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Very💙,🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈,climate change,environmental justice, ALL rights,animal,woman’s, LGBTQIA, Stroke survivor,chronic pain and mold warrior,atheist empath.Handmaids Tale/ Atwood fan Trying to survive the climates in Texas. "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum."😈

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auntphoebee.bsky.social @auntphoebee.bsky.social · 2m

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In the H-2A program, the way they’re proposing to get rid of the regulations and any guarantees that workers get is going to look like legalized slavery.

Trump has no plan for who will grow US food: ‘There is just flat out nobody to work’

Farms rely on seasonal workers and undocumented immigrants, but the Republican’s plans to fill the gap would ‘legalize oppression’, advocates say

www.theguardian.com

auntphoebee.bsky.social @auntphoebee.bsky.social · 26m

Makes more sense to have it further away from Christmas!

auntphoebee.bsky.social @auntphoebee.bsky.social · 32m

😂😂😂

auntphoebee.bsky.social @auntphoebee.bsky.social · 33m

Well said

auntphoebee.bsky.social @auntphoebee.bsky.social · 1h

He’s extra orange.

auntphoebee.bsky.social @auntphoebee.bsky.social · 1h

He loves this picture of himself

auntphoebee.bsky.social @auntphoebee.bsky.social · 1h

Just because 😂

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ReggieMoto 🌮 @reggiemoto.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not sure which is more important to him: the Nobel Peace Prize or the billions if not trillions he plans on making from Gaza redevelopment. Gotta tell ya, I think it’s a toss up

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💙🦋🌊 Political Americans 🌊🦋💙 @politicalamericans.bsky.social · 3h

FFS...

www.newsweek.com/idf-gaza-isr...

IDF fires at Gazans "who crossed the Yellow Line" during ceasefire

The incident highlights the tense and fragile nature of the Trump-brokered ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

www.newsweek.com

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2d

Gaza Port, Before and After

(Abdallah El Hajj)

Two pictures of Gaza port before and after

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 4h

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21h

"More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect"

More Than 200 Bodies Dug Out of the Gaza Rubble Since Ceasefire Went Into Effect - News From Antiwar.com

Rescue workers in Gaza have recovered more than 200 bodies of Palestinians killed by the IDF from the rubble and from areas they were previously unable to access since the ceasefire went into effect o...

news.antiwar.com

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Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social · 4d

Happy my work was included in this week's Cartoon Carousel in POLITICO! See them all here: www.politico.com/gallery/2025...

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in th...

www.politico.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.

Rounding up the Anti-Fascists.

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auntphoebee.bsky.social @auntphoebee.bsky.social · 1d

Horrifying what happened to Jamal,it wasn’t covered well, and basically forgotten by the press soon after. I’m sorry for anyone close to him😞

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auntphoebee.bsky.social @auntphoebee.bsky.social · 1d

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Campaigners have urged the World Bank to stick to this pathway ahead of its annual meeting on 13-18 October, despite the U.S. under Trump withdrawing from global efforts to counter climate change.
#climatechange #globalwarming #action

EU to push development banks' climate focus despite US opposition, draft shows

The European Union will double down on its support for reforming global development banks to do more to fight climate change, a draft EU document showed, a stance that puts Brussels at odds with the U.S. ahead of World Bank and IMF meetings this month.

www.reuters.com

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auntphoebee.bsky.social @auntphoebee.bsky.social · 1d

apple.news/A4RaCJUGxTdi...

Love Portland💙

Throngs of naked Portland bike riders offer a counternarrative to Trump's about hometown — USA TODAY

The World Naked Bike Ride on Oct. 12 sought to bring global attention to President Donald Trump’s plans to deploy National Guard troops to the city.

apple.news

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Kats Peterson @katskitchen.bsky.social · 2d

Environmental grief is ever-present and deep. My only hope is that we either experience a paradigm shift as a species, or we off ourselves before the rest of the planet succumbs to our idiocy and greed.

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Trish @miloandme.bsky.social · 2d

“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.”

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Cartoon by David Horsey.

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auntphoebee.bsky.social @auntphoebee.bsky.social · 2d

We need a frog chapter in Texas

auntphoebee.bsky.social @auntphoebee.bsky.social · 2d

thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/07/t...

The message is clear: Die rich, stay rich, and pass it all down untaxed. It’s trickle-down economics, except the only thing that trickles is champagne at the family estate after the will is read.

Great to discover Brian Gaar 👀

Texas Is Asking Voters to Protect the Rich and Punish the Poor. Will They Do It?

Among 17 potential constitutional amendments, voters will be deciding the fate of corporate welfare and inherited wealth.

thebarbedwire.com

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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 2d

Fascist Snowflakes #FreeDC

DC street art poster of Trump swallowing a rainbow eggplant

Same poster, scratched off, presumably by a MAGA snowflake

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auntphoebee.bsky.social @auntphoebee.bsky.social · 2d

I wish I could throw on animal costume and join in🙂