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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 3h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19m

seriously buy and listen to this final show. he has made something very special. listen without doing too much web stuff, it will take you places, guaranteed.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20m

Portland is showing the way. Hail Portland

FOX 12 Oregon facebook post screenshot. Headline reads "Latest Updates: 2 more arrested near Portland ICE facility Saturday." Picture shows people outsid the ICE facility in blow-up costumes, L-R: Squidward, Mr. Potato Head, not sure but it's a diapered person in a trucker hat, Garfield, again not sure, banana, lobster

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 53m

I won't go on & on about it. But what Dr. Demento put out into the world was special. It connected who knows how many people to music they didn't know they needed. to weird music. to big laffs, which we need. his final show will cost you three bucks, but it's priceless. 3/3 drdemento.com/online.html

Dr. Demento - Streaming

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 53m

the KMET broadcast, in southern California, was longer than the nationally syndicated one. Sunday night. by the radio for four hours. three hours of madness and one hour of the top ten, which was determined by petitions mailed in. the local Rocky Horror massive often dominated the countdown. 2/3

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 53m

so, this weekend the great Dr. Demento did his final show. I could write a lot about the importance of his show to me & my friends when we were 12 and 13. there's more to it than "he played funny stuff" and "his show is where @alyankovic.bsky.social got his start." 1/3

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4h

it's really not hard. could even throw in a "why are you guys so obsessed with ratings?" if you were feeling catty

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4h

I was buying drugs there in 1986. very good ones tbh

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4h

this is very good

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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onion person @junlper.beer · 4h

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 4h

you will be so glad you did.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5h

if you're in or near Detroit go see one of the greatest champions of new music in the field -- her performances are mind-expanding events dia.org/events/frida...

Friday Night Live! Miranda Cuckson and Blair McMillan | Detroit Institute of Arts Museum

The Detroit Institute of the Arts is located in Detroit’s cultural corridor. Our address is 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, the Metro on Broadway, right? It was a spot. I wore a hat with a lavender band and dark glasses literally at all times so if you saw a freak in a purple Givenchy tie & blazer over black jeans who never took off his aviators that was me.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah this is what’s so insulting about their idea of “danger.” It’s “having to see the people you have failed”

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9h

So in conclusion, the people hating on Portland are a bunch of lying assholes, and nobody reading this doesn’t already know that but the whole thing was pissing me off so I had to run my mouth about it a little, thanks. /thread

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9h

They’re doing this about Chicago, and New York, and they did it in Ohio during the election. Their whole gambit is “the people we need to persuade of this will never go to those places.”

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9h

They get b-roll of people who’ve been failed ny 40 years of Reaganite policy and then run it on a loop & say “the city is dangerous!” Generally and accurately no it isn’t, and where it is it’s because of their own failed policies.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9h

But you know what happened to me? Nothing. Been doing this in town every trip for years. I walked back to my hotel and went to sleep. And you know why? Because they are lying to you about Portland. Their techniques are so crude and obvious that you’d think nobody would be fooled.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9h

I’m a man in his late 50s. Per the slander being peddled by the government and their toadies, I ought to have been accosted, attacked, assaulted. Strolling down Burnside at 2 am in my stage clothes. Walking to my old copping spot in Old Town just to see it.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9h

Re: Portland. I lived there is ‘85-‘86. As anybody from that time can tell you there was a lot more trouble to get into around town and I was often part of the trouble. So, when my band played Pioneer Courthouse a couple years back, after the show I walked EVERYWHERE downtown.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9h

same tbh

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 10h

“The Hague Group's measures are not optional, not radical, not novel. They are legal obligations, binding under the Genocide Convention."

🔗 Read more from Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, Executive Secretary of The Hague Group, in Middle East Eye.

Over 30 states meet during Netanyahu's UN speech to weigh action against Israel

The Hague Group convenes 34 states on the sidelines of the General Assembly to gather support for eight concrete measures to stop the Gaza genocide

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 10h

One thing that’s funny about how we react to stuff like this is how earnest we are. Workers were as likely to think “census? I’m gonna fuck with this guy” then as now. Taking the piss was not invented in the 20th century

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 14h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 18h

No I haven’t!

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 19h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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