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Richard Silvia

@yesrising.bsky.social

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Writer of dreams, music and inclusiveness. YESRISING TOGETHER —Civil Society is Us! Curiosity, Critical Thinking, Education, and Empathy are pathways to a better future. 🏳️‍🌈 Thinkers 👉🏻 https://linktr.ee/YesRising

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Richard Silvia @yesrising.bsky.social · Jun 14

I’m proud of my country today!
The Signs: Springfield, MA
No Kings

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Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 1h

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Trump just announced the U.S. will halt all subsidies to Colombia, calling President Gustavo Petro “an illegal drug leader.”

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Still taken from the video of the submarine strike with the word unclassified at the top.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 8h

Watch how the media reports yesterday’s march.

Outlets that don’t report it, or dramatically downplay it are showing you precisely who they are.

When it matters.

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Richard Silvia @yesrising.bsky.social · 1h

The @apnews.com still refuses to post anything about No Kings?

This, cough, news source has capitulated and fallen far from grace. Shame.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

Mike Johnson’s Bible apparently has Jesus encouraging lying as often as possible as the pathway to heaven. Must be a Trump Bible.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

!!! Trump now says he's secured $20 TRILLION in investments in America. His fake number has increased by $2 trillion just since last Thursday! (The entire US GDP is $30 trillion)

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20h

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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State Court Report @statecourtreport.org · 2d

Three Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices will face an up or down vote next month in an election whose outcome will likely impact the midterms. @douglaskeith.bsky.social explains everything you need to know about the high-stakes judicial race.

Everything You Need to Know About Next Month’s High-Stakes Supreme Court Elections in Pennsylvania

Three justices will face an up or down vote in November, the outcome of which is likely to impact the midterms.

statecourtreport.org

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3h

Here it is. Trump's Gaza cease-fire deal just went up in flames.

Reported just 12 minutes ago.

Israel not only has suspended aid into Gaza but has launched a massive wave of attacks.

Time Magazine is going to have to come up with a new cover of Trump.

Israel suspends aid into Gaza and launches ‘massive wave of attacks’ – Middle East crisis live

Ceasefire close to total collapse as health officials say 29 Palestinians killed in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19h

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 19h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD 🐸(🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 12h

"It is imperative that we make it clear that war powers reside with Congress, not the president."

--- Rand Paul

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "We're in Chicago now ... Beautiful Black woman wearing MAGA caps all over the city. It's the most incredible thing. I love it."

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 5h

Hoo boy the wheels really fell off for Johnson here in a way that they haven’t when he’s been pressed on this before. Good prep work from J Karl

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 4h

When a Leader Turns His Weapons on His Own People...Even in Fantasy: The day Donald Trump posted an AI video showing him in a jet...dumping shit on Americans.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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GulfofKansas @jboy46.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s make it better!! No Kings rally Topeka Ks. #nokings

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Richard Silvia @yesrising.bsky.social · 6h

The Associated Press, as far as I’ve seen, hasn’t covered No Kings at all.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

The huge No Kings protests, an estimated 7 million people addressing America's worst crisis since the Civil War, get a tiny headline on the New York Times homepage, with no photo.
Why does NYT think change happens only when politicians hold news conferences and not when everyday people take action?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Any media outlets that don’t address this video of Trump wearing a crown dumping shit on Americans is normalizing it.

As with everything else this authoritarian regime does, you’re either calling it out or normalizing it. There is no third option.

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 20h

7M people

No arrests have been reported that I have seen.

Peaceful protests from coast to coast.

#NoKings

The United States wants civil liberties, Constitutional rights and the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without Trumps private army’s terror.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17h

I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings

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Project Now @nowproject.bsky.social · 8h

25th Amendment time!

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

I for one do think it's possible for America to find a president better than one who, faced with claims he is dumping shit on Americans, posts a video showing himself dumping shit on Americans.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 22h

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 1d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Richard Silvia @yesrising.bsky.social · 8h

The @apnews.com is CHOOSING not to report on NO KINGS protests.

WHY?

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