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🇬🇧 by birth ,🇺🇸 by choice / Photojournalist 📷/ Artist: ‘Plastic Jesus’ 👨‍🎨/ Progressive / former 🚁 pilot / IG: plasticjesus / father / 🐶 & 🐈 family /

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · Mar 16

The people who have so much are telling you that the people who have nothing are the problem. #greed #wealth #money #equality

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 1d

The White House $200 million ballots room will have its own coffee machine.

Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 1d

CNN ‘break’ a big story, but remove it in the edit for fear of displeasing the supreme leader.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t let this fool you. Trump is not the architect of what is going on. He is just the useful idiot. If republicans abandon him very little will change.

Tori @toti66.bsky.social · 1d

links.rawstory.com/s/c/RbTQLPKd...

'Epstein bomb about to drop': Dem lawmaker claims House Republicans ready to abandon Trump

Republican lawmakers in the House are ready to abandon Donald Trump because of the fallout over files related to convicted child abuser Jeffrey Epstein, according to one Dem in Congress.Rep. Eric Swal...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 2d

Wow.
I’ve just interviewed a history professor, who is an expert on extremism.
This week he is moving his family out of the US due to death threats from right wing extremists.

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 2d

A 17 y/o guy ran down two 17
y/o girls in his car, killing them both. The reason he murdered them was because one of them spurned his advances and the other insulted Charlie Kirk. He then laughed about their deaths on a gaming site.

He was NOT arrested. He was ticketed instead.

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 2d

Brutalization of media by law enforcement, ICE , and DHS is no accident. It is planned, it is strategic and it is coming down from the very top

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 2d

Chicago news media groups filed suit against ICE and Homeland Security, claiming excessive force against reporters and protesters of immigration arrests.

Chicago news media groups file suit against ICE and DHS, alleging excessive force against reporters

Chicago news media groups filed suit against ICE and Homeland Security, claiming excessive force against reporters and protesters of immigration arrests.

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 2d

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Rite Aid closes all remaining stores after 63 years in business

"All Rite Aid stores have now closed. We thank our loyal customers for their many years of support." Rite Aid, once one of America's biggest pharmacy chains, shuttered its remaining 89 stores this wee...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 4d

🚨✊🏼ICE agents OUTNUMBERED by PEOPLE, forced to retreat! Share this! If Chicago can do this, we can ALL do this. 🚨1/2

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 5d

FYI tear gas and pepper spay are banned in warfare under the CWC ( chemical weapons convention) but US law enforcement can use them on community member protesting ICE brutality and abductions.

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 5d

Temporary flight restrictions over Chicago at the request of DHS and ICE.
Antifa must now have fighter jets and
Bombers. That’s an escalation.

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 5d

Antifa must have fighter jets.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

This is fascism.

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 6d

Even if democrats were fighting for free healthcare for undocumented ppl, (which they are not) what’s the big deal? Every single republican congressional member, senator and White House flunky gets it. For life!

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 7d

Horrific.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7d

BREAKING: Two people have died and three others are in serious condition after a synagogue attack in the UK, police say.

Police are at the scene of a reported stabbing at a synagogue in English city of Manchester

Police are at the scene of a reported stabbing at a synagogue in Manchester, northwest England. Andy Burnham, the mayor of the Greater Manchester Area, said Thursday that the “immediate danger appears to be over” after reports of the incident in Crumpsall, north of the city.

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 7d

If you make $100 million, congratulations well done. Every hundred dollars you make from now on will be used to house the homeless and feed the hungry. And for every person you feed or house a tree will be planted in a forest bearing your name. Let’s see who can build the biggest forest.

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 7d

What is a healthcare insurance premium if it’s not a tax. The travel is Americans. Don’t seem to realize that.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

Breaking News: The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender.

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 7d

I recently had emergency surgery. Even with paying $1700 per month health care premiums I am left to pay around $6000 in co-pays.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 8d

"It's not just about being Sikh. It's about being brown. People don't distinguish between Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus... It feels like the 1970s again. I remember the National Front. The difference now is social media is amplifying hate."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#r4today

Security stepped up at the UK's oldest gurdwara based in London

Gurdwaras are diverting funds from vital community services to bolster security say Sikh leaders.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 10d

Nick Stern was reporting on an anti-ICE protest in Los Angeles when he was shot in the leg, leaving him fighting for his life. He asks: is America still free?

The British journalist shot by Trump’s immigration police

Nick Stern was reporting on an anti-ICE protest in Los Angeles when he was shot in the leg, leaving him fighting for his life. He asks: is America still free?

www.thetimes.com

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 7d

Miller is mentally unwell.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"

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Plastic Jesus 📷🧑‍🎨🇬🇧🇺🇸 @plasticjesusart.bsky.social · 8d

If only the USA had an amendment that empowered, and equipped the people to rise up and fight against a tyrannical government. Hmmm

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