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Kate 🪷

@kateculliton.bsky.social

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Married to the best for 35 years, 2 fantastic kids, RN x 42 years ED, Neurosurgery, Leadership, Neurosurgery. Retired. Love to make bread, garden and Hummingbirds “With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”-Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · Nov 10

My pinned tweet since 2017

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Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 4h

Got in my gardening glove and bit me 5 times

a•noph•e•les la'näfalez | (also
anopheles mosquito)
noun a mosquito of a genus which is particularly common in warmer countries and includes the mosquitoes that transmit the malarial parasite to humans.
Compare with culex.
Genus Anopheles, subfamily
Anophelinae, family Culicidae.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

A tweet from Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has tried to unjustly arrest a Black man and he’s not going anywhere. A reply from Donald Trump says the Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

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Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 5h

Crock of shit.

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Kodo and Sangha Aid & Abet @kodoandsangha.bsky.social · 6h

How is this going to pass exactly?

NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 9h

Rep. Ro Khanna is drafting a bill to make ICE officers wear body cams, complete de-escalation training, and drop the face masks during raids. No more secret ops. No more unchecked power.

Transparency is coming. 🙌🏼🙌🏼

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K🤦‍♀️𝙑 @kv417.bsky.social · 7h

Palantir’s Pentagon dream just hit a classified snag
Source: TheStreet

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Palantir’s Pentagon dream just hit a classified snag - NewsBreak

The risks are mounting, and this time, they aren’t theoretical.

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Kodo and Sangha Aid & Abet @kodoandsangha.bsky.social · 7h

LA activist and NYT best-selling author - illustrator Nikkolas Smith, “Portland Frog”

A painting showing ICE officers in a row on the right side of painting. They are in riot gear with weapons drawn. Standing in front of them is a very round frog, wearing a blue scarf. The words “Portland, 2025” are in the upper left corner.

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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 7h

They're gonna perp walk a 120-year-old Italian woman who had dinner with Antonio Gramsci

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Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 5h

Get me an apple filled cinnamon.

Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 5h

Listen.

Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 6h

A “new breed of Christianity (NAR)” describes how “churches will start being thought of more as military bases than congregations.”

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Charlie Kirk and the ‘Third Great Awakening’

MAGA is embracing the language of a rising Christian movement.

www.theatlantic.com

Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 6h

Until next time…

a woman in a plaid shirt is sitting at a table with the words trust me above her

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Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 6h

😏

Someone should tell Pam Bondi that while Nixon didn't go to prison, his Attorney General did.
threads.com/@author.ronchandler
@other98

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Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 6h

Truth.

Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 7h

Yes

a yellow m&m wearing a white cowboy hat is dancing

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Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 7h

What the hell are our options to this mean, labile person? www.latimes.com/california/s...

Betty Yee officially enters the 2026 California governor's race

Former state Controller Betty Yee launched her campaign for California governor, joining a field of Democrats vying to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2026.

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Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 7h

She really thinks herself charming.
That’s a shame.

Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 7h

I can’t even believe I fell for this!!!

9:54, I should have known 😆

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K🤦‍♀️𝙑 @kv417.bsky.social · 7h

A controversial deal.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 8h

Exclusive: The US has approved several billion dollars worth of Nvidia AI chip exports to the UAE under a controversial deal

US Approves Some Nvidia UAE Sales In Step of Trump AI Diplomacy

The US has approved several billion dollars worth of Nvidia Corp. chip exports to the United Arab Emirates, an initial step in implementing a controversial deal that could serve as a blueprint for American AI statecraft.

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Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 7h

Not enough M&Ms Dr. Rock!!!

a person is holding a bag of m & m 's milk chocolate

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Roger ZenAF @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 7h

Imma start calling him John FetterManchinSinema.

Roger ZenAF @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 7h

john fucking fetterman, holding true to his newfound maga love, just voted NO on a measure to stop Trump from unilaterally striking Venezuelan boats.
It failed 51-48.
No, his vote wouldn't have saved it, but WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK???

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🍁Dr. John E Rock @johnerock.bsky.social · 7h

Show of hands, WHO is going to watch the Super Bowl in Spanish this year?

🤚🤚🤚🤚

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Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 7h

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 7h

Nancy Mace is having a normal day

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those who are tardy do not get fruitcup @mangoboy66.bsky.social · 1d

this was a classic with martin short and christopher guest back in the day. he's exactly like sham blondie in recent hearing.

swannknight61.bsky.social @swannknight61.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Thurm school of defensive behavior.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjci...

Nathan Thurm: Tobacco Growers of America - Saturday Night Live

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Kate 🪷 @kateculliton.bsky.social · 7h

Sarah leonside &
It gets harder every day waking up in a country where I am surrounded by so many hateful, cruel, and stupid people whose only goal in life is to make the lives of anyone they see as different more difficult.
@thatsnotrightpolitics and voteinorout
Another brutal kidnapping pictured

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humboldthunnybunny.bsky.social @humboldthunnybunny.bsky.social · 10h

The Pro Fascist spokesmouth spews more ridiculous garbage.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

Noem: “We are hoping…we will get more and more information about the network and how we can route them out and eliminate them from the existence of American society…Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them. They are just as dangerous.”

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 10h

💀😭😂😂😂😂

I keep trying to tell people that California does not want Porter as our governor. We didn’t want her as our senator either.

Once again…BW warned y‘all about her when she lied on Aunty Maxine🤷🏾‍♀️

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

The former member of Congress, who is now running for California governor, also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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