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Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 2h

If you believe that one must be paid to attend a protest, you have never been oppressed, nor cared about the oppression of others.

Rightwing people love to claim their rights are threatened under Dem admins, but they never have been.

This man is ignorant, naïve, shallow, and selfish.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 15h

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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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 15h

Think about the case that the republicans are going to have to make. They have spent weeks saying that today was going to be a hate America protest filled with foreign and domestic terrorists, we now know they numbered 7 million, and the federal government didn’t do a fucking thing.

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Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 17h

Do you know a Michael and Ellen?

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Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 17h

Parents in law in this No Kings photo in Bainbridge Seattle.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 18h

I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 20h

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 20h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 21h

Mecha Hitler about to dole out every post seen by the fools still hanging out on X

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

Jack Dorsey always was, and always will be, a knob

Twitter exchange in which Elon musk makes up some random gibberish about how his fifth place AI is being tightly integrated into the twitter algorithm resulting in "the deletion of all heuristics within 4-6 weeks" and Dorsey applauds like a dim seal

Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 21h

Can confirm no trolling to be found on my feed. ❤️Blocklists❤️

Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 21h

The idea of paying protesters is very funny. Imagine someone paying a few dozen people to stand somewhere and then a hundred thousand people show up for free.

Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 1d

Despite being blocked by 60,000+ people (LOL), they’re still fully able to post and follow and commune with their fellow people. It’s so funny how obvious they make it that that’s not what they want. They’re online to show their full ass and Bluesky only allows them to show those asses to each other

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Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 1d

I snorted, laughed, coughed, and nearly choked on my coffee at this

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Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 1d

I’m embarrassed by how long it took me to realize this. Having Beyonce, Springsteen, or the National hype your candidate is cool, but it does practically nothing. You gotta stump on the cliches and platitudes. No way around it.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 1d

thinking about the guy running the us govt bluesky accounts. thats his friday, trying to troll people on a relatively niche social media site because they won twitter and it made them miserable. catastrophic loser energy

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Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint: Wear bright colors, potentially funny costumes. Consider being a frog. Carry funny signs. Offer hugs and high fives. Take your grandma. Take direction from no one but your own sweet whims.

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

don't carry ID but do trust the dude you've never met next to you in all black is totally ex navy seals and follow their orders, also fly nonpermitted drones above heavily monitored airspace in full view of federal authorities of every letter agency

clownshoes shit

She Guevara 🗳💚
‪@sheg7.bsky.social‬
Actual advice for (US) No Kings:

No names, no phones, black clothes you've never worn before, masks, gloves, good shoes, eye protection, water...

Utilise the military guys in your ranks. Give them radios that connect with people flying drones above the rally. Co-ordinate movements accordingly.
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2d

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

Ah the only conservative argument: "My prejudices are timeless eternal truths and it's unfair that all of society isn't structured to reflect them." bsky.app/profile/whst...

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

Tbh I think we ought to re-masculinize society through the dispensation of brutal, merciless justice to the class of intellectual quislings who are trying to carry us back to the middle ages

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Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 2d

Ironically, if there is truth to any of this, it’s likely attributable to Republican deregulation of important environmental and heath issues.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 3d

Technocrats want everyone to think of college as just data being transferred from one hard drive brain into another. They’re deeply invested in that false framing because it gives them power.

Real knowledge is understanding why facts are facts and how one can perform the discovery of more.

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Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 3d

I would love little more than to see the data which led to this decision

👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 3d

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely. The sense of community at protests like these is so palpable. Like, the kind of dopamine hits you get from hugs from loved ones.

Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 6d

OMG bsky.app/profile/park...

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 6d

lol taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

= TASK & PURPOSE
NEWS / MILITARY BRANCHES / NATIONAL GUARD
Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards
"National Guard Soldiers and Airman are required to meet service-specific height, weight and physical fitness standards at all times," the National Guard Bureau said on Thursday.
NICHOLAS SLAYTON, JEFF SCHOGOL UPDATED OCT 12, 2025 2:54 PM EDT

The Texas Military Department has removed an unspecified number of National Guard troops deployed to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with its validation process.
A spokesperson for the Texas Military Department confirmed to Task & Purpose that "a small group" of the 200 National Guard members sent to Illinois this past week have been replaced after they were found to not meet certain standards. The move came amid criticism on social media over pictures that showed some of the Guard members appearing to be overweight, and as an appeals court temporarily blocked the deployment of the Texan troops into Illinois.

Sunburned Lobster @sunburnedlobster.bsky.social · 7d

Oh hey fellow Hoosier! Incredible game