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I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Because Americans believe in Good People and Bad People, and that Bad People are only pretending to be human. This lines up comfortably with Nazi ideas.

There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a helpful reminder that using a device reliant on connectivity to carry out a task that doesn't need connectivity is not a good idea.

When did we reach this nadir, where media can't accurately report on the news?

YANSS 313 – Why the number of people needed to make a protest movement successful is much lower than you might assume If you want to overthrow a dictator, resist an authoritarian regime, or create a movement that can change the national status quo, you don’t need half the country to join, you only need 3.5 p…

According to actual, real studies into this sort of thing, the number of people needed to ensure a protest movement succeeds is much lower than you might assume:

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Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

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folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

Scholars who study how to defeat fascism pretty much all say that you need the less radical, mushy middle folks to be on your side. You need mass support.

The “normies” you look down on who are going to No Kings are those people. If you think it’s not enough, go talk to them. Go organize them.

White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

Ah, I see you're just here to waste time.

So you aren't really disputing that the president is trying to silence free speech? Great, you agree.

block this shit

What is the point of this post?

They hate us for our freedoms. 😔

Flier for the Defense Fund PDX Street Fair in October 18th from 2-7 PM on Clinton St and 25th. Music vendors raffle family friendly. All proceeds to the bail fund.

Portland Folks: if you're in town Saturday and want something to go to aside from the No Kings protest, or after, the Portland Defense Fund is holding a street fair on Clinton St in SE.

I think its an active need for communists/socialists to show up. With yes their own signs, slogans, and chants. And their own next steps. No Kings brings out an important part of the masses who need to be brought into struggle with the parts of the masses not there. Communists should be the bridge.

Yeah, divisive tactics trying to split the alliance that elected him will definitely happen. And he will probably legit do something disappointing (maybe more than one thing!). But politicians are tools: we can use them to try and get closer to the world we want, even if they aren't perfect.

Mamdani will not be perfect, and that's gotta be OK. Next socialist mayor will be better. Beach heads.

Gotta shove that Overton Window somehow. There's some unfortunate stuff here, but not enough to get worked up over.

no this seems perfect

flier advertising a no kings veteran contingent rally point at friendship circle by the steel bridge for 10-18-25

Veterans: we need you in this historical moment. Join me and other vets as we form a contingent for the No Kings march this Saturday. We have a special role to play in stopping the slide into authoritarianism. Hope to see you at Friendship Circle by the Steel Bridge at 11:30 am.

They all want the same thing - ethnostates. A Jewish ethnostate is fine as long as there's no race mixing.

The American Right doesn't want black people to vote.

Um yes hello @geodesaurus.bsky.social

Weird story: Around 6 am PT today residents of a Eugene, OR apartment complex were awoken by several unmarked cars with flashing lights and two flash bangs. A witness said agents were speaking in Spanish and demanded people come out of an apartment with their hands up. Turns out the agents were FBI.

He's just like a Young Republican I guess!

Also there will be spooky ghosts and creepy spiders and snakes so just remember to be terrified of this...peaceful rally to voice disdain for kings?

He hates us for our freedoms.

Ah! My bad.