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Blue Cat Crew is curiously antifascist. Our motto is "Claws Out!" We make art, publish as BCC Press, and stir up good trouble. 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 forever: join us!

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 4h

Well done! We're impressed by the organizational excellence it took to pull this off!

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 5h

I joined the "human banner" at San Francisco's Ocean Beach. This flag was at the center. It was a gorgeous day with enormous waves. #nokings

The image is taken from an angle, and you can see the ocean tilting 30 degrees in the distance, with a huge crowd in front of it. In the foreground, you can see the giant American flag that is being held up by hundreds of protesters clustered around its edges.

This is the human banner from the air. It's sign made from masses of people standing together to form letters. It reads "No Kings Yes on 50." There is an American flag in the middle and a thick border around the banner. (Prop 50 is a California state proposition to gerrymander the state to create more blue districts, in order to combat the Texas law that gerrymanders their state to create more red districts.)

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Brian Manning📎 @boxdonkey17.bsky.social · 9h

The world stands with We the People of the US.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 4h

As far as I've heard, this has been the case across the country. Lots of snark, little to no bad behavior. This is how to do it.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10h

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 5h

Too bad, so sad, no riots, no mayhem, just good vibes and huge crowds.

Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 5h

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Cardgrrl @cardgrrl.bsky.social · 5h

No King's Day in my neck of the woods.

A crowd on a city street at sunset. Two American flags are lit from behind, and there's a third not backlit slightly left of center. There's a sign on the left, hand-lettered, that says "Love neighbors, not Nazis!" and one on the right saying "THREAT LEVEL ORANGE," and another saying "For the Epsteinth time, release the files!" The crowd has it's back to the viewer.

Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 5h

It was a good day for democracy.

A crowd in the street, with two large old-fashioned government buildings and some trees in the background. To the left a woman carries a sign saying "Love Thy Neighbor," a grey-haired man in the center front has a sign saying "No Dicktators" and someone on the right is holding a sign saying "Sorry for being weird, this is my 1st dictatorship." It's sunset time and the sky is filled with pastel-colored clouds.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 13h

Excellent idea.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes doing the Hokey Pokey is the best revenge!

Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes doing the Hokey Pokey is the best revenge.

MadWoman.PDX ❌👑 @resister4344.bsky.social · 1d

Portland also has a T-Rex!

Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 1d

Sue them for all they're worth! www.rawstory.com/portland-pro...

'I broke them': Comedian describes how he heckled ICE to the extreme

Robby Roadsteamer believes that he broke the officers of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Portland, Oregon, after dressing up like a giraffe and singing his own version of Rod Ste...

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 1d

I dub this season "Inflatable Fall" — and may it bring ICE down, to the beat!

Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 1d

Portland 💛

Vive la Révolution des animaux gonflables!

#NoKings

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

Feature filmmakers love left-wing violence plots. Secret gun-toting guerrilla groups, shootouts, car chases, hunted fugitives, and the rest work well – for movies, whose only job is to hold our attention for a couple of hours.

No Kings, No Violence: On the Ongoing Misrepresentation of the Left

Portlanders deploying inflatable animal costumes, a brass band, mass ukulele renditions of “This Land Is Your Land,” naked bike rides, and other tactics in their ICE protests are undermining the Trump...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 1d

If it makes you giggle, it also counts as resistance. www.facebook.com/reel/1351400...

1.1M views · 73K reactions | War dispatches from #portlandoregon. The local cavalry have arrived. | Women’s Personal Finance

War dispatches from #portlandoregon. The local cavalry have arrived.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely on point satirical impersonation and disruption. Also: funny!

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 3d

“I know I make people feel uncomfortable! That’s my entire brand.”

Climate Defiance interrupting a Cuomo presser in the best possible way.

Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 2d

A good graphic poster can work wonders.

Two identical vertically formatted wheat-pasted posters on a city wall. The poster shows a black and white graphic frog face, with the word "Don’t" across the top, and "Obey" across the bottom, in all-caps white lettering against a red background.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 3d

Humor in resistance is contagious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=trdv...

'Operation Inflation' gives out costumes at Portland ICE protests

YouTube video by The Oregonian

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 3d

Non-violent mockery FTW!

Top third of image is a Portland frog-suited protester facing down a bunch of goons purporting to be ICE and/or National Guards.

The text is in all caps white (except for the last seven words and attribution which are in yell) against a black background. The text reads:

Fascinating that all those "don't tread on me" posers and their AR-15s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit.

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 4d

Non-violence and humor are powerful tools of resistance.

A black & white photo of John Lennon in a denim shirt and wearing a big, floppy, black hat. The text reads:
"When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you - pull you beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor." — John Lennon

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 4d

"Joy is an act of resistance."—Toi Derricotte

How 'tactical frivolity' can de-escalate violence and effectively make a mockery of fascists.

Sounds like fun!

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Portland Frogs: The Joy (And Power) of Tactical Frivolity

YouTube video by Brenna Perez

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Blue Cat Crew (BCC) 💙🐈‍⬛🐾 @bluecatcrew.bsky.social · 8d

Hello, world!

Blue Cat Crew is curiously antifascist.
Our motto is "Claws Out!"
We make art, publish as BCC Press, and stir up good trouble.
Join us!

The Blue Cat Crew mascot: a dark blue kitty (in a painterly style), with its back to the viewer, looking over its left shoulder. It's eyes are light green. The letters "BCC" are below the cat.