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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 17h

The GOP is not "good at messaging." The president just shared a meme of him pooping on people from a fighter jet. There's inconsistent messaging throughout the GOP's platform.

What the modern GOP is good at, is delivering on the core promise: "We will hurt the people that you want us to hurt."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h

The reason for this is that this class of people has internalized the idea of conservatives as the American Volk, an idea downstream of the senate and EC giving them more power than their numbers that has somehow become a quasi spiritual belief about the nature of the country

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 16h

Wow, that would be a tough thing to do. So much admiration!

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 1d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Zoe Samuel @zoesamuel.bsky.social · 1d

Right. I saw a Latino man in a work truck with a little Mexican flag on the dash moved almost to tears waving & honking to everyone. It's not fucking "performative" to him.

As a Jew, it'd have meant the world to me to see images like this from Germany 1934. And it might have changed the outcome.

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 17h

Boosting this very easy, back friendly method of pin basting a quilt. Came out great and far better than floor basting for me. #quilting

youtu.be/K4t7p6zAvok?...

How to Table Baste Your Quilt Sandwich

YouTube video by Pin Cut Sew

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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 1d

Using “Wine mom” to dismiss a person engaging in politics is misogyny.
If you saw someone telling a woman not to bother her pretty little head about fascism, you’d recognize it.
Stop doing it yourself.

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Friendly Skeleton @jonathan.eylerwerve.com · 1d

It's big Trump protest day so that means we are mere hours away from my least favorite Bluesky: the Russian disinfo surge.

Here's how it works, and what you can do about it. 🧵

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 1d

Are the dino costumes that specific?

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Gold Trash Can @goldtrashcan.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone is 12 theory strikes again

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 1d

i'd forgotten about the ElliptiGo.

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 1d

My Buy Nothing group does this (in fact, it has a separate puzzles/game group). I recommend this!

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 1d

This is pretty much me on buy nothing.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 1d

Okay new idea for a library service: leave a hobby take a hobby. When people get bored with a hobby they can come and leave their supplies and books and half-finished things, and exchange them for someone else’s supplies and books and half-finished things. Hobby swap.

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 1d

Or rather, to be less euphemistic, everything they are saying are lies.

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 1d

I love how they so pointedly highlight the complete absurdity of what is going on. You can show a video of heavily armed military and say its against criminals and then.... oh look at the cute dancing unicorn!!! Whether intentional or not, it points that MAGA's claims are ridiculous.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

So no terrorism then?

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

I like how they are carrying American flags, but not attacking police with them.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Byrne: THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL BIKE!
<guy grabbing it back> no it's not

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike.

(via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 1d

Your team were so organized and helpful. Thank you.

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 1d

Not being critical, just looking for clarity.

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 1d

Ha, just posted the same q

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 1d

By NYC - you mean Manhattan and Brooklyn combined or are you doing the shorthand thing where NYC = Manhattan?

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Alexandra @alexandrasweetie.bsky.social · 1d

Love this fucking city :)

Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 1d

This is the No Kings Protest clip of the day!

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a MASSIVE CROWD peacefully protesting and marching down the streets of NYC to protest Donald Trump and his administration’s actions and policies.

Just look at that turnout!!!

📍New York City, NY