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August West

@jayb420.bsky.social
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"I'm sick and tired of hearing things From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics All I want is the truth Just give me some truth" -John Lennon

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kaypeapod.bsky.social @kaypeapod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who wore it better? bsky.app/profile/mout...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
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Morning Joe @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Bulwark’s @timmiller.bsky.social tells Joe that Donald Trump has spoken “to the id of the Republican base voter,” in his blood and soil, nationalist approach to politics. Prior to Trump, Miller explains, GOP leaders seemed to repress that instinct within the party.
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“We asked a question that wasn’t about politics at all: What is the most important thing that happened in your life during the past year?” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/o...
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Opinion | We Hate to Break It to You, but Maybe We’re Not That Polarized
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Very realistic and sobering summary of our situation. www.collapse2050.com/malthus-was-...
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Malthus was right
History teems with the ruins of civilizations that believed they were immune to the laws of nature
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Mark Zandi @markzandi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Iran Accumulated 11 Tons of Enriched Uranium
Two months after the United States began a war meant to prevent Iran from ever building an atomic bomb, the fate of its stockpile of enriched uranium remains a mystery.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Countries where it’s illegal to criticize the president: • Iran • China • Russia • North Korea • The United States
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
If the US “doesn’t need oil from the Gulf”, and “produces more than anyone else”, why aren’t our fuel prices the lowest of any country?
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NPR @npr.org · 29/03/2026
Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.
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Trump is dismantling democracy at 'unprecedented' speed, global report finds
Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Oh, Lucky Man!
Who is Howard Lutnick? What is his role in the structural transformation of the U.S. financial system?
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
She looks a lot older than zero years.
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
www.axios.com/2026/02/15/c...
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Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute
Anthropic has not agreed to the Pentagon's terms and defense officials are getting fed up after months of difficult negotiations.
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
www.collapse2050.com/the-walls-th...
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The Walls They’re Building Aren’t for Our Safety
We are part of the disposable class
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Redirecting...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/01/2026
Spheres of influence? Oil revolution? Imperialism? A new political theory argues that we're thinking about Trump's global takeover all wrong. "Actors are debasing themselves to this order, like the Swiss bringing gold bars and Rolexes to the White House to avoid being targets of tariffs.
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A new theory explains why Trump keeps threatening global takeovers
Neo-royalism challenges us to look beyond a century-old paradigm and see the hierarchical lens through which Trump justifies domination.
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HLindalee🦋 @warriorgal.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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EyesOfTheWorld @gratefuldeadhead.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I saw a great quote the other day… “MTG was an enemy of the left for years, and never feared for her life. She turned against MAGA for one day and needed to get security”
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Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The image is from the Sonora Desert scene of "Close Encounters," where an elderly Mexican man with a half-sun burnt face tells the story of the alien space craft that hovered over his house and left give WW2 fighter planes on his property.  He describes the encounter in Spanish, and one of the translators tells François Truffaut:   "He says the sun came out last night.  He says it sang to him."
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
It's been a few days since Trump announced his "deal" with Xi. It's now clear that Trump got fleeced. America gave up lots and got nothing. It's a story you should know bc few things matter more than the U.S.-China relationship. 1/ So here's a🧵
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I feel like it's time to direct our ire at the GOP congress instead of Trump. It's obvious Trump doesn't give a shit about our protests. But maybe if we were contstantly protesting the GOP congress instead, they'd take some sort of action at some point??? Just a thought...
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 05/10/2025
“I never thought federal officers could behave this way. I really didn’t,” she said. “I always thought people must be provoking them or something, that they would never do this unprovoked. Obviously, I was wrong.” www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
WTF?
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Hypocrites. What about the Jan 6 rioters, Kristi?
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
No. No they're not.
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This is bad.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 15/05/2025
100 years of average January-April temperature anomalies over land areas through this year... climate change and climate variability Data provided by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...) 🧪
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It is bracing to reread the Framers’ bone-deep fears about foreign corruption of the presidency and realize Trump is exactly what they were trying to prevent. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Many delegates, including Alexander Hamilton, fretted that "one of the weak sides of republics" was their susceptibility "to foreign corruption"; leaders elevated to "stations of great preeminence and power" by the people, Hamilton wrote, may be tempted to abandon their
"obligations of duty," lured by "compensations" from other nations seeking influence. In other words, federal officials could be so entranced by the wealth of foreign leaders, especially monarchs, that they might sell out their own country in exchange for a share of the riches dangled before them. The delegates sought to guard against this existential threat to republican "virtue" by adopting the foreign emoluments clause-unanimously, and without debate.
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E.L.Butterfield ❌👑 @elbutterfield.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Rolling Stone article Free on Archive Today. Interview with Naomi Klein, author of Shock Doctrine. "Rage of the Oligarchs; What They Want is Absolutely Everything" archive.ph/oRn3z
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Cara Martin (C. K. Kelly Martin) @caramartin.ca · 09/05/2025
I hope everyone has the chance to read and digest this extremely important Naomi Klein (Shock Doctrine author) interview. She "breaks down the dark logic of Trump and Musk’s path of destruction — and what the world’s richest people really want." Outtake below. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
From the Naomi Klein Interview with Rolling Stone: 

The reason that we’re in a deranged circle of hell here is that we’re very deep in the project. There’s not much to sell off; there’s not much left to privatize; there’s not much left to deregulate. And the effects of all of their earlier successes mean that we are in a very volatile state. Whether it’s our Earth systems in the face of climate change, or how financialized and shock prone our economy is.  

Now capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this. Instead, there’s a final battle. And this is where it gets really dark. The people who are advancing this agenda are also building their luxury bunkers and their spaceships to Mars. They don’t believe that there is a future. These people believe history is ending, literally. It’s end times! Get onto your rocket ship, or get into your golden city in the sky. And that is distinct. 

It’s important to see the continuities with earlier moments of shock and shock exploitation. But we have to not be blinded by history — where we think that all we’re seeing is repetition. Because history is cumulative. The fact that this has been done many times before, successfully, means that the stakes are infinitely higher. And it also means that the people who are doing it have to rationalize something much more monstrous.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 17/04/2025
"The most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating." Powerful essay from @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social on End Times Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Trump 2.0: Armed fed'l agents burst in (apparently a no-knock warrant). Since they'd worked the case, they knew who they were looking for. Instead, they found a mom & her 3 girls. Nonetheless, they sent them out into the rain in underwear & then took all their $ as evidence. kfor.com/news/local/w...
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Trump just said he should be pope.
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Follow this to see how batshit crazy his posts are. ‪Trump's Truth Social‬ ‪@trumpstruth.bsky.social‬ · 2h The Polls from the Fake News are, like the News itself, FAKE! We are doing GREAT, better than ever before.
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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3M views · 57K reactions | We were warned. | Brian Tyler Cohen
We were warned..
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Seems highly fitting. youtu.be/QxTMbIxEj-E?...
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The Twilight Zone (Classic): It's A Good Life - A Very Bad Man
YouTube video by The Twilight Zone
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
"Trump’s interest in Greenland is often associated with the island’s vast, but largely untapped, mineral resources. But its strategic location is arguably an even greater asset." theconversation.com/us-and-russi...
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US and Russia squabble over Arctic security as melting ice opens up shipping routes
Melting ice in the Arctic is opening up shipping routes and making the region a valuable strategic asset.
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Whatever happened to the congressionally mandated TikTok ban?
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August West @jayb420.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"Disinformation is the number one short-term risk facing the world in 2024, according to the Global Risks Report." shorturl.at/MNkdm
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Learning from Russian Propaganda and Disinformation in Ukraine - Australian Institute of International Affairs
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Who knew Donvict would be so talented in predicting the future. Nailed it!
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