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Themistocles Wall
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Resisting dictatorship is the disciplined thing to do (e.g. Aristogeiton and Harmodios).
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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · Jan 19
those are the best damn wars to win

in 1776 a few small colonies w/no army or navy took on the greatest empire in history

in 1939 the US army was smaller than Romania’s

let’s roll👇🏼

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jan 17
Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak.

The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership.

We can do this.

More:
On Organizing
time to level up / an early draft of a playbook
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4h
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h
the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4h
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4h
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 3h
if you had to time travel to one ancient city in its prime for one year, which city would you choose?
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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 2h
Athens 411-410 BCE

Aristophanes premieres Lysistrata AND Thesmophoriazusae

short-lived oligarchic coup fails after Athenian win @ Cyzicus

PLUS

Alcibiades

Thrasybulus &Theramenes

Socrates wandering streets corrupting the youth

Plato tagging along behind him

Xanthippe

Aspasia of Miletus

etc
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4h
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h
war-ravaged hellhole www.koin.com/news/portlan...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) - Neighbors around Portland are standing united over what many local residents say is the unnecessary proposition of sending National Guard troops into the city as a federal court decision about the matter looms. In Northeast Portland, religious leaders, city councilors and neighbors gathered to support one another. Reverend Chris Dela Cruz with Together Lab helped organize the Neighbor to Neighbor event. "We have a strong community of migrants and folks who've come from all around the world who just want to live their lives and live in dignity. And so we think that being in solidarity with one another, neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, is how we can just be strong together," Dela Cruz said. "We have folks who are pastors, who are teachers, who are hearing from kids, who are hearing from their own neighbors that they're afraid that, you know, Oregon is our home, right?
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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 3h
white status the most successful political policy in US history👇🏼

so successful no one knows it’s there

but we better start talking about it

# @isabelwilkerson.bsky.social:

www.instagram.com/p/DB1rjF9yyl...

“Measuring White Solidarity”
- @jardina.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXq_...
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 3h
Social scientists have been arguing for decades that race and gender cannot be viewed through the teleological lens of progress, and never in my lifetime has that been more clear and important to understand than now.
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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 3h
i mean 75 million Americans voted to put a rapist in the WH

so now we have rapist

SecDef
SecHHS
DOGE Czar

the list is endless 👇🏼
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6h
Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”
= POLITICO By DANIEL LIPPMAN 10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT f In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.
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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 3h
just throw it to 1st

don’t be a hero

😔
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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 3h
good series

baseball has superpower hegemons now

& phillies & dodgers are 2

dodgers probably best team this yr, w/their recent profligate acquisitions

but baseball’s very random game in small samples & phillies had 2 bad games back east

so see ya next year, ya filthy animals

reliving 86 again😉
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Cait @caitesq.bsky.social · 6h
My mother, who never talks about how much groceries cost, just told me that the frozen butter chicken is up to $15 a tray
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delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 7h
everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco
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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 3h
yeah this is ai i can get behind
a man in a suit and tie is holding a microphone and saying i second that emotion .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a microphone and saying i second that emotion .
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Mike_WA @theothermike.bsky.social · 18h
Facebook pulled this for some reason, good reason to post it. Nixon’s AG John Mitchell served 19 months in a minimum security prison. Maybe they can hangout with Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 5h
Actually this is kind of funny! Why in the world did FB pull it? Afraid of something, Zuckerbutt?
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 5h
I know this isn’t the point but is it normal for DHS officials to stay at a Ritz-Carlton on work trips?
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6h
Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the office investigating Jack Smith, has recently been investigated for harassing a colleague, Politico reports.

“Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him..”
= POLITICO By DANIEL LIPPMAN 10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT f In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn't have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.
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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 4h
so far the tyranny’s been so inept & half-hearted it’s lent me some hope we may have fair elections in 26 & 28 & fix this

& then i see article from @rickhasen.bsky.social👇🏼

& recall john taney-roberts hates VRA, multi-group democracy & post-1965 America

& ready for worse✊🏼

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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 1d
this is the ball game right here👇🏼

once taney-roberts SCROTUS invalidates VRA👇🏼

jim crow gop gets 40-seat House gerrymander👇🏼

D’s must prep to fight now

Blue states must w/hold fed $’s til gop obeys constitution

# @fairfightaction.bsky.social

@blackvotersmatterfund.org

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 5h
It looks Lindsey Halligan’s entire case rests on a Power of Attorney signed by her niece, using once again, standard terms. Why did the grand jury indict? Much like Bill Pulte, the grand jury did not know the difference between a mortgage instrument and a mortgage application.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 19d
We are inching our way into Watergate because Bill Pulte did not know the difference between a mortgage instrument and a mortgage application.
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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 4h
WHEN DID BLOOSKEY HAVE AN EDIT BUTTON
🤨😆
a woman wearing a purple suit and earrings says your frustration
ALT: a woman wearing a purple suit and earrings says your frustration
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 5h
There should be a “like” in there! I remember when BlueSky had an edit button, and it is why I stayed here instead Mastadon!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5h
No Kings protests are happening all over the country on Oct 18. Just FYI
From NYT: “The prosecutions have ushered in a turbulent era at a Justice Department increasingly under the direct command of a president intent on using federal law enforcement to prosecute his adversaries, shield his supporters and redefine criminality as it suits his interests.”
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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 4h
Health insurance not good fit for private sector marketplaces

w/most items, eg
cars
vacays
food
clothes
masseuses, etc

market offers increasing quality for inc. price

who when their life’s at stake buys cheap?

shouldn’t we all have equal access to quality level of care

not good fit for profits
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 5h
I said it before and I say it again: for United Healthcare, there is no private or public marketplace for healthcare , there is only the market.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11h
1/ Listen: the people who can’t afford ACA hikes or are getting kicked off Medicare are the priority. But…last year my company saw a 17% increase in healthcare costs. This year we are projecting 20%.

Every year for idk a decade has been at least 10%
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 5h
Democrats are evil ads playing in the TSA line, like ads at the gas station. Except hella unlawful.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/u...
Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown “rolling out” at TSA security checkpoints across the country | CNN
Travelers waiting in airport security lines across the country will now be met with a video where the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown.
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