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you 🌚 @c0mm13ba5tard.bsky.social · 47m

the main problem with aws is that it hosts fucking everything

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Count Otter Poppula 🧛🏼 Sr., III @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · 5h

If your movement requires leftists to shut up, because we’re a problem,

but the fascists must always be heard and negotiated with, respectfully?

Your movement is purely about silencing the left.

This has always been the Democrats’ “good cop” role in enabling fascism. It got us here.

Count Otter Poppula 🧛🏼 Sr., III @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · 5h

Can’t oppose fascism by letting fascists under the tent and handing them the money.

This is not an opposition to fascism.

This is an opposition to leftism
By definition you are siding with the fascists.

Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 1d

Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.

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you 🌚 @c0mm13ba5tard.bsky.social · 6h

this is the equivalent of, while on your death bed, the doctor holding up a hand puppet of you and asking "do you think he should die"

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

“For more than a decade, researchers have wondered whether artificial intelligence could help predict what incapacitated patients might want when doctors must make life-or-death decisions on their behalf.”

Should an AI copy of you help decide if you live or die?

Doctors share top concerns of AI surrogates aiding life-or-death decisions.

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 23h

ISRAEL BREAKS CEASEFIRE should be such a simple headline to write and yet no western news outlet seems capable of it.

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Communist Cuirassier 🇵🇸 @homeric-dandy.bsky.social · 11h

That isn’t how Marxism works, you disingenuous equivocating Nazi fuck.

The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 20h

When tools like Mike Johnson warn about the “rise of Marxism” in the Democratic Party, let’s be clear: the Republicans steadfastly support Marxism, as long as wealth is redistributed to corporations and the rich

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WeedCandy🎃&Soup&SpellBooks☭📚💚 @soupnbooks.bsky.social · 20h

Who robbed The Louvre? Right answers only.

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WeedCandy🎃&Soup&SpellBooks☭📚💚 @soupnbooks.bsky.social · 23h

tonight's soup is chicken enchilada 🥣

a bowl of soup with whipped cream on top

Alt: bowls of soup

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Calvinboo Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 1d

if i catch any of yall celebrating the APD on my feed today, it’s on fucking sight.

some of us have memories longer than 2 months

APD pointing a shotgun at protesters on I-35 in Austin during the BLM protests

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𝕮𝖆𝖕𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖒 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝕮𝖚𝖑𝖙 @kurtpaints.bsky.social · 1d

The "how" of the 3.5% rule
(spelled out in the alt text)
#threepointfivepercent

Before we throw around the 3.5% rule- That number is a result of success, not the recipe. A single day of protest, no matter how massive is rarely enough. Here is what Erica Cheneweth's research actually says it takes:

The movement must create durable parallel institutions:
Distributed leadership: councils and networks that can't be decapitated by one arrest.
Logistics and welfare: Systems of food, mutual aid and legal support for strikers and protesters.
Secure communication: independent channels to bypass state propaganda and coordinate.

Orchestrate non cooperation: A regime falls when its machinery breaks.
General strikes: the ultimate weapon, halting transport, energy, and finance paralyzes the state.
Bureaucratic sabotage: civil servants, losing files and slowing orders grinds governance to a halt.
Consumer boycotts. Targeted economic pressure on regime cronies.

Cultivate defectors: Systematically this is a deliberate strategy
Appeal to patriotism: urge security forces to protect the nation, not the ruler
Guarantees of safety: public, credible promises of amnesty and a place in the future for defectors
Reach their families: assure them their loved ones will be safe and provided for

Win the narrative war:
A compelling vision: be For something (democracy, justice) not just against the dictator
Counter propaganda- de-bunk state lies rapidly and credibly
Document everything: record atrocities to undermine regime legitimacy and build international pressure.

Build international support:
Forge connections with foreign governments, NGOs, and media to apply diplomatic and economic pressure on the regime while legitimizing the movement.

All that to say GET ORGANIZED and FOCUS ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE, not the numbers.

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comrade (but spooky) @nowarbutclasswar.bsky.social · 1d

Don't cheer that people will starve

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♡ Kate, crusher of dreams 👻 🎃 🇬🇹~ FREE 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @katespeace.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of marginalized people live in red states who will be affected. A lot of children are also going to be affected by these SNAP and WIC cuts. Genuinely, feel shame. My mom got our family by with WIC in the mid-90s. I genuinely cannot believe there are people celebrating any of this. think.

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WeedCandy🎃&Soup&SpellBooks☭📚💚 @soupnbooks.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a purple shirt is standing in a field with two other men .

Alt: a man in a purple shirt is standing in a field with two other men .

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 1d

How the AP reports Israel breaking ceasefire.

W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck is a "test" of a ceasefire?

AP BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire

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Occurrence @nowhere-entity.bsky.social · 1d

The problems with the US run so much deeper than the cheeto in the white house. This country has had problems since before it was a country, and those haven't been fixed

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WeedCandy🎃&Soup&SpellBooks☭📚💚 @soupnbooks.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of "we're definitely not affiliated with" type accounts that simp for billionaire dems who don't call off their cops lately popping up on this app...

a cat is sitting on a couch looking at the camera with a sad look on its face .

Alt: a cat is sitting on a couch looking at the camera with a sad look on its face .

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Fievel 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 (they/them) @jasoncrane.org · 1d

Otherwise it's just a parade. #nokings

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WeedCandy🎃&Soup&SpellBooks☭📚💚 @soupnbooks.bsky.social · 2d

soup share 💚

RiotDad @riotdad.bsky.social · 2d

@nolanvoidofficial.bsky.social let’s link up so our crew can distro at some of your shows.

this was at the Noogy and Apes of The State show

A table full of anti-fascist and anarchist zines

A table full of Julie emergency contraceptives, Opill once daily contraceptives, naloxone, and harm reduction supplies

A table with a large 5 gallon pot of soup a few ladles some bowls and a sign reading free vegan soup with the ingredients listed

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Merc with a 🫦 full of blood🩸 @mercuryal.bsky.social · 2d

i’m happy people are out there today, but if i see anyone else lament about “online leftists” not being there, i will block that racist revisionist (and ableist) shit so fuckin fast because leftists were doing the work and warning y’all for years, decades even

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 2d

You know Israelis are still killing Palestinians, right?

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 2d

Right now, we're seeing a tug of war between neoliberals and fascists, and this "protest" is representative of the control that neoliberals still have over the people. The left is largely unrepresented in this struggle because it doesn't have power and can't mobilize people like this.

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TDM ☭ @marxist-tdm.bsky.social · 2d

Being polite and holding picket signs doesn't stop fascism.

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WeedCandy🎃&Soup&SpellBooks☭📚💚 @soupnbooks.bsky.social · 2d

it started raining 💚☔

gonna make tomato soup later (yay!)

the rain is falling on the ground and trees in the background

Alt: the rain is falling on the ground and trees in the background

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Kaz ☭ 🇵🇸 @kaz01.bsky.social · 2d

If you are going to these “No kings” liberal protests, don’t post about it or brag about it. Don’t do anything foolish and get yourself arrested in a situation where nobody would help you get out of it. Just have fun.

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unhinged leftist ☭🔻 @gnommunist.bsky.social · 2d

it is a quarterly, scheduled marketing event
www.threads.com/@amandaseale...?

amandaseales (@amandaseales) on Threads

Look at the protests around the world creating regime change then look at ours.

www.threads.com

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Willybongka Ⓐ☭ @willybongka2.bsky.social · 2d

Debate Moderator: "Mr. Cuomo how will you be a mayor for muslims and everyone?"

Andrew Cuomo: *Islamaphobic tyrade*

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