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Cat Brooks

@realcatbrooks.bsky.social
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Executive Director, Justice Teams Network and @aptpaction.bsky.social | Host, Law & Disorder on KPFA Radio | Organizer, Strategist, Columnist, Artivist, and Playwright, Director and Actress | catbrooks.org

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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Today on @lawanddisorder - we expand our Palestine Post coverage to Iran where the United States and Israel have launched an illegal war. We will be joined by itsmekhury and samer.araabi. That’s at 8 am PST on @kpfa.org and @kpfk.bsky.social #exposeagitatebuild
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serious2020.bsky.social @serious2020.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
👀 State sanctioned PLS SHARE @aptpaction.bsky.social @realcatbrooks.bsky.social @equipto.bsky.social @rasceylon.bsky.social @anngarrison.bsky.social @freemumia.bsky.social
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Today on @lawanddis at 8 am PST on @kpfa and @kpfk - a look at #sudan where the RSF claims to have captured El Fasher. We will speak to @rachelsavage of @guardian and poet and human rights activist @emibattuta #exposeagitatebuild
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Today on @lawanddis - #hurricanemelissa and its impact on #jamaica and #haiti - our guests are Jamaican recording artist @tufflikeiron and @pierrelabossiere of the @haitiaction … 8am on @kpfa and @kpfk #exposeagitatebuild
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Steven Taylor was murdered by a San Leandro cop in 2020. Then DA was forced to charge but new DA is wants to drop we speak to Stevens grandmother & CCR suing Trump admin around global health foundation @helenprejean discusses efforts to end CA death row. Today! 8am PST @kpfa and @kpfk www.kpfa.org
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
On today’s law & disorder, we spend the hour on Chicago as Trump’s Midway Blitz is underway. We will speak with Aislinn Pulley - co-executive director of the Chicago Torture Justice Center and Kevin Fee, legal director of the ACLU of Chicago - and Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. stream @ www.kpfa.org
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Law & Disorder on @kpfa & @kpfk: Palestine Post, where we spend the entire hour on Israels genocidal assault. We start our hour with Tariq Habash co-founder of A New Policy. Then we will be joined Lulu Hammad is a Palestinian American lawyer, human rights activist, and community organizer.
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Tomorrow in Oakland! #solitaryconfinementistorture #endsolitaryconfinement
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Law&Disorder starting NOW! we look into the redistricting war between CA and TX with @gustavo_arellano of the LA Times and then @george_galvis to discuss community readiness and response to a federal invasion. Starting now on @kpfaradio and @kpfk and streaming at www.kpfa.org #exposeagitatebuild
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Today on Law & Disorder Palestine Post a full hour covering the genocide. Were joined by Khury Peterson-Smith and Zahra Billoo for headlines analysis then joined by parents beginning a solidarity fast for Gaza of which I am taking part. 8 am PST on @kpfaradio and @kpfk and streaming at Kpfa.org
Pro Palestine protestors with signs that read things like “from the river to the sea”
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Today on @lawanddis - Palestine Post, where we spend the entire hour bringing you news coverage and analysis on Israels genocidal assault on the Palestinian people, the peoples resistance to it and the impact on the region and the rest of the world.
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I kept saying it over and over as I watched it … “this could happen here” and if I wasn’t mf’n right …
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
You ever wondered what pure evil looks like? Welp, here ya go. #lauraloomeristrash
Picture of right wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer who had red streaks in black hair is wearing a black top and is against a green leafy background
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
“I did it! I did it! I threw the sandwich” 🤣🤣🤣 I dunno why but this sandwich shyt is giving me all of the life. What if we make it a national movement - errybody get a sandwich and just start throwing em at them mo’fos Flip that whole Marie Antoinette thang on its head “Let them eat sandwiches”! 😂
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a cartoon of a girl making sandwiches with a jar of peanut butter on the table
Alt: a cartoon of a girl making sandwiches with a jar of peanut butter on the table
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
#facts #istayready
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“Unfortunately for him, the ‘president’ doesn’t understand Oakland” but he sho can FAFO 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Oakland leaders, residents respond to President Trumps threats to deploy troops to city
YouTube video by KPIX | CBS NEWS BAY AREA
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14/08/2025
I hope your community is never occupied like LA or DC. But if it is, you’ll quickly find that people don’t take kindly to having their city under federal control. And folks are just getting started. 📌 Protesters gathered near a checkpoint in the U Street corridor in Northwest Washington.
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Now watch the orange dude strip the federal court of its power and reverse the ruling … cause ya know … what does the law matter these days 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) @curbprisons.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Let’s keep the momentum going to protect our communities!✊🏾⚠️🧊 ☎️📧 Call and email @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social 📲 tinyurl.com/stopice25 Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social: Use AB 137 authority NOW – to declare closed CA prisons as “excess” and request legislative approval for their immediate disposal.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/07/2025
“If you are not careful, and if you are not tapped into your own humanity and that of others, it can be tempting to mistake people for symbols.” www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...
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Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Keen to read about the political & economic context around the FIFA Club World Cup ahead of today's final between PSG & Chelsea? @edgeofsports.bsky.social & I break it all down. The key takeaway: the #FIFACWC is a grift that deepens FIFA's ties to authoritarianism while mistreating footballers
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Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali @mustafasantiagoali.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
IDA B. WELLS SAID,”THE WAY TO RIGHT WRONGS IS TO TURN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH UPON THEM.” I invite you to explore my latest piece—there may be something in it that resonates deeply, or a truth you can’t ignore. “What Ida B. Wells Would Say About Trump & the Epstein Files!” wordinblack.com/2025/07/what...
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What Ida B. Wells Would Say About Trump and the Epstein Files
Poet and activist Mustafa Ali imagines what the godmother of investigative journalism would say about our need for accountability and truth.
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Lucky Shitt 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇲🇽 🇺🇦 @luckyshitt.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I needed this!
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🎙️ Fighting Back (Even if You’re Not Ready!) Featuring comic and commentator @wkamaubell.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0ElU...
A Black man with a graying afro and beard, sitting with a dull orange button down shirt, smirking, with his right hand on his chin
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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“More than any other ‘group protected from discrimination’, people with disabilities are most misunderstood — and while 1 in 4 of us is disabled (did you know that?), half of all police murder victims are disabled.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
U.S. NEWS | Half of People Killed by Police Have a Disability: Report | Police have become the default responders to mental health calls"
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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
“Gender and race significantly impact how individuals experience and navigate compounded forms of prejudice and discrimination in (and out of) the workplace.”
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Abolition : The Official Feed @abolition.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🔁Introducing: Radical News This feed filters news from radical and progressive news publications on this list. Feedback welcome. Should we add verified journalists too? Which publications should be included/excluded?
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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
My latest @theguardian.com "The IOC handed LA the 2028 Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them." Trump has a secret weapon to turn the Games into a national-security crackdown—the National Special Security Event designation, (NSSE)—& we need to be talking about it www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
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The IOC handed LA the Olympics. Now Trump is weaponizing them | Jules Boykoff
As the IOC ushers in new leadership, Donald Trump’s second term is already wreaking havoc on LA 28 – and turning a global celebration into a national security crackdown
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Jesse Rabinowitz @jesserbnwtz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
They built a detention center in Florida in 8 days. Don't ever let them tell you the government can't build things quickly. If they wanted to, they could build housing to solve homelessness this quickly. But they don't want to. They just want more jails and camps.
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Yesterday was my last day at Columbia University. With my contract up, and my conscience clear, I am proud to say that I will no longer be working for the collaborationists and accommodationists of American academia. mgouldwartofsky.substack.com/p/farewell-t...
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Farewell to the Imperial University
Today was my last day at Columbia University.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 05/07/2025
Why? Why don't they know? Whose responsibility is it to ensure they know, how are those mechanisms failing, and what can we do to repair or replace them? Those are the questions those who believe in journalism as public service should be asking ourselves. Because 48% is a failing grade.
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Poll Shows Public Knows Little About Trump’s Ugly Megabill
The battle to define this incredibly significant legislation has just begun, particularly for Democrats.
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
What i didn’t get to say is that this research is based on places that are far more unionized & organized where 3.5% means you have organized labor ready to shut shit down, students ready to close down schools & universities, tenant unions, retirees, govt workers etc ready to stop business as usual
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 08/07/2025
Armed officers, frequent use of force and people grabbed on the street or at their places of work. Working with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org we have monitored the LA raids, discovering recurring trends and tactics used by officers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...
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Masked, Armed and Forceful: Finding Patterns in Los Angeles Immigration Raids - bellingcat
Bellingcat collected videos and images from recent immigration raids in Los Angeles, analysing trends and apparent tactics used by law enforcement.
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Miss Lizzy @misslizzy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Get onboard , my fellow honkies. #AntifaSocialGardeningClub 💙🇺🇸
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
wtf are we celebrating this July 4!? our communities’ commitment to liberatory praxis — as always.
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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 04/07/2025
The terror campaign against immigrants. The cruelty baked into our policies. The glee of bystanders. None of this is new. This darkness has always been part of America. Take a moment to understand what previous generations accepted—celebrated—as normal. youtu.be/aS61QFzk2tI?...
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Terror Lynching in America
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Hypatia L.A. Seneschale @femiyahtzee.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I’ve spent the last few months reviewing primary sources concerning the founding of the early American republic. For the Fourth of July, I thought we should read the charge sheet that is the Declaration of Independence together. A few comments before we jump in.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 01/07/2025
"We want our money back, we want our platforms back, we want our name back." "But none of that is going to slow us down in the fight for Black lives, freedom, and liberation." #USA #Policing
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How White Supremacist Fearmongering Broke Apart Black Lives Matter
"Black lives matter — I get it now,” my aunt declared in 2020. “You’ve been saying it for years.” Yes, I told her. I have. It shouldn’t have taken the
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Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) @curbprisons.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
THIS IS HUGE✊🏾 Because of YOU, California just took a major step to block ICE from taking over closed state prisons by passing AB 137. Over 10K letters were sent in by our people demanding CA #CloseCAPrisons & #StopICE. Together, we WON a critical tool in that fight. ❤️🧵⤵️
Dark blue background with large lettering at the top that reads "People Power" with images from ICE out of CA Protests at the top. Below this in gold reads "This summer: ICE Will Melt" and below this in white "You helped California Block ICE from taking over closed state prisons" Top and bottom footer include teal text. Bottom left has the teal CURB logo
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Kit O'Connell (🏳️‍🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽) @kitoconnell.com · 01/07/2025
I just created a short reel/video about the one-day strike yesterday at Austin's vegan deli, Rebel Cheese. Workers accused the business of laying off 5 employees after they began organizing a union. You can view it for FREE on my Patreon:
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Video: Strike at Austin's Rebel Cheese Vegan Deli | Kit O'Connell
Get more from Kit O'Connell on Patreon
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Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
My latest w @wdlopez.bsky.social in @truthout.org w support from @economichardship.bsky.social. truthout.org/articles/loc...
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Local Police Departments Are Enabling ICE’s Deportation Machine
Even in cities where police decline to work with ICE, local law enforcement still bolster Trump’s deportation agenda.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
If you're a health care provider who is being asked to clear people for ICE detention, feel free to reach out to BDNHconsult@pm.me.
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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Community. Solidarity.
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“Canvas neighbors and local businesses. If you can get there before the cops do, you just might retrieve what the police are trying to hide.” *The State Terror Roundup* Full video: www.instagram.com/reel/DLpnwGE...
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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Community. Solidarity.
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Cat Brooks @realcatbrooks.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🎙️ Zohran Mamdani Proves That Power Belongs to the People Featuring @nicholsuprising.bsky.social, national affairs correspondent for @thenation.com open.spotify.com/episode/7aWm... ✍️ www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Zohran Mamdani speaking at a New York City rally in 2025
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