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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19h

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

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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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 7h

Sometime in the 22nd century, they'll be reviewing this cruel, pointless footage - and more - and saying "WTF? How did this barbarity happen among a supposedly 'civilized and cultivated' American population?

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 10h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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lm100.bsky.social @lm100.bsky.social · 1d

🙏 We’re eight days away from #NoKings Day, and over 2,500 protests planned in all 50 states and across the world.

October 18 is going to be the biggest day of nonviolent protest in US history — because Courage is contagious.

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Find An Event Near You

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 7h

Oooh. Burn. Love it.

Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. But too many people are using Trump as their useful dumb puppet to want to 25A him: Miller, the entire cabinet, donors, congress, evangelicals, silicon valley, who else?

Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 1d

You should not control a nuclear arsenal if you cannot tell the difference between fiction and reality. The story needs to be told through the lens of mental illness

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has gone totally mad. It's 25th Amendment time all day, every day. He's living in a totally invented, fictional world. And he's old and in ill-health.

It's outrageous, reckless, choose your word that Republicans haven't done more to deal with this.

Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 1d

And these were all young white men hovering & threatening, weren't they? The ones most fearful of their prerogatives.

Lynn @lynnf.bsky.social · 1d

Ice's tactics remind me of this: www.vintag.es/2015/12/sit-...

On May 28, 1963: Sit-In at the Woolworth’s Lunch Counter in Jackson, Mississippi

John Salter, a social science professor at Tougaloo College, sat with his students Anne Moody, Pearlena Lewis and Memphis Norman––a white ma...

www.vintag.es

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 1d

And they were all young white men hovering & threatening, weren't they? The ones most fearful of their prerogatives.

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 1d

Correction: These are actually the plans for Trump's own mausoleum, since he was told he couldn't legally be buried at Arlington w/ an Eternal Flame & 24-hr Guard of Honor because he never actually served.

So he's setting his Grand Tomb in the center of DC.

He would, no? 👇

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d

You've probably seen the photos of the "Arc de Trump," spotted in the Oval Office.

Now read our story behind the models — and how initial plans for a temporary, triumphal arch have given way to Trump's desire to build a permanent monument.

Scoopy details at @washingtonpost.com:

Trump eyes a triumphal arch to mark America’s 250th anniversary

The arch would be constructed across from the Lincoln Memorial, on a small patch of federal land currently occupied by a traffic circle.

www.washingtonpost.com

Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 1d

Correction: Those are actually the plans for Trump's own mausoleum, since he was told he couldn't legally be buried at Arlington w/ an Eternal Flame & 24-hr Guard of Honor because he never actually served.

So he's setting his Grand Tomb in the center of DC.

He would, no?

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

Masks. Armed. No insignia. No names. No warrants. But they will come up to an American citizen on the street and threaten him with arrest for peacefully exercising basic American rights.

I'd challenge historians of the American Revolution to articulate how things were worse than this in April 1775.

In a Chicagoland Suburb, Berwyn, IL, multiple ICE agents and a cameraman surround a resident who blew his horn and walked down the street in his own neighborhood. They demand his ID and they threatene...

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel seems rather, um, unstable. A few weeks ago he was apparently sure the antichrist was Greta Thunberg. 🙄

So, yeah, we should all be covering his brain droppings like they're something significant.

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 1d

I'd up that fine to $10,000 per day per congressman. Considering the magnitude of the harm they are doing to America by shutting down everyone's else's pay, $1K is barely pocket change. Make it hurt their own bankroll.

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 2d

How nice.

Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 2d

The dead, soulless eyes. I've never seen a spark of life or humanity in those eyes. Pure evil intent, every time. Even a rat or lizard looks more sensitive and friendly.

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"I was being ironical." @uxchampion.bsky.social · 2d

1/ There must be some online, publicly accessible 24/7 webcams located at various points throughout downtown Portland. Someone should find a way to put eight or nine camera feeds in a Brady Bunch-style block arrangement, on the same webpage.

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 2d

Even if so (doubtful, but perhaps 24K gilding), it's applied over cheap and wildly disproportionate Temu plastic trims that - hopefully - can be removed by WH curators after this nightmare is over.

My aesthetic sense gets nausea every time I look at that tacky crap.

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 3d

Why does Rubio always look like someone just hit by a fazer set on stun?

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 3d

How could anyone tell?

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 4d

Funny. A judge's house explodes in flames, three family hospitalized after she was subjected to death threats, and Trump says not one outraged word about *Terrorists! Send in the 82nd Airborne!* Zip. Nada.

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 4d

Funny. A judge's house explodes in flames, three family hospitalized after she was subjected to death threats, and Trump says not one outraged word about *Terrorists! Send in the 82nd Airborne!* Zip. Nada.

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 6d

The great Jane Goodall has spoken from beyond her own earthly life here, in a message to us all. Watch and learn.

citizenfra.bsky.social @citizenfra.bsky.social · 6d

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6d

Netflix recorded an interview with Dr. #JaneGoodall in March, set to air only after her death. In it, she says she wishes Trump and Elon Musk could be blasted into space.
Her final message: “Don’t lose hope.”

youtube.com/shorts/kIej4...

Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 6d

Wait. Sign the card? Who, exactly is watching this? Does signing mean you will next be on Miller's 'fascist' list? Could be.

Wait. Think. You might be signing up as an identified "opposition" for ICE and company. Don't.

Silence is safety. Move silently. Act in obscurity.

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 6d

Gessus. Spray [bullets] and pray? Such a well-regulated militia. Such infantry. Such clowns with guns.

America, America. Wot?

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 6d

Well, yes. The Law of Stupid Braggarts still seems to apply. Dumb sh*ts, are they all. Time will destroy them, with of course, a bit of a nudge from smarter people. (Us?) We'll see.

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Selene @selene226.bsky.social · 6d

Agree totally. But it also clearly shows how Democrats are analytical and data-driven and Repubs go for the emotional throat: the fear, the sheeply drive. And that's what gets the votes.

Dry analysis and data is not understood by most voters. Emotion will win every time.

Understand this.

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