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Cattylibrarian

@cattylibrarian.bsky.social
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Retired librarian, cat mom, book lover, weather geek. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Absolutely insanity. How the hell can this person possibly be employed with this level of malicious lying? Unless of course that is what your network is all about. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump isn’t allowing independent observers, and it’s really fishy. We NEED to come out in large numbers and have a blue 🌊. Go to Vote.org right now to register to vote, confirm your registration, learn what’s on your ballot, find your polling place, and more. #osce #trump #midterms
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We know. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Rules for thee but not for me.
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Trump Just Urged MAGA To 'Vote By Mail' To Help Out Republicans In New Video—And The Hypocrisy Is Off The Charts
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Cattylibrarian @cattylibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I think it’s time for the United States to get a new president!
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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To Deny The Role of Social Media In Propagating Misinformation is a Form of Germ Theory Denial, Not For Pathogens, But For Ideas
MAHA disinformation agents clearly understand the power of social media, and anyone who genuinely wishes to oppose them moving forward needs to as well.
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Cattylibrarian @cattylibrarian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#BannedBooksWeek
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Cattylibrarian @cattylibrarian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I READ BANNED BOOKS 📚
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Kansas Republicans overrode Gov. Laura Kelly's veto to kill three extra days for mail ballots. A paralyzed voter took it from there. In court since: voters 3, Republicans 0. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-is-t...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The DOJ tried to tell domestic violence shelters which survivors they could help. A judge had other ideas. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-is-t...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: SEND A LETTER NOW! BAN FLOCK! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Ban Flock mass surveillance cameras
Contact Congress today!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Karoline Leavitt isn't "fierce"—she's dishonest. And Karoline Leavitt isn't "nimble"—she shamelessly dodges both questions and the truth. She is the same type strenuously unhelpful liar Trump has always had for his press secretaries.
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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“In other words, Congress has already said no to taxpayer funding for the big, beautiful ballroom, and this should have been a stop order on the project. Because, again, if Congress doesn’t fund a president’s pet project, how does he get taxpayer money for it?” www.thebulwark.com/p/why-you-mu...
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Why You Must Care About the Ballroom
Trump is defying Congress and robbing the American people to build it.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 05/10/2026
"They buried Pierre Damas Bel on Saturday. That night, Donald Trump came to town to take a victory lap on the policies that killed him." Powerful piece: www.thebulwark.com/p/a-death-a-...
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A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block.
On the day Springfield held a funeral for Pierre Damas Bel, the president held a rally 25 miles away. We went to both.
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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
RFK Jr. wants more AI in health care, so we fed Claude, Grok etc. some of his vaccine statements Here's how one of them responded: False/inaccurate False Mostly false/highly misleading False Read here to see which one it was -- and what the others said www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-wan...
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RFK Jr. Wants to AI-ify Health Care. Claude Says He’s Full of Sh*t.
Kennedy is suddenly bullish on artificial intelligence—so we asked some AI assistants to rate his vaccine claims.
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Andrew Egger @eggerdc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This weekend, I went to Springfield, Ohio, for Pierre Damas Bel's funeral--and to next-door Vandalia for Trump's same-day rally, where the president took a victory lap on the policies that killed him. I hope you'll give it a read. www.thebulwark.com/p/a-death-a-...
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A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block.
On the day Springfield held a funeral for Pierre Damas Bel, the president held a rally 25 miles away. We went to both.
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Obstruction, bad court rulings, and Trump's reelection robbed you of the chance to see him put on trial by Jack Smith. Now, through video excerpts from Smith's testimony before Congress, we can show you the case he was ready to present. Enjoy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzZ4...
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Jack Smith Reveals the Words That Could Have Buried Trump
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/10/2026
"It isn’t dark magic that is causing these restaurants to struggle and Doral to be a ghost town. The people haven’t just vanished. They’ve had their status stripped and now fear being chased and rounded up, detained, and deported." ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:
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Trump Turned His Beloved Golf Hub Into a Ghost Town
In Doral, there are empty tables, shuttered businesses, and families struggling to survive after their loved ones have been thrown in detention.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Looking for crimes where there were never any to begin with. The FBI is nothing but a political tool, led by a tool. Link: buff.ly/60huFIk
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NPR @npr.org · 05/10/2026
The case centers on whether local governments can hold giant energy companies accountable for the local harms of climate change, but it has repercussions beyond climate. n.pr/4xYf8kj
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Supreme Court's new term kicks off with blockbuster climate change case
The case centers on whether local governments can hold giant energy companies accountable for the local harms of climate change, but it has repercussions beyond climate.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/10/2026
NEW: Nearly 150,000 California mail ballots were thrown out in June's primary — most for arriving too late. Midterm voting starts TODAY. Don't let your ballot be next. Mail it by Oct. 27 or use a drop-off location. Here's what you need to know:
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California early voting starts today. Here’s what you need to know
Californians are voting amid an unusually turbulent fight over how ballots are cast, delivered, counted and protected.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This always happens when we find out the details a few days later on Trump and Nutlick’s Big Announcements. Art of the Deal.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
I'm proud Public Notice has become a bastion of sanity amidst an ocean of sanewashing, a place left-of-center readers can reliably turn to for deep understanding of what’s happening in the American right. Here's to the next five years!
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Reflecting on 5 years of Public Notice
And a look forward to what’s next.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you haven’t already registered to vote, today is your last chance! You can still register to vote until 11:59 PM tonight so if you haven't already done so, get on it y'all!  Visit AngieNixon.com/vote to learn more about registering to vote!  Let’s win this, Florida! #AngieForFlorida
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Cattylibrarian @cattylibrarian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/10/2026
🗳️ While Trump has spent his second term pulling teeth to find minute figures of noncitizen voters, a new poll shows the American public has other concerns. Most Americans say the bigger problem isn’t ineligible people voting. It’s eligible voters staying home: demdock.com/4hJCPah
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Stop believing the lie.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026
"Donald Trump is on his way to mangling a good idea so badly the right is screaming even more than the left." ICYMI @citizencohn.bsky.social on the administration's unpopular childcare policy push:
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How to Mess Up Childcare. Brought to You by Trump.
A proposal the administration is preparing comes just as left and right were finding some common ground.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Cattylibrarian @cattylibrarian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
SHOW UP AND VOTE
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Pod Save America @podsaveamerica.crooked.com · 04/10/2026
"We're gonna take everything we can and we're gonna show people as a statement: We can do this. And we're gonna worry about the law later." Michael Lewis describing Trump's approach to governing in his second term.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They closed with “This Land Is Your Land.” We needed that. Thank you to everyone who showed up, spoke out, and reminded people they still have a voice. ✊
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What an amazing event yesterday! Tom Morello brought together Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, and so many others at the Power to the People festival to speak up against Trump and remind us this country belongs to all of us.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Last month, the Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s bid to restrict mail voting by executive order. But it greenlit his administration’s use of a flawed immigration database to help states purge voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s citizenship lists could be in effect for the midterm
We’re waiting for a federal court to rule on a third prong of Trump’s voter suppression scheme — one you might not have heard much about.
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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A new public poll dropped in Florida today showing the Senate race is tied 47-47. We can do this people. Let’s put the people first for once. LINK to Angie Nixon Campaign.
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Wanna Flip The Senate Too?
A new public poll dropped in Florida today showing the Senate race ...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump spent August demanding his prosecutor re-charge a former Olympic canoeist. The regime had already admitted no crime occurred. A judge read every word Trump posted. Then he put them to use. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026
Sen. Kennedy: "The president, as we know, can be sometimes — he exists loudly. He can go from zero to A-hole in about three seconds. I don't think [Trump] should have given out Tom [Cotton's] cell phone number. I don't think that's going to help convince Tom."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every day more instances of disgusting & blatant corruption revealed as our money is being plundered by the Trump Crime Family & their cronies. Do American voters care anymore about corruption? I guess we’ll find out soon because it’s just staggering with this crew of criminals.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 04/10/2026
In public statements and campaign ads, many members of Congress from both parties say they’re staunchly opposed to congressional stock trading. But despite a real opportunity to legislate changes, they didn’t deliver.
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Why a Popular Push to Ban Congressional Stock Trading Crashed and Burned
But is it only mostly dead?
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Cattylibrarian @cattylibrarian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Musk will do anything to kiss up to Trump because he’s worried he will become irrelevant otherwise
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026
Kudlow: "Are you running away from Donald Trump?" Byron Donalds: "No, I support the president."
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Cattylibrarian @cattylibrarian.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#TrumpCrimeFamily
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Sam Jones @samjownes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He tried to fire a prosecutor the court appointed. The judge put him back and said the only way out is the Senate. Thirty days. That’s the gavel. #BlueWaveIn30Days
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"I don't know what the future may bring. None of us do." That was the prosecution's argument. In court. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
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Great News For Us That’s Absolutely Horrible For Trump
A prosecutor, an Olympian, a $10 billion lawsuit, and your power bill. Four stories, all inside.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Trump put Kevin Newsom on the appeals court. This week he and two other judges got Trump's request to save his IRS deal. Trump's side had one job: show the lawsuit wasn't collusion. The panel wrote down how much evidence it got. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Judge Kathleen Williams looked at Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own IRS and found Trump effectively on both sides of it. She barred everyone involved from calling the deal a "settlement." Then she got to his lawyers. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jeanine Pirro's office indicted an Olympic canoeist 13 days after his arrest. Then she dropped it, because no crime had occurred. Trump's thanks: she "choked" and "folded like an umbrella." A judge just took it out of her hands. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
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Cattylibrarian @cattylibrarian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Aaron Parnas (@aaronparnas) on Threads
Ken Paxton: The criticism has been that I let a child predator out after one day. Well guess what? They served 60 days.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This case was about voter intimidation and suppression, making an example rather than rooting out any actual voter fraud. Glad Crystal Mason can finally put it behind her. Story: buff.ly/bOwZsUQ
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
Trump, for over a decade: "I wouldn't give him a state dinner." Now: A full state dinner at the White House for China's Xi Jinping, complete with the arrival ceremony, a gift, and billionaires everywhere.
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