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Caitlin Strom-Martin

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Nature enthusiast, and knowledge monger. My Holy Trinity: Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, and I Think You Should Leave. Always down to eat a sheet cake. https://newplayexchange.org/users/69223/caitlin-strom-martin

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Caitlin Strom-Martin @crstromante.bsky.social · Nov 8

I'm new from Twitter, so a bit about me:
-I'm a Meisner trained actor and playwright seeking homes for my work
- I live off-grid in NorCal
- Grad of Mills College (RIP)
- Lover of great acting, film/TV shows
- In therapy w/ The Great British Baking Show
-Yes, I want dessert
-Still not over GOT

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

The president needs your help! He's collecting diarrhea for his plane. He has a plane that's 99% toilet with other people's diarrhea in it and he wears a little crown when he drives it around. Brave patriots please send your loose stool to your favorite diarrhea president for his diarrhea plane.

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Leta Lestrange @joybella.blacksky.app · 3h

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3h

BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.

Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire

Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 28m

Savanah was one of a dozen propagandists who participated in Trump’s anti-antifascist round table, where they called for antifascists to be labeled terrorists on par with ISIS. Here she is running away from a bunch of older protesters. In the replies, someone tells her to “stay safe.”

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Some old boomers read "Turning Point USA" on my press badge at the "No Kings" protest and made it a point to let me know that Charlie was a racist antisemite.
They then called me a "token" and asked me my "sexual preferences" after I corrected them on the political leaning of Charlie's killer.
I'm not even interviewing people today but these old boomers are so radical they couldn't even stand next to me without crashing out.
Footage dropping soon on@FrontlinesTPUSA
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄

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Monica Gilmore @monicagilmore.bsky.social · 1d

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I’m up and excited about #NoKings today in Lexington, Kentucky. My first inflatable.
I tried for a frog. Because of Portland, they are back ordered through November.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress nearly a month ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14h

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 14h

I joined the "human banner" at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. This flag was at the center. It was a gorgeous day with enormous waves. #nokings

The image is taken from an angle, and you can see the ocean tilting 30 degrees in the distance, with a huge crowd in front of it. In the foreground, you can see the giant American flag that is being held up by hundreds of protesters clustered around its edges.

This is the human banner from the air. It's sign made from masses of people standing together to form letters. It reads "No Kings Yes on 50." There is an American flag in the middle and a thick border around the banner. (Prop 50 is a California state proposition to gerrymander the state to create more blue districts, in order to combat the Texas law that gerrymanders their state to create more red districts.)

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 14h

Why does the government need private jets is maybe a question we should be asking.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 16h

We stayed classy. #NoKings

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 13h

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

Under the plan, MAGA allies would be installed at the IRS criminal investigative division, where they would “exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations.”

The administration is already drawing up a list of targets. trib.al/7bphzyZ

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 17h

A former ICE director says agents have been put "in a terrible position" and are being tasked with operations "in a city where they don't belong."

Ex-ICE director says Trump's immigration crackdown putting agents in "terrible position"

Federal agents deployed tear gas on a crowd in Chicago, prompting a judge to ask the agents to wear body cameras.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

Skelly: Anyone who serves in uniform deserves so much better than what this tainted chain of command has to offer.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18h

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

So no terrorism then?

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Oh

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 19h

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

“.. It was not immediately clear where the funding for the jets came from.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

Sanders: It is in danger when we have a president who grossly violates the constitution by accepting gifts from foreign leaders including a $400 million plane from the royal family of Qatar and then allows that family to build an air force facility in Idaho.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 23h

Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?

lol. lmao.

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Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 22h

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.ukr.monster · 1d

But we live in a world that treats terrorists with respect, and the victims get blamed.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

Hasan: Let me say to every Republican and conservative watching. Aren't you the ones that said no more big government? No tyranny in America? If you believe that, what are you doing defending masked federal agents in unmarked cars bundling people off the streets

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