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Catherine Schmidt
@lillyfinch.bsky.social
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Crone raised in Alaska proud liberal because I care about something other than money and myself. Lover of nature and with respect for all life. Married 41 years. Love books, archaeology, history, gardening and walking, liberty for all, resistance.
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lillyfinch.bsky.social
#SCOTUS #ChiefRoberts #Fascism #Trump #authoritarianism #alt
Photo of Chief Justice Chief Justice John Roberts Walks Into Nuremberg, the Film... “We are able to do away with domestic tyranny ... only when we make all men answerable to law.” —Chief Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson This past weekend Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and his wife attended a screening of the new film “Nuremberg,” about the trials of Nazi leaders and soldiers for war crimes. It must have been awkward — for some in that audience — when the actor Michael Shannon recited part of American prosecutor (and Supreme Court Justice) Robert H. Jackson's opening _statement about the rule of law at the trial of Hermann Goring. Legal AF
November 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #catstodon #CatsOMastodon #catsoffediverse #alt #caturday #Humor

I’M DONE! HAPPY CATURDAY
Unmade bed. The lower half of Tiger Lilly, dark tabby and white, on her back, back legs pointing up. Upper half behind the blankets. I’M DONE! HAPPY CATURDAY
November 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Music #Resist #Resistance #Trump #Piggy

QUIET PIGGY

youtu.be/MfGJletRsZA?...
Quiet, Piggy! – Country-Gospel Parody Inspired by Trump’s Outburst
YouTube video by The Resistance
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November 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#DC #DCShooting #Video

Aaron Parnas 11/27/25
DD GUARDSMEN SHOOTER CIA VETTED ASSET

open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Major Update: The Trump Administration Caught Lying About D.C. Shooting Suspect as CIA Ties Exposed
Good afternoon, everyone.
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Reposted by Catherine Schmidt
browneyedsusan.bsky.social
Trump spent the Turkey Pardoning Ceremony insulting Democrats, while Vance gave a Thanksgiving speech to troops about how much he hates turkey.

Well, aren't these two in the holiday spirit 😬
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Reposted by Catherine Schmidt
mariopro.bsky.social
@p-calleri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Humor #Satire #Thanksgiving #MAGA #alt

Kidding aside well wishes for all

Borowitz Report 11/27/25 SATIRE
How to Gaslight Your MAGA Relatives on Thanksgiving
Borowitz Report 11/27/25 SATIRE How to Gaslight Your MAGA Relatives on Thanksgiving Stuck with MAGA relatives around the table today? Gaslight them by pretending you're a convert to their movement! Just slip these surefire talking points into the conversation: 1. I'm more grateful for this Thanksgiving meal than last year’s because it cost so much more. 2. | agree with RFK Jr.—polio’s not so bad. 3. Pete Hegseth has made me feel so much better about my drinking. 4. I'm grateful to live in a country where if you've committed violent crimes and gone to prison you can still get a job working for ICE. 5. After we're done eating, let's tear down this house and build a ballroom. 6. Thank God Trump is deporting all those undocumented workers! If | want fruit and vegetables I'll just pick them myself. 7. Say what you will about Trump, he's a loyal friend—look at how many times Epstein mentioned him in his emails.
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #catstodon #CatsOMastodon #catsoffediverse #alt #caturday #Humor #Thaksgiving #Turkey
Photo of three Tom turkeys from behind, walking down a dirt road, side by side, tail feathers spread.
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #catstodon #CatsOMastodon #catsoffediverse #alt #caturday #Humor #Thaksgiving #Turkey
Photo of a cat reaching up to the kitchen counter, on claw hooked into a roasted turkey get ready to fall. IT WAS GONNA JUMP! I’M HOLDING IT BACK!
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #catstodon #CatsOMastodon #catsoffediverse #alt #caturday #Humor #Thaksgiving #Turkey
Photo of the back of a large red cat cleaning his particulars, both white legs up in the air he looks like a turkey with the drumsticks in the air. HAPPY THANKSGIVING
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #catstodon #CatsOMastodon #catsoffediverse #alt #caturday #Humor #Thaksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Photo of a long dining table covered in a dark green tablecloth. Beautiful fall colored flowers as a centerpiece with two brass candlesticks either siide. Tiger Lilly dark tabby and white sitting like a meatloaf on the nearest corner. HAPPY THANKSGIVING
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Reposted by Catherine Schmidt
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
And it only cost Americans a quarter billion in taxpayer money
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
this extremely fashy Trump cult of personality ad featuring Kristi Noem ran this morning on Fox & Friends
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#DEI #Power #Boycott #Shopping #BlackFriday #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 11/25/25
BOYCOTT ANTI-DEI STORES ON BLACK FRIDAY
Heather Cox Richardson 11/25/25 BOYCOTT ANTI-DEI STORES ON BLACK FRIDAY "Dear retailers who've decided you don't like diversity, equity, and inclusion, or you really love ICE and you have no problem with them busting into your establishments to drag people away: Here's the thing. We ain't buying it. | mean, for real, for real, we ain't buyin’ it." "We're gonna spend our money with businesses who actually respect our dollars, respect our communities, and respect our diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are going to buy from people who respect immigrants, who respect immigrants’ rights, and respect freedom and liberty. We are going to buy from establishments that respect our right to vote and our right to live in a free society. And if you ain't that, we ain't buying it.” "Let's show them our power,” she told listeners. “Let's show them what we can do together.” Joy Reid, journalist
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Women #Power #Boycott #BlackFriday #History #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 11/25/25
WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE THE POWER OF WOMEN AND BOYCOTTING
Heather Cox Richardson 11/25/25 WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE THE POWE OF WOMEN BOYCOTTING Every day, | am struck by all the ways in which we are reliving the 1890s. In that era too, consumers organized, using their buying power to affect politics. ...."To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.”After the Civil War, an economic boom in the North combined with the loss of young men in the war to make education more accessible to young white women. By 1870, girls made up the majority of high school graduates. ...Social problems and the means of addressing...mid-1880s, those women began ... using their talents... to repair the nation’s social fabric that had been torn by urbanization and industrialization... the idea of a nation divided by haves and have-nots. ... dedicated themselves to filing down the sharp edges of industrialization, with its tenement housing, low wages, long hours, child labor, and disease, along with polluted air and water and unregulated food....In the midterm election of 1890, politicians recognized the power of women to swing the vote for or against a political party. When Republicans got shellacked, their leaders blamed women, who were increasingly the family shoppers, for urging their husbands to vote against the party...a recognition of women's role as shoppers...Leveraging the power of consumption could force employers to pay higher wages, establish better conditions, and protect workers. In 1891,...In 1899, Lowell and Jane Addams founded the National Consumers League, with Florence Kelley at its head. The organization worked to combat child labor and poor working conditions.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#ElonMusk #Consequences #Tesla
Heather Cox Richardson 11/26/25

Last week, a poll conducted for Global EV Alliance, made up of electric vehicle driver associations around the world, found that 52% of Americans would avoid buying a Tesla for political reasons.
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Reposted by Catherine Schmidt
ashtonpittman.bsky.social
Awesome!
davekeating.substack.com Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 4d
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Reposted by Catherine Schmidt
gottalaff.bsky.social
Here's the @maddow.bsky.social vid I referenced earlier. Radley is spot on, as, of course, is Rachel.
radleybalko.bsky.social Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d
Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.

And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust
YouTube video by MS NOW
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November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Immigration #Denmark #fascism

Did Denmark Find the Answer to Immigration—While Trump Chose Barbarism Instead?

How a small nation’s pragmatic, humane approach exposes the lie behind America’s manufactured “crisis” and offers a roadmap
Thom Hartimann

open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
Did Denmark Find the Answer to Immigration—While Trump Chose Barbarism Instead?
How a small nation’s pragmatic, humane approach exposes the lie behind America’s manufactured “crisis” and offers a roadmap for defeating the racist strongmen weaponizing immigration for power…
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Reposted by Catherine Schmidt
nbcnews.com
A blue, 1977 Volkswagen T2 microbus that appeared to be all that was left standing in one California neighborhood devastated by the Palisades Fire is now good as new.
Classic VW bus that withstood devastating Palisades Fire gets full restoration
Volkswagen of America said it offered to restore the 1977 microbus after it was seen it in a widely distributed photo of the devastating California wildfire.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Cartoon #Political #MAGA #alt
THE TIME HAS COME
Meme of fake Time Magazine cover. Headline The time has come. Trump supporter facing a fork in the road. One road labeled “Admit you were conned” Other branch of the road “Support a pedophile.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#MarcoRubio #Russia #JaredKushner #Ukraine #Deals #Statedepartment #Incompetence #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 11/23/25
CHILDEREN IN CHARGE AT STATE, TRUMP OUT OF THE LOOP
CHILDEREN IN CHARGE AT STATE “... there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this ‘peace plan’ was written by Russians or Americans?” ...Anne Applebaum asked...once it became widely known that the plan was written by the Russians, Secretary of State Marco Rubio tried to back away from it...Rubio: “was not the administration's position” but “a wish list of the Russians.” Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SC): “This administration was not responsible for this release in its current form."...a spokesperson for State, Tommy Pigott, called senators’ account of the origins of the plan “blatantly false,” Rubio abruptly switched course, posting...that in fact the U.S. had written the plan. [Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, & Dmitriev, who leads one of Russia's largest sovereign wealth fund, wrote it]. State and National & Security Council were not briefed... The Bulwark reported rumors that VP Vance was “key to US embrace of Russia plan on Ukraine, Rubio (and even Trump) out of the loop.” ...Wall Street Journal, posted: “Foreign nations now have to deal with rival factions of the U.S. government who keep major policy initiatives secret from each other and some of which work with foreign powers as the succession battle for 2028 begins..."...Anton La Guardia, diplomatic editor at The Economist, posted: “... If for a moment you thought the grown-ups were back in charge, think again. We're still in the circus. ‘Unbelievable,’ mutters a disbelieving senators.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
lillyfinch.bsky.social
#Humor #Satire #Thanksgiving #Turkeys #Bribes #trump #alt

Borowitz Report 11/11/25 SATIRE
TRUMP REFUSES TO PARDON TURKEY AFTER IT FAILS TO BRIBE HIM (SATIRE)
Borowitz Report 11/11/24 SATIRE TRUMP REFUSES TO PARDON TURKEY AFTERIT FAILS TO BRIBE HIM (SATIRE) WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Breaking with a longstanding Thanksgiving tradition, on Monday Donald J. Trump refused to pardon the White House turkey after it failed to offer him an appropriate bribe. “That turkey could have invested in Eric and Don Jr.'s crypto scams or given me a gold-plated 747, but it chose not to,” he said. “That turkey is a terrible person.” Trump emphasized “the many great things | have done for turkeys,” including “making the price of them go up forty percent.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reposted by Catherine Schmidt
aljazeera.com
Meeting in Cairo comes as Palestinians in Gaza held funerals for the dozens of people killed in Israel's latest attacks.
Hamas meet Egypt’s spy chief, says Israel’s attacks on Gaza threaten truce
Meeting in Cairo comes as Palestinians in Gaza held funerals for the dozens of people killed in Israel's latest attacks.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Reposted by Catherine Schmidt
atrupar.com
WELKER: What is your message to Jewish New Yorkers who feel you won't be tough enough in your response to antisemitism?

MAMDANI: That I am looking forward to being the next mayor and fulfilling the commitment I've made to Jewish New Yorkers to not only protect them but to celebrate and cherish them
November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM