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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Outside of inaugurations or other specific special events, I don’t think guard has ever been deputized before.

“Republican Gov. [of TN] Bill Lee, who supports the effort, has said the [National Guard] troops will be deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service to ‘play a critical support role’ for […]

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10h

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."

—Judi Dench

#Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 13h

Well that's worrisome.

Simple glitch, or too few air traffic controllers, and so is it a standard cancellation?

Or did the admin stop a critic from leaving their jurisdiction?

That right now that even _seems_ possible should feel like a 5 alarm fire.

#USpol #MarkBray #travel

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Feckless felonious fool claims he “took the freedom of speech away” when it comes to flag burning. That’s not how this works you sanctimonious prick.

https://youtube.com/shorts/LKmJQyIWlqk

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 3d

We’ve come a long way from General Norman Schwarzkopf showing footage from GBUs slamming into bunkers on CNN during the Gulf War in 1991 all the way to to social media posts of FPV drone strikes.

#USpol #war #Ukraine #russia

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 5d

A Steel Border unit's fiber-optic FPV drone flew nearly 15 km, slipped under anti-drone nets and entered a Russian command post on the Northern Slobozhanshchyna direction, border guards reported.

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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Sonnet 004 - IV
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why […]

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 2d

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Will @threadless.bsky.social re-share this? Dunno.

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 1d

Being forced to work without pay is slavery.

The gop shut down the government.

The gop is sending Texas national guard to Chicago, and is not paying them because of their shutdown.

The gop is sending a slave army to Chicago. 😳😝

#USpol

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 19h

That’s a fun thought. I hope @ericswalwell.bsky.social is onto something.

xcancel.com/RepSwalwell/...

#USpol

Rep. Eric Swalwell
@RepSwalwell
It's coming to an end guys. I've spoken to a lot of House Republicans this week and they've confided that Trump's movement/support is fading. As one told me, "this Epstein bomb is about to drop and no want wants to defend a pedo-protector. It's just a matter of time."
Oct 8, 2025 • 11:17 AM UTC

Rep. Eric Swalwell
@RepSwalwell
One Republican just texted me that if there's a discharge vote on Epstein they expect a "jail break" of over 100 members. Trump will go nuts!

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David August @davidaugust.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Ain’t no violence but state violence.

ice shooting at peaceful protestors. Again.

#USpol

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPg4lx4kR25/

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22h

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."

—Spencer Tracy

#Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

“The fact…GOP is unwilling to defend…role of…GOP-controlled Congress is…GOP’s problem to solve.”

“…Republican Congress &…Trump administration made this bed; they, across all 3 branches, are fully responsible for…crash of…constitutional system; & until Mike Johnson & John Thune figure out how […]

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

"What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it’s not. A lot of the time it’s what makes you great."

—Emma Stone

#Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

“Chicago is not the enemy. Our fellow Americans are not the enemy. It is abhorrent for the president who is supposed to represent all Americans, regardless of political party, to describe anyone who disagrees with him in this manner,” - US Senator Dick Durbin, IL […]

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

“From Brighton Park to Berwyn to Broadview, the pattern is clear: ICE and Border Patrol are using military-style tactics in civilian communities while distorting facts to defend their actions.”

“Chicago residents are left to confront a grim reality. Federal agencies sworn to enforce the law […]

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Get a sense of scale of the Broadview ice facility and the peaceful city of Chicago.

I made this to help people be more realistic about the scale and scope of what’s going on (and not going on) in Chicago.

cc @indivisibleteam @indivisiblechi @IndivChi_South […]

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17h

@volkris fair points.

David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22h

"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."

—Spencer Tracy

#Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

“The fact…GOP is unwilling to defend…role of…GOP-controlled Congress is…GOP’s problem to solve.”

“…Republican Congress &…Trump administration made this bed; they, across all 3 branches, are fully responsible for…crash of…constitutional system; & until Mike Johnson & John Thune figure out how […]

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

"What sets you apart can feel like a burden, but it’s not. A lot of the time it’s what makes you great."

—Emma Stone

#Acting #coaching #inspiration #actingcoach #actingcoaching #actorslife

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

“Chicago is not the enemy. Our fellow Americans are not the enemy. It is abhorrent for the president who is supposed to represent all Americans, regardless of political party, to describe anyone who disagrees with him in this manner,” - US Senator Dick Durbin, IL […]

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

“From Brighton Park to Berwyn to Broadview, the pattern is clear: ICE and Border Patrol are using military-style tactics in civilian communities while distorting facts to defend their actions.”

“Chicago residents are left to confront a grim reality. Federal agencies sworn to enforce the law […]

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David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Get a sense of scale of the Broadview ice facility and the peaceful city of Chicago.

I made this to help people be more realistic about the scale and scope of what’s going on (and not going on) in Chicago.

cc @indivisibleteam @indivisiblechi @IndivChi_South […]

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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Sonnet 018 - XVIII
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from […]

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