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Zach (He/him) Freelance #artist #graphicdesign #illustrator. Drawing stuff I enjoy. // Artist for @sonicgalactic.bsky.social and various #SonicTheHedgehog fan projects 🎨 Portfolio: https://thecongressman.github.io/ ✉️ Email: [email protected]

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TheCongressman @thecongressman.bsky.social · Apr 9

#PortfolioDay

✨I'm Zach, a graphic designer looking to get into more illustration, game art, or comics work.✨ I'm currently working on a Sonic fan comic, and several fan games.

I want to work with you on your next project! ☺️

linktr.ee/thecongressman
ZJArtandDesign@gmail

Mecha Sonic mk. 1, Mecha mk. 2, and Metal Sonic fighting for dominance.

Pov: you're looking at Lammy and Katy through the door waiting in the heat for you to let them in.

Samus surrounded by numerous space pirates lurking just inside the shadow.

Tails having fun riding the teacup lift in Launch Base Zone.

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Mike Ludwig @mludwig.bsky.social · 6h

Tenants Launch US’s First Ever Rent Debt Strike Against Corporate Landlord

Remember Debt Collective, the group that helped start the student debtors movement? They've announced the "EQR Nine," who are refusing to pay back rent to the nation's fifth largest landlord.

truthout.org/articles/ten...

Tenants Launch US’s First Ever Rent Debt Strike Against Corporate Landlord

Nine tenants organized by the Debt Collective are refusing to pay back rent, hoping to inspire others to do the same.

truthout.org

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 4h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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TheCongressman @thecongressman.bsky.social · 3h

Anyone thinking we can just sit around waiting for the midterms needs to wake the fuck up

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4h

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 7h

1. Anti-trans outrage is losing its bite.

Last week, Elon Musk led a mass boycott campaign to get trans characters removed from shows on the platform.

Major conservatives joined in.

Now, we have the result: the boycott was a fizzle, and Netflix stock is up.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

Netflix Stock Up As Elon Musk's Anti-Trans Boycott Fails To Materialize

Last week, conservatives tried to cancel Netflix to force the carrier to remove transgender characters.

www.erininthemorning.com

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TheCongressman @thecongressman.bsky.social · 7h

If this is subscription or ai shit I'm never giving them another cent. Can barely run these on linux anyway, so I might as well just completely switch to inkscape

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 7h

I'm giving it a 50/50 on this being Affinity going AI because what the fuck does this even mean. Might as well start looking around for a replacement.

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 19h

I didn't want to comment but like

I expect this sort of stupid character assassination attempt of one of the few leftists platforming palestinians or yemenis directly openly being against zionism since the start from far right, but hearing it from leftists even now is so disappointing #political

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 1d

Hasan shows off the “shock collar.”

And look at that, everyone attacking him looks like a fucking moron.

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Lorenzo Hall 🍉 @lorenzohall.com · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RilU...

This Video is Important - Raising $$ for the Mater Family

YouTube video by Shanspeare

www.youtube.com

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21h

imagine never having to hear hakeem jeffries talk again. he could campaign on that alone.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 22h

#Comics folks, I need you to pull up to this one.

The world sucks right now, and we have the opportunity to do a little bit of good for a displaced and marginalized member of our community. Please join me in supporting this KS campaign!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/den...

If you're somebody who values supporting marginalized voices in comics, here's your chance to put your money where your values are!

The writer of this RINGO NOM’D INDIE COMIC (and a very dear friend of mine) is a Syrian Refugee who has been through more continuous hardships than I have space to list here; constantly navigating visa applications, unstable living conditions, predatory landlords (limited options as a refugee).

Anas just wants to make comics and live a normal life like what so many of us take for granted. Backing this campaign will help Anas to take the next step toward freedom and autonomy, helping to fund a move to another country with more stable employment options. This is truly one of the most important comics purchases you will ever make.

Middle Eastern and North African comics creators are some of the most underrepresented in the comics industry of the western world. Anas isn’t running a GoFundMe to support this move, and is not asking for charity. Simply, Anas is using their talent for storytelling, along with Dennis’ gorgeous art, to offer you a beautiful experience in the comics medium, that also goes toward funding a better life for Anas.

I’m so proud of Anas, and humbled by their experiences and perseverance. I would like to see Anas’ Dream realized, and I’d love to see this community help to make that happen. Please join me in pledging to the Etheres Kickstarter campaign! (link below).

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lokigun - Commission Open @lokigun.bsky.social · 1d

JetSet Radio - Gum 🛼🐸💚

Character Redisign✍️

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frayed @frayed-symphony.bsky.social · 1d

The genuine disappointment I feel at people still using Twitter 🤮

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Kris Dobbins @krisdobbinsart.bsky.social · 1d

hog

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

It should be very very clear to everyone right now that the Attorney General was asked under oath if she possesses pics of the President with undressed teens and she refused to say “no.”

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Trump and his goons are clearly hungry to murder American citizens. Showing up in inflatable costumes makes it VERY hard for them to get the kind of bloody show they want.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Honestly and seriously think this is an EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE tactic to use against these weak fascist losers.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · 2d

Samidoon: Comics for a Free Palestine is back in limited stock! All funds go to the Palestine Red Crescent Society! Currently there are 20 regular physical editions, 20 phys/digital combo editions, and 4 of the bundle packs available. A fantastic anthology and one I'm glad to have orderable again!

SAMIDOON: COMICS FOR A FREE PALESTINE

www.samidoonanthology.com

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TheCongressman @thecongressman.bsky.social · 1d

If this is what they think people will find most captivating, then I guess this confirms there's no substantial alien encounter files lol

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 1d

Literally they've shot two people in Chicago alone, we're all unbelievably fortunate the woman they shot last fucking weekend survived

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 1d

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

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Marsh ★ @menacingmarsh.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to contribute, had to get my main man Jet in this

a large scale image of jet the hawk from the sonic franchise, he is riding the type-J extreme gear from sonic riders zero gravity. The background is a blue sky with soft clouds.

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iasmin omar ata | delta 🌟 vtuber comms open! @deltahead.bsky.social · 1d

my hands are shaking with rage and grief. i shouldn't have to do this. the edited text on this image should not exist. this should not still be happening in 2025

a panel from my entry in Samidoon. it is sepia tone of a palestinan family walking. the caption reads "in 2024, the images from inside Gaza echo my family's storie from Palestine. the walk away from our tattered homes looks the same as 50 years ago." the 2024 is crossed out witht 2025 written next to it. my hands are shaking with rage and grief as i type

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iasmin omar ata | delta 🌟 vtuber comms open! @deltahead.bsky.social · 1d

please do something. anything. please at least today educate yourself about the Balfour Declaration (signed in 1917) and the Mandate for Palestine (drafted in 1919). it's been 100+ years. that's how far back this injustice goes. the world has watched for a century. it should not still be happening

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Xy, First Minister of Furries and Autism @xylaria.vg · 1d

...i'll be god damned.

This is messaging that's actually fucking decent. It actually sounds like Chuck almost gives a shit.

Now, hammer it into the Republican skulls and don't give an inch until they cave to pressure.

This shutdown should only end when *they* surrender.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 2d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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TheCongressman @thecongressman.bsky.social · 1d

Actually great message, now you have to stick with it. DO NOT CAVE. Also, since you're such a fan of Mamdani's presentation style, you should cut the bullshit and endorse him

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

I don't exaggerate when I say that @rude1.blacksky.team and Blacksky team may be saving the entire Bluesky endeavor right now.

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