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Cathy Proctor

@cproct.bsky.social
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Former Denver biz reporter, like to watch where money, energy and water goes. Threads at cat_proctor

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/08/2025
Greystar was using rent-setting algorithms from software company RealPage, the subject of a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed the firm was helping landlords decide prices in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior. By @heathervogell.bsky.social
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America’s Largest Landlord Makes Deal With DOJ to Settle Price-Fixing Claims in RealPage Case
Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Apu stopping the bullet meme:

Republicans saving Pervert President from Questions About the Epstein Files
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Jeffrey Epstein shut down Congress.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
"the number of shipping containers carrying US imports fell for a second straight month, setting the stage for one of the sharpest year-on-year reversals on record thanks to President Donald Trump’s trade war” bloomberg reports:
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 04/07/2025
And you can’t say “climate change.” Meanwhile, the Trumpsters whine all the time about being “cancelled.”
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Roughly 140 EPA staffers who signed ‘dissent’ letter are put on leave
Trump officials have placed 139 employees who signed a letter of dissent protesting the Environmental Protection Agency’s current direction and policies on leave Thursday.
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 04/07/2025
This Fourth of July, I am taking a moment to reflect. Things are hard right now. They are probably going to get worse before they get better. But I love our country — and when you love something, you fight for it. Together, we will continue to fight for the ideals of our nation.
Vice President Harris and Douglas Emhoff watch fireworks at the White House on July 4, 2024.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Good God. Destroying the Constitution and the rule of law with the compliance of denuded legislatures and courts is not a "winning streak." It is fascism. #BrokenTimes.
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From Court to Congress to the Mideast, Trump Tallies His Wins
There are serious questions about the wisdom and durability of President Trump’s policies, but on his terms, he can point to a string of accomplishments.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
UPDATE: Judge Brian Murphy says 8 men deported from US and stuck in Djibouti en route to South Sudan can't be sent there despite #SCOTUS ruling today. He cites dissent for his conclusion. But #SCOTUS majority explained nothing so he could be right! www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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Supreme Court eases rapid deportations to countries where immigrants have no ties
The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its ruling.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/06/2025
100% police instigated.
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Mark Hertling @markhertling.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A piece of advice from an old retired soldier to the commanders and leaders currently serving: Review the regulations & policies addressing political behavior when wearing the uniform, and then address those standards with your teams.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
It appears the peace treaty hasn’t been negotiated yet.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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a man is surrounded by lightning with the words there can be only one
ALT: a man is surrounded by lightning with the words there can be only one
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉
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Rep. Veronica Escobar @repescobar.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
They’re doing the meme.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
By changing CDC guidelines on who can get the COVID vaccine It will likely not be covered by insurance and Medicare/Medicaid So if people want it, they’re going to have to pay for it Meaning that those who can’t afford it are out of luck
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Children and pregnant women are going to die, but that's the point.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 27/05/2025
There it is. Trump confirms what we've said all along - he's been protecting Putin this entire time.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 27/05/2025
When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 27/05/2025
DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Washington Post journalists are plugging Will Lewis’s latest memo — about returning to the office — into an A.I. writing detector. Screenshots:
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/05/2025
‘Fight back and don’t let them win’: actor Pedro Pascal decries Trump’s attacks on artists
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‘Fight back and don’t let them win’: actor Pedro Pascal decries Trump’s attacks on artists
Comments at Cannes come after US president’s social media posts against Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift Pedro Pascal has sharply criticised Donald Trump’s attacks against artists, as the director of a conspiracy theory satire starring the actor said he feared the political messages of films could be weaponised by US border guards. “Fuck the people that try to make you scared,” the Game of Thrones and The Last of Us actor said at a press conference at the Cannes film festival, promoting Ari Aster’s new film Eddington. “And fight back. And don’t let them win.” Continue reading...
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Shorter Stephen Miller: The president can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever he wants--including American citizens. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
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Trump Officials Consider Suspending Habeas Corpus for Detained Migrants
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Friday News Drop: - Trump Admin floats suspending habeas - ICE thugs arrest Newark mayor; manhandle members of Congress - Escalating war between nuclear armed states - Chicago still gloating over pope
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billbramhall.bsky.social @billbramhall.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Cartoon
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it. www.wwltv.com/article/news...
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Pope Leo XIV's grandparents were 7th Ward Creoles
The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
And the Sun-Times got a photo of the new pope at a Sox Game (yes yes the 2005 World Series) — chicago.suntimes.com/religion/202...
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Chicago high school cheers White Sox fan Pope Leo XIV — 'He's one of us'
While Robert Francis Prevost didn’t attend St. Rita of Cascia High School in Ashburn, his connection to the school runs deep. In the 1980s, he was a substitute and summer school teacher at the school ...
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karenaxell.bsky.social @karenaxell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
“…lawless, arbitrary and dictatorial. The stuff of Mad Kings.”
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Incredible reporting from USC student journalists about how a ginned-up financial crisis is being used to crush faculty and staff power.
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ANALYSIS: USC deliberately escalated ‘structural deficit’
A doubling debt and egregious management growth place blame on the university.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 01/05/2025
👊🇺🇸🔥
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
WSJ: The S&P 500 just ended the day with its biggest loss in the first 100 days of a new presidential term since Nixon's in 1973.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
We’ve been warning about this on @pivotpod.bsky.social for 6 months now.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
My takeaway from this: He is so fucked.
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Quentin Young @quentinyoung.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Judge Sweeney in her ruling, using very dry language, torched the whole premise of Trump's proclamation invoking of the Alien Enemies Act. Its proper use would demand "military and wartime action ... The Proclamation makes no finding that satisfies these definitional demands."
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
So… this was supposed to be about Paul Revere’s ride, but the Senator just unloaded about the Trump administration and its Republican enablers. Far more newsworthy than I expected. (You can probably see me shifting to “crap, this was not the interview I prepped!” but the result was memorable.)
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/04/2025
Seth Rogen said President Trump had “single-handedly destroyed all of American science” while presenting an award at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony — sometimes called the “Oscars of Science” — where Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg were in attendance. Rogen's comments were cut from the broadcast.
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Seth Rogen’s Trump Jokes Are Edited Out of Awards Broadcast
While presenting an award at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony this month, Mr. Rogen said President Trump had “single-handedly destroyed all of American science.”
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This has been more widely circulated than any edited comments on television in quite some time Perhaps it should be circulated further still ?
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I tell everyone I know this
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~The Great Gatsby
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Cathy Proctor @cproct.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Careful, might be an anti-tariff war cry .. also could be morning yodeling, will advise
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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I stand with the penguins of Heard and McDonald Islands!
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Penguins Against Trump @penguinsagainstdt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Current mood.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 03/04/2025
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
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The Onion @theonion.com · 02/04/2025
Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
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Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression
WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.” A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
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Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 01/04/2025
This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
An FDA worker confirms what I've seen out there. CDC's entire FOIA office is gone. The FDA's communications and web office were cut. "The FDA as we know it is gone."
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