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𝕮𝖆𝖕𝖎𝖙𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖒 𝖎𝖘 𝖆 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝕮𝖚𝖑𝖙 @kurtpaints.bsky.social · 3d

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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A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 3d

Take out one speaker full of shit and you save many more American lives. Louisiana, you can do better.

A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 5d

Also known as he doesn't want to end this war.

A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 6d

We do need to speak of it. There has to be reckoning and reconciliation or we will be back here in another 50 years.

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A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 6d

They weren't lied to. It was even written down in Project 2025 for everyone to read and absorb. They were fine with it happening to others and thought they were exempt. Now they're feeling how racism and hate hurt everyone. Own it, apologize and make amends.

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 7d

🚨IRS, FBI, Federal Marshals, MPD, DEA, ICE, HLS, and ATF here to “investigate” this woman. Suspicious for being black? The regime has made their white supremacism clear. The time for us to reject it is NOW!

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A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 7d

Please define "kids" JD. I''m sure if they were Black, they would be defined differently.

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A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 9d

Ok Grampa Creep, time to take your meds.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 9d

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 9d

Pssst...pssst...Chicago, flash mob doing the electric slide. Please!

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 12d

...Or a gold plated jet

A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 12d

The PieceOS President.

A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 13d

Because when you remove all the people they are afraid of...black and brown people, women, LGBTQ people, educated people, empathetic people, the only people left for them to pick on are little kids.

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A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 13d

Satanyahu will find a way to screw it all up by sundown on Friday.

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A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 13d

Nice try but Trump's still in the Epstein files. No amount of lawsuits change that.

A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 13d

So what now Mikey? Keep the House closed forever? Someone please for all our sakes, leak the damn info.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14d

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 13d

She needs to worry less about antifa and more about all the plastic in her face killing her...and eat some carbs before she faints

A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 13d

Yep...he is sick...like really sick!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Trump: "Nancy's not looking too good. I don't know the hel-- what happened to Nancy. But she's not looking great."

A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 13d

Not a fuxking one!

A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 13d

Oh shit!! This confirms it, he is really sick. Attacking someone else's health and a trip to Walter Reed...

Trump photo that says every accusation is a confession. Trump only talks about himself.

A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 13d

For those of you who didn't bother to google fascism BEFORE the election...

A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 13d

Does Preznit Fuckwit even know what antifa stands for? Almost everyone in the country is anti fascist. I don't know many people who are running out sign up for fascism.

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A.M. Sampson @amsam.bsky.social · 13d

My first thought was they have to check him out to see if he is well enough to fly to the Middle East.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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