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I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · Apr 30

Corruption may have infected our government, but it will never defeat the American spirit. We've overcome obstacles before, and we can do it again. #TheCostOfTrump

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2h

Every year at #NYCC there’s one cosplayer that takes the cake, the cookies AND the pie. It’s only Friday but I think I found the one.

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Anne Golden @annegolden.bsky.social · 1h

If anti-fascists are enemies of the state, is the state fascist?

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We Are Saners @wearesaners.bsky.social · 1h

Did I mention #Epstein enough today? And Maga Mike—king of the pedophile protectors, champion of wealthy rapists of little girls? Who shut down the House and failed to swear in a new member to block the Epstein Files Transparency Act?

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I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly my thought. Hence the arson.

I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 1h

I'll bite:
Ursula K. LeGuin
Alexander Dumas
C.J. Cherryh
Virginia Woolf
J.R.R. Tolkien
Walt Whitman
Spider Robinson
Seamus Heaney
Charles DeLint
Jorge Luis Borges
Louise Erdrich
Becky Chambers

Troy Preston Dillon @troyprestondillon.bsky.social · 2h

How fun! Here's my list:

Tolkien
RA Salvatore
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Stephen King
Connie Willis
Raymond E. Feist
CS Lewis
Dean Koontz
David Eddings
Terry Goodkind
Anne Rice
Robert Jordan

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · Mar 22

who are some of the writers that made you?

jrr tolkien
libba bray
jd salinger
ken follett
cs lewis
joanna campbell
lemony snicket
richelle mead
stephenie meyer
kurt vonnegut jr
eva ibbotson
se hinton
lois duncan

you? 📚💙

I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 1h

I'm sure this will go down well in Idaho. I predict arson.

Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 2h

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Shannon (she/her) @ravenlenore.bsky.social · 4h

Didn’t you dare give me hope
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K. Starling (@authorkstarling)

UPDATE: No Kings protest count has risen to 2466!!! Here are the 10 states with the most locations: 10. Pennsylvania - 84 9. Florida - 85 8. Ohio - 87 7. Wisconsin - 91 6. Washington - 95 5. Tex...

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I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 1h

He's sounds like every other old fart bitching about the young'uns all the way back to Plato. Shut up, old man.

I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 4h

How did you get a tote bag? I thought they weren't giving out swag this year because it was all going into the fight? Now I want my donation back. I'm only in it for the bling.

I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 4h

Holy fucking Christ. We sure are.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 8h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 4h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 4h

"Cuomo is walking a tightrope when it comes to Trump — persuading voters he can stand up to the president while courting those who ardently support him."

You cannot serve two masters, Andrew. You're either supporting fascism or you're antifa like sane people.

Cuomo’s Last-Minute Push Takes Him Into MAGA Territory

The former governor courts Trump fans, finding common ground in dire warnings about a future under Mayor Mamdani.

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I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 9h

Was it a skinny ass chick with long hair? I'll bet it was Kristi Hoe cosplaying again.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

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

There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech.

We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

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I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think I ever wrote a paper earlier than the night before the due date and always got As. Even the last chapter of my undergrad thesis. AI was just bad science fiction then. Now it's a failed experiment.

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

the quotes proving once again that bluesky dot com is where the neurodivergents with procrastination issues hang out

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 1d

Win!

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Some good news!

A librarian got fired for refusing to remove LBGTQ books and sued the county, its board of commissioners, the library board, and members of both government boards for violating her 1st amendment rights, and discriminatory and retaliatory firing.

www.rawstory.com/wyoming-libr...

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terr...

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I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 1d

She is such a badass.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

'I'm not fearful, I'm fearless':
NY AG Letitia James responds to indictment

I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 1d

This is also non-violent direct action. You don't need a frog suit though. Just go into October 18th with your best party spirit on. Make noise, dance, chant, sing. Hard to paint a party as an insurrection. And thus we control the narrative.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

ANTIFA:

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I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 1d

This is non-violent resistance. It's not pacisfist or passive. It's active, moving resistance. Chasing out troublemakers. Occupying the space so they can't use it.

Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn't this just make you crave #nachos?

(THIS is the blueprint for responding to provocations from the Orange Reich - bring a PARTY!!!!!)

A bright spot from a friend in Philly:

"The Proud Boys - a white supremacist group with a stupid name - planned a rally a block from my house today. The "belly of the beast" rally. Because apparently that's where I live - the belly of the antifa beast. Whatever the fuck that means.

2 hours before it was supposed to start, the park starts filling up with my neighbors. A drum line shows up. A brass band plays. The anarchists are giving away vegetables and nachos and some artists are selling jewelry. Black leaders give speeches. We chant Breonna Taylor's name. And all the other names.

No right-wing rally ever coalesces. There was never room for a critical mass to congregate. A lost-looking man or two walks to the park, doesn't see their people, turns around. A right-wing vlogger trying to debate people is surrounded and walked to the edge of the park. Someone spotted with a handgun is chased through the park, to their car, by over 100 people. The ice cream truck music plays the whole time.

The usual guys set their chess tables and start playing, the crowd of neighbors start to break up.

Nazis, we will replace you. We will displace you. We will louder and more numerous. We anti-fascists are full of music and love and nachos. We will always replace you."

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 1d

Letitia James. Another distraction. For the Epsteinth time.

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I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 1d

The NFL must act NOW to stop ICE from targeting the Super Bowl LX where Bad Bunny will be performing at the halftime show before it’s too late.

NFL: No ICE at the 2026 Super Bowl!

The @NFL must act NOW to stop Trump's ICE from targeting the Super Bowl LX where Bad Bunny will be performing at the halftime show before it’s too late. #SBLX #AppleMusicHalftime

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I am ANTIFA @leekottner.bsky.social · 1d

Thune, like the rest of his Republican ilk in the House and Senate, is a lying sack of shit, in it for the power and money.

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

Oh, the incredibly competent and honest president promises that he's totally going to give us something that's much better and much cheaper than we already have? Golly, sign me up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."