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Rev. Magdalen @revmagdalen.bsky.social · 2d

I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.

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smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · 2d

Best No Kings rally sign I've seen so far

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

When you are geolocating at the protest based on inflatable animals

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smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · 4d

smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · 5d

@maddenifico: "An antifa commander strategically positions his tank to do battle with Trump's Nazi ICE Gestapo in war-ravaged Portland"

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Angie Raimondo @2angie.bsky.social · 6d

Bette Midler on Stephen Colbert Late Night Show @jjraimondo.bsky.social 🙌👏👏👏

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smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · 6d

According to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the Portland Frog Brigade protesters have a high-profile supporter :-> www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

www.youtube.com

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k_the_(spo)okayest @ktheokayest.bsky.social · 8d

The Unusual Suspects

A meme showing an FBI lineup with the heading reading "FBI MOST WANTED TERRORISTS" and standing in the lineup are Inflatable Reptar, Inflatable Freedom Frog, Inflatable Unicorn, and Inflatable Shark.

Clearly, they're war criminals.

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smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · 6d

For those with long memories :->

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smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · 9d

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 12d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · 13d

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smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · 16d

Professor Lawrence Britt in 2001 researched seven fascist regimes - Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Pinochet (Chile), Salazar (Portugal), Papadopoulos (Greece), and Suharto (Indonesia) - and identified these early warning signs. Sound familiar?

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watertigernyc @watertigernyc.bsky.social · 20d

File under "Fuck, I Wish I Thought of That!"

The generals are calling them fat man and little boy because of how badly they bombed.

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smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · 20d

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 26d

Republicans: "Donald Trump is the healthiest president in history."

Also Republicans: "We demand a criminal investigation into who made Donald Trump walk up a flight of stairs."

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smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · 26d

Trump managed to unite the various countries in attendance at his UN speech

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 26d

Will ABC ever learn that you cannot appease a tyrant?

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 27d

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · Sep 18

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

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smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · Sep 17

Sadly accurate... www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how...

How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left

If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · Sep 17

Amused at the text exchange that is supposedly between the Kirk shooter and his roommate/lover dramatized as a Jane Austen production :-> x.com/DecodingFoxN...

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 14

"You are being musically mean to me and it's hurting my feelings so I am going to call the police department that we are supposed to be supporting to report a feels violation."

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Sep 14

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

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smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social · Sep 13

Saw Weird Al in a low-rent burgers-and-beer place in San Jose that held about 15 tables, and Manhattan Transfer in a small cocktail lounge in Fort Lauderdale.

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