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Caitlin

@constantcait.bsky.social
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Childless cat lady in WNC. Lifelong red-state progressive. I like a lot of stuff, but mostly music, nature, art, books and food. You know, good things. www.patreon.com/c/CaitlinConstantine

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Be there. Saturday, October 18th. www.nokings.org
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
You want to know what a couple of decades of standardized testing has done to literacy rates? Look around, friends.
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Watching Pam Bondi attack Sen. Whitehouse in lieu of answering a question about photos of Trump with topless girls is how I know there are photos of Trump with topless girls.
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Please make this guy's fall as hard and humiliating as possible.
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Arsonist says there are too many fires as he starts another fire.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...
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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
FUCK THEM KIDS. These people are literal monsters.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/10/2025
Amidst the shutdown and the continued attacks on institutions, individuals, and communities, it's important that we document human toll. To that end, here's a chance to share anonymously how you and your loved ones are faring in the wake of rapid social and policy change. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll
The Human Toll

The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change. 

If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story!

To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco

Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
"The North Carolina AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its September convention backing the call from the United Auto Workers for mass action on May 1, 2028." - @dannydamage.bsky.social for @labornotes.bsky.social I hear there's interest in general strikes on here... labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
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North Carolina AFL-CIO Convention Backs May Day 2028 Plans
The North Carolina AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its September convention backing the call from the United Auto Workers for mass action on May 1, 2028. The resolution directs the state AFL-CIO to cre...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/09/2025
The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The ‘what’ economy?
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/09/2025
People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2025
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
They're going for every bit of media and tech they can. We're going to have to get very DIY and old school with how we do things if we want to get away from their prying eyes and tentacles.
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Can we do away with the idea that these guys are all libertarians now?
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I've also noticed and I don't really understand why so many seemingly intelligent people don't get it. Yeah, it's hard in the moment, but it's a lot harder to live with a damaged reputation and a lack of integrity.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/09/2025
There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Kimmel back on air and now Sinclair caving in is an unambiguous good guys win. People stood up for the First Amendment and the right thing and the censorious fascists lost. It’s one skirmish in the wider war. But it is a win.
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ALT: a large american flag is flying in the wind against a blue sky
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Rest in power, Ms Shakur.
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Her direction to the photog after peppering him with those Qs was such a boss move. Wendy Suares, I salute you 👏
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
The funniest part of Katie Miller calling Stephen Miller a "sexual matador" is that we can all see who she's talking about lmao
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sun's out @sunsout.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This is exactly what the Niemöller poem is about. You either stand on principle against authoritarianism or you enable it to creep and make it stronger.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
One of the unanticipated side effects of these times is learning how many of our supposed tech geniuses think this dingbat is a brilliant philosopher. The Harris-Walz campaign should have never let up on the "weird" thing.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
One thing we've learned in the last 12 hours: The Sinclair-Nexstar ban on Kimmel, in terms of his reach, means nothing in an era when late-night shows have an afterlife or simultaneous life on streaming. Kimmel's average audience is 1.6M. On YouTube, last night's monologue is already at 8.4M views.
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Folks who have never looked into running for office may not know about call time, but it's basically the expectation that you're going to spend hours a day asking people for money as part of your campaign. It sucks ass and is why a lot of people (myself included) don't run for office.
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
It's going to take me a long time to forgive this country for fucking up what was essentially an open-book test.
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Making fun of the POTUS is a national pastime. Anyone who can't take it needs to find another job.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”
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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
If you don't act like you believe in the strength and righteousness of your own views, why should anyone else?
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
A key reminder right now, from @prisonculture.bsky.social: "We are actually in a consistent battle to unleash and free our imaginations in the face of unrelenting oppression... Imagination is an important terrain of struggle." prisonculture.substack.com/p/abolition-...
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Was fully not prepared for how this is impacting me emotionally. Good for this gal.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 19/09/2025
Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.
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BytePilot @binaryorhex.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Wow, this photo.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
As a grown-up weird kid, I have a piece of advice for Dear Leader, and it's this: the more you cry about people making fun of you, the more they make fun of you. It's like a scientific law. You're welcome.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Music Festival At Disney HQ in Burbank, Ca Headline: Jimmy Kimmel,
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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 19/09/2025
Ruffalo: I'm reaching out to all of my brothers and sisters in the entertainment industry, to join us...They're coming after celebrities because they know we are the last ones to actually be able to have our freedom to speak. So use your platform wisely, use it generously for this movement. #NoKings
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I keep hoping a side effect of all the fuckery with TV and social media is that more people go back to reading books.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
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Caitlin @constantcait.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Make them regret they ever wanted that merger.
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