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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 1d

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose"

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5h

we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!

time.com/collections/...

Why Protests Should Be Promises

Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

time.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 22h

3. It turns out Kaufmann’s conclusion is based on a massive statistical error. When corrected, the numbers show the opposite of what he claimed: transgender and nonbinary identification in America has risen over the last two years as more people come out than ever before.

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Dylan NDR Edwards @dylanndr.bsky.social · 22h

Sounds good! Hope you can defeat this cold!

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 1d

One of the things that absurdist protest accomplishes is making the people cracking down on it look absolutely ridiculous.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Mr. Completely @brokensymmetry.art · 2d

By far the most likely outcome if you attend a rally, especially a big one, is that you'll experience feelings of joy and solidarity to a degree that can make you giddy. It's the best antidote for the fear, anger and depression resulting from all this constant bullshit. It's a great feeling. Go.

RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 2d

I know there’s been an effort to make this seem scary and risky, but if we all show up, friends and neighbors in tow, it will be effective. Let’s show up for the brave people in Chicago, Portland, DC and LA.

plasticparticulate.bsky.social @plasticparticulate.bsky.social · 2d

This weekend folks

www.nokings.org#map

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Republican officials have spent years psy-oping themselves into thinking that there are no sincere, good faith liberals or progressives anywhere in America. So no wonder they're totally unequipped to deal with a large crowd of normal people waving American flags.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 1d

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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H. Dithmer @hdithmer.bsky.social · 1d

SKELETONS

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 1d

It's Wednesday, my dudes

A demonstrator wearing an inflatable frog costume outside an ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. They are holding a sign that says "Frogs Together Strong."

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

it’s amazing how easy it is to chase off evangelical extremists with the mere sight of a naked butt

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Dylan NDR Edwards @dylanndr.bsky.social · 1d

That's a definite possibility! My partner and I are planning to go, so we'd just need to work out logistics (assuming you're successful in defeating that head cold). But I think we could make that happen!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Chris Talbot (they/them) @mxchristalbot.bsky.social · 2d

Hi folks! A Black trans individual needs emergency help. Please give to Jazz if you can:

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And please share widely. We keep us safe, housed, and resourced!

Image says Support Jacob (Jazz) Smith. Rapid fundraising call. Jacob needs urgent support to stay housed and mobile. Living with a permanent disability, he's navigating limited work options and delayed federal aid until December 2026 while building powerful organizations and solutions. Your support keeps hope alive. Secure safe, stable housing after leaving an unsafe situation in Breckenridge; stay mobile for local travel, and weekly moonshot fellowship sessions; resource personal and work supplies currently not covered until 2026; focus on humanity solutions, innovation, not survival. "We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond." Gwendolyn Brooks. October 13 $425 goal. Cashapp: $JCSCO26, Venmo: jassmittys, Apple Pay: 214-783-9245.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 3d

*10/13/2025 noncooperation thread*

Going to a #NoKings event? Can't? Either way, can you:

Print/make Megan's "Report ICE" zines (find yours: drive.google.com/drive/folder...) & ALSO her new zine ⬇️ to bring/give to folks who are going?

h/t @besecretandexult.bsky.social who apparently made 2000‼️
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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 3d

@emilylhauser.bsky.social in case you haven’t seen, I have yet another zine out! It was commissioned to be distributed during the No Kings 2 protests. It’s called “We Marched! Now What?” and is filled with stuff people can do. drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...

Hand holding black and white illustrated zine of two people holding up signs saying “We Marched! Now What?”

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 3d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October...

Abolhassan Banisadr, the former President of Iran, has also stated "that the Reagan campaign struck a deal with Tehran to delay the release of the hostages in 1980", asserting that "by the month before the American Presidential election in November 1980, many in Iran's ruling circles were openly discussing the fact that a deal had been made between the
Reagan campaign team and some Iranian religious leaders in which the hostages' release would be delayed until after the election so as to prevent
President Carter's re-election."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Dylan NDR Edwards @dylanndr.bsky.social · 3d

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I've spent a lot of time this year counseling baby transes who are terrified, offering lessons from my 25 years of being out. Backslides happen and they're scary, but we have SO MANY more resources and SO MANY more out trans people than we did back when I was a baby trans myself

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3d

what's actually happening is in the first instance a war for narrative control, not physical control. blinding a troop with a laser, to use a technical term, "looks bad" to normies. being normal and peaceful at masked thugs "looks good" to normies.

www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

How to Win a Rigged Game

The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Dylan NDR Edwards @dylanndr.bsky.social · 3d

Little old ladies, young leftists handing out socialist lit, veterans of all ages, queer and trans people, Christians, cosplayers ... it should be a huge story that all these groups, some of whom are routinely pitted against each other, have been marching peacefully side-by-side all year.

Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 3d

THIS. The grandma bloc is strong.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 3d

With alt text so everyone can get it

Post from x account gooseymane that reads "can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take our jobs but it's good if a.i. does?"

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