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Painter, photographer I am ancient I am female I am male I am the sun I am the air I am the marvelous vacuum of space NO MESSAGES EVER

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augustsym.bsky.social @augustsym.bsky.social · 48m

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Congresswoman Andrea Salinas @salinas.house.gov · 10h

This is a betrayal of American families.

Mike Johnson, stop this B.S. NOW.

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augustsym.bsky.social @augustsym.bsky.social · 48m

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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augustsym.bsky.social @augustsym.bsky.social · 50m

He's dying it doesn't take a genius medical professional to see that it's obvious

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 5h

Inside Portland’s War Zone (Spoiler: It’s a Farmers Market

Inside Portland’s War Zone (Spoiler: It’s a Farmers Market)

YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko

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augustsym.bsky.social @augustsym.bsky.social · 51m

They are going to try to make it easier to rig elections

augustsym.bsky.social @augustsym.bsky.social · 1h

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 2h

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augustsym.bsky.social @augustsym.bsky.social · 4h

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 22h

My quote of the day

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

F. Lee Bailey

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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 20h

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 1d

Nixon's Attorney General went to jail while Nixon did not.

Pam, your freedom is about to be curtailed.

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MadAsHell-NeverTrumper 🌊💙🌈 @janl99.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company.

It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers.

While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

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augustsym.bsky.social @augustsym.bsky.social · 23h

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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augustsym.bsky.social @augustsym.bsky.social · 1d

That's other nonsense if you turn it into a debate or a thing about race then it becomes about race actually you should get over the color of your skin no matter who the hell you are and just exist as an equal human and just say fuck race

augustsym.bsky.social @augustsym.bsky.social · 1d

The crime rate of New Orleans yeah that would be Mike Johnson's turf is higher than Chicago

augustsym.bsky.social @augustsym.bsky.social · 1d

Sickening human garbage his own family hates him they won't even have a thing to do with them