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Brian Oliu @brianoliu.bsky.social · 1d

I think Ant has arrived y’all.

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Brian Oliu @brianoliu.bsky.social · 1d

Inside the NBA can heal me

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chardi b 👻 @charizardlotte.bsky.social · 1d

god I love The Knowing that comes from growing up in the south

one of my coworkers is married to a Mobile native so, on a hunch, I asked if they had any Mardi Gras beads I could borrow for Halloween

“FUCK YEAH we got a whole box full”

❤️

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

The immediate and desk-wide confusion over whether last night’s coverage aired on NBC or Peacock was life-affirming

Sam Khan Jr. @skhanjr.bsky.social · 1d

I know it won’t be the exact same since it’s on ESPN instead of TNT, but hearing EJ, Charles, Kenny and Shaq again just warms my heart

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 2d

Once again I am calling on Americans to remember that the most Democratic area in Alabama is the rural Black Belt

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8d

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

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Brian Oliu @brianoliu.bsky.social · 2d

Hoops is back baby

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

NFTs are amazing because you apparently “own” them but the AWS outtage yesterday took out everyones apes lol

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 3d

I've been going to left organized protests my whole adult life--against IMF, World Bank, Iraq War, Occupy, Gaza, etc--and never once heard anyone say "well that was pointless, the world didn't materially change right after." Protest alone is never enough. I'm not sure that makes it useless.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3d

Can I ask, what did the No Kings protest actually accomplish? I mean, in real terms, what have these protests materially changed? I can't help but feel these one off protests are merely a heatsink for energy and anger rather than a path for meaningful change and disruption of the system.

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Brian Oliu @brianoliu.bsky.social · 3d

*gestures*

Brian Oliu @brianoliu.bsky.social · 3d

Like this is some cinema

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Brian Oliu @brianoliu.bsky.social · 3d

Baseball is the big sport I have the least interest in, but playoff baseball when it becomes a cultural moment is just undefeated

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 5d

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.