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Advocate for Peaceful Return to Democracy Artist, Drawn to Life Writer, Imagine the News Analyst, Strategic Planning

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Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 5d

No Kings Anthem
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The Art of the Global Revolution Series - No Kings by Kimberly Sky

YouTube video by Amanda I. Greene

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Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 52m

And in the meantime, as we prepare for the general str1k3, we can do something super simple & safe:

➡️ Begin the digital exodus off of the bigtech monopolies.

This protects our privacy, our mental health, and cuts the data stream that props these companies up.

Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 1h

I wore all black baggy clothes, hat, sunglasses and a mask. no phone.

In a small town tho - super friendly cop was there enjoying the festivities.

Not sure how much being id’d at a protest matters. Can’t they just get people’s stances from social media?

I guess it’s another data point?

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 1d

the admin joining bluesky is another great reminder:

do not take pictures at protests and post them on social media,

do not show faces in photos at protests, and

learn how to obscure metadata

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 1d

What we must all remember from the Gaza genocide is that the international system is rotten to its core and needs to be completely replaced.

We cannot accept a system where Western governments and leaders can commit genocide and war crimes with total impunity.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 16h

This reminds me how I’ve been teaming up with wood chipper companies to build literacy in throwing myself into a wood chipper.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build literacy in artificial intelligence.

Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms

The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build literacy in artificial intelligence.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 4h

Protests do build people power, it’s as much about how powerful people feel when they gather that wakes them up to how they can create change beyond that day. That’s the hope.

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Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 11h

Heading to N0 K1NG5 with these materials.

Hope we are heading towards the sustained economic resistance required to bring leverage back to the people.

Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 22h

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Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 22h

Boycott BigTech Now

Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 1d

This is fun. The American public is sleep walking into a prison.

I really wish everyone could understand one thing:

We still have the power to stop this if we all deleted the apps or trashed our phones, and collectively said "NO MORE!"

The ruling class is not fit to rule.

#deletetheoligarchy

Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 1d

agree!

Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 1d

This must be how it felt for people who saw the climate tipping points early and no one listened.

People are waking up to how serious the f@sc1st infiltration of the WH is.

But they're still not MOVING, especially with regards to the greatest leverage point we have to slow this down right now.

Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 1d

Funny thing is this shouldn't be "wow"

This should be normal, right?

It's what we were expecting to happen months ago:
Universities, Law Firms, States standing in solidarity and saying "NO MORE."

Very grateful. But do not forget in a functioning democracy, this isn't wow.

Kat Hartness @kathartness.bsky.social · 2d

'Look at that!' Analysts 'wowed' as judges unite to deny Trump's invasion of Chicago

www.rawstory.com/trump-judges...

'Look at that!' Analysts 'wowed' as judges unite to deny Trump's invasion of Chicago

President Donald Trump suffered a legal blow on Thursday, after a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit refused to lift a lower court order that prohibited him from sending...

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Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 1d

[W]e are all co-creators of this world, we’ve just forgotten. Those who want us to stay asleep, who dream & scheme of organizing humanity around hierarchy, command, and centralized power, haven't read The Lord of the Rings closely enough.
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The Art of the Revolution

Poetry and Music in honor of No Kings Day II - Special Edition

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Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 1d

From 50501 for No Kings Day.

Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. This is one of the higher paying jobs for someone without other career options. It’s no excuse for the violence but I think that some are not ideologically aligned but legit need a job.

I was thinking you were gonna say, this is why f@sc1sm rises in tough economies. It relies on desperation

Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings Day LA theme is pretty clear

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 2d

Only in the Federalist Society academic bubble could you say that the government going in and splitting up geographically contiguous communities of Black voters in order to prevent them from ever being a majority in any House district is "government not taking race into account."

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Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. Plus he made some of the biggest cuts to social support systems & set the stage for the financial crisis of ‘08. Don’t worry, he’ll get his comeuppance when the Epstein files are released. They’ll all go down and we can start to rebuild something better, built on honesty and care. Let’s hope!

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

The president of the United States has said *multiole times* that he hates Americans who are democrats. That is a FUCKING HUGE SCANDAL. Nobody will treat it as one.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 2d

In this 1984 dystopian world, remember:

- To Sauron, Harry Potter was the enemy

- To the Capitol in Hunger Games, Katniss was an insurrectionist

Evil thinks it is "good". That's what makes it confusing.

But good protects all life, not the few. Good distributes power, not consolidates.

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Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 2d

When we realize THEIR power is OUR belief in it

..that there's nothing that makes someone 1000 times more valuable than another

..that the ability to hoard & play a numbers game doesn't make one more worthy of life

And we stop playing their game

we take our power back & shape what comes next.

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Amanda @amandaianthe.bsky.social · 2d

LOL

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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