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Enormous protests against a not-fully-entrenched fascist regime are good, actually.

Everyone has a strategic critique, but guess what, the world is your oyster. Go fucking organize people if you want collective action to be in your preferred flavor. Learn how to persuade people who are different.

Just for kicks, let's say Soros paying people off was a thing--and he paid every one of the protesters yesterday.

Maybe $50/head X 7 million folks

That's $350,000,000 !!!

No one has video of anyone handing out bills. There's no paper trail through the mail, venmo, tax statements, or otherwise

But it gets tougher from here---we need to build the #infrastructure to STAY in the streets.

That means go-fund-me efforts and delivery plans for:

-soup and power bars,
-water,
-port-a-johns,
-warm clothes for protesters, etc.

Know that those days are coming.

Start preparing.

No Kings: +1 day

Awesome job getting out in the streets yesterday, everyone!!!🎊🎉💯

It's clear that all of us have friends everywhere.

But.....

1/2

Let's see those #no_kings signs, America!

I know the feeling.

There will never be a better opportunity to play the "Xanadu" soundtrack.

I've seen this happen.

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 ...

The LARGEST demonstration FOR #democracy EVER will happen THIS SATURDAY--everywhere.

Stand up and be counted.

Saturday, you can't be a slug on the couch watching College Game Day

Saturday, not the day to hit the sale at the mall

Get your feet in the streets with the rest of us

www.nokings.org

This tells me that the ICE-locator apps & ICE-locator Facebook groups were working

This tells me that they were effective in thwarting the regime

It's a #class-action #First_Amendment lawsuit opportunity

There is a need for more apps, even if it simply forces the WH to play whack-a-mole

More of this.

How about #Ohare and #Midway airports in #Chicago next?

I was wondering about this:

Portland's Protest Frog vs. the R-W's "Pepe" symbol.

This is a hopeful (and cogent) analysis.

The Halloween banana costume could be the most underrated of the ridiculous food costumes.

The most important news story in the country is happening in Chicago right now with the ongoing Trump deportation raids.

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

Find a rally. Show up.

🎶corn is a shitty solar panel🎵

DO NOT normalize:

👉ICE arresting US citizens

👉👉Deploying National Guard to intimidate

👉👉👉Administration posting partisan messages during shutdown

“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - spoken by Nemik in Andor

Several U.S. citizens have been detained unjustly and unnecessarily since this rule change.

This is a #class_action_lawsuit against the government in the making.

Mixed-bag early responses on the WH trapping bellwether schools into its weird #funding_ransom "compact"

---placing them at the mercy of the prez's anti-intellectual, maga whims

▪ MIT will not be bullied 🎉
▪ UT-Austin seems open to it

Additional context: www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

Dear Nobel Prize committee,

There are multiple wonderful Peace Prize candidates --- and one really, really bad one.

Solar panels are just better.

Kevin JC has the goods in his analysis thread.

Yeah, but--serious question that everyone is asking--why did things happen this way?

Given:
Emerging La Nina
Warm Gulf of Mexico
Yet the North Pacific was super warm this year.

Does the weather community have any ideas on this yet?

If this is indeed what's going on, it parallels the Star Trek (original series) episode "Patterns of Force" from 1968.

Part of the plot includes a drugged figurehead manipulated by villainous underlings.

Many GenXers caught this one back in the 1970s and 1980s.

reactormag.com/star-trek-th...

Translation: Extremely well-resourced feds in #body_armor are helpless against the onslaught of librarians & baristas in animal costumes.

Stephen Miller wrote this "Antifa-led hellfire" statement, right?

#inflatable_frog_costume
#Resist

Thanks.

Thanks.

Is there a time and date on these X posts (the screen grab)?

I left the platform awhile ago--they used to have them, but when people post stuff from X without dates (in the screen grab), it makes me suspicious.

Jane Goodall's final lesson Honoring Jane Goodall's life, Pope Leo's first climate address, and finding hope in action

This week, we lost one of the world’s greatest advocates for people and nature. Even in her final days, Dr. Jane Goodall was urging us not to give up, and now her legacy lives on through the countless voices she inspired.

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This is the way.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov - Please inform Illinois State Police and municipal police forces that they are to be as PROACTIVE as this officer in protecting protestors, as well as civilians.

We need you to step up and lead, J.B.

#protests