@rcatalano.bsky.social
An indie author, writer on Medium.com, pet sitter, dog mom, photographer, advocate, and a Democrat who lives in a red state.๐โ๏ธ๐ฆฎ๐ธโ๏ธ
If you still support him, you either are like him, or want to be like him.
04.04.2025 11:05 โ ๐ 10279 ๐ 2806 ๐ฌ 398 ๐ 157After mass boycotts against Target for ending their diversity, equity and inclusion program in January, theyโve seen 8 consecutive weeks of decline in foot traffic as well as significant loss in market value whilst Costco saw significant gains for keeping their DEI program.
Good.
South Korea makes it look easy: en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...
04.04.2025 03:47 โ ๐ 50 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Tweet 1: Seung Min Kim @ @seungminkim โข3h HYATTSVILLE, Md. (AP) โ A federal judge orders the US to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison. Tweet 2: Seung Min Kim & @seungminkim White House response: "We suggest the Judge contact President Bukele because we are unaware of the judge having jurisdiction or authority over the country of El Salvador." - @PressSec
It sure looks like theyโre going all in on the โthe executive branch can ignore court orders if it thinks the court lacks jurisdictionโ thing
04.04.2025 22:31 โ ๐ 11033 ๐ 2790 ๐ฌ 676 ๐ 524Black line illustration on white paper of a shorthaired tabby cat marching confidently through a jungle scene. It is unperturbed by the foliage, vines, flowers, and beautiful snake that swirl around it.
From Best Cat Stories, a book in my collection of short stories by different authors with wonderful illustrations by Eileen Mayo. 1952.
04.04.2025 22:43 โ ๐ 1584 ๐ 174 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 4you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead
04.04.2025 15:06 โ ๐ 37237 ๐ 5284 ๐ฌ 195 ๐ 526Feeling like a big dumbass working on my taxes right now. Who am I sending this money to
04.04.2025 17:22 โ ๐ 30403 ๐ 2857 ๐ฌ 445 ๐ 372I went live on Sub to discuss the tariffs, and America's self own occuring now, among other things, take a look!
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/live-with-...
Right now in our fractured world some people may be seen as targets by simply being who they are. If not you personally, then someone you know. Whoever we are, we can help create safe spaces for one another in our shared search for community. Not illegal. Not political. Just safe. Charleston
04.04.2025 09:51 โ ๐ 85 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0A cool and normal thing to do a week and a half before Tax Day.
04.04.2025 23:17 โ ๐ 745 ๐ 194 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 10Reminder: as the Dow is tanking faster than 2008, and four dead servicemen arrive at Dover, Trump is golfing: with the saudis
04.04.2025 19:50 โ ๐ 12274 ๐ 3908 ๐ฌ 635 ๐ 178Heaven forbid that this simple-minded buffoon would allow his crashing the United State's economy, or the return of the remains of four people killed in our military, to interfere with yet one more stupid golf game for this superficial scam-artist to cheat at.
04.04.2025 23:17 โ ๐ 18523 ๐ 4532 ๐ฌ 974 ๐ 250Salinas, California.
Locals -- vividly! -- show their disgust for January 6th convicts "meet and greet" in their neighborhood:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeEq...
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04.04.2025 21:21 โ ๐ 22421 ๐ 4990 ๐ฌ 2496 ๐ 319Kentuckyโs $9 billion bourbon industry is caught in a trade war, with tariffs threatening jobs and exportsโฆ
04.04.2025 14:41 โ ๐ 3745 ๐ 789 ๐ฌ 577 ๐ 139As long as I live, I will never understand why they would rather elect a singularly worthless white rapist as president than an exceptionally impressive black woman.
04.04.2025 21:02 โ ๐ 12623 ๐ 2086 ๐ฌ 833 ๐ 159Lamont: DOGE says weโre just getting rid of waste, fraud, and abuseโthatโs nonsense. All theyโre doing is pushing costs onto the state. When we get cuts, we donโt get any notice. All of a sudden, the portal turns off and they stop paying for daycare, they stop paying for Health Department services..
04.04.2025 17:52 โ ๐ 8517 ๐ 2727 ๐ฌ 222 ๐ 83#MAGAMorons
04.04.2025 23:05 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0"The catch is that in order to get attention, you have to be terrible. You have to lie or embrace evil. In the attention economy there is enormous demand for civic blasphemy. Whatโs hard is getting attention for messages about truth, or virtue, or love."
04.04.2025 01:00 โ ๐ 5955 ๐ 1328 ๐ฌ 120 ๐ 58It was never about the children
#waronwomen #misogyny #womensrights
Kudlow: "Buying cheap goods is not a real prosperity, and we don't have to accept that. So you lay the law down, that's all. Look, all the badly behaving children in Asia and elsewhere are coming home to papa. They're all on the phone begging for mercy."
04.04.2025 20:57 โ ๐ 1381 ๐ 189 ๐ฌ 826 ๐ 571www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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