Shower Cat
@shower-cat.bsky.social
A cat who took showers. 💔 Kittens who romp. 😻 My hooman is interested in cats, politics, Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia, and nuclear weapons and nonproliferation but mostly cats
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Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
Federal agents are arresting American citizens.
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
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I really hope the people who are giving money to the leopards eating face party so that the leopards won’t eat their face pay attention to the fact that the closer you are to the leopards, the closer your face is to the leopards.
December 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I really hope the people who are giving money to the leopards eating face party so that the leopards won’t eat their face pay attention to the fact that the closer you are to the leopards, the closer your face is to the leopards.
Trump take tourist industry.
December 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Trump take tourist industry.
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I sort of wish y'all took this more seriously, because this attitude is a reinforcement of heterosexuality as a hierarchy. It's an acknowledgement and understanding that it's not enough to "be with" a woman, or even to father children.
They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.
They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.
"Everything straight is actually gay" is my favourite kind of ragebait posts by these morons.
December 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I sort of wish y'all took this more seriously, because this attitude is a reinforcement of heterosexuality as a hierarchy. It's an acknowledgement and understanding that it's not enough to "be with" a woman, or even to father children.
They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.
They define manhood as exploitation, abuse, and dominance.
Cognitive tests are generally not performed unless there are signs of decline. Trump has had three, and he thinks it was a hard test. In a normal family, Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric would be fighting about who pays for the memory care.
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Cognitive tests are generally not performed unless there are signs of decline. Trump has had three, and he thinks it was a hard test. In a normal family, Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric would be fighting about who pays for the memory care.
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News -- > Rep Jamie Raskin is introducing a proposal today to require ranked choice voting in all congressional races. He's drawing attention to the idea even as corrupt Trump/GOP gerrymandering exposes current system's deep flaws.
Raskin discusses this on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Raskin discusses this on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
December 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
News -- > Rep Jamie Raskin is introducing a proposal today to require ranked choice voting in all congressional races. He's drawing attention to the idea even as corrupt Trump/GOP gerrymandering exposes current system's deep flaws.
Raskin discusses this on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Raskin discusses this on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
I sometimes contemplate the waste of human intellect caused by racism and sexism, and it is enormous. Even if you just start with the scientific revolution, the loss is incomprehensible. And this is still happening, every day.
Ever think about the sheer enormity of how much global racism costs and for what? The UK for example can barely maintain the same economic standard as a third tier US state and this is what they’re choosing to do?
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn on.ft.com/4a1qjR6
December 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I sometimes contemplate the waste of human intellect caused by racism and sexism, and it is enormous. Even if you just start with the scientific revolution, the loss is incomprehensible. And this is still happening, every day.
He’s all over the files. And totally guilty.
Comer: "One of the things I think President Trump has always been concerned about is there are people that have maybe been listed as someone who associated w/Epstein, they may have attended a party w/Epstein - the president was concerned the public would assume that person was guilty by association"
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
He’s all over the files. And totally guilty.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Like MTG and Elise Stefanik, conservative college women are surprised to discover that their conservative male peers don’t actually see them as equal. Harvard has been admitting women to the College since the 1970s. Women ruin everything, amirite?
December 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Like MTG and Elise Stefanik, conservative college women are surprised to discover that their conservative male peers don’t actually see them as equal. Harvard has been admitting women to the College since the 1970s. Women ruin everything, amirite?
The comments on this article make it abundantly clear how permissible misogyny is and how much men of all political stripes think that women’s views are less than theirs.
The one thing Kamala Harris absolutely does not want to talk about is whether she is thinking about running for president again. “It’s three years from nooooow,” she told us. She is busy selling books — a lot of them. She is not yet selling herself.
Read our full interview on what she plans next.
Read our full interview on what she plans next.
Kamala Harris Isn’t Ready to Be Written Off
She was seen for two decades as a future face of the Democratic Party. Is she now suddenly a figure of its past?
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The comments on this article make it abundantly clear how permissible misogyny is and how much men of all political stripes think that women’s views are less than theirs.
That’s the point. They don’t want a competent democratic government. They want kleptocratic autocracy.
New, from me: by embracing unitary executive theory, the Supreme Court is moving towards making all public employees fireable at the will of the President.
This will not just hurt government competence, it will aid democratic backsliding. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...
This will not just hurt government competence, it will aid democratic backsliding. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/at-will-wh...
At will? Whose will?
Removing independent agency heads is part of a broader assault on a nonpartisan government
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
That’s the point. They don’t want a competent democratic government. They want kleptocratic autocracy.
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If you want to compete with China, you don’t hollow out U.S. R&D, you don’t drive immigrants away, & you don’t double-down on the fossil fuel industry at the expense of renewables. The fascist may view 🇨🇳 as a scary racial competitor, but not enough to put aside their dreams of a far-right utopia. /🧵
December 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If you want to compete with China, you don’t hollow out U.S. R&D, you don’t drive immigrants away, & you don’t double-down on the fossil fuel industry at the expense of renewables. The fascist may view 🇨🇳 as a scary racial competitor, but not enough to put aside their dreams of a far-right utopia. /🧵
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🧵 Another dog-forsaken thread of NSS analysis emphasizes the logic of the “reverse Nixon” — the idea of realigning Russia away from China toward the U.S. It’s bonkers, utopian, “world politics is not actually a game of Diplomacy” strategery.
December 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🧵 Another dog-forsaken thread of NSS analysis emphasizes the logic of the “reverse Nixon” — the idea of realigning Russia away from China toward the U.S. It’s bonkers, utopian, “world politics is not actually a game of Diplomacy” strategery.
The role of misogyny in the modern Republican movement is seriously underplayed. It doesn’t help that many of the pundits put things like abortion, childcare, and workplace equality into a box called “women’s issues”, and then say that the party needs to focus on issues of “general interest”.
Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The role of misogyny in the modern Republican movement is seriously underplayed. It doesn’t help that many of the pundits put things like abortion, childcare, and workplace equality into a box called “women’s issues”, and then say that the party needs to focus on issues of “general interest”.
Rural health care is in crisis but Republicans don’t care because the Republican Party is a white supremacist death cult.
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Rural health care is in crisis but Republicans don’t care because the Republican Party is a white supremacist death cult.
They revel in cruelty. These people are the worst among us.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
They revel in cruelty. These people are the worst among us.
If you have home security cameras, mount them out of reach and have more than one coverage angle so sh*ts like this can’t move/cover/damage/hide from them in a dead spot.
ICE agent shoves a home security camera as she approaches a home. Masks aren't enough. They don't want you to have any record of their behavior. Even the tiniest threat of accountability is too much. Keep recording anyway.
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you have home security cameras, mount them out of reach and have more than one coverage angle so sh*ts like this can’t move/cover/damage/hide from them in a dead spot.
I could swear that Tshirt reads “GREED”…
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December 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I could swear that Tshirt reads “GREED”…
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i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me
December 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me
This
I only occasionally interpret immigration matters, but I can definitively state that whatever you think immigration law looks like, it’s at least 8000 times more complicated and arbitrary than whatever you’re imagining
The average natural born US citizen, even one who is well-educated, has ZERO understanding of the history of immigration and citizenship law or the way that immigration and citizenship law is enforced today.
December 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This
Plenty of people absolutely told you so, from the very beginning.
Ten years ago today, the Philadelphia Daily News did not mince words on its front page about the significant and tangible dangers that candidate Donald Trump, then almost six months into his first campaign for president, posed to our freedoms and our democracy.
December 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Plenty of people absolutely told you so, from the very beginning.
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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I had *planned* on writing a post today about the ongoing sane-washing of the U.S. National Security Strategy, but I decided instead to put up a more detailed version of my skeets about the entanglement of Trump corruption, overseas autocratic wealth, and U.S. media consolidation.
Transnational Kleptocracy and American Authoritarian Consolidation - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Last week, Netflix reached a deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery’s studios and streaming business. Some right-wing influencers were livid, because Netflix produces a fair amount of LGBTQ-friendly c...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I had *planned* on writing a post today about the ongoing sane-washing of the U.S. National Security Strategy, but I decided instead to put up a more detailed version of my skeets about the entanglement of Trump corruption, overseas autocratic wealth, and U.S. media consolidation.
Unpack the Court has to be the highest priority.
What depresses me is noticing that the democrats are clearly doing sod all for 2029, and reforming this court needs to be at the top of the list. A cynic might think they see at as a feature, not a bug at this point.
Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything
I’ve become something of a broken record on this. But repetition sometimes...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Unpack the Court has to be the highest priority.