Cathy (CHS)
@cathyhsweeney.bsky.social
Nevertheless, she persisted. Librarian, compulsive book buyer and reader, music lover, theatre fan, social justice warrior, ex-news junkie. SciFi geek since 1970.
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We’re in the busiest time of the year for food pantries — and the combination of federal funding cuts and rising prices is making it difficult for many pantries to meet rising needs. Please consider supporting your local food pantry this holiday season.
Find Your Local Food Bank and Holiday Food Boxes | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and holiday food boxes in your community.
www.feedingamerica.org
December 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
We’re in the busiest time of the year for food pantries — and the combination of federal funding cuts and rising prices is making it difficult for many pantries to meet rising needs. Please consider supporting your local food pantry this holiday season.
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We've filed our opposition to the government's motion to dismiss in @libradunn1.bsky.social's and @semperwry.bsky.social's lawsuit to have the Jan. 6 memorial installed. Government's reply is due next week.
NEW: Jan 6 police heroes file new motion defending their lawsuit which seeks court order for Architect of Capitol to finally hang the January 6th plaque honoring officers
Law required plaque to be hung by 2023
It hasn't been
GOP leaders won't see if/when it'll happen
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Law required plaque to be hung by 2023
It hasn't been
GOP leaders won't see if/when it'll happen
(MORE)
December 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
We've filed our opposition to the government's motion to dismiss in @libradunn1.bsky.social's and @semperwry.bsky.social's lawsuit to have the Jan. 6 memorial installed. Government's reply is due next week.
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My 11-year-old: [reading the Miners' Ten Commandments at the Gold Discovery Museum] What's this mean?
Me: It's telling the miners--you won't get to rest on Sundays, because you'll have to do the work you'd rely on women to do back home.
My husband: You find gender everywhere.
Me: Because it is!
Me: It's telling the miners--you won't get to rest on Sundays, because you'll have to do the work you'd rely on women to do back home.
My husband: You find gender everywhere.
Me: Because it is!
December 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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As people comb the Epstein files for some crime they can get Trump on I’m thinking about how he was found with boxes of stolen top secret files in his possession and somehow that ended up being impossible to prosecute.
December 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
As people comb the Epstein files for some crime they can get Trump on I’m thinking about how he was found with boxes of stolen top secret files in his possession and somehow that ended up being impossible to prosecute.
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BREAKING: We are suing Trump & his cronies to restore the Kennedy Center’s lawful name
We @democracydefendersaction.org are proud to represent Kennedy Center Trustee @repbeatty.bsky.social w/ our friends at Washington Litigation Group
Congress named the Kennedy Center & only they can change it
We @democracydefendersaction.org are proud to represent Kennedy Center Trustee @repbeatty.bsky.social w/ our friends at Washington Litigation Group
Congress named the Kennedy Center & only they can change it
Press Release | Democracy Defenders Action
Congresswoman Joyce Beatty today sued President Trump and others to stop the unlawful renaming of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The lawsuit was brought on behalf of the Congressw...
www.democracydefendersaction.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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It’s gonna get way more eyeballs because Donald tried to ban it than it would have if they’d just let it be. They’re so bad at this.
December 23, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It’s gonna get way more eyeballs because Donald tried to ban it than it would have if they’d just let it be. They’re so bad at this.
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I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT.
Here's an ancient acrylic I did waaaaaay back in 2007.
Here's an ancient acrylic I did waaaaaay back in 2007.
December 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I'm just gonna post a piece of my art from my files every day til the New Year because WHY NOT.
Here's an ancient acrylic I did waaaaaay back in 2007.
Here's an ancient acrylic I did waaaaaay back in 2007.
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Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down
December 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Cool how we are smuggling domestic news in over the border from canada and people having to share it on bulletproof hosting providers to stop the government and media owners taking it down
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This segment aired on CBS in Canada. Our Canadian friends have shared extensively, to let American people know what their administrative stooges are up to. Thanks Canada!
December 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This segment aired on CBS in Canada. Our Canadian friends have shared extensively, to let American people know what their administrative stooges are up to. Thanks Canada!
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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
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Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
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Leavitt: “These are heinous monsters.”
Reality: Half had no charges, “ICE’s own records say only 3% had been sentenced for a violent crime”
Reality: Half had no charges, “ICE’s own records say only 3% had been sentenced for a violent crime”
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Leavitt: “These are heinous monsters.”
Reality: Half had no charges, “ICE’s own records say only 3% had been sentenced for a violent crime”
Reality: Half had no charges, “ICE’s own records say only 3% had been sentenced for a violent crime”
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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In an internal email, 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said new editor in chief Bari Weiss had “spiked” the story and said the government was using silence to “VETO” stories.
CBS Abruptly Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment On Migrants Sent To El Salvador Prison—What To Know
In an internal email, 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said new editor in chief Bari Weiss had “spiked” the story and said the government was using silence to “VETO” stories.
www.forbes.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:40 AM
In an internal email, 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said new editor in chief Bari Weiss had “spiked” the story and said the government was using silence to “VETO” stories.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
This video is damning - not surprising the administration sought to suppress it. Appalling that what once was a trusted news source caved.
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This video is damning - not surprising the administration sought to suppress it. Appalling that what once was a trusted news source caved.
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If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.
December 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.
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This.
I’m just here to remind everyone, there’s a group of people calling themselves “progressives” last i checked. This is Real Progress!! Not touring the country taking shots at the Democratic Party yelling about oligarchs and selling books.
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This.
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Greetings on the morning of the shortest day!
December 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Greetings on the morning of the shortest day!
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Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
www.kqed.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
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4 #Montreal chefs on kindness, memory and the meaning of sharing food--each restaurant showing their different cultures with food🍁
In different kitchens across the city, chefs say food is far more than sustenance
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
In different kitchens across the city, chefs say food is far more than sustenance
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
4 Montreal chefs on kindness, memory and the meaning of sharing food | CBC News
Here is what four Montreal chefs shared about cooking, connection and the dishes that ground them.
www.cbc.ca
December 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
4 #Montreal chefs on kindness, memory and the meaning of sharing food--each restaurant showing their different cultures with food🍁
In different kitchens across the city, chefs say food is far more than sustenance
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
In different kitchens across the city, chefs say food is far more than sustenance
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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They were never defending freedom of speech. They were defending a right to monologue. The former cannot coexist with the latter.
December 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
They were never defending freedom of speech. They were defending a right to monologue. The former cannot coexist with the latter.
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Sharyn Alfonsi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for 60 Minutes for 20 years. Before that she reported for ABC, CBS & local news outlets. If Alfonsi says her story was spiked by Bari Weiss political reasons, that’s exactly what happened. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Sharyn Alfonsi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for 60 Minutes for 20 years. Before that she reported for ABC, CBS & local news outlets. If Alfonsi says her story was spiked by Bari Weiss political reasons, that’s exactly what happened. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...