giantwhispers.bsky.social
Social Change Strategist. Movement-Builder. Story Changer. Leadership Coach. Co-founder Center for Story-based Strategy, Co-author Re:Imagining Change (PM Press 2017) Fighting for a Just Future on a Livable Planet
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To be fair @nytimes.com did put this pic & headline on the front page contrasting #NoKings with the pathetic spectacle of Trump's military parade.
But only in print not on the website where the story quickly got buried and it doesn't even show how few people went to Trump's failed spectacle. 3/3
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The NYT headline writes thousands instead of millions? hmmm... literally three orders of magnitude off.
@nytimes.com if you want your readers to believe you haven't gone full fascist appeasement mode than we expect a front page CORRECTION asap! #NoKings 2/3
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And when I say unchecked, corporate-controlled A.I. is a grave threat to our collective future I mean the kind of things outlined in this NYT piece like:
"epistemic coup" Shoshana Zuboff
"...growing into modern-day empires" @karenhao.bsky.social
"five-alarm fire" @moonalice.com
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And sure calling out Trump and everyone that is part of elevating him to his self-proclaimed King-like role was the focus of the day. But let's not forget our Vice President aka the Trump mini-me. 6/7
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I hope Democrats can honor the tragedy of Speaker Hortman's political assassination by taking political action to save lives:
Like demanding Trump/GOP apologize for their violent, dehumanizing rhetoric. Like calling to end ICE raids that are dividing the country & ban law enforcement masking.
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Also plenty of good political advice including highlighting the role of tech workers in propping up the fascism and general tips for the Democrats on how to become an actual opposition party. 3/7
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But if one sign summed up how California is feeling after a week in which the Trump regime has tried to terrorize us with ICE raids, illegally sent troops into the streets of LA, threatened to arrest our Governor and manhandled our Senator... this might be it.
Rise up & fight fascism! #NoKings 7/7
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And sure calling out Trump and everyone that is part of elevating him to his self-proclaimed King-like role was the focus of the day. But let's not forget our Vice President aka the Trump mini-me. 6/7
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Not to mention a kind of politically ambiguous T-shirt that appears to be referencing my motherland and some of the hobbies that have come to be associated with it...? 5/7
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Throw in a little spooky guerrilla theater to capture how wrong AF the Trump regime's blatantly fascist policies are. #NoKings 4/7
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Also plenty of good political advice including highlighting the role of tech workers in propping up the fascism and general tips for the Democrats on how to become an actual opposition party. 3/7
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I am always impressed how street marches bring out people's creativity and great sense of humor as expressed in hilarious signs.
Today at Oakland #NoKings there were a lot of ICE jokes, including this boba one & plenty of Andor signs, even one held by a real life Jedi...Take that empire! 2/7
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Beautiful people from all walks if life, highlighting different issues with great wit and creativity, uniting to resist a wannabe dictator. This is what multiracial democracy looks like and make no mistake: we are stronger than greed, stronger than fear, stronger than fascism. #NoKings
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Beautiful people from all walks if life, highlighting different issues with great wit and creativity, uniting to resist a wannabe dictator. This is what multiracial democracy looks like and make no mistake: we are stronger than greed, stronger than fear, stronger than fascism. #NoKings
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I'm trying to keep up with the Orwellian lexicon for state-sanctioned killing.
Israel starving Palestinians in Gaza is "self-defense."
Israel preemptively attacking Iran is "self-defense."
So when Iran counter-attacks Israel is that also "self-defense" or is there now some other term for that?
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I hope Democrats can honor the tragedy of Speaker Hortman's political assassination by taking political action to save lives:
Like demanding Trump/GOP apologize for their violent, dehumanizing rhetoric. Like calling to end ICE raids that are dividing the country & ban law enforcement masking.
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There are nearly 100,000 people at the rally in Philadelphia. #NoKings
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The US empire has been hiding in plain sight for generations. Our tax dollars enrich the weapons industry to fund militarism that terrorizes people around the world. But here in America we're told we export democracy. It's a dissociative identity disorder I like to call the Imperial Mullet:
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Hundreds in the streets of SF from all walks of life: singing, chanting. Here’s one of several awesome drumming crews providing the rhythm to our resistance. Together we are uniting to stop state kidnapping and say #AbolishICE #NoKings #ImpeachTrump
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CORRECTION: 478 Tehama (near 6th & Howard) is not an ICE office. It is apparently the offices of ISAP one of the private contractors working with ICE.
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And what better way to kick off your #NoKings Saturday then standing with our migrant neighbors to defend democracy, due process and human rights. Actions happening around the Bay! Plug in at www.nokings.org
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We see what the Regime is doing in LA and we know they want to expand to N. Cali next.
Now is the time to show that in the Bay we are NOT going to allow Trump's racist cronies to kidnap our neighbors & terrorize our communities.
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I'm trying to keep up with the Orwellian lexicon for state-sanctioned killing.
Israel starving Palestinians in Gaza is "self-defense."
Israel preemptively attacking Iran is "self-defense."
So when Iran counter-attacks Israel is that also "self-defense" or is there now some other term for that?
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Meh, the last time Blowback came back to the “Homeland” everything worked out great…
*whimpers quietly*
…hold me
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*Make Disease and Climate Disaster Great Again*
(and the Fossil Fuel Industry CEOs even richer!)
#ClimateSky 🔌💡
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REMINDER: Trump's fascist power grab is moving fast.
Mass nonviolent mobilization is the best strategy we have to stop this wanna-be dictator. We need millions in the streets TOMORROW.
Plus it's going be FUN. Here in the Bay we're making as exception No Kings Except DRAG KINGS! ✊🌈😍🎯🦄✊ #NoKings