Catherine Patterson
@cpatters.bsky.social
California transplant to Arizona, cat mom, software architect, home chef, reader, and crazy board gamer.
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32.3ºC at Kew Gardens is the hottest May temperature on record at the station since records began in 1881, beating its previous May maximum by 2ºC (30.3ºC, 25th May 1922). It beat its maximum temperature date record for the 24th of May by OVER 2ºC (30.2ºC, 1922), exceptional.
May 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
32.3ºC at Kew Gardens is the hottest May temperature on record at the station since records began in 1881, beating its previous May maximum by 2ºC (30.3ºC, 25th May 1922). It beat its maximum temperature date record for the 24th of May by OVER 2ºC (30.2ºC, 1922), exceptional.
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You tell her, Jimmy!
April 28, 2026 at 11:30 PM
You tell her, Jimmy!
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a visual depiction of Fox News's commentary tonight
April 7, 2026 at 11:26 PM
a visual depiction of Fox News's commentary tonight
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$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.
@nytimes.com
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April 7, 2026 at 11:39 PM
$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.
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⚠️Betsy DeVos-backed American Federation for Children has launched a FAKE initiative campaign to confuse and disenfranchise AZ voters who want to sign the Protect Education Act.
March 24, 2026 at 1:20 AM
⚠️Betsy DeVos-backed American Federation for Children has launched a FAKE initiative campaign to confuse and disenfranchise AZ voters who want to sign the Protect Education Act.
Baby, it's hot outside 🎶
Flagstaff, Arizona:
• March 19, 2026 high: 84°F
• Previous March all-time high: 73°F
• April all-time high: 80°F
That's just plain ridiculous.
• March 19, 2026 high: 84°F
• Previous March all-time high: 73°F
• April all-time high: 80°F
That's just plain ridiculous.
March 23, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Baby, it's hot outside 🎶
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Two hour lines. TSA workers at food banks. ICE at airports tomorrow.
Republicans blocked TSA funding nine times.
NBC forgot to mention that part.
Republicans blocked TSA funding nine times.
NBC forgot to mention that part.
March 23, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Two hour lines. TSA workers at food banks. ICE at airports tomorrow.
Republicans blocked TSA funding nine times.
NBC forgot to mention that part.
Republicans blocked TSA funding nine times.
NBC forgot to mention that part.
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🇮🇷🛢️ CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S. / Israeli airstrikes.
March 8, 2026 at 9:22 AM
🇮🇷🛢️ CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S. / Israeli airstrikes.
Does anyone know what the goals of operation fury are?
March 8, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Does anyone know what the goals of operation fury are?
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Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.
March 2, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.
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Trump and Stephen Miller Want You Not to Trust Your Own Eyes
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Trump and Stephen Miller Want You Not to Trust Your Own Eyes
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January 25, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Trump and Stephen Miller Want You Not to Trust Your Own Eyes
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Everything Stephen Miller and DHS say should be presumed to be a lie, without exception.
January 24, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Everything Stephen Miller and DHS say should be presumed to be a lie, without exception.
Go Minneapolis!
Trump's goons are already pepper spraying and roughing up people in the Twin Cities this morning
January 8, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Go Minneapolis!
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TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
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😠 Supt. Tom Horne is pushing to gut critical components of AZ teaching and bilingual education standards, using Trump’s anti-DEI Executive Order as an excuse to continue his decades-long attacks.
🗣️ SPEAK UP: Use our email to raise your voice and stop this overreach: bit.ly/StopDEIoverreach
🗣️ SPEAK UP: Use our email to raise your voice and stop this overreach: bit.ly/StopDEIoverreach
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
😠 Supt. Tom Horne is pushing to gut critical components of AZ teaching and bilingual education standards, using Trump’s anti-DEI Executive Order as an excuse to continue his decades-long attacks.
🗣️ SPEAK UP: Use our email to raise your voice and stop this overreach: bit.ly/StopDEIoverreach
🗣️ SPEAK UP: Use our email to raise your voice and stop this overreach: bit.ly/StopDEIoverreach
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It’s an explicit propaganda network. In case someone needed any more evidence.
An X user asks Elon Musk why they’re seeing tweets from left-wing lawmakers.
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
Musk: “Because we are failing very badly with the recommendations algorithm. Doing my best to address this.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
It’s an explicit propaganda network. In case someone needed any more evidence.
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From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
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Dramatic increase in conflicts over #water in 2024 compared to previous years.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Dramatic increase in conflicts over #water in 2024 compared to previous years.
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
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P.S. No one is scared of a socialist when we have literal Nazis working in the White House...
November 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
P.S. No one is scared of a socialist when we have literal Nazis working in the White House...
The powers that be couldn't handle political reporting from a magazine geared for young people.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The powers that be couldn't handle political reporting from a magazine geared for young people.
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What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
October 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.