Catherine Patterson

Rumor has it that many groups have called for a general strike on May 1st. I don't think we can wait that long.

slate.com Trump and Stephen Miller Want You Not to Trust Your Own Eyes

Trump and Stephen Miller Want You Not to Trust Your Own Eyes

Everything Stephen Miller and DHS say should be presumed to be a lie, without exception.

Go Minneapolis!

TEN MONTHS IN:

The national debt is higher.

The trade deficit is wider.

The inflation rate has worsened.

The unemployment rate is up.

😠 Supt. Tom Horne is pushing to gut critical components of AZ teaching and bilingual education standards, using Trump’s anti-DEI Executive Order as an excuse to continue his decades-long attacks.

🗣️ SPEAK UP: Use our email to raise your voice and stop this overreach: bit.ly/StopDEIoverreach

It’s an explicit propaganda network. In case someone needed any more evidence.

(above images of the Target, Amazon, and Home Depot logos that have been crossed out) We Ain't Buying It Target Companies This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration's biased attacks on DEl; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.

From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi

A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Bar chart of water conflicts by year from 2010 to 2024 showing dramatic increases. Each year is also broken out in three categories: water as a trigger, casualty, and weapon. Water as a casualty is the largest type of water conflict, followed by water as a trigger of violence. Data from the Pacific Institute Water Conflict Chronology database.

Dramatic increase in conflicts over #water in 2024 compared to previous years.

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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

P.S. No one is scared of a socialist when we have literal Nazis working in the White House...

The powers that be couldn't handle political reporting from a magazine geared for young people.

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

very important thread on the absolute nazi shit happening at ICE 👇

Left: Veteran and U.S. citizen George Retes, pinned by immigration officers in Camarillo, CA in July, before he disappeared for days

Right: George on Capitol Hill today, trying to tell as many members of Congress his story as possible

I put away the cutters for zip ties because Chandler is fairly blue and the police department is right there.

Although I am a sample size of one, I will say that I focus on and read books much less now that I have this device in my hand. I also noticed that when I went to school back in the 1970s and 1980s, my best subjects were the ones with the heaviest homework. No computers yet.

𝐍𝐨, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐮𝐬𝐞.

See our paper for more results: "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" : www.brainonllm.com

Odd, how MAGA couldn't draw enough attention to imaginary children being molested in #Pizzagate, but when it comes to *real* children being molested in #Epsteingate, they desperately want our attention to be elsewhere.

Please, Penn — stand up to the Trump administration this time | Opinion The university needs to reject an offer from the Trump administration that would guarantee it preferential access to federal funding. The cost? All Penn would need to do in exchange is sell its soul.

"The university needs to reject an offer from the Trump administration that would guarantee it preferential access to federal funding. The cost? All Penn would need to do in exchange is sell its soul," writes Jonathan Zimmerman.

The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts — paid for by cuts to health care for millions of Americans. Every lie Trump and Republicans are telling right now about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this.

Tell me how ICE is different from the Gestapo?

Shout out to rural America - ya'll can rest easy that they won't be doing gender switch-a-roos in your hospitals or having kids use litter boxes in your schools because turns out, thanks to the big beautiful bill, you won't have hospitals or schools.

Map depicting predicted 500mb GPH anomalies from ECMWF model. The offshore low can be seen here, depicted as light blue colors amid a sea of red (i.e., otherwise above average GHP/warmer than average airmass).

Some active weather is possible across northern third of California Mon-Tue (north of SF Bay Area). A weak offshore low will generate modest mid-level atmospheric instability & draw in mid-upper moisture from southeast...leading to some lightning amid hot temps. #CAwx #CAfire

Elon Musk tweet

Leopard's Eating People's Faces Party ("It's not like they're going to eat MY face")

"I didn't think they'd go after MY clean energy company!"

"If passed...By 2035 the US would emit 1 billion tons of additional carbon pollution compared to its current trajectory..would also lead to a massive wave of clean energy project cancellations at a time when America is already running out of electricity due to a surge in demand from AI data centers"

G.O.P. Bill Adds Surprise Tax That Could Cripple Wind and Solar Power

It’s weird that the GOP wants China to dominate the future of energy.

Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt's Nazi Staffer Nathan Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign for making a transparently neoNazi video featuring the Governor, and has only doubled down on his white nationalism since.

Pretty galling that we're still the only place that's reported on this. We're not even a news outlet! www.liberalcurrents.com/missouri-sen...