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Kathy E. Gill 🏍️
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Writer/speaker/journalist/professor. @kegill almost everywhere. Deep south ex-pat, she/her. Fights #disinfo. #UX #Elections geek #BookLover #BreastCancer “facts maxer”
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Trump claim on CBS 60 Minutes: People's "401(k)s are double what they were a year ago." No pushback except ‘grocery prices are up.’

Reality 🔻

ASIDE: See how hard it is to find this claim with Google News for any media org besides CBS. Major media ignored it. So did NPR and Yahoo.
Nov 6. 2025 Dow Jones: 46,912.3 (+11.1%) GDO: $30,62T (+11.9%) S&P: 6,720.32 (+16.2%) Screenshot of Google News search results looking for <401(k)s are double a year ago cbs> shows only CBS News.
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Dear @memeorandum.com

What’s happened to “Discussion”? Most stories have none. Those that do … do not show up here.
Screen shot of Memeorandum mobile browser showing no links for discussion. Screenshot of Memeorandum, NYT story with no discussion Screenshot of Memeorandum, WaPost story with no discussion
November 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Cairn Terrier puppy nap time! ❤️
Photo of napping brindle puppy on grey sofa with red blanket and pillow in background.
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Post you from a different era.

Ten years ago, pre-stage 4 breast cancer.
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Puppies! Stormy is five months old this week and graduated from beginner puppy class! ❤️
Cairn terrier puppy with mortarboard Cairn terrier puppy on back of grey sofa, on red blanket. Cairn terrier puppy in standoff with cat. Cairn terrier puppy looking out window with front feet on a MacBook Air.
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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“There are no beds and no working showers at the Broadview [IL] detention center, which was designed for stays of roughly 12 hours, but where some people have recently been held for several days…Two immigration lawyers testified that they had been denied access to clients.”

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‘Unnecessarily Cruel’: Judge Expresses Alarm About ICE Detention Conditions
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Where are the paintings, sculpture, antiques, gift shop items from the demolished East Wing demolition? @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @cnn.com @theguardian.com
East Wing with paintings of two First Ladies (Bush, Clinton) and abstract painting of Trump. Obama runs down East Wing hall with dog; paintings on the wall. Reuters screen shot. East Wing paintings and statue. Alamy screen shot Trump in East Wing gift shop with paintings in the background.
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Does not appear to be real.

I also scrolled back into Saturday.
Screenshot of no Google search results
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Look at that DEFINITIVE headline. And the innumeracy in the subhead.

1. IT IS NOT LEGAL on multiple levels.
2. It’s 1.3% of September payroll.

The NYT is a stenographer for the Trump Administration.

For sources, see themoderatevoice.com/trump-allege...
Trump to Use $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops It is not clear how far the gift will go toward covering the salaries of the nation’s 1.3 million troops.
October 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Rick Wilson is spot on regarding what has happened to the East Wing and why. I appreciate his optimism, that in four years there will be another and far more popular wrecking ball.

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Trump is the leader of a movement and moment of American rot and corruption. He is its Alpha and its Omega. Don’t mistake the cause of this for the men bankrolling it. It is Trump’s hatred of all that came before him that caused this vile moment. Rick Wilson The East Wing Obscenity
October 24, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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No Kings Everett WA. (Moi) #nokings #nokingsday #unicorns #inflatables
Inflatable purple unicorn dancing at Everett WA No Kings rally. Holds a sign that says “Dance Party.”
October 19, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Disinformation divides; empathy unites. #TruthBrigade #DisinfoBuster truthbrigade.indivisible.org/s/EUbEkGc4
October 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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White House's Chicago 'chaos' video uses footage from other cities

Of course it’s a doctored video. @afp.com has several examples of fake media from Trump.

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A dramatic voiceover video shared by the White House and US President Donald Trump claims to show immigration agents responding to the "mess" in Chicago as the Republican seeks to justify deploying National Guard troops to the Democrat-run city. But an AFP investigation found that the video is littered with outdated footage highlighting drug busts, arrests and deportation raids in other states, including Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska.
October 17, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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In German and paywalled. This is where buy by the day pass would be useful.

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h/t @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Screen cap of headline over picture of Trump and Vance
September 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Steven Levy on the state of Silicon Valley today: “how quickly and decisively the visionaries I chronicled aligned themselves with Trump, a man whose values violently clashed with the egalitarian impulses of the digital revolution.”

It’s a “suicide pact.”

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Stanford professor of social ethics of science and technology Rob Reich, “an extraordinarily tiny number of billionaires who control the information ecosystem have made allyship with the most consequential and fearsome political power in the world. There’s never been a time in history when those things have been combined.”
September 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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And he is killing their citizens.

Mississippi declares infant deaths emergency as CDC program that could have helped is halted due to Trump’s (illegal) mass firings. (He doesn’t get to choose which Congressionally budgeted programs to axe.)
Trump kills the citizens of his supporting states: “Medicaid pays for nearly 60% of births in Mississippi, a share that is about 20% higher than the national average.”
September 20, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Where Trump continues to channel the worst of Nixon. Who will be his Bork in the faux case against Letitia James?

ABC reports that Friday may be DOJ attorney Erik Siebert’s last day given he found no evidence to charge James, who had successfully prosecuted Trump.

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Screen shot highlight: "Firing people until he finds someone who will bend the law to carry out his revenge has been the President’s pattern -- and it’s illegal," Lowell said Friday in a statement to ABC News.
September 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝘂𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝗿𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹’𝘀 𝗡𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘆-𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿

Corporate media slouch towards George Orwell's dystopia with eyes focused on short-term profits, not the First Amendment. #charlieKirk #SupremeCourt themoderatevoice.com/corporate-am...
1984 grafitti
September 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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𝗪𝗲’𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽’𝘀 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀

I got a history lesson Sunday night at the Seattle premiere of Suffs, but it may not have been the one its creators had intended.

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Photo of woman behind bars. Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, “Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.” July 1917, LOC.
September 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Dehumanization is a feature not a bug. #notInMyName (you b@st@rds)

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Google Translate of S Korean news story "There's only a piece of cloth in the bathroom, and we can't even complain... What did we do wrong?" Detained workers report 'human rights violations'
September 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Don’t bother with CNN.
Robinson didn’t turn himself in.
The casings are still antifa.
🤦🏼‍♀️

Completely whitewashed. No mention of types of messaging. All laudatory.
No real questions.
Screenshot of CNN headline. Key questions remain about Charlie Kirk’s assassination as his memorial is announced. Here’s what we know
September 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Flags on federal buildings are flown at half-staff only two days when a US Senator or Representative dies (GovFacts).

Trump has demanded four days for a divisive civilian but did nothing for Minnesota Representative Melissa Hortman.

Both were assassinated (murdered for political reasons).
Screen shot of table row showing when flags are shown at half staff for US Congressional elected officials.
September 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Can we please stop debating the 2028 D nominee and FOCUS on today’s authoritarian moves AND demonization of vote by mail … and 2026 mid-terms (if we must talk about elections).

Reminder that third party presidential votes are votes for the other national party. Just ask Bush the elder (1992).
Data on popular vote in 1992 presidential election. Clinton, 43%; Bush, 38%; Perot, 19%. Perot got the most votes of a third party candidate.
September 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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This is unconstitutional. Unconscionable.
Quote from Battlestar Galactica on military and police.
August 26, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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There are 23 Democratic and 27 Republican governors. There are 23 states with GOP legislatures; 15 with Democratic control; and 11 split. One has a non-partisan leg.

We can guess which governors and legislatures would not oppose Trump unless they suddenly grow a spine.

Image: NCSL
US map showing party composition of the 50 states.
August 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM