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Woke AF mostly retired educator, life-long progressive. Immigrant, bilingual/bicultural, political/herstory junkie. CA transplant. 🇧🇴 - 🇺🇸. Stand with 🇺🇦 + 🇵🇸 #GoodTrouble #NeverObeyInAdvance #StayCurious #ShowMeReceipts #ItsBS&ImNotInterested 🚫DMs 🚫 MAGA

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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The Rahm Bomb
He’s the single worst Democratic hopeful now (almost) running for president. Democratic midterm candidates be warned: stay away from him.
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I got Liberal Arts Left on Searchlight Institute's Political Neighborhoods Quiz. www.searchlightinstitute.org/political-ne...
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Liberal Arts Left | Political Neighborhoods Quiz
You are in the Liberal Arts Left, so you are as progressive as it gets - passionate, educated, younger, and maybe reading this in your walkable city's finest third space.
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Aida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Are you registered to vote? #Pinks #USDemocracy
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio... Powerful message for Democrat party establishment.
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Video: Opinion | What Black Voters in Georgia Want and Aren’t Getting
In Georgia, where Black voters could help decide control of the U.S. Senate, the Times Opinion writer Mara Gay asks some what they want from America and the Democratic Party.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
How Ukraine Is Making Inroads Into Once-Hostile Territory: MAGA www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u... Imagine, an influencer deployed to influence the president. That’s where we are now 🤷🏽‍♀️
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How Ukraine Is Making Inroads With MAGA and a Trump Ally, Laura Loomer
Ukraine and its supporters have invested years in trying to undo the skepticism of the country’s war effort harbored by President Trump’s MAGA movement and the president himself.
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Are Data Centers Really That Bad?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Hands Off Our Vote!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
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Hands Off Our Vote! · Mobilize
Join Indivisibles across the country for the kickoff call for Hands Off Our Vote, Indivisible’s national program to ensure all eligible voters get to cast their ballot, and that those ballots get coun...
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Beautiful sentiment from the Socceroos about the impact and meaning of el jogo bonito! ⚽💯
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Fewer Americans say democracy is central to country's identity, AP-NORC poll finds apnews.com/article/ap-p... This should concern all of us. This last decade has been a truly awful slide into pessimism.
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Fewer Americans say democracy is central to country's identity, AP-NORC poll finds
A new AP-NORC poll finds that as the U.S. prepares for an extravagant celebration of its founding principles, fewer Americans see their country or its system of government as exceptional.
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/libertyl... Cogent analysis of the weaponization of energy access.
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Iran Is Weaponizing Energy — Welcome to the New Economic Normal
How asymmetric energy shocks exposed the fragility of a globalized economy
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “Pledge to Participate: Good Trouble x All Roads to the South x No Kings” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Pledge to Participate: Good Trouble x All Roads to the South x No Kings · No Kings
This recent ruling, SCOTUS essentially authorized partisan gerrymandering to override Black voters' right to meaningful representation, erasing decades of progress in a single ruling. People fought, ...
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o... This is a sobering piece of writing, especially the “hinge” moments in recent history now obvious in retrospect.
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Opinion | Meet the New Leader of the Free World
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o... I yearn for the day when we can do the same for Corporate criminals In the US.
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Opinion | A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Tell Congress to Say No to Warrantless AI Mass Surveillance act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-co...
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Tell Congress to Say No to Warrantless AI Mass Surveillance
The War on Terror-era legislation that authorized decades of civil liberties-eroding mass surveillance is set to expire on April 19. Congress should let it die. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence...
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/w.... “In Hungary, it is not that the oligarchs bought themselves into power; instead, politics captured the state and then found oligarchs to carry out its will.” Sound familiar????
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This Hungarian Town Explains Why Orban Could Lose on Sunday
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/o... This is the oligarchic regressive leadership tRump and Vance are supporting. Never let Vance forget his treachery.
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Opinion | He Was ‘Trump Before Trump.’ Now He’s in Trouble.
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
open.substack.com/pub/mmansour... “We need massive turnout by people who don’t turnout last time or who are disgusted by Trump after having felt betrayed.”
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Is America A Managed Democracy?
if we aren’t yet there, we are well on our way; it’s up to us to stop the process
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n... People of conscience in military acting on the moral injury this criminal administration is causing among members.
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There's growing disquiet in the military. The Iran war made it worse
Since Trump began his second term, his administration's use of the armed forces has left a growing number in the military unsettled, according to NPR interviews with service members and advocates.
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
America’s Moral Injury Pandemic - TIME Moral Injury - the threat under tRump: A line that once felt secure now appears to have broken. Codes of conduct you’ve always relied on are twisted or ignored.  apple.news/ASDEbOZSxQE-...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
open.substack.com/pub/libertyl... Smart and frightening commentary but be liable too.
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Sounding the Alarm: Why the War in Iran Is More Dangerous Than We’re Being Told
How Impulsive Escalation, Weakened Institutions, and Downplayed Risks Leave Americans Exposed at Home
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026
NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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Madison @madison8.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
If you can’t read the article because of the paywall, here is a summary. South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace used to make her staffers go on late-night booze runs, clean her house, and boost her on forums discussing the “hottest women in Congress”—and that was all before things got really bad.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Cartoon by Matt Reuter @newyorker.com.
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Children raped and killed. American citizens shot in the street. Immigrants illegally shackled, tortured, killed. Journalists arrested. While a $300 million ballroom is constructed and a trash documentary released.
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Steve F 🇬🇧🇿🇦 @stevef63.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This seems to be the issue,lack if guts. No idea why though.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
THIS 👇 HERE......
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026
Buttigieg on Fox News: "Seeing an American taken to the ground, having his gun removed, being shot in the back 10 times, then having the govt say he was a terrorist all along based on no evidence.. those are kinds of things that as painful as they are, can actually bring together a lot of Americans"
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
A new poll released yesterday: Republicans Are Rapidly Turning on Donald Trump - Newsweek share.google/FZ61y0FSNI83...
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Republicans are rapidly turning on Donald Trump
A new poll found key measures of GOP support for the president's leadership, ethics, and agenda have declined over the past year.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY 💯%........
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Respect. 👊
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o... Spread this far and wide. Tools to ensure fair elections from federal overreach.
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Opinion | Trump Could Interfere With the Midterm Elections. You Can Help Defend Them.
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Opinion | Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this - The Guardian This is so sad…and true.
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I'm attending No Kings's event, “Eyes on ICE: Document and Record” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Eyes on ICE: Document and Record · No Kings
On Saturday, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in...
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 26/01/2026
1/2 There’s something happening here. State violence. Then state lies. Renee Good. Alex Pretti. Murdered and then defamed to excuse it. Decent Americans do not stand for this. We, the people do not stand for this. Use the link in my thread to call & write the senate. Keep the pressure up. C
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 25/01/2026
Read their names. Nine people have died in ICE custody or during ICE operations in 2026. Every one of them mattered. Call Congress. ICE should NOT be funded. 📱 202-224-3121 #SheShed #Voices4Victory
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Here’s TMZ with a headline every outlet that cares about the truth should have. www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
They owe her, and all of us, an apology.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Wolves have a moment of silence for Alex Pretti, after seven seconds of silence several fans yell "FUCK ICE"
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
There are now at least 100 House members signed on to our effort to impeach Kristi Noem. Where the hell are the rest of them? Let’s ask:
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Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
Contact Congress today!
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o... Brilliant article on the prerogative state.
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Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
How the Trump Administration Hacked Our Ignorance www.nytimes.com/video/opinio... tRump admin has “Hacked civic ignorance”
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Video: Opinion | How the Trump Administration Hacked Our Ignorance
David French explains on “The Opinions” why he believes a key secret to the Trump administration lies in its ability to exploit “civic ignorance.”
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
“It’s like modern-day slavery.” Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.
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Former models for Donald Trump's agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally
"It's like modern-day slavery."
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Jim Swanson @jimswanson.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Trump tried to scrub Jan. 6 intel — but NPR stopped it National Public Radio reported that an investigation uncovered President Donald Trump's efforts to eliminate all information and intelligence related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. tinyurl.com/ToxW7g
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Trump administration tried to scrub Jan. 6 intel — but NPR stopped it
National Public Radio reported that an investigation uncovered President Donald Trump's efforts to eliminate all information and intelligence related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Accordin...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.
Screenshot of a post by Acyn on X summarizing comments by Representative Dan Goldman. The post states that Goldman criticized the justification for pursuing Nicolás Maduro on drug trafficking charges, calling it bogus and noting that the Honduran president was recently pardoned for similar offenses. Below the text is a television news still from MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki. Dan Goldman appears on screen in a studio or remote setup, wearing a dark jacket and light shirt, speaking directly to the camera. A nighttime city skyline with illuminated buildings is visible behind him. On-screen graphics include a red “Breaking News” banner reading “Maduro arrives in NY to face drugs and weapons charges,” along with Goldman’s name, title, and MSNBC branding.
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... This made me laugh out loud…bitterly. Cheers
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Trump’s Very Weird Night at the Kennedy Center Honors
The president and I both got our heart’s desire. But something felt wrong.
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CuriousCat🐈‍⬛🤨🧶🤔💙🦋 @lacata1.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti... This is the kind of harm this cruel administration is causing. Migration decisions are rife with danger and loss. To be treated criminally for the failures of your own home government and then be victim to your adopted one is absolutely horrifying.
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He followed the law while waiting for asylum. ICE still tore him from his Oakland home
In Oakland, this 20-year-old man was paying taxes and a mortgage while his asylum case proceeded. Then ICE whisked him to a detention center in another state.
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