Karl DEFEND DEMOCRACY Bunday 🇺🇸 🗽 🇺🇦 🇹🇼
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Protesting paid by lives & sacred honor of founders, former appellate judicial clerk. ⚖️ #OneMinnesota 代詞:tā Reposting means let's discuss. I love to hear the diverse perspectives of other Bluesky users. Please let me know what I can do better.
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Self-intro 🧵:

A campaign volunteer for a progressive legislative candidate invited me to Bluesky (joined 5 July 2023 user 264,507). Our candidate won.

My main goal in microblogging networks is to promote democratic values and protect rule of law and civil rights for all.

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Image of the Uncle Sam wants you poster from World War I with caption, "I want a president who obeys the Constitution."
45xiatai.bsky.social
Yes, @jon-eisenberg.bsky.social, sign up on Mobilize and tell all your friends about No Kings Minnetonka-Southwest Metro, possibly the largest public protest ever to occur in #MN03.

www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
No Kings Minnetonka-Southwest Metro · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “No kings” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, this principle echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. Donald Trump thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Stand up for the United States of America and join us. 📍 Where: Minnetonka, Minnesota, at the same location as No Kings Day 14 June 2025 (which is the same location as the May Day protest in Minnetonka and the Minnetonka Wednesday Weekly Protest each week and Good Trouble Lives on in Minnetonka and Families First in Minnetonka and Minnetonka #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day) 📅 When: 12:00 noon to 2:00pm Saturday 18 October 2025 ℹ️ What: Neighbors will get together with other neighbors on public land near road margins in a friendly demonstration of support for freedom, democracy, and rule of law with our homemade signs. Some signs will be available to borrow or to keep. **A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.** All local protests organized by Indivisible MN03 are peaceful, legal, nonviolent, family-friendly exercises of first amendment rights in public places.
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/839634/?referring_vol=26546&rname=Karl&share_context=signup-form-modal&share_medium=bluesky×lot=5508951
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sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com
one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...
MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump
As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.
newrepublic.com
45xiatai.bsky.social
Here is a short video of tips for No Kings attendees. We look forward to seeing you at the No Kings protest of your choice on Saturday 18 October 2025.
#NoKings #HandsOff #LoveAmerica

youtu.be/Fka4dek_YW8?...
Tips for No Kings Attendees
YouTube video by No Kings
youtu.be
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.
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paleofuture.bsky.social
"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”
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brianmitchl.com
Today was the final day of the Midtown Greenway being open with the old Nicollet Ave Bridge in place. The path is going to be removed and replaced with a new one at 1st Ave next year after the new Nicollet Ave bridge is almost complete. Demolition starts tomorrow.
Nicollet Ave greenway access ramp with a Road Closed sign and fencing, and a spray pained "remove ramp" marked on the ground. Looking East, the Nicollet Ave Bridge spans over the Midtown Greenway. The access ramp towers to the left.
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npr.org
NPR @npr.org · 17h
A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
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philplait.bsky.social
Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.
45xiatai.bsky.social
Yeah, I know you are writing in jest, as an interesting conversation-starter. Thanks. 謝謝。 /2 of 2
45xiatai.bsky.social
The hanyu pinyin spelling system for Modern Standard Chinese is very elegant indeed, but there are still arguments to be had about what kind of pronunciation is standard, and what dialectal vocabulary and grammatical patterns belong in the standard language, and so on. /1
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klobuchar.senate.gov
In Bemidji and across the country, Americans will see their premiums double or even triple if Congressional Republicans refuse to work with us to extend the health care tax credits.

Hardworking families don’t have $14,400 lying around. We must stop this health care crisis.
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amyklobuchar.com
If Congressional Republicans refuse to extend the health care tax credits more than 600,000 veterans will see their premiums double and more than 260,000 will be priced out entirely.

We can’t let that happen. Those who risked their lives to defend our country deserve better.
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.
brandontbishop.bsky.social
Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )
Graphs showing coal production (left) and employment in coal (right) for the state of Wyoming from 1983 to 2020 from the linked website. Coal production was rapidly increasing until 2008 and has more or less steadily decreased since. Employment in coal likewise rapidly increased until 2009, was stable until 2012 and has rapidly decreased since.
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
One of the writers best explaining Trumpism right now is not a full-time writer, but @donmoyn.bsky.social, an academic and professor. The Times should give him a column. But for now, you can read his great stuff via his newsletter. Another sharp piece here.

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state
donmoynihan.substack.com
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cafedujord.bsky.social
If you guessed "someone's trying to build a new apartment building," you'd be correct!
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samd.bsky.social
housing politics is cool because every fight is like “mixed income housing vs. a bunch of the dumbest unhinged rich NIMBYs who lose their mind at the sight of midsized apartment buildings”
cafedujord.bsky.social
If you guessed "someone's trying to build a new apartment building," you'd be correct!
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.
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atrupar.com
Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."
45xiatai.bsky.social
We are not afraid of Trump. Trump is a wuss.

www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
No Kings Minnetonka-Southwest Metro · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “No kings” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, this principle echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. Donald Trump thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Stand up for the United States of America and join us. 📍 Where: Minnetonka, Minnesota, at the same location as No Kings Day 14 June 2025 (which is the same location as the May Day protest in Minnetonka and the Minnetonka Wednesday Weekly Protest each week and Good Trouble Lives on in Minnetonka and Families First in Minnetonka and Minnetonka #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day) 📅 When: 12:00 noon to 2:00pm Saturday 18 October 2025 ℹ️ What: Neighbors will get together with other neighbors on public land near road margins in a friendly demonstration of support for freedom, democracy, and rule of law with our homemade signs. Some signs will be available to borrow or to keep. **A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.** All local protests organized by Indivisible MN03 are peaceful, legal, nonviolent, family-friendly exercises of first amendment rights in public places.
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/839634/?referring_vol=26546&rname=Karl&share_context=signup-form-modal&share_medium=bluesky×lot=5508951
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
A notice from @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social.

Will run in newspapers across the nation.
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petersagal.bsky.social
My semi-regular Columbus Day message:

Columbus wasn’t called crazy because he thought the world was round. That had been known for 1000 years.

He was called crazy because he thought it was so small he could reach India by going west. And they were right! He was a delusional fool!

But lucky.
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gtconway.bsky.social
Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
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ent3c.bsky.social
In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
www.theatlantic.com
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vermontgmg.bsky.social
By the time you get to the point where the Transportation Secretary is complaining about political protests, you know the administration is truly scared of the public backlash.
atrupar.com
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."