Colorful Forest
@colorfulforest.bsky.social
Here to resist and share information about the authoritarian threat to 🇺🇸 democracy and the rule of law. Actual human. I picked my handle based off my son’s drawing.
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Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.
October 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.
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Just signed up (and paid forward) for this great event with some absolute top people!
How can communities, citizens and journalists hold back authoritarianism, far-right populism and hate?
Join our live roundtable event with GEORGE MONBIOT, NAFEEZ AHMED, YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN, and NICK LOWLES. Finding hope, protecting democracy.
7 pm, 4 November. Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
Join our live roundtable event with GEORGE MONBIOT, NAFEEZ AHMED, YASMIN ALIBHAI-BROWN, and NICK LOWLES. Finding hope, protecting democracy.
7 pm, 4 November. Book now: bit.ly/BylinesHope
October 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Just signed up (and paid forward) for this great event with some absolute top people!
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“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
apnews.com/article/pope...
apnews.com/article/pope...
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
apnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
apnews.com/article/pope...
apnews.com/article/pope...
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Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”
V-Dem data
V-Dem data
When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.
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Shit just got real
“With a single post or video, we can influence thousands of guests to try a food, drink, or experience in the parks,” she says. “I couldn’t, in good conscience, keep giving them free publicity knowing they don’t support free speech and are willing to bow to fascism."
The Disney Adults Dumping the Mouse Over Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel and Disney’s battle has not only taken over the news cycle, but it has sent the Disney internet into shambles.
www.glamour.com
September 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Shit just got real
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If you get arrested at a protest, and you need to fight a charge, who's your lawyer? A public defender may represent you at arraignment. (Love you, PDs!)
Afterward, usually it's an NLG lawyer, working for free. The NLG Chicago needs your support.
(ACLU doesn't do crim defense, with exceptions.)
Afterward, usually it's an NLG lawyer, working for free. The NLG Chicago needs your support.
(ACLU doesn't do crim defense, with exceptions.)
Help ensure NLG Chicago can continue supporting the movement! Donate here: nlgchicago.org/donate/
Support the NLG!
nlgchicago.org
September 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If you get arrested at a protest, and you need to fight a charge, who's your lawyer? A public defender may represent you at arraignment. (Love you, PDs!)
Afterward, usually it's an NLG lawyer, working for free. The NLG Chicago needs your support.
(ACLU doesn't do crim defense, with exceptions.)
Afterward, usually it's an NLG lawyer, working for free. The NLG Chicago needs your support.
(ACLU doesn't do crim defense, with exceptions.)
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When I say change takes time, this is what I mean.
I have posted this screenshot many times over the years and every time I get push back.
This is why voting in every single election matters. This is why we have to celebrate every single win.
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I have posted this screenshot many times over the years and every time I get push back.
This is why voting in every single election matters. This is why we have to celebrate every single win.
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September 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
When I say change takes time, this is what I mean.
I have posted this screenshot many times over the years and every time I get push back.
This is why voting in every single election matters. This is why we have to celebrate every single win.
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I have posted this screenshot many times over the years and every time I get push back.
This is why voting in every single election matters. This is why we have to celebrate every single win.
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions. www.wired.com/story/hundre...
Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions
Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged...
www.wired.com
September 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Over 200 contractors who work on improving Google’s AI products, including Gemini and AI Overviews, have been laid off, sources tell WIRED. It’s the latest development in a conflict over pay and alleged poor working conditions. www.wired.com/story/hundre...
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Thank you on this labor day!!
September 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Thank you on this labor day!!
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Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
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The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
August 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
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RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
They Don't Care
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
www.youtube.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
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This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
The irony/idiocy of this banner currently draped on the Department of Labor building is not lost on me, given all the federal workers he's forced out of their jobs.
(Pic via Getty Images)
(Pic via Getty Images)
August 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
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It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
August 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
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Y’all are wild
August 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Y’all are wild
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First, they came for John Bolton
And I did speak out
Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache,
I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
And I did speak out
Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache,
I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
August 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
First, they came for John Bolton
And I did speak out
Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache,
I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
And I did speak out
Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache,
I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
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ELECTION RESULT from Alabama: Paul Prine, the former police chief of Mobile who was fired last year while facing a damning report about his department’s use of force against Black residents, has lost the mayoral race.
He came in third, and will not move forward to the September runoff.
He came in third, and will not move forward to the September runoff.
August 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
ELECTION RESULT from Alabama: Paul Prine, the former police chief of Mobile who was fired last year while facing a damning report about his department’s use of force against Black residents, has lost the mayoral race.
He came in third, and will not move forward to the September runoff.
He came in third, and will not move forward to the September runoff.
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It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
July 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
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this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.
June 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.
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It's not only breathtakingly corrupt, it's manifestly illegal, no matter what permission is received from a cowardly and compromised Department of Justice.
May 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It's not only breathtakingly corrupt, it's manifestly illegal, no matter what permission is received from a cowardly and compromised Department of Justice.