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KgustafKS

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A progressive in rural red state Kansas where once loyal Trump Conservatives are waking up to facts while the Kansas Legislature and Kansas’s federal representstives continue in their support of Trump and P2025. Something’s gotta give, soon!

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · 2d

the text reads: “Did you know ANTIFA has its own cemetery?! There are more than 400,000 ANTIFA buried there, including my grandfather. It's called Arlington.“

Also included is a photo of the National Cemetery with rows upon perfect rows of gravestones.

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · 4d

The whiz-bang video creation app Sora which Sam Altman, owner of OpenAI, released Oct. 1st as the ultimate ease-of-use tool for incredible videos, is unleashing unimaginable chaos on social media. Deep fakes are now the problen we were warned about prior to the 2024 electiins.

KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · 5d

“Larry Ellison Vetted Marco Rubio for Fealty to Israel, in 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟱 as 𝗛𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹“

Ellison, the Grandaddy of America’s Tech Titans, is on track to take control of American Media while Rubio is, of course, Secretary of State.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/larry-elli...

Larry Ellison Vetted Marco Rubio for Fealty to Israel, Hacked Emails Reveal

The billionaire Oracle founder is on track to take control of the American media.

www.dropsitenews.com

KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · 7d

Read her wikipedia entry then do a little more reasearch. I was skeptical until I did so. As far as her calling Dems out, Kat’s vouce resonnates fiercly with the younger generations. There are plenty of us oldies who continue to think we did miss the boat by not agitating against Citizens United

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · 13d

I forget not everyone automatically recognizes Mary Trump.

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · 15d

I couldn’t 𝑛𝑜𝑡 check to see what the holder of a PhD of Theology, the creator of Veronica and the Boo, came up with for today’s Rapture.

KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · 20d

This editorial cartoon by W. Miller (Warren Miller) is illustrated in a seated interview-style setting with studio microphones, as if participating in a recorded interview for what may be a business-oriented talk-show segment or podcast. Both men are in professional business attire.

The editorial commentary is from the guest as follows:

"Actually, Lou, I think it was more than just my being in the right place at the right time. I think it was my being the right race, the right religion, the right sex, the right socioeconomic group, having the right accent, the right clothes, going to the right schools...“

KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · 22d

All the webs!

KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · 22d

I love your reminder.

KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · 27d

This text-based only meme by Delaney Vandergrift reads as follows:

“We should be clear about what political violence is.
1. starving people when there is enough food for all of us to eat.
2. denying people healthcare so they die from preventable illnesses
3. denying people shelter
4. increasing police budgets across the country.

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is just through 2021?
OMG! I wish it hadn’t ended there.

KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · Sep 3

If Trump hadn’t been pouty over the magnificance of Xi’s military celebration he might have glimpsed the actual significance of the celebration.

Xi’s perspective on the future could shake the GOP awake if they pull their heads out of Project 2025 long enough to look through the eyes of the world.

Prof. Yuhl: By 2030, the rules that shape your daily life won’t come from America. They’ll come from Europe or China. The EU is building a consensus model based on sustainability, privacy, and worker ...

TikTok video by Cultural Perspective

www.tiktok.com

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · Sep 3

𝐴 𝑝𝑜𝑒𝑚

America is a Gun
By Brian Bilston

England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun.

Brazil is football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona's hand.
Germany, an oompah band.
America is a gun.

Holland is a wooden shoe.
Hungary, a goulash stew.
Australia, a kangaroo.
America is a gun.

Japan is a thermal spring.
Scotland is a highland fling.
Oh, better to be anything than America as a gun.

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy Labor Day!

If you’re in D.C., drive past our U.S. Department of Labor Building and acknowledge your support of Trump in your own way.

Happy Labor Day!

In a photo of Trump at the top of this meme has a cream pie being pushed in his face. Another photo is of the exterior front wall of the U.S. Department of Labor which is draped on the left with an enormous banner of Trump’s face withe the message of recognition of 250 years of American Workers and in larger letters, the words “America First” and draped on the right by an equally enormous American Flag banner.

The commentary with the photos is as follows:

“Since the beginning of this week before which we will celebrate Labor Day, an enormous image of Pres. Trump, along with the message "American Workers First" has been displayed on the exterior wall of the U.S. Department of Labor building in Washington, D.C..

“However, since the start of Trump's second term, his administration has moved against federal employees, unions, and workplace protections. 300,000 Federal jobs were cut and Union Rights were stripped from 1M Workers in the first 8 Months.

“Instead of putting a positive public face on his Labor Department fiascos, it's as if the banner of Trump's face is just hanging there, asking for a barrage of orange cream pies.”

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · Aug 20

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is a quote by Dan Rather on a nondiscript background.

“Hosting peace talks with a war criminal and failing to invite the other side is not a peace talk; it is a strategy session.“

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James B. Greenberg, Professor Emeritus @zavaletas.bsky.social · Aug 14

The coup without tanks: Project 2025 & an Article V Convention, backed by Heritage, Koch network & dark money, aim to rewrite the Constitution & build a shadow gov’t—w/out a vote or consent. #Project2025 #Democracy #ArticleV #Politics #Oligarchy #ShadowGovernment #Coup

The Quiet Path to a New Constitution

How the push for an Article V convention could lock in the most radical parts of the right-wing agenda—permanently.

open.substack.com

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · Aug 5

During the past week, alone, TikTok’s “For You“ section exploded with AI promotional content. Just a while ago, I went searching for confirmation and wound up at your Substack. I especially like how you couched algorithmic attacks in terms of “a weapon that violates knowledge distribution.”

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · Aug 3

Denying quorum has been a Texas political strategy since 1870

While the Democrats could technically derail the GOP’s redistricting map, such efforts have been largely symbolic and had limited success blocking past legislation, experts say.

www.texastribune.org

KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · Aug 3

Quote from the novel “Brave New World”, published in 1932:

“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · Jul 31

Trump told Fox’s Ingraham that he wanted to give the space outside his Oval Office, “a gorgeous stone” patio experience; it’s concrete. Also, to prevent women in heels from falling in grass. The Times reported the makeover is intended to resemble a patio like he has at Mar-a-Lago for entertaining.

This is a photo of the progress on Trump’s renovation of the area of the Rose Garden directly outside the Oval Office. He had envisioned it as paved in attractive stone tiling, but it turns out to be concrete tiling. The recent edition of garish faux marble Roman era statues has nothing to do with America—but then neither does Trump. The statues haven’t yet been set in their final resting place within the concrete grid.

The creator of the meme included the following humorous quip: “Wait until it’s finished—the Marmor statues are just being delivered from Italy.”

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · Jul 28

A Lincoln Project and Kendrick Lamar collaboration

Michele (@democraticwarrior)

I love Kendrick Lamar, and The Lincoln Project!! Their collaboration is off the chain!! ⛓️‍💥 ❤️‍🔥 ⛓️‍💥

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KgustafKS @kgustaf.bsky.social · Jul 28

“Spogomi, a Japanese litter-picking sport, has come to the UK. Invented in 2008, it was intended as a competition to encourage people to clean up public spaces. It is now played in schools across the country as people 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗶𝘀𝗵.”

🏆🏅

‘The sorest my legs have ever been’: hordes to descend on Hackney for litter-picking world cup

The public-spirited sport of spogomi is catching on across Britain, which boasts its world champion team

www.theguardian.com

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