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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

THIS!!! Who is willing to organize their workplaces?

MJ @ambientheat.bsky.social · 8h

My only question about that is why isn’t everyone?
We proved with Jimmy Kimmel that money talks. Why aren’t we shutting the whole damn thing down?

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

TSA agents, are you calling out or organizing? We are with you!!!

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John D ❌👑 @everythingisjake.bsky.social · 9h

TSA too please.

GIVE US OUR GOVERNMENT BACK !!

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George McGovern Fan 🇺🇸 @georgemcgovernfan.bsky.social · 8h

We gotta repeal Taft-Hartley.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8h

Grassroots, individual-level strikes have precedent. And whether industry-wide, or nation-wide, it's the singular strongest action available to citizens. Taft Hartley makes labor union coordination illegal, but an ORGANIC full, citizen strike is ungoverned and absolutely, historically, most potent.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

Did Air Traffic Controllers just start the general strike?!?? 🤝

“…Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy claimed that many air traffic control workers were calling out sick.”

Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

#GeneralStrike #ShutItDown #AirTrafficControllers #50501movement

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Baptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social · 13h

One of the great ironies of political theory is that the best way to do radical politics is to not scare the hoes, yet many radicals fetishize scaring the hoes because, well, otherwise they wouldn't be radicals!

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12h

Dangnabit, you figured out our brilliant plan. Time to wrap it up, folks.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 12h

Sorry, thought it was funny to quote skeet ya instead of doing a full thread to make all the points we wanted to make :)

(If you get a wave of harassment because we quoted you, just DM us and we can take the post down, no problem 👍)

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

The leaders are the people on the ground doing the work and organizing. That includes a lot of our folks, but it’s much more than just us.

We’re just here on Bluesky to uplift those leaders and their efforts

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

Pittsburgh’s got a lot of protests coming up. 50501 Pittsburgh’s got a protest listed on their Instagram for 10/11.

For No Kings Day specifically, though, check out 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 ...

nokings.org

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

And no. You do NOT need to RSVP for a No Kings protest.

Hell, we’d prefer if you didn’t register - or at least make a burner account if you want to help give organizers a crowd size estimate (for like, food and water).

If anyone is telling you have to register, they’re wrong. You do NOT have to.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

You *do not* have to support us.

Just build connections and organize, under whatever banner works for you, and help us defeat the fascists and build something better than the neoliberal status quo that got us to this point

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

@merovingians.bsky.social gets it.

Go to a No Kings protest. Make connections on the ground. Join or form a group, whether it’s 50501 or something more obviously leftist.

Use those connections for mutual aid and to organize anti-ICE action, boycott, prep strikes and more.

See you in the streets

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3d

this is why leftists dismissing 50501 and such as a bunch of useless libs is so unserious. 50501 is mustering protests across the country without a major provocation. it's a dress rehearsal and we're really fucking rusty.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

I keep going back to this, but one of the reasons South Korea has an incredibly effective protest culture is because they have *decades* of organizational experience through daily/weekly protesting. it helps a lot to do the routine stuff to be able to pull off the big stuff.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

(Pssst that’s like half the reason we do this. Getting people activated and connected to groups, whether 50501 or not, who are doing mutual aid and organizing work that’s far more impactful than just a big protest)

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3d

this is why leftists dismissing 50501 and such as a bunch of useless libs is so unserious. 50501 is mustering protests across the country without a major provocation. it's a dress rehearsal and we're really fucking rusty.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3d

I keep going back to this, but one of the reasons South Korea has an incredibly effective protest culture is because they have *decades* of organizational experience through daily/weekly protesting. it helps a lot to do the routine stuff to be able to pull off the big stuff.

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 3d

Why doesn't the US have a general strike? Well you can point to culture or whatever but I think structure is of not immediate use here: does the US have organizations and institutions it can use to network, organize and mobilize a general strike? No.

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Sha Merirei @merirei.com · 17h

THE SIMPSONS EXPLAIN OREGON’S 2ND TRO (AND ILLINOIS’ ATTEMPT TO GET ONE)

Lionel Hutz is back as DOJ counsel.

Oregon blocks more troops.

Illinois asks for help and gets… homework.

A Simpsons-style drawing of a courthouse front with two yellow starbursts reading “Guest starring: Lionel Hutz as the DOJ’s Legal Counsel” and “Yes, it’s as chaotic as it sounds.” Large text says: “The Simpsons explain Oregon’s 2nd TRO (and Illinois’ attempt to get one).” Below it reads: “In this episode of Law & Disorder: The DOJ tried to outsmart a court order by sending different troops. Oregon said absolutely not. Illinois? They’re still reading the script.”

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

Apparently!

Signed,

A registered independent and leftist who will be at a No Kings protest on October 18th

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

We called him too, he told us that the GOP’s soul is buried with the Dinosaurs that died on Noah’s Ark

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

Check out the alt text 👀

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

It means that Top P*do Protector Mike’s communication staffers are extremely underpaid.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

That’s great, Mike. Now where are the *full* Epstein Files?

No Kings means No Pedos.

A Tweet from punchbowl news’s Jake Sherman, quoting House Speaker and Top P*do Protector Mike Johnson.

It reads “A new line from Republicans today -- as voiced by Johnson, etc. Democrats won't fold before a ‘No Kings?‘ rally on 10/18 on the national mall.”

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19h

They have to humiliate us too. They have to remind them that no matter how many years they gave, how many orders followed, how many medals earned, at the end of the day we are still disposable to the corporations that own our government.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19h

In the images you can see blood soaking through her clothes. This is just another sobering example of what our institutions do to the people they claim to stand protect. It’s not enough to discard us.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19h

They posed no threat to anyone, yet that didn’t stop federal agents from slamming Richard to the ground. Luckily he wasn’t hurt, His wife, unfortunately, was hit in the head so hard she suffered a concussion.

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