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Virgotex

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6-gen texan* weirdo. She/her/y'all. Photography, wildlife, music, history, cultural esoterica, way too much tv. Often supplement adhd meds w/episodes of time team. *Not the horse type texan, more the shrimpboat kind.

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Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 13h

"rigged & stollen" !

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 20h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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ismua ᴮˡᵘᵉˢᵏʸ ᴱˡᵈᵉʳ📯 🌈⛵💜 @ismua.bsky.social · 1d

#RandomAutumnGIF

a little girl wearing ear muffs and a black jacket holds leaves in her hands

ALT: a little girl wearing ear muffs and a black jacket holds leaves in her hands

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Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 21h

FYI, speaking as a retired state gov employee. Commiserating, not ridiculing. Hang in there as you see fit. 🦾

Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 21h

dang, I missed this

Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 21h

wait .

Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 21h

"True Haunting" (translation: Total Bullshit, you know what's coming...< breathing modulates>

a group of people are dancing and the words dance boogie wonderland are on the screen

ALT: a group of people are dancing and the words dance boogie wonderland are on the screen

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Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 21h

Got lost in some bullshit Netflix series, hiccups gone at some point. Thanks for y'all's concern. I am trash

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Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 22h

Inconvenient maybe, irritating definitely. I don't think it's horrible yet. ♥️

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 22h

Second hour of hiccups...is this hell?

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Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 1d

Does he still think? That's the issue

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Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 1d

😍

Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 1d

There are a hundred different ways to refute this— drones, police and fire service, local government statement, citizen videos, etc. Why doesn't that matter enough to effectively counter DT's bullshit?

Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 1d

What if the media didn't give him what he wants? That being nonstop, 24/7/365 coverage of every insane thing that come out of his neck. I don't know how people can consume this stuff, I sure can't.

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Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 1d

minus taxes, benefits, etc, what's that? About $67?

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 1d

He's about as much use as a marzipan dildo at this point.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 1d

Of course!

Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 1d

My mother applauds from the grave

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Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 1d

The way he says "and even more than that" reminds me of Eddie/Suzy Izzard re Stonehenge:
"50 foot high, 30 foot long, 20 foot deep, and other measurements as well!"

Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 1d

But hey! Soon they'll be 500% off!

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Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 1d

So teee-niney, those hands!

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Reconstructed exPat @panarmstrong.bsky.social · 1d

"Americans are being led, willingly, applaudingly, into the crime of complicity, a callous ruthlessness, an implacable lust for punishment that portends — or demonstrates — the dying of the nation’s soul."

@charlesmblow.bsky.social in @bittersouth.bsky.social

bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...

Story cover image for Charles M. Blow's piece "The Heritage of American Terror" in The Bitter Southerner. Illustration by Mark Harris shows the Statue of Liberty wearing a red face mask similar to that of a Federal immigration agent.

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Terry Buckalew @terrybuckalew.bsky.social · 1d

Sister Rosetta Tharpe died October 9, 1973.
Here’s a link to a biographical essay written by W. K. McNeil & Terry Buckalew.

encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/sist...

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Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 1d

I'm on my way to pick up my Rxs now...better take my "big purse" to hold all that $$

Virgotex @virgotex.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, don't hold your breath