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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦

@hartstmartin.bsky.social
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I stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦 Writer of fantasy, owned by an orange cat. She/her. ACE 🖤🩶🤍💜 and all 💙. Also, I swear and I know things.

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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We didn’t all show up at the polls just to see everything we fought for and voted for there to fall apart in the halls of Congress. Grow a pair. Grow a few pairs. It’s health care and food for all or nothing at all.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Here’s what I’m praying for tomorrow. Prop 50 passing by a HUUUUGE margin.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I sometimes find myself wondering how people continue sharing cat pictures and videos about their makeup and all that sort of stuff on social media when our country is about to be drawn into war with our president. AREN'T YOU PEOPLE PAYING ATTENTION? #DeclaringWarOnChicagoIsTreason
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
“We Are the World” would not have existed without “Do They Know it’s Christmas?” And this is a hill I will die on with zero regrets. And may I add—where the fuck is this kind of commitment today? For Gaza? For Sudan? And for all the other places where people, especially children are dying? #LiveAid
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
My county is in turmoil, but not as bad as some would have you believe. And yet, the soldiers (from DHS and ICE and god knows where else) are gathering to make it look like LA County is a cesspool of insurrectionists. No, just people who are demanding their rights. Apparently that's a no-no.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I’m already tired of calling out these MAGAts looking for a conspiracy in how “they” must have been hiding Biden’s cancer because it’s already stage 4. Honey, if they could catch every cancer at stage 1, cancer wouldn’t be deadly.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
People, be aware that if they succeed with the near-total defunding of Medicaid, they'll take that as a license to hit Medicare and Social Security next. Consequences for them now because later will be too late. #Medicaid #SocialSecurity #Medicare
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The wearing down is very very real. And that’s what they’re looking to do—wear us down to the point where we just can’t bring ourselves to fight or even care anymore. Keep caring. It hurts like hell, but keep caring.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Here's how revolutions evolve. A great deal of talking. Then more talking. And even more talking. Until one day someone says, "Enough! This talking thing ain't working." And then the streets run red with blood.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
So the Met Gala is tomorrow. Why TF is this even happening this year? All that money spent on fluff and prancing about when marginalized people of all kinds and from all over this country and the world are being written off by the same privileged class showing off in NYC? No thanks.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com The workers in LA weren’t protesting Trump et al. They’re on strike against LA County.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
You know, at 200 and *mumbles* pounds I’d be a heck of body to drag away from a sit-in.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Only a few hours until another week of laws broken, temporary stays, and judges being taken into custody begins. I can't wait. Can you?
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
4/27/2005 9:17 am PDT In case you don't know, there's a sit-in on the Capitol steps led by Cory Booker and Hakim Jeffries. Here's a link to the only live feed I could find. You'll have to crank the sound up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Zr...
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LIVE: House Minority Leader Jeffries, NJ Sen. Booker begin sit-in protest on Capitol steps
YouTube video by KATVchannel7
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
We are not the good guys, and if you’re under the delusion that we are, get over it. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’
The girl was deported Friday with her mother to Honduras, despite her father’s efforts to keep her in the United States.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Well, this is real. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
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Venezuelan Immigrant Deported by Trump Administration Has Disappeared (Gift Article)
The Venezuelan man does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Nothing fascist or ableist to see here. www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-...
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RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People
And he’s using private medical records to make it happen.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Yeah, because life was so much better in the 1890s, right? www.mlive.com/news/2025/04...
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FDA suspends quality tests for milk, other dairy products after Trump budget cuts
The testing center that oversees food safety says it "is no longer able to provide laboratory support for proficiency testing and data analysis."
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Mark my words. The next pope will be another manifestation of the hyper conservative wave that seems to be overtaking our world. It will not be pretty.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Rewatching Andor season 1 and this time you’re painfully aware your own country has become the Empire.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Posted a thing on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/hartstma...
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A Cautionary Tale about Bullies
For nine years I advertised for roommates (all cleared with the manager of the building).
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance. Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
FYI Katy Perry was not the first person to sing in space. And since Hadfield has more than one recording to his credit, one could argue she’s not even the first artist to do so. www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/s...
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Chris Hadfield’s spirited song in space was no “oddity.” (Gift Article)
Even David Bowie called it the most poignant version ever performed.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"Every once in a while, Trump has a day — a single, 24-hour period — in which his authoritarian vision comes into sharp relief..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Over 24 hours, Trump makes his authoritarian-style vision plain
Every once in a while, the president has a day — a single, 24-hour period — in which his authoritarian vision comes into sharp relief.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Main stream media continues to treat everything he and his minions are doing as though there’s nothing out of the ordinary to see here. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...
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Trump Grows Increasingly Combative in Showdowns With the Courts (Gift Article)
Scholars say that the Trump administration is now flirting with lawless defiance of court orders, a path with an uncertain end.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Lizzo wearing a tank top that reads “America is tariffied” is my vibe for the next 3-1/2 years.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Writing friends, I would very much appreciate suggestions for music while I write. Big music. Classical. Movie soundtracks. That sort of thing. Already have and listen to a lot of Han Zimmer so you can leave him out. Oh and think dragons and Mesopotamia. TIA #writingcommunity
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Hey DHS (those are my initials too!!), I’m here, I’m queer, gather all the intelligence you want on me. I’m also old and powerless so have at me.
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a woman stands in front of a white board with the words hey i 'm over here written on it
ALT: a woman stands in front of a white board with the words hey i 'm over here written on it
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We fight to give hope — a reminder that there are still those within the government standing up for what’s right. Since Saturday, we’ve faced relentless attacks. We know there will be consequences for our actions, but we will not back down.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
For those outside the USA, I want to commend to you the @altnps.bsky.social without whom we'd know nothing of what's going on. At great personal risk, they are standing up and getting the message out. Follow them if you're so inclined because to be perfectly honest, without them we'd be fucked.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It's International Beaver Day. I'm sorry but that's just plain rude.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
JK Rowling has now taken off on my sexuality. It doesn’t put us aces in the same kind of crosshairs but really? www.them.us/story/jk-row...
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Turns Out J.K. Rowling Is Mad at More Letters Than Just the “T” in LGBTQIA+
On International Asexuality Day, Rowling joked she would like to observe “Bored of This Shit Day.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Musk staffers are in the process of seizing control of the Peace Corps’ headquarters.
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Cloaked Press @cloakedpress.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We are excited to announce that @mxcarmilla 's LGBT Urban Fantasy "Stars Beneath" was acquired by Cloaked Press!
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Why does “liberation day” sound like something from a dystopian novel/book? Oh, because we’re now living in a dystopian world perhaps? www.nbcnewyork.com/news/nationa...
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President Trump to roll out Liberation Day tariffs plan
Tracie Strahan reports on President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs plan.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
He did it! And now the countdown to Mango Mussolini and Elonia shitting on it.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Fuckety fuck fuck fuck. All the words I have.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Every morning when I wake up the first thing I do is listen to the traffic outside. Does it sound any different? Does it sound maybe a little sad or maybe a bit celebratory as compared to yesterday when he was still around? Has it finally happened? And then I check my phone.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Apparently the internet is lighting up with “well Obama had 3 terms.” I’d like to know what drugs they’re on cause I could sure use a high that high.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Musk staffers gained access to a system at the Interior Department. We had resisted their attempts for about two weeks to obtain administrative access to the program. Two IT officials who stood their ground are now on administrative leave and under investigation.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Isn't this kinda like the fox investigating who got into the chicken coup and where all the chickens went? thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
You know what's pathetic? The clown show playing out before our eyes since Monday's partial release (now complete) of the chat regarding the attack on Yemen and how the world is laughing at us while fearing what cost they'll ultimately pay as our stupidity continues to play out.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Comforting to know we have such competence heading our govenrment. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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‘Amateur hour’: Washington aghast at Trump administration's war plan group chat
One Democratic lawmaker also called for immediate hearings on the incident.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Just a reminder that “I was just following orders” is not a defense and could end you up in prison for a very long time.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Asking a question I haven’t yet seen addressed. If they shut Social Security down, what happens to Medicare? I mean they’re all connected, right? So not only will I have no rent, but I’ll have no medical insurance either. Good job, Drumpf. Knew ya had it in ya.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Growing old means accepting that the pain, sometimes worse than other times but never truly gone, will never go away again and that whatever level of energy you once reveled in is mostly gone in favor of afternoon naps and early bedtimes. One also must accept that the notion of getting better, 1/2
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
He heard me! And about fucking time. Chuck Schumer says a 'lawless' Trump has caused a constitutional crisis www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Chuck Schumer says a 'lawless' Trump has caused a constitutional crisis
Schumer said during an interview with "Meet the Press" that "democracy is at risk" following Trump’s attacks on the judiciary and calls to impeach a judge who ruled against him.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
SCOTUS created this monster, and now THEY will have to deal with it when the appeals come rushing up to them. FAFO, SCOTUS. FAFO. DOJ misses deadline to provide answers on deportation flights www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Trump administration live updates: President to sign executive order aimed at dismantling Education Department
Latest news and live updates as Trump signs an executive order to dismantle the Education Department and the Justice Department faces a judge's deadline on deportation flights.
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SoCal Gal 🇺🇦 @hartstmartin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
@schumer.senate.gov Do the cuts and mass firings and the gutting of departments and programs have to affect you directly before you'll even consider we're in a constitutional crisis? WAKE UP!! We're already there.
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