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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 3h

we actually do need people across every sector and subculture making this kinda statement. enough smaller influencers going full tilt will force the larger ones to come along or get left behind

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 3h

“I want it to be crystal fucking clear what side of history I was on”

starwalker @starwalkers.bsky.social · 12h

Bryan Andrews Music

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 10h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 3h

well that’s a dystopian poster yikes

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 4h

I mean maybe everyone just repeatedly taking short term memory loss, brain fog and other blows to their brains, nervous and circulatory systems over the last five years helped create the conditions for the fascist total unreality

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 4h

i continue to hunger for the democratic party republicans freak out about

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 5h

same. this episode is really haunting me

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 6h

what do people talk about when the brutality and banality of fascism have vanquished their interior lives? they talk and argue about nothing in circles & this is what Ionesco made his art about.

CBC's Ideas pod brings Ionesco right up into this moment
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

screenshot of costumed old fashioned europeans on a stage set and title how absurdist theatre is an act of resistance

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13h

Only by changing the calculus of risk/reward can malign people’s behaviour be moderated.

There must be the credible threat of a reckoning.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13h

When that administration’s actions similarly faced no consequences for their actions, Trump II administration appointees knew they could do literally anything and look forward to nothing but rewards for the rest of their life.

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13h

Because of the extremity of this refusal to ever have executive appointees face consequences for their actions, Trump I appointees could (correctly) assume zero would be done, even up to an armed insurrection to reverse an election result.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 13h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 9h

a wild lie, even for these people. it's like they cannot go ten seconds without escalating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13h

US lawyer John Yoo wrote a series of memos for the Bush administration in order to create a legal cover for torture.

He suffered no negative consequences. He later was made Emanuel S. Heller Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 10h

i think it's very good to celebrate that portland defeated and demoralized ice barbie by leveraging humor and absurdism. obviously there are other battles. but we should learn from our wins when we get em. below i'm just acknowledging that the stakes can change and likely will

ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 16h

portland is winning the comms war with whimsy, but portland is also not under the same level of terror campaign as chicago

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Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social · Sep 4

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

An anti-ICE flyer hanging in the window of the bookstore.

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 10h

thank you and YES

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Arepa Auntie @breadbae.blacksky.app · 1d

I love that they’re trolling ice now

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Dark Grimiano @doctor1hundred.bsky.social · 12h

ICE is openly terrorizing my neighborhood today, including an elementary school, and these asshats need to be held accountable to the fullest possible extent on the other side of all this.

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 10h

if any portlanders want to funnel some rage into prying up pavement, we will have prybars and pavement (and free coffee and lunch) at Bike Works community bike shop tomorrow/Sat from 10-2 pm, come hang out!

ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 11d

enlist here!

www.depave.org/volunteer/de...

Depaving Event at Bike Works — Depave

Join Depave on October 11 for a depaving event at Bike Works, a social purpose enterprise bike shop managed by the nonprofit p:ear .

www.depave.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 15h

Before (2014) / After (2025) the greening of this part Rue Edouard Pailleron, Paris 19. General traffic was cut off further down by a "school street". Now traffic is lower, some car parking and the old bike lane have been removed, and trees were planted on both sides in 2022.

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 15h

well that does depend on where you're at in the US caste system doens't it. violence can only be used to enforce their race and gender hierarchies, not disrupt them

ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 15h

we could be living in a very different world / there is another way

person riding a bike that is also a small cargo vehicle with windshield but with 4 wheels. like if a golf cart was narrower and had small e-bike wheels and a big box in the back

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ghost of malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 15h

"4 wheeled pedelec" sign me up

www.mubea-umobility.com/en

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