minute. We both went to our cars. No charge!
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phillycheryl @phillycheryl.bsky.social · 2h
Cat has a vet appointment at 5 o'clock. Cat and I are still in the car in vet parking lot listening on the radio. A. Should I go into the vet with the cat? B. throw the cat in the front door and go back to the car? C. blow off the vet entirely?
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Cathy (CHS) @cathyhsweeney.bsky.social · 2h
On the one hand, Phillies are incredibly exciting to watch. On the other hand, I wish they didn’t live and die based on hitting home runs!
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Jenny DeMilo @jennydemilo.bsky.social · 3h
SNL cold open?
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 3h
in conclusion, In Other Lands is a perfect book and you should read it. thank you for coming to my Read Talk. (eh? eh? eh?) *gets pulled off the stage by a cane*
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 3h
3) Elliot makes two friends, who are both also perfect. one is Serene, an elf, and in elf culture, women are the dominant gender, so she's pretty sexist to Elliot and Luke. this sounds unbearable but Sarah Rees Brennan does an alchemy where it's light-hearted and funny and sweet instead. wow.
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 3h
these values include things like "don't send children to war" and "honor one's treaty obligations" so I think we can all agree
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 3h
2) you are thinking "is that good? do we want that? world's most annoying protagonist?" and the answer I fear is YES you DO because in addition to being very annoying, he's also achingly vulnerable and lacks all sense of self-worth due to Parental Abandonment. further, he has good values.
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 3h
1) it is about the most irritating protagonist in the entire world, Elliot Schafer. he goes to Magic School in Fantasy Portal Land where he bothers everyone nearly to death. he characterizes his conversational style as "Drive It Like You Stole It" which is accurate.
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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 3h
very good thread about a very good book. FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC: THE PORTAL FANTASY 🥺
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5h
If you've ever wondered how ridiculously profitable tech companies avoid paying taxes . . .
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 19h
Philippe Janin (French Artist, born 1959) "Blue Provence", 2019. Oil on Canvas, 14.5 × 31.5 cm Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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semperloquatius.bsky.social @semperloquatius.bsky.social · 8h
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (again) and hands the GOP senators' butts to them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Rep. Rich McCormick blames OBAMA for high gas prices in the year of our lord 2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
Klobuchar on Schmitt: "He's not aware that there's also women's sports ... because they wanted to do this to distract everyone, I would say they got their comeuppance"
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 8h
Pathetic…..
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Cathy (CHS) @cathyhsweeney.bsky.social · 4h
Watching the Braves play makes me root for the Phillies all the harder!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."
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Cathy (CHS) @cathyhsweeney.bsky.social · 4h
Pretty damn arrogant (disrespectful ) strut to get from 3rd to Home, scoring first run for Braves.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 5h
Trump: Before we talk about the incredible Hispanics... ya know, there's lots of different names. Latinos. They call 'em so many different names
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Cathy (CHS) @cathyhsweeney.bsky.social · 5h
The lack of empathy and respect for human dignity is heartbreaking. (Not to mention extremely short sighted.)
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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 5h
During a discussion about future NASA missions to the moon Jesse Watters asked retired astronaut Winston Scott if the U.S. could own the moon. Scott answered that no country is allowed to own the moon and that the U.S. would welcome other countries to explore it.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22h
"Restaurant operating with non-functioning sink. Oven apparently being used as storage space and employees make whirring and sizzling sounds to make food." buff.ly/QahTR38
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Health Inspector’s Notes from the Fisher-Price Kitchen in Miss Carol’s Preschool Classroom
“Witnessed chefs frequently dropping food on floor, retrieving items with bare hands, and immediately serving food to customers.” reposted 7/13/23
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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 16h
Yet another explainer, for the guys out there that just don't get it:
Women choose the bear, because the bear
doesn't text its friends to come join the attack.

The bear doesn't pretend to be your friend so it
can lure you into the woods and take advantage
of you. The bear doesn't laugh about its crimes.

The bearis at least honest about its intentions.

Bears are relatively harmless when compared
to fraternity brothers, a far more dangerous and
invasive species that needs to be dealt with.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 16h
Window through water and time-sculpted limestone caves to an Irish rainforest beyond.
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 16h
a few years ago, references to Simon of Trent or Leo Frank trutherism were a sign that someone was an intensely Christian and/or Neo-Nazi right-wing antisemite but now formerly-normal lefty politics influencers who stayed on Twitter casually reply to Mamdani with 15th century blood libel posts
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah, what could our military leaders learn from a bunch of civilians anyway? It's not like they're supposed to be citizen-soldiers with a well-rounded education.
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James Who Lives in Queens @jamesfromqueensny.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So only loyalists who report to Hegseth are guaranteed positions? I don’t know a lot about the military, but I do know a civilian who has worked and taught for the military for decades, brilliant and patriotic (the real way) guy, and now a Hegseth toady might take his place? Good luck with that.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum ending the appointment of civilian faculty to tenured positions at service academies.
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Hegseth ceases to end civilian tenure at service academies
The defense secretary called for hiring plans that “prioritize institutional flexibility and faculty contribution to the warfighter mission.”
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David Hart @hartdp2000.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A direct response to a First Amendment loss earlier:
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