Kate Cronin

YouTube video by Rick Steves' Europe The Traveler & American Democracy with Rick Steves

I have used his guidebooks on my travels and watched his shows on defunded PBS for years, but this is next level. Keep on showing us the way to fight for our beloved country @ricksteves.bsky.social This is not a drill.

I truly loathe people who make teeny tiny page folds in library books. #booksky

Happy Caturday to my Valentine's. #caturday

And yes, I get that my original comment sounds whiny given my privilege. But all of the things I've done have also been isolating. I'm not against doing things that are hard.

I agree, but it is hard. Off all Meta platforms since Nov 2024, and off anything affiliated with Bezos (Amazon, WaPo, Goodreads). Dropped streaming services. I can't boycott MS Office or Google Drive as they are work requirements. I'm considering a new email host, but honestly, it's exhausting.

FDA refuses to consider Moderna flu shot in move experts claim is part of ‘anti-vaccine agenda’ Agency says application rejected due to lack of ‘adequate and well controlled’ trial, but experts say ‘they’re just coming up with reasons’

JFC. Between this and the EPA roll back, they want to kill us all. SCIENCE IS REAL

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

This is heartbreaking. And happening.

Of course they are...

Just watched this. Librarians are my heros.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

How much human suffering and death, while rich people get richer, will it take for people to rise up? Guess we're not there yet. #rage

NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

What the actual f*#k????

If any incumbent candidate is brave enough to knock your door; in addition to telling them what your community needs, go ahead and ask how much you are paying them, and how many days they are actually spending doing that work.

What a real president looks like.

Theatre LiLA We create a space for YOU to be YOU in each role you play.

Just came from opening night of A Love Letter. Amazing!! #supportlocaltheater

Just voted in the WI Spring Primary election, by early voting in person at city hall. Figured I should do it while I still can. #vote

What Trump’s threat to nationalize elections means for Wisconsin • Wisconsin Examiner Donald Trump is threatening to take over locally run elections. Wisconsin Republicans are trying to help him out. Voters need to take action.

"But really, it’s all about trying to make sure fewer people vote. Under former (R) WI Gov. Scott Walker, WI passed a strict voter ID law, which one former staffer testified made R legislators “giddy” as they discussed how it would make it more difficult for students and people of color to vote."

This one weird trick could stop US women from voting | Arwa Mahdawi The Save Act – which would do the opposite of its title – could have a huge impact on the midterm elections

The GOP blames women for undermining them on issues like abortion & ICE & thus hopes to pass the “SAVE Act,” which will make it harder for married women who changed their last names to vote. But they want you to think it’s about “election integrity”. 1/31/26 #HandmaidsTale 1/

*aren't

How ICE is watching you • Wisconsin Examiner Once delivered via text message — no link required — Paragon’s spyware gains broad access to a phone’s contents, including encrypted messages.

Think they are watching/tracking YOU? Think again.

He can fuck right off. I've been working since I was 13 and will probably have to work til I'm dead. Entitled asshole.

Trump endorses Michael Alfonso for Wisconsin seat in Congress despite Florida ties Michael Alfonso, 25, has an active voter registration in Florida, where he voted in 2024, an inactive Madison record, and an active record at his in-laws’ home in Hayward, though he has never voted th...

No. Northern WI. Just no. And oh by the way, this kid has already raked in $2 million in donations.

No women of color appointed to federal judgeships in Trump’s first year back The Trump administration often equates race and gender diversity with professional incompetence.

No women of color appointed to federal judgeships in Trump’s first year back.

America’s contract to protect white women has always been tenuous | Saida Grundy ICE’s killing of Renee Good has revealed how the state will only defend those who uphold a white racial order. A 1915 film points to the origins of this social pact

The majority of white women consistently vote against securing pathways to citizenship for immigrants, even as their own path to full citizenship was granted to reinforce and multiply white control of the country in the face of Black civil rights progress and early 20th-century immigrant influxes.

Both terrifying and hopeful. Read every word.

Alarmed yet?

For my friend. Marianne.

From today's word of the day email: A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (30 Jan 1882-1945)

Madison's ICE out protest. 0 degrees with -16 windchill and people still turned out. #abolishice

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