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California Kat ☀️☮️🦋

@californiakat.bsky.social

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a perplexed stranger🤷‍♀️😳in my own country• defending !*radical*! things like basic decency• 👱‍♀️equality•🌎•children’s books• libraries• law •ethics• public ed👩🏽‍🤝‍👨🏼• owning my own uterus

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California Kat ☀️☮️🦋 @californiakat.bsky.social · Jul 9

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California Kat ☀️☮️🦋 @californiakat.bsky.social · 15h

Californians!!

As the world celebrates girl children on Oct 11, remember that our state remains one of the 34 US states that still allows child marriage.

CA’s law is one of the worst, allowing men to marry girls of ANY age. Go to Unchained At Last to learn the stats.
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International Day of the Girl Child | United Nations

The International Day of the Girl Child focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face and to promote girls’ empowerment and the fulfilment of their human rights.

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California Kat ☀️☮️🦋 @californiakat.bsky.social · 18h

Watch the pick-me girl Republican Member laugh. Maybe she thinks it’s funny. More likely, she’s laughing along with Mike because that’s what being raised in Republican patriarchal culture does to girls and women.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h

Racism Knows No Bounds

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California Kat ☀️☮️🦋 @californiakat.bsky.social · 19h

This is why Republicans chanting “Lock her up! Lock her up!” back in 2015-16 was a watershed moment in the US. Mob behavior, tolerated and even laughed at, by Republicans.

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California Kat ☀️☮️🦋 @californiakat.bsky.social · 19h

AOC is rising. It’s palpable.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. 🇺🇸

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California Kat ☀️☮️🦋 @californiakat.bsky.social · 20h

It can’t be stated enough. Marc Elias and his team are at the top of the list of heroes in this historical moment. @marcelias.bsky.social @democracydocket.com

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20h

Last night, my team filed a motion to defend voters in California.

DOJ sued 8 states. My firm has filed to protect voters in all 8 states.

We will never back down from the fight to protect free and fair elections.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7d

DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files.

My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA.

I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.

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California Kat ☀️☮️🦋 @californiakat.bsky.social · 20h

Oh please. By blocking the release and continuing to do whatever Trump wants, House Republicans are already pedo-protectors.

They can run but it’s too late to clear their name. Anyone who stood with Trump this long is stained for life.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m Just a File (Classified Edition)”
Schoolhouse Rock parody by channelpoor

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California Kat ☀️☮️🦋 @californiakat.bsky.social · 1d

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California Kat ☀️☮️🦋 @californiakat.bsky.social · 1d

HELL YES 👏 👏 👏

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 1d

@repshontelbrown.bsky.social
delivered a #CupOfJoe with a latte facts.

“Donald Trump’s only expertise on crime is committing it not preventing it”

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

A foundational principle of this country is that the military shouldn’t police our communities — and a federal judge agrees.

Black graphic with a quote in red and white text: "This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs… This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law.”
-Judge Karin Immergut, in her decision blocking President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon

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Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 2d

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

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California Kat ☀️☮️🦋 @californiakat.bsky.social · 2d

Middle aged white Karins are having a comeback. 💪