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John Woodward

@kitizensane.bsky.social

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Husband, girl dad, sm biz owner, Liberal, ally. Racism is a tool to keep the working class divided. #resist #strongertogether #ReverseCitizensUnited #IATSE #NCSA class of 1990 Now Bluesky in #Greenlawn 💙🎭🔨🚴🏼🍺🐕‍🦺☮️

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John Woodward @kitizensane.bsky.social · Nov 14

chop wood
carry water
punch nazis

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h

Imagine being the largest newspaper in Washington, DC with the motto "Democracy Dies in Darkness" and thinking to publish this today.

You might think WaPo editors would look out the window and realize something more important is happening. But perhaps democracy already died over there.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

"I want people to know that what's happening in Portland - the creativity, the irreverence, the refusal to be intimidated - that's replicable," she says. "Every city has artists. Every community has weirdos. We just need to find each other and start creating the alternative story. The revolution doesn't have to look like a protest.
Make it weird. When they tell you to cover up, shut up, and comply, the most radical thing you can do is be visible, speak truth, and take up space. With joy. Tap into your creativity. Art isn't a luxury in times like these - it's survival."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 13h

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

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lizfromearth616 @lizfromearth616.bsky.social · 12h

Fuck Donald Trump! Fuck Kristi Noem! Fuck Stephen Miller! Also fuck they rest of that raggedy ass administration. America has spoken and we can’t stand you assholes. So proud of Chicago for showing up against tyranny. I love my city!

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Barbara Rybolt @barbararybolt.bsky.social · 20h

#ProudBlue #Resist#NoKings

Some sound advice when you go out to protest today. Stay calm & carry on despite any provocation! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 1d

If they don’t show up in disguise, this will be how they’ll be dressed

A V O I D like the plague

Completely ignore any and every provocation and I might add, any kind of interaction at all that may escalate

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

This is No Kings Chicago, where we learn that "America-hating" protesters *love* to wave American flags. Who knew?

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John Woodward @kitizensane.bsky.social · 11h

We were there. Boisterous but peaceful, joyful, and earnest yet funny. A huge crowd and as far as I could tell zero trouble
Thank you #Nokings

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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago “No Kings” protest was over 2 miles long.
Pritzker got a huge ovation when he addressed the crowd.
Chicagoans do not take kindly to the National Guard and ICE invasion.
Trump and the GOP should be very scared.
#NoKings
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1

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John Woodward @kitizensane.bsky.social · 16h

Hey Donnie- You’ll never break Chicago!
#NoKingsDay
No Kings

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John Woodward @kitizensane.bsky.social · 16h

Blue line

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 17h

So many people going to No Kings protest, open house Chicago, etc today via CTA. Standing room only

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John Woodward @kitizensane.bsky.social · 16h

Blue line

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago - no kings

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16h

Huge crowd in Chicago. #NoKings

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 16h

No Kings Chicago

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 17h

No Kings protest kicking off in Washington, D.C. Here’s the view down Pennsylvania Avenue from near the front. Street is totally packed for blocks.

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Boricuabc2 @boricuabc2.bsky.social · 16h

CHICAGO IN DA HOUSE!!!!! NO KINGS and trump said no one would show up. YEAH OK

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 16h

Boston. Wow.

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John Woodward @kitizensane.bsky.social · 16h

#NoKingsDay

John Woodward @kitizensane.bsky.social · 16h

Let’s go Chicago

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John Woodward @kitizensane.bsky.social · 16h

Let’s go Chicago

John Woodward @kitizensane.bsky.social · 17h

The L is at capacity on the way to #NoKings Chicago

John Woodward @kitizensane.bsky.social · 17h

Chicago is mobilized!
#NoKings

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1d

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Padilla: It’s not just undocumented folks who are being detained and arrested. It’s legal immigrants—even US citizens. We know of at least 170 US citizens who have been caught up in these raids and put in detention centers.

It’s the intended effect of this administration to stoke fear and terror

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