Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

just putting this here as a cool part of history. it has no bearing in the future, at all. there are no lessons here 🧵 14/?

in Bogata, Columbia protesters threw paint filled balloons and splashed paint onto police in 2011. this made it hard for the police to see what they were doing in riot gear.

fun fact about those protests: they used oil based paint making it hard to wipe and wash off, and the fumes became overwhelming at times for the police it was splashed on. it was also flammable making it dangerous for said police to fire weapons.

they also made the paint go a little farther by using small amounts of oil-based thinners to stretch the amounts they had

Do not comply in advance. Sand in the gears sometimes looks like whistles in libraries.

Learn more about protecting your neighbors here:

https://www.icirr.org/

#ICE #fascism #books #libraries

🚨 HEY NYC — This clip alone is completely disqualifying. Absolutely humiliating stuff from @andrewcuomo, refusing to condemn Trump for going after NY AG Tish James. A vote for him is very clearly a vote for Trump.

#NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #GuillotinesWork #AreYouMadeOfCake #Environment #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #classism #CasteSystem

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

Kamala Harris: "Here in Chicago I'm told the helicopters that were descending on an American city were Black Hawks. Do you know what Black Hawks were designed to do? War. So I think everyone can draw their conclusions just based on the facts."

"They’re evangelizing a worldview where selfishness is wisdom and concern for others is performance.

This spreads through elite networks, through media that treats cynicism as insight, through algorithmic systems that reward sociopathic behavior with attention and profit."

#selfishness #greed #EconomicElites #TechBros #libertarianism #AynRand
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@cstross

There's a reason why Daily Kos has a 57 page list of Republican pervs, but not one for Democrats.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/21/2339592/-Republican-Sexual-Predators-Abusers-and-Enablers-Pt-5

Republicans believe in hierarchy & relationships established by force & maintained with power & inequality.

Imposition on the unwilling is really big with the GOP & typical MAGA mindset.

Making a mockery of the law: judicial treatment of non-volent direct action
https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/humanrights/making-a-mockery-of-the-law-judicial-treatment-of-non-volent-direct-action/
Judicial refusal to allow people to say why they are protesting is both illegal and immoral

In one week, people all over the United States will join together to say: In America we don’t do wannabe dictators or Kings.

No Thrones.
No Crowns.
No Kings.

One week to go.

✊ https://nokings.org

#NoKings #NoKingsPDX #PDX #Portland

The people in the world who pay Trump's tariffs are highlighted in Red.

Elderly cats need loving too. #cats #kittens #caturday

Let’s fucking go #Madagascar !

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251011-madagascar-soldiers-join-protestors

Well, well, well, if it isn't the protest movement getting so big it forces the Nazi boot lickers to acknowledge it.

When cowards like this speak against Trump's lies, you KNOW the wind is blowing in our favor.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dancing-frogs-unicorns-protest-portland-war-zone-rcna236887

#protests #50501movement #media #ICE #Trump #fascism

We continue to see massive resistance to the #TrumpRegime all across America
1- PROTESTS in INDIANA, OHIO & MISSOURI against VANCE & GOP
2- MIT REJECTS TRUMP
3- #VoteBlue in VA & NJ races
4-DEMS STAND STRONG FOR US
1-
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/mit-rejects-trumps-loyalty-pledge?r=x9iw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
2-
https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/donald-trumps-latest-authoritarian?r=x9iw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

ICE agents intentionally crash into a US citizen’s car, then violently drag her from the car while multiple bystanders tell them she is a citizen.

Hope your fucking eggs are cheaper.

“No More Kings" was in the 1st episode of season 3 of Schoolhouse Rock
That season which coincided with the American bicentennial in 1976
2026 is the 250th Anniversary of US Independence
We must remind all of US what they fought for then
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO4clNbDGQa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
#NoKings

AMPHIBIANS AGAINST FASCISM

If you know who made this, post in replies, I tried but failed to find an original.

eta: Replies say this is the original artist: https://www.threads.com/@strongleton/post/DPmqzdMCAKU and they've updated it to reverse the frog head. New version in replies!

#protest #sign #frog #PortlandFrog #art

Imagine working in your country’s cybersecurity center or CERT, and suddenly being reassigned to border control and deportation duties. Something is clearly broken and dangerously so.

What will you do as a cybersecurity professional?

#us #cybersecurity #dhs #cisa

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/homeland-security-reassigns-hundreds-of-cisa-cyber-staffers-to-support-trumps-deportation-crackdown/