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#SymmetrySunday, #TextureTuesday, #FORAFriday. Just a taste of the work of architectural photographer Jeff Stvan. View many more and purchase them at: www.foraphotography.com

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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 Hard meets soft at the Showroom (HSEarchitects, 2016), Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK. #OKC #Oklahoma #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday
Color photo looking up at the edge of a shipping container which has been repurposed as part of a temporary structure on an art museum campus. The container has been set on end and painted bright yellow. The sky to the right is filled with puffy white clouds.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 It’s 5:30 at the Ferry Building (A. Page Brown, 1898) on the Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA. #SanFrancisco #California #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday
Black and white photo of a tall clock tower. A clock face - white with black Roman numerals - can be seen just below a row of seven square openings. Above this are four more levels - two rectangular and two circular in plan - each of which features a colonnade. A US flag flies from a pole at the very top of the tower.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 A tall, narrow door - with matching transom - on the ground floor of Batchelder's Block (Charles N. Daniels, 1868), Faribault, MN. #Faribault #Minnesota #Architecture #Photography #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday
Color photo of a tall, narrow door set into an ashlar masonry facade. The door features a pair of long windows and is topped by a similarly elongated, arched transom. The edge of a large window can be seen on the left. The door, doorframe, and window frames are all painted sepia.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Very stable genius
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 A close-up of a courtyard door at Zamek Królewski na Wawelu (Wawel Royal Castle), Kraków, Poland. #Kraków #Poland #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday
Black and white close-up of the surface of a large metal door. The surface of the door is black and features a design which includes an eagle wearing a crown, as well as stylized plants, diagonal straps, and regularly spaced studs.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 Above the entrance to the 5th Avenue Theatre (Robert C. Reamer with Gustav F. Liljestrom, 1926), Seattle, WA. #Seattle #Washington #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday
Color photo of a section of the ceiling above the entrance to a 1920s movie theater. Both the exterior and interior of the theater have been designed to evoke classic Chinese architecture. All of the elements present here - brackets, beam, recessed panels - are decorated with brightly colored, Chinese-inspired motifs.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 Richard Wilson's kinetic sculpture, Turning the Place Over (2008), doing just that in Liverpool, England. #Liverpool #England #Architecture #Art #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday
Black and white photo looking up and obliquely at the façade of a vacant office building. A large, ovoid section of the façade has been cut out and now appears to be falling away from the building. It is, in fact, mounted on an axle which allows it to rotate 360 degrees.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 17/09/2026
AI will take over the boring work! What could go wrong?
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Mickey Mouse: Sorcerer's Apprentice and Broom
Alt: Mickey Mouse: Sorcerer's Apprentice and Broom
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reminder: voter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 A Texas stone sampler at the Denton County Courthouse (W.C. Dodson, 1896), Denton, TX. #Denton #Texas #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday
Color photo looking up at a polished red granite column that is positioned between a doorway (on the left) and a window (on the right). The column - which supports an arch constructed out of limestone and tan sandstone - features a carved red sandstone capital.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 The striking skylights above the Grand Staircase at the Oklahoma State Capitol (Layton & Smith, 1914), Oklahoma City, OK. #OKC #Oklahoma #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday
Black and white interior photo looking up along the length of a barrel vault which features a series of glass skylights set between supporting arches
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 Peering through a porthole on the bridge of the USS Lexington (CV-16, 1943), Corpus Christi, TX. #CorpusChristi #Texas #NavalArchitecture #Photography #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday www.foraphotography.com
Color photo looking through an open porthole into a space filled with various pieces of equipment, as well as numerous pipes and wires
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years... ...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 A curtain wall cascade at 150 North Riverside Plaza (Goettsch Partners, 2017), Chicago, IL. #Chicago #Illinois #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday
Black and white photo looking obliquely at the façade of an office building which features thin, projecting mullions that are triangular in profile
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 A perspective on the “Sunset Pink” Edgewater Beach Apartments (Marshall and Fox, 1928), Chicago, IL. #Chicago #Illinois #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday
Color photo looking up at the exterior of a tall apartment building. While the very top and bottom floors are white, the majority of the building has been painted pink. Residential wings - each featuring a bay - extend out diagonally from the building’s core.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 The waterfall façade of the Accenture Tower (originally Citigroup Center by Murphy/Jahn, 1987), Chicago, IL. #Chicago #Illinois #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday
Black and white photo of a glass and steel office building, the façade of which resembles a waterfall constructed out of Lego bricks
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 An exterior detail of the Greenstone Church (Solon S. Beman, 1882), Pullman National Historical Park, Chicago, IL. #Chicago #Illinois #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday
Color photo of a greenstone wall - partially covered with red and green ivy - which features the upper portion of a limestone arch, as well as a the lower portion of a projecting bay supported by limestone slabs and brackets
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Do this…
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 A close-up of the brilliant exterior of the Sullivan Center (originally the Schlesinger and Mayer Department Store by Louis H. Sullivan, 1899; 1903), Chicago, IL. #Chicago #Illinois #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday
Black and white close-up of a decorative cast iron panel. The symmetrical design on the panel is composed of both geometric elements and abstracted plant forms.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I’m telling you - the default position of this administration is fear. Fear of questions, fear of transparency, fear of being found out, and fear of the American people.
nytimes.com
Treasury Bars Some Reporters From G20 Finance Meeting
Specific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg were not granted credentials to cover the meeting of financial leaders next week in Asheville, N.C.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 Structural expression at 55 East Jackson (originally Continental Center by C.F. Murphy Associates, 1962), Chicago, IL. #Chicago #Illinois #Architecture #Photography #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday
Color photo looking directly at a three floor section of the glass and steel curtain wall of a Modernist office building
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 27/08/2026
I stopped donating to @nature.org when they swapped out Gulf of Mexico for Gulf of America across their website and *previously published* blogs within days of that order, and will stop donating to any other natural/conservancy organizations that start referring to Lake Ontario as anything else
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) RIP
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The only thing surprising here is that they admitted it.
npr.org
DHS acknowledges the noncitizen numbers it touted on voter rolls were inflated
The Trump administration claimed to have found 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls in four states. But the agency's communications with states since then indicate that data was preliminary.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 A detail of Andy Goldsworthy’s installation, Stone River (2001), at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA. #Stanford #California #Architecture #Art #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday
Black and white photo looking across the top of a long, serpentine wall set into a shallow depression. The wall - which is made up of roughly dressed sandstone blocks - is triangular in cross section.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 The gilded interior of the Garden Court at the Palace Hotel (Trowbridge & Livingston, 1909), San Francisco, CA. #SanFrancisco #California #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday
Color photo looking up at the lower portion of an ornate skylight which is supported - in part - by a pair of stone columns with gilded capitals
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sounds nice. Sigh.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 Framing the view at the Cantor Arts Center (addition by Polshek Partnership, 1999), Stanford University, Stanford, CA. #Stanford #California #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday
Black and white photo of a smooth, two-story wall which curves away to right. The upper portion of the wall features a single rectangular opening.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 19/08/2026
"It’s time for the political establishment to stop telling the American people what they should believe and start listening to what they actually want," writes @sanders.senate.gov.
theguardian.com
Why are progressives winning across the United States? It’s not complicated | Bernie Sanders
Poll after poll shows the same thing. The American people know that the current economic system is rigged
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 A close-up of one of the embossed copper panels which clad the exterior of the de Young Museum (Herzog & de Meuron and Fong + Chan, 2005), San Francisco, CA. #SanFrancisco #California #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday
Color photo of an embossed copper panel which features an alternating pattern of circular bumps and dimples
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 A detail of the carbon fiber fins which shade the roof terrace at the Apple Park Visitor Center (Foster + Partners, 2016), Cupertino, CA. #Cupertino #California #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday
Black and white photo looking up at the underside of a pergola which features thin, carbon fiber fins. The polished fins run parallel to one another and are linked together - at the center of the image - by a rectangular bar.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 14/08/2026
The aircraft carrier has been deployed for nearly nine months.
forbes.com
Trump Says USS Lincoln Hasn’t Been Deployed ‘Nearly Long Enough’—Denies Families’ Concerns
The aircraft carrier has been deployed for nearly nine months.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/08/2026
President Donald Trump has long claimed, without evidence, that noncitizen voting is rampant. His own unprecedented efforts to prosecute these voters show otherwise.
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Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters
To prove the president’s claims of illegal voting, the government has harnessed the power of Homeland Security Investigations, a branch of DHS established to combat the worst cross-border crime. So fa...
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“ 'I tend to be pessimistic, but this is worse than most things I know,' he says of American politics."
theguardian.com
Art Spiegelman: ‘The US needs a counter-revolution’
More than four decades after his Holocaust story Maus transformed the graphic novel genre, Art Spiegelman discusses Trump, the shadow of 9/11 and the rise of fascism in America
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 Just a few of the 3,678 windows on the Transamerica Pyramid (William L. Pereira & Associates, 1972), San Francisco, CA. #SanFrancisco #California #Architecture #Photography #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday
Color photo of the edge of a pyramid shaped office building. The sloping walls of the structure feature rectangular windows set into projecting concrete frames. There is a clear blue sky on the right side of the image.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 A detail of Marco Cochrane’s 45’ tall stainless steel sculpture, R-Evolution (2015), which stands in Embarcadero Plaza, San Francisco, CA. #SanFrancisco #California #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday
Black and white photo of the left hip, forearm, and hand of monumental figural sculpture. The semi-transparent work consists of a tubular metal structure covered with a stainless steel mesh skin.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 The Market Street façade of YOTEL San Francisco (originally the Grant Building by Newton J. Tharp, 1905), San Francisco, CA. #SanFrancisco #California #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday
Color photo looking up at the exterior of an early 20th century office building clad in orangish brick and terra cotta
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 A room with a view at the Hamon Observation Tower, de Young Museum (Herzog & de Meuron and Fong + Chan, 2005), San Francisco, CA. #SanFrancisco #California #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday
Black and white photo of a tall, cantilevered structure - clad in perforated copper panels - which features a single wraparound window
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Bauhaus weavers, circle portrait (c.1927) #WomensArt
Monochrome circular photograph featuring a number of people lying on the floor with heads together
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The doctor who tried to save lives during Covid is being treated like a villain. The traitors who beat up cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 are being treated like victims or heroes. It's American madness.
cnn.com
Live updates: Senate committee to vote on whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress | CNN Politics
Sen. Rand Paul, a longtime Fauci foe, announced the vote after the retired scientist invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times during a committee hearing last week.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 A detail of the clinker brick exterior of the First Chinese Baptist Church (1908), San Francisco, CA. #SanFrancisco #California #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday
Color photo of a section of an exterior wall composed of roughly textured clinker bricks, some of which project several inches out from the wall plane
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 An ornamental screen at 555 Montgomery Street (SOM, 1983), San Francisco, CA. #SanFrancisco #California #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday
Black and white photo of an office building window fronted by a decorative screen made up of diagonally crossed metal bars
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 Cantilevers and curves at the Apple Park Visitor Center (Foster + Partners, 2016), Cupertino, CA. #Cupertino #California #Architecture #Photography #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday
Color photo looking up at the boundary between a curved glass wall and the underside of a cantilevered roof which is sheathed in strips of natural colored wood
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 Just a few of the 16,800 extruded aluminum fins which form the exterior of the Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center (Rand Elliott Architects, 2020), Oklahoma City, OK. #OKC #Oklahoma #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday
Black and white photo looking up at the exterior of a four-story structure which is clad entirely in extruded aluminum fins. Near the top of the structure there is a window. This window - shielded by an angled sunscreen which is also made up of aluminum fins - bridges a long, vertical notch in the lower portion of the façade.
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
📷 It's Symmetry Sunday! 📷 A tile medallion from the entrance to the tomb of Prince Ding (Beijing, China, 1750) on display at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. #KansasCity #Missouri #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Symmetry #FORAPhotography #SymmetrySunday
Color photo of a green and yellow tile medallion - set into a yellow stucco wall - which features a symmetrical floral design
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Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Rainbow sherbet sunset
That's what it look like, from Oakwood
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
📷 It's FOR[A] Friday! 📷 Gazing upward inside the 110-foot high memorial pavilion at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum (I.M. Pei & Partners, 1979), Boston, MA. #Boston #Massachusetts #Architecture #Photography #Monochrome #Detail #FORAPhotography #FORAFriday
Black and white photo looking up at the interior of an atrium which features a concave, precast concrete structure on the left, a tall glass wall and roof supported by a metal space frame in the center, and a sheer concrete wall on the right
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FOR[A] Photography @foraphotography.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Voting by non-citizens is, indeed, exceedingly rare. What’s even rarer is INTENTIONAL voting by non-citizens. This is not about protecting elections… it’s about instilling mistrust in them.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026
NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
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