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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 7h

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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Nell Scovell @nellscovell.bsky.social · 6h

And yet there are so many people who won't cancel their subscriptions because they need their Wordle/Queen Bee fix. This is a problem. It's great to show up at a march few two hours on a Saturday every six months. But true protest requires real daily sacrifice.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

NYT decides that 7 million Americans protesting against Trump at the 2500 No Kings demonstrations is just not reportable news.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 6h

owning the libs by comparing myself to a literal psychopath

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 9h

What did you do for a Klondike bar?
WHAT DID YOU DO?!

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

Of the 2,500 No Kings gatherings across America, few were more saturated in American history—in flags and historical costumes—than the one on the Battle Green in Lexington, where the Minutemen fought another king 250 years ago.

I returned to the site of the original "No Kings" protest

A letter from Lexington’s Battle Green.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

This was my favorite sign from #Portland #NoKings. #putabirdonit

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · 20h

Another suggested moderation tactic: mute or block accts whose entire personality is taking the bait - aka engaging directly with & reposting or dunk-skeeting troll content.

Make bsky boring as fuck for fascists and they'll leave

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CarpinSanDiego @carpinsandiego.com · 9h

Im dead 😂😂😂

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 7h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h

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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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 8h

It doesn’t make more aggressive forms of protest and resistance less effective. It makes them more effective. It can raise public tolerance for protest, introduces new people to acts of resistance, and lay the groundwork for larger networks of solidarity.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 7h

sometimes after they tuck the president in at night he secretly stays up past his bedtime posting a hundred AI slop videos from the same account he uses to issue official policy statements. it rocks.

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 9h

Do I know anybody who went to Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga between 1996 and 2000? I am working on a podcast project and I have a few questions.

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Jennifer Grand-Guignol 🔪🩸 @jennifergrand.bsky.social · 9h

Frankenstein (1931) and The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

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Jennifer Grand-Guignol 🔪🩸 @jennifergrand.bsky.social · 9h

John Carpenter is hosting a double feature on TCM right now!

#filmsky

a man in a suit and tie is holding a megaphone in front of his mouth .

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is holding a megaphone in front of his mouth .

media.tenor.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10h

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

19thnews @19thnews.org · 11h

Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.

Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country

On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.

19thnews.org

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 10h

The shut-down federal government has money to shoot live ammunition over a densely packed freeway in a state they despise to intimidate civilians and disrupt commerce, but they don't have money to continue SNAP benefits to feed the hungry past November 1.

Make it make sense!

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 13h

The signs currently on the L.A. freeways on No Kings Day.

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 12h

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 11h

The situation we’re in is not a choice between something with a low cost and barrier of entry like No Kings and something like this. We need both. We have to do both. And some people will be suited for one who are less suited for the other, and that’s neither a bad nor an unusual thing

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 11h

As the protesters chant "show me what democracy looks like"...

The vibe here is prepared, resolved, and weary. People dug in for the long term. People who have been brutalized. Respirators and goggles

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 2d

It's important to track how many citizens are kidnapped by ICE. But I'll keep hammering the point that it simply does not matter if someone is native-born or undocumented — NO ONE deserves to be brutalized by glorified rent-a-cops in a fascist state. There are no "innocent" victims. Just victims.

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 15h

here is my favorite sign from today

square concrete slab on the ground with “OLD DYKES AGAINST TECH BROS” stenciled onto it

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

"I want people to know that what's happening in Portland - the creativity, the irreverence, the refusal to be intimidated - that's replicable," she says. "Every city has artists. Every community has weirdos. We just need to find each other and start creating the alternative story. The revolution doesn't have to look like a protest.
Make it weird. When they tell you to cover up, shut up, and comply, the most radical thing you can do is be visible, speak truth, and take up space. With joy. Tap into your creativity. Art isn't a luxury in times like these - it's survival."

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

They’re Nazis who are following you *out of the Nazi bar* because being just sitting there being a Nazi isn’t fun, the whole point is tormenting people, how dare you ignore them, how dare your life not revolve around entertaining them for free.

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 11h

Michele Mulroney, WGA @wgawest.bsky.social president, speaking out against government censorship at the DTLA #NoKings Rally. PART 1 #WGAStrong

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