Joe Katz @joekatz45 - Bluesky Profile

The Nazi comparisons are useful, but the Trump instinct to address negative outcomes by firing and silencing anyone on their team foolish enough to report them always makes me think of Mao and the Great Famine.

01.08.2025 21:35 — 👍 144 🔁 27 💬 10 📌 2

The Criminal Enterprise Run by Monkeys A cabal of furry thieves snatch iPhones and other valuables from visitors to a temple in Bali–and trade them for mangos

The Wall Street Journal is really going hard on Trump these days

01.08.2025 16:25 — 👍 84 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 1

The cloture vote on Bove was 50-48 last Thursday, all voting Dems plus Collins/Murkowski were nos. Seems quite likely he'll be confirmed this week. But since that was two whistleblowers ago, probably worth anyone with a Republican senator making one more call.

28.07.2025 21:59 — 👍 997 🔁 478 💬 36 📌 26

Whistleblower evidence suggests Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove misled Senate A third whistleblower has new information about a Justice Department official the president has nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

A third whistleblower has struck Emil Bove

28.07.2025 21:29 — 👍 339 🔁 121 💬 15 📌 14

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Pollution

RIP Tom Lehrer, one of the single most talented, prescient, hilarious, and underappreciated satirists this country ever produced. a man who actually called it like he saw it youtu.be/JPrAuF2f_oI

28.07.2025 00:34 — 👍 378 🔁 90 💬 4 📌 10

Worth remembering that in any other administration, a 15% tariff on our largest trade partner & some of our closest allies would be considered the worst trade war in more than a generation

27.07.2025 16:37 — 👍 3225 🔁 723 💬 73 📌 28

Yet Another trade “deal” from Trump that leaves tariffs much, much worse than before he took office. What a joke.

27.07.2025 17:46 — 👍 802 🔁 152 💬 19 📌 2

a graph of US pharma imports by country, which are $175B/yr from the EU

Underreported trade news of the day is that Trump announced that the 15% tariffs on the EU would include pharmaceuticals that have thus far been exempt from tariffs

If tariffs on pharma go up 15% this week it'd be a *massive* escalation of the trade war—the US imports $175B/yr of them from the EU

27.07.2025 20:25 — 👍 875 🔁 331 💬 31 📌 62

Her: you quote Alanis Morissette too much

Me: well slap me with a splintered ruler

11.03.2025 04:52 — 👍 98 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 1

Do they have a strike fund set up? Anything along those lines we can support?

18.07.2025 13:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Keep yelling at your senators to oppose Trump's henchman.

Scripts language here, or send a @resist.bot message by texting SIGN PECZAF to 50409.

18.07.2025 13:16 — 👍 94 🔁 38 💬 0 📌 2

You can either read today's news as a series of distractions-- the poor venous return is a distraction from bove which is a distraction from Epstein which is the distraction tariffs which is a distraction from whatever -- or you can read it as shit is falling apart. I'm an eternal optimist.

18.07.2025 01:21 — 👍 130 🔁 17 💬 5 📌 2

the wall street journal says trump's letter was part of the department of justice's review of the charges against epstein and maxwell. emil bove was involved in doj's review of those files this year. today republicans on the judiciary committee halted debate to advance bove to a lifetime judgeship

18.07.2025 00:29 — 👍 176 🔁 66 💬 5 📌 3

It would cost between $9 and $30 billion to end (or at least significantly address) homelessness in the US. The cheaper approaches to a free college education for everyone who wants it would cost ~$30 billion.

17.07.2025 13:17 — 👍 314 🔁 139 💬 4 📌 5

Good Trouble Lives On YouTube video by The Transformative Justice Coalition

National broadcast of the flagship event for #GoodTroubleLivesOn will go live on YouTube at 8PM

17.07.2025 23:23 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Scripts/language to tell your members of Congress they need to fucking do something if Trump decides his ego is more important than our economy and fires Jerome Powell:

(Can also send a @resist.bot message by texting SIGN PBLBKC to 50409.)

16.07.2025 16:08 — 👍 82 🔁 44 💬 6 📌 3

"Now, Ray is hiding in India where he has no legal status, family, or passport. He said he is only surviving thanks to a pastor who took him in."

16.07.2025 18:10 — 👍 38 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

A refugee deported to Bhutan by the U.S. finds himself stranded and stateless Once deported to Bhutan, some Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees say they are told to leave. Many have since disappeared, while others are homeless and stateless, according to immigration advocates.

"Ray, who is in his late 20s, was born in a refugee camp in Nepal and came to the U.S. as a kid. He was recently deported to Bhutan — where he had never lived in and where his family faced persecution. Within 24 hours of his arrival, Ray said Bhutanese authorities ordered him to leave."

16.07.2025 18:10 — 👍 81 🔁 45 💬 3 📌 3

The cover image of the Winter 1996 issue of "Anything That Moves: The Magazine for the Bisexual At Large, Covering Gender and Sexuality Prix Fixe to A La Carte". There are three people on the cover standing side by side -- a Black woman with short spiky hair and dark-rimmed glasses, a white or Latina woman with short dark hair wearing a jacket and tie, and a white man with a thin face and a shaggy blond haircut wearing a dark vest. They are holding up the Newsweek "Bisexuality" issue (which also has three people standing side by side on the cover) and looking at it with puzzled and skeptical expressions.

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Day that Newsweek Discovered Bisexuality. To mark the occasion, I’m going to tell you all a little story.

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16.07.2025 17:04 — 👍 686 🔁 261 💬 10 📌 76

Endorse:

16.07.2025 16:28 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Remember the good old days when a president firing this meant this was a non-story as opposed to "oh, he's definitely gonna fire Powell"

16.07.2025 16:27 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0