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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12h

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.

Print it.

Put it in a frame.

Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy.

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 1h

HELL yes!

‘You Will Not Silence Me’: Watch Mehdi’s Defiant Speech in DC
zeteo.com/p/you-will-n...

‘You Will Not Silence Me’: Watch Mehdi’s Defiant Speech in DC

Mehdi slams Trump for being complicit in the Gaza genocide, dismantles the president’s ‘peace plan’, and explains why he refuses to lose hope – as he accepts an award from the Arab Center in DC.

zeteo.com

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 10h

Any broad inclusivity movement that centers exclusion as core strategy is doomed to backfire

Coming Out Day is the story of minorities gaining inclusion through allyship with majorities

If your queer liberation story is about excluding your conventional neighbors, you’re just reinforcing otherness

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 1d

If we want to pull ourselves out of the shit we have to actually do some pulling

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 1d

they just do shit until somebody pushes back then they come back and do more shit

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 2d

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 2d

@mayorofseattle.bsky.social @governorferguson.bsky.social #Seattle -

“Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.”

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2d

ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 2d

That certainly seems true in West Seattle! When we attended the last No Kings march on Capitol Hill, the demographics were all over the map. Old, young, and everything in between. Thousands of people.

Retired folks have a lot more time (and perspective!) to show up and show up and show up!

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 2d

On Day One, Trump pardons the J6ers. This is the most obvious response in the world. It’s a fucking alter-call for hate groups

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 2d

Oof

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 2d

"We're saving God."

Roll that phrase around your head. Consider the theological and cosmological implications.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 2d

I’m told that disliking hip hop is always racist

Is feeling nauseous at the smell of product exuding from big hair always misogynist?

Just trying to keep up on the relative morality of visceral internal experiences that externally affect nobody

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 2d

LOL

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Seems the Narcissist-in-Chief is mad about the Time Mag cover neckgina pic so please don’t share it widely

Thank you for your attention to this matter

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 2d

LOL
open.substack.com/pub/jefftied...

Pete Kegstand shits a brick when Meal Team Six shows up in Chicago

how fucking petty can one man be

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 3d

“Actually, now that some time has passed... ”

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 3d

We need a lot more resistance and we need it now

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 3d

I am not now, nor have I ever been, a Boy Scout

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 3d

Due to my problematically high trait conscientiousness (Google "Big Five personality traits"), I have a challenge with public restrooms, which I committed years ago to always leaving in better shape than I find them. I never fail to do SOMETHING to improve their condition.

I met my match last week.

A maddeningly perfect public restroom I couldn't find any way to improve for the next visitor.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 4d

This is a really well done—I hope it catches on: A silent roadside protest staged over the weekend in Westerville, Ohio, and posted to the Facebook page of the Westerville Progressive Alliance.
www.youtube.com/shorts/TpZFS...

Signs of Fascism!

YouTube video by COOLHAND

www.youtube.com

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 4d

Thanks but no Meta in this house

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 4d

If ACAB were true*, would it be because the work requires bad, transforms good into bad, or because the culture is bad and filters out good before it can counter-corrupt it?

*I don’t believe it is true, but I reject most broad generalizations.

… most.

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 4d

Any complaining OR gloating about the unspeakable DJT not getting a fucking Nobel is, I’ll say again, just astounding stupidity.

Use a calendar people. Time may be a construct but it’s a relevant one.

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Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 4d

Who needs to be on X when every other account on Bluesky is screen capping it for us?

Weasel Cheese @weaselcheese.com · 4d

Gee, is hiring ethical people to be cops just not an option?