Herded by Cats

Just a regular reminder to deescalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy. The terrain is uncertain. Threats are high. Don't confuse your closest allies with your opponents.

Sooooooo we’re all pretty sure these comments were surfaced by the Dem establishment right?

Worth a read if you have a uterus. Or have friends with a uterus. You don't always plan to get pregnant, and it can be extremely overwhelming (especially right now) when so much is stressful and you don't know how to trust. We keep us safe.

Please. I'm so tired of people talking (or often, yelling) past each other based on terms they're not defining with each other, instead of listening. We could find common ground and work together instead.

I have a great idea.

Let’s stop using the terms Zionist and anti-Zionist.

Please.

They’ve lost all meaning and with Zio as a slur that basically stands in for “Jew” at this point regardless of Israel views I think it would be really helpful for everyone if we could please just stop.

And yet again a massive protest in NYC is scheduled on a Saturday morning when many Jews are in shul.

I’m not saying don’t do Saturday. But would Saturday at 2 be so bad? Give the Jews a chance to daven. Don’t ask us to choose between Shabbat services and praying with our feet. Especially in NYC ☹️

I think the certainty is always our downfall. No one actually knows what will "work." No one. You try lots of different things and then you see what can be built on.

ICE detained a nonverbal, 15 year-old autistic boy who'd been selling fruit by the side of the road with his family when he took a bathroom break. The family was not notified. He was held in ICE detention for a week before the family could find him.

This is not just hypocrisy or refusal to call out issues on his own side.

It's that he agrees, he's explicitly and happily on their side, and they are part of the movement he and Trump have been bringing into the mainstream for a decade.

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

And yet another precious life is hanging in the balance. Believe it or not, we truly loathe asking for help as often as we have been lately. But right now, another kitten desperately needs us — and whether we can step up depends on what our supporters are willing to make possible. This little one is currently at Palm Valley Animal Shelter. She was brought in by animal control after being found stuck in a fence for three days. Her right front leg was already gone — amputated by trauma — with bone exposed. 💔 With no veterinarian on staff, the shelter has no means to provide the care she urgently needs. She’s been given an END OF DAY deadline — 5PM today, October 16th. Without a rescue stepping up, her story will end there. We want to say yes. We want to bring her to safety. But to do that, we need your help. We’ll need funds for transport, our rockstar volunteer transporter Jessica has already agreed to make the drive for us, a surgical amputation to clean and close her wound, and ongoing care. If our community can rally behind her, even just a few dollars at a time, we can tell the shelter she’s safe and on her way to healing. Can we count on you to help us say yes? Every single dollar, every share, every show of support tells us she’s not alone - and neither are we. Can you spare $2 for this little one today? https://venmo.com/u/AnneL14

Scraggly kitten being held by a hand. Missing right leg is blacked out

Hey y’all- a great, small rescue in Austin can use some help. They’re trying to get a badly injured kitten from the border up to Austin. If you’ve got a few bucks to add, that would be huge.

Anne is a trained pediatric anesthesiology nurse who uses her skills to help tinies

Venmo in the alt text

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A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

Focus on Mike Johnson. Just because he’s little and pious and speaks without opening his mouth doesn’t mean he’s not - at this moment - as dangerous as Trump.

They’re scared of protest, they’re scared of humor, they’re scared of ridicule. They’re just plain scared.

They’re not doing this because they’re strong. They’re doing it because they’re weak.

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

Some people got upset with me a few days ago for saying I thought Machado and Trump were working together toward regime change in Venezuela, and now there are B-52 bombers in the sky off the coast of the country and the CIA engaging in covert ops within it.

She died from suicide.

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power.

www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

Yes! And if you object to this sermon of a thread:

30-40 years ago, the entire nation was on Black communities' necks about "crime rates" and "teen motherhood." Yesterday's "welfare queen" is today's "DEI hire."

Having zero sense of collective responsibility is a luxury in these United States.

These are the goons Vance is ok with

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

he is one million percent in these chats

If I see a link to a supposedly politically progressive blog that is not just platformed on proud Nazi-funder Substack, but also has an AI slop image generated from the mass theft of labor by artists, that's a double nope from me, dear ones! I get that life is complicated, but these issues aren't.

So the "next frontier" is that they will keep kidnapping our neighbors, terrorizing our communities, and pulling guns on us in the street, but Dems will fight for them to be unmasked while doing it? I bet they'll just put those gas masks on a little more often. They love gassing our neighborhoods.

And yes, studies show that most autistic people prefer IFL, whereas parents often prefer PFL, on some level bc they think of autism as something separate from their kid or something that can be cured 😐

+ treating disability like a bad thing just perpetuates the stigma, this disabled person notes.

side rant: when are newsrooms going to get over parents' ablest squick about their kids and start using identity first language?

"disabled person" not "person who is great!! except for this icky disability!!"

"autistic person" not "person with a lil' case of the autisms"

etc

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

Seen a bunch of “where are the 2A types now to fight the tyrannical govt?” replies, so want to add this.

It’s not inconsistent that they aren’t fighting, bc there are two definitions of “freedom” here, and they are thinking of the other one.