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Katy Shanahan

@katyashanahan.bsky.social
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ohio | political lawyer | basically here to create chaos

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Katy Shanahan @katyashanahan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is the energy we need to see from every elected Democrat. Anything less simply will not suffice in this moment.
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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Call me Little Mary Sunshine, but I think this tariff fiasco is going to fuck him up. That plus the risk to Social Security/Medicaid. People *should* care about extralegal kidnappings, attacks on universities & law firms, all the fascist sickness, but they don’t. Financial chaos can break through
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Katy Shanahan @katyashanahan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
begging y'all to raise your standards for what you're demanding of your elected officials. the 25-hr speech wasn't a filibuster of any bills/noms, it didn't stop business as usual, and literally a minute after Booker yielded the floor the Dems allowed a vote for a Trump nominee go uninterrupted.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Can’t help but feel that if President Bernie Sanders pulled this move the entirety of American business would try to get him pushed out of office immediately.
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The tactics ICE is using--thugs in plain clothes kidnapping people simply for their political views--these tactics were developed by the US and spread across the world to hunt down Leftists from Latin America to Indonesia. They've also been used locally for decades to terrorize Black communities.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
How badly do you have to fuck up being the Democratic leader that Trump is praising and congratulating you????
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Katy Shanahan @katyashanahan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Eternally grateful to Kristen Clarke for bringing this suit when she headed the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. And proud of the A.M.E. Church for standing strong in the face of the “formerly known as Proud Boys’” attack.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Every Democratic Senator voted to confirm Rubio as Secretary of State. Every one of them should publicly demand that Rubio fire this man.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 03/02/2025
if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
if you haven't learned about the imperial boomerang today's as good a day as any
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Emily (normal NY version) @emkultra64.com · 29/01/2025
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Anxious Nation Waits For Democratic Party To Do Something, Anything In Face of Republican Assault On Life And Liberty
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A lot of Dem incumbents are going to be confused and upset to find their strongest challenger next primary is "anyone but you." I hope this shakes out to be more progressive, but it doesn't have to. Dem voters will just want anyone who doesn't seem as useless as the potatoes currently in the seats.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
A reminder of Pam Karlan's testimony at Donald Trump's impeachment hearing:
To see why, imagine living in a part of
Louisiana or Texas that’s prone to devastating hurricanes and flooding. What would you
think if, when your governor asked the federal government for the disaster assistance that
Congress has provided, the President responded, “‘I would like you to do us a favor.’
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/01/2025
Yeah I know no one wants to talk about the connection between the emissions associated with genocide and catastrophic hurricanes and fire storms but we share an atmosphere You can’t bomb Gaza and expect not to be touched by it
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 13/01/2025
I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
it’s kinda crazy that the thing threatening us most isn’t the fascists openly plotting how to kill us, but the democrats who promised to fight for us instead rapidly lining up beside the fascists, their immediate elimination of any friction to slow the assault - all to maintain their power.
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Some Senate Dems don’t even seem to have read the eight-page Laken Riley Act, preemptively handing Trump the vehicle through which to carry out mass deportations that could target nearly all immigrants. www.jezebel.com/democrats-sh...
jezebel.com
Democrats Show Zero Appetite for Resistance in 1st Major Fight vs. Trump 2.0
Some Senate Dems don’t even seem to have read the eight-page Laken Riley Act, preemptively handing Trump the vehicle through which to carry out mass deportations that could target nearly all immigrant...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/01/2025
the all but official position of the republican party is that voting for democrats disqualifies you from federal disaster assistance
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
fortune.com
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 08/01/2025
These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️
teenvogue.com
In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires
"You’re put in danger every time you’re on the fire line.”
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Some firefighters battling the Palisades fire in LA are reporting that hydrants are coming up dry. Southern California has gotten approximately .1 inches of rain since this past May. We need urgent climate action now. www.latimes.com/california/s...
latimes.com
As Pacific Palisades burns, firefighters report hydrants coming up dry: 'Water supply just dropped'
L.A. developer Rick Caruso, who owns Palisades Village, says he received reports that there was 'no water in the fire hydrants' as firefighters battled the Palisades fire.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 08/01/2025
“Blue no matter who,” they said.
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Anoosh, organizer @anoosh100.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Does the US have a mental health problem? Yes. Many Americans need access to mental health care and can’t get it. But that’s NOT why we have a problem with domestic terrorists and mass shooters. We have a RADICALIZATION problem that we are ignoring because one party promotes and benefits from it.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
One of the lessons of 2024 that Dem leadership will refuse to learn is that unfailing support for the Israeli right-wing isn't a necessary evil or clever Machiavellian ploy, it's a moral failure and strategic error with no electoral benefit.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
👇🏽🫤
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
This is an absolutely blatant abuse of power and a transparent effort to shield police from legitimate scrutiny. There is no other justification for this apart from a desire on the part of the state to make police brutality easier to get away with. bsky.app/profile/morg...
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/01/2025
Every John Roberts end-of-year report is dumber and smarmier than the one that came before it. Blaming isolated incidents of violence against judges on critics of the Court’s egregious right-wing hackery, and on this basis condemning ALL criticism of judges as dangerous and inappropriate. Pathetic.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
John Roberts is very upset that the public has lost confidence in John Roberts and the institution John Roberts leads following a series of confidence-cratering actions by John Roberts and his colleagues, and therefore would like everyone to know that this is not John Roberts' fault, it's yours.
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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I don’t really care much about award shows and ratings and chart numbers and sales figures, and I don’t really give a fuck if the “country industry” likes Beyonce or not…however: I do love this headline and I do love that that’s the photo they chose to run with it 🤷🏾‍♂️🤭
The text of the headline reads: “Beyoncé’s Half-Time Performance Pulled in 20 Million More Viewers Than Country Music Awards” and adds that the CMAs pulled in 6.08 million while Bey brought in 27 million.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
It’s easy for liberals to sneer at these voters and call them stupid but it’s a massive failure on the part of the Democrats to lose this messaging battle in the first places
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 22/12/2024
The thing that bothers me most — much like Feinstein — is the open contempt for constituents when this happens. The entitlement to believe that this power belongs to you, personally, when it is owned fully by your constituents is grotesque. I just can’t get past the selfishness.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
WATCH: “I believe they did that because what we’re doing is having an effect… They're being petty. But that's not going to stop us. Amazon warehouse in Queens, NY gushes water out onto the striking workers' picket line in below freezing temperatures. (H/T @btnewsroom.bsky.social )
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/12/2024
when you have anti-DEI proponents openly going after black military officers for recruiting from HBCUs and suing schools for their black and Hispanic enrollment *even after the schools ended any racial preferences* then the only honest label for these people is "segregationist"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/12/2024
i think it is very cool that the political press was basically uninterested in the fact that vance is openly adjacent to/pals around with far-right and Nazi-sympathetic maniacs
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
For years, former Black Panthers have feared that the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after its notorious COINTELPRO program. Malik Rahim had never been able to prove he was targeted. Now, government docs show he was correct.
thenation.com
When the Feds Are Still Watching
Former Black Panthers fear the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after COINTELPRO. In at least one case, they were right.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
More and more people are using the word “oligarchy” and talking about our broken health care system. Even Steve Bannon thinks we need to tax the rich and corporations more. The question is whether or not our broken campaign finance system will let us fix these things before it’s too late.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 21/12/2024
I want his lawyer to explicitly argue for jury nullification and put the entire health care system on trial. Put on the stand every relative of every claimant who died because UHC denied claims
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Katy Shanahan @katyashanahan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Truly *nothing* good happens in lame duck in Ohio and here is yet another example. Also cue my unending, unrepentant rage that Democrats helped lock in GOP supermajorities for the remainder of the decade so they can keep doing harmful shit like this, utterly unchecked. My fucking GOD.
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Erick Fernandez @erickfernandez.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This post from @alexnpress.bsky.social is just too on the nose of how law enforcement is used and implemented to protect the capital of the obscenely rich.
Tweet from Alex Press: “NYPD literally locking arms to protect Amazon’s operations lol”

5-6 NYPD officers locking arms with signs from striking Amazon employees are seen in the background.
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Katy Shanahan @katyashanahan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Under the cover of darkness, the Republican-led Ohio legislature passed a slew of harmful bills that don't reflect what we support, want, or need -- emboldened by a bipartisan gerrymander that'll lock them into illegal supermajorities for the remainder of the decade thx to the Dem minority leaders.
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx
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Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision
The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...
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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
"Terrorism" is a socially constructed term. If Luigi murdered a homeless Black man, the US would call him a hero. If he killed poor/sick Americans every day via insurance policy, they'd say "what about his family?" What’s happening is disgusting & anyone with a brain sees right through it
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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
(Outkast voice) drones over jersey
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
🤷🏻‍♀️ 🤷🏼‍♂️ 🤷🏽‍♂️🇺🇸
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Katy Shanahan @katyashanahan.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Classic episode of: When the Ohio GOP loses, they change the rules to support their efforts to kneecap our people power. After being unanimously swatted down for blocking a voting rights measure, new AG power issued by GOP legislators to squash our votes. Fuckin stooges, the lot of ‘em.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Luigi got them shook.
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