Kathy M. Newman
unionmaidpgh.bsky.social
Kathy M. Newman
@unionmaidpgh.bsky.social
CMU English professor, media historian, artist, activist, parent, Pittsburgh booster, electric car owner (Nissan Leaf), almost-empty-nester. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements.
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And just WHERE ARE the Epstein files? I was promised…by the President of the United States, no less.
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Karoline Leavitt: “Thanksgiving is all about friends, food, fun, and calling ICE on my brother’s mistresses.”
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:

1. Break up corporate monopolies

2. Continue building union power

3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics

Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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National Guard members should never have been deployed in Washington, DC.
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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New in PN: Bill Pulte and Ed Martin's shitposting legal strategy backfires spectacularly

"There's no universe in which this DOJ prosecutes Trump administration officials. But if these 4chan escapees wind up boning Trump's political persecutions, it will be some minute measure of justice."
Bill Pulte and Ed Martin's shitposting legal strategy
It's backfired so spectacularly that now *they're* the ones being investigated.
www.publicnotice.co
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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"Weeks of watching Florida insurance lawyer Lindsey Halligan flail around like a toddler trying to teach calculus should serve as a warning about the perils of crowdsourcing legal research to literal randos on the internet. *But it won’t.*" — @lizdye.bsky.social
Bill Pulte and Ed Martin's shitposting legal strategy
It's backfired so spectacularly that now *they're* the ones being investigated.
www.publicnotice.co
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Trump's responds to the NYT's detailed reporting about his aging and signs of fatigue with lazy ad hominems but admits "there will be a day when I run low on energy"
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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REPORTER: What kind of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?

TRUMP: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Sad… The Trump administration keeps pushing antivax rhetoric.
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Boooooooooooooooooo!
The Trump administration announced that starting Jan. 1, the cost of an annual national park pass for non-U.S. residents will jump from $80 to $250 more than triple the current price.
November 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Deaths in ICE custody raise serious questions, lawmakers say
Deaths in ICE custody raise serious questions, lawmakers say
Deaths of two immigrants who lived in Orange County have focused attention on the treatment of detainees at Adelanto, one of the largest federal immigration detention centers in California, and other ...
www.latimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The Emerson College poll shows Republican Matt Van Epps up by two points over Democrat Aftyn Behn in a district DJT won by 22 points in November.

You can phone bank for Aftyn from anywhere in the country, or you can donate to her campaign.

The special election will be held Tuesday, December 2.
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Impeach, convict, remove.

And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.
November 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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We’d like to end today with a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt:

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

Just keep going. Goodnight, heroes.
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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How Can We Hold the Criminal Trump Regime Accountable?

Donald Trump failed up again thanks to a judge throwing out his Georgia election interference case, but that doesn't mean there aren't other ways to hold him and corrupt MAGA Reeks accountable.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Only under Trump have we ever been worried about the military being ordered to do something illegal. Rightfully so because this administration doesn’t care about the Constitution. They probably don’t even know what’s in the Constitution to begin with. 🔄
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."

www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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...since MTG is resigning, now would be a great time to assess the pensions of all former government representatives...what y'all think???
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Kristi Noem is guilty of crimes against humanity and needs to face justice.

📌 She made the final call to defy a court order to halt deportation flights, sending people into the hellscape of CECOT, a place the UN has compared to a torture chamber.

Prosecute her and everyone involved.
November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The subtext in JD Vance asking for "patience" on the economy: When leaders stop talking about current conditions and jump straight to rosy forecasts, they’re signaling the present isn’t defensible. That’s your cue to scrutinize the numbers, not just the narrative.
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Absofuckinglutely 💯.......
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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It’s one thing to relinquish his own balls, but Speaker Johnson handing the entire GOP congress to trump is disgraceful.
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM