Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive. 383899763
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026really sad to see colleges are still protecting rapists. kudos to the students exposing Cornell's institutional betrayal.cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 6835210
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialMike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026chat is this good? 11442881093
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedlemonde.frAmnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedIn a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States. 386198256360
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialCongressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I’m demanding answers from DHS and ICE about today's shooting in Austin. They must preserve every piece of evidence, release the body cam footage, suspend the agent, and brief Congress. ICE has lied before. We deserve the truth. 1128475
cattrax.bsky.social @cattrax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"The waves don’t make just one sound at Rialto Beach. They crash, hiss, rumble and retreat across layers of sand, gravel and cobblestone, with each surface adding something different to the performance..." #ecoacoustics #beachmusic www.sfgate.com/national-par...sfgate.comWhy soundscape experts are obsessed with this Olympic National Park beachRialto Beach's waves create a natural symphony along the coast. 010
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026* VIRGINIA GOVERNOR SAYS STATE IS BANNING NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS FOR DATA CENTERS, REQUIRING STRICTER PERMITTING AND CLEAN ENERGY MANDATES FOR THE SERVER WAREHOUSES @reuters.com 483452732
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialDemocratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Hands Off the Arts invites you to join Hands Around the Kennedy Center on Friday, September 18 at 6:30 p.m. More info: dub.sh/HandsAroundKenCen 34627
cattrax.bsky.social @cattrax.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In memory of #AnnieDillard. RIP. "Dillard opens our eyes to the world and to new ways of articulating what we see. More exactly, she alerts us to the possibility of being free of formal conventions that constrain in the guise of enabling... " 000
cattrax.bsky.social @cattrax.bsky.social · 16/09/2026static.klipy.comSure Jan Funny FaceALT: Sure Jan Funny Face 000
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialWHRO Public Media @whropublicmedia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This weekend, the Suffolk Public Library’s newly opened Downtown branch will host Shelf Bound Sound, the annual after-hours, all-ages music festival. Read more here: tinyurl.com/3pum24by 013
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialWill McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Woodsy Owl was introduced #OTD in 1971. The nation's anti-pollution mascot was created during a wave of Nixon-era legislation protecting the environment — moves that would be dismissed as "woke" by the current administration. #EPA 38325
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This is essentially how he wants to run the country and the world: make it entirely his or put an end to it. And of course making anything his also always means putting an end to it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/a...nytimes.comKennedy Center Closes Its Doors Despite a Judge’s OrderThe announcement came after President Trump said he would cancel a $257 million renovation of the venue if his name is not returned to the building. 24461123
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialCOVA Coalition: progressive women in Hampton Roads, VA @covacoalition.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Last week, #HamptonRoads residents shared their stories about struggles with high electric bills & their concerns about the #Dominion merger at Lt. Gov. Hashmi's town hall. Virginians already pay too much for power. This merger could make it worse. TAKE ACTION with tools from stopnextera.com. 001
cattrax.bsky.social @cattrax.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Put yourself in the mindset that I'm going to build this 3 times..." Yes. And often each iteration/"building" will take 3 times as long as you think it will. 010
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Robert Kraft — who's given millions to pro-Israel orgs like AIPAC — once got a $1M award from Netanyahu for helping stop people from boycotting Israel. "Israel does not have a more loyal friend than Robert Kraft," Netanyahu said. Now, Kraft helps kick Macklemore off Ed Sheeran's tour: 461207585
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialInstitute for War and Peace Reporting - IWPR @iwpr.net · 15/09/2026In the latest update, read about how Sudan’s gold rush is fuelling war, damaging the environment and destroying communities. #Sudan #gold #environment #health 011
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia. 5953724513395
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialAndy King @2primates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Scottish Nationalist Party has existed since 1934, Plaid Cymru since 1925 & Sinn Féin since 1905, all with the explicit aim of independence from the UK. You can agree or disagree with their aims, but you can’t say those aims are new, or that them agreeing on a common cause is surprising. 4116
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialWHRO Public Media @whropublicmedia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Self-published, handmade booklets known as zines will take center stage this Saturday at the Chrysler Museum of Art during the Norfolk Zine Fest. Read more here: tinyurl.com/2u3mdd8y 021
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialEnough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Trump becomes the first orange man to support a united Ireland 682127575
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...heartlandsignal.comProof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland SignalRepublicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1... 451924751
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialLyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Why shouldn't a wild animal also be honored? In 2012, the mountain lion P-22 managed to cross Los Angeles and freeways to enter Griffith Park. He survived a decade before being euthanized, too injured & ill to be saved. In between, he raised awareness of what our cities and freeways are doing... 462423468
cattrax.bsky.social @cattrax.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I cannot with #HamptonRoads drivers today. I would stop driving if I could. --A woman driving the wrong way down a clearly marked one way street. --A driver sitting through an entire green arrow/green light cycle. --A man failing to understand that, on a freeway onramp, you accelerate. Why?!static.klipy.comToonces Cat DrivingALT: Toonces Cat Driving 010
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A congenital liar, utterly incapable of uttering a solitary truth about himself or the world around him, is seeking to rearrange our national experience so lies are given the same weight and authority as reality. And we are to simply endure this Orwellian hell as if any society can so survive. 1337492
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialAbilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The richest 10% produce roughly half of lifestyle consumption emissions. Climate action that ignores inequality is incomplete. Fair transition means the biggest polluters cut the most, and the most vulnerable are protected first. Justice is not optional. #ClimateJustice #JustTransition 011446
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth. 8157211153
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 07/09/2026the best way I can think of to explain Fayetteville is imagine if Dukes of Hazzard took place on Deep Space 9 1223828
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialDecomposing Dame (Diandra Mae) @diandramae.com · 08/09/2026If y’all weren’t aware, Hawaii is getting hit by Hurricane Lowell (🌀 CAT 3 💔) right now. We know FEMA is currently non-existent, so keep an eye out for mutual aid links in the coming days. 021
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Most American have zero interest in the US government treating one of our most important historical allies and trading partners like this. But the worst among us is running the country, thanks to the worst and most irresponsible voters among us. 2304148073976
cattrax.bsky.social @cattrax.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Syrian immigrant Abe Doumar invented the ice cream cone. Doumar's Cones and BBQ in Norfolk, VA, USA still makes waffle cones with his 1905 machine. 01810
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialCharles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I’m so proud of my incredible colleagues at @penamerica.bsky.social for compiling this report on efforts to turn libraries into political battlegrounds. pen.org/report/out-o...pen.orgOut of CirculationAttacks on public libraries have been worsening in recent years, threatening freedoms that form the bedrock of American society. 0124
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialBrevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 04/09/2026“I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don’t want to get up. She’s so much more calming than my husband.” ~ @joycecaroloates.bsky.social 0121
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialCaptain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire. 486236974255
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialNarrative @narrativemag.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“The survival of poetry, in fact the survival of humans and their world, depends upon the cultivation of better language.” —excerpt from Wendell Berry’s “A Matter of Necessity” Today we honor the life and legacy of Wendell Berry. www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/stori... 011
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialLaurie Field @laurie-field.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Reminder folks The Heritage Foundation is running our country and letting baby Donny do what he wants as a distraction. www.project2025.observer/en?fbclid=Iw...project2025.observerProject 2025 TrackerA comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals 001
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialGod @thegodshow.com · 31/08/2026The governor of Florida and his wife stole ten million dollars from a charity, but CNN would rather spend another week on blatant Islamophobic character assassination of Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, because they work for MAGA billionaires. 10147241478
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026We 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. 36099453828
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Just expel him, Canada. 34763121043
cattrax.bsky.social @cattrax.bsky.social · 29/08/2026The WSJ wants us to stop selfishly drinking water so there will be more for the machines. 000
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialGreg Proops @gregproops.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Yayoi Kusama She made the heavens swirl. 1569206
Reposted by @cattrax.bsky.socialToss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing 2295269412869
cattrax.bsky.social @cattrax.bsky.social · 26/08/2026An extraordinary talent. An extraordinary soul. Thank you, Dolly, for the music, the inspiration, and your kindness and generosity. "We can't just hope for a brighter day. We have to work for a brighter day." RIP. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...theguardian.comDolly Parton, country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80 after cancer diagnosisSongwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes 000
cattrax.bsky.social @cattrax.bsky.social · 26/08/2026For some time I've been feeling like the US has been sliding into a North American version of the USSR. In @mazmhussain.bsky.social 's recent essay, "Homo-Americanus," he explores just that. Recommended--and sobering--reading. mazmhussain.substack.com/p/homo-ameri...mazmhussain.substack.comHomo-Americanus?Reflections on the late Soviet subject and its distant relatives 000