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Kathleen Long

@longkathleen.bsky.social

Local government innovator. Deputy Director DLGS, NJDCA. Former BA/COO/City Manager. Passionate about Paterson, NJ. Mom to 2 rascals. Wife to Northern Irish ex-pat. Hoya. Inner City Teaching Corp, Chicago. Mitchell Scholar, University College Cork. ☘️

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say what you will about nancy pelosi but her caucus didn’t DARE vote against her wishes or they knew she’d shank them

09.11.2025 23:00 — 👍 1530    🔁 167    💬 40    📌 12
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“Possibly the greatest #ThiccSix of all time”
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HE WOULD NOT BE DENIED

08.11.2025 05:47 — 👍 1334    🔁 296    💬 35    📌 81
professor_neil 10/29/25
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Ms. Rachel 2028

08.11.2025 16:53 — 👍 1492    🔁 213    💬 4    📌 16

Whoever invented this sport could not possibly have imagined this insanity

02.11.2025 04:19 — 👍 1751    🔁 71    💬 72    📌 6

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

01.11.2025 04:48 — 👍 12357    🔁 2566    💬 227    📌 124

Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."

28.10.2025 23:06 — 👍 2707    🔁 1298    💬 17    📌 46

COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”

28.10.2025 16:32 — 👍 2666    🔁 669    💬 19    📌 16
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One year ago

27.10.2025 12:22 — 👍 4383    🔁 1781    💬 69    📌 116

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

23.10.2025 20:30 — 👍 16703    🔁 4943    💬 494    📌 122

[Exit King.]

18.10.2025 13:57 — 👍 7672    🔁 2084    💬 61    📌 66

Everytime I listen to Stephen Miller I think of this one angry nerdy bitter kid I went to high school with who used to have just one line in his AIM profile, the Radiohead lyric:

“When I am king, you will be first against the wall”

02.10.2025 05:45 — 👍 1008    🔁 337    💬 92    📌 28

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

04.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 24032    🔁 7410    💬 1454    📌 575
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Tennessee soybean farmer: China has long been our biggest customer, and tariffs have cut into our ability to sell soybeans to them. We don't want a bailout. We just want access to free and open markets to sell our crops.

03.10.2025 20:54 — 👍 1143    🔁 293    💬 174    📌 32

The UAE obtained access to advanced AI chips after it purchased $2 billion of Trump's cryptocurrency—alarming security experts. When I tried to explain this to a Missouri focus group, I was greeted with blank stares. Finally, after a long silence, one member asked if anyone involved was trans.

30.09.2025 10:56 — 👍 1438    🔁 253    💬 26    📌 9

Troops. In an American city. Using full force.

Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.

27.09.2025 14:48 — 👍 2603    🔁 873    💬 120    📌 30
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Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

16.09.2025 15:03 — 👍 14493    🔁 3863    💬 158    📌 114

Please permit me to remind you that just as the First Amendment protects Nazis, who would suppress our speech, it also protects the New York Times, which has sold out every American right and value for the mess of Park Slope potage that is false equivalency, false neutrality, and access.

16.09.2025 04:24 — 👍 2975    🔁 494    💬 57    📌 6
Gov Greg Abbott vowing to suspend the teacher certifications of educators who posted things about Charlie Kirk that conservatives don't like

Gov Greg Abbott vowing to suspend the teacher certifications of educators who posted things about Charlie Kirk that conservatives don't like

Governor Greg Abbott today signed House Bill 20 into law, which protects Texans from wrongful censorship on social media platforms. The Governor was joined for the bill signing by Senators Bryan Hughes and Representative Briscoe Cain, the bill's authors, as well as Senators Charles Perry, Dawn Buckingham, and Angela Paxton. The Governor named social media censorship legislation as an agenda item for the second special legislative session in August.

"We will always defend the freedom of speech in Texas, which is why I am proud to sign House Bill 20 into law to protect first amendment rights in the Lone Star State," said Governor Abbott. "Social media websites have become our modern-day public square. They are a place for healthy public debate where information should be able to flow freely - but there is a dangerous movement by social media companies to silence conservative viewpoints and ideas. That is wrong, and we will not allow it in Texas. I thank Senator Bryan Hughes, Representative Briscoe Cain, and the Texas Legislature for ensuring that House Bill 20 reached my desk during the second special session."

Governor Greg Abbott today signed House Bill 20 into law, which protects Texans from wrongful censorship on social media platforms. The Governor was joined for the bill signing by Senators Bryan Hughes and Representative Briscoe Cain, the bill's authors, as well as Senators Charles Perry, Dawn Buckingham, and Angela Paxton. The Governor named social media censorship legislation as an agenda item for the second special legislative session in August. "We will always defend the freedom of speech in Texas, which is why I am proud to sign House Bill 20 into law to protect first amendment rights in the Lone Star State," said Governor Abbott. "Social media websites have become our modern-day public square. They are a place for healthy public debate where information should be able to flow freely - but there is a dangerous movement by social media companies to silence conservative viewpoints and ideas. That is wrong, and we will not allow it in Texas. I thank Senator Bryan Hughes, Representative Briscoe Cain, and the Texas Legislature for ensuring that House Bill 20 reached my desk during the second special session."

Time is a flat circle, nothing ever happens, etc

16.09.2025 00:46 — 👍 1332    🔁 339    💬 25    📌 27
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Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020 A Travis County jury sentenced Perry to 25 years in prison last year, prompting Abbott to ask the state parole board to review his case.

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer.

The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial.

Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

15.09.2025 18:56 — 👍 8287    🔁 4039    💬 100    📌 119
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You need to know what might be coming.

Trump could have brought the nation together to confront political violence after the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Instead he appears to be preparing to use the shooting as a pretext to destroy his political opposition and consolidate power.

16.09.2025 00:24 — 👍 3535    🔁 1191    💬 231    📌 95
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The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness.

Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

16.09.2025 00:56 — 👍 13499    🔁 3262    💬 198    📌 126

I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.

16.09.2025 01:00 — 👍 5990    🔁 1325    💬 399    📌 69
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

13.09.2025 15:27 — 👍 53468    🔁 17921    💬 890    📌 774
Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Topline Data Demonstrating Robust Immune Response With Their LP.8.1-Adapted COVID-19 Vaccine 2025-2026 Formula | Pfizer Phase 3 clinical trial cohort of adults 65+ and 18-64 with at least one underlying risk condition shows at least a 4-fold increase in LP.8.1-neutralizing antibody titers after receiving the LP.8.1-ada...

Good news for those that can get the covid vaccine as the new vaccine has fourfold increase in neutralising antibodies as shown by phase three trials

10.09.2025 08:40 — 👍 251    🔁 81    💬 14    📌 9
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

06.09.2025 16:36 — 👍 36103    🔁 11116    💬 2080    📌 1273

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

03.09.2025 22:06 — 👍 23196    🔁 6822    💬 746    📌 319

That's not authority. Also, they're not terrorists, literal or otherwise, other than in the Dumb Person sense of terrorist = bad. Drug dealers do not tend to be ideology driven. Nobody is smuggling coke to take down capitalism.

03.09.2025 22:57 — 👍 2698    🔁 474    💬 162    📌 19
Why It's the Perfect Time for WNBA to Use their LEVERAGE | Spolitics
YouTube video by Jemele Hill Why It's the Perfect Time for WNBA to Use their LEVERAGE | Spolitics

In recognition of Labor Day, here’s my SPOLITICS commentary in how the formation of sports unions were central in the overall American labor fight youtu.be/P4wmnnARz-8?...

01.09.2025 14:50 — 👍 91    🔁 21    💬 4    📌 0

As soon as I saw this clip I wondered how much water @kairyssdal.bsky.social spit out while watching it. Absolutely outrageous in how laughable, dangerous, and damaging. Where are the sane Republicans to call out this nonsense?!

28.08.2025 23:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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