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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Seems like a reasonable request

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 14h

“I don't respond to Trump—that could be counterproductive," the Houston mayor added. "Do I have personal views? Sure, and they're strong, but why do you want to challenge him?"

Because he’s incredibly unpopular? Because you want to show you have a spine?

Chron.com @chron.com · 14h

John Whitmire offered wide-ranging remarks on Democratic leaders to the New York Times.

Houston mayor calls out Zohran Mamdani in new interview

John Whitmire offered wide-ranging remarks on Democratic leaders to the New York Times.

bit.ly

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 10h

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10h

Giants just blew a 19 point fourth quarter lead and lost after their kicker missed an extra point.

This man is having a weekend!

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 23h

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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Joe DeLong @joedelong.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

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Louis Nelson 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @anelson1818.bsky.social · 11h

God bless all the patient Americans who pay taxes and raise their kid and worry about their grandparents health insurance who now have to hear their crazy uncles and GOP family explain why the video isn’t a big deal at thanksgiving. Resent is a motherfucker and these people will pay for this.

Louis Nelson 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @anelson1818.bsky.social · 12h

The trick now is getting people to realize that the marches happened. Legacy media is pretty quiet about it. We gotta drop leaflets

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 22h

Millions march against the fascism the #BrokenTimes is blind to. It now refuses to count their numbers and it muffles their voices in small, BTW headlines. This is not journalism.

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Louis Nelson 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @anelson1818.bsky.social · 12h

Good point, better to just continue to let these people piss all over us and do nothing as we lose the country

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 20h

Watch how the media reports yesterday’s march.

Outlets that don’t report it, or dramatically downplay it are showing you precisely who they are.

When it matters.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings, Dallas ✊

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Louis Nelson 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @anelson1818.bsky.social · 14h

These ppl really think that all lefties are soft and won’t do anything to them.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 14h

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h

their ducks: not even in a row. in disarray. shambles

our ducks: slowly arranging themselves into uncountable phalanxes

Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 1d

Austin PD's statement was even more explicitly pro-protest, they literally thanked everyone for coming out lol

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 20h

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970

The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside

Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23

They constantly let America down

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 21h

I was thinking about this after No Kings.

If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 20h

I think about this every time I see people on here insisting that change is won by small numbers of black bloc protesters conducting violent action.

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 21h

I was thinking about this after No Kings.

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Louis Nelson 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @anelson1818.bsky.social · 19h

“Epstein didn’t do anything wrong!! We love corrupt billionaires!!!” Ok dude.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 20h

if maga got 4-7 million people on the streets, the press would cover it for months, years, as a world historic event

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Louis Nelson 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @anelson1818.bsky.social · 21h

Msnbc has something about IVF and CNN has something about the Louvre in Paris. They can’t wait to talk about anything else except the biggest single-day demonstrations since at least 1970. The media is bought and sold people.