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A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 7h

People have been warning us to wear masks, to leave our phones at home, to lie about where we were today, but respectfully I will be disregarding their warnings. I spent the first twenty-five years of my life as a coward: I will not hide who I am or what I stand for. NO CROWNS, NO THRONES, NO KINGS!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 7h

I do as well.

A tweet from Alex Cole says: “My favorite No Kings protest sign.” The attached photo shows a protest crowd in front of a city building. One protester holds a large handmade sign in red and blue letters that reads: “NOT A PAID PROTESTER — I HATE TRUMP FOR FREE.” Other smaller protest signs and American flags are visible around them.

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A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 9h

Today is the day: No Crowns, no Thrones, no Kings! Get out there and show the world that America has not fully fallen to Fascism yet! We swear allegiance to democracy, to human rights, and basic decency: Not some child-molesting geriatric who thinks dictators are cool.

A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 9h

I love it when establishment #Democrats like Andrew Cuomo show their true selves. That snide little remark about how a $2300 a month apartment is 'for poor people' shows us he's way out of touch with reality and looks down his nose at us poor peasants. What a disgraceful man he is.

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A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 1d

You fight to protect your AIPAC money and nothing else. You're a tool, Cory Booker, and not a very good one. I wonder who your owners will pick after you fail them one too many times.

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A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 2d

#Democrats need to get with the program. Tools like @booker.senate.gov and @schumer.senate.gov aren't going to save us from the rise of Fascism. They do not serve the people, they serve Oligarchs and PACs. They're fine with letting Trump's Reign of Terror continue because it benefits them.

A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone else think it's pretty funny that Navani chides Adolin about his pre-duel "Good Luck Rituals" being childish superstitions while she herself is burning a prayer talisman to gain the favor of a deity that is canonically no longer receiving messages?

#Stormlight #Cremposting

A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 3d

October 18th is coming up fast, and it's making The Regime nervous. That's good: Power does not panic. If they are afraid of us, then it is because they know we can still win this! We can still prove that Fascism has no place in our future!

No Crowns, No Thrones, and absolutely #NoKings! ✊️

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 4d

October 18 is a day to stand tall against tyranny. No Crowns. No Thrones. #NoKings. Join the movement—find a No Kings Day protest near you and make your voice heard. nokings.org

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A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 5d

Wouldn't it be wild if instead of devolving into a Mad Max Dystopian wasteland, the US took the L, stepped back from the global stage for a while, focused on working on itself, and rebranded as a solar punk utopia with egalitarian and humanitarian ethics at the core of its government?

#SolarPunk

A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 5d

People sometimes tell me I'm too hard on the Democrats, that we shouldn't be criticizing their strategies or their characters. To that I simply say you've all been too soft on them for too long. Parties must be relentlessly criticized by those whose votes they seek to claim.

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Preacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 5d

“Why are they upset about the frog?”

Because the frog has power. As silly as it sounds. The frog is not just a good idea. It’s our greatest weapon.

And I’m going to explain why…

🧵

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A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 6d

To anyone else considering walking into a circle of mushrooms and taking your chances with the Fae, let me gently remind you that we are past the summer season and the Unseelie Court is Waxing. Now is not the time to be whisked away to Faerie Land. Read a book with a nice cup of coffee/tea instead.

A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 7d

Another day, another story about the DNC getting in its own way. First Mamdani, now Platner. This party is pathetically attempting to fill the ecological hole left when 80's Era Republicans mutated into modern day Fascists because working for the American People would cost them AIPAC.

A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 8d

New favorite moment from The Way of Kings I found on my second tour through the cosmere:
Kaladin thinks he's gonna watch everyone he cares about die AGAIN only for THE FUCKMOTHERING BLACKTHORN to crash through the enemy formation, butcher them, and give the Bridge Boys a salute.

#StormlightArchives

A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 8d

Don't pretend like you were tricked. Don't lie about why you voted for him. Don't pretend like you weren't saying heinous shit to anyone who tried to tell you what sort of monster he was. If reconciliation and progress is your goal, then first you need to prove to the rest of us what you've learned.

A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 10d

If we can't believe in any of that, then we lack the conviction to keep moving forward. We have to accept the awful parts of our history on this earth, and we need to genuinely believe that our past as a species does not define our future. Please Believe me: We can make it through this, I swear it.

A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 10d

We have to BELIEVE in ourselves again. We have to believe in the changes we want to make to the world, in our ability to make life good and great for everyone. We have to Believe without a shadow of a doubt that we can defeat the tyrants and the fascists, that we can bring the wicked to justice.

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A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 10d

Belief is a tricky thing. Believe too hard in something and you could get yourself hurt, or worse. But if you don't believe in ANYTHING, not even yourself? You'll achieve nothing. We need to believe in something, because without belief we are just victims in a cruel and chaotic universe.

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Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann @mancent.bsky.social · 17d

Tonight I learned that one of my heroes has died. I loved her and colleagues' "adventures" as a child and grew up to admire her scientific work for so many reasons. RIP Jane Goodall.

Jane Goodall, wildlife advocate and primate expert, dies at 91 - www.reuters.com/business/env...

Wildlife advocate, primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91

Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, died on Wednesday at the age of 91, the institute she founded said.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16d

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup.

It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

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travel-trades.bsky.social @travel-trades.bsky.social · 16d

Let’s get lost somewhere in nature.☘️🌿

QP/Share 🍀🌿🌄

#TranquilThursday

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America Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 17d

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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A.Gray @addergray.bsky.social · 17d

Isn't it odd how every time there's been a shutdown of the US Federal Government in the last 40 years, it's been while Republicans hold the house Majority? Strange how that keeps happening. Once is bad luck, twice is bad leadership, I don't even know what thrice is but we're at five now.

#Shutdown