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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11h

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 13h

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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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 12h

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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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 11h

You probably would’ve spelled his name right, though 😖

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 13h

Why does the government need private jets is maybe a question we should be asking.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h

all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 13h

lol “No Kings” is such brilliant branding because Trump’s people are such inveterate reactionary shitposters that their only reaction is, can possibly be, “oh him being a king triggers you? Then yeah he’s a king, he should be the king forever.”

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 12h

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 · 13h

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

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 12h

The Presidency is a sobering, weighty job, with huge responsibilities that prematurely ages everyone who holds the office…

This guy: hur hur POOP BOMBS <send tweet>

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 12h

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 12h

Going hard after the Dave Mathews vote

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🐸 Helen Kennedy 🐸 @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 15h

This is the first day in forever that my feed was full of joy and wit instead of an unspeakable new horror every three hours.

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 16h

On July 14, 1789 — the date of the storming of the Bastille — Louis XVI of France wrote in his diary "rien (nothing)." Hunt says Louis was referring to a hunting trip where he came back empty-handed.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 16h

it is far better to be in a country with a mass visible protest movement than one without it

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 16h

Roddy Piper really did try for a crossover Hollywood career didn’t he

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 16h

So far I’ve only seen two reports of violence at these things and in each case it was a lone maga dude - very plausible theory

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16h

Kind of wonder if Trump, Vance, and Johnson talked up how dangerous the crowds would be so much that it scared away the MAGA mooks they were hoping they'd inspire to swarm in and ruin the vibe.

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 16h

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 16h

You KNOW he’s watching news coverage. Which means he’s seeing people’s signs. And they are not kind.

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 16h

His mana is critically low - keep going!

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Bill H @dahoovster.bsky.social · 16h

Remember this feeling the next time you want to throw large swaths of people under the bus to “compromise” with the GOP. Have moral clarity.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16h

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world

what a fucking thing, man

that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16h

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 19h

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 16h

more than 2% of the national population out in protest together is quite the thing

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 17h

Today's official crowd count estimate from #NoKings coalition:

7 million people turned out nationwide

That's 2 million more than the #NoKings peaceful protests in June

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Cpanlibrarian @cpanlibrarian.bsky.social · 17h

This is so good, and inspiring.
“fascists have no counter-argument to [joy and humor]. They can’t match wits. Theirs is not a culture of humor, because humor requires surprise and creativity, the exact opposite of control and conformity.”

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21h

after a clarinet player was arrested at Sunday's ICE protest in downtown Portland, I talked to five artists, crafters and makers - a puppet designer, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a knitter, and a theatre artist - about creativity under fascism

www.orartswatch.org/resistance-c...

“Resistance can be joyful” • Oregon ArtsWatch

Portland protest artists on creativity, resilience, inflatable frogs, and protecting the soul of the city.

www.orartswatch.org

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