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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 9h

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 9h

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 9h

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 11h

no MOM, I’m not going to go to your LAME PROTEST, I’m going to post about shining lasers at manned aircraft on public social media

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 11h

But what we really have to consider is that not caring about causing a plane crash in a residential area would be based but showing up to a rally with your parents would be cringe

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10h

This is an aside but Spirit Halloween and a few other online stores carry these if you want to avoid Amazon

Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 10h

It’s hilarious how something simple like “people are sharing Amazon links to buy the same costumes” gets filtered through these conspiratorial grifters’ minds and becomes “They are highly organized.”

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 14h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 10h

"I don't belong to any organized political party, I am a Democrat"

-Will Rogers

we're not highly organized, our online retailers have a flaw in their AI that sends us a coupon for whatever we just bought

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10h

They didn’t talk about heaven in Catholic school as much as trump brings it up lately. What did those doctors say to you buddy.

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 10h

Pope Leo is serving a deep dish pizza of liberation theology to the people inflicting brutality in his hometown of Chicago & I love this for the USCCB, hope everyone's taking their heart meds

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 14h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 20h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 12h

my 87yo Republican mother in law is taking it to the streets, for the first time in her life, with her friends at the retirement home on Saturday and that's why we will win

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 18h

Reminder that George H.W. Bush signed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Sen. Jim Jeffords quit the Republican Party because of underfunding for the IDEA.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

muppets are antifascists

Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 2d

I like to think the Muppets would be 100% behind the Portland protests

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Ginny Zawistowski @zawistov.bsky.social · Sep 6

Rev. Ashley from my church @firstuminneapolis.bsky.social brought the fire:
"I'm here because we seem to have some job confusion between me and you, our elected officials. My job, as a pastor, is to have thoughts and prayers. Your job is to make policy change."

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 20h

It is truly remarkable SCOTUS (& Republicans in Congress) seem not to understand that electoral politics is how we manage disputes about policy without violence

it's poli sci 101 & yet...do they get what elections replaced?

I prefer voting to tar & feathers, and so does SCOTUS, deep down, I think?

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 20h

in honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“I signed some charts”

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 21h

"I forgot my password"

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 21h

closing down the Dept of Ed unit for programs assuring children with special educational needs get a free appropriate public education seems like a learning opportunity

the parents whose kids need such programs are hardened bureaucracy warriors so fighting alongside the teachers who deliver them...

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WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 21h

the Right in the US thinks they have guns & money & just enough votes that they don't need to read a book on movement politics

I don't know *how* they're going to learn that federal funds for policies they hate didn't cause public support for those policies, but I know *that* they're going to learn

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 23h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

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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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

There was a period in history during which full-plate armour was so impregnable, and ransoming back captured nobles so lucrative, that the knights could treat warfare as a game while their men-at-arms got slaughtered in the mud.

I think about that a lot when I look at modern politics.

Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 1d

If we survive this, and Democrats are able to take back power, I guarantee you we will have to endure think-piece after think-piece that demand the rest of us reach out, stop shaming, and forgive fascists and the crimes they’ve committed. I absolutely guarantee it.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t imagine a less Minnesotan sentiment, TBH

A hoodie in the Minneapolis airport that says “Minnesota Vs Everybody”

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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ToughPigs @toughpigs.com · 1d

Remembering the great Diane Keaton with the Muppets' homage from the 1982 Miss Piggy Calendar.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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