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British Immigrant in Canada. Travel & Politics Blogger | Journalist | https://thisbritslife.com/international-politics/ #womensrights #humanrights #travel #anti-facism #somethingiswrong2024 #metoo

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Gemma @gemslawrence.bsky.social · Nov 18

Calling All Americans (and Friends)

Instructions from MLK’s daughter and Coretta Scott King.

#NEVERSAYHISNAME

Don’t give him credit for anything. He’s #45. It’s “The Republican Administration” or “The Republicans” who are doing everything.

Pass along. Share with journalists too!!

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AMPTsuper @amptsuper.bsky.social · 15h

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Springwatch2000 @springwatch2000.bsky.social · 1d

THESE COSTUMES HAVE TO BECOME A THING

they are just too contrary to Miller's murderous talk that the media has to use it

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Viking Nature @sarahseaforth.bsky.social · 1d

This is so smart. These protests with animal costumes to spoil the chances for the Trump Admin to make it look like “Antifa” is menacing and military is needed to “protect ICE”.

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Gemma @gemslawrence.bsky.social · 22m

Love that they all move back like “ok let’s just step away from the frog” 😂😂

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Dberi @dberi21.bsky.social · 20h

The wizard frogs are assembling bsky.app/profile/dber...

Dberi @dberi21.bsky.social · 3d

Shot 3

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drwhofan1.bsky.social @drwhofan1.bsky.social · 1d

Frog Power.

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rebrob817.bsky.social @rebrob817.bsky.social · 14h

Just bought mine! Plus Kristi Noem cosplay costume 👻

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Cub Green @cubtrader.bsky.social · 18h

Wait until No Kings on the 18th — lots of people buying inflatable costumes for the protests. 😃

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alexdrake.bsky.social @alexdrake.bsky.social · 21h

This may be the funniest deescalation tactic I've ever seen.

ICE look like clowns whenever they treat men in silly frog costumes like they're a threat, it's funny enough to do numbers on social media, and it ruins all the footage Fox tries to take.

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Spicy Bonus Content @spicybonuscontent.bsky.social · 1d

As symbols of mass resistance go, a mob of Portland Frogs is just so vastly superior to those cringe-ass "V for Vendetta" masks.

LEFT: some schmuck
RIGHT: the righteous manifestation of the People's will

some schmuck in a black hoodie and a "V for Vendetta"/Guy Fawkes mask, who will someday be trying and failing to get laid by telling the story of his Black Bloc heroics

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MommaT F. Cancer @mommat-4b.bsky.social · 6h

How could they mess with that? They would look mighty silly attacking a frog or a peacock or a unicorn. 😆

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Lady Celestina, Princesa de Pastel @celestinakitty.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa - by land, swamp, air, and sea

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 1d

AAntifa (Amphibian Anti-Fascism).

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Pfeifferpack aka Kathleen Pfeiffer @pfeifferpack.bsky.social · 22h

Frogs are SO appropriate. The USA is a collective pot of frogs being boiled alive with the heat turned up so slowly we don't realize it in many cases.
I LOVE PORTLAND! (Chicago too... both fighting back in their own unique ways)

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 20h

They have chosen

Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 2d

Choose your fighter.

DC Sandwich Guy throwing sandwich at officers

Chicago priest being assaulted by troops

Guy carrying American flag surrounded by gas.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 7h

Finally remembered to pre-order these books by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & @letsgomathias.bsky.social!

You can order them here:
linktr.ee/KellyHayes

& here:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

Screenshot of the cover of the book “read this when things fall apart: letters to activists in a crisis” by Kelly Hayes. The cover art is an illustration of a person with long hair with their back to us wading in a pond covered in lily pads. The pond is ringed by pine trees, red flowers, and small red mushrooms under a deep blue sky with constellations.

Screenshot of the cover of the book “to catch a fascist: the fight to expose the radical right” by Christopher Mathias. The cover is bright red with white and black text, in the upper right corner the drawing of a black snake is being pierced by three downward facing white arrows.

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Deb @debramayberry.bsky.social · 4h

So I was looking at inflatable squirrel costumes, and look at what the upsell was.

Frequently bought together is the text; picture shows inflatable squirrel + inflatable frog costumes side by side. Tempted.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 59m

Public health is not partisan. It is health for the public.

That means all of us.

Defend Public Health.

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Piston Developers 🍿🥤 @pistondeveloper.bsky.social · 4h

When dictators fall, they lose support rapidly, like a wildfire. There are even videos of dictators losing support in front of their supporters. You can study how they lose it in real time.

There is a kind of saturation and a spark causes rapid transformation, from support to non-support.

#resist

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John Burnham @virginiafrog.bsky.social · 34m

Take this administration at their word.

They are looking for ways to imprison and execute those who disagree and protest and otherwise resist…

Gemma @gemslawrence.bsky.social · 12h

It did not take long for the openly “kill Americans” talk to happen did it.

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Gemma @gemslawrence.bsky.social · 58m

Yes such a tune

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jentihom.bsky.social @jentihom.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/Ye7FKc1JQe4?...
"Shout, Shout, Let it out loud, so come on, I'm talkin to you"

Share this rallying song with 340,000,000 Antifa
"We the people" +🍁are Antifa+BLM vs GOP💩5% minority
Democracy🫶

Have
Only
Positive
Energy

Tears For Fears - Shout (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by TearsForFearsVEVO

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Pat Farrington @xraypat.bsky.social · 1d

This is what the Dems need …

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Rector of Floccinaucinihilipilification @majormanliness.bsky.social · 2d

Dems need less fucks to give. No more fucks. Sans fucks. The GOP is NOT going to suddenly develop a conscience, ethics, morals, integrity or values, and certainly not a sense of patriotism or knowledge or respect of the law or the US Constitution. Fighting back with attitude is the only answer.

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