Kat

Kat

@litwit.bsky.social

High School teacher; ally of all underdogs; viva la résistance!

867 followers3.2K following251 posts

Kat reposted

Walmart spent $35.3B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024, enough to give each of its 2.2M employees annual bonuses of $2,719. Last year, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay of just $29,469. Textbook corporate greed.

Kat reposted

Don’t you love how Trump claims (falsely to footnote) that other countries have released their violent criminals & mentally unstable & they illegally entered the US…But in reality he’s released violent criminals & thugs by the thousands from Jan.6. Trump projects and does what he accuses others of.

Kat reposted

If they were being honest, Texas leaders used to frown at Washington interfering in our decisions. Now the Governor is kissing the ring- it’s a sad day for local control and the people who deserve the FAIR chance to elect people of their choice! #nogerrymandering #resist

Senator Molly Cook@mollyfortexas.bsky.social

Coming to you live from the UofH Texas House congressional redistricting hearing with Congresswoman @jasmineforus.bsky.social! This fight isn’t easy, but the Congresswoman reminds us: if we don’t stand up, they’ll keep walking all over us. I’ll be back with more updates. #Houston #txlege

Kat reposted

Texas gerrymandering is about racism. Fewer districts for Black and Brown communities. More power for white Texans. It’s voter suppression by design, and it fuels voter apathy by making people feel like their voices don’t matter. That’s the point.

Kat reposted

US birth rate hits all-time low, as MAGA Republicans continue to wage war on women's bodies, civil rights, and human rights. Meanwhile the quality of men, especially those exposed to right-wing echo chambers, continues to decline, making reproduction less viable or sought after.

Kat reposted

There are some valid reasons to grant 'proffer' immunity to an already-convicted person, e.g. to obtain information helpful to other prosecutions. Doing it to try to absolve the President of his sex crimes while dangling a pardon for the convicted is not one of them.

Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social

2/ Now confirmed in reporting: "Ghislaine Maxwell was granted limited immunity to talk to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, according to a source familiar the arrangement." www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

Kat reposted

The first rule of homelessness policy is that it must be cruel. The second rule is that it must be expensive. The current GOP idea is to move from "spend a lot so cops, paramedics, and ERs can shuffle them around" to "spend a lot to put them in jail." God forbid we just provide basic shelter.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

Again we see the incoherence of right-wing policy. Rounding up homeless people and imprisoning them *is* housing them! Punitive solutions to this problem also cost a shitload and require a massive bureaucracy. They are fine with providing housing, but only if it is ineffective and dehumanizing.

Kat reposted

⚡️Ukrainian drones reportedly attack Moscow for second night in a row. Moscow Mayor said four drones were shot down on approach to the capital, with blasts heard near Zvenigorod, Istra, and Zelenograd — suburban districts and satellite towns located to the west and northwest of central Moscow.

kyivindependent.comUkrainian drones reportedly attack Moscow for second night in a rowMoscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said four drones were shot down on approach to the capital, with blasts heard near Zvenigorod, Istra, and Zelenograd — suburban districts and satellite towns located to th...

Kat reposted

Replying to @jonzoidberg.xyz

When arrogance meets comeuppance, it meets it before the eyes of the world. Bill O'Reilly....driven from the shitfhole called Fox for questionable sexual behavior. That's bad when you're too low for Fox.

Kat reposted

Scoop: The Wall Street Journal is working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein—but is said to be facing pressure from the White House, with Trump himself calling Editor-In-Chief Emma Tucker to object. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/wall-stree...

status.newsTrump's WSJ Epstein FuryThe Wall Street Journal is said to be working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, prompting protest from the White House.

Kat reposted

Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms.  But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately. Remember this.

Kat reposted

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.

Kat reposted

"We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief. Nor will we ever. Church and State are, and must remain, separate." --President Ronald Reagan, whom I usually never quote

ACLU@aclu.org

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

Kat reposted

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

Kat reposted

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

Kat reposted

Folks, no need to worry, the Senate is ON IT, working tirelessly to pass a bill that <checks notes> forces the FDIC to prioritize cryptocurrency ahead of actual deposits in the event of a bank failure.

This post is unavailable.

Kat reposted

For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.