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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 22h

"In an age of darkness, New York can be the light."
This speech from Zohran Mamdani is high-octane hope.
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Zohran Mamdani: “Our Time Is Now”

Last night at a campaign rally, Zohran Mamdani addressed his supporters: “For too long, we have tried not to lose. Now, it is time that we win.”

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 2h

Pentagon beat reporters have been handing in their press passes all day long today. It is one of the most striking examples of news media solidarity we've seen this year.

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Aaron, just Aaron @a-j-ruszk.bsky.social · 5h

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High Church Raccoon⛪️🦝 @pilgrimaltsburg.bsky.social · 1h

Anyone who'se ever read anything about the history of the CIA knows how this is going to end:

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 2h

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

― James Baldwin

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 4h

To the contrary.

I love this country than Mike Johnson could ever understand.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 2h

Every time Johnson calls this a Hate America Rally, I'm going to add yet another American flag to my accouterments for Saturday.

At the rate we're going, I will be covered in flags.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t know about you, but the more they talk like this, the more I want to march.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 6h

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 6h

Wait, they think the Portland Frog is a furry?

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 6h

(The Deep Ones protesters say: No King but Father Dagon, who rules in cyclopean and many-columned Y'ha-nthlei!)

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 6h

At a local No Kings rally near Innsmouth, Massachusetts, *every* protester showed up in an inflatable frog costume.

They must be from a different supplier than the Portland frog's costume, though. Bystanders describe the costumes as more like fish-frogs, "batrachian," with an odd, loping gait.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 7h

Then he said, “Sir, I’m rethinking some of my old messaging. I used to say 'Love your enemies.' Maybe that was too soft.”

I told him, “You gotta be tough, you gotta win. You tried turning the other cheek. Didn’t work well with the Romans, did it?” We had a great conversation, maybe the best ever.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 7h

Jesus of Nazareth -- this big, tough guy -- came up with tears in His eyes, and said, "Sir, thank you for saving Me. You did more for Christianity than anyone since Me."

I said, "Well, Lord, maybe we both had good fathers."

They're saying heaven had its highest ratings ever.

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NakedPastor @nakedpastor.bsky.social · 9h

I call this Jonah's dilemma because he wants love but doesn't want everybody to have love too.

It's an ancient story with contemporary applications.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 20h

every ruling out of chicago is like, "federal judge rules ICE agents cannot desecrate graves; must not deploy nuclear weapons against journalists and faith leaders."

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 18h

Jess: “What kind of weird timeline are we living in where our son was just crying because we wouldn’t let him stay up past bedtime to keep working on his protest sign?”

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Matt G. Metcalf @mattmetcalf.bsky.social · 19h

This is the way.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 18h

But we can no longer get Christopher Lee to voice Death, alas.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 18h

Ooooh

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 1d

"In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action." --MLK

Many of us are planning on engaging in some form of the fourth step this weekend. It behooves us to pursue the third now.

From Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From A Birmingham Jail." "In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action..."

As in so many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us. We had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community. Mindful of the difficulties involved, we decided to undertake a process of self purification. We began a series of workshops on nonviolence, and we repeatedly asked ourselves: “Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?” “Are you able to endure the ordeal of jail?” We decided to schedule our direct action program for the Easter season, realizing that except for Christmas, this is the main shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic-withdrawal program would be the by product of direct action, we felt that this would be the best time to bring pressure to bear on the merchants for the needed change.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 23h

They've spent weeks carefully building this Charlie Kirk hagiography and then Trump comes blundering in and knocks it down in seconds.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Charlie Kirk: "He was able to fight people that were enemies. And he didn't necessarily love those enemies so much. You know, I heard 'he loved his enemies' and I said, 'Wait a minute, is that the same Charlie that I knew? I'm not sure.' But I didn't want to get into it."

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Josh @joshmallow.bsky.social · 23h

He really said "skill issue" at charlie's memorial

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yes, the four elements.

A truck for home repair. Near the bottom is a list of presumably, the kind of things they repair, which reads: “fire, water, wind, mold.“

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