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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 1m

I’m gonna choose to assume that his grandson is an adult, and he has been educated on how to demonstrate, and I’m going to maintain this belief regardless of any additional facts that come to light. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 3m

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 12m

When I saw this post I thought “I feel like I’ve seen this, but I don’t specifically remember it.”

So I downloaded it.

Tonight I started watching.

I watched this docuseries with my parents when it first aired in 1987.

I feel like a reactivated sleeper cell. 😆

Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 2h

I downloaded that image - I’m going to print it and see if they’ll let me tape it to their table (I don’t take phones to demonstrations/protests).

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 2h

I’m in IL so I had to go look up VA/NJ. The voter registration station is being put on by the IL LWV.

I honestly didn’t know phone banking was still going on at this point bc of no landlines and the unknown caller controls that i assume everybody uses.

Thanks for info for me to chase.

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 3h

The rally point for the march I’m going to has a voter registration booth/table and the first one did as well - I wonder how many of the planned demonstrations do (because I agree with you abt performative w/o that or some kind of action connection).

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 3h

My white ass is going & handing out 300 free 🧊 alert whistles, Zines on how to be effective reporting Ice, & “We Marched! Now What?” zines.

I wish the demonstrations had specific demands or even objectives that are measurable, but my sign sure will.

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 5h

This is fucking horrific. I think that similar to the cases where parents were charged for their children perpetrating school shootings (finding them responsible for the crime as well), parents of these white children should be charged with hate crimes, especially given the kids’ ages.

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 8h

Gov. JB Pritzker joins former U.S. generals, admirals & veterans to sound the alarm on the militarization of American cities. When those who’ve led troops into combat warn against turning our streets into war zones we should all listen.

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

youtube.com/live/-aRKOlv...

Gov. Pritzker holds presser with fmr. generals on militarization of U.S. cities

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 22h

I don’t have a 🕰️account - I’m assuming your point is that the video isn’t racist, potentially, in context of its creators.

That may be true, but that doesn’t make it less racist when posted out of context in a white woman’s feed. I only get so many characters. Some things aren’t for us to share.

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 22h

Thank you for both deleting and apologizing.

FWIW, it did seem out of step with your posting history, so I was *hoping* you made a mistake.

I‘m glad I don’t need to block you 💙 and I know you’ll be careful going forward.

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 22h

DHS is so dumb most of them can’t find their own asses with both hands and a mirror, and were supposed to believe they found a high ranking Latin Kings member?

Most toddlers are better liars. 🙄

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 23h

I’ve reported this post and I also sent you a dm requesting that you delete it. Reposting a racist video completely undermines all of the disability advocacy work that you do with your account.

Please delete this post and apologize.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 23h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 1d

Thanks, I’m glad like it! I bought several colors of paper because I’m planning on handing then out at No Kings and I want to be able to tell the different zines apart easily.

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 1d

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 1d

Here’s WTF I’m doing, that I can post about. While I watch The Residence.

Zine by @meganpiont.bsky.social, next batch will be her How to Report 🧊zine.

Two piles of “We Marched! Now What?” Zines (folded) a stack of yet to be folded zines, and a plastic bag full of multicolored whistles sit on a large cutting board.

Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 1d

Here’s WTF I’m doing, that I can post about. While I watch The Residence.

Zine by @meganpiont.bsky.social, next batch will be her How to Report 🧊zine.

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 1d

If you’re like me and you haven’t cancelled your Apple TV yet, you can buy the whole original docuseries (6 episodes) for $9.99. I also found Eyes on the Prize III on HBO Max.

I’ve cancelled all of my other streaming services. I didn’t know there was a II and III. LMK if you find II.

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 1d

of the work that it’s safe (for others) for you to post about publicly. STFU about the really important & difficult work you’re doing.

Quit obsessing about failures whether they were people you couldn’t get through to or ideas that didn’t work. Find more people, try more things. 2/2

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Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social · 1d

It you’re white, & you follow me - read this entire thread, watch Eyes on the Prize, host a movie night with all your white besties, watch it again, & then start fighting. Do anything except trying to guilt Black people into educating or absolving you online. Post about the small fraction 1/2

Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 1d

White people need to talk to other white people. It is entirely up to the whites to move the needle on their end.

Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.

Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.

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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 1d

White people need to talk to other white people. It is entirely up to the whites to move the needle on their end.

Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.

Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 1d

Fun fact…
If you protect Black Women’s voting rights all women’s voting rights are protected.

It really is that simple 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

writer, blogger, newsletter writer... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.

arstechnica.com

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

I have blocked this person, but I keep seeing people say things like this, and I’m begging people to understand two things.

(1) Just because peaceful protest may not be sufficient to win this moment does not mean that it is not necessary.

It is.

From: Olde Stuffe @annalsofwarren.bsky.social

i appreciate your words very often
Germans were very angry at their own government for not being truthful about the fierce nature of their enemy in WWI
this betrayal by leaders and mouthpieces led directly to Hitler and NSDAP
we're telling Americans peaceful protest will solve this
it won't

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Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 2d

No idea how all these poor and working class people kidnapped by I.C.E can afford to fight for their freedom.

Everything costs money they don’t have: fines; fees; fuel for travel and, importantly, time away from daily paid labor—all costs tons of $$.

Venmo: @JohnathanPerk
CashApp: $JohnathanPerk

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