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James August ✊🏳️‍🌈🌹🍉

@jamesaugust.bsky.social

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Queer commie photographer in Los Angeles Public interest lawyer and activist patreon.com/jamesaugustphoto Ping me for rates or answers

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James August ✊🏳️‍🌈🌹🍉 @jamesaugust.bsky.social · Jan 2

TWENTY TWENTY-FOUR RETRO THREAD!

Over the next while I'll share photos here from each of my glorious fab lovely photo shoots going back to December 2023. I'll be sharing a deeper look at each shoot over on Patreon, with more and more explicit photos than before. 😘

patreon.com/jamesaugustphoto

Sharing portraits of some delightful guys.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 5h

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete

The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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James August ✊🏳️‍🌈🌹🍉 @jamesaugust.bsky.social · 11h

Fuck yes

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 12h

Jews didn't fall for this??

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Jeremy Stanley @jeremydstanley.com · 16h

And are you married?
I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

This is why we have to organize & not just file lawsuits: “Without Section 2, which has been interpreted to require the creation of majority-minority districts, Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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James August ✊🏳️‍🌈🌹🍉 @jamesaugust.bsky.social · 4d

Crediting myself here as the photographer

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, nothing says rock n' roll like middle aged men criticizing young people's appearance.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 6d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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James August ✊🏳️‍🌈🌹🍉 @jamesaugust.bsky.social · 5d

With the essential @nudenamaste.bsky.social in my Los Angeles home

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

They don’t call it the Office of Formatting Tables of Contents

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 6d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

The price of the undeserved power you receive as a Trump cabinet official is to be a conspiracy theory prop, to have everyone you know still based in the world of facts and reason look at you and think "what the fuck happened to that guy?" bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "I had it going very well in my first term, but we were interrupted by a rigged election."

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 6d

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 6d

And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 6d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 6d

nothing but respect for my Antichrist

Greta Thunberg wearing a keffiyeh and a black t-shirt with a skeleton dual-wielding assault rifles and the word "AUTISM"

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 7d

It’s easy to make fun of, but watching the president of the United States ask Andy Ngo and Jack Posibiec who the bad guys are so that they can be prosecuted for domestic terrorism is truly fucking terrifying. We have fallen a long way already.

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James August ✊🏳️‍🌈🌹🍉 @jamesaugust.bsky.social · 7d

Post the fitting bts video!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 7d

Kristi Noem: ‘Antifa Is A Highly Sophisticated Islamic Proto-State That Controlled Territory In Iraq And Syria From 2013-2019’

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 7d

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 7d

what the fuck

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 7d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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James August ✊🏳️‍🌈🌹🍉 @jamesaugust.bsky.social · 7d

Setting aside the bazillion reasons that these guys shouldn't be here, deploying physically unfit dudes in domestic policing operations is insanely dangerous where unjustifiable use of force is routine. Cops who can't or don't want to run after someone are more likely to just shoot them instead.

Linda Marie @lindam174.bsky.social · 7d

Not sure storm is the word. Maybe lumber, waddle, trot

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8d

This is maybe the most insulting thing you could say about a human being lol

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 9d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 8d

You have got to be joking hahaha

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 12d

wizard frog is insane

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