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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad@crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social |
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I'm not here for fascists, nor those just marching with the fascists against that one group. Left like I'm an Anglo-Irish socialist, intersectional as hell like I'm an American Democrat. Because I am.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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I'm reminded of when people found out Charlie Sheen was hiring sex workers, and his response was basically, "I'm trying to get laid and avoid a problem situation emotionally and financially. What's your point?" I wouldn't have said his solution was ideal, but it worked for all involved so NBD.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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I'm still awed by what wolves did restoring the ecosystem in US parks. A little predation changes behavior so much and helps so many things.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
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Bringing lynx home to Ireland wouldn't just help revive ailing ecosystems.
Sharing the land again with this exquisite cat would add a spark of frisson to our own lives, expanding our imaginative universe into new realms.
Let's do this. #Rewilding 🌍
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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VP becomes President. Then appoints a new VP. Unless Congress blocks it in the hopes that some Conservative will murder the Black woman and make Speaker Mike Johnson the President as next in line. The line of succession is right there with most monarchies. It's hard to run out of "next man up."
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Trump barely knows Project 2025. He had coffee with it once.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Also not a lawyer, but this is one reason lawyers tell clients--guilty or innocent--say nothing unvetted in public and let the court decide based on professionally controlled statements. PR firms also want clients to let the professionals do their job without interference. As do cardiac surgeons.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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It speaks well of Mexico that they haven't simply declared a permanent crusade against the United States. Never mind how the US doesn't properly educate its children on race relations. Tulsa is unknown. Then again, most Brits are only vaguely aware Ireland is next door. So it's sadly normal.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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I've done that. A couple of times I even did it on purpose.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞
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Biden is kicking ass in his interview with George Stephanopolous. Interesting that ABC offered Trump the same opportunity and the cowardly asshole turned it down.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Can we tell them it starts with "E"? Or should we let them keep hunting in the last tenth of the book?
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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I often cuss about the way that Japan's version of World War Two is appallingly close to, "We were minding our own business and then they nuked us for no reason." The American version of its history with Iran is strikingly similar to that, TBH. This does not make Iran's government the good guys.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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The Persian Famine of 1942-43 was not exactly a triumph of American respect for other cultures either, but I can't blame conservatives for that one. Well, not American ones anyway. There's always Stalin and Churchill to share the blame there.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Pfft. You say that like assassinating Mossadegh wasn't a humanitarian triumph of respecting other cultures and political systems.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Aliens. Alien was the greatest space horror movie ever made. Aliens bulit upon that into a great space action movie. And the cast of Marines was (chef's kiss).
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Oof. Hard to argue with that one.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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every supreme court ruling these days
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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I see great news like this and I frankly just assume the GQP plan is to see what happens in November and then decide whether they want to steal rights legislatively or through SCOTUS. Yeah, I'm a little motivated for November.
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Amy Jo Cousins
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"Friday’s rulings will be felt far outside Kansas since it has attracted thousands of patients from states where abortion is all but banned, most notably Oklahoma and Texas."
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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And honestly, it's been with us since the dawn of humanity, but capitalism really made it so much worse. And before the Enlightenment most people died poor and young, so power was more a function of birth status than age by gender. It's coming, but that's another fight against conservatives.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Absolutely. My "Maybe" category starts in the 50s.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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One thing I will say is that society has a couple of hundred years of baking into the pie that older men are more "distinguished" and professionally successful, while women are no longer attractive and useful in child-bearing. We're still burying that and we're not nearly finished yet.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Absolutely. Looking at the job creation statistics of American RepubliQans and Democrats over the last ~35 years, it's amazing how poorly the right does even by its own metrics. There's no intellectual *there* there any more, and I'm willing to at least consider that there once was.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Apparently it's much older than Churchill. Jules Claretie, possibly?
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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The first couple of times, a flat-head screwdriver helps. After you've loosened it like that a few times, a little twist to the side and then a twist up and *pop* out comes the corner. It's science.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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It's often falsely attributed to Winston Churchill. Which is amusing, as he was a Conservative MP when he was 26...
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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You could also pop the blocks off and reassemble it. That's the way I used to do it until I, um, bought a book and learned to solve them. I could probably still get two layers, but that third is going to take me a very long while.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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A Black man getting up in front of the GQP base and announcing that "Some folks need killing" is...something. It's definitely...something.
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Robert Johnston
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🧵 Here's an article in Vice News about the technique of deep canvassing used by VetsForward. Eighty million of us voted for Joe Biden in 2020. Imagine what would happen if that eighty million learned how to do this.
www.vice.com/en/article/4...
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Helen
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NEW "Project 2025 is premised on contempt for constitutional norms & the rule of law. It seeks to reshape American govt, law & society for a generation. It must rely on a willingness to defy the law. TFG views the Court as a force multiplier in their authoritarian quest, rather than an obstacle."
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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I think an appropriate response to that would be, "I'm sorry, I thought you lived here and knew why nobody would want to stay. It would be impolite of me to give you the full list, and in any event I won't have time as my flight leaves in three days."
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Shiv Ramdas
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nothing is funnier than the officials at Heathrow giving attitude to people from Asia" how do I know you'll leave when your visa expires" because nobody wants to stay on your gutted island with broken universities, booming unemployment, no housing, shite weather, and food that kills zombies
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CC
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Normalize responding Unsubscribe to emails from your annoying co-workers
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Some equally debatable phrases: "Don't call me racist just because I hate brown people." "Don't call me homophobic just because I hate LGBTQIA people." "Don't call me fascist just because I'd vote for Hitler." "Don't call me gammon just because I turn red shouting fascist, racist, homophobic crap."
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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The gammon tend to live somewhere around 1908, so reality isn't exactly a close friend. They'd rather live in a fantasy world where HMS Dreadnought rules the waves, they can admire King George VI/Edward Whatever, or maybe Vicky, and look forward to Sir Garnet Wolsely conquering somewhere.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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I do alt text on every image not to be a jerk. But I've really learned to have fun with it too. 😜
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Brilliant political insights. He's always worth a read. And his history books are simply magnificent, too. Throw the guy a few bucks/quid/euros/whatever just for the quality of his work into explaining the human condition through time.
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suzette sommer
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The wisdom of historian Timothy Snyder. Share it!!
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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I used to have thoughts and feelings about Pink Floyd's discography. But I...have become...
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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I saw some gammon today trying to blame the Tory collapse on the weak US economy. Insane lies in the gammon press would make a great drinking game if you wouldn't be dead in five minutes.
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The Calitaliano Kid 😎🌻🇺🇦
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Join the amazing Ben Whitler, Chair of the Wisconsin Democrats, and #POTUS, #JoeBiden, LIVE on the campaign trail in Wisconsin!
#VoteBidenHarris2024
www.youtube.com/live/Du7gEnv...
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Truly, communication by poster is fraught with peril.
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Pete 🟥🟦
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Thoughts and Prayers.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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If the public hasn't heard of them, the GQP will define them. Anybody who isn't Biden is also a "desperate Dem." Anybody who isn't Kamala Harris just lost the Black vote because there's no non-racist reason to pass her over. We're not talking about "a lot" of people. It gets silly after two.
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jaguarr
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What could possibly go wrong letting the religious nutters who want to help bring about their “Rapture” play with nukes?
www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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That's always true with generic candidates, though. Opinions change when people discover that a Representative voted against food for starving children in Sri Lanka (because of a GQP amendment to pay Elon Musk $34 billion for batteries). The GQP will quickly define *any* fresh face as ugly.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Among Woodrow Wilson's many faults, he was basically semi-conscious his last couple of years in office. A century later that doesn't seem like a more brilliant plan. I could live with whatever handoff Biden can work out once he's reelected, whether that's 2025 or 2029. I might prefer 2026-ish.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Not something I'd accuse you of without you saying it. But the frank truth is that he's the nominee unless he withdraws (not likely to help) or dies (maybe we get a sympathy bounce). And I could have lived with it if he'd said in 2022 he was done, but right now it's Biden or Trump.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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I am a huge fan of that lady. She's brilliant and does it in a way that is both charming and devastating, which is a rare set of skills. I'd love to see her in a Presidential primary the next time the field is open. I'm not opposed to her as Kamala Harris' running mate in 2028 either.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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Absolutely. In 2016, they said, "We don't care that he's a treasonous corrupt criminal moron and a complete POS, he'll give us the SCOTUS we want to inflict on the nation." In 2016, too many of us said, "Buttery males..." I will always vote against the conservative because of the consequences.
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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad
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I won't say I agree with everything Ben Franklin ever said, but he did a fine job encapsulating my entire political philosophy in one sentence.
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