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OCEANS OF TRUTH IN THE SUMMER OF LOVE San Francisco: 1967. Phoebe Noguchi is a freelance photographer; Janey Cragg plays electric piano in an avant-garde jazz quartet. When they meet, a flame is kindled. And then… a murder happens. Spring 2026
I guess the real question is when do we here in the United States say ENOUGH!?!
@refusefascism.bsky.social has been working hard to build nonviolent, sustained, and massive protests.
If enough of us join them in the streets, WE can drive out this fascist regime.
Trump must go now! It’s up to us!
Yes, we have to be louder, but we also need to take the offensive—before it’s too late.
We need to develop massive, nonviolent, and sustained protests (not just every few months) demanding that the whole Trump fascist regime must go now.
What are we waiting for?
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What we all need to say is this:
The whole fascist Trump regime must go now!
Take to the streets in nonviolent, sustained protest before it’s too late!
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Donald Trump, in conjunction with Israel, has launched a murderous, illegitimate, and illegal war against the sovereign country of Iran—openly aimed at regime change. This is an unprovoked war of aggression, the supreme war crime and it must be stopped now.
Revenge, meanness, spite—none of these can undo the damage created by this fascist regime.
What we *really* need to do is mobilize people in massive, sustained, and nonviolent protests to drive out the Trump fascist regime.
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Revenge, meanness, spite—none of these can undo the damage created by this fascist regime.
What we *really* need to do is mobilize people in massive, sustained, and nonviolent protests to drive out the Trump fascist regime.
Info: @refusefascism.bsky.social
Yes, there's a lot to lament right now.
But maybe we can channel that energy into helping the only group that has been working to mobilize people in massive, sustained, and nonviolent protests to drive out the Trump fascist regime.
3.5% is not a made-up number!
Info: @refusefascism.bsky.social
We need to defeat this fascist regime.
And we can—through massive, sustained, nonviolent protest:
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I know what you mean!
Here’s a link to Refuse Fascism’s website:
refusefascism.org
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says: "what we really need is a massive, unprecedented… nonviolent… movement to defeat fascism."
This video is worth watching—and thinking about.
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I agree.
And there's a lot to talk about in terms of what we need to do.
@refusefascism.bsky.social says: "what we really need is a massive, unprecedented… nonviolent… movement to defeat fascism."
This video is worth watching—and thinking about.
bsky.app/profile/refu...
I'm working on the first episode of my sapphic detective series, set in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district during the Summer of Love…
See above. We have to drive out the regime, or the atrocities will mount.
That isn’t pessimism or alarmism. It’s fact.
(Just to be clear, I don’t think that the task is to somehow “contain” Trump. I don’t think you can. The task is to drive the regime from power.)
I mean as a nation!
The handful of us who are seeing this as the life-or-death matter that it is can in no way do this on our own.
We need the help of millions. Literally.
“Lend itself” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there!
Speaking for myself, I’d say that the deeper problem is our complacency. The hope that someone else will make it all go away.
The Germans waited too long. Let’s not repeat their mistake.
5. "The Square" is a documentary about how they did this in Egypt during the Arab Spring. A vastly different country, of course, but food for thought.
6. @refusefascism.bsky.social has been the foremost advocate for this approach in the US. /end
…And in a large one like this, it seems likely that several million of them will be in NY, LA, Chicago, etc.
4. Even if "only" 3 or 5 or 8 million of them are in the DC area, you can imagine that a lot of those people won't make it any closer than Bethesda or Alexandria. 3/
2. The basic idea is to have so many people so fed up that about 3.5% of them take to the streets in nonviolent and sustained protest, *centered* in the capital city.
3. In a very small country, you can imagine that the vast majority of those people will actually be amassed in the capital. 2/
I was oversimplifying somewhat for the sake of brevity.
I'll still be as brief as I can in ironing out the ambiguities, but the short answer is: "Yes, this is staggering."
1. The 3.5% number is rooted in the work of Erica Chenoweth, and is some kind of average, based on her dataset. 1/
Respectfully, if you think anything else will work, then you need to really look more carefully at the situation.
That’s just America exceptionalism.
If 3.5% of us flood DC in sustained nonviolent protest, we actually *can* drive out this regime. It’s happened in a lot of different countries, with widely varied geographies.
The world is right to demand that we act now!
There are millions of people within several hours drive of DC.
The real problem is that people are hoping for someone else to save us, instead of going all in.
Yes, we are a big country, but that’s not what’s standing in our way right now.
But they weren’t sustained.
It’s not enough to just get out in the streets every few weeks.
And you have to focus on the seat of power: DC.
Many other countries have done this, but for some reason, Americans think we’re different.
I guess it depends on what you mean by “passive.”
Yes, we are outraged. Yes, we are protesting here and there.
But we haven’t hit the streets in massive, sustained, and nonviolent protest like people have recently in Bulgaria & S. Korea to drive out *their* hated regimes.
What are we waiting for?
Is there no alternative to the way we live now?
Isaac Newton has thoughts:
“…to myself I seem …like a boy playing on the sea-shore, …now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell…, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
A better world is possible! Go for it!
“Kids, we are far downstream from those midterms having any effect.” – David Letterman
LETTERMAN: “.. CBS News is a wreck. It’s just gone. .. The integrity of CBS News .. has been trampled on, pissed on and eviscerated by these idiots that have taken it over.”
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I’m really glad people are doing this, don’t get me wrong.
But you can’t contain fascism.
If *we* don’t drive out the regime …
