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govt affairs @jstreetdotorg but views are just mine | @uva ‘21 | made in Oregon | 🏳️‍🌈✝️ | she/her

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Kat DesCamp-Renner
3 years
When Olivia Rodrigo sang “I'm so tired that I might quit my job, start a new life and they'd all be so disappointed cuz who am I, if not exploited” she ushered in a shift in consciousness for the modern American worker that led to the current wave of labor strikes. In this essay
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if she picks Shapiro i will be bummed, if she picks Kelly i will be somewhat satisfied, if she picks Walz i will run through a wall like the Kool Aid man
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
6 months
Mr. GorBearchav tear down this wall
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Max Granger
6 months
A bear scales the border wall in southern Arizona.
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5 months
Oppenheimer is so funny because at it’s core it is in fact a movie about a Senate confirmation hearing
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
9 months
roommate who doesn’t work in politics has questions
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
6 months
gay people are like “she saved my life” and it’s House Reading Clerk Susan Cole
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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when is her speaking slot at the DNC
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
20 days
LETS FUCKING GO GIRLS
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
30 days
if she picks Shapiro i will be bummed, if she picks Kelly i will be somewhat satisfied, if she picks Walz i will run through a wall like the Kool Aid man
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
11 months
That was Kevin McCarthy
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Walter Hickey
11 months
guy on the acela who has a blank powerpoint slide titled "NEXT STEPS" and who has just been staring at it for ten minutes, i believe in you
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
7 months
Congressional Republicans every time it’s time to pass a bill
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 months
yes, it's going to suck when as a gay woman i lose all my rights under a second trump presidency, but let's not lose focus on what's most important here: joe biden will have gotten to run for president for a fourth time
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Dave Wasserman
2 months
NEW: @CookPolitical is shifting six Electoral College ratings towards Republicans. AZ: Toss Up to Lean R GA: Toss Up to Lean R MN: Likely D to Lean D #NE02 : Likely D to Lean D NH: Likely D to Lean D NV: Toss Up to Lean R Full analysis by @amyewalter :
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this actually gets at the heart of the problem because no, what people would rather talk about is actually fucking abortion! but because this man refuses to step aside, now THIS is the conversation we’re having.
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Joe Biden
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When that butcher Putin invaded Ukraine, Trump called it “genius” and “wonderful.” But people would rather talk about how I mix up names.
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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The only thing more embarrassing is doing this of the Capitol
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
1 year
west coast transplants on the east coast watching everyone inhale straight wildfire smoke
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surely this third coffee will be the one that makes the horrors cease
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1 year
lol last June they stole my reproductive rights and this June they stole $20,000 from me
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2 years
I just know the writers of Veep are screaming crying throwing up rn that they never came up with something this fucking absurd
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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every time i have multiple Group Hangs in one weekend i start feeling like this
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judd crud
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My Weekend as a 28-year-old in Chicago Illinois
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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idk as someone who has only ever been to public schools my whole life i think it would be nice to have more public school representation and less private school elitism in DC and politics in general, just a thought!
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Adam Gantz
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@yashar Walz graduated "Chadron State College" & "Minn State U, Mankato", has no law degree, never passed the bar, and was a substitute teacher before politics. Shapiro attended U of Rochester, earned his law degree from Georgetown, passed the bar and went straight into government.
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
10 months
there’s no rule that says a javelina can’t be speaker of the house
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
6 months
bro just one more week-long CR. just one more bro. bro i swear
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8 months
i think we should make wmata gm Randy Clarke mayor of Washington DC. i think he could probably fix all of the city’s problems
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 months
my 67 year old father is a socially liberal fiscally conservative registered Independent, 2020 Kamala primary voter, living in Marie Gluesenkemp Perez’s district, who was going to refuse to vote for Biden over Gaza.…he may come out of this news cycle the biggest winner of us all
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
3 years
uva losing N2Go, Sheetz, College Inn, Littlejohns, and Michael’s all within the last 18 months…the burning of the library of alexandria of our time
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
3 years
@with_drea I wasn’t expecting this to do numbers and now i feel like i should be writing it
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
7 months
hospitalized from the whiplash of every post on my feed alternating between the new Taylor Swift album and the national security supplemental
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
5 months
Appropriators right now after having to spend 6 months of FY24 negotiating the FY24 spending bills
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Jake Sherman
5 months
🚨BREAKING NEWS -- SPENDING DEAL DONE -- Congressional negotiators have come to an agreement. on DHS funding, the final piece of the FY2024 spending package Aides are working on leg text now, hoping to release in the coming days.
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
5 months
on the west coast we had earthquakes twice a day on the walk to and from school, uphill both ways, but ok
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
6 months
anyway,,,,,next week is also shutdown week
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Manu Raju
6 months
77-13, the Senate gives final approval to a short-term extension of government funding — the fourth temporary extension since the fiscal year began in October. New deadlines: March 8 and March 22.
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
7 months
whatever happened financially in January absolutely cannot be allowed to happen again next month
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
11 days
Capitol Hill Twitter, is this anyone’s lost cat??? He showed up in my backyard, no collar, super sweet but seems like he’s been outside for a while
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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5 ft tall girl who carried a 6 ft tree a mile home from eastern market on her own and now won’t let anyone forget about it (me)
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
7 months
top 1% of metro riders okay slayyyyyyy
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Metro Forward
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It's time for your mass transit year-in-review. Were you a wizard of the rails?🚄 A baroness of bus service? 🚍 An emissions reductions rockstar? 🌟 Get #YourMetroReport stats 📊 and see how they stack up to others. 🔍 Visit . #wmata
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 years
20k for pell grantees is truly monumental for people who ACTUALLY struggled to pay for college and if u as a leftist are tweeting about it being an “insult” you are absolutely telling on yourself xoxo
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
1 year
Good morning Congress
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
10 months
have shifted from feeling like I’m drowning in grief and constantly sick to my stomach to just utter blinding rage at everyone involved in the US, from the Biden administration to the vast majority of Congress. legitimately do not remember ever being this angry at my own govt
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
7 months
therapy is EXPENSIVE listening to I Wanna Get Better by Bleachers on repeat for 17 hours is FREE!!!!!!
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
7 months
what if instead of “how do we convince Arab and Muslim voters that they should vote for Joe Biden” the question was “how do we craft a foreign policy that isn’t complicit in killing thousands of civilians.” no politician is owed anyone’s vote. you have to earn it!
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 years
I cried during the protest in front of the Supreme Court on Monday and a picture of it has been in WaPo and a ton of other outlets and at first i was really embarrassed and upset, bc I am not a pretty crier, but it’s also a very visceral and real representation of how i feel rn
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
9 months
transporting the leftovers of an entire turkey home from Boston to DC on the Amtrak in an insulated Trader Joe’s bag full of ice, wish me luck
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 years
Currently watching a @HouseForeign hearing that’s supposed to be on the 2001 AUMF and watching lawmakers on both sides hijack it with lines of questioning about Ukraine rather than actually discuss a 2-decade old law that’s been used to justify military operations in 22 countries
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
7 months
I’m not sure people have really internalized how big a deal it is that a majority of the House Democrats rejected a giant package of military aid to Israel bc it didn’t include aid for Palestinians and Ukraine. This is a major win for progressive foreign policy
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Jake Sherman
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BREAKING: The House rejected a bill to send $17.6 billion to Israel. 250-180. Rs and Ds took this one down on suspension. Embarrassing day for Speaker Mike Johnson's House.
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 years
~personal news~ tweet: starting Monday I will be a Government Affairs Associate at J Street! Today is the last day of my fellowship at FCNL and I’m so grateful for the past year and everyone FCNL has brought into my life, and couldn’t be more excited to join the team at J Street.
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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“dune 2” this “dune 2” that, bro your wife is dune 2 much of the unpaid care work, go sweep the kitchen and schedule your kid’s immunization appointments
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
1 year
lobbyists waiting for the Rules committee to finish the NDAA markup:
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
1 year
personally i am proud that we endorse principled progressives instead of fascist insurrectionists but that is just me
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AIPAC
1 year
J Street’s champion is pushing a dangerous anti-Israel amendment that politicizes Israel’s security. Instead of standing with Biden who calls conditioning aid “outrageous,” J Street embraces Israel's most hostile critics. @jstreetdotorg is many things, but it's not pro-Israel.
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
3 months
*youth pastor voice* and you know who ELSE was convicted by the state????
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
11 months
would like to thank Bob Menendez for giving a wedding full of DC foreign policy nerds an OUTSTANDING conversation starter xoxoxo
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
1 year
new job title just dropped👀
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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My uncle is a Vietnam vet who is dying of cancer he developed as a result of exposure to Agent Orange and I promise you he does not think he was sent there to “defend our freedoms.” It’s an insult to the ppl who suffer the consequences of our mistaken wars to misconstrue history
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Senator John Fetterman
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This National Vietnam War Veterans Day, I’m reflecting on the service and sacrifice of the brave men and women from the Commonwealth who defended our freedoms in Vietnam. Our end of the bargain is caring for them here at home—a sacred promise we've got to keep delivering on.
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 years
there’s a crowd of maybe 100 people sitting in front of the court, a lot of us young women, most people just sitting by themselves and staring at it. A distant alarm in the parking garage has been going off since i got here
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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the Senate office building metal detectors when i walk through wearing a perfectly normal pair of heels
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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when the red line is fully back I’m never gonna complain about any problems with metro ever again i swear to god I’m gonna be so grateful
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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look at this diva
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C on the scene
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Colorful Wood Duck in Rock Creek Park, Washington DC
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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codepink is not a serious group and progressives who are still working with them at this point are only hurting themselves. it’s way past time for them to be kicked out of any of progressive foreign policy coalitions
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
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The war in Ukraine must END! Today, I met brave @codepink activists who protested for peace in Bernie Sanders’ office. He had 11 of them arrested! Peace & free speech shouldn’t be a partisan issue. We don’t agree on most things, but we do agree Congress should STOP fueling the
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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i would love a substantive, issue-driven campaign! Hopefully specifically focused on domestic issues rather than running on your record of expanding NATO????? but we can’t have that because he can’t effectively campaign!
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
1 year
getting kicked out of the pride pregame for referring to any of my friends over age 25 as “our queer elders”
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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this aged beautifully. just absolutely obliterated within 90 minutes of posting
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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how the world looks when there’s a new Maggie Rogers album, the spinach in my veggie garden is flourishing, it’s gonna be 80 degrees this week, and i get to go to Capitol Hill Books for wine and cheese tonight
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
3 years
My new piece is out in @RStatecraft outlining a potentially-overlooked reason that Biden needs to reseal the Iran nuclear deal: because the last thing Gen Z wants after a 20-year war, financial collapse, and a pandemic is a war with Iran.
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
8 months
We are literally so back
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Metro Forward
8 months
GOOD NEWS! Metro's 🔴Red Line construction is ending early. Normal service resumes Saturday 7.a.m., one day ahead of schedule & $250K under budget. Don't forget NYE rail service extended to 2 a.m. Happy early New Year! 🎉 More info▶️ #wmata
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
1 year
endlessly repeating statements that you’re “deeply troubled” followed by exactly zero consequences for the underlying actions is exactly what got us into this situation!!! We give them a 4 billion $ blank check every year. Get better material!!!! Try literally anything else!!!
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Jacob Magid
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State Dept: "The United States is deeply troubled by the Israeli government’s reported decision to advance planning for over 4K settlement units in West Bank.  We're also concerned by changes to Israel’s system of settlement admin that expedite settlement planning & approvals"
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
8 months
well at least i have an identifiable brand
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 years
I got cited in this letter from Senator Warren to Secretary Austin and Secretary Blinken 🫣🫠🤯
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
1 year
didn’t see the Lockheed Martin pride float but we DID see gay Amtrak
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 years
I’m 23 today :)
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1 year
touch grass today besties
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
11 months
AOC showing up at the MUNA show at All Things Go is my equivalent of Taylor Swift being at a Chiefs game
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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airpods have been dead all weekend bc i left my charging case at the office and it’s becoming abundantly clear to me that apparently i get GRAPHICALLY cat called every day and just….do not hear it because i literally always have them in
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
10 months
one month on from October 7 and I’m incredibly frustrated at people on the left who continue to downplay or deny the scope and scale of the attack or argue that it was somehow justified. “killing civilians is bad no matter where they live” is basic shit!
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
11 months
let the record show that I won the office betting pool
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 years
Jessica Chastain gave an amazing acceptance speech about LGBT rights and overcoming the epidemic of suicide and about how Christianity is fundamentally centered on social justice and solidarity despite efforts to pervert it and I don’t want it to get lost in all the hot takes!!!
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
1 year
successfully caught a bus home to Capitol Hill from U Street at 2 am,,,I am god’s favorite. this takes an unfathomable level of talent
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
5 months
super glad you’re all so interested in what’s up with Kate Middleton but if you get bored of that and want to become super invested in caring about the health and well-being of another pretty brunette Katherine,,,I’ll be here
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 years
lmao coming to DC for the March for Life is the most pathetic thing i can think of…like ur gonna spend hundreds of dollars on plane tickets and hotel rooms to stand out in the cold for hours to show how much you hate women? literally get a hobby! absolute clown behavior
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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there’s no justification for supporting this war. it’s killing thousands of Palestinian civilians, purposefully starving millions, actively killing the Israeli hostages, and not destroying Hamas, and IMO the U.S. should not be giving any offensive military aid to Israel for it.
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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now that we’re in an election year “i was still in college when Joe Biden was inaugurated” is a nice little fact to drop whenever you wanna make everyone around you in DC feel really old
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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This meal just cost me $78 at Dulles Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
11 months
anyone not actively calling for Menendez to resign is basically saying they’re fine with the chairman of SFRC leveraging US security assistance for personal gain and there’s a lot of MoC who are starting to look incredibly stupid because they don’t want to piss off a colleague
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 years
@kenklippenstein Why buy oil in exchange for Iran not getting a nuke when you can buy more expensive oil in exchange for having your journalists chopped up and famine in Yemen
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
1 year
when will my husband (the 90/92 bus) return from war (arrive to take me and my trader joes haul home)
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
1 year
due to inflation i am now 24 instead of 23. what is joe biden’s plan to address this
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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save me spinach mango smoothie with home grown spinach from my garden. spinach mango smoothie with home grown spinach from my garden save me
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Dems rn
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50 degrees on Christmas Eve on the East Coast…gonna stop contributing to my 401k global warming is not gonna let me live to see 65
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 years
So excited and grateful to be on this year’s @OutInNatSec New Voices list with so many other amazing LGBTQ young professionals in national security 🥰
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how the world looks when there’s a new Maggie Rogers album, the spinach in my veggie garden is flourishing, it’s gonna be 80 degrees this week, and i get to go to Capitol Hill Books for wine and cheese tonight
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
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@wmataGM @wmata we still love u king keep up the good work
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
7 months
putting out a statement on the 100th day of the war that doesn’t even say the word Palestinian much less 24,000 deaths, the majority of whom have been civilians, really undercuts the idea that the Biden administration cares even a little about Palestinian lives
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
2 years
Mar-a-lago has begun enriching uranium up to 60%, significantly decreasing its nuclear breakout time. Negotiations will reconvene in Vienna this weekend on a deal to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons in exchange for sanctions relief
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
11 months
the largest gathering of queer women in the DMV isn’t DC pride it’s this weekend at All Things Go
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
10 months
wild how the Biden administration is like “we have impressed upon the Israeli government the importance of operating within the framework of international law” and the Israeli govt is literally just tweeting out that they do not care about intl law
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Israel ישראל
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Even Israelis Deserve To Live
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
1 year
this Senate reply-all debacle got me thinking about how I never replied to all your texts. Outlook may be down but you really changed my outlook on life. you don’t have to respond to this, tell your mom i miss her
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Kat DesCamp-Renner
1 year
@OrganizerMemes She’s never even heard of Samuel Alito
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