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Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

Photo of a grey tiger cat lying on a concrete pad, on his back, back legs splayed and relaxed, head to one side at 90 degrees to body, eyes closed. Bottom front let stretched out, other draped over body, few inches of the tail visible rest tucked under the body. Around are pieces of a plastic toy truck with two wheels off and scattered. “Catnip may have been involved…”

#cat #cats #Caturday

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#politics #resist #resistance #protests #alt
From Resistance Rises by Dan Rather

From Resistance Rises by Dan Rather

Founding father John Adams hoped historians would view the many acts of noncooperation by colonists as the real “revolution,” not the War of Independence that followed them. “The Revolution was in the Minds of the People, and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen Years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington,” Adams famously wrote to Thomas Jefferson.According to the Crowd Counting Consortium, a Harvard-UCONN research project, resistance is alive and growing in the United States. In February, the effort counted 2,085 protests, versus 937 in February 2017, just after Trump was inaugurated the first time. And March is on course to have more than 3,000 protests.Diversification of resistance methods is a hallmark of 2025. We have seen traditional protests but also more economic honcooperation, such as boycotts, strikes, and withholding of labor and purchasing power.

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

Meme black with white text
Losing a friend to a cult, is hard.
Losing your family to a cult, is next level.
Losing an entire country to a cult, is absolutely surreal.

#cult #kleptocacy #Fascism

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

Formally set dark table, silver, crystal and grey brown mats, white linen napkins. Photo of mostly one setting place. Crosswise on top of one of the plates is ann young short haired orange cat with white chest in meatloaf position.
“Etiquette question: Is this placement of the cat (in lieu of the salad plate) correct? Or should the cat be placed above the plate, alongside the dessert spoon and cake fork?”

#cat #cats #Caturday

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#politics #cats #greenland #trump
#JDVance #alt

Greenland cat comes out to defend his territory.
Photo of a small Greenland Inlet with brightly painted wood houses behind up on a hill. The ground covered in a light dusting of snow. In foreground to the right a fluffy reddish brown cat, tail up, yellow eyes looking a bit fierce, marching toward the camera ..a few paw prints visible to the left .

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

Meme white background four red squares to the left, stacked. Each has single letter in white with the rest of the word on the white in black
First box M o scow
Second A gent
Third G overning
Fourth A merica

#politics #maga #russia

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#satire #politics #greenland #alt #trump
Borowitz Report
Greenland Appoints Special Envoy To Greet Trump Delegates

Photo of a Polar Bear by Michael Hamments

Borowitz Report
Greenland Appoints Special Envoy To Greet Trump Delegates

GREENLAND (The Borowitz Report)—The government of Greenland has named a special ambassador to greet members of the Trump administration when they visit the territory this week, a Greenlandic official announced on Tuesday.

The government spokesman, Hartvig Dorkelson, said that the newly- appointed ambassador will meet the American visitors “the moment they step off the plane.”

“We know that members of this delegation are very interested in Greenland’s natural resources,” the spokesman said. “Thanks to our ambassador, they will have an encounter with Greenlandic nature that they won’t soon forget.”

According to the spokesman, the ambassador’s plans for the visitors include lunch.

Karmic Delay @karmicdelay@pixelfed.social

dropped on my depop! handstitched croptop - #croptop #punk #alt #emo #clothes #handmade #artist #goth

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#politics #nationalseecurity #usa #trump #hegseeth #yemen #alt #signal #esspionage
Heather Cox Richardson Violation of Espionage Act 3/24/2025

Heather Cox Richardson Violation of Espionage Act 3/24/2025

Today the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, dropped the story that senior members of the Trump administration planned the March 15 U.S. attack on the Houthis in Yemen over Signal, a widely available encrypted app that is most decidedly not part of the United States national security system. The decision to steer around government systems was possibly an attempt to hide conversations, since the app was set to erase some messages after a week and others after four weeks. By law, government communications must be archived.

According to Goldberg, the use of Signal may also have violated the Espionage Act, which establishes how officials must handle information about the national defense. The app is not approved for national security use, and officials are supposed either to discuss military activity in a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF, or to use approved government equipment.

The use of Signal to plan a military attack on Yemen was itself an astonishingly dangerous breach, but what comes next is simply mind-boggling: the reason Goldberg could report on the conversation is that the person setting it up included Goldberg—a reporter without security clearance—in it.

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

Gray and white cartoon of a cat sitting on and examining table. Doctor has his had on the cat’s left shoulder. “Bad news , its curiosity.”

#humor #cat #cats

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#spring #flowers #england #alt
Mine 2012

Close up of clusters of cherry? blossoms, taken in 2012 by me.

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#politics #women #maine #history #alt #mccarthy #fascism
Heather Cox Richardson Strong Women Maine 3/23/25

Heather Cox Richardson Strong Women Maine 3/23/25
Senator Margaret Chase Smith, of Skowhegan, Maine, stood up to Wisconsin sen Joe McCarthy. McCarthy & his supporters were hoping to gain votes in the 1950 midterm elections by stoking fear that the communists of China threatened the U.S...while Repuhs who disapproved of his tactics kept their heads..All but one , Senator Smith recognized the damage McCarthy and his ilk were doing to the nation. .. . “Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanismin making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and dcts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism,” Americans have the right to criticize, to hold unpopular beliefs, to protest, and to think for themselves, she said. She condemned those trying to stifle dissent. “l do not want to see the Renub Party ride to political victory on the 4 Horsemen of Calumny— Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear,” “As an American, | condemn a Repub Fascist just as much as | condemn a Dem Communist. They are equally dangerous to you & me to our country. As an American, | want to see our nation recapture the strength & unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.”Sendator Smith ended with a warning: “It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques—techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.”

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#politics #howardludnik #socialsecurity #doge #musk #alt
Heather Cox Richardson Billionaire Howard Ludnik and Dismantling of Social Security 3/21/2025

Heather Cox Richardson Billionaire Howard Ludnik and Dismantling of Social Security 3/21/2025

SSA oversees Social Security benefits for nearly 70 million people and, according to the agency, was expected to distribute about $1.6 trillion in benefits in 2025. For many people, that check is vital to survival. But billionaire Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick suggested that concerns about a stoppage in checks were overblown. He told billionaire podcast host Chamath Palihapitiya: “Let's say Social Security didn’t send out their checks this month. My mother-in-law, who's 94, she wouldn't call and complain. She just wouldn't. She'd think something got messed up, and she'll get it next month. A fraudster always makes the loudest noise, screaming, yelling, and complaining.”

Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, disagreed: “For almost 90 years, Social Security has never missed a paycheck—but 60 days into this administration, Social Security is now on the brink.... Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek has proven again that he is in way over his head, compromising the privacy of millions of Americans, shutting down services that senior citizens rely on and planning debilitating layoffs, all in service to Elon Musk’s lies.”

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#art #birds #mockingbird #alt #animals
Painting by Vasilisa Romanenko

Dark olive background. Flowers in maroon and with some yellow stemmes The image is a painting by Vasilisa Romanenko, featuring a Northern Mockingbird surrounded by flowers.

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE SCIENTISTS.
AND THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SAID “LOL. NO.”
AND WENT ROGUE. AND WE WERE ALL, LIKE, “I WAS NOT EXPECTING THE PARK RANGERS TO LEAD THE RESISTANCE. NONE OF THE DYSTOPIAN NOVELS I READ PREPARED ME FOR THIS. BUT , COOL.”

#politics #meme #resist

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#nuclear #scientists #engineers #trump #DOGE #politics #Fascism #alt
Heather Cox Richardson National Nuclear Safety Administration

Today, Sharon LaFraniere, Minho Kim, and Julie Tate of the New York Times reported that cuts to the top secret National Nuclear Security Administration have meant the loss of critical employees— from scientists and engineers through accountants and lawyers—at the agency that manages the nation’s 3,748 nuclear bombs and warheads. The agency was already shorthanded as it worked to modernize the arsenal and was hiring to handle the additional workload. Now it appears to have lost many of its leaders, who were most likely to be able to land top jobs in the private sector.

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

BREAKING: Finland turns down US request for eggs

#eggs #politics #priceofeggs

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#statueofliberty #freedom #politics #astronauts #alt
What NASA’s two astronauts who have been stuck in space since before Trump’s inauguration see upon their return to Earth.

Photo from Planet of the Apes. Charleston Heston on his knees bent over on the beach in front of the Statue of Liberty have buried and tiled to the right damaged and forgotten

What NASA’s two astronauts who have been stuck in space since before Trump’s inauguration see upon their return to Earth.

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#cat #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #catsofthefediverse #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfPixelfed #cats #alt #ALT4you

Good Caturday

Happy Caturday.
Rowan, Siamese tabby mix. Curled up loosely on top of a pile of blankets and bedding. Top blanket being a cream colored down. All on top of a light sea green wing back chair with a cream floral pattern subdued. Chair is in the corner between a window and a sliding door. To the left is part of a large plant. His right back leg, and both front legs are stretched out his chin resting over the top of the left front leg, eyes closed

Catherine Schmidt @lillyfinch@mstdn.social

#harvard #palestine #alt
Harvard Referendum

a Qasim Rashid, Esq. .. BREAKING: In a landslide vote,

Harvard Law student body passes divestment referendum, overcoming administration attempts to prevent and delegitimize the vote.

Harvard Law students overwhelmingly vote for Justice for Palestine and divestment from Netanyahu's regime.

This is historic. Now the question is whether Harvard will listen to its students or its donors.

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