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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 3h

When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 5h

I could kinda buy any other President pretending they’re shrugging off 7 million people hitting the streets to convey they hate him, but not the guy still beefing with Rosie O’Donnell.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 4h

(to be clear it is not the omegaverse i am passionate about, but niche subcultures that have escaped containment)

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 4h

he's got the juice (dorky dad edition)

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 4h

thank you, you've vindicated my explaining the omegaverse to my increasingly baffled partner as an effective seduction strategy

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 5h

It's a reward

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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 7h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

to this i would add a good amount of self-loathing stemming from a belief that liberal political views are somehow “inauthentic” or an affectation of “elites”

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11h

I agree with whoever said a rather under-appreciated dynamic is the extent to which Professional Politics Opinion Havers flat out just find the left interpersonally irritating in a way they do not find the right so, and I think a lot of the talk of a vibe shift was wish-casting their irritants away.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 7h

humor makes tyrants look small and it gets shared, both of which encourage more normies to join the protest. repro rights people have been doing this for decades, and id argue bleeding out in a parking lot or being jailed for a miscarriage is pretty horrifying

joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 7h

the point of a mass protest is to demonstrate that normies hate something, and that cracking down would involve pistol whipping grandmas. people do not like when you do that. it's the civil rights playbook.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 7h

(I saw someone voluntarily hotboxing a frog earlier lol)

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 7h

Put a straw through their fan hole to give them a friendship beer

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

Cringe is back, folks, and it's going to save this country.

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 10h

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

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 8h

i just have a stupid hat

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 8h

so many inflatables

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9h

#NoKings Cincinnati

Poster with an image of a frog and the words “Don’t Obey”

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 9h

this is round 2 for the giant human sign - they were out there prepping like an hour and a half before go time

(i know people who play volleyball on that beach)

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 9h

BART is like 2x more crowded than it is when I go to work

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 9h

all my homies hate the president of the united states

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 9h

Personal life update: BIG BOOT BIG BOOT BIG BOOT

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 9h

cringe lib time

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Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 12h

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 13h

Me to resistlib cringe content in the second term

Steve from Stranger Things holds flowers and says “I love you. I’m sorry.”

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 13h

time to lib out

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 1d

Some assorted reminders as we enter the weekend:
1. Posting illegal content is a violation of §3.B of the Bluesky terms of service.
2. Violations of the TOS may be reported through the app. See TOS §6.A
3. The Hatch Act (5 USC §7321 et seq) is a law.

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