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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 27m

Not sure if your question was meant for me or more rhetorical but personally I've been fighting fascism, fossil fuels and lots of other bad staff for almost 30 years including not only in Trump I but in all the "petroliberal" Democratic administrations too. Not sure why you would assume otherwise?

Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 3h

REMINDER: The Trump regime aren't just fascists, they are PETROfascists. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

New Report Examines Fossil Fuel Ties of Dozens of Trump Administration Hires - Inside Climate News

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 43 former fossil fuel industry employees among nominees and appointees to agencies charged with enforcing energy and environmental policy.

insideclimatenews.org

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 3d

REMINDER: Arson is a crime, particularly when you are burning a whole planet and threatening our collective future.

The new Climate Criminals Directory names all the arsonists driving the Trump regime's petrofascism. #ClimateSky 🔌💡
www.climatecriminals.org/climatecrimi...

RUNNING OUT THE CLOCK
IT'S TIME TO NAME NAMES
The individuals delaying climate action and financing the climate crisis must be held accountable.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 6h

Approximately 8% of US cocaine comes through the eastern Caribbean (and virtually none of it involves fentanyl). Conversely, about 74% of US cocaine comes up the Pacific coast from Ecuador and Colombia. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela aren’t about drugs.

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs (Gift Article)

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 8h

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 8h

Useful 🧵 with quotes from yesterday's bizarre Whitehouse spectacle of using fear-mongering and lies to try and justify massive state repression against people who are against FASCISM.

So if they are against people who are against fascism, what does that tell us about what they are for? #NoKings

Sha Merirei @merirei.com · 12h

🧵 Trump’s “Antifa Roundtable” was supposed to be about safety.Instead, it was a live-action paranoia spiral—starring officials, influencers, and a script that sounds more like a dictatorship trailer than a democracy briefing. 🧵

Title slide for “The Antifa Roundtable.” A photo of Trump seated at a long table in the White House surrounded by guests. Overlaid text reads: “Yet another @Merirei-made carousel. The Antifa Roundtable. It was supposed to be about ‘safety,’ it became a live-action paranoia spiral. Critics are hailing it as a masterpiece… of sh*t!”

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 13h

The fact that this coming 9 days before the largest peaceful protest in modern American history is absolutely intentional. We will not back down. Trump and Miller can lie, smear, and threaten all they want. They will lose. No Kings, No Kings, No Kings. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 14d

Because as I keep screaming into the virtual ether:

*Fascism is first and foremost an attack on reality* 10/13

Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · Aug 25

The Trump regime, aided by the oligarchs who have turned much of the media into propaganda machines are focused on normalizing fascism.

They have rapidly turned the OVERTON WINDOW into an OVERTON SLIDING DOOR big enough to march literal stormtroopers through to invade our communities.

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Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 1d

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

hub.jhu.edu

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's wacky lies show he is unfit for office. Every non-crazy elected official should be demanding his removal under the 25th amendment.

His toadies won't do it BUT it shifts the narrative and forces the media to cover reality which helps the public see through the regime's propaganda. #NoKings

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 23h

Sure seems like someone wants to start a Civil War. We need to stop these maniacs before it's too late. #NoKings

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 9d

The President is a delusional racist oligarch who defies the Constitution & openly talks about using the military to invade American cities.

Mass resistance is our only solution.

It's time for millions of us to return to the streets & teach Trump Civics 101: #NoKings Find your local action below👇

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that U.S. media outlets are NOT making Trump's increasingly ridiculous lies into a major story is an alarming sign of how far our country has slid into authoritarianism.

Which is why Dems and all of us should be organizing attention-grabbing actions to expose Trump's blatant power grab.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday's Bay Resistance mass training got some great coverage in SF Chronicle. The final line from one of the neighborhood pod leaders speaks for all of us:

“We want to protect our neighbors,” she said. “And if they come for any of us, they come for all of us.” #NoKings

archive.is/202510060326...

Screenshot of SF Chron headline:

Bay Area trainings provides 'concrete skills' to defy Trump on deportations.

Below is a picture one one of the speakers at the training, Oakland's Congressional rep Lateefah Simon standing infront of a slide about mass noncooperation referencing the recent South Korean mass uprising to stop a coup. The slide headline reads "South Koreans turn K-Pop light sticks into political protest tools"

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 1d

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

4 frame comic where Miller slowly blinks. Text reads. A few hours ago, speaking on cnn about Trump's plan to send the national guard into us cities, Miller said : under title 10 of the us code, the president has plenary authority, has... He then fully stopped talking and just blinked at the camera, as if he realized that he said the quiet part out loud. "Plenary authority" means "complete power over a particular area with no limitayions". It is equivalent to ruling by decree, which us how Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler governed. Having "plenary authority" over the military would mean that Trump can just use the national guard as he pleases, no matter what the courts say. It's a power grab.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's wacky lies show he is unfit for office. Every non-crazy elected official should be demanding his removal under the 25th amendment.

His toadies won't do it BUT it shifts the narrative and forces the media to cover reality which helps the public see through the regime's propaganda. #NoKings

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

RESOURCE: Hilarious and helpful culture jam of the Christian pamphlet motif to explain renewable energy is from heaven while fossil fuels are from hell. Downloadable comic pamphlet from movement memesters Andrew Boyd & Gan Golan. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

www.energyfromheaven.com

Energy from Heaven

www.energyfromheaven.com

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 14d

This thread about Nauru still blows my mind. 15/19

Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · Dec 22

OMG. I’d heard a little bit about the Pacific island nation of Nauru. I knew it was bad. But DAMN!

It’s like if you compressed some of the worst trends from the past 500 years of human history into a single cautionary tale. It’s so shocking, and tragically relevant, I got to share a 🧵 1/8

Map of the South Pacific showing the island nation of Nauru in relationship to Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 1d

25 years of analysis confirms what many frontline, indigenous and climate justice groups have been loudly saying for that whole 25 years: climate offsets are a scam meant to mask the obvious reality that we must stop burning fossil fuels. #ClimateSky 🔌💡

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 1d

#ClimateCriminals

Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 3d

REMINDER: Arson is a crime, particularly when you are burning a whole planet and threatening our collective future.

The new Climate Criminals Directory names all the arsonists driving the Trump regime's petrofascism. #ClimateSky 🔌💡
www.climatecriminals.org/climatecrimi...

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 2d

Hey Bari, looking for autobiography titles? Might I suggest:

"How I Rebranded Privilege as Victimhood, Sucked up to Fascist Billionaires and Now Get to Build the Karen* Industrial Complex" by Bari Weiss

* with apologies to anyone actually named Karen, but I'm sure she would mean it ironically.😉

Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward

US media giants have bowed before Maga after Trump’s many lawsuits and the Jimmy Kimmel firestorm

www.theguardian.com

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