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Micah @rincewind.run · 1h

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Jeepers. So glad no serious injuries.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's America

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 2d

A grain bin filled with soybeans collapsed in Iroquois County, Illinois, taking out power lines but causing no injuries.

Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder - be aware that police will lead groups to arrest zones. Thousands were arrested in DC on 5/3/1971 for crossing - often at police direction - arbitrary and invisible “police lines”.
Use caution - especially if you see buses (for transport of mass arrestees) roaming/parked nearby protests.

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder - be aware that police will lead groups to arrest zones. Thousands were arrested in DC on 5/3/1971 for crossing - often at police direction - arbitrary and invisible “police lines”.
Use caution - especially if you see buses (for transport of mass arrestees) roving/parked nearby protests.

Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

In ‘71, I believe the goal was to “process” (fingerprint and photograph) as many as possible. With today’s tech that could lead to a lifetime of trouble for innocent people exercising their rights.

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Be peaceful - and practice heightened situational awareness.

Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder - be aware that police will lead groups to arrest zones. Thousands were arrested in DC on 5/3/1971 for crossing - often at police direction - arbitrary and invisible “police lines”.
Use caution - especially if you see buses (for transport of mass arrestees) parked nearby protests.

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder - be aware that police will lead groups to arrest zones. Thousands were arrested in DC on 5/3/1971 for crossing - often at police direction - arbitrary and invisible “police lines”.
Use caution - especially if you see buses (for transport of mass arrestees) parked nearby protests.

Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder - be aware that police will lead groups to arrest zones. Thousands were arrested in DC on 5/3/1971 for crossing - often at police direction - arbitrary and invisible “police lines”.
Use caution - especially if you see buses (for transport of mass arrestees) parked nearby protests.

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Don't Follow Me I'm Hopelessly Lost @johnnycomelatly.bsky.social · 1d

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 2d

I think the Scottish said it best-

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Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 3d

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 3d

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 4d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 4d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 4d

Kermit is our Emmanuel Goldstein.

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 6d

Jeepers no…(1) kinetic resistance is what the regime hopes for - why give them what they seek; (2) I’m pretty sure outcomes would have been different in the 60’s if protesters in civil rights movement were violent.

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 6d

I take your point. I wonder if perhaps we shouldn’t take the regime’s bait.

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 6d

Maybe it’s a good thing if over exuberant anti-Trump players are taken off the field by their own coaches and not the regime “refs”. Only 100% PEACEFUL has a chance at winning the day.

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 6d

Please don’t forget Susie Wiles. A huge presence in the background who is most experienced of them all. She is strategic, the others are tactical.

Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 7d

So what’s their complaint?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

Watching the news report on the president's greasy little grift as a customer satisfaction story and not, you know, This is Deeply Unconstitutional and Also Fucking Embarrassing as Hell

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8d

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 7d

Is it time to make “Recovering Christian” a thing?

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 8d

With sincerity, thanks for your service. Agree 100%

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 8d

Good job! I wound up w/ approx. 7k in DC jail courtyard. Life changing experience. Obscured ID on uniformed law enforcement. Witnessed several unprovoked baton head bashings.

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 8d

This makes me change plans from attending local No Kings to schlepping to DC. I have ‘good trouble’ experience gained from arrest on May 3, 1971. A sad but perhaps appropriate bookend for this boomer.

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 9d

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Joe D Rye @marylandfarmer.bsky.social · 9d

Amen.