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🚨 BREAKING: Protesters Storm #Georgia ’s Presidential Palace🇬🇪

Clashes Erupt in #Tbilisi:
In a dramatic escalation, protesters have stormed the #PresidentialPalace in #Tbilisi after marching from Freedom Square. Eyewitnesses report pepper spray

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It’s only a matter of time before there is a Kent State or far worse episode.

We have a bunch of barely trained hop-heads encourage to unleash violence.

What happens after is anyone’s guess. But none of this should deter us from fighting for democracy and rule of law.

Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism: 1). They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement bc they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled thru terror 2). If they can’t terrorize you 24/7 in your mind, they have already lost the war 3). The single best way you can resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you constantly. Protect your mental health to ensure you are not constantly in a terrorized state 4). Keep connecting to who you are at your core. Your values, preferences, ethics, and beliefs. Build up capacity to resist 5). Remember they are like abusive parents: they only see us extensions of them. They have no clue how powerful joy and community and self-expression can be. We can use this to our advantage — we can be the strong-willed child they never saw coming. Spending time connecting to your true self is not selfish in these times — it’s intricately connected to a resistance movement that is tied to honoring our bodies, our communities, and to the land. We have to build capacity to resist by being exactly who we are!

DLMayfield:

"Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism:

They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement because they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled through terror.

The best way to resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you."

BTW for maga, it was never about pedophiles. It was about hating fellow Americans and the pedophile charge was a convenient way to put a moral mask on that.

The second Trump failed to release the files, because he’s in them, they defended him.

Mask is off

Resist.

Sinclair Won’t Air Jimmy Kimmel’s Return on Its 38 ABC Stations The preemption means that 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' will remain unavailable for some of the U.S. despite its return after a nearly week-long suspension.

If you make extravagantly obnoxious demands, you have to stick with them especially when you are extravagantly obnoxious. That would be Sinclair. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Wait, really? Can’t see from here!

🔥💯 Jon Stewart's prophecy from 2022:

"When a democracy is under threat: comedians are the ones who get sent away first. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to art, to music, to thought, to progress. It ain't the pronoun police, it's the Secret Police. It always has been & it always will be."

Tremendous.

“When we have the weight of the United States government behind extremist views, we’ve got a problem.” —Barack Obama

Robert Redford: the incandescently handsome star who changed Hollywood forever Robert Redford, who has died at the age of 89, began as a blond bombshell at a time when American cinema favoured grit, then turned into a supremely assured director and unlikely keeper of the indie flame

Robert Redford: the incandescently handsome star who changed Hollywood forever

Image of Desmond Howard, Chris Fowler, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit seated in front of reporters, holding microphones with a red ESPN logo wall behind them.

Cleaning out an old laptop. What a gem find 🤩

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Olympe was a real one.✊🏻

Just call me “Puddles”😭

This has been a nonstop take among the opinion pages of the elite. I can't help but think that this was all about setting up a moral panic about campus speech that would enable them to censor minorities on campus. That's what this was always about, being angry at minorities expressing discomfort.

Yep, continuous loop.

Trump's attack on Lisa Cook is an attack on Black women We all stand to lose if he gets away with it.

New in PN: @itsafronomics.bsky.social on why Trump's attack on Lisa Cook is an attack on Black women & Black economists

"In a time where there are attempts to erase the contributions of Black people & more specifically Black women from the history books, her leadership is needed now more than ever"

Los Angeles, CA
Music Festival
9/1/25

One of the best signs I've ever seen

Enjoy your Labor Day Weekend

💪🏻Netflix wants to be a hero? I’m IN.

I got the first call from the NY Daily News that day followed by AP, asking me to confirm he said the F word. The best part is the DENIAL that came from execs, almost knee jerk. “He didn’t say that!” An all-timer for Coach.

Corso had to re-tape his apology because he kept smiling during it lol

😍😍Perfect.

Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military If there’s no difference between upholding the Constitution and attacking it, then there’s no honor in service.

"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power."

New from @markhertling.bsky.social:

As a result of our lawsuit against the Trump administration, we stopped the dismantling of AmeriCorps and $184 million will be restored for essential public services.
 
This is a major victory for the dedicated AmeriCorps volunteers and the people they serve every day.

Timeless words: “To those who still doubt the necessity of militancy, the final answer is this. Consider the men who now are at the head of the political parties, consider the men not yet advanced to leadership who are likely to succeed them”

THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Donald Trump has now said, two days in a row, that he’d rather be a dictator if it means “stopping crime.”

That’s not a slip of the tongue. That’s conditioning. He’s trying to train you to accept fascism as “safety.”

Epstein VICTIM.

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

~ Catherine Fahringer