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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 1d

Guess we should all just lay down and die then. Thanks for all your helpful suggestions!

Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a good read. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel, just adapt it to our abilities and our times. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cleve-jones-...

Cleve Jones: "This Is Our Country"

This is the first guest essay at Meditations in an Emergency. I'm proud to bring you yesterday's speech by the great Cleve Jones, who has for nearly half a century been a key organizer for the global ...

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 1d

We can't tell if you just want to argue, whether you don't think collaboration is a good idea, or whether you just want to say that you're doing it all better than other people.

This stuff is hard, especially at scale. Context & cultural practices matter.

We hope that all of us can work together.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 1d

Preparing for hard times is of course a great idea. But it's hard to organize a "national strike" without some form of national collaboration.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 1d

A good place to start is talking with your local unions about how to prepare. Also, coordinate with your community's mutual aid groups. As consensus begins to emerge from national level organization coordinating around a general strike, more specific plans will be possible.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 1d

This made me giggle. And giggling is good for the soul.

Lettering at the top reads "Statue of Ribbity." Painterly image (probably AI generated) of a frog posing like the Statue of Liberty—complete with crown of rays and torch—against a glowing orange-yellow background. The frog has a yellow belly and green skin with dark brown polka-dots. The frog is wearing a thin blue neck ornament or scarf.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Little wins + joys are more important than ever right now.

Like everything is bad, but my little orange cat has decided that between my legs is the safest place to sleep / purr for hours. And that is good, despite the horrors.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 1d

Keep showing up, friends! This is what democracy looks like.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

There are more of us than there are of them. Thank you for a truly historic day of peaceful protests across America. #NoKings

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 2d

Well done! We're impressed by the organizational excellence it took to pull this off!

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 2d

I joined the "human banner" at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. This flag was at the center. It was a gorgeous day with enormous waves. #nokings

The image is taken from an angle, and you can see the ocean tilting 30 degrees in the distance, with a huge crowd in front of it. In the foreground, you can see the giant American flag that is being held up by hundreds of protesters clustered around its edges.

This is the human banner from the air. It's sign made from masses of people standing together to form letters. It reads "No Kings Yes on 50." There is an American flag in the middle and a thick border around the banner. (Prop 50 is a California state proposition to gerrymander the state to create more blue districts, in order to combat the Texas law that gerrymanders their state to create more red districts.)

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 2d

As far as I've heard, this has been the case across the country. Lots of snark, little to no bad behavior. This is how to do it.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 2d

Too bad, so sad, no riots, no mayhem, just good vibes and huge crowds.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 2d

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Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 2d

No King's Day in my neck of the woods.

A crowd on a city street at sunset. Two American flags are lit from behind, and there's a third not backlit slightly left of center. There's a sign on the left, hand-lettered, that says "Love neighbors, not Nazis!" and one on the right saying "THREAT LEVEL ORANGE," and another saying "For the Epsteinth time, release the files!" The crowd has it's back to the viewer.

Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 2d

It was a good day for democracy.

A crowd in the street, with two large old-fashioned government buildings and some trees in the background. To the left a woman carries a sign saying "Love Thy Neighbor," a grey-haired man in the center front has a sign saying "No Dicktators" and someone on the right is holding a sign saying "Sorry for being weird, this is my 1st dictatorship." It's sunset time and the sky is filled with pastel-colored clouds.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent idea.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes doing the Hokey Pokey is the best revenge!

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes doing the Hokey Pokey is the best revenge.

MadWoman.PDX ❌👑 @resister4344.bsky.social · 3d

Portland also has a T-Rex!

Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 3d

Sue them for all they're worth! www.rawstory.com/portland-pro...

'I broke them': Comedian describes how he heckled ICE to the extreme

Robby Roadsteamer believes that he broke the officers of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Portland, Oregon, after dressing up like a giraffe and singing his own version of Rod Ste...

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 3d

I dub this season "Inflatable Fall" — and may it bring ICE down, to the beat!

Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸🐝🦄 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 3d

Portland 💛

Vive la Révolution des animaux gonflables!

#NoKings

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4d

Feature filmmakers love left-wing violence plots. Secret gun-toting guerrilla groups, shootouts, car chases, hunted fugitives, and the rest work well – for movies, whose only job is to hold our attention for a couple of hours.