Catherine Mack

IT GOT BETTER

📍Central MN

I Remember ✋

Pentagon sends ground forces to train in Panama’s jungle for first time in decades Pentagon has begun sending conventional ground forces to Panama to train in the jungle.

Ummm...

Pentagon sends ground forces to train in Panama’s jungle for first time in decades
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It's only the Aurora Borealis if it's from the L'Aurora region of France. Otherwise it's sparkling light pollution.

Republicans Are Damaged by Their Own Cruelty They’re pathologically unwilling to help Americans in need — and Democrats should hammer this home

“But it’s now clear Trump doesn’t even understand why healthcare relies on insurance, why we can’t pay medical expenses out of pocket. Hint: You never know when you’ll need expensive treatment, but should the need arise, only the ultra-wealthy can come up with the cash.”

Slim bird with a very long tail, gray head, white breast, and orange sides perched on a weathered tree stump against a soft green background.

One of my favorite things about the tropical dry forests of Guanacaste are the winter visiting Scissor-tailed Flycatchers. They're later than a lot of other N American migrants, but they're starting to show up in good numbers now. When it gets too wet in Bijagua, I just head down to the sun. #birds

The Clash’s Paul Simonon, running into some young street musicians, will make your day. 💕 🎸

@theclash.com @faroutmagazine.co.uk

ICE again prevents Chicago Catholics from bringing Eucharist to immigrant detainees More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration offici...

After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...

YouTube video by Charlie Angus THE OTHER WORLD SERIES AD - MORE RING OF FIRE BS!!!

There was enormous attention on Doug Ford's World Series Ad.
Much less attention on his CDN ad.
Doug is promising to rip up "red tape" to get at the Ring of Fire ore bodies.
People in the region have gone 30 years without drinking water. He refuses to meet them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb5-...

New article! On the shutdown, a nation treated as prey, and the meaning of leverage: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-shutdown

Excerpt HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT

In 2019, I wrote about my plan to show my kids all of America in the epilogue of HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. I made good on that promise the best I could. Keep fighting for our rights and our country -- don't let our story end this way.

www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

mesa verde

glacier

arches

great sand dunes

National parks were the main places I wanted my kids to see, and I wrote about them in THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. Breaks my heart that the book is coming out as Trump tries to make good on his plans to destroy them. I hope my book helps the effort to fight back. www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

The Last American Road Trip The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her fami...

In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides.

Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

So, “humanitarian intervention” in Nigeria?

Also, I hear somebody keeps killing Christians on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Might want to look into that.

Joe Biden would have been impeached and removed from office for this answer.

It wouldn’t have just been bipartisan it would have been unanimous.

Excerpt from THEY KNEW.

From my book THEY KNEW, written in 2021, on Trump's plans. This is what's happening now.

For the love of God, can just one interviewer push back on this insanity?

There are people seeking political asylum in America. They were not taken out of mental asylums in other countries and brought here.

It's a big mistake with big ramifications, but no one wants to correct Our Special Boy.

This is a non-sequitur: "I will show that the GOP has drifted further to the right than the Dems have to left."
1. That's not a denial.
2. It ignores that in nationalized elections, the voters will note the most prominent Dems and their views, not the "average Dem member in Congress."

Dude talks like a Nazi.

Pure cruelty.

Officially, stores cannot give SNAP recipients preferential treatment absent a waiver, w waivers given to places encouraging healthy eating.

So obvs a rule aimed at preventing junk-food places from targeting SNAP.

This is … SO much not that.

And this enforcement is a CHOICE.

Yes, an important test for the midterms.

We followed the Jays right to the last second and cheered them on.

Few people noticed the huge ad buy Ford ran on the Canadian networks promoting the Ring of Fire mining region.

There is brutal poverty in the Ring of Fire.😒

Doug Ford refuses to treat the Indigenous people with respect.

Wait until everyone has to pay the actual *cost* of AI under a profit model. Right now they’re handing it out like crack hoping to get us hooked. Human therapists will be a lot cheaper than those giant server hangars sopping up lakes and rivers.

As a therapist, this is concerning. There is more and more research and evidence that confirms that these AI "therapists" end up causing harm to the user. Whether its encouraging relapse/substance abuse, AI psychosis, or more dramatic suicidal gestures, AI damages the user. Its a scary time.

O'DONNELL: What does that mean -- 'send more than the National Guard?'

TRUMP: Well, if you had to send in the Army or the Marines, I'd do that in a heartbeat. We have a thing called the Insurrection Act. I could use that immediately & no judge can even challenge you on that. If I wanted to I could

O'DONNELL: Are we going to war against Venezuela?

TRUMP: I doubt it. They emptied their mental institutions and insane asylums into the United States of America

Don't let the result distract you from the fact one pitcher was called Little in English and the other was called Little in German (Klein),perfect game

The Canadian on the Dodgers won this for them?!?

Can’t fault it- that was earned!

THE ORGANIST IS PLAYING NEVERENDING STORY