Cave Felem
🐈⬛ catmom to 2 large, adult sons 🐈 Oxford comma lobbyist 📝 public health enthusiast 🦠 rule of law enjoyer ⚖️ she/her
Pet peeves: autocracy, theocracy, oligarchy, corporatocracy, kleptocracy, & kakistocracy.
- Reposted by Cave FelemAnd here's a secret of the past decade: a lot of the crucial organizing/resistance work is done by women who look like nice mom-type ladies, often suburban variety, sometimes through nice organizations like churches. Sorry if anyone needs it to look like Che Guevara.
- Reposted by Cave FelemMongolia and Haiti correctly identified that the Winter Olympics are primarily a chance to design baller cold weather uniforms
- Reposted by Cave Felemif you take no other lesson from this article, it is to be very, very careful about joining a boys' club. www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
- Reposted by Cave FelemWe're traumatizing thousands of kids for life. The people behind this are monsters.
- Reposted by Cave FelemA man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
- Reposted by Cave FelemThis is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
- Reposted by Cave FelemReviewing video from Fulton County elections raid. Taken aback by the dismissive & sneering attitude from FBI agents toward the cop politely asking to see the warrant. Looked him up: He's an immigrant w/ a doctorate in philosophy. His thesis? "Force by police officers toward African Americans."
- Reposted by Cave FelemWas driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist
- Reposted by Cave FelemIn related news about the Washington Post and the state of journalism today, Amazon "ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion." That's in the wake of the 2025 tax bill www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
- Reposted by Cave FelemHAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
- Reposted by Cave Felemif you dislike gerrymandering, the best thing to do is vote D across the board. Democrats have repeatedly put forward anti gerrymandering legislation at the national level, which Rs continually block.
- Reposted by Cave FelemYou can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.
- Reposted by Cave FelemWhenever you see this or a different version of this story, ask yourself these questions: 1. Should this tool (or a different version of it) be used for this purpose? 2. What guardrails ensure that it is operating in ways that respect people's rights?
- Reposted by Cave Felem1965 founding legalistion of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Title 20 U.S. Code. Chapter 26. Section 951. "The Congress finds and declares the following: The arts and the humanities belong to all the people of the United States." (cont'd.)
- Reposted by Cave FelemThis man is like Thanos mixed with Forest Gump. If there weren’t receipts for all of this I wouldn’t believe it
- Reposted by Cave FelemThe entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...
- Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
- Reposted by Cave FelemTRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
- Reposted by Cave FelemBreaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
- Reposted by Cave FelemThis is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
- Reposted by Cave FelemThis is an important point. Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist. The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes. So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
- The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
- Reposted by Cave Felemas i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.
- Reposted by Cave FelemThey were never going to get to their stated deportations goal with due process. So they're phasing it out. (Part 2)
- Reposted by Cave FelemRemember the big foreign aid cuts? Estimates are that more than 760,000 people, including 500,000 children, have died over the past year since American assistance suddenly vanished - figures cited by Senate appropriations member Sen. Schatz.
- Reposted by Cave FelemBy a vote of 58-39, the Senate confirmed the nomination of Aaron Christian Peterson to be United States District Judge for the District of Alaska. Democrat Senators voting aye: Duckworth, Durbin, Hassan, Kaine, Kelly, Shaheen, and Whitehouse. Senators not voting: Crapo, McConnell, and Murphy.
- Reposted by Cave FelemAsked why Will Lewis — the Washington Post’s CEO and publisher — was completely invisible on a day that his company fired hundred of journalists, the editor in chief offers this excuse: “He had a lot of things to tend to today."
- Reposted by Cave FelemI'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵
- Reposted by Cave FelemThe CIA World Factbook, a reliable source of information about the countries of the world, has been publicly available since 1997. It is now going away. Please consider supporting @wikipedia.org and @ourworldindata.org. The world desperately needs trustworthy data. www.cia.gov/stories/stor...
- Reposted by Cave FelemTwo happiest days of a NBA fan's life are when their team trades for James Harden, and when their team trades away James Harden
- Reposted by Cave FelemCan't stress enough how *crazily illegal* this is: Rubio may have been exercising authority after he no longer lawfully could Byron—running NARA day to day under that authority—may have taken actions that are void from the beginning Byron may *not* lawfully serve as/perform functions of Archivist
- *BREAKING: Rubio is out as acting Archivist, and has illegally named an ineligble political appointee to "to serve and perform the functions of archivist"—which he did not have the authority to do. My reporting expands on @federalnewsnetwork.com's scoop: 🧵 lastcampaign.substack.com/p/rubio-out-...
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- Reposted by Cave FelemThis is the full suite of power the Trump Admin will use to tilt the midterms: DHS, DoJ, and Intel. None of these folks has the credibility to tell the truth or be fair. Remember 2020. These are the levers Trump tried to pull before January 6.
- Reposted by Cave FelemOnce Trump's regime is removed from power, we need a constitutional refounding to finally create a fully egalitarian democracy. Reconstruction did not go far enough, and we can't repeat the failures of that era by keeping the flawed political institutions that helped bring us to our present crisis
- Reposted by Cave FelemSusan Collins raised more money from AIPAC donors last year than small donors. When we asked her campaign spokesperson about it, he hung up. New w/ @minnahfarshad.bsky.social @premthakker.bsky.social @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...
- Reposted by Cave Felem"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"
- Reposted by Cave FelemJeff Bezos' net worth is estimated to grow by $8 million per hour.
- Reposted by Cave Felemthe $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
- Reposted by Cave FelemSacking The Washington Post probably has Bezos high-fiving his yachted authoritarian friends, all thinking they’re noble Centurions putting a knife into some loudmouth Senator under cover of darkness and saving Rome in the process. They fail to appreciate that they actually wrecked an aqueduct.
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- Reposted by Cave FelemRobert Kennedy killed another child ~ New Mexico warns against consuming raw milk after newborn dies from listeria www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
- Reposted by Cave FelemThe people of Minneapolis are showing breathtaking courage. Facing down armed federal goons to protect their neighbors isn't just brave; it’s legendary.
- Reposted by Cave FelemThey want you to be TOO CONFUSED to participate. But instead you can be READY.
- Reposted by Cave FelemPart of what’s breaking my brain today is I’ve got friends fleeing the country, friends doing grocery runs for hunted neighbors, friends pretending nothing is wrong, and all of them are working on their taxes.
- Reposted by Cave FelemYour daily reminder that private prison companies are profiting off of human lives.
- Reposted by Cave FelemI guess if you’re Josh Hawley and you’re the kind of person who flees in terror from a riot you started the courage of ordinary people must seem befuddling
- Reposted by Cave Felemice is killing americans and democrats are still voting for trump's nominees
- By a vote of 54-40, the #Senate confirmed the nomination of David Clay Fowlkes to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas. Dems voting in favor: Durbin, Hassan, Kaine, Shaheen, and Whitehouse.
- Reposted by Cave FelemAlso I wish the press would stop referring to these arrangements as ‘deals’. Trump has never made a genuine (mutually desired, mutually beneficial) deal in his life. What he does is extract concessions at moments of vulnerability.
- Reposted by Cave FelemI had a moment this morning when I realized that all these evil men would just have been depraved internet trolls if we actually taxed the rich.
- Reposted by Cave FelemSeems like this would be a good day for Brad Karp to step down as chairperson of Paul Weiss. abovethelaw.com/2026/02/brad...
- Reposted by Cave FelemICYMI - I had. The climate data the Trump Administration didn't want us to have. You can donate to Climate Central, which is now maintaining the database Trump axed from NOAA. www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
- Reposted by Cave FelemI love the noise Canada Geese make as they fly overhead and their instinctive communal sense of aesthetic organisation, plus the way that not one of them will ever barge in on social media with their opinion on a piece of writing without clicking on the link to find out what the piece actually says.
