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Innes Walker @aliengeo.bsky.social · 17h

Sources:

WHYY (Philadelphia)
Guardian (DC)
Boston 25 News (Boston)
Austin American–Statesman (Austin)
Houston Chronicle (Houston)

Innes Walker @aliengeo.bsky.social · 17h

No Kings attendance last weekend:

Philly: 15,000
DC: "more than 200,000"
Boston: 125,000
Austin: 20,000
Houston: 15,000

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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Innes Walker @aliengeo.bsky.social · 1d

I was also thinking of that one! They know their state lmao

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 2d

Can't overstate how radicalized rank-and-file suburban Dems are becoming watching all of this happen - I know septuagenarians going to their first protest since the Vietnam War, and the line of abolishing ICE and prosecuting regime collaborators is pretty standard now

Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 2d

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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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 1d

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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Innes Walker @aliengeo.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting!

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 3d

Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Galleri test: Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers

The Galleri test looks for fragments of DNA that have broken off a tumour and are circulating in the blood.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Innes Walker @aliengeo.bsky.social · 2d

Did your autocorrect perhaps change "tricorner" to "strictness"?

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 2d

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 2d

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

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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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Molly White @molly.wiki · 2d

cops tackling and marching off with a giant penis, Kristi Noem menacing a chicken she swears is antifa, feds pepper-spraying a frog

ridicule is an extremely effective protest tactic and foil for authoritarianism

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 4d

not only does Gary Larson still have the juice, it seems to have only gotten stronger

a man is buried in the same up to his neck, being devoured by ants. A family of ants are in the foreground taking a touristy photo of it.

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

bit.ly/nodealtexas

A picture of the Barbara Jordan statue on UT-Austin’s campus with “Keep Texas Free”

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Innes Walker @aliengeo.bsky.social · 3d

In this hypothetical, you aren't lying, but you are having to put on a performance so that your intent is correctly communicated.

Innes Walker @aliengeo.bsky.social · 3d

Autistic people (among others) often learn that "natural reactions" get you disbelieved and ignored. Bc maybe your legitimate, honest sad face is 🫤, but if you say "I'm seriously depressed 🫤" nobody believes you. You have to "fake" being sad 😢 for others to understand your genuine underlying emotion

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Innes Walker @aliengeo.bsky.social · 3d

My literal first game of Among Us, I was crew but wasn't "acting normally" bc I didn't know the map. I was immediately labeled suspicious and when I (honestly) said "I've never played this game before" ppl said "yeah right we've all heard that one" and voted me out.

So I feel you for sure.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

This is how Andrew Cuomo thinks we should respond to authoritarianism.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 3d

We are ✨THRILLED✨ to announce that our fully-remastered version of Myst is now available alongside one of our favorite new puzzle games, Blue Prince!

Get BOTH for 15% off, in the 🟥Red & Blue🟦Bundle, for a limited time!

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The Red & Blue Bundle - Myst and Blue Prince

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 3d

glad to see this "study" is being debunked, but I want to point out the double bind at work behind the scenes here: for years, anti-trans activists pointed to any increases as signs of "social contagion" (read: these kids aren't "really trans"). but then, if or when the numbers ever go down...

Them @them.us · 4d

Right-Wingers Celebrate Flawed Study Claiming a "Decline" in Trans Identity

One data scientist called the report “dead on arrival” over its inaccuracies.

www.them.us

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Innes Walker @aliengeo.bsky.social · 4d

Recreational drugs in food/drink form, including alcohol and caffeine, should have full nutritional labels and ingredient + allergen lists like regular food, except with amount(s) of drug(s) in a big black box at the top of the nutrition label in addition to other legally required labeling

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