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jimpharo.bsky.social @jimpharo.bsky.social · 23h

That’s kinda their point. They have felt unseen. Kinda were…

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

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jimpharo.bsky.social @jimpharo.bsky.social · 23h

These institutions have revealed how cowardly and valueless they truly are. It’s all just $$.

So many alums trying to impose tyranny!!!

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jimpharo.bsky.social @jimpharo.bsky.social · 23h

The assault was the point.

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Jeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 23h

Don’t tell Lindsey Halligan, but the large antifa animals appear to have infiltrated the Smithsonian #NoKings

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1d

How do you build a movement?

With days like today.

How do you weaken fear-propaganda—the power grip of authoritarians?

With days like today.

Why is the regime so scared of today?
There’s your answer.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 1d

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

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jimpharo.bsky.social @jimpharo.bsky.social · 23h

It’s backfiring. This could be an inflection point.

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jimpharo.bsky.social @jimpharo.bsky.social · 23h

Unshackled or desperate…?

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 23h

There are a lots of people pissed about Trump here in New Braunfels. Crowd stretches a full city block and around the corners.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1d

One last post (for the moment!):

Why the costumes?

Authoritarians grab power with fear.
They can’t STAND mockery.
It weakens their hold.

That’s why.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.

Resistance Is Cringe

But it’s also effective.

www.theatlantic.com

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jimpharo.bsky.social @jimpharo.bsky.social · 23h

You’re funny!

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 1d

The thing that upsets establishment pols and special interest groups and mega donors about Mamdani is that he has chosen to…and is going to…win without them, without bending the knee to them. Worse for them…and best for NY and Dems generally, is it’s one of the reasons he’s going to win.

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jimpharo.bsky.social @jimpharo.bsky.social · 1d

Things that cannot go on forever don’t.

jimpharo.bsky.social @jimpharo.bsky.social · 1d

DINOs!!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

Joe Gebbia is the billionaire co-founder of AirBnB, a close friend of Elon Musk, and worked to gut the federal government with DOGE.

And he just gave the single largest donation to Cuomo’s super PAC since the primary.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

As long as we don't think about all the people who lost jobs for tweeting, "hey, this Charlie Kirk guy seems to have been a racist?"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "The last time I checked, Americans have more freedom right now to express themselves and speak their minds after Republicans took over ... it is the Republicans who restored your right to share and speak your mind."