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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18h

“oh here, i have it queued up on this tablet for you already”

how i expect reporters to reply to the “havent seen it” replies from republicans

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

what i saw today was tens of thousands of portland residents who reject the president, who reject the republican party, who embrace our immigrant friends, who embrace our queer and trans friends, and all of them were ready to throw the fuck down over it. THEY ARE GOING TO BREAK UPON US.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

THEY BREAK UPON US

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 1d

The numbers I am seeing, and the breadth of people and places with basically no arrests and so forth, seem to me an unqualified political loss for them. It is a show of strength rather than the fight itself, but you can’t downplay it.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

“i have friends everywhere” was EVERYWHERE

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 12d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 1d

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

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Robyn the Velocirobter @velocirobter.bsky.social · 1d

Randall Munroe once noted that more Californians than Texans voted for Trump and more Texans than New Yorkers voted for Harris.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

this is why I think the admin spending all week yelling about a “hate America” rally was stupid

anyone who tunes in gets to see funny signs, joyful crowds and shit like “an enormous constitution being carried to the White House”

this is a crowd that loves America and wants it to be better

Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 1d

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

west coast hasn’t even clocked in yet

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 1d

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 1d

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

#NOKINGS

New York City, NY

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Jasper Hedgehog @jasperhedgehog.bsky.social · 1d

#NOKINGS

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 1d

“Keep these things in mind, bribe-swallowing #kings:
whoever wrongs another also wrongs himself;
an evil plan is most evil for the one who makes it.”

δωροφάγοι, σκολιέων δὲ δικέων ἐπὶ πάγχυ λάθεσθε.
οἷ αὐτῷ κακὰ τεύχει ἀνὴρ ἄλλῳ κακὰ τεύχων,
ἡ δὲ κακὴ βουλὴ τῷ βουλεύσαντι κακίστη. #Hesiod

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

almost every single one of the gov accounts that got created today have kicked off with some message blaming dems for shutdown, they’re trying to turn back the tide of public opinion blaming them, just block them

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

looks like it is, block them anyway, depriving them of oxygen is an extremely effective strategy

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

it’s not impossible that this is legit, but it’s unlikely, they’re not using the domain verification, block them either way

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 2d

People think there are no Roman history emergencies, right up to the day a sitting president proposes a triumphal arch. Now suddenly everyone needs a good handle on Titus and Constantine.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 2d

** This account is neither a magazine nor a bot.

All stories I post are artisanally conceived and composed by myself, from carefully selected particles, verbs, nouns, and other ethically sourced words.

No AI systems have been involved in the writing, though they might appear as characters. **

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · Jul 28

Gandalf (Statler): the courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late, Theoden king! Dohohohoh!

Wormtongue (Beaker): meemeemeemeemeemee!

Theoden (Dr Bunsen Honeydew): why should I welcome you, Gandalf stormcrow?

Wormtongue: meemeeMEEMEEMEE!

Abby @arobertswrites.com · Jul 28

My brain keeps showing me visions of a Muppet adaptation of LotR where Beaker is Wormtongue.

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DonQuihobbit de La Mancha @hobbituscaesar.bsky.social · 3d

It says something about political media that those chat logs can be released and Vance's whitewash gets printed as serious rebuttal, but /this/ gets said and... /crickets/.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

"It is borderline hysterical. It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious to think that this is in fact a war zone needing federal intervention, much less federal troops prepared to use all force." — @timdickinson.bsky.social

Scenes from Portland's imaginary insurrection

"It would be funny if it wasn’t so f**king serious," Tim Dickinson says.

www.publicnotice.co

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Jane @fightingpride93.bsky.social · 4d

Your 20s are for lusting after clothes you can't afford and your 30s are for lusting after furniture you can't afford

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Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller) @armchairclassicist.bsky.social · 4d

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