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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

I know we say this all the time so it’s become cliche, but can you imagine the hysteria that would be happening right now with Republicans if Obama did the exact same thing to the inside and outside of the WH that Trump is doing? It would be 24/7 on Fox for months. We all know why.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 13h

All this cruelty and ugliness because these fuckers couldn't accept a country that elected a black president.

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 14h

I’m surprised he’s not struck by lightning every time he lies like this.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 19h

We couldn't find anyone among the 7 million+ No Kings attendees who says they were paid to protest. But X user @crypto4u1488 says each attendee was paid $750 by George Soros and bused in from other states. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 19h

“Pretty violently” says Mr Nobel Peace Prize.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1d

Every time a Democrat says something that could plausibly be construed as insulting Republican voters it is played endlessly by Corporate Media (deplorable, guns & religion, etc: you remember them decades later)

Trump literally shits on Democratic voters and Corporate Media refuses to discus it

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 1d

I optimistically thought the media might focus today on how yesterday utterly refuted the claims numerous Republicans repeated last week about protests funded by shadowy donors & carried out by radical, violent, pro-Hamas, America-hating radical leftists. But no. Let’s move on, nothing to see here.

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 1d

Look at the current digital home page. Not a word about the protests. It’s such an abdication of journalistic responsibility.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 1d

There is currently nothing about the protests on the NYT digital front page. Nothing! Topics more important than 7 million Americans peacefully protesting against an authoritarian president include George Santos and a theft at the Louvre.

So disappointing, but at this point not surprising.

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 1d

There is currently nothing about the protests on the NYT digital front page. Nothing! Topics more important than 7 million Americans peacefully protesting against an authoritarian president include George Santos and a theft at the Louvre.

So disappointing, but at this point not surprising.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 2d

npr: so, no kings

tyrannosaurus rex: yes

npr: how shall I put this

trex: this interview is over

Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 2d

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

it is far better to be in a country with a mass visible protest movement than one without it

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s peaceful protests were the perfect example of what @radiofreetom.bsky.social has repeated ad nauseum (only to receive ad hominem attacks):

We are not yet living under fascism.

Many of our current leaders are fascists. But they don’t control us yet and we need to make sure they never do.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t follow baseball as closely as I used to, but the single greatest game in a sport played since the 1800s is worth acknowledging. Holy cow.

Ohtani isn’t just a world class athlete, he’s historically great.

Also neat to think about how it would’ve been front page news in the 20th century.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve got a nervous energy in anticipation of No Kings protests, an excitement I haven’t felt with these things before.

They’ll be big. The regime has taken notice and broken out its go-to move: blatantly lying. Media will cover it more.

This won’t be the end, of course, but something is happening.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 3d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

It must really make everyone working at US Attorneys Offices around the country and DOJ, from prosecutors to staff, proud to know that you serve under an admin that has wiped out the convictions and/or sentences of every Republican convicted of a crime over the last decade.

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 3d

The last stanza of Auden’s poem “September 1, 1939”beautifully captures this view.

The last stanza of Auden’s poem, “September 1, 1939”:

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 3d

But we can be heroes at tomorrow’s No Kings protests.

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 3d

It also has a lot to do with understanding others, their concerns, and how to reach them emotionally. That then informs the style and content of the communication.

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 4d

“Go into battle”? Are they shooting at you?

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 4d

That song rips bark off of trees. In 1987-88 I started off each of my weekly 5am college radio shows with it.

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Chris Braunsdorf @vslacks.bsky.social · 4d

The motto of all Nobel Peace prize winners: “We will have no choice but to go in and kill them”

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