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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · Sep 8

Reds.

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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sunday night blooms.

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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · Jul 26

🙏Want to thank you all for your very kind and thoughtful messages. We were an "us" for 36 years, and not a single day went by where I didn't feel like the luckiest girl in the world. I'll be back when I can function a bit better. ❤️

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teachnin4thgrade.bsky.social @teachnin4thgrade.bsky.social · Jul 24

@heatherthomasaf.bsky.social Hey, I was moved and now I will be teaching 4th grade Math & Science for the 1st time. I'll have 2 classes with 56 plus kiddos in a title 1 school. We go back in 2 weeks. I appreciate anything.Thank you! ❤️ #clearthelist

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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · Jul 15

Damn, I was told Peace President, but all they do and say is "War", "War", "War".

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 15

Lutnick: "If all you do is import, aluminum, and copper, how are you going to fight a war? We need steel to be made domestically ... so that if we want to fight a war, we can make our own ships, our own missiles."

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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · Jul 15

Yewp. he wants a permanent over-burdened underclass of low-wage workers with no education, choice or recourse. And so does the Heritage wing.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 15

"His techno-optimism is a thin veil over a dark, fascist impulse, a desire to build a future where technology serves not to liberate, but to segregate, control, and ensure the perpetual supremacy of the Silicon Valley oligarchs."

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 15

Part of how we got fascism in the United States is that a bunch of Silicon Valley oligarchs lost their collective mind in 2020 and radicalized into techno-fascists on group chats. Marc Andreesen is the epicenter of this shift.

www.thedissident.news/the-techno-f...

The Techno-Fascist Soul of Marc Andreessen

The uprising of 2020 didn't just challenge the systemic racism of American policing; they terrified the oligarchs of Silicon Valley. For Marc Andreessen, the billionaire venture capitalist, the sight ...

www.thedissident.news

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · Jul 15

He could teabag the Liberty Bell, light the Federalist Papers on fire, and scream “I AM THE PEDOPHILE ELITE!”—and Charlie Kirk would host an INCEL summer summit in his honor.
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Teabagging the Liberty Bell

When you’re Donald J for “genius”Trump, they let you do it. You can do anything. Because it’s an f’ng cult.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jul 15

A key aspect of a concentration camp is that they detain people indefinitely who are not charged with a crime with no opportunity to challenge their detention. This is what immigration detention is.

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Millions of undocumented immigrants will no longer be eligible for bond hearings, according to ICE memo

The new policy change was announced in a memo last week from the acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. The memo was described to ABC News.

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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · Jul 15

All of them are relentless gobbing pigs at the public trough. Just too many cool vacations and sporting events and expensive plastic surgery temptations to attend by private jet. I mean, that's what the Big Bill was for, right?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 15

ROSEN: Despite being removed as national security adviser, surprisingly, you've been on the WH payroll. You've said you'll root out waste at the UN. Can you confirm whether you've been receiving a salary?

WALTZ: I was kept on as an adviser transitioning a number of, uh, important activities

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 15

ROSEN: Despite being removed as national security adviser, surprisingly, you've been on the WH payroll. You've said you'll root out waste at the UN. Can you confirm whether you've been receiving a salary?

WALTZ: I was kept on as an adviser transitioning a number of, uh, important activities

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · Jul 15

“I do solemnly swear that I will obey Donald Trump and never release the Epstein list.” – Pam Bondi

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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · Jul 15

The Many Fronts of the MAGA Civil War
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The Many Fronts of the MAGA Civil War

Taking Stock in ALL the Battles Taking Place, and Why They Matter

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Tom Joad™️ @theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social · Jul 11

I wrote this story too long and too slow so that you could feel the layers and layers of policies and forms and bureaucracy smothering these Women’s Domestic Violence Centers.
The funding is slowly being choked off and it is a tragedy.

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Tom Joad™️ @theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social · Jul 11

Across the country, women’s domestic violence centers are closing their doors,not because the need has gone away, but because the funding has.
When a center closes,It’s a crisis hotline that stops ringing. A child who loses a trauma counselor. A woman who now has nowhere to turn.

The Paperwork Will Kill You

How America Abandons Its Most Vulnerable

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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · Jul 12

Friday night dahlia haul in the occupied City of Angels.

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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · Jul 12

💜💜💜

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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · Jul 12

❤️

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Lisa Lisa and not Cult Jam 47 @bostonbitch.bsky.social · Jul 12

Beautiful. Your garden is always a treat.

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observerbs.bsky.social @observerbs.bsky.social · Jul 12

the city i live in the city of angels is written on a poster

Alt: the city i live in the city of angels is written on a poster RHCP

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JO… @johnoherron.bsky.social · Jul 12

Beautiful. LA and the flowers. The occupiers are not. Viva Los Angeles and death to ICE.

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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · Jul 12

Between this idiot move and a crippled FBI, terrorists are seeing less enforcement.

Vincenzo @vincenzodon.bsky.social · Jul 12

This Reading-Rainbow-Robot looks like a cat that swallowed a blowfish. There’s enough plastic in that face to float an oligarch’s yacht.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · Jul 10

DHS Sec. Kristi Noem announces a new policy to allow passengers traveling through domestic airports to keep their shoes on while passing through security screenings at TSA checkpoints.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jul 11

Checking in to see what Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is up to today

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · Jul 12

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Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social · Jul 12

Purple hue dahlias from occupied City of Angels.

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