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Civilian Defense

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Regimes that brutalize civilians are not legitimate. Human rights are universal.

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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · Jun 16

They cannot scare us, or stop the music.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 23h

Here’s the other big problem: Treasury Secretary Bessent is sitting on a massive Epstein file containing thousands more bank documents that would help us continue to follow the money through his sex trafficking ring.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 23h

Banks are required by law to flag suspicious transactions right away so law enforcement can stop monsters like Epstein. JPMC is one of several banks that willingly chose not to alert law enforcement about Epstein's money laundering and trafficking payments.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2d

Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo.

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Eliot Sumner @eliotsumner.bsky.social · 2d

🧵1/3 Seeing a lot of new official gov accounts on Bluesky. Perfect time to talk about the new "Official Digital Authoritarian Aesthetic."

When the DHS posts fashwave, it's not a "how do you do, fellow kids" gaffe, it's a deliberate choice.

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The Official Digital Authoritarian Aesthetic: Traditionalist Ideals in a Futurist Code

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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

One overwhelming sentiment I’ve seen expressed today by Americans of every different sort: #AbolishICE

Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

I get it, being irony poisoned isn’t getting you all the attention rn so you’re going full energy vampire, but this movement doesn’t need selfish people like you

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Indivisible ❌👑 @handle.invalid · 2d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Mariah 🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋 @mariahbrown.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my. This is Boise, Idaho for No Kings. 💙

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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

Also nah…. I don’t think you are fist fighting any Nazis irl

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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

uh oh there we go again with the bad reading comprehension 😔 I’m sorry that you’re like this

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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

Hopefully after you calm down you remember that we think first and react with our feelies second—that’s what separates us from the reactionaries!

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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

Ah that makes sense, a lot of people are scared to find out that the Regime can track them down and identify them even with a mask, but your reaction there was some especially Big Feels there :/ hope you’re ok!

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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

Terminally Online Leftists gatekeeping civil disobedience will always move the goal posts on you because their identities are built around believing that they’re the true vanguard, just ignore them.

Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

If it’s not upsetting you, why else are you throwing such a big temper tantrum?

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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

the regime in the U.S. has very sophisticated surveillance methods, I’m sorry that you’re so upset by that?

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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

they’d probably just hate that they said you were capable of reading comprehension when you keep demonstrating that you aren’t

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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure your former university would be alarmed to find out that you believe the statement “masks won’t hide your identity from the regime” = “masks won’t protect you from COVID” 😱

Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

If you can explain to me how telling people masks won’t hide their identity from authorities is the same as telling them masks don’t protect from COVID Ill address anything else you wanna talk about!

Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

ok be honest with me, are you high, or are you not able to read?

Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

“Wearing a mask won’t protect your identity from the regime at this point” -people on here

“YOU'RE TELLING PEOPLE TO NOT WEAR MASKS TO PROTECT FROM COVID” -you, basically, for some reason

Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

Ah so you went to a university where they’ll give anyone a degree because they don’t want to fail students with poor reading comprehension?

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Civilian Defense @civilian.bsky.social · 2d

I get that maybe you’re a science nerd, but in English class we learned this fun thing where you find the point of a statement, you might want to work on that part…

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Indivisible Butte @indivisiblebutte.bsky.social · 2d

Today's #NoKings rally in #Butte #Montana seemed larger than the one in June.

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Penny P @mstmompj.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings protest in The Woodlands, Texas (north suburban Houston). This is the first such protest to occur in the community. I overheard a number of folks telling others that they had never attended such an event before but had gotten to the point of feeling they needed to do something.

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