I suspect that the reason it feels anticlimactic is that deep down we feel like if we had really gone through something that bad, we'd be memorializing it, and since we aren't, it must not have been as bad as we thought.

Soon we'll stop pretending like celebrity photo ops and press releases with no real enforcement are "ceasefire agreements."

hell yeah, we're doing hopepunk, we're making star wars references, we're cringemaxxing caring about stuff is so uncool that it's cool again, get ready www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I realize that all the "we are going to win" inspiration posting codes as aesthetically liberal (being left is being unimpressed) and invites the responses you'd guess from a certain genre of more radical than thou poster but still surprised at the particular condescension strategies people go for

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

Block Club Chicago offers an extensive list of ways that you can support immigrant neighbors and families through rapid response and mutual aid.

Alt text for the image: two cops are handcuffing a protestor dressed as the Statue of Liberty, wearing an American flag as a cape.

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

insane and now I know why Wikipedia was tweeting out things so indirectly without explaining what they were tweeting about - it must have been this www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

Alt for student solidarity!

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.

This is why I simply don’t care about trying to engage with people’s Real Beliefs; because what they feel license to do isn’t controlled by their illegible internal states nearly as much as by the guardrails of polite society.

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Americans would be wise to understand what the Stasi was. The East German secret police "sought to infiltrate every institution of society and every aspect of daily life," with files on 6 million citizens, more than 1/3rd of the population. The Trump regime is building its version of the Stasi. 1/2

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

clear eyes, full hearts, no kings

If one considers the overall trajectory of the events of the 20th and 21st centuries as a whole, it is clear that the entirety of global geopolitical conflict since circa 1918 in both armed and information warfare has been part of one continuous Great War. In this essay I will...

“well it’s only good if people actually put in the work in between these events” yeah and how do you think they get the motivation to do that? sitting around and posting on the internet all day about how much everything sucks doesn’t seem to be very effective

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

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

The revolution isn't a superhero coming to save us. It's a critical mass of human beings deciding to save each other. Every day brings us closer. We might not get to see it. But SOMEONE will. And that's enough for me.

Just a reminder!

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the true poster knows that sometimes skeets have a complex narrative structure and you may have to use context clues [down arrow]

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on. Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights. Block, and move on. This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

I’m not anti-Pritzker at all, I WANT him to be equal to the moment, but he should get screamed at until he adequately addresses this and until he does all his rhetoric is suspect at best

By all means, go protest this weekend. But BE SAFE, listen to experienced organizers, DON'T RSVP, WEAR A MASK, and turn biometrics off on your phone if you must bring it. And if you're arrested protesting in IL, I will represent as many people as I can pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

I'm here in a Tiffany Aching sense to be everybody's mom.

📢📢📢CALLING ALL PARENTS ALL ACROSS ONTARIO!!! SHARE WIDELY! Join Parents Against Speeding and plan a local event on Oct 20 to protest the shutting down of Ontario's life-saving school zone speed safety camera program. Tell Doug Ford it's wrong to care more about lawbreakers than kids' safety!

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

ISP just arrested at least seven people including a woman with an accordion we they pushed protesters back down beach street. State cops in riot gear, sheriffs police and Broadview cops all on scene. People in fatigues closer to the building but can’t tell if they are Feds

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Okay! This is going to take a while so I had to finish some stuff first, but: Why Da Pope Fucking Up Opus Dei Is A Huge Fucking Deal: a thread

Another example of 'get in where you can get in' and everyone can do something of use... blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/16/a...

Tragedy. Please follow the link if you can help alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

The original and best white horse, leaping up a wintry Uffington Hill. This picture was taken before the first stage of its restoration.

To expand on this, in my view the central, core tragedy of the Antigone (the play, not the [removed for brevity]) is that Antigone is right, but that Creon, while wrong(ish) *also* has a point: civic authority and unity are necessary in the aftermath of civil chaos and war.

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still. It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police. Please talk about us too.

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I need folks to recognize that if anybody can be forced to prove their citizenship at any time or risk arrest and disappearance, then you could also be asked to do so, and that means you are *already in* the "papers, please" phase of this authoritarian project.

The reality of Kavanaugh stops: American citizens dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, and shot by immigration agents. Citizens held in the rain while in their underwear. A pregnant citizen's door blown off while Kristi Noem watched. Important story by @nicolefoy.bsky.social of @propublica.org

This is one of the significant fault lines between the Left(s) and the Right. On the Left(s) [in general], we believe that everyone deserves public goods and to live in dignity. Period.

Earlier today I was listening to one of the hosts from Here and Now repeatedly ask a resident from Southeast Chicago whether throwing rocks at ICE was justified. And finally she just said, "They invaded our community. They have machine guns."

Everybody I identify with this particular hype cycle is still at it, completely undeterred.

I've recently been reminded that at least some of the immigrants that Abbot sent the Texas national guard to kidnap, are the same immigrants Abbott flew to Chicago in the dead of winter in flip flops and a t shirt to overwhelm the city. Instead Chicago residents clothed, fed and resettled them