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lyvautier.bsky.social @lyvautier.bsky.social · 1d
If you think she would be interested there will be a No Tyrants rally at Museumplein in Amsterdam on Oct 18 between 1 and 3 pm.
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Tamara @tammrock.bsky.social · 1d
Om dit jaar ook 250 kerstpakketjes te kunnen maken zijn we nog flink zoek naar ongebruikte verzorgingsproducten en cosmetica in alle soorten en maten!

We lopen achter in de aantallen ten opzichte van vorig jaar dus bij deze een grootse oproep voor donaties!

Delen wordt enorm gewaardeerd 🙌

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Wij zijn nog op zoek naar alle soorten verzorgingsproducten en cosmetica! Heb jij je badkamerkastje vol staan met ongebruikte producten? Zie je een leuke aanbieding? Ben je op vakantie geweest en heb je mini's? Alles is welkom zodat we de 250 kerstpakketjes kunnen maken!
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i.W.A.N. @iwaneijs.bsky.social · 4d
@demsabroad.bsky.social @democratsabroad.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

#NoTyrants #NoKings
#CourageIsContagious
18 October 2025, 15:00, Brussels Belgium 🇧🇪
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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 4d
We’ll be out in Barcelona, too, please add to your map! And Madrid also has a protest planned @demsabroad.bsky.social - if you’re in Barcelona, please join us to protest tyranny next Saturday. Noon, Plaça Sant Jaume. People of all nationalities & speaking any language welcome, bienvenido, Benvingut!
No Tyrants. Barcelona, please join us to protest tyranny next Saturday. Noon, Plaça Sant Jaume.
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LaCheshireChat DAFR Brittany, Rennes Leader #Resist #RiseUp @lacheshirechat.bsky.social · 4d
NO KINGS PARIS at Bastille* Sat. October 18 from 3-5PM.
Vive la Resistance! *RSVP to connect and get updates here:
www.mobilize.us /nokings/event/841583/
Come join us! Look for the Statue of Liberty 🗽 that's me!
#NoTyrants #NoKings #Democracy @demsabroad.bsky.social @indivisibleparis.bsky.social
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14d
2a) Apart from featuring his definition of fascism (which he offers reluctantly), Paxton observes how the fascist relation to ideas is merely tactical and not grounded in intellectual consistency.

Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.
The fascist leaders themselves, as we observed in chapter 1, called their movements ideologies, and many interpreters have taken them at their word. It is commonplace to see fascism defined by extracting common threads from party programs, by analogy with the other “isms.” This works better for the other “isms,” founded in the era of educated elite politics. I tried earlier to suggest that fascism bears a different relation to ideas than the nineteenth-century “isms,” and that intellectual positions (not basic mobilizing passions like racial hatreds, of course) were likely to be dropped or added according to the tactical needs of the moment. All the “isms” did this, but only fascism had such contempt for reason and intellect that it never even bothered to justify its shifts.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14d
2) For the same class we read Ch. 8 of Robert Paxton's classic The Anatomy of Fascism. I used his definition of fascism in my book Antifa.

I love his argument that a definition of fascism "encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person."
Cover of The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton. It shows a woman giving a fascist salute. What Is Fascism? The moment has come to give fascism a usable short handle, even though we know that it encompasses its subject no better than a snapshot encompasses a person. Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 6d
Very sorry to hear about this and ongoing threats & harassment.
As somebody from the U.S. living in Spain, please say the word if any suggestions are helpful for living in Spain. Also, not sure which city you’re heading to, but we have a No Tyrants protest Oct 18 in Barcelona, & I think Madrid too.
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lyvautier.bsky.social @lyvautier.bsky.social · 1d
HI Dirk, Sorry you can't be there, but if you can help get the word out that would be really helpful. I was talking with my Mother who also can not attend physically and I suggested she make a sign and take a selfie with it on the day of the protest. Thanks for your reply.
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lyvautier.bsky.social @lyvautier.bsky.social · 1d
The rally is going to be held at Museumplein 19
Amsterdam 1071 DJ which is just across from the US Consulate. It will be from 1 - 3pm. We are still waiting to be added to the No Kings find an event listing and map, but we will be there.
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TCarlson @tcw123.bsky.social · 1d
#NoTyrants
#RISEUP
NICE, FRANCE
NO TYRANTS Protest in Nice!
Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 04:00 PM Paris Time
Replica of the Statue of Liberty
Quai des États-Unis
Nice 06000
France
www.democratsabroad.org/nancytoolan/...
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i.W.A.N. @iwaneijs.bsky.social · 4d
#NoTyrants #NoKings
#CourageIsContagious
18 October 2025, 15:00, Brussels Belgium 🇧🇪
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lyvautier.bsky.social @lyvautier.bsky.social · 2d
www.democratsabroad.org/atolbs/no_ty...
No Tyrants 2 Rally
Democrats Abroad strives to provide Americans abroad a Democratic voice in our government and elect Democratic candidates by mobilizing the overseas vote.
www.democratsabroad.org
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lyvautier.bsky.social @lyvautier.bsky.social · 2d
There is going to be a second NoTyrants Rally on October 18th On the Museumplein www.democratsabroad.org/atolbs/no_ty...
No Tyrants 2 Rally
Democrats Abroad strives to provide Americans abroad a Democratic voice in our government and elect Democratic candidates by mobilizing the overseas vote.
www.democratsabroad.org
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Democrats Abroad Belgium @demsabroadbe.bsky.social · 3d
In or around Amsterdam?

Join the #NoKings protest from 1-3pm!
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lyvautier.bsky.social @lyvautier.bsky.social · 3d
I hope it is okay to post this, but I am trying to help spread the word that Democrats Abroad Netherlands has also added a #NOTyrants event on October 18th. www.democratsabroad.org/atolbs/no_ty...
No Tyrants 2 Rally
Democrats Abroad strives to provide Americans abroad a Democratic voice in our government and elect Democratic candidates by mobilizing the overseas vote.
www.democratsabroad.org
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Ku Kalekai @kalekai.bsky.social · 3d
Time to breed some frogs
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lyvautier.bsky.social @lyvautier.bsky.social · 3d
I hope it is okay to post this, but I am trying to help spread the word that Democrats Abroad Netherlands has also added a #NOTyrants event on October 18th. www.democratsabroad.org/atolbs/no_ty...
No Tyrants 2 Rally
Democrats Abroad strives to provide Americans abroad a Democratic voice in our government and elect Democratic candidates by mobilizing the overseas vote.
www.democratsabroad.org
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Democrats Abroad Belgium @demsabroadbe.bsky.social · 5d
We hope you'll join us in our next protest against the excesses of the Trump regime #NoTyrants #NoKings

🪧 18 October in Central #Brussels 🇧🇪
Outside the 🇺🇸 Embassy 🪧

Details & RSVP: www.democratsabroad.org/stevebikun/n... ✊️✊️✊️
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7d
I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15d
Pete Hegseth vibes
Band of Brothers- Sobel Inspecting Easy Company
YouTube video by Sul
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 15d
Interesting for Hegseth and Trump railing about “political correctness” after the admin spent two weeks policing what people can and can’t say about Charlie Kirk
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20d
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27d
The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 27d
They want to cancel Jimmy Kimmel and kill free speech?

Time to hit them where it hurts—their pockets:
- Cancel Disney+
- Cancel Hulu
- Boycott ESPN
- Boycott ABC

Let them know why you’re canceling/boycotting.
- ABC contact: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/art...
- Nexstar contact: www.nexstar.tv/contact/
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 27d
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FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23: Free speech is the counterweight—it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.
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