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Over 80 years of US nuclear bomb threats and trillions spent. #BoredOfPeaceWantsEndlessWar

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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“The program’s scale is unprecedented, with at least 25,000 deportations to third countries reported under these secretive agreements.” www.msn.com/en-us/politi...
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
About 160 people returned Sunday to the North Austin intersection where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez one week earlier.
About 160 people returned Sunday to the North Austin intersection where an Immigration and Customs E
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“I gently asked if he remembered his real home, his bedroom, or his grandfather’s house: he looked at me with wide, innocent eyes and shook his head, saying, ‘No, we used to live in that destroyed house up there in the rubble.’” electronicintifada.net/content/retu...
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Returning to a shattered Jabaliya, my childhood sanctuary
Memories of home endure despite Israeli attempts to destroy our histories.
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“It is not that the ‘CIA Democrats’ are needed as a counterweight to the DSA Democrats. In many cases, particularly on foreign policy, there is considerable overlap.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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US midterm elections: Growing opposition to Trump, as both parties support war and austerity
The US midterm elections of November 3, just five weeks away, are taking place under conditions of extreme economic, social and political crisis.
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Three More Weekly Fascism Stories
& Some Criticism of Understatement at the New York Times, More Thoughts on Dysfunctional Thoughts, and a Must See Video from Refuse Fascism
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“…sunlight—converted into solar power—has to “pass through” the economic and commodity relations of capitalism in order to take effect on a large scale…capitalism-imperialism is not only the primary cause of the climate crisis, it is also the barrier to acting on this crisis…”
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Worsening Climate Crisis... Not a Time for Magical Thinking, Confronting the Reality of the System Destroying the Planet, and Why a Real Revolution Is Our Only Chance of Saving It PART I | revcom.us
Climate protest in New York City, September 20, 2019. Five years later, the once-robust climate movement in the U.S. is barely to be seen. Why?
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Aid is indispensable but governments patting themselves on the back while leaving Israel free to carry on its genocide only underscore their cynicism and complicity.” electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-ab...
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Amid UN circus, Gaza economy reduced to 58 cents per person per day
Self-appointed saviors congratulate themselves while Israel keeps killing, blocking aid and planning Palestinians’ expulsion.
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Andre Damon @andredamon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In the space of one week this month, two of the most prominent figures of American “democratic socialism” have appeared alongside prominent fascists in the United States.
In the space of one week this month, two of the most prominent figures of American “democratic socia
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Includes — Mad Dictator Stuff; “Like a Wild Animal”; Anniversary of NSPM-7; Annihilate the Islamic Republic…Quickly”; “His Hemisphere”; ETHNIC CLEANSING; $100 Million for Enhanced ICE Targeting; Racist Praise for Trump at Fatherland (FOX) News
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Under Capitalism It's Legal For Employers To Steal From Employees "So all Doordash has to do is return the money it stole and pay a microscopic fraction of its $13.7 billion yearly revenue in penalties, and that’s it." www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/under-capi...
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Under Capitalism It's Legal For Employers To Steal From Employees
Video reading by Tim Foley:
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Trump and Miller seem to have created another group of non-persons — immigrants to the US, never convicted of any crimes whatsoever, but who, because they too cannot be repatriated, are being scattered to the four corners of the earth…” www.andyworthington.co.uk/2026/09/23/i...
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In Liberia, the Horrors of Trump’s Third Country Migrant Deportation Program Are Shockingly Exposed | Andy Worthington
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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This IS fascism. The Trump Regime is moving on every front to cement fascist rule—and shut down the means to remove them. THIS REGIME MUST BE DRIVEN FROM POWER. TRUMP MUST GO NOW!
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The American pro sports franchise owners consistently allow their sports and venues to be used to promote militarism. Individuals with questions get sanctioned. electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-ab...
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Ed Sheeran backlash marks Palestine's South Africa moment
Attempt to silence Macklemore sparks artist revolt against Zionist billionaire censorship.
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“The Jaber family are originally from Deir Yassin, the Jerusalem-area village where Palestinians were massacred and which was depopulated during the Nakba in 1948.” electronicintifada.net/content/jeru...
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Jerusalem's children ensnared in a slow genocide
Ameer’s life was cut short by a soldier’s bullet and Israeli impunity.
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“… the approach stands in stark contrast to the army’s treatment of Israeli settlers who also reside in the West Bank. Settlers are rarelyarrested in the first place – despite the dailyattacks they carry out on neighboring Palestinian villages.” electronicintifada.net/content/nigh...
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Night raids rise in Palestine
Spike in detentions and incursions since October 2023 only accelerate decades of military abuses.
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“The firm had falsified safety data provided to the Nuclear Regulation Authority.” www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/new...
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Chubu Electric to withdraw from nuclear review process | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
Japan's Chubu Electric Power Company has decided to withdraw a review application necessary for restarting two of its nuclear reactors. It comes after a scandal over data tampering. The firm had falsi...
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Chicago’s Little Village Mexican Independence Day Parade was held 9/13/26.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 12/09/2026
🎥 WATCH: Saudi-Backed Forces ROUTED in Yemen as Oil Surges & War Spirals Drop Site's @ryangrim.bsky.social & @mazmhussain.bsky.social speak w/ Vali Nasr & Rob Malley about Yemen, Iran, the battle over the Strait of Hormuz, & whether Washington has learned the lessons of... youtu.be/qmhG8DLrJms?...
🎥 WATCH: Saudi-Backed Forces ROUTED in Yemen as Oil Surges and War Spirals

Drop Site's 
@ryangrim
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@MazMHussain
 speak with 
@vali_nasr
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@Rob_Malley
 about Yemen, Iran, the battle over the Strait of Hormuz, and whether Washington has learned the lessons of Iraq, Afghanistan and the broader post-9/11 wars.
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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The fascism unfolding under Trump is relentless and many-sided, facing its weekly chronicler with the challenging task of picking out the leading examples from the last six days. Here are Paul’s latest roundup. What would you add?
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This Week in Fascism: Week of September 6
Historian and author Paul Street with the latest installment of his weekly column helping you navigate the latest in this fascist hellscape
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“In 2025, according to the complaint [PDF], the immigration court in San Francisco had 22 immigration judges. The Justice Department “fired nearly 20 of the judges,” including the plaintiff, Chloe Dillon.” thedissenter.org/fired-immigr...
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Immigration Judge Challenged Courthouse Arrest Then Was Fired
A former United States immigration judge says she objected to ICE agents who “unlawfully detained an unaccompanied minor who had just been in her courtroom,” and then she was fired.
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TheRevcoms @revcom.us · 13/09/2026
Sept 9, 1971— 1,300 prisoners rose up, across racial lines, demanding to be treated as humans in the most powerful prison rebellion in US history—#AtticaRebellion #OTD September 13, state forces savagely suppressed the uprising, massacring 39 unarmed people. Read: revcom.us/en/a/455/ame...
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meterfeldweg.bsky.social @meterfeldweg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"So what this international system has really become is a tool of legitimacy. It legitimizes continual colonialism and imperialism under the banner of international law." (Assal Rad) youtu.be/AA4nsKu1qss?...
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Don’t Say Palestine: How The Media Hid A Genocide.
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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Mr Smith @justice30.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Gaza Broke The Media’s Propaganda Machine... With scholar and activist Assal Rad. Buy her new book 'Don't Say Palestine: How the Media Manufactured Consent for Genocide'... #ISRAEL #Gaza #GENOCIDE 📺 #ComplicitInGenocide 📰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA4n...
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Gaza Broke The Media’s Propaganda Machine.
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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bobavakianofficial.bsky.social @bobavakianofficial.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
9/11 was a watershed moment ... but not for the reasons people think. Excerpt from a Q&A following a talk by Bob Avakian in 2003 titled “Revolution: Why It’s Necessary, Why It’s Possible, What It’s All About” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2L1...
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9/11 was a watershed moment ... but not for the reasons people think
YouTube video by Bob Avakian Official
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump/MAGA lost over sixty 2020 election court cases. The 2020 election was legit, but the 2024 election violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. There is an #Insurrectionist in the White House.
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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sam talks with historian & author Paul Street about where we are now: how far fascist consolidation has advanced, how extraordinary acts become normalized even as more people recognize the danger, and why recognition alone doesn’t necessarily lead to resistance. Give it a listen👇
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From Alarm to Action: Confronting Fascist Consolidation - Refuse Fascism
Listen on YouTube Episode 304 The warnings are becoming more extraordinary, while the response remains remarkably ordinary. As the Trump Regime makes increasingly overt moves around the midterms, Sam ...
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The Electronic Intifada @intifada.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fruit of science grants may be used for weapons, EU tells Israel electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Watching Gaza from the other side of the Mediterranean
Living abroad in Turkey, Palestinians reckon with survivor's guilt amid tales of horror from back home.
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“The villages buried beneath mud in Nepal were not destroyed by an unavoidable act of nature, but fundamentally by a global system which cannot stop producing fossil fuel, burning fossil fuel, and fighting wars involving control of fossil fuel….capitalism-imperialism…” revcom.us/en/rooftops-...
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“The Rooftops of the World Are Caving In”Nepal’s Glacier Catastrophe: One More Urgent Reason This System Has to Go | revcom.us
Rescuing a victim of flash flooding along the Trishuli River in Nepal, August 26, 2026.
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“As hunger has grown, the government has responded by destroying the means of tracking it. The US Dept of Agriculture announced in September 2025 that it would stop producing the Household Food Security Report, the country’s primary instrument for measuring hunger…” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Millions purged from US food stamp rolls, as Wall Street demands more cuts
Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” has stripped SNAP benefits from roughly 5 million people since the law’s enactment. At least 1.2 million children are affected, while schools are seeing enrollment...
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Israeli government and the settlers share the same goal of maximum land and minimum Palestinians, with the authorities not only failing to stop settler violence, but actively enabling it,” said Sarah Sanbar, a researcher at Human Rights Watch. electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara...
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Israel pushes ahead with plan to split West Bank before election
Settler violence is driving Palestinians out of their homes.
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The Electronic Intifada @intifada.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Israel’s murderous rampage in Gaza has left nearly 20 percent of all families with widows fending for their families.
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Mothers seek scarce jobs to survive
Israel’s years-long killing spree in Gaza has left nearly one-fifth of all families with women as primary breadwinners.
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“The Times cannot mention Nord Stream because it would expose the claim of four years of Russian attacks on Europe as a lie.” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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The New York Times fabricates a “Russian sabotage” narrative
Friday's front-page report in the New York Times is a propaganda piece, built entirely on the unsubstantiated claims of unnamed intelligence officials, whose purpose is to justify an escalation of the...
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
electronicintifada.net/content/mich... “…the language of the indictment “is written in a way that takes common acts of civil society, of protest, of movements for justice, and makes them sound criminal.”
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Michigan 8 case is part of a broader pattern of repression
Violently assaulting and arresting the students the university ostensibly exists to serve is seen as preferable to divesting from military occupation and possibly the most well-documented genocide in ...
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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This week talks with fellow Refuse Fascism leader Coco Das about the escalating assault on the elections, where the power to stop fascism actually lies, and what history can teach us about moments when ordinary political channels are under attack. Give it a listen 👇
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Defending the Vote—and Defeating Fascism
Refuse Fascism · Episode
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“After decades of declining economic power, the political establishment sees a military dictatorship and wars of plunder as necessary to secure the resources for the military itself, as financial constraints increase on the federal debt…” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Political and media establishment silent on US constitutional implications of Pentagon oil grab in Venezuela
Four days after the Pentagon acquired an ownership stake in Venezuelan oil, not a single American politician or major publication has addressed what it means for civilian control of the military.
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bobavakianofficial.bsky.social @bobavakianofficial.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
After the Revolution, What Justice Would Be Applied to the Overthrown Oppressive Rulers? youtu.be/yktYgWA8By0
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After the Revolution, What Justice Would Be Applied to the Overthrown Oppressive Rulers?
YouTube video by Bob Avakian Official
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“As Steven Salaita has long observed, invocations of ‘civility’ are often censorship dressed up as politeness.” electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-ab...
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How I got Germany's pro-genocide government to unblock me on X
Israel's Itamar Ben-Gvir dreams of Palestinians being fed into a concentration camp on conveyor belts. Will Berlin supply the equipment?
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TheRevcoms @revcom.us · 31/08/2026
From the International Emergency Campaign to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners Now: On the Controversy over The Guardian “Open Letter to Iran’s Political Prisoners” revcom.us/en/controversy-over-guard…
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On the Controversy over The Guardian "Open Letter to Iran's Political Prisoners" | revcom.us
On August 20, the Guardian published in its opinion section an article titled “To Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’ Open Letter.”
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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Every week brings a new onslaught of fascist outrages from the Trump47 regime. It’s not easy to keep up. Historian and author Paul Street compiles some of the leading Trump-fascist stories from this week 👇 Who knows what will emerge later today and tomorrow?
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As of Friday, August 28, 2026 - Refuse Fascism
A Weekly Column by historian and author Paul Street Every week brings a new onslaught of fascist outrages from the Trump47 regime. It’s not easy to keep up. Here some of the leading Trump-fascist stor...
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#DollyParton See #ChrisThile ‘s instagram for an explanation of how Dolly sang at the #StationInn with him. m.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Bh...
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Dolly Parton & Chris Thile - Jackson
YouTube video by BackwoodsBarbie
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Western support for Israel is poisoning our entire civilization.” Genocide, ecoside, patriarchy, extreme nationalism, & militarism, are all parts of MAGA’s dissent squelching fascist form of capitalism-imperialism.
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#DollyParton Been listening to Dolly’s #HalosAndHorns cd. There was so much more to Dolly. Tremendous storytelling music. And then she had the nerve to cover #StairwayToHeaven and make it as her own. Unreal.
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Iwant2Believe @almostlorelai.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#DollyParton
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#DollyParton singing #HazelDickens #AFewOldMemories on #TheGrassIsBlue m.youtube.com/watch?v=hqig...
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A Few Old Memories
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#DollyParton — so much great music. I especially enjoyed her Trio albums with EmmyLou & Linda Ronstadt, but #TheGrassIsBlue album was the one listened to again & again & again. Every song on it …
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Refuse Fascism @refusefascism.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This Week in Fascism: Week of August 16 compiled by historian Paul Street It’s hard to keep up w the fascism that is unfolding as the Trump MAGA regime & party bid to consolidate a new form of governance atop the U.S.👇 some of the recent developments in the accelerating assault on humanity.
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12 Examples in 5 Days: Week of Aug 16 - Refuse Fascism
A Weekly Column by historian and author Paul Street It’s hard to keep up with the fascism that is unfolding as the Trump MAGA regime and party bid to consolidate a new form of governance atop the Unit...
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Ben-Gvir also called for the Israeli military to carry out ‘targeted assassinations in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night,’…the people to be killed are ‘not worthy of life… They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.’” www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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Israel builds execution chamber for Palestinian prisoners as Ben-Gvir threatens assassinations in Gaza
The Israeli government is building an execution facility to hang Palestinian prisoners, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced Tuesday in a statement from his office. In video released f...
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Air Force major arrested on Capitol steps during protest calling for Trump impeachment
Maj. Jason Watson was arrested on Wednesday by Capitol Police for protesting on the House steps without a member of Congress.
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Aug 6 & Aug 9, 1945 @wholeymoley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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How Can the Genocidal State of Israel Be Brought to an End? | Andy Worthington
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