Reposted by CatKD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 13/02/2025If you’ve already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble with someone’s preferred name and pronouns. 294174513520
Reposted by CatPeter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 13/02/2025As an anti-vaxxer & anti-vaccine RFK Jr. is about to be INSTALLED by the spineless GOP Senate in Congress, TODAY would be a good day to get YOUR Covid and Flu vaccines, while you STILL can. 21743821305
Reposted by CatFriendlyKozak @friendlykozak.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Never really wanted to use Apple Maps but turns out it would be the dumbest name change ever that made me leave Google. 5562098
Reposted by CatBrian Creek, Photographer @briancreekphoto.bsky.social · 11/02/2025That is such bullshit. People on medicaid aren't the problem. Corporate welfare and a broken taxing structure are. We need to return to the tax rates in place in the 1970's and corporations and wealthy individuals need to stop getting a pass. This has been creeping oligarchy! 1181
Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 11/02/2025What are good alternatives to Google Mail? For Mac users. And if everyone has your Gmail, how do you change all of that? One by one? 000
Reposted by Catjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/02/2025a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job 8164488811048
Reposted by CatFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil. 651203275043
Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 02/02/2025They’ll FIND OUT at the gas pump, at the grocery store, at the mechanic shop, at the construction site, at the computer store, at the phone store… #tariffs 040
Reposted by CatKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/02/2025If you work in healthcare and can’t (or won’t) wear a mask for your patient… you need to find another job. Wearing a mask should not be optional. If a patient makes arrangements in advance, has their chart noted as “masks required” and you still say “No”? You don’t belong in patient care 1035562
Reposted by CatKatie Porter’s White Board @ohdangitevie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I dragged my ass into Meals on Wheels for my kitchen shift today. Lunch was roasted chicken with apples and herb gravy, roasted potatoes, and mixed vegetables. We sent out 737 meals, 169 special meals, and 574 frozen meals today. I am a wreck, but our volunteers were kind enough not to comment. 4364769
Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Trans Travel Ban??? Is Trump’s executive order a travel ban for trans people, in effect if not in name? This trans woman says it is. www.instagram.com/share/BAKLoX... 010
Reposted by Catâpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 31/01/2025It's really dystopian to see how digitizing everything, which was supposed to keep records safe, is instead being used to quickly purge information. We should have known I guess, but cripes. 824141642
Reposted by CatAllison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 31/01/2025‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB". The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence. 15257942487
Reposted by Cate.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 31/01/2025my little brother was one of the fatal fentanyl overdoses that is being used to justify tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and I can't think of a more cynical and disrespectful exploitation of a tragedy that has touched almost every family in this country 25290391294
Reposted by CatMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 31/01/2025The Trump Regime scrubbing health care data from federal websites is going to directly kill seriously chronically ill and acutely ill children and adults across the United States. Doctors rely on this information to make life and death treatment decisions. www.npr.org/sections/sho...npr.orgTrump administration purges websites across federal health agenciesResearch and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites. 15695362
Reposted by CatNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all. 526344388943
Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I needed to go to ER tonight, but I was totally incapacitated from stomach pain and vomiting. My caregiver is too elderly to drive at night + lives an hour away. An ambulance terrifies my rescue pup and she has seizures despite 3 meds for them. I was too sick to drive. #transplant 020
Reposted by CatDana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025When asked if he was going to visit the crash site he said, ‘what site? The water? You want me to go swimming?’ This is one of the last pics of the young skaters who died. He’s a sociopath. Anyone who voted for this monster should be ashamed at best. 25767620018445
Reposted by CatEric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 30/01/2025🛬UPDATE—Airport control tower was understaffed at time of DCA airport crash—one controller was working 2 different tower positions, normally done by 2 people—which FAA memo says was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic”. ➡️We should not downsize the FAA 22274942373
Reposted by CatTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/01/2025seeing just how much evangelical christianity is soaked into every pore of all this horseshit....... all the initatives to drive women and minorities from public life in particular..... their Obsession with hierarchy and obedience and submission -- it's everywhere, like the foulest smell 15267451258
Reposted by CatBrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Here's a clip from 2009, when President Obama spoke about the Continental Airlines crash -- the LAST time we had an airline crash with fatalities in America. He didn't blame Bush. He didn't blame Reagan. He just consoled America. A REAL Commander in Chief. 662224975375
Reposted by CatJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 30/01/2025You can't beat a kid into not being neurodivergent 722835
Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 30/01/2025My dad was an Air Force pilot, then a captain for TWA and also did #planecrash investigations. I asked him if it’s hard to land at that airport. His reply: Yes, for lots of reasons Washington National is tough. It was a good 1936 DC-3 airport. I think the helicopter pilot & ATC are at fault. 130
Reposted by CatMelissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Former Secretary of Transportation--who was not on The Real World or Road Rules--weighs in on the President's efforts to blame the fatal air traffic accident on DEI. 574296057048
Reposted by CatTracy Eastwood @tracyeastwood.bsky.social · 30/01/2025📍January 20: FAA director fired 📍January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen 📍January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded 📍January 28: Buyout-retirement demand sent to existing employees 📍January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years 11443189
Reposted by CatGod @thegodshow.com · 30/01/2025Donold is blaming a plane crash that killed 67 people on “DEI” with zero evidence. He is attempting to use racism to deflect from the fact it is HIS fault. He had just removed 100 FAA senior officials. It’s been 11 days and there are 67 bodies in the Potomac in Washington DC because of him. 22605514316745
Reposted by CatPat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 29/01/2025We have DEI because we have racism. DEI didn’t stop White people from getting anything. It just helped others to have a chance to get something they were qualified to have. 592184731
Reposted by CatDesarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I will never get over RFK Jr writing *only* his name on his entire Harvard admission and getting in, and not one Congressional member asking him how his admission was merit-based. 1056555
Reposted by CatAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 30/01/2025It’s far too soon to ascribe responsibility for the horrific DC plane collision, but it’s not too soon to say that dismantling the safeguards afforded by a functioning federal government put us at significant risk. And it’s irrefutable that, since January 20th, we are all less safe. 440176184442
Reposted by CatPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot 546354887837
Reposted by CatAbby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety. 275170045166
Reposted by CatMicah Bergdale @micahbergdale.bsky.social · 30/01/2025This is a terrible tragedy and it should be a headline of why we have a federal govt that spends federal dollars to keep airspace safe in America. 425919
Reposted by Catscha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 30/01/2025"Nothing says I'm a pro-life Christian quite like taking WIC formula away from infants." 10658951451
Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 30/01/2025On local tv, only CBS News has interrupted programming to report the plane crash. Other channels have game shows or cop shows. One channel is local news talking about weather and taxes. I don’t have cable news! 010
Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 30/01/2025PLANE CRASH IN DC: “60 passengers, 4 crew aboard commercial jet that collided mid-air with Blackhawk military helicopter” reports CBS News. Water rescue—or recovery—is ongoing, with emergency vehicles lined up at the water’s edge on both sides of the Potomac River. 041
Reposted by CatMS NOW @ms.now · 30/01/2025BREAKING: Plane crashes into Potomac River after collision with helicopter near Reagan National Airport 5446078
Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 30/01/2025CBS News reports a plane crash in Washington DC. Regional jet landing at airport collided with a Blackhawk helicopter. Passengers are in the water and First Responders are lining up for rescue—or recovery. My mom survived USAir flight 5050 which crashed on takeoff into the East River in NYC 1989. 382
Reposted by CatChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/01/2025The silence from Dems is deafening. We’re exhausted—looking for leadership and starting to feel desperate. Everything feels like it’s slipping away & electeds aren’t acknowledging it, let alone speaking on it. @dougjones.bsky.social sounds like someone who’s actually read the room. More of this! 1497203395893
Reposted by CatMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/01/2025RFK Jr. is far more than just an “anti-vaxxer.” Over the years, he’s made countless outrageous statements on a wide range of topics. We’ve compiled 10 of the wildest clips—though even that barely scratches the surface.meidasplus.com'Viruses Are Our Friend'— 10 Off the Wall Video Clips from RFK Jr. Resurface on BlueskyPast comments include denying AIDS and calling vaccinated children "damaged" 1181229327523
Reposted by CatDaniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 29/01/2025OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you. 318197483722
Reposted by CatPratzalots @pratzalots.bsky.social · 29/01/2025They need to expand access, not cut it off. Our health system is broken due to bloat & greed in the insurance & pharma industries, not bc of Medicaid. 2228
Reposted by CatJason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I have Crohn’s Disease, and without Medicaid, there’s no way I could afford my medication, which costs nearly $2,000 a month. Medicaid has been a lifesaver for me. You are wrong, RFK Jr. 853349544
Reposted by CatCALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 29/01/2025"Donald Trump's administration is lying to you." Gov. J.B. Pritzker slammed the White House for saying the freeze wouldn’t affect Head Start and Medicaid. This is how we do it. Call out Trump’s lies to the camera, bold, strong action. Hold him accountable, every single time. 413161625212
Reposted by CatADAPT Kentucky @kyblueblood.bsky.social · 29/01/2025 Not to mention every other agency that was affected. Jamie Raskin said that it ABSOLUTELY DOES MATTER how many people call that switchboard. The Capitol switchboard number is 202-224-3121. 2297
Reposted by CatADAPT Kentucky @kyblueblood.bsky.social · 29/01/2025The good news is that the Capitol Switchboard was LIT UP for every single representative and senator today over the pause in federal funding he signed last night. Medicaid portals across the country were shut down, and no one was getting paid. 743673
