Resist the regime. Reading books is resistance. Buying books is resistance. Sharing books is resistance. Celebrating books is resistance. Resist this regime. - ThreadSky

philbildner.bsky.social • 5 days ago

Resist the regime.

Reading books is resistance.

Buying books is resistance.

Sharing books is resistance.

Celebrating books is resistance.

Resist this regime.

Comments

berncomar.bsky.social•3 days ago

💙 REPOST:
We need a "SAFE WORD" at our protests on Saturday.

Trump will take advantage of minor incidents & PLANTS who engage in violence to impose the Insurrection Act & use the military to stop Americans from exercising their First Amendment rights.

If you see troublemakers, call out "PENGUINS."

zenpierre.bsky.social•4 days ago

Love the library. GO LIBRARIES!

doomerhermit.bsky.social•4 days ago

How about this notion, "public banned book readings"?

dcell1961.bsky.social•4 days ago

I actually love this idea.

doomerhermit.bsky.social•4 days ago

😁

nessa65.bsky.social•4 days ago

Buy from independent book sellers.

arbecca.bsky.social•3 days ago

💪 resist. Walk in your community April 5 to protest the destruction of the foundations of our government/constitution at the hands of trump's team who carries out his madness.

tuningfork.bsky.social•2 days ago

Revolting! At what point does the worst political malfeasance that culminates in needless massive pain + pushing allies toward China, giving the next world order to China and Russia and their petty authoritarian allies warrant a sober slap-back??? America needs to revolt against Trumpism.

livefreeliberty.bsky.social•4 days ago

Writing books is resistance.

ogredragon.bsky.social•5 days ago

The Jungle, By Upton Sinclair Free: https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Jungle/lDTuAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1

mangledbroom.bsky.social•5 days ago

Currently on deck for once I finish up 1984!

meme-art.bsky.social•4 days ago

Please read 'Cobalt Red' by Siddharth Kara. He researched the Congo and the mining for 23 years before he wrote this book.

Mindboggling to realize 97% of Cobalt for our EV batters and all phone batteries come from there, mined by bare hands of children
It wd take Musk 1 week to stop that horror

meme-art.bsky.social•4 days ago

My kinda person
Thanks Phil this is a GREAT message

callmekelbel.bsky.social•4 days ago

Going to the San Diego book crawl on the weekend of April 26th. 14 independent bookstores.

leftywithagun.bsky.social•4 days ago

Reading the CORRECT books is resistance. Socialist literature is resistance. Reading Harry Potter is not.

daarkkarma.bsky.social•4 days ago

Actually Harry potter is what taught me and most of the kids my age at the time about the dangers of supremacist ideologies.

Do not knock the power of young adult fiction. As it is those that influence young people most

leftywithagun.bsky.social•4 days ago

My point is adults shouldn't be modeling their world view off a children's book. Those in their 30s and 40s shouldn't be making Harry Potter references for politics

midwestmom27.bsky.social•4 days ago

My husband is going to love your thinking….

terrybirdgenaw.bsky.social•4 days ago

How about buying books where the characters resist?

Rising authoritarianism worldwide inspired me to write an allegorical trilogy on the perils of fascism: 1) unnecessary war, 2) failed democracy & resulting climate crisis, & 3) racially-motivated subjugation. Check out:

https://amazon.com/dp/B0B1JNBCTK?

wombatgirl2.bsky.social•5 days ago

Reading banned books is resistance.

fairydust64.bsky.social•4 days ago

or do 2 things at the same time- read a guid book n resist at the same time

jdidmdid.bsky.social•4 days ago

Except that the fascists are supplying a lot of rip off novels that celebrate right wing losers. I accidentally bought one from a cheap book bin.

sergiorodriguesx.bsky.social•5 days ago

Killing with books is resistance. ;)

conspicuoussnoop.bsky.social•4 days ago

Imagine saying this in any other countries that actually has to deal with shit..lol

librarianlissa.bsky.social•5 days ago

Using the services of your local public library is resistance.

leoglickman.bsky.social•5 days ago

I love books, but reading isn't resistance.

lichemperor.bsky.social•4 days ago

People often make the mistake of assuming their opposition is completely unread/idiotic and that the things they enjoy are out of reach of them as well.

paranormalhunter.bsky.social•4 days ago

The fuck it’s not.

Some of you never read “The Jungle”or “Night” and it shows.

daarkkarma.bsky.social•4 days ago

And what does reading those books do to stop a regime? They open your eyes but that's it.

paranormalhunter.bsky.social•4 days ago

They were written to prevent. Half the country was indoctrinated into a cult, because these books were once books you HAD TO read in class. You HAD TO discuss them, and write about them, and understand them became removed. For a reason. An educated populace keeps one from STARTING.

leoglickman.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think you're confusing writing a book which very much can be an act of resistance, with reading, which is not. It can prepare you for resistance, but in itself it is not. Reading a book has no external effect.

daarkkarma.bsky.social•4 days ago

That's all well and good but prevention isn't resistance. It's prevention. You're now in the resistance stage.

So do it.

Don't think you're changing things by reading in the comfort of your own home. Go out there and build a community and protect it, rise up.

daarkkarma.bsky.social•4 days ago

A lot of you Americans act like this regime hasn't solidified itself yet. But it has. You're not preventing shit, it's already happened. For all your learning from books you didn't stop it before it happened.

Now use what you read and fix it yourself

paranormalhunter.bsky.social•4 days ago

Also: fuck you.

Plenty of us are fighting back hard. At risk of getting arrested, sent to concentration camps, our jobs and livelihoods ruined.

Many, many of us didn’t ask for this. Many, many of us are working towards fixing what WE have been saying was happening for DECADES was coming.

archeryfan93.bsky.social•4 days ago

What about listening to audio books?

lovingizzy.bsky.social•4 days ago

Went to the good will yesterday and found a Martin Luther King biography book. Is at home now! Safe. Those fuckers are trying to erase history.

victorinini.bsky.social•4 days ago

Buy books. Read books. Buy banned books. Read banned books. Open your mind. Pass them on. (As you said) Teach your children well. I grew up reading everything. Including fascist literature. Racist history. Ruling class economics texts. In order to fight your enemies. You must know what they think.

athenearcana.bsky.social•4 days ago

You’re going to need to do a bit more than curl up in your book nook for a few hours, if you actually want to resist this insanity.

Putting your book down, getting out on the streets, taking tangible action in the real world … that is resistance.

mixitupdeedee62.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes. Buy the books. Keep the books safe. Fight for their protection.

yepbean.bsky.social•3 days ago

*Especially the banned books*

halcarver1776.bsky.social•4 days ago

Being intelligent is resistance. Being wise is resistance. Not being a racist asshole is resistance.

villagebooksofso.bsky.social•3 days ago

Books are ESSENTIAL!

improbablity.bsky.social•4 days ago

Cracking MAGA on the head with a book is resistance and quite satisfying. Use a banned book and get twice the enjoyment.

vynxxgaming.bsky.social•5 days ago

No, you should definitely be joining the DSA or PSL. Hell, even waving signs with Indivisible is something. Doing nothing is actually enabling the regime lol

Good ol' #resist posts 💀

comradeinternet.bsky.social•5 days ago

Honestly, as someone who has been the lone dude waving a sign at traffic, not only can it be cathartic, but one gets into a lot of interesting conversations with passers-by this way.

vynxxgaming.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh, I know lol. Delaware doesn't really do that many protests so I love hanging out with the Women's March ladies that are always around honk and waves

coldwaterpnw.bsky.social•4 days ago

A good one for our collective self-reflection https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo240582317.html

sunsetcrest.bsky.social•4 days ago

Churchill: the gathering storm

will921.bsky.social•4 days ago

Well said!!

luckiiyu7.bsky.social•4 days ago

Intelligence is resistance!

lucidstyle.bsky.social•4 days ago

Happy Library Week!

shmootoo.bsky.social•3 days ago

people like you are the reason tyrants exist.
compliance is complicity

shmootoo.bsky.social•3 days ago

none of that is resistance - it's compliance and obedience

loraqs.bsky.social•4 days ago

fil2smile.bsky.social•4 days ago

👍🗽✊️💙🇺🇲💙🌏

maranda111.bsky.social•4 days ago

Posting this here for visibility. We can stop this regime. Here is how.

#wearetheflood

https://youtu.be/V7KysrN3PNo?si=a--6GhoryW7mWk8k

sammilaw.bsky.social•4 days ago

Some consider "resistance" a form of attachment.

deweydiva1.bsky.social•4 days ago

If you will permit one more addition. Talking about books is resistance.

shuasanchez.bsky.social•4 days ago

You sound like you’re in the pocket of Big Book

haiimi.bsky.social•5 days ago

Corrected

Reading banned books is resistance.

Buying and distributing banned books is resistance.

Sharing banned books is resistance.

Celebrating banned books is resistance.

Resist the Regime

doorsfan.bsky.social•4 days ago

Just don’t buy your books from another billionaire who is, at minimum, complicit with the Regime.

flyguy1966.bsky.social•4 days ago

Encourage the children to read books 📚 for the adults it's time to stand up against the regime and fight for your freedoms. You have lots to do with very little time for leasure. Complacency is what got everyone in this mess. #BoycottTesla #CoryBooker

speerheld.bsky.social•4 days ago

Highly recommended and hyper relevant to current events:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/one-day-everyone-will-have-always-been-against-this-omar-el-akkad/21504713?ean=9780593804148

greendietitian.bsky.social•5 days ago

The people are taking their power!
The sleeping giant is awakening!
Booker Buster got you ready to throw down?!?!

Good trouble.
Peaceful protest that you can join THIS SATURDAY
There is a gathering NEAR you.

https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events

jed-82.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is what I'm just sitting down to start reading.

kathymary.bsky.social•4 days ago

We have some Nazis we can send to Nuremberg, don't we?

kazakariah.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hoarding books in fireproof places is resistance also.

Making I formation free is resistance.

Publishing and distribution of banned books is resistance.

Educating the masses on health and finances is resistance.

Ha ding down critical wisdom of generations unwritten is resistance.

🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

paranormalhunter.bsky.social•4 days ago

One can also buy waterproof self sealing containers that you might use for camping, to safely bury banned books or media, if need be.

kazakariah.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes!! This is a great idea! And if your really paranoid airtight cases as well~

cdesche.bsky.social•4 days ago

Writing books = resistance

dentedcamrybumper.bsky.social•4 days ago

What regime?

artisanbrain.bsky.social•4 days ago

Go #booksky

msjacobs.bsky.social•4 days ago

And…
Get your books from libraries and independent stores!!!
(Not the Big A.)
🙏😎

quelynn.bsky.social•5 days ago

All great, but insert the word “banned” in each phrase concerning books, and it becomes a greater resistance.

wordlewoman.bsky.social•4 days ago

Books can and do
change your life.
You don’t have to buy them.
Go to the public library
& see the wealth of materials you can borrow.
Librarians will help you
get started.
You’ll be glad you did! 📚

raisethetorch.bsky.social•4 days ago

📚 for the win

deborahelizabeth.bsky.social•3 days ago

Our best resistance strategy right now is probably a dilemma action that forces the dictator into a lose/lose situation.

We need to draw a line that isolates the dictator on one side, with EVERYONE ELSE (even the dictator's most ardent supporters) on the other side.

gwpda.bsky.social•4 days ago

Borrowing books is resistance!

saraphudson.bsky.social•5 days ago

Currently reading @adamgidwitz.bsky.social Max in the Land of Lies. The parallels between the WWII Germany setting and America in 2025 are chilling.

popeysgrandson.bsky.social•4 days ago

Resist !

fbk42.bsky.social•4 days ago

As Rage Against The Machine once said, "As I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library, line up to the mind cemetery now..." #TheResistance

debebb.bsky.social•5 days ago

I've been going to my local library for books and reading at night before bed to relax. It takes my mind off the fucking shit show this country has turned into!

otterhat.bsky.social•5 days ago

Recommending your local used book shops.

I'm using Amazon only when I absolutely have to.

twitter-nobody.bsky.social•4 days ago

These books specifically

mixitupdeedee62.bsky.social•4 days ago

Me: "I will be the keeper of books. Like a dragon, I will defend the books. ALL the books, but especially those they try to ban, even the ones I dislike/disagree with. They must ALL be read."

https://bsky.app/profile/mixitupdeedee62.bsky.social/post/3llt6kwpyok2m

olliedoggy.bsky.social•4 days ago

I love books. I read books. Real books!

dcell1961.bsky.social•4 days ago

There is no replacement for the feel and smell of a real book.

mixitupdeedee62.bsky.social•4 days ago

Also, the music.... going to your CD/vinyl collection, perusing it, making your selection, taking it from it's cover, placing it in/on your player.... enjoy!

boldnewme.bsky.social•4 days ago

Thank you Phil.

Reading books is a great threat to authoritarianism.

Every regime that fears books fears the people.

Reading, buying, and sharing books is how we fight back.

Books are knowledge.

Knowledge is power.

Power threatens those who seek control.

Keep reading, keep resisting.

mixitupdeedee62.bsky.social•4 days ago

Exactly the conversation I had with my local INDEPENENT bookshop owner this morning....as I casually ordered these

https://bsky.app/profile/mixitupdeedee62.bsky.social/post/3llt6kwpyok2m

drhenmc.bsky.social•5 days ago

Damn, I'm a huge part of the resistance!

newdorkpost.bsky.social•4 days ago

Step 1: read books, Step 2: take action against regime

newdorkpost.bsky.social•4 days ago

Here's a book about the current regime

hadeshound.bsky.social•3 days ago

So you’re a gnostic capitalist. Got it

philbildner.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bless your heart.

brunothegreat32.bsky.social•4 days ago

Couldn't agree more. My submission, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

comradeinternet.bsky.social•5 days ago

Taking notes on various countries(esp. Iraq's and Vietnam's) militant resistance to US occupation and following through on those lessons is resistance.

zedb137.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/zedb137.bsky.social/post/3lhsiwy6f422l

imo-central.bsky.social•4 days ago

Budy, this is not Fahrenheit 451

rahmanm.bsky.social•4 days ago

T---- called higher education the enemy. I wonder what he'd do if he saw people on the sidewalk of the White House reading?
#IamCanadian #ElbowsUp 🤔

danzern.bsky.social•3 days ago

Once you believe in yourself you can focus on the proper steps to take in order to move forward:
https://www.wattpad.com/1529144260-the-outer-limits-the-work
https://www.wattpad.com/1529845162-hopeful-avenues-stirred-lifetimes
https://www.wattpad.com/1528856075-the-twilight-zone-an-appealing-constructhttps://www.wattpad.com/1525693060-the-twilight-zone-the-wend-coin

https://www.wattpad.com/1526365596-the-stored-lights

fenraven.bsky.social•4 days ago

I own a copy of 1984. It's one hell of a book. I heartily suggest EVERYONE read it NOW.

margieisblue.bsky.social•5 days ago

With respect, books aren't going to get Mr Garcia out of a Salvadoran prison, get people their jobs back, mend fences with our allies, fix our now broken government or restore democracy, so I suggest you do more than buy and read books.

a-shady-raven.bsky.social•5 days ago

what if i read books about how to make anfo and build my own automatic firearms

margieisblue.bsky.social•5 days ago

Do what you must, just probably you shouldn't share with the world💙

writermissyo.bsky.social•5 days ago

I could see mending fences with allies by buying and sharing books by authors in those allied countries. It's a little thing but those little things can make a difference.

margieisblue.bsky.social•5 days ago

I love books. I read daily. That doesn't make me a resister. It makes me a reader.

margieisblue.bsky.social•5 days ago

I don't see a book swap bringing governments together after the crap our government has pulled. We are throwing people in Salvadoran jails. Books won't change that and we better do better than thinking they will, or we won't have a country worth saving.

writermissyo.bsky.social•5 days ago

It doesn’t change the president or his actions, but it does show other countries that people in America aren’t all like Trump and keeps those governments open to working with Americans post Trump. Hopefully reading isn’t the only form of resistance people engage in but every bit helps

writermissyo.bsky.social•5 days ago

Also to add to it, there are books that have changed the course of history. Some of the people being targeted for deportation are people who wrote things the people in power don’t like. The administration is trying to gut libraries. Reading isn’t everything but it is important.

margieisblue.bsky.social•5 days ago

Governments care about what governments do, not about what their citizens do.

codeine93.bsky.social•4 days ago

People in other countries aren’t stupid and they already know this.

writermissyo.bsky.social•4 days ago

That’s because of the relationships Americans have built with those countries over the years. If Americans discount those relationships, those relationships could crumble under the pressure.

paranormalhunter.bsky.social•4 days ago

If no one read “The Diary of Anne Frank” no one would see that these people were sent to concentration camps.

It’s sad as fuck that this is not an immediate connection.

They didn’t bowl right over us because so many of us saw it coming and still do. WHY?

WE READ THESE BOOKS.

margieisblue.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes, we read books. We learn from books. We can even learn ways to resist from books. Then we have to actually resist, because reading is not the resisting, it is reading.

blph.bsky.social•4 days ago

But don’t buy them from Amazon! Find an independent bookstore near you!

codeine93.bsky.social•4 days ago

Buying a rifle and learning how to use it is resistance. Making a network of local comrades for mutual defense and assistance is resistance. Teaching your children that the police are the enemy and that capitalism is killing them is resistance.

Books are great, but let’s not be silly here.

wordwanderings.bsky.social•4 days ago

Reading and learning are what teach us the reasons we need to resist, instead of just how to resist.

paranormalhunter.bsky.social•4 days ago

Bro. Books literally teach this. Have you not read “The Jungle?”
“Animal Farm?”

You know what else is resistance?

EDUCATION.

codeine93.bsky.social•4 days ago

*Doing* something with education is resistance. There are a lot of Westerners who know all about what’s going on and aren’t *doing* anything.

Like it or not, resistance in going to involve fighting, killing, bleeding, and dying.

And “Animal Farm” was hot garbage, btw.

paranormalhunter.bsky.social•4 days ago

“Animal Farm” was literally about Russian imperialism, and Orwell was a democratic socialist, so I’d say it’s still relevant. It was also crafted in a way that copied old school traditions of using animals as a parable, similar to Aesops fables, which was pretty creative.

So yeah “hot garbage.” 🙄

codeine93.bsky.social•4 days ago

Orwell was a scumbag who turned over the names of British communists to the government. Animal Farm was just cheapjack anti-Soviet propaganda for Westoid simpletons.

daarkkarma.bsky.social•4 days ago

Cool. So don't stop at books. Too many online "activists" think they are smart simply because they know what a regime is. They won't actually do anything to stop it and will be the first to face the noose

Reading alone is not resistance. Reading is the TOOL that pushes resistance

paranormalhunter.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’ve been participating in activism since 1995. Why? I READ BOOKS.

No one ever one time said that is where it stops. That’s where it BEGINS.

daarkkarma.bsky.social•4 days ago

Cool but this post isn't saying it's the start. And if it is it's pointless as it already started a long time ago

kidmadrid222.bsky.social•5 days ago

Donating to public school reading programs is prime resistance.

dcell1961.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yesterday, I joined the Friends of the West Haven Library and paid a years dues. I have twice donated books to my library and I also drop off items for their childrens area like crayons and activity books. I love the two libraries in our town.

daarkkarma.bsky.social•4 days ago

Disclaimer: none of this stops the regime from doing what it wants.

This is the start of resistance, nothing more.

sionxxii.bsky.social•4 days ago

golfnutt56.bsky.social•4 days ago

#iron Brigade
Pro democracy militia

mdksun.bsky.social•4 days ago

Actual books made of paper that you OWN, not the continually censored digital nonsense you merely RENT at a billionaire’s pleasure.

san-choudhury.bsky.social•4 days ago

that hit home

borderterrier.bsky.social•4 days ago

Buying as many as I can

wordsaboutbooks.bsky.social•4 days ago

With genuine respect, I disagree. Reading may encourage and enrich resistance, but it is not resistance itself. Too many readers are content to buy books advertised as "banned" at a major retailer and think that they've done enough. Reading is important. But we will not read our way out of this.

andyo.bsky.social•4 days ago

Showing up at national protestys this Saturday is resistance.

https://handsoff2025.com/

katie-did.bsky.social•5 days ago

Donated Frankenstein and The Scarlet Letter to the free shelf at the coffee shop last week, bought Lies My Teachers Told Me, Folly of Realism (Alexander Vindman), Everything is Tuberculosis, Upper Bunkies Unite (about incarcerated women, abolition), Angela Davis' Freedom is a Constant Struggle, --

katie-did.bsky.social•5 days ago

2- and The White Devil's Daughters (about a missionary who housed- saved- Chinese women who had been trafficked to San Francisco in the late 1800s). All fascinating. From the library today, while telling the librarian I don't have time for more books, I have papers due! (Some of the books are for-

katie-did.bsky.social•5 days ago

3. Said papers though so, fair): Noam Chomsky - the Myth of American Idealism; The Cure For Women (Dr Mary Putnam, Victorian medicine); and Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here (human migration, the incredibly difficult journey people endure to get to the US through Central America, we're fucking awful).

floydadatxjoe.bsky.social•4 days ago

There is a censor on this app and I just triggered it

floydadatxjoe.bsky.social•4 days ago

Anarchist's Cookbook

embers-book-nook.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wish we had an anarchrist’s cookbook IRL, that would be SO useful

randommuser.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m reading the new Hunger Games book right now, and it doesn’t seem so implausible all of a sudden

stonia2.bsky.social•5 days ago

What does it mean "reading books is resistance"? How is that playing out?

codeine93.bsky.social•4 days ago

About as well as “Vote blue no matter who!” and “Make good trouble!”

Liberals like to congratulate themselves for nearly anything — “Eating a balanced breakfast is resistance!”

michaelpacholek.bsky.social•3 days ago

Buying books is resistance, unless it's on Amazon.

freedomforusa.bsky.social•3 days ago

If the 2025 Gestapo, ramps up kidnapping people by without due process, we're going to have to start our own secret organizations in every city and state picking up these above the law fascists and making them disappear too if SHTF. Prepare, stock up, organize, communicate, have courage - Revolt!

paranormalhunter.bsky.social•4 days ago

Give your kids: Animal Farm, 1983, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Jungle, Johnny Got His Gun, Fahrenheit 451, Rasin in the Sun, Night, Anne Frank’s Diary, Grapes of Wrath…..

paranormalhunter.bsky.social•4 days ago

*1984 (type o)

ezili.bsky.social•4 days ago

Rise UP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ4UmlFNdSI

m0nkeyl1ce.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's not, but it's still great to read books.

librarymode.bsky.social•4 days ago

In a country which is actively erasing history and defunding education & libraries, reading is absolutely resistance.

machtdun.bsky.social•5 days ago

So hard to believe you have to say all this in the US! So sad and shameful.

paranormalhunter.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s sad how many people in these comments don’t get the connection between BOOKS and PREVENTING THESE THINGS.

I mean, how many of you understand where we get the term “Orwellian” from?

READ A DAMN BOOK PEOPLE.

My GOD.

goddessarmor.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm thinking the same thing... truly the words of the ignorant. I'm so grateful I've always read voraciously. Thanks for reminding me to revisit The Jungle & Animal Farm, HS was a long time ago & I'm sure they'll hit different. Have you read A People's History of the US by Howard Zinn?

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