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Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social

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Jill of many trades; master of none ‘cept my MA from UA (former journalist).☮️Still imagining all the people living here in peace. 🏳️‍🌈Ally✊🏾BLM Ally ☯️Trans Ally 🪬🌊🔬Ally 🔵BlueCrew 🔵PressFreedom 🔵ClimateWarrior ⛔️MAGA/Porn/FansOnly ⛔️DMs=BLOCK

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Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · Sep 1

ProPublica’s brand messaging should be:
Doing the Work Corporate Media Consistently Fails to Do

Sept. 11 Victims’ Lawsuit Against Saudi Government Can Go to Trial, Judge Rules

Information uncovered by plaintiffs has already undermined the FBI’s conclusion that two U.S.-based Saudi officials “unwittingly” helped al-Qaida hijackers after they arrived in America.

www.propublica.org

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Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · 4h

Ha! That used to be my handle on Xtwit: The Real Gobsmacked.

Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · 4h

I’ll be carrying a gas mask, and hopefully will not have to put it on.

Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · 4h

Nope. I am totally down with a boycott of US travel. PS I once was a travel writer who wrote a travel guide to the Pacific NW: OR, WA & BC. You can google it. So I don’t say that lightly.

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Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · 4h

Billionaires are coming for our housing, our food, our healthcare, our future.

They have found a way to extract more money from US by not paying THEIR taxes.

The imbalance of wealth is supercharging inequity. They’re displacing the millionaires, who are displacing everyone down the ladder.

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Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · 4h

And letting our people get sicker while he bails out Argentine’s healthcare system that covers EVERYONE there.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · 4h

Many of us are paying attention, especially the ones here on BS. It’s our friends and family who are vacationing and entertaining themselves like there’s plenty of tomorrows that are the problem. And of course, MAGA who’re completely disassociated and living in ignorant bliss.

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Eyeatola @eyeatola.bsky.social · 5h

Looky looky …. Trump gives medal, posthumously to man who said “black women don’t have the mental capacity to work.”
Wife of man who said “women should not work and stay home and take care of their offspring” goes to work!
The douchelords have spoken!
apnews.com/video/trump-...

Trump honors Charlie Kirk with Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Donald Trump has posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was fatally shot last month while speaking at Utah Valley University.

apnews.com

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Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, you’d have to be a wealthy 2% to live here. My son has lived here all his life (me for 35 years), BA from a prestigious college but makes only $20 per hour working for a BIG brand company and pays $1200 for a room in the basement of a house he shares with four other ppl.

Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · 4h

Well, listen Canada has issues too. They come out in support of Palestine to make themselves look good but continue to send arms to Israel.

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Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · 4h

The Peace President my arse.

Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · 4h

This

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Freya 💙 @freyalux.bsky.social · 7h

Do share♻️
#EpsteinTrumpFiles

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“Veteran Cosmic Rocker”✌🏽💫🎸☮️🌎✨🇲🇽🇺🇸 @betosando.bsky.social · 5h

This behavior & hate speak is appalling! Who do these Nazis think they are? They should be fired from jobs, expelled from any school, ostracized from society. They mock the foundations of our democracy! We must condemn their words not excuse them as JD Vance & Speaker Johnson have.

Jana Warrior Angel @janabw81.bsky.social · 5h

If THESE are the cool kids then I’d rather be a complete and total outcast.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 9h

Good morning! Today would be a great day to call your local TV and radio stations to ask them to please make sure they have a crew covering the No Kings protest on Saturday. Tell them the locations in case they don't know. And tell them you'll be watching for the coverage.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 5h

Chaos in one city shows what all of Trump's America may soon become

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Chaos in one city shows what all of Trump's America may soon become

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Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · 5h

This is excellent messaging @raskin.house.gov MAGA is obsessed with pedos and sex traffickers, and most of them are religious, law enforcement and billionaire rightwingers commitment these crimes.

M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 10h

Jamie Raskin is Correct, and Fighting Chump's Regime.......

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AnnMB48 @annmb48.bsky.social · 22h

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Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · 5h

Keep this fascist in mind too when you’re considering overseas holidays…spending money in Italy=complicity and support of traitor Meloni.

Jo Ostgarden.bsky.social @joostgarden.bsky.social · 5h

“For whatever reason—age, illness, infirmity, self-loathing, the fact that the whole world hates him—47 seems to be a lil’ bit down in the dumps…” The Daily Beast

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BytePilot @binaryorhex.bsky.social · 1d

So we're just giving money away? What about us?
What about our own people?

Trump says U.S. won’t benefit from $20 billion bailout for Argentina

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...