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Excellent thread on mass movements. I know some people I know are comfortable with more direct action, but most people aren't yet. Just going to a single protest like today moves many to get more comfortable showing up and protesting in other ways. Today was a good day.
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.
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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A US president, furious about protests essentially clarifying everyone thinks he sucks and responding to it with AI videos of him in a crown flying a fighter jet dumping shit onto American citizens & Nancy Pelosi kneeling to him as a king? Fuck dog, not even satirical Cyberpunk scifi predicted this
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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.
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somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism
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Official count estimates are up - before it was "nearly 7m" then it was "roughly 7m" now it is officially "more than 7m." Trend is up!
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The energy at the #NIH rally today was amazing and contagious.

Huge turnout, huge pro-science energy.

1/ 🧪#NoKings
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Donald Trump is not just the most immature, insecure, stupid person to ever become president; he is the most immature, insecure, stupid person to ever become famous.
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
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This is what they have now. There are no ideas, only "oh you don't like that? Then I'll do it more." That's the sum total of the right's brain trust now
It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
Almost forgot it was #Caturday. This lil dude has an emotional support stuffie for his separation issues.
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When I was 19, I hosted a jazz show on the college radio station. One night, after a concert, I nervously asked the visiting musician to record an on-air promo: “You’re listening to The Jazz Show, with Carl Q., etc”.

He could not have been more gracious.

Wynton Marsalis, born today in 1961. 🐐
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Mike had to take five weeks off work because he saw a booby in Portland.
Speaker Johnson now signaling the House will remain out of session next week, the fifth recess week in a row
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What did you do for a Klondike bar?
WHAT DID YOU DO?!
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We have friends everywhere.

#NoKings
After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings
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A LAPD officer driving an SUV through a crowd of people knocks over and injures a man in Downtown Los Angeles.
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Thread shows why I hate night protests.

Unless totally necessary, they're too dangerous. Usually, press is long gone. Cops feel emboldened to physically attack and arrest because no one can see sh*t. Video is too dark to be useful. Makes cops' lies harder to disprove.

ICE facility, Broadview, IL
Bit of a standoff now. Protestors are corralled in the free speech zone by the concrete barricades, but the same barricades offer protection from police being able to just plow into them.
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Catch up on all of our local coverage of the #NoKings protests.

Our veteran journalists across the country have been reporting from the demonstrations.

Check out @ashleymurray.bsky.social's updated story below for an excellent roundup of today's events:
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Are they radicalized or just inconvenienced?
I don't think folks have any conception of how radicalized a lot of moms are becoming as they go through shit like "will my babysitter get kidnapped" and "will my child be able to get the measles vaccine"
every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"
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