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KathCLeSage

@kcl71.bsky.social
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Non-fiction editor/proofreader. Late-'80s-#GeneralHospital fan. Mom of 2 teens and 2 doggos. Merry golf widow. Depressed Dem. She/Her

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KathCLeSage @kcl71.bsky.social · 2h
Um, if Hispanic people had magical abilities to scale great heights and survive long falls, his goddamn border wall would be useless. IJS.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h
wat
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4h
Keep saying his name. #NolanWells
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 4h
OOF!
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 4h
"If Warren G. Harding had kept his hands off Teapot Dome, gas would be under two dollars a gallon."
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Third Summers Brother @hugetinymistake.bsky.social · 4h
This is, of course, illegal. He's admitting that he would discriminate, and that's why women shouldn't have rights in the workplace.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
juliaserano.medium.com
On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 7h
It is actually completely clear from context clues.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7h
✍🏾 MY LATEST: I wrote about the moral panic Republicans manufactured about trans girls in sports. I decided to turn all my yelling on social media about trans girls in sports into a column.
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The Panic Over Trans Athletes is Fake: Opinion
Republicans have manufactured a crisis in women’s sports, just in time for the midterm elections. Democrats should find the courage to defend trans children—or at the very least, leave them alone.
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Dale Chapman 🍁 @decmusicology.bsky.social · 5h
It would be worth it just to see the grim, truculent expression on her face as she has to stand there, listening to him urge Mainers to build data centers, while insisting gas prices are lower than ever Do for Collins what you've already done for Chris Christie! lol
Famous meme where Trump is bloviating, with Chris Christie at his side, while the camera slow zooms on Christie's increasingly helpless and pitiful face 

They are standing in front of a row of US flags, both wearing dark blue suits, Trump with a bright royal blue tie, Christie with a patterned light pink one
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Redshift ❌👑 @redshift42.bsky.social · 6h
It's often more than projection, it's used to justify their rule- and lawbreaking. "We know they're cheating (even though we have no evidence) so we *have* to cheat or they'd have an unfair advantage!"
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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 7h
This is the point that I make in conversation all the time. They’re telling on themselves. When they make these wild accusations, it’s because it’s exactly the kind of thing they are willing to do when they have the power to do so. That’s it. It’s as simple as that.
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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 6h
This is it. Whether or not Smith met with Willis actually has nothing to do with the strength of their two cases against Trump. They are trying gin up a conspiracy out of thin air because Trump insists there is one against him. Catching him in a like makes it look like there is something to hide.
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sympathizer of many, many different dimensions @miasmo.bsky.social · 7h
The party of "law and order" can't fathom that someone might be prosecuted because he broke laws.
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Hello! @doczeus.bsky.social · 5h
The GOP objection to the Trump prosecutions is essentially tautological. They wanted the coup to succeed and therefore, he shouldn't have been prosecuted for it because they wanted the coup to succeed. It doesn't really enter their minds that what he did was a crime.
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Brian M. Wise: Snarkasaurus Rex. Ω, MFers. @brianmwise.bsky.social · 6h
Like "coordinated legal attack from the DOJ" is in fact how this works because concurrent criminal investigations usually wind up with multiple charges in multiple jurisdictions. "It's political!!!!" Yes because he committed political crimes. Election fraud is inherently political. Now, STFU
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 7h
I think a lot about Biden/Garland keeping David Weiss on as US Attorney, because they didn't want to meddle with the Hunter probe. And then Garland elevating Weiss to special counsel so he could convict Hunter. And this having ZERO IMPACT on the GOP certainty that Biden was rigging the DOJ
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 6h
This is wrong: Trump and Republicans in Congress gave BILLIONS in tax breaks to Big Tech companies building AI data centers. So YOUR tax dollars are subsidizing their AI data centers — at the same time you pay higher electricity and water bills.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h
it's telling that instead of letting the free market decide who's labor is more valuable they are passing laws to mandate lack of freedom of movement for (young, black) players to put the thumb back on the scale for (older, white) coaches
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 14h
Cartoonist: Mike Smith
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 7h
A CT scan of Trump's brain probably looks like a QR code by now.
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothy-raccoon.bsky.social · 11h
I'm happy with some water and fruit ❤️❤️ #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon #JimothyTheRaccoon
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 5h
This guy. Bet he called himself the Epstein club consigliere.
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 12h
Facts, plain and straightforward 💯🎯
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h
On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?
nytimes.com
OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 15h
Why did we allow the man who instigated January 6 to run for President again!??
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KathCLeSage @kcl71.bsky.social · 7h
RAWR 🐆
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ifollowonlyos.bsky.social @ifollowonlyos.bsky.social · 7h
"Although some Trump supporters held signs calling for “mass deportations now” during the 2024 campaign, Ms. Vuittonet never thought such deportations would include people she knew who had lived in the United States for decades." - this line infuriates me Eric
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 7h
You & me knew Trump was going to quickly deport hard-working law-abiding immigrants & impose onerous tariffs on US, but NYT & Corporate Media relentlessly promoted Latinos were aligning with Trump because they believed he was going to slash inflation & protect good immigrants, never correcting them.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 7h
Breaking character: I hate to use this account for political strategizing but the ball needs to get rolling on this....when Dems take the House they've got to focus on impeaching Hegseth. He can be be blamed for the Iran war plus he's a drunk and a criminal.
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KathCLeSage @kcl71.bsky.social · 7h
Not to mention, when someone tries to overturn an election, I personally WANT federal and state law enforcement to coordinate and cooperate.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 7h
Brought to you by the people who call Don Jr & Jared Kushner having a documented meeting with Russian spies a hoax.
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McJulie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 7h
These guys really do seem to think that AI is some kind of magical genie that will banish for all time all those annoying self-willed humans our current elites hate so much: workers, voters, experts, even consumers.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 17h
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 10h
Jack Smith told the truth about the darkest certification of votes we have ever seen. Republicans continue to live in denial and support Trump lies to this day. The President of the United States is the enemy within!
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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 20h
Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.
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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ
Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h
"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 9h
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Jennifer 🦋🐶☕️🦋 @jenelliot.bsky.social · 18h
#NOMORE
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tat1111.bsky.social @tat1111.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fact that the felon Donald Trump pardoned other criminals that did his bidding in his insurrection and then enabled by the elected Republicans proves they are one big criminal cabal. Trump is an illegitimate president that the Seditious Six on SCOTUS gave an unconstitutional ruling of immunity.
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Dogs10Gods0 @johnjado.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They're all trash. 😡🚮
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The same people who's mantra was "back the blue" immediately pivoted to "back the blue...except the ones trying to stop an insurrection at the Capitol, fuck those guys." This was the moment that confirmed that MAGA is a cult, choosing violent criminals over police officers. All for their leader.
“IT’S INCONCEIVABLE TO
ME HOW YOU CAN PARDON 
PEOPLE WHO BEAT POLICE 
OFFICERS… AND THEN 
VILIFY THE OFFICERS”
Jack Smith
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David Houghton @dfhoughton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They switched from "back the blue" to "beat them black and blue". They back the blue when they think the blue are corrupt thugs who will break the law on their behalf. As soon as they prove otherwise, they beat them with flagpoles.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h
Took my son to see AC/DC in Philly last night and I can report that Angus Young has fully transformed into David St. Hubbins from Spinal Tap
An old man in a kids uniform rocking out
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9h
Despite his best efforts, Trump isn't going to establish a consolidated autocracy before he's gone, thankfully relatively soon. But it matters how much he's repudiated as a disgraceful aberration. Because if not, he's just setting the floor for what the next wannabe dictator can get away with.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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