Cat Bruno

Creative copy + design services / writer / editor / speech writer / grant writer

[Cat Bruno @XCatBrunoX]

Mondays are for brooding words. #amwriting #Comingsoon

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Holy shit, this “American girl” ad from @senecaprojectus is amazing!!!
Hard to see the letters I’m typing through the tears streaming down my face though.

[Cat Bruno @XCatBrunoX]

@valleyofseth @stickermule Sticky Brand! They’ve been my go to for the last year. Awesome quality and way better prices, too.

[Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]

Please watch this. This is the world we have been trying to leave behind for the past fifty years, and it is the world the radical right wants to bring back. Think of all the smart voices that will be silenced in favor of smug white male fools if we allow this to happen. #BTDT

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

I am heartbroken and furious at the same time for the women of Iran and Afghanistan.

Iranian woman lashed 74 times yesterday for the crime of removing her hijab in public.

This is shocking and barbaric.

A young woman named Roya Heshmati shared her horrific ordeal of receiving 74 lashes for refusing to cover her hair. Despite her punishment, she remained defiant, refusing to wear the hijab during and after her lashing. Singing courageously, “In the name of women, in the name of life, the chains of slavery have been torn apart.”
At the same time, Taliban arrested women of Afghanistan for “bad hijab”.

I call on all women across the globe to condemn this barbaric laws, and show their solidarity with the women of Iran and Afghanistan, who are suffering under the Taliban and Islamic Republic.

This is 21st century, and we need global unity to END gender apartheid regimes.

Read part of Roya’s story:

“This morning, I faced my sentence of 74 lashes for defying the mandatory hijab. Accompanied by my lawyer, I entered the District 7 prosecutor’s office, deliberately removing my hijab. Ignoring the officials’ orders to cover up, I stood my ground.

An officer threatened additional punishment if I didn’t comply, but I refused to wear the hijab. Defiantly, I was handcuffed and led to a basement room, akin to a medieval torture chamber.

In the execution room, with concrete walls and an ominous execution bed, the judge asked if I was okay. I remained silent, showing my resistance. Ordered to prepare for the lashes, I hung up my coat and scarf, refusing to wear the hijab despite their insistence.

As the lashes commenced, I silently recited a poem about liberation and resistance. Despite the pain, I didn’t let them see my suffering. After the punishment, I continued to defy their demands to wear the hijab, a symbol of my unwavering stance against oppression.”
This is the reality of living under Sharia Laws. #LetUsTalk

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

“They violently raped me”

“Islamic Republic of Iran’s agents made us face the walls of the vehicle and gave electric shocks to our legs…They tortured me through beatings … They pulled down my trousers and raped me…I was really being ripped apart…I was throwing up a lot and bleeding from my rectum.”

Maryam, who was gang raped in a Revolutionary Guards detention centre, recounted that her rapists told her: “You are all addicted to penis, so we showed you a good time. Isn’t this what you seek from liberation?”  
Sexual violence weaponized to crush Iran’s “Woman Life Freedom” uprising, documents in detail the harrowing ordeals of 45 survivors, including 26 men, 12 women and 7 children,

Security forces in Iran used rape and other forms of sexual violence to suppress last year protest after the murder of Mahsa Amini.
Amnesty International said in a new report published today.

State agents raped women and girls vaginally, anally and orally, while men and boys were raped anally. Survivors were raped with wooden and metal batons, glass bottles, hosepipes, and/or agents’ sexual organs and fingers. Rape took place in detention facilities and police vans, as well as schools or residential buildings unlawfully repurposed as detention places.  
This is what exactly Hamas did to women in Israel on October 7 and we the people of Iran were the first ones who loudly condemned the savage brutality against Israeli women by Hamas terrorists. Because we especially the women of Iran know very well that the Islamic Republic and Hamas are cut from the same cloth and both use rape and torture of women as a weapon of war.

Israeli Women and teenagers were gang-raped, beaten, tortured and murdered.

Some were mutilated and set on fire, some had their lifeless bodies dragged around, spat on and beaten by wild and ecstatic crowds celebrating the “victory” of Hamas.

The horrifying images of these atrocities — filmed by the terrorists themselves — have been seen around the whole world.

In Iran we faced the same brutality. Last year after the killings of more than 700 innocent protesters and imprisonment of more than 20,000, many young teenagers told us that they faced raped in prison. We had many young protesters committed suicide after being free from jail.

For many years now I have been campaigning for women of Iran and Afghanistan, calling attention to their suffering under Islamic fundamentalism.

Iranian women and their Afghan sisters have long felt that their voices go unheard in the West.

Today, it is our Israeli sisters that have been raped by the same barbaric terrorists.

Whether it is the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic in Iran, or Hamas-Isis in Israel, we must collectively condemn the atrocities perpetrated against women in the name of this Islam.

We must stand together to resist and eliminate this violence against all women everywhere — no matter where in the world it raises its ugly head.

My message to Western Feminists: Do not abandon your sisters in the Middle East. Stand up to Islamist terror.
#TogetherWeAreStronger

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

Anger is the start of the healing process.

But women are conditioned to think anger is wrong.

If you're angry, that's a GOOD thing.

Here's Why:

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Marcella Giulia Pace, Italian astrophotographer who took ten years to capture 48 colours of the moon #WomensArt (via Amazing Physics)
Enjoy the #supermoon !

[Cat Bruno @XCatBrunoX]

A heartbreaking, shackled life for women: https://t.co/IfkRB28qqL

[Cat Bruno @XCatBrunoX]

Nora Roberts, Margaret Atwood sign Authors Guild letter to fight AI : NPR https://t.co/2PNuMC3e2F

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2023: $248,900,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2023: $153,100,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2023: $104,900,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2023: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

[Cat Bruno @XCatBrunoX]

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[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

"I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

-- James Baldwin, "Notes of a Native Son" (1955)

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I need folks who are not LGBTQ to understand that today's ruling is not just about a website. It is a clear sign that Obergefell (same sex marriage) and Bostock (LGBTQ employment protections) are in danger of being overturned. This is a devastating ruling. Please understand that.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Just a casual reminder that in 1869 it was decided to have 9 Supreme Court justices because there were 9 Circuit Courts.

Now there are 13 Circuit Courts. So what exactly are we waiting for?

[Barrel & Flow @barrelandflow]

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[Scott Tady @scotttady]

Pittsburgh's @barrelandflow again a finalist for Best Beer Festival in a @USATODAY poll.
Vote here:
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[NBC News @NBCNews]

Hundreds are still missing and feared dead after a boat carrying migrants sank in Greek waters last week.

Advocates say they’re frustrated the sunken migrant ship has garnered far less attention and resources than the Titan rescue efforts for 5 people. https://t.co/NYRoA3X3um

[stella ⭐️ @skellpie]

seraph whispers..

[stella ⭐️ @skellpie]

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[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding our country dry.