Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.
There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.
What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.
It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
www.wweek.com/culture/2025...
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People are confusing their own tedious self-importance with effectiveness.
The animal costumes are a genius move. It should be adopted by every protest.
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I paid $50k in taxes last year and it is infuriating to see that money being utterly wasted in this manner.
10.10.2025 19:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There is a coordinated republican message today that they will respond to peaceful protests next weekend with violence.
We will not be silenced by their threats.
10.10.2025 18:18 — 👍 996 🔁 305 💬 51 📌 14
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 belongs to the people.
Next Saturday Oct 18, millions of people across America will join together to send a clear message: We the people have the power. Find your local event today and raise your voice for the science, facts, and truth we need to counter the authoritarian overreach of President Trump and his enablers.
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“Pro-pal” protestors at MVP’s 9:30 Washington, DC book tour stop last night.
Ms. Devi is absolutely done with their bullshit and held her own 👏🏼
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If Winsome Earle-Sears hadn't kept interrupting me, maybe she would have heard what a real plan to make life better for Virginians sounds like.
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Do they even understand hormonal birth control prevents ovulation?
10.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The irony that the "Christian" party keeps insisting it's their opponents who must consistently turn the other cheek.
10.10.2025 14:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Your regular reminder, aside from the performative public lying of far right authoritarians, that the GOP & the national media would have a week-long Discourse On Civility if <any Democrat> ever spoke about GOP voters/conservatives the way GOP leaders speak about Dem voters/liberals every single day
10.10.2025 13:56 — 👍 929 🔁 223 💬 50 📌 6
I have a Master's in economics and am still not sure I calculated the taxes on Dad's Social Security correctly, when I had to do his forms after he passed.
10.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
She faces threats, intimidation, and relentless attacks—but has never given up. Fearless in the face of tyranny, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her courage and fight for democracy in Venezuela. What an inspiration!
10.10.2025 12:46 — 👍 714 🔁 114 💬 18 📌 7
Richard Cohen in the Washington Post (in the 90s) once remarked on how he didn't understand the appeal of the Ralph Lauren Polo brand as it idolized people who "have less fun in their entire lives than one Italian American has at a family wedding." This counter programming is confirming his take.
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We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.
But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.
Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.
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A headline from the New York Post reads: “JD Vance calls Chuck Schumer ‘one of the most famous Palestinians’”
Someone like JD Vance, who has been on the receiving end of a lot of insinuations, should know to couch his language more carefully.
Anyways, I’ll be here, ready to make a deal to save Americans’ health care and reopen the federal government that Republicans shut down.
09.10.2025 23:18 — 👍 564 🔁 113 💬 84 📌 44
BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump from deploying federalized National Guard troops into Chicago.
This ruling reinforces what we already knew: It is illegal for the president to use manufactured emergencies to send soldiers into our cities.
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If you have employer based healthcare coverage, be sure to include HR in your fight for care. They are the real customer and have far more pull than you do.
09.10.2025 23:55 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
09.10.2025 20:23 — 👍 52729 🔁 21459 💬 1776 📌 1995
"THEY WERE EVENTUALLY LET GO AFTER SHOWING THIER DOCUMENTS". In other words, they were pulled out of their cars for looking "Mexican".
09.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 791 🔁 288 💬 35 📌 13
Bo isn't going to take your "I'm too busy to give you scritches" nonsense.
09.10.2025 23:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sweetheart, Donnie the Deplorable barely knows what room he's in at any moment and regularly defecates in his pants because of his drug addiction. His legacy will be one of rape, treason, terrorism, theft, fraud and cheating. Nothing can rehabilitate that...man.
09.10.2025 22:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The movement of Melania the nude model, Marjorie the home wrecking adulterer and Lauren the Beetlejuice "pumper," with one son who's already committed statutory r*pe and been convicted of theft, has thoughts. Noted.
09.10.2025 21:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The fact every gay bar in the US will tune in at least for the halftime show, we'll easily be able to outnumber these tools.
09.10.2025 21:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
They’re targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James for one reason: she had the courage to hold Donald Trump accountable.
This is political weaponization of our courts, plain and simple—and proof that when you stand up to corruption, they come for you.
09.10.2025 20:51 — 👍 4215 🔁 1090 💬 118 📌 28
Didn't we learn they actually provided false information to the grand jury in the Comey case?
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👀 MAGA is splintering over Israel and a conspiracy theory about Charlie Kirk’s death. Candace Owens and Josh Hammer are in the eye of the hurricane. 1/ x.com/newsweek/sta...
09.10.2025 21:06 — 👍 142 🔁 34 💬 8 📌 2
Isn't one of the criticisms of infant circumcision is that the kid ISN'T given pain killers?
09.10.2025 19:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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