Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 02/05/2025It’s always been weird to me that we don’t really have a WWI monument in DC. There’s a small gazebo on the Mall 110
Reposted by Spotted catKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/04/2025If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself. 784392437829
Reposted by Spotted catJessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Everything you've ever wanted to know about sending @propublica.org reporters tips: www.propublica.org/tips/#common...propublica.orgHow to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublicaOur job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence. 211164
Reposted by Spotted catSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15/04/2025I've been clear: if President Bukele doesn't want to meet here in D.C., then I intend to go to El Salvador this week to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's condition and discuss his release. Kilmar was illegally ABDUCTED and deported by the Trump Admin. He must be brought home NOW.youtube.comIf Bukele doesn't want to meet in D.C., I'll go to El Salvador to check on Kilmar Abrego GarciaYouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen 63294221987
Reposted by Spotted catAndrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do 199153303607
Reposted by Spotted catElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025The fact that the government is using charges of antisemitism to justify sending people to concentration camps is the most enraging manipulation of discourse that the current fascists have engaged in thus far. They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews. 442606693
Reposted by Spotted catAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/04/2025DOGE abruptly cut a program called Charting My Path for Future Success—a research-based effort that helped teens with disabilities transition from high school into college, work, and independent living. Now it’s gone without explanation. 16940441131
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Love to watch people in my network hired for the same job another network contact just lost due to questionable management practices. Like, “hey! So glad you got that job! Didn’t they just get rid of everyone there?” Is the new hire a “scab” for accepting? 010
Reposted by Spotted catThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/04/2025For the past 20 years, an 8-by-9-foot room on the top floor of a disheveled house in Connecticut was a prison cell for a boy last seen by the outside world when he was in the fourth grade. When firefighters found him, he was 32-year-old man who weighed 68 pounds. nyti.ms/4i4zyQH 1921751
Reposted by Spotted catThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/04/2025Capitals star Alex Ovechkin has tied Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career goals record with goal No. 894. Ovechkin scored the 894th goal of his NHL career in the third period Friday against the Chicago Blackhawks to draw even with Gretzky. It was his second goal of the night.washingtonpost.comAlex Ovechkin ties Wayne Gretzky’s NHL career goals record with No. 894No. 894 came on home ice for Ovechkin, whose Washington Capitals are facing the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday. 2528142
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Super fun to be unemployed in DC, because then you start looking at ALL the possible jobs and see one for a senior intelligence officer that lists "Language skills such as Dari, Pashto, German or Italian" among the qualifications. Seems like a big tell, no? 110
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The Catholic Church hopes to create more destitute so they can swoop in and help and look oh so charitable! 010
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 31/03/2025This is already outdated, @aljazeera.com. It says "Italy places no limit on how far back you can trace your ancestry to claim citizenship," but they just announced a huge change to that last week aje.io/z5o426aje.ioWhy are so many Americans applying for second passports?Political and economic uncertainty as well as fear of Trump orders are driving Americans to seek other citizenships. 010
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 31/03/2025The time has long passed, but I find it weird and troubling that no one ever questioned the results of the 2024 election. IMHO the Dems shot themselves in the foot on that purity test, even if Kamala didn't have the numbers. 000
Reposted by Spotted catKevinPike @capespear.bsky.social · 18/03/2025We have no evidence you are a risk. Which is why you are a risk. If Kafka were alive today, he’d be drafting national security briefs. 07510
Reposted by Spotted catDr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Ah, he never disappoints. 12965511532
Reposted by Spotted catWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 08/03/2025Down, down to hell, and say I sent thee thither— [Stabs him again.] 867982
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I passed this place in downtown dc the other day and kept thinking it would be a great name for the Johnson house 😂 000
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Been happening for a while. JDV is a great example 000
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 23/02/2025It’s simple. If people you know aren’t freaking out about the state of the world, then you have to wonder what’s in it for them 000
Reposted by Spotted catJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Good that the Times is tracking his deeds and words like this. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Next level would be to organize all the known steps in democracy's replacement by authoritarian governance, and report it as news when he reaches them, so that we know where we are— and what remains. 26791202
Reposted by Spotted catAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23/02/2025He's openly admitting they're going to use the military to do illegal things and fired all the lawyers so no one will stop them. They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen. 962249649
Reposted by Spotted catSeth D. Michaels @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 23/02/2025“I took an oath not to drink anything toxic, but we’ll never know if this paint is toxic unless we drink a whole can of it” 1943381
Reposted by Spotted catBrian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 23/02/2025ballsack sports broke character 393195536
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 23/02/2025As Germany goes to the polls, I recall my German friend telling me that his boss gets an alert if he’s logged in for more than 10 hours during the workday ✨ 100
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I stayed up late last night to write about the German elections and I was curious about some stats….this NCJR report is no longer there 🙃 110
Reposted by Spotted catJordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 22/02/2025the rise of the fascist nerds was anticipated by Ellen Ullman's 1995 essay "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life." 331905705
Reposted by Spotted catJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/02/2025I think we're seeing what happens when one side builds a coalition around collective outrage, and the other side mistakes the appeal of collective outrage for the appeal of particular policies. 446279
Reposted by Spotted catDuchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Maintain your sanity, friends. Maintain your joy and peace while you continue to put your back into the work that needs doing. 1956669
Reposted by Spotted catMax Quinn @maximillianquinn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Make no mistake about this. Despite the bemused deference with which the media will cover this story, the idea of the US depopulating Gaza and then redeveloping it is an enormous crime against humanity. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-n...cbsnews.comWatch Live: Trump says U.S. will "take over Gaza Strip" during news conference with NetanyahuIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit President Trump in his second term. 11333107
Reposted by Spotted catwint @dril.bsky.social · 30/12/2024if i was a snapping turtle i would never let people put things in my mouth for an instagram reel . i would show a little more tact than most 275534583
Reposted by Spotted catjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/12/2024the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment 10315253812124
Reposted by Spotted catMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 25/12/2023James Merrill’s “Christmas Tree,” written when he was dying of AIDS. 19810299
Reposted by Spotted catAndrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 13/12/2023ICYMI, nobody should have to flee their home to access medical care, including an abortion, which anybody should be able to have at any time without having to justify any of it to anyone 1676147
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 13/12/2023In which I discover my lineage to the augurs of Ancient Rome open.substack.com/pub/italofil...open.substack.comThankful 🙏On gratitude, augury, and vultures 000
Reposted by Spotted catsky @iamspacegirl.bsky.social · 22/06/2023I have never in my life learned from another person’s mistakes, I would literally let a giant wooden horse into my house right this second. 643261606
Reposted by Spotted catCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 08/11/2023SEVEN FOR FUCKING SEVEN. PAY ATTENTION, HAPLESS DEM CAMPAIGN MANAGERS 0131
Reposted by Spotted catThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/11/2023Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky won a second term on Tuesday, earning a noteworthy victory for a Democrat in a deeply conservative state. One of the most popular governors in the U.S., Beshear led in polls throughout the at times bitterly contested race. nyti.ms/462ESOD 626229
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 05/11/2023Serious question: does “above the fold” placement of an article matter anymore? 000
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 30/10/2023Does anyone else watch a ton of PBS? If yes, do you get a ton of BDO ads? Curious who else may be riding the same algorithm as me 000
Reposted by Spotted catEd Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 24/10/2023The speaker shenanigans are happening because y’all laughed too hard at Britain and the lettuce last year 481791332
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 24/10/2023Is it possible the Rs are just doing what TFG does in courtrooms? Delay delay delay 010
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 17/10/2023I have no idea where to post anything, so I’m going to post this everywhere and see what happens: I have a seedling of a documentary idea. Do I know anyone who knows what the pitch process for a documentary is like? Where to find contacts? 000
Spotted cat @missadventures.bsky.social · 17/10/2023I love that I barely need to bring a wallet with me anymore seeing as how I can pay for things with my phone or a card. But y'all...I don't like the implications of a cashless society. I don't think it's good for privacy and I don't think it makes things for the poor and homeless even worse. 000
