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Brian Manning📎

@boxdonkey17.bsky.social

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Army Veteran 💙🌈 📎Ally. Liberal AF! Average Dad turned activist Colossal Masshole. Positivity & kindness are contagious. Back up account @bdx2.bsky.social Veteran Suicide Hotline dial #988+1 Trans dial #678 #BlueCrew Pay it Forward ❤️

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Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · Dec 26

Friends as we transition into 2025 & the unknown please use this for your mental health. Please Worry about what’s in your circle not the stuff outside your circle & outside your control. I promise you’ll be better off both physically & mentally.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 3h

Today, in 2 hours, live, co-hosted by yours truly, talking the state of the State and the future of the movement…

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 19h

Tomorrow on the Pun Show! Another ant!fa panel.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb | @nkalamb.bsky.social
Allison Wiltz | @allyfromnola.bsky.social
Arturo Dominguez | @extremearturo.bsky.social l
Jay W. Walker | @jaywwalker.bsky.social
Caitlin M. Green | @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social

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The Pun Show: I am not a terrorist, part 2

YouTube video by Machine Pun Kelly

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Nichole Hiltz @nicholehiltz.bsky.social · 19h

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Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you @blueresister.bsky.social

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BlueResister 🦋Fighting for Democracy 🦋 @blueresister.bsky.social · 17h

Okay so more important than a party tonight we MUST hit the streets Saturday peacefully!!
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Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · 3h

Good morning & thank you Jesse.

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Jesse💙💙💙💙 @journeyled.bsky.social · 8h

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Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you Beth.💙👍

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#BlueStormComin1🌪️👊🔥🇺🇸 @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social · 16h

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Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you Amy @abbarsha.bsky.social 🐸

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Amy B @abbarsha.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you @boldsea.bsky.social 💙 Funny meme! 😜
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Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you @boldsea.bsky.social for including in this awesome group of resisters.

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Ms. Good Trouble @boldsea.bsky.social · 22h

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 1d

“We need everyone to get involved in the fight, and we need everyone to have a vested interest in continuing to resist.”

🚨 new from me 🚨

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

How Local Organizing, Community Defense and Security Culture Protect Us in Ways Technology Never Could

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

“Despite the app’s goal of protecting people from ICE, its viral success, and the state repression against it, ICEBlock has serious issues: Most

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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social · 1d

The Ten Demands for Justice provides the roadmap to abolition — with each action chipping away at an inherently, intentionally unjust system.

Read all 10 here, and print this PDF to bring to your city council members.

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Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · 1d

You too.

Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Allie my 🐸 friend.

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🐊 🐸 Allie-froglegs 🐸🐊 @allie-froglegs.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you VC, have an extraordinary day! 🐊🐸🦋

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Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Jesse.

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Jesse : 💙💙💙 @journeyled1.bsky.social · 1d

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 1d

"Musk has set a new standard for being washed. Let us not forget that he bought and tanked a beloved website as part of a years-long campaign to get people to think he's cool and funny."

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Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Jesse

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Jesse💙💙💙💙 @journeyled.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you my very sweet friend.
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 3d

🎯 Let's get 50 people to chip in $20 or more by 10/13 and we'll pull this off and Bobby will get to the Ronald Reagan Medical Center for which he was selected at UCLA for a clinical trial to help extend his life!

Chip in $10, $20, $35, $50, or more. Funds must be raised by 10/19!

Click below:

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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 1d

🇺🇸 Grass roots fundraising: Chip in $5

Let's get 50,000 Democrats to chip in $5 each to elect
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to Congress in #CA48 and raise $250,000!

Ammar can beat #MAGA Rep. Darrell Issa and help #FlipTheHouse

Chip in $5 now: secure.actblue.com/donate/a-b-sky

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ltwlauren🤸‍♀️❤️🎶🎨🐾 @ltwlauren.bsky.social · 2d

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