Chris
@cathana.bsky.social
Chicagoan; Engineering Professor;
“Fix Your Hearts or Die”
“Fix Your Hearts or Die”
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Maybe Indiana winning this will reset the timeline that the Cubs clearly altered in 2016.
January 20, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Maybe Indiana winning this will reset the timeline that the Cubs clearly altered in 2016.
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A greeting card for my Bluesky friends
January 17, 2026 at 10:53 PM
A greeting card for my Bluesky friends
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If you see this skeet, take two minutes to contact Intercontinental and DoubleTree customer service to voice support for taking a stance against ICE. They’re going to get complaints from the fascists, we can get the jump on them.
Intercontinental 1877.424.2449
DT (owned by Hilton) 1800.222.8733
Intercontinental 1877.424.2449
DT (owned by Hilton) 1800.222.8733
January 19, 2026 at 1:48 AM
If you see this skeet, take two minutes to contact Intercontinental and DoubleTree customer service to voice support for taking a stance against ICE. They’re going to get complaints from the fascists, we can get the jump on them.
Intercontinental 1877.424.2449
DT (owned by Hilton) 1800.222.8733
Intercontinental 1877.424.2449
DT (owned by Hilton) 1800.222.8733
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If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdownTrump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes
The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.
www.pressherald.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:09 AM
If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
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I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
January 11, 2026 at 12:12 AM
I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
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A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were "direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well", while a doctor said an eye hospital in the capital had gone into crisis mode
Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters
Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed and injured by the security forces, with more than 70 bodies brought to one hospital.
www.bbc.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:43 AM
A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were "direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well", while a doctor said an eye hospital in the capital had gone into crisis mode
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A mosquito just tried to get me but I got it first and then I entombed it in sticky tape and will now bury it so that it survives for millions of years and future humans can bring back today’s humans and let them roam around a fenced park eating the tourists of the future.
Life finds a way.
Life finds a way.
January 9, 2026 at 11:54 PM
A mosquito just tried to get me but I got it first and then I entombed it in sticky tape and will now bury it so that it survives for millions of years and future humans can bring back today’s humans and let them roam around a fenced park eating the tourists of the future.
Life finds a way.
Life finds a way.
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The ceremony will feature light roadkill hors d’oeuvres, goblets of beef tallow, and a sewage plunge, and will include a memorial tribute to the parasitic worm that perished after eating a portion of his brain, but whose influence continues to be deeply felt.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Be Declared Honorary Virus
The ceremony will feature roadkill hors d’oeuvres, goblets of beef tallow, and a sewage plunge.
www.theatlantic.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:35 PM
The ceremony will feature light roadkill hors d’oeuvres, goblets of beef tallow, and a sewage plunge, and will include a memorial tribute to the parasitic worm that perished after eating a portion of his brain, but whose influence continues to be deeply felt.
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If you are running as a Democrat in the 2026 or 2028 elections, ask yourself, do you really want to be running to the right of Bill Kristol in terms of dismantling an authoritarian police state?
Abolish ICE. Really.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 7, 2026 at 10:19 PM
If you are running as a Democrat in the 2026 or 2028 elections, ask yourself, do you really want to be running to the right of Bill Kristol in terms of dismantling an authoritarian police state?
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This was always going to happen. It was just a matter of when. No way was that ICE agent justified in shooting that woman. No fucking way. And this will happen again. And again. And again. Unless ICE gets off our streets.
So get ICE off our streets now. NOW.
So get ICE off our streets now. NOW.
January 7, 2026 at 7:58 PM
This was always going to happen. It was just a matter of when. No way was that ICE agent justified in shooting that woman. No fucking way. And this will happen again. And again. And again. Unless ICE gets off our streets.
So get ICE off our streets now. NOW.
So get ICE off our streets now. NOW.
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1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From!
This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!
www.erininthemorning.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:16 PM
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.
Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
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And over $3 billion more in cuts to child care and social service funds for these five states, which are home to some of the biggest programs in the country.
This utterly illegal move would deny resources to literally millions of low-income families.
This utterly illegal move would deny resources to literally millions of low-income families.
“Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter.”
Monstrously cruel.
Monstrously cruel.
Health Dept. to Freeze $10 Billion in Funding to 5 Democratic States
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:28 PM
And over $3 billion more in cuts to child care and social service funds for these five states, which are home to some of the biggest programs in the country.
This utterly illegal move would deny resources to literally millions of low-income families.
This utterly illegal move would deny resources to literally millions of low-income families.
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The Department of Health and Human Services will freeze $10 billion worth of federal grants to California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Admin Says It's Cutting Welfare Funds To Blue States Over Alleged Minnesota Fraud
The cuts to several states come amid an escalating fraud fallout fueled by a dubious YouTube investigation of Minnesota day cares.
www.huffpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:14 PM
The Department of Health and Human Services will freeze $10 billion worth of federal grants to California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Powerful statement from Dr. Robbie Goldstein, MD, PhD, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health on defending GAC:
“Our responsibility — morally, ethically, medically, and legally — is to protect the health and well-being of every person who calls this state home.”
www.mass.gov/news/stateme...
“Our responsibility — morally, ethically, medically, and legally — is to protect the health and well-being of every person who calls this state home.”
www.mass.gov/news/stateme...
January 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Powerful statement from Dr. Robbie Goldstein, MD, PhD, Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health on defending GAC:
“Our responsibility — morally, ethically, medically, and legally — is to protect the health and well-being of every person who calls this state home.”
www.mass.gov/news/stateme...
“Our responsibility — morally, ethically, medically, and legally — is to protect the health and well-being of every person who calls this state home.”
www.mass.gov/news/stateme...
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If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 PM
If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States
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The scope of Trump's campaign to drive trans Americans from public life is vast. On the last day of 2025, Evan Urquhart attempts to capture all of what we lost.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
The Year We Lost Everything — Assigned
An authoritarian government, a captured press and cowardice at the head of most major institutions led to a year of losses for trans people’s safety and equality in the US.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The scope of Trump's campaign to drive trans Americans from public life is vast. On the last day of 2025, Evan Urquhart attempts to capture all of what we lost.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Got a notice that my wages will be garnished because of delinquent student loans. I'm a teacher in my 50s who is just fighting to get by. Unfortunately, teachers' wages have never allowed me to keep up. 30 years teaching Special Needs children and still fighting a losing battle. So discouraging.
December 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Got a notice that my wages will be garnished because of delinquent student loans. I'm a teacher in my 50s who is just fighting to get by. Unfortunately, teachers' wages have never allowed me to keep up. 30 years teaching Special Needs children and still fighting a losing battle. So discouraging.
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Reminder to all the cis liberals reading this thread that RFK mandating that the federal government kill trans kids (and torture the survivors with lifelong trauma) by banning the LIFESAVING CARE on which they depend to exist is JUST AS BAD as him crusading against vaccines.
December 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Reminder to all the cis liberals reading this thread that RFK mandating that the federal government kill trans kids (and torture the survivors with lifelong trauma) by banning the LIFESAVING CARE on which they depend to exist is JUST AS BAD as him crusading against vaccines.
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Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
December 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
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Our Latest: 📰 FDA targeting breast binder manufacturers because of use by trans people📰
FDA targeting breast binder manufacturers because of use by trans people
The FDA is forcing several manufacturers of breast binders and tucking panties to register as medical device makers with the FDA because their products are used to treat gender dysphoria. This would ...
theneedlenews.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Our Latest: 📰 FDA targeting breast binder manufacturers because of use by trans people📰
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At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
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would like to see more Ds make statements like this.
To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care:
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.
Your health care is still legal and protected.
I'll always fight for you.
December 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
would like to see more Ds make statements like this.
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Hey losers leave trans folks alone
December 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Hey losers leave trans folks alone