Cat Austin
@cataloo.bsky.social
Woman, Mother, Landscape Architect, Parks Commissioner. Love to think about politics, design, weird plants, jam music, history, Nor’Cal, baking, beaches, travel. Hate non-laughers. 🌻 🙈🙉🙊 MAGA, DM’s, Porn
This is a real, big problem when you have a criminal in charge of the government.
Drew Webb 🏳️🌈@archeryfan93.bsky.social · 2d agoAMPLIFY IT!!
Where would we be without our talented cartoonists. They’re doing the work of “journalists”.
Richard Nixon was never arrested for his crimes, but his Attorney General John Mitchell was—for helping Nixon cover them up. Have fun with the next administration, Todd Blanche!
McGowan: The president's personal defense attorney should not be the attorney general. The man who ignored the Epstein victims and then moved Ghislaine Maxwell from a maximum security prison to where she is now, should not be the attorney general. I think Cassidy is a spineless coward.
Clomp, clomp, clomp—that’s the sound of American’s rights being stomped on.
ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the public should not expect to quickly see footage of every critical incident.
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WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
newrepublic.com
The moment Collins announced she was a no on Blanche, you KNEW they had the votes.
If Murkowski and Collins don't spend every minute shaming their colleagues and getting more to pledge a no vote, their no vote means nothing, and they know it.
I saw someone refer to homeschooling as “trickle down stupidity.” Immediate addition to my lexicon.
America has experienced oligarchy thrice in its brief history. The first was under the slaveholding founders The second, the robber barons, a century later. A third American oligarchy emerged around 1980 — and has only gotten more powerful.
The Enshittification of Everything (Part 2)
And how to disempower the oligarchy
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He had to stop taking Propecia because it interacts with dementia meds. So he took a low profile trip to CA last week to buy what he considers to be a realistic hair piece. (Allegedly)
A new report from the Government Accountability Office finds that DOGE wildly exaggerated the purported "savings" it delivered for the federal government. We lost vital government services for basically nothing in return. Watch.
The DOGE Damage Elon is Leaving Behind
Musk has stepped out of the limelight, but DOGE is still gutting countless government programs and services that million
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BREAKING: Bill Cassidy says he’s a YES on Todd Blanche, solidifying his legacy as the man who enabled RFK Jr. to wreak havoc on Americans’ health, and now the man who will let Blanche weaponize the DOJ like never before seen in history and cover up for Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes.
Cassidy caves. So only GOP senators voting No are Murkowski and Collins. Never send a man to do a woman's job.
EXCLUSIVE: Todd Blanche blew through a major deadline & now begs the court for more time. I walk through my own motion to compel Blanche to respond, and Blanche’s motion, where he asks the Court to accept his “excusable neglect” & to further delay having to answer. youtu.be/oinhGjT4jJ8?...
🚨AG Blanche BLOWS MAJOR Deadline And BEGS Judge For MORE TIME In MY Lawsuit!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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A group of Democratic lawmakers have asked the Pentagon's official watchdog to open an investigation after WaPo revealed that 15 companies with investment from Trump's sons have garnered $3.2 billion in federal contracts, investments, and loans — most coming after Trump took office the second time.
Lawmakers call for Pentagon probe of Trump family-backed companies
The letter to the Pentagon’s inspector general was prompted by reporting from The Post that startups affiliated with the president’s sons have won $3.2 billion in defense contracts.
washingtonpost.com
Bathroom rug head Rand Paul never gave a shit about the orange felon invoking the 5th amendment 450 times to avoid committing perjury because he’s an actual criminal unlike American hero Dr. Fauci who invoked it to protect his words from being used as propaganda by assholes like Rand.
MSNow: President Trump is also pushing so that his family is immune from audits. It looks like it may go forward. Trump Voter: No. Fuck that. No! How does he get to do that and we don’t?
New report - "Palantir may also be engaged in extensive tax dodging, allowing it to avoid contributing to the public services it profits from" breakthroughnews.org/2026/08/06/p...
Palantir profits from European public services but avoids millions in taxes that fund them, new report shows - BT News
A new CICTAR-EPSU report finds a USD 14 million tax gap as Palantir books European profits in the US.
breakthroughnews.org
SCOOP: Sen. Lisa Murkowski tells MeidasTouch most of her constituents OPPOSE Todd Blanche's confirmation, though she has not yet made a decision.
Exclusive: Murkowski Says Most Constituents Oppose Todd Blanche Confirmation
Alaska senator says she has not decided how she'll vote, but acknowledges growing constituent opposition and renewed concerns over Blanche's handling of Epstein survivors.
meidasnews.com
Today’s Civics Lesson Dr. Fauci honoring a congressional subpoena and then taking the Fifth Amendment: an example of someone respecting both Congress and the Constitution. Jim Jordan ignoring a congressional subpoena: an example of someone showing contempt for Congress. Lesson over.
Parnas: How much money was funneled through these banks to Epstein? Wyden: I think it’s certainly well over a billion dollars. One of the things we pointed out yesterday is that Deutsche Bank failed to properly report to the Treasury Department more than $250 million in suspicious transactions
They are all Antifa, I mean Commies, because I heard the name Abdul, I shall molt, spin, screech, flap and CRY my red scare time of the week.
BREAKING: Judge Sullivan isn't buying what Todd Blanche is selling in the @katiephang.bsky.social lawsuit. After reviewing Blanche's unredacted Epstein files in camera, Sullivan is ordering a HEARING to discuss the following: 1/
Phang: The breaking news is… an order was just entered within the last hour by Judge Sullivan in my lawsuit against Todd Blanche. The reason why this is so momentous is that Judge Sullivan has pretty much said in this order, “Todd Blanche, you have now defied my orders.”