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Tadonic the Flautulent
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"Breaker of Wind". 😉 Aspiring car-free musician (rock, folk, Celtic / British trad.). Free / Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) advocate, educator, & former developer. Part of the Resistance. #FOSS #musician #rock #folk #celtic #autofree #WashingtonDC #DC
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Tonight (November 21) Carpe Diem Arts has a Fall of Freedom event from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM at Seekers Church
#DC #WashingtonDC #arts #music #event #FallOfFreedom #resist
[POSTER] Statue of Liberty torch drawing with red and yellow beams of light. [CAPTION] Art matters. Courage is contagious. Take Part. Nov. 21. "Fall of Freedom" is an urgent call to the arts community to unite and activate a nationwid wave of creative resistance (https://falloffreedom.com/) "Carpe Diem Arts" has long celebrated the experiences, cultures, and identities that shape the fabric of our nation. Join us FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 6-9 PM, as we lean into the use of "Arts for Social Change". Seekers Church, Takoma DC, 276 Carroll St. NW, Washington, DC 20012. Light Refreshments. Register: [QR Code: https://form.jotform.com/253096009907057] No Charge. Age 21+ Please donate what you can. [LOGO] Carpe Diem Arts
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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The Guardian: Millions march against Trump in nationwide day of protest
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
#news #resist #fascism #protest #NoKings #authoritarianism
The Guardian No Kings protests live Millions march against Trump in nationwide day of protest Democratic lawmakers including Bernie Sanders, Raphael Warnock and Chuck Schumer among protesters Latest: 11m: ago The New York Police Department posted on their social media that most rallies... 30m ago: Good Afternoon from Los Angeles, where more than two dozen No Kings... 46m ago: Reports coming in that more than 200,000 people in the Washington DC... Full Story: Millions across all 50 US States march in No Kings protest against Trump In Pictures: No Kings protests across the US Unions: Biggest US labor unions fuel No Kings protests against Trump Explainer: No Kings - what to know about the anti-Trump protest attracting millions
October 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Upcoming rallies, protests, lobbying efforts in DC
#WashingtonDC #DC #resist #regime #authoritarianism #action #activism #fascism #rally #march #protest #lobby
POSTER: Remove the Regime 10/14 12 NOON | George Floyd Rememberance Rally at Union Square, National Mall - Join us and uplift Black voices in a country that tries to silence them. Centering all families impacted by police violence and nationality. 10/15 10 AM | World Spine Day: Ask Congress to Grow One at Columbus Circle, Union Station - Join us for a rally followed by a visit to Congress. The record for the most citizens lobbying Congress in one day is 1,500. This could be the day to break it! 10/16 4 PM | AIPAC protest at AIPAC - Bring the noise to AIPAC headquarters to demand an end to genocide in Palestine. 10/17 10 AM | Congressional Visits at Columbus Circle, Union Station - Visit Congressional offices with Cliff Cash to demand impeachment and removal. 10/17 4 PM | Fox Takedown protest at Fox Headquarters - Join Cliff Cash in disrupting Fox News' 24/7 propaganda machine spreading disinformation and normalizing authoritarianism. Pizza provided at 6 PM. 10/18 12 NOON | No Kings Rally at Pennsylvania Ave and 3rd St. NW - Join the millions rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people. 10/20 10 AM | Congressional Visits at Columbus Circle, Union Station - Visit Congressional offices to demand impeachment and removal. 10/20 4 PM | Heritage Foundation at Columbus Circle, Union Station - Make some noise at Nazi Headquarters. Bring noisemakers and earplugs. Washington DC SPONSORS: FLARE (For liberation and resistance everywhere) * Citizens' Impeachment * A/O * Seargent Rhodes ("Truth doesn't retreat") * Cats on a Couch by Amanda McConigle * We Are the Flood * Removal Coalition * Remember Your Oath
October 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Join a research study on disaster preparedness and deaf people.
#deafness #Deaf #disaster #DisasterPreparedness #research #ResearchStudy @gallaudetu.bsky.social #GallaudetUniversity #interview #CallForParticipants
JOIN A RESEARCH STUDY ON DISASTER PREPAREDNESS & DEAF PEOPLE Are you a deaf person who has lived through a disaster? Your story is important! We want to learn from you! WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? Deaf people 18+ who have experienced disaster - natural or human-made. WHAT'S INVOLVED? Share your experiences in one Zoom recorded interview, about 45 minutes. WHY JOIN? Your experience can help us improve disaster responses! You will receive a $25 gift card for your time. INTERESTED? Fill out the eligibility form at https://gu.live/WJfeC or use the QR code to the right for the link! Email the researcher, Sean Maiwald at Sean.Maiwald@gallaudet.edu CONCERNS? Contact Gallaudet University's Institutional Review Board at IRB@gallaudet.edu for study #IRB-FY25-114. IMAGE: QR code
October 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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October 3, 2025.
Park Police tore down FLARE encampment at 5:00 AM this morning.
Protest at Union Station, Washington, DC this evening 5:00 PM
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#WashingtonDC #DC #resist #FLARE #protest @freedcproject.bsky.social @flareusa.bsky.social #FreeDC #news
October 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Powerful image: A protester carries a US flag through tear gas launched to clear protesters outside the Broadview immigration processing centre in Chicago.
Photograph: Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/TNS/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
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#resist #news #Chicago #protest
PHOTO: A protester carries a US flag through tear gas launched to clear protesters outside the Broadview immigration processing centre in Chicago. Photograph: Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune/TNS/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
October 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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#resist #censorship #Disney #NBC #CBS #Paramount #authoritarianism #StateControlledMedia #StateRunMedia #MinistryOfTruth #propaganda #NineteenEightyFour #fascism #TASS
State-run media outlet, The Dismay Channel announces new Fall of Civilization lineup: FB-Aye-Aye * Dancing With the Tsars * Beat the Press * Deny the Science, Guys! * Dismay on ICE Capades * Truthless Consequences * Ubermensch * The Prisoners * No Potential * Amerika's Got Fascists! * Master Race Theater of the Absurd * All the President's Tweets * Re-newsed or Canceled * Deface the Nation * Camp Concentration! * The Nightly News (Ours) * Dick Tater's Tragedy Show * TASS is US
September 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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#DC #WashingtonDC #COVID #vaccine #news #DCCouncil #resist #CDC #TakeTheShot
SCREENSHOT: Twitter Martin Austermuhle (@maustermuhle) A news tidbit: This week the D.C. Council will vote on an emergency bill from @chenderson that will allow pharmacies to administer the COVID-19 vaccine without a doctor's prescription. Because of changes at the federal level, local pharmacies have been requiring a prescription. 1:15 PM * Sep 15, 2025 * 30K Views Replies: 8, Retweets: 81, Likes: 377, Bookmarks: 9
September 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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#MelissaHortman #Hortman #PoliticalViolence #NeverForget
PHOTO: Melissa Hortman CAPTION: [Lit candle] In memory of MELISSA HORTMAN, former Minnesota House Speaker (1970 - 2025). Taken far too soon in a targeted attack. A voice for justice, clean energy and equality. We honor her legacy, leadership, and courage.
September 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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#truth #justice #TheAmericanWay #perspective #Hortman #MelissaHortman
SMALL PRINT: Donald J. Trump tweeting "In honor of Charlie Kirk, a truly Great American Patriot, I am ordering all American Flags throughout the United States to be lowered to Half Mast until Sunday evening at 6 P.M." LARGE PRINT: My sympathies are going to the family of Minnesota Congresswoman Melissa Hortman's family. She was assassinated a few months ago and there was no national order to lower flags to half staff. OCCUPY DEMOCRATS @astatesman
September 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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#humor #comedy
PHOTO: A black ram entering a bedroom. CAPTION: When you are studying Latin but you keep making mistakes.
September 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Live your truth MAGA
#MAGA #socialism
BE YOURSELF If you voted Republican because you fear socialism, then live your truth: Do not accept Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. Avoid public beaches, parks and libraries. Do not allow your children to attend tax-supported schools or to take advantage of food programs. Drive only on toll roads. Do not call 911 unless you intend to pay for services rendered. -- Alison Rennie, North Miami Beach
September 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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#resist #humor #metamussolini #metamucillini #comedy
Is it "Metamucillini" or "Metamussolini"?
September 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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News parody: HEADLINE: Putin Agrees to Negotiate with Netanyahu Over Ownership of Trump CHYRON: BREAKING NEWS: Custody talsk begin this weekend CRAWL: Grocery Prices Soar as Will to Live Plummets.
August 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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#malaphors #humor #comedy
itsvondel: you can take one man's trash to another man's treasure but you cannot make it drink runtime-err0r: Fun fact: the blending of idioms or cliches is called a malaphor. My personal favorite is "We'll burn that bridge when we get to it." chromalogue: I'm rather fond of "It's not rocket surgery" and "not the sharpest egg in the attic," but my all-time favorite is, "...until the cows freeze over." bowtochris: You've opened this can of worms, now lie in it.
August 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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August 22, 2025 4:30-6:00 - Columbia Heights Plaza, Washington, DC: Prayer Vigil (to end the occupation)
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#resist #WashingtonDC #DC #PoliceState #vigil #OccupiedZone #authoritarianism
Columbia Heights Plaza - August 22, 2025, Gathering at 4:30 PM, Service from 5:00 PM until 6:00 PM PRAYER VIGIL Clergy of DC: Stand with us! The overreach of the federal government has brought violence into our streets. Let us reclaim these spaces as sacred. Together, we will make it clear to the powers that be: We are not afraid. We will defend DC! * Jews United for Justice - "Think Jewishly. Act Locally." * Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ) - UU advocacy in the nation's capital * The Festival Center * Washington Interfaith Network (WIN) * Congregation Action Network (CAN)
August 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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From @cnn.com 5 Things AM August 20, 2025:
#news #CNN #censorship #resist #authoritarianism #whitewash #revisionist #Smithsonian #SmithsonianMuseum #SmithsonianInstitution #NineteenEightyFour
1. SMITHSONIAN President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric about the Smithsonian Institution on Tuesday, alleging that its museums were too focused on the negative aspects of US history, including "how bad slavery was." The comments, which he posted on his social media site, came a week after the White House ordered a review of the Smithsonian's museums and exhibits "to ensure alignment with the President's directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions." If the Smithsonian refuses to purge materials that conflict with Trump's political directives, it could suffer a fate similar to the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities. Both organizations lost tens of millions of dollars in federal funding earlier this year, which has affected small museums, libraries, arts programs and research projects across the country.
August 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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#shame
"Why should coal miners pay for PBS"? This was an actual question asked by the Trump administration yesterday. Obviously a blatently stupid question. We have questions too. Why should a poor black family in Detroit pay for the President to go golfing? Why should a single mother of three who's working two jobs in Louisiana be denied health-care so that the CEO of Aetna can get a tax-break? Why is the guy washing dishes in Baton Rouge paying for the President's wife's secret service protection so that she can live comfortably in NYC? We could do this all day. But here are the real questions the Trump administration and the Republicans who empower him need to answer: Do you have a heart? Did no one teach you to care about your neighbors? Do you know what "empathy" means? Did no one ever teach you to "share" when you were in kindergarten? Have you neve heard the phrase "do unto others"? I can't think of a group of people who need to watch "Sesame Street" MORE tha the Republican party. Perhaps they would learn some common decency.
August 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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From @cnn.com 5 Things AM, August 18, 2025
More National Guard deployed to Washington, DC
#authoritarianism #PoliceState #MadKingDonald #resist #news #politics #WashingtonDC #DC #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinFilesDistraction #NationalGuard #UnAmerican #CNN
CNN: 5 Things AM, August 18, 2025 3. DC President Trump’s recent declaration of a crime emergency in Washington, DC, and his decision to federalize the city’s police force have already prompted protests and at least one lawsuit. Now, three Republican-led states are sending hundreds of their own National Guard troops to the nation’s capital to assist in Trump’s efforts. West Virginia plans to send 300 to 400 National Guard troops, South Carolina has authorized the deployment of 200 troops and Ohio said it will send 150. These units will join the 800 DC National Guard troops that Trump has already deployed to patrol the district along with Border Patrol, ICE, FBI and DEA agents. Although Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office declined to comment on the deployment of additional troops in DC, she posted on X: “American soldiers and airmen policing American citizens on American soil is #UnAmerican.”
August 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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TACO Don chickens out... again...
(from CNN's 5 Things AM, August 18, 2025)
#TACO #TACOdon #news #war #politics #russia #ukraine
SCREENSHOT: CNN 5 things AM 2025-08-18 PHOTO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Donald Trump. Reuters/AP 1. Ukraine Prior to last week’s historic summit in Alaska, President Donald Trump said he would be disappointed if a ceasefire wasn’t reached between Russia and Ukraine, and even threatened “severe” consequences on Moscow if Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t end the fighting. However, Trump returned from the summit with different priorities. He is now focused on securing a peace deal without a ceasefire and said “we don’t have to think” about sanctions against Russia. Trump will host a summit at the White House today with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and several European leaders to discuss his talks with Putin in more detail. But on his social media site, Trump appeared to preview the message he’ll deliver to his visitors: If Zelensky wants the war in Ukraine to end, he must agree to some of Russia’s conditions, including that Ukraine cede Crimea and agree never to join NATO.
August 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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The DC Police should serve the DC citizens.
The Felon in Chief should serve time.
#resist @freedcproject.bsky.social #freeDC
The DC Police should serve the DC citizens. The Felon in Chief should serve time.
August 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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#FreeDC @freedcproject.bsky.social
DC Police: Serve DC Felon: Serve time
August 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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#resist #WashingtonDC #DC #politics #protest #occupation #authoritarianism #illegal #militia #overreach #HomeRule #statehood
Chief Smith, listen to the DC Attorney General: "the Bondi Order is unlawful, you are not legally obligated to follow it." We call on DC neighborrs to come to MPD headquarters today at 12 PM [sic] to add a personal message to the DC AG's letter about why Chief Smith needs to refuse Trump's unlawful order to install an emergency commissioner. Friday August 15 from 12-2 PM, 441 4th St. NW Free DC - https://FreeDCproject.org/smith
August 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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A cartoon depicting the "Rock 'n' Roll neighborhood" filled with references to song titles that contain references to locations
August 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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#PBS #PublicBroadcasting #CPB #PublicTelevision #television #educational #education #CorporationForPublicBroadcasting #news
For over half a century, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has partnered with PBS and our member stations to serve communities large and small in every corner of the country. As this remarkable institution winds down, PBS is committed to building on CPB's legacy and maintaining our service to the American people for years to come. We are grateful to Patricia Harrison, who for the last 20 years has ensured public television remained available and accessible to every American. -- PBS
August 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM