Kait from Seattle

Purrfect twin cat names (hi, I'm here from SIO!)

I have a huge request for my readers: Trump's tax and spending bill will be moving through the Senate. Senators can invoke the Byrd Rule to try to remove the anti-trans Medicaid ban and EHB changes.

You can find and call your senator here and ask them to do that.

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Deleted instagram because I couldn’t stop being codependent in my DMs 🫠

YES.

YES

There is a type of man who likes to think of himself as dangerous in a "jungle cat ready to pounce" sort of way when he is actually dangerous in the "old bridge that you're crossing starts ominously groaning" sort of way.

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

if you can't say "masked police is bad" without dunking on masked protesters what are you even doing?

The people constantly braying about “Christian values” are attacking the Pope for suggesting that we love others.

Pope Leo’s brother says they played Wordle together and his brother watched the movie “Conclave” in advance of going into the conclave where he was chosen to be pope:

Pope Leo XIV's grandparents were 7th Ward Creoles The newly elected pontiff, born in Chicago, has ancestral ties to the city’s historic Seventh Ward, according to genealogists at The Historic New Orleans Collection.

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it.

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Beware fascists making lists.

I think about this all the time

Power point slide with a corgi in a gilt frame in the right corner. The slide reads “No children. No husband. I want to live all by myself. I want to come home from my self rewarding job and have everything exactly where I left it. And no GROSS children.”

my 14yo made a power point of what she wants her future to look like and this is my favorite slide

So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?

In my world LLM means Master of Laws so boy was I confused for a sec

But yeah, large language models suck and are hastening the destruction of our planet

We became uncool by literally aging; it’s not rocket science 🫠

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

Black and white photo of a large group of queer and trans people

The Queer Burning of May 6, 1933.

It was 92 years ago today that Nazis destroyed the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science, the first known sexology institute in the western world.

Excellent reference

It got so real 😭

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.

These are their stories 🧵

Genomelink is wild for trying to entice to me to pay real American dollars to access my "Native American report."

I'm 1000% mayonnaise but thanks for asking, I guess.

A quote: “Make your own food from fresh ingredients. Problem solved.” The thing being quoted is me saying: I just ran into someone doing the whole “don’t eat a thing if your great-grandparents wouldn’t recognize it as food” and I’m begging people to know a little food history and understand how far back you have to go to find food without additives.

I think I’m going to have to give up on people understanding that “widespread, regular famine” is in fact a bigger problem than additives in food that help us feed people.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

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People keep talking about the midterms like we’re definitely going to have midterms.

Every review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count."