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Dick Joltes

@rationalcatdad.bsky.social

Rationalist, researcher, and occasional writer. And cat dad!

47 Followers  |  35 Following  |  7 Posts  |  Joined: 15.11.2024  |  2.0848

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It's a little on the nose that a profession so notoriously anti mask during COVID has thoroughly embraced masks to obscure identity in 2025.

30.10.2025 07:14 β€” πŸ‘ 128    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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USDA ends program that helped schools serve food from local farmers The U.S. Agriculture Department is ending two pandemic-era programs that provided more than $1 billion for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farmers and producers.

Hurting children and farmers at the same time. It’s facism as an art form. πŸ˜’

apnews.com/article/scho...

16.03.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere

The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

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NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns β€” Harvard Gazette Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.

This message needs to be heard widely.

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History DOES repeat itself… 🀬

11.03.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 7931    πŸ” 2162    πŸ’¬ 154    πŸ“Œ 84
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per week...
#usa #classwar #americannightmare

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wow trump wrote this on 8/4/24…. he must be a psychic… he predicted what was going to happen after 1/20/25…..πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈπŸ€¦β€β™€οΈπŸ€¦β€β™€οΈπŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

11.03.2025 21:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Donald Trump’s Ls for the week so far, it’s only Tuesday! (3/11) #democrats #politics #republican #maga TikTok video by amandasmildtakes


I just love this girl… she breaks it all down to show how much β€œSHIT” is not getting done….πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP82kVT46/

11.03.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Call YOUR Senators/Representative TODAY!

The "SAVE Act" may come up for a vote as early as next week & must be stopped!
SAVE would prevent millions of eligible voters from voting, especially women.

Call your Senators/Rep & tell them VOTE NO! Call 202-224-3121 to connect.

#Voterizer #StopTheSAVEAct social.fieldteam6.org/s/S8qQMB2a

11.03.2025 23:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apparently the *private security firm* whose employees attacked this woman has had its business license revoked. But the local sheriff was standing feet away and did nothing, nor did anyone else.

And the idiot guy running the PA system berated the woman the whole time. Hello, misogyny.

26.02.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bwahahaha.

Mar-a-Lago was listed as "Kremlin Headquarters" for a little while on Google Maps.

🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣

24.02.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 41136    πŸ” 9601    πŸ’¬ 1033    πŸ“Œ 610
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Currently appearing at UK bus-stops.

More of this pointed ridicule, please.

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Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside downβ€”the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers β€œpay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified"

This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.

14.02.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 10979    πŸ” 3949    πŸ’¬ 1251    πŸ“Œ 1651

Dumb as a box of rocks.

15.02.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oil Tycoons Open the Money Floodgates for Trump Fossil fuel giants are all in to help elect Trump

www.sierraclub.org/sierra/oil-t...

12.02.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This right here. Stonekettle nails it. MAGA do not care about anything other than causing harm, they are going to burn it all down just to own the libs and when we are covered in ash, they will blame… the libs.

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They were already sending those troops. They didn't cave, nor did Canada. This was all about Trump saving face.

04.02.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FAFO….Alabama is not a rich state… so he basically just pissed the Golden Age all over his MAGA followers ….
Tariffs imposed on Canada could have dire consequences for Alabama’s auto manufacturing industry. Both Honda and Toyota have manufacturing facilities in Alabama.

03.02.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
"This is not a minor transgression." - Brian Schatz

"This is not a minor transgression." - Brian Schatz

"This is not a minor transgression. This is an illegal act. They stormed into buildings, they shut down agencies illegally." - @schatz.bsky.social

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E.P.A. Demotes Career Employees Overseeing Science, Enforcement and More A spokeswoman for the agency said the change was β€œcommon practice.” Others said it injects partisanship into jobs that have always been neutral.

The EPA plans to demote career employees and replace them with political appointees, which would give Trump administration loyalists more influence over aspects of the agency that were traditionally led by nonpartisan experts.

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So much for the fantasy of "American exceptionalism."

10.01.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think we need to re-engage on a personal level. "Othering" anyone who doesn't fit into our personal views is corrosive and antithetical to social interaction.

09.01.2025 00:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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