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Lisa

@queerkitty.bsky.social

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They/She. Queer. Disabled. Enjoys books and cats. Would like to pet your dog.🦇 🇵🇪🇨🇱

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · Jul 3

Since NY is going into a mayoral election and Andrew Cuomo & his friends are still hanging around, I’m pinning this explainer of how Cuomo fucked the House for 2025

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · Jul 3

A big reason Dems don't control the House right now—and this murderous spending bill is possible—is Andrew Cuomo, who fucked New York's congressional redistricting as governor and helped lose us seats in Congress.

www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06...

It all goes back to some tangled ancient history: When Cuomo was running for governor in 2010, he pledged to end “hyper-partisan” redistricting. Two years later he used the census-mandated redrawing of district lines as a chit in state budget negotiations. Cuomo got a new pension tier that lowered payments for some unionized state employees; in exchange, incumbent state legislators got the ability to create districts that would favor their reelection. The drawing of new congressional districts was punted 10 years down the road and placed in the hands of an unwieldy, supposedly “independent” commission. This year, when New York Republicans stalled the commission’s work, they essentially pushed redistricting into the state’s courts.

Cuomo made strenuous efforts to steer the state down the ideological middle, which he claimed was a necessity early on—when Republicans controlled a majority of the state senate—but which also enhanced his own power. One byproduct was Cuomo’s nominating of the four relatively conservative judges, including one Republican, who in April voted to tear up the proposed congressional redistricting maps. “What Democrats did to our majority on the highest court would never happen in a Republican-controlled state,” Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney says, which is as close as he will get to blaming Cuomo. “That court made a mess of this, and it put the project in the hands of a Republican in Steuben County. And we got a crappy result.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

This absolutely is Jeff Bezos’s fault. I feel sorry for the excellent journalists and other staff caught up in his mismanagement, but this is his doing. And it will only lead to the Post doing even worse, which will then — almost inevitably — lead to more layoffs.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 11h

Some news: The Washington Post is preparing to cut newsroom staff even after several high profile exits. Bezos’ new opinion editor has privately told people The Post is in “severe financial distress.” Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

Pain at The Post

As morale sinks and top talent exits, staffers at The Washington Post are bracing for more pain ahead of the holidays—raising questions about Will Lewis’ leadership, nearly two years into his tenure a...

www.status.news

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 12h

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

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LA Knight & Co. (CHECK PINNED - NEED HELP) @laknight89.bsky.social · 7h

TW: medical abuse, miscarriage

Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 10h

“Medical staff did not give her any food, water, or pain medication for several hours. Much later that evening, after a significant loss of blood, Lucia was transported to an emergency room approximately an hour away, with her arms and legs shackled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say

The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 14h

California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...

Following California condors tagged with
GPS transmitters, researchers have tracked their expanison in 2025 from the Central Coast to the East Bay and near Santa Barbara.
Condor GPS activity in 2025

Sources: Ventana Wildlife Society, heat map provided by Evan McWreath/VWS
PAI/BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

E g. The food bank here in San Diego buys bulk quantities of rice for a fraction of supermarket costs and re-packages it themselves in consumer-sized packages for distribution. Your money there goes much, much further than an in-kind donation. (In kind donations and volunteering are still good tho!)

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9h

Hi just so I'm clear.

I wrote "donate to food banks" and do "food runs for mutual aid" because they are different things!

Food banks want your money! they can do more with your money than with stuff.

Mutual aid groups often want stuff! Mine has a food fridge!

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9h

Now is a really good time to donate to food banks, and do food runs for mutual aid groups. Also, do menstrual product runs.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 7h

After a police officer hit and killed a 34 year old homeless Indigenous woman not only will he not face any charges but they haven't even given the family an apology

APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 13h

The family of Tammy Bateman says they’re disappointed with a decision by Manitoba’s Independent Investigation Unit and its year-long probe into the circumstances surrounding her death to not lay charges.

Winnipeg officer who hit homeless woman in unmarked car cleared of wrongdoing

Tammy Bateman, 34, was hit and killed in a Winnipeg park in September 2024. Manitoba's IIU says the officer involved won't be charged.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10h

people's handmade signs did NOT hold back lol

Handmade sign reading "FUCK ICE YOU FUCKING FASCIST FUCKS"

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11h

On one day's notice, thousands of New Yorkers marched in NYC today for immigrants and against ICE.

More photos soon!

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Hope For The Planet @h4tp.bsky.social · 19h

Australia's humpback whales are doing so well that their population is expected to reach carrying capacity and plateau in the near future--they have not just reached but exceeded pre-whaling numbers. For this to happen with such a long-lived, slow-reproducing species is near miraculous. #goodnews

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

www.abc.net.au

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 7h

He’s been indignant if anything! Trying to shame the public for drawing logical conclusions when he admits to having it for nearly 20 years is not actually contrition

Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 14h

Apparently there’s nothing to apologize for b/c he didn’t know his tattoo was the Nazi skull on every costume (or the focus of this 2006 sketch) until he heard from "reporters and DC insiders"& that “to insinuate that I did is disgusting.”

a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

Alt: Mitchell & Webb skit where a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

media.tenor.com

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h

people keep saying Platner is "contrite" and WHERE. I haven't seen it. They're just assuming he is because of COURSE you apologize for having a NAZI TATTOO but he actually hasn't done anything of the sort! He's continuing to brush it off as a funny story.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 22h

Somehow the “saying you’re sorry” part has dropped clean out of the list of things that are supposed to happen on the way to people granting you forgiveness

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Holly @hollybegood.bsky.social · 7h

Of 216 released civilians interviewed by the UN, 92% gave accounts of abuse. For soldiers the percentage is even higher. Volodymyr Mykolayenko describes being beaten several times a day econ.st/4neKhdS?utm_....

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 7h

Fascist news outlets to avoid.

Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 11h

Here who has signed the Pentagon's press policy:

OAN
Epoch Times
Federalist
Real America’s Voice
Lindell TV
Gateway Pundit
Post Millennial
Human Events
National Pulse
RedState
TPUSA
Timcast
Washington Reporter
Daily Signal
Just the News
& some Turkish media and freelancers

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 13h

Never mind every other single abominable or corrupt thing to this miserable moment, the extrajudicial and unevidenced execution of 34 human beings by the U.S. Navy on the orders of a U.S. President acting in peacetime is sufficient for his impeachment and conviction.

If we were a republic, I mean.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

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Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · 7h

Really good Oaklandside story with lots of actual quotes from agencies and electeds

oaklandside.org/2025/10/22/m...

Major federal immigration operation will begin tomorrow in the Bay Area

Customs and Border Protection agents are headed to the Bay Area to target "illegal aliens," the agency has confirmed. OUSD has received "official reports" of stepped up ICE activity as soon as Saturda...

oaklandside.org

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 7h

“and I’d do it again”

Veronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 1d

Tiny criminal, photographed this morning.

She jumped in the plant and promptly got digging zoomies.

A very small kitten, tabby and white, shouting while I hold her up in the air with one hand. If you look closely you can see that both she, and my hand, are covered in dirt. The plant in question is blurry in the background.

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 7h

WTAF?? Bluesky mods need to look into deradicalizing themselves

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 7h

bluesky moderation: we’ll let the people saying you don’t deserve civil rights stick around and we’ll rewrite the rules for the guy working his hardest to strip them from you people, but we draw the line at you using the word “trans” to describe yourselves and you are getting an intolerance label.

it’s a skeet from me reading:

trans 2: hypertrans
marinate your marrow in estrogen

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 10h

I’d bet if you anyone dug deeper they’d find the nurse had complaints for bullying.

Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 10h

I’m also not surprised by the allegation the nurse went against her provider’s plans, b/c I’ve met so many nurses who think they know better and have a legitimate reason to endanger or mistreat a patient.

Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 10h

I forgot to add people who are or appear to be poor, but yeah it’s just really common. And tests can have false positives, or mark you as positive for drugs the hospital administered, and there’s so much abuse & mismanagement of CPS it can trigger that this testing can really ruin lives.

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Taylor Nichols, MD FACEP @tnicholsmd.com · 1d

I will never stop saying this as long as ICE exists.

Keep talking about this ghoulish behavior enacted in and by our own country with normies. They are not paying attention and do not know about this!

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

ICE arrests dad of 16-year-old with Stage 4 cancer. DHS says the 40-year-old painter and home renovator had "habitual driving offenses" chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/i...

ICE arrests Chicago man whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer: ‘He belongs with her’

Ofelia Torres has spent almost every day of the past month at Lurie Children’s Hospital, where the 16-year-old Lake View High School student is fighting cancer.

chicagotribune.com

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Grace R @candidkitten.bsky.social · Nov 10

Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases

www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...

I’m a Polio Survivor. I Don’t Want You to Get It.

Polio is once again a public health threat in the United States. Grace is disappointed, though not surprised.

www.voicesforvaccines.org

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Lisa @queerkitty.bsky.social · 10h

This shit happens disturbingly often, especially to women of color

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