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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 19h

Coreweave is going back into the crypto business babyy

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pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 1d

Ukraine setting up to be one giant bay of pigs moment for Trump

pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 1d

Republican talking points laundered through this kind of bad faith advice to liberals is a NYT/CNN/et al tradition, but it shows they are thinking beyond trumpism and trying to salvage something of the brand.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Lead front-page story in today's NYT

Time-travel dept:

-I don't remember front-page NYT stories "It's 1993, and GOP Is Still Running Against Clinton." That's what they did, for huge mid-term win.

-Nor "It's 2009, and GOP Is Still Running Against Obama." Which they did, for huge win.

Weird.

Headline: "It's 2025, and Democrats Are Still Still Running Against Trump"

pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 1d

Hey this fuckin AI shit sucks!!!

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d

i do not want to "work from anywhere". i want to work in my dedicated work environment with all my dedicated work assisting tools. i do not want to send an email from the coffee shop or the park. i want to do coffee shop or park related tasks when i'm in the coffee shop or park

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pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 1d

It was deeply moving to be a part of the yesterday's protest action and I’m very thankful for it

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 2d

There was no protestor violence at the #NoKings marches.

but as always, when night falls, the police violence emerges.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

Portland ICE facility now.

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pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 2d

This is really inane criticism

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Cami @cafiffle.bsky.social · Jul 9

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking of "hate America," this guy and his GOP colleagues are smirking about rejecting the will of the American people. The Americans of Arizona's 7th district chose to send Grijalva to Congress but the GOP hates the majority of Americans and refuse to let them have any say in government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.

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pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 2d

You love to see it!

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 2d

It’s weird how everyone knows in their bones law enforcement, from the Army in Afghanistan, the CIA and DEA in Latin America, to beat cops on the street, are the caretakers of crime inc. in America but it really is galling the levels to which that arrangement has been allowed to fester and flourish.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 2d

They buried the lede. Here’s paragraph 6: https://wapo.st/4nbNiM4

The deal would give Bukele possession of individuals who threatened to
expose the alleged deals his government made with MS-13 to help
achieve El Salvador's historic drop in violence, officials said. For the
Salvadoran president, a return of the informants was viewed as critical
to preserving his tough-on-crime reputation. It was also a key step in
hindering an ongoing U.S. investigation into his government's
relationship with MS-13, a gang famous for displays of excessive
violence in the United States and elsewhere.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 2d

In work and politics, it genuinely doesn’t matter what you were thinking when you actively aided and abetted in shitting on people’s work, built systems that helped fascists, ruined the education system and pretty much all of media. What matters, and what you should be judged on is what you did

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pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 2d

Astonishing difference in media's posture toward Trump v1 vs v2. This administration is bent on the wholesale bonfire of institutional credibility and media orgs have totally and willingly offered theirs to the sacrifice.

pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 2d

the fucking Guardian man

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 2d

One thing that really struck me today is the way folks are leaning WAY into freedom of expression & in all its weirdness. It makes visible something I’ve been feeling for a while—that the more repression I see, the more resilient & defiant I become. Seeing that at scale makes me certain we’ll win.

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 2d

Beyond the costumes at No Kings, Democratic leadership may want to check the signs to understand the vibe of their base right now (hint: it’s not health care)

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 2d

Fuck

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

Petro says the “Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure” when it was bombed by the U.S. military.

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pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 2d

Pedophile protection force conducting live fire military drills in civilian USA as a show of intimidation, fuck all these perverts.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

California governor says Trump ‘putting ego over responsibility’ as military show shuts highway

Gavin Newsom says safety concerns forced state officials to close a portion of the busy Interstate 55 on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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pdxtonola.bsky.social @pdxtonola.bsky.social · 2d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMny...

[I'm Proud Of My] National Guard

YouTube video by Tim Heidecker - Topic

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