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Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 1d

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 2d

Beaded #sciart by Ruth Cuthand for Indigenous Peoples Day www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/05/ruth...

Beaded Images of Disease Explore the Impact of Colonial Trade

In her series Trading, Saskatchewan-based artist Ruth Cuthand creates a visual metaphor that outlines how early settler/Native relationships influenced First Nation people’s living conditions and well...

www.thisiscolossal.com

Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible, thank you for sharing this

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Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 1d

Photos of #NoDAPL protest

By Native Photographer Camille Seaman, 2016

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#photography
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#indigenouspeoplesday

Native Photographer Camille Seaman's Images of #NoDAPL Protests at Standing Rock | Dodge & Burn: Decolonizing Photography History

See photographer Camille Seaman's #NoDAPL protest images at Standing Rock, ND. #NativeLivesMatter

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

gene kelly is antifa

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Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 1d

Spread the word

Debrianna Mansini-I’m Spartacus @dmansini.bsky.social · 1d

WEAR YELLOW!! Yellow is a high visibility color symbolizing optimism that has been used in other pro-democracy movements around the world, from Hong Kong to South Korea, France, Ukraine, and Thailand. By choosing yellow, we align with this historical context! #NOKINGS

Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 1d

Haha that was gonna be ours too

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American Heathen® RESIST @americanheathen.bsky.social · 2d

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Mommas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be MAGAs : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Parody Song: Mommas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be MAGAs

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Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 2d

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itisso.bsky.social @itisso.bsky.social · 2d

This is fabulous!! Community resistance!!

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 3d

The Unipiper showed up. 💙

Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 3d

Jonathan Crow creates “images that combine symbols of American mid-century nostalgia, in particular the suburb, with today's mood of anxiety and impending apocalypse.” Check out more on his website

www.jonathan-crow.com

Quickie Rage Paintings About Rebellion — Art by Jonathan Crow

A couple weeks ago, I, like a lot of people, watched with horror and disgust as police departments around the country rioted out of control against people protesting police violence. I am heartened th...

www.jonathan-crow.com

Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 3d

“Protest Elmo”

By California artist Jonathan Crow, 2020

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#artsky
#resist

Painting of a Black protestor with one fist raised, wearing a white tank top and sneakers, dark pants, and a giant Elmo head. In the background is a dark rectangular shape overwhelmed by a golden, fiery glow, suggesting a burning vehicle or perhaps a dumpster.

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Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 5d

María Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy." Read about her at the link.

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Nobel Peace Prize 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

www.nobelprize.org

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Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 8d

“Got some bad news / fading of the red white and blue” 🔥🔥🔥

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 8d

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Zach Bryan teased an upcoming song on his Instagram account, stoking outrage among conservatives who took issue with his unsubtle dig at ICE.
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www.thedailybeast.com//maga-melts-down-as-country-star-bashes-ice-in-new-song/?via=ios

MAGA Melts Down as Country Star Bashes ICE in New Song

Conservatives weren’t happy about a teaser for a new Zach Bryan song.

www.thedailybeast.com

Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 9d

Know where your money is going — support local activists and artists

Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 9d

Not one of these Instagram advertisers donates any of its proceeds to the cause it claims to support

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Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 10d

More on Portland Street Art here

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#artsky

www.pdxstreetart.org/articles-all...

Art as Resistence — Portland Street Art Alliance

 In Janurary 2017, PSAA director Tiffany Conklin took part in a panel presentation at Portland State University that focused on the Intersections of Activism and Effective Nonviolent Action Tacti...

www.pdxstreetart.org

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Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 10d

A day late for caturday but who cares

gjabberbox.bsky.social @gjabberbox.bsky.social · Jan 31

By Eleanor Johnson

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Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 10d

“Art Is Resistance”

- Anonymous, Shared by Portland Street Art

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A black spray painted graffiti image of a woman in a shawl with black birds to her left. To her right, the word ART in red, with IS RESISTANCE below in black.

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Dj Connell @itbodes.bsky.social · 16d

PORTLAND PREPARES FOR WAR

Photo of trees downtown which have been “yarn bombed” by makers knitting colorful patches and wrapping them around their trunks.

No trees were harmed in the making of this art form.

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#ICE #Knitting #INeedCoffee

Photo of trees which were “yarn bombed” by colorful patches of knitted squares wrapped around their trunks.

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Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 14d

It is a fantastic book and an incredible story! Exactly what we needed for inspiration in these times 😎

Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 16d

"The sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood red. I sensed a scream passing through nature; it seemed to me that I heard the scream. I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood. The color shrieked. This became The Scream."

- Edvard Munch 1892

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#artsky

Edvard Munch's famous work "The Scream" depicts a genderless figure on a pier, with a blue-white face distorted in a gaping expression of horror. The figure's hands are on either side of the face, perhaps clutching the head or covering the ears. Swirls of blue and red tones in the background depict water and the blood-red sunset of Munch's description. There are two other figures walking on the pier in the distance, but their features are indistinguishable.

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 17d

We’re crowdfunding for @eji.org, a charitable org dedicated to “ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.”

tiktok.com/@thisisawkword

The United States incarcerates its citizens more than any other country. Mass incarceration disproportionately impacts the poor and people of color and does not make us safer. EJI is working to end our misguided reliance on over-incarceration.

The U.S. has 5% of the world’s population but nearly 25% of its incarcerated population.

Our spending on jails and prisons reached $87 billion in 2015, an increase of 1000% from the $7.4 billion spent in 1975.

In 1972, there were only 200,000 people incarcerated in the United States. Today that number has grown to 2.2 million.

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Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 17d

Very cool

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Billie Etchison @sybilte420.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 18d

Authoritarians discredit democratic movements by claiming they were orchestrated by enemies of the people. Paid protestors, "foreigners," evil actors destroying good wholesome values. The Kremlin's been doing this for decades. Here's the narrative playbook.

euromaidanpress.com/2020/08/20/c...

Color revolutions everywhere: pro-Kremlin media covers popular protests - Euromaidan Press

“A color revolution, instigated by the Anglo-Saxons/America/the West” – is the knee-jerk reaction of pro-Kremlin media whenever crowds…

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25d

One of my favorite moments in the history of free speech: Larry Flynt publishing a satirical Campari ad featuring Jerry Falwell Sr. as an incestuous drunk who first had sex with his mother in an outhouse. Falwell sued. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that satire is protected speech.

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Paper Bullets @pprbllts.bsky.social · 25d

He's taught in his school
From the start by the rule
That the laws are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight
'Bout the shape that he's in
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game

- Bob Dylan

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Bob Dylan - Only a Pawn in Their Game (Official Audio)

YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO

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