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touaregtweet ("Touaregtweet") wrote:

Bella Ciao! 📯 🎶 🎺

Musicians surround Proud Boys, drown them out with tubas at 'No Kings' protest in Atlanta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBaJpzAR2k #NoKings #NoKingsDay #Atlanta #protest

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Runningpunk@mountains.social ("JD") wrote:

#noKings #resist

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ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

Great summary of Trump's parade.
#trump #militaryparade #nokings #june14th

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lillyfinch@mstdn.social ("Catherine Schmidt") wrote:

#nokings #protest #alaska #trump #resist #resistance #alt

Anchorage Alaska No Kings

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kimlockhartga@beige.party ("Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:") wrote:

The most USian image description ever: "A law enforcement officer points a taser at a person wearing a hot dog costume during a protest."

Nationwide photos of no kings protests | AP News.

https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/no-kings-protest-trump-us-b5de52994b7c592034fb19b7d3e9d577

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josh@hactivedirectory.com ("Josh #nokings") wrote:

Incredible.

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broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca ("Broadwaybabyto") wrote:

Anyone can become disabled at any time. It’s one of the few minority groups you can always join.

Even if you do everything “right”. Even if you’re young and healthy. Even if you “try hard”

It’s not a moral failing. It’s a part of life.

If more people would accept that and work with us, we would all be better off.

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youranoncentral.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Anonymous") wrote:

ICE raiding a crowded supermarket in Rosemead, California with no identification, indistinguishable from cartel hitmen, pulling high caliber rifles on unarmed US citizens trying to ask questions about wtf is going on. #3E #StopICE

Attachments:

• video: 25aa19b4f34ae08c.mp4

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_elena ("Elena Rossini ⁂") wrote:

Good morning Fedi friends!

I’m spending the weekend with my extended family. Yesterday a family member said “I hear you released a video this week that got popular. Are you monetizing it?”

Me: “No! That’s not the point. Not everything is about money - I’m doing it for the cause.”

This is not virtue signalling. I firmly believe it’s vital to normalize doing things for their own innate value and the greater cause. I believe this is how we change the status quo ✊✨🚀

#TheFutureIsFederated

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

The New York Times says Trump's praise-the-dictator parade was overshadowed by the Minnesota killings and Israel's war on Iran.

But it doesn't mention that millions of people turned out around the U.S. to protest Dear Leader's fascism.

The Paper of Record™, indeed.

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JRHorsting@mastodon.cloud ("JR Horsting") wrote:

If Trump is so popular, with a huge mandate, and spent $50M on a huge parade.

Why did no one show up?

They planned for 200K to 400K people.
10K dripped in and left.
Empty.

11M attended the No Kings protests.

That's what he is.
No King.

Clown show.

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randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

The government of Denmark says it will prolong the residence permits for Ukrainian refugees until 2027.

Denmark is home to 51,408 Ukrainians, of which around 31000 are refugees from the war.

While Denmark has increasingly tightened its refugee policies, the Danish parliament and government has shown wide support for helping Ukrainian refugees.

https://uim.dk/nyhedsarkiv/2025/juni/overskrift/

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tinker@infosec.exchange ("Tinker ☀️") wrote:

I'm hearing the Military Parade in DC for Trump's birthday being called "The Trump Fyre Festival" as it was such a dismal showing...

...and that is flipping hilarious.

Meanwhile the #NoKings protests were just absolutely massive everywhere. Big cities and small towns.

Love to see it.

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Richard_Littler ("Richard Littler") wrote:

I'd forgotten that, back in 2019, I adapted the shot of 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square. It feels even more relevant now.
#nokings #nokingsday #protests

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popcornreel@mas.to ("Omar Moore") wrote:

One of the best signs of the day. #sanfrancisco #nokings #protest

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EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu ("European Commission") wrote:

🛬 Plane lands. Flight mode off.
💬 “Welcome to Italy! Use your mobile plan just like at home.”

8 years of free EU roaming – we've come a long way:

→ 2000s: €0.50–€1/min calls
→ 2007: roaming caps
→ 2017: the end of roaming charges
→ 2022: the improved “Roam like at home” pack extended to 2032, bringing:

🌐 Fast 5G access across the EU
💰 Protection from unexpected charges
🆘 Better access to emergency services

Fair for operators. Free for you.

#ThisIsTheEU

Boosted by pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow"):
oldladyplays@wargamers.social ("Cait the Proud Trans Woman") wrote:

Just saw video of Trumpy's Big Birthday Blowout.

I was completely stunned to see the soldiers marching. Because they weren't marching. They were out for a stroll. No one was walking in step, half of them didn't even do a basic eyes left move when they passed the review stand. That's one of the most simple drill evolutions there is, you literally just *turn your head* and keep marching.

I know, I'm not US military, but drill is drill. It's been the way it is for about 300 years, since the evolution of firearms as a major weapon of war, for old reasons that don't really matter, having to do with the accuracy of those early firearms. It's retained for its ability to build cohesion, discipline, and quick instinctive response to orders.

And drill has a look to it. This was not that.

For me, that was a signal: "We don't want to be here either. We're not with him. We're here because we're good troops, and we do what we're ordered when it's a legal order. But he can't make us respect him."

Just to interpret what you can see for yourselves on the video. A good half of those troops are *not* on Trump's side.

Any vets out there want to chime in?

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sandlapper37@mstdn.social ("ebbtide") wrote:

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deborahh@cosocial.ca ("Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pcc") wrote:

"Cory Doctorow @pluralistic says Canada's internet is in desperate need of saving."

[Canada's] "policy environment rewards companies & execs who do things that are bad for the internet & bad for users, & does not punish them … " said Doctorow, a tech journalist, activist, & host of the CBC podcast: Understood: Who Broke the Internet?.

"He believes the troubles could free Canada to fix how it polices the internet — more in line with the rest of the world …"
#cdnPoli
https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/british-columbia-i8sdok9nz/-/a-rPxKtXQLTgiMbjYJM3uTDg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@finner @evan Another thing to keep in mind: You probably *want* to believe it, and that's very dangerous.

US national elections in recent years are hotly competitive. The country is split across parties pretty evenly. This means that whatever the outcome of a presidential race, there are a *lot* of disappointed people, all primed to be receptive to claims that the outcome they wanted was stolen from them. Beware!

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@finner @evan Does any of this this *disprove* that there was fraud in 2024 (or 2020, or 2016, or ...)?

No. It's *possible*. But saying that an election was "rigged" is an *extraordinary* claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which no one has produced.

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@finner @evan Go for it. But understand a few things:

- the supposed "smoking guns" indicating fraud in 2024, like those put forward in 2020, aren't really anything.

- elections are ultimately human endeavors, run by fallible people, and small but inconsequential "irregularities" are normal and expected. But it's often very easy to make them seem much more sinister and significant than they are.

- versions of almost everything claimed about 2024 were claimed by the MAGA people in 2020.

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wim_v12e@tilde.zone ("Wim 🅾→Ⓣ") wrote:

#SilentSunday

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takmatsuoka@vivaldi.net ("松岡さん@散歩記録(写真)垢") wrote:

今日の散歩: なすありの径 (白川筋の花見小路通～東大路通間)
雨が止んだので夕方からちょっと散歩。

#photography #flowers #マストドン写真部

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I demand petrichor as a fragrance.

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dnkboston ("Deb Nam-Krane") wrote:

@AnnaAnthro I've been following @pluralistic for a few years, and he's been talking about this for a while. I LOVE IT. I would much rather see our former allies jail break our bs tech restrictions than throw billions at AI.

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tomstafford@mastodon.online ("Tom Stafford") wrote:

Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
https://www.locusmag.com/Features/2009/01/cory-doctorow-writing-in-age-of.html

A page a day, every day, is a book a year

And other good advice from @pluralistic in 2009

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mxshift@treehouse.systems ("Rick Altherr") wrote:

Today's attire

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vy wrote:

Claude Shannon and John McCarthy predict LLMs in 1956

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@evan Also, they’re ripping people off based on a false hope and evidently meritless claims, promising a remedy that isn't possible. But other than that…