Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

ICE everywhere are trying to provoke the optics the administration wants to bring out martial law, but it's a national effort to take the piss out of them. It's crazy how one guy in a frog suit essentially set the tone for this- so try everything, you never know what will work

"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.

j6 was sponsored by billionaires, people were paid to be in the crowd and buses were chartered to bring them in from all over the place, they had a plan a goal and a deadline and equipment 20k morons and a whiffed execution

At some point, the people of the US are going to have to ask themselves why in 2025, we still have a system of "democracy" that is intentionally designed to give the 60% of pro ethno-state white voters more power than everyone else in the country combined. Questions for the 40% of white folk.

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs “The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

Democrats in my liberal-city-in-a-conservative-county are more leftist on nearly every issue than Dems I knew in the Bay Area. We know first-hand how fucking nuts the conservatives are and how unrepresentative American democracy really is.

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

When there’s so clearly more people who don’t want fascism than do want fascism it becomes pretty fucking unignorable that the Democratic Party has a widespread candidate, platform and messaging problem. Every election is theirs to lose, and they do.

its worth noting the shift in public consciousness because we're talking about billion dollar propaganda being counterracted by just, people having principles and a working moral fabric

As someone living in Oklahoma, it's so encouraging to see all the people out protesting. It's not just that hundreds are turning out in Tulsa and OKC, it's also that there are protests happening in towns like McAlester and Ponca City

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Amazing to see so many people protest against Trump and the rise of fascism What will be crucial though will be to avoid exceptionalising him and understand what has created a fertile soil for these politics There can be no return to the "normal" that paved the way for the far right

Chicago - no kings

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Personally I love seeing corny, cringy bad protest signs. Means the amateurs are activated

Same energy

I hope everyone at the "No Kings" protests today achieves something they were hoping to achieve. (The poster below is checking in from the district formerly represented by Matt Gaetz.)

Server Ossoff has no idea that server Miller thinks that ethnic cleansing through mass deportation is a good idea, because they "Don't talk politics at work." Server Walz knows that server Homan is "conservative," but he doesn't know if that means "small government," or "Big racism."

Following up on the "dining while Black" thing, and how Black people know and have always known, how many white folk in the US would have supported this Trump admin, while white Dems greatly underestimated it. Imagine these 4 men are servers at a restaurant. White diners don't notice a difference🤷🏿‍♂️

They call this tactical frivolity. It is -not- pointless and dumb. It's intentional and planned out. They're poisoning potential propaganda with silly, harmless antics that people love. This makes it much harder for the government to lie about what's happening on the streets. ✌️

Randall Munroe once noted that more Californians than Texans voted for Trump and more Texans than New Yorkers voted for Harris.

One interesting thing about US billionaires, is that they are so used to individual political access at the highest levels, that they are genuinely confused when they don't get it. Mamdani is debating Cuomo and Sliwa, and lining up his policies to serve millions of people in an important city.

This is going to be very funny when the white house account starts repeatedly violating the TOS by posting violent threats and jay has to hurriedly invent some special politician exemption

I don't know if the Epstein files can destroy Trump's reign. But Trump certainly thinks they can.

Treating the Declaration of Independence’s list of grievances like a to do list. "He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people." "For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate …".

The US executive branch has as of today made accounts on Bluesky, as confirmed real by their posts on "Twitter". Because even agency accounts, such as DHS, now engage in right-wing troll behavior like quote dunking, you may want to block them using this list: bsky.app/profile/eva.... -

Mike Johnson's legacy will be shutting down the House so he can protect child predators.

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

is the technology freeing more people or is it cementing the already rich

Instead of "This is inappropriate!" Democrats - especially those who might run for president - should say right now "Anyone who participates in this should know: You are committing a crime, and in the next administration you will be prosecuted." That will change the frame of the story.

Playing Earthbound for the first time ever in 2025 is fascinating, actually. You're just a kid and the world's gone mad. All the adults are useless at best or trying to kill you at worst. Everyone talks like a crazy person. Everything's too expensive. Your next door neighbor wants to be a dictator.

much to appreciate here tonally but the main thing is that I did guffaw

This is how authoritarianism cements itself in power and crushes opposition, all while the eggheads debate if it's fascism or something else.

Jordy created a website where visitors can contribute $35 to “provide an inflatable costume for a True American.™” He initially hoped to collect enough to buy a couple dozen suits. But as he put it -- “This whole thing has blown up a lot.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

god this is so funny because back when I had my life blown up due to white people tweets I lost exactly zero (0) friends defector.com/free-press-r...

Apparently, the official GOP response to the leaked Young Republican chats is “come on, it’s not a big deal that these guys are using racial slurs and praising Hitler, that’s totally normal” and, uh, that sorta raises more questions?