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Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦

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Burkburnett to the Bronx to Buffalo. Preserve democracy. Patriot. Retired microelectronics engineer. Grandmother. USAF Brat.

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Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · Nov 12

This is simply excellent. It's close to my take, and plans.

I will find ways to help those hurt by the incoming regime, and to help 2026 midterms.

No performative stuff like the Women's March.

Fwiw I plan to exit Twitter in January just before the inauguration. Earlier if circumstances demand.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · Nov 12

If you're unhappy and unsettled by Trump's election, don't quit. That's just what they want you to do.

But that doesn't mean you have to do everything the same. Your media and social media habits, for example.

Here's what I'm doing to stay sane, and set myself up to handle what's to come.

Authoritarians Want You To Quit

Don't withdraw entirely, but it's OK to partially disengage. The future will be tough, and you're in better position to fight if you stay sane. Here's how I'm adjusting.

www.arcdigital.media

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1h

I will vote for whoever promises to tear this down.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump waves around renderings of his new ballroom, which appears to be entirely gold

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Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 5h

Absolute cold shoulder for the rest of the flight. Don't help pass drinks to him (if you're closer to the aisle), no chat, nothing.

Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 9h

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10h

Mamdani hasn’t been elected yet and he’s already driving criminals out of New York.

Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 10h

Remember when Dems had Senate leadership?

Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 10h

Why is he unpopular?

Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah, it's not the tattoo, it's the fact that he got it.

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The Northland Texan 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @smokeymagma16.bsky.social · 1d

In a normal world, this would constitute impeachment.

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

www.nytimes.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 1d

Read Nicholas Grossman's OP one more time. That's all.

Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 1d

Food

(but you knew that's what I meant)

Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 1d

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Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 1d

So - give the gospel to a starving man and leave him to starve?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Political organizing rarely sees as good a day as Saturday, Oct. 18.

No Kings protests brought millions of Americans into the streets, some for the first time. Organizers moved through crowds, getting signatures, passing out info, finding new members.

That's one of 6 things No Kings accomplished:

7 Things the No Kings Protests Accomplished

The political emergency isn't over, of course, but who thought it would be. Here are seven things this weekend's protests accomplished.

www.arcdigital.media

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Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought too

Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 1d

Need a broad based movement for that to be felt.

One built by actions like - the No Kings demonstrations.

Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 1d

Not completely. That's my point.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."

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Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah that reaction is ridiculous and short sighted.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.

Luke Yoquinto @lukeyoquinto.bsky.social · 1d

Point five is really important. The protests provoked errors from the administration (shit force one) that may haunt them for years. That’s what happens when you stop being reactive.

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 1d

Pledge to tear down the ballroom and restore the White House. Show R's that they can do what they want, but the ratchet turns both ways. This is a layup. Why don't Dems take it?
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-a...

No Kings and the Laws of Power

Understanding the Republican will to power and what Democrats must do to counter it.

www.thebulwark.com

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Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 1d

And i dont see Chip Roy specifically talking about government

Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 1d

No ministry then?

Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 1d

So stop debating semantics.

You. Yeah you.

The "just semantics" debate can stop if the "it's fascism!" folks drop it, too.

Look up "authoritarian".

Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 1d

Great summary of what the No Kings protests are about, in terms of effect.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

What, if anything, did the No Kings protests accomplish?

I've seen that pop up in everything from genuine inquiry to sneering dismissal. For anyone asking or facing that question, here's an answer.

Everything isn't all fixed, of course. But the protests accomplished at least these seven things:

7 Things the No Kings Protests Accomplished

The political emergency isn't over, of course, but who thought it would be. Here are seven things this weekend's protests accomplished.

www.arcdigital.media

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Alagai 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @alagai.bsky.social · 1d

If you think it's splitting hairs, you know folks can stop that by dropping the continual demand it be said we're now in a fascist country.