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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 17h

The reason gullible people believe all protesters are paid is because they can't conceive of anyone giving a shit about anyone other than themselves.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 14h

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

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Patrick Luck @patrickluck.bsky.social · 21h

This is also where the "virtue signaling" stuff comes from. they can't imagine a white person could authentically be anti-racist or a man could be an authentic feminist. Therefore, if you're an anti-racist white person or feminist man, you must be doing it for some other reason.

Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

The thing they don’t want to voice is that racism is authenticity to them.

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ブリテッリ/BRTR @brtrmilk.bsky.social · 7h

セフィちゃんももういっぱい描いてるしねハロ絵（過去絵・ザクセフィ #セフィ受

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nao 🔜 gateway fate @elidibus.amaurot.social · 8h

In between convocation meetings…

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10h

For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 8h

They heard the GOP keep trying to sell off public lands and came down to support the protests

Joanna Grossman @joannagrossman.bsky.social · 15h

Four bull elk took time away from mating to join the No Kings protest in Estes Park, Colorado. That’s how serious this is.

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Austin Lee Matthews 🐭 @amtrax.bsky.social · 15h

GOT MY COMPUTER BACK UP AND RUNNING SO I AM AVAILABLE FOR COMMISSIONS AGAIN

Austin Lee Matthews 🐭 @amtrax.bsky.social · Aug 29

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I have options for per-line commissions (up to 15 lines) and hourly commissions. So if you want me to record a dumb meme for you, narration for your Youtube video, character shoutouts, etc, this is the place to do it!

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 6h

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 10h

shout out to the kid holding the sign that said "YOU SUCKED IN HOME ALONE 2" at the Philly march today

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 12h

It’s so wild to me that our generation’s Hitler had a cameo in Home Alone 2

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 11h

Listen, over 300+ people showed up for a No Kings protest in ANGOLA, INDIANA. There is a whole part of Indiana waiting to be activated. We have never been all red. So what are we going to do with that information? I wish I could say. But I have Hope.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12h

Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 13h

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12h

There were "no kings but Jesus" signs in NYC too

Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 14h

I'll be writing it up later but main takeaways from New Braunfels #nokings:
- people love the inflatables. Massive endorsement of an absurdist approach. Also people brought bubble machines.
- strong church showing. Sincere "no kings but Jesus" signs, Bible quotes
- Flags, red/white/blue everywhere

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 9h

It’s time to take this movement global. Let’s march on Buckingham Palace

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 8h

your analysis of this political moment is going to fail if you keep using reductionist labels like "wine mom". first of all, there are dozens of factions just within that one term, from whiskey women to chardonnay chicas, and understanding their unique informal coalitions can take decades of study

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sleemo @sleemo.com · 5h

EJAE wears AMIRI to the Academy Museum Gala. #fashionsky #kpopdemonhunters

EJAE in an elegant sparkly bronze dress and black heels with her long wavy hair flowing down one shoulder.

Closer shot of EJAE’s face and dress. She wears sparkly silver earrings with diamonds and her dress has some intricate netting on the bodice that makes it look elegant. Her nails are a dark red/black gradient

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 7h

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 7h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 16h

I find it highly amusing that with the recent mass fashregime influx here, I took a look at Clearsky and saw that JD Vance is so hated he’s got almost double the number of blocks of J** S*ng*l, and 100,000 more than the actual White House. 😆

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gobbsy @gobbsy.bsky.social · 8h

I saw some people drawing Jerry and wanted to join in...🥺

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Licensed Certified Elf Dealer @elfexegete.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah !
#zostingposting

A Themis cosplayer doing a backbend to the left and holding up two purple fans that say “Cuntissimo” in blue gothic font

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 8h

Also, just based on what I saw today, it's good for people to associate your political movement with having fun as a community, and also people enjoy it, which has real material value

Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 8h

The inflatable costume thing with the protesters is really good because it renders the body armor/CoD weaponry aesthetic of the ICE Nazis even more ridiculous than it already was. Suiting up like Rambo to face down a dancing frog. No coming back from that