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Richard Catalano

@fabiancat.bsky.social
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Retired Professor, 40 years developing the science of prevention through positive youth development. Loves democracy. I repost selected Substacks I block 🚫 Magats 🚫 DM 🚫 Porn and those with few posts

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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 8m
"Right now, American healthcare is in shambles because charlatans and conspiracists are in charge of everything, as are people who see it as their mission in life to scam as much money out of the American people..." open.substack.com/pub/marytrum...
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The Art of the Scam: Healthcare for Sale
Follow the money
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 15h
"First, unchecked AI presents a significant threat to humanity. Second, those responsible for developing the technology admit they still don’t fully understand the speed or depth of the calamities we might be facing." open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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March Us Toward the Summit, Not the Chasm
By Governor JB Pritzker
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 21h
"So, at a time when more than 70% of Americans fear AI and want the government to regulate it, Trump entered into a deal that handed control of AI to the men most likely to profit from its unregulated development." roberthubbell.substack.com/p/republican...
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Republicans are not only failing to meet the moment, they are also failing to anticipate the future.
September 30, 2026
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Speaker Mike Johnson was asked on CNBC what his legislative agenda is if Republicans keep the majority: “What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already. Filipkowski "I’m not sure that’s a winning message." open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 470. 9/29/26
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Amen!
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"To be clear, sir, Americans, and people everywhere, understand your threat to unleash the unthinkable evil of mass destruction, not as a strong response to Iranian provocation, but as an ugly effort to mask your own catastrophic failures." open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
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You Don't Get to Annihilate a Nation
Donald Trump’s appalling U.N. speech was not a strong response to Iranian provocation, but an ugly effort to mask his own catastrophic failures.
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amen!
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Most of Trump’s voter suppression efforts have been defeated, delayed, or minimized. A fair amount of the “election interference” scenarios have been taken off the table." roberthubbell.substack.com/p/door-by-do...
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Door by door, voter by voter, Democrats are fighting the good fight!
September 29, 2026
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Donald Trump doesn’t respect the law; he simply sees it as an impediment to doing what he wants to do. And when he learns he can get away with flouting it, he will not hesitate to do so again. And again. " joycevance.substack.com/p/consequenc...
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Consequences
Last Thursday, the White House, almost as soon as Judge Kelly entered his order forcing the administration to restore access to CNN, MSNOW, and Politico, began searching for play in the joints.
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Alaska, he highlighted Mary Peltola and the relatively inexpensive media market. In Iowa, he pointed to Josh Turek’s late push. And in Kansas, he discussed Adam Hamilton’s campaign and the possibility that additional grassroots money could have an outsized impact" substack.com/@ronfilipkow...
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Ask the Editor: Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Ads, the Senate Map, and Vance’s Midterm Strategy – 9/28/26
Ron Filipkowski joins Luke Radel to answer subscriber questions on Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads, key Senate races, Susan Collins, and JD Vance’s midterm strategy.
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AOC "AI needs two things. It needs capital-intensive resources. But it also needs an uneducated population that cannot think, that is not educated, that relies on it so that they can sell cognition back to us.”
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"So, as Trump is running an ad on NFL Sunday, saying, “We will defeat the communists,” he is offering to sell weapons to communist China." As always trumps actions not his words show his true colors. Red carpet for our enemies. trump is a traitor! roberthubbell.substack.com/p/with-five-...
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With five weeks to go, Democrats have seized the momentum and control the narrative
September 28, 2026
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"In short, defeat of white Christian nationalism at the hands of a diverse political electorate that includes millions of faithful Christians would be transformative for Democrats, democracy, and American Christianity." open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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A Defining Moment of Religious Pluralism
🚨 36 Days to the Midterms 🚨
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The need to retake the House and the Senate—and deploy our collective power to hold the Trump regime accountable—could not be clearer. The only way we truly overcome this dark chapter is by refusing to forgive and forget." open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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Rats Are Fleeing the Sinking Ship
But they have waited too long and are still too few in number to change the outcome of a likely Democratic tsunami
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I think this election is becoming not just an opportunity to regain power in Washington and all across the country but to do severe damage to the legitimacy of the regime and the MAGA project itself" open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
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Trump Has Become What He Feared Most - Impotent, Not Powerful
One of the most impressive candidates of the cycle, Paige Cognetti (PA-08), joins us live today at 230pm ET
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"open letter from nearly 300 DOJ employees who have left DOJ under Trump. The Trump DOJ, the employees wrote, is ‘taking a sledgehammer’ to long-standing work to ‘protect communities and the rule of law.’” open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 468. 9/27/26
… US Ambassador to China David Perdue said on Fox that in their recent meeting Trump asked President Xi if China wanted to buy weapons systems from the US: “Trump continues say that we sell arms to ot...
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Johnson "When people are promising free things, you must ask what the real price is. It is your freedom. It will drive costs up. It will ruin the economy. It will make people more dependent upon government, and that’s the communist’s ultimate goal. … Republicans are promising $5,000 checks
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Peter Thie "There are a lot of things I got wrong. He was crazier than I thought. More dangerous than I thought.”
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💯💯💯💯
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"That energy you’re feeling? That shift in the polls? All very real. It’s the very harsh, well-deserved clapback from Americans who have decided that bullies deserve to be punched in the nose and with vigor. " deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/china-help...
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China helps Iran kill Americans yet corporate media doesn’t call out Trump’s Treason of celebrating China’s leader?!
This is TREASON by Trump!
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good Reading! @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @suzandelbene.bsky.social @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"So Xi is helping kill Americans yet Trump is making our troops get on their knees to clean the rug so he can walk down the red carpet?!!" deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/china-help...
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China helps Iran kill Americans yet corporate media doesn’t call out Trump’s Treason of celebrating China’s leader?!
This is TREASON by Trump!
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Senator Richard Blumenthal "I just left a classified briefing on the defense budget leaving me shocked and deeply alarmed about what China is doing to aid Iran, which is seeking to kill our military men and women. I think the American people should be shocked.”
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Senator Roger Wicker “It was all over the press that China gave Iran satellite imagery intelligence and that led to the death of American troops. So, I would certainly suggest that the president try to get an answer to that.”
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another set of high crimes and misdemeanors. Impeach trump, vance and the entire cabinet. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @suzandelbene.bsky.social @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 26, 2026
Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"love you guys! I mean that from the bottom of my heart! I wouldn’t have been able to get through this year without you." Nor could we without you. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/be-best-be...
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Be Best. Be Quiet. Or Be Bankrupted.
Melania Trump is selling a story about lifting women up. I’m the mother of two she tried to frighten into submission.
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"But Patel’s response when asked, was that he changed the standard to protect the victims of bestiality. So, I guess, in this unthinkable scenario, the sheep is the perpetrator, and the guy with his pants unzipped is the victim?" Vote for a criminal, get criminals open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
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Kash Patel Isn't Bad at His Job. He's Doing Exactly What He Was Hired to Do.
Lowered standards, scuttled alliances, and looking the other way: inside the law enforcement doctrine of Trump II.
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Every time we wince at another MAGA majority opinion, we should resolve to significantly expand the Court to break the death grip the MAGA majority has on the Constitution." roberthubbell.substack.com/p/addressing...
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Addressing reader concerns about the Supreme Court’s SAVE database decision.
September 26, 2026
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Trump continues to be servile and fawning around dictators, as if he is desperate to be admitted to their exclusive and powerful club." substack.com/@simonwdc/no...
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Trump Is A Ridiculous Buffoon, Troy Jackson Leads In 2 New Maine Polls, Cook: “GOP On Track To Lose House Majority”
Paige Cognetti (PA-8) is joining us live Monday 230pm ET, Cait Conley (NY-17) 1pm Tuesday
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Trump is a loser and a huckster whose only real talent is the ability to sniff out weakness in others and exploit it before he turns on them. That, and a complete lack of shame, self-awareness, and empathy, attributes he has used to make dirty money." roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trumps-ass...
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Trump’s assistant, Natalie Harp, loses first round in court battle over press ban
September 25, 2026
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Most senators saw right through the haze. Their vote against the CLARITY Act stands as a watershed moment against the president’s unprecedented self-dealing." open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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On Crypto, Congress Has a Moment of Clarity
The Senate’s vote against the CLARITY Act is good for Americans.
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"But he’s done something worse: Turn the US into a dispensable ally, a patsy for China, a punchline for Canada, a defeated power hobbled by the Middle East, and a human rights miscreant." open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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COURT STRIKES DOWN MEDIA BAN; Trump’s Weakness Is Apparent to the Whole World
🚨40 Days to the Midterms🚨
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There are enough high crimes and misdemeanors for weekly impeachments since trump became president
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
O9km
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"What they’re really a danger to is, of course, the President’s ability to get away with grotesque misconduct, whether it's his son’s Russian oligarch-paid post-wedding party, or his most recent efforts to suppress the vote." joycevance.substack.com/p/king-trump...
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King Trump: Privileges, Not Rights
It’s all about whether the press can criticize the president
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Amen!
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"MAGA’s favorite station – Fox News – just shifted a bunch of red state races in Democrats’ favor. One thing they all have in common? Big populations of disillusioned rural voters." open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
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Rural Voters Are Out of Gas for Trump
Farm failures jumped 46%, agribusiness is buying up small towns, and rural voters are rewarding Trump with record-low approval.
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Friends, things are breaking our way but that should cause us to work even harder now. For the opportunity we have to take power away from them all across the country may be the most significant of my many years in politics. " open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...
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“The Republican Freak Out Is Here”
Jamie Ager (NC-11) joins us live today at 130pm ET/Hopium paid subscribers gather tonight at 7pm
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1 "The White House press corps has proven itself inadequate to meet the moment, and has lost access, prestige, and credibility as a result. But capitulation is a choice. The current standoff is the ideal time for responsible outlets to adjust, start behaving open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Four Changes to Help the White House Press Recover Its Spine
🚨41 Days to the Midterms🚨
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Authoritarian regimes have overlapped grand architectural projects with military or defensive claims to justify cost, seize land, or insulate projects from oversight." open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
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The Architecture of Autocracy
First came the $400 million ballroom. Now Trump’s Arch isn’t just a monument to himself—it’s a fortress against us.
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Banning the media from the White House is a sign of desperation and weakness from a man whose tender feelings have been hurt by truthful reports of his awful performance as president. It is, of course, a grave constitutional violation..." roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-ente...
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Trump enters the Wile E. Coyote phase of his presidency.
September 22, 2026
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thank you. Newly downloaded
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Its criminal
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yay, yay, yay!
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Donald Trump’s daily tantrums, unhinged outbursts and erratic, vengeful attacks on Americans and allies alike are essentially factored in as just a fact of life and not deserving of ongoing critical coverage. What gives here?" open.substack.com/pub/america/...
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We Are Facing a Psychiatric Emergency
The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"California consumers and workers are well served by Bonta’s lawsuit — and would be betrayed if he abandoned it." open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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AGs Must Not Cave to Paramount’s Empty Threat to Leave California
No company should be allowed to bully a state into abandoning its job of protecting consumers.
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lincoln Project "Donald Trump is not fit. He hasn’t been for a long time. He’s slipping. And the longer we let him hang around, the worse it’s going to get. That’s why we’re making sure the calls to remove Donald Trump don’t go away."
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shave her head
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Amen!
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Richard Catalano @fabiancat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
US president is a convicted felon and rapist, racist, murderer of fishermen and those he kills in illegal wars, and traitor to the constitution and provides our enemies with safe harbor
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