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pennyalexander.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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rcdewinter.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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joanwein.bsky.social
One slice for me, please (I added please cuz I'm Canadian and we're polite, eh?)
April 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
You’ve probably seen people mention the 3.5% Rule. But do you know what it really means? 1/
White text on black background with a big 50501 logo at the bottom. The 50501 logo is a blue circle within a white circle within a red circle. The blue circle has "50" over another "50" and a big "1" to the right of those 50's. The blue circle also has a ring of white start near its outer edge. Text at the top reads: "What really is the 3.5% Rule?" White text on black background with a small 50501 logo at the bottom. Text reads: What is the 3.5% Rule? Political scientist Erica Chenoweth (they/them) studied over 300 violent and nonviolent campaigns. They found that when 3.5% of a population joins in a “peak” action, movements have been highly likely to succeed at “maximalist” goals, such as removing a national leader. The 3.5% rule helps us imagine what’s possible. In the U.S. that’s about 11.7 million people or about 107 people in every city and town. We don’t need everyone. We just need enough. Source: Erica Chenoweth, “Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule” (2020) White text on black background with a small 50501 logo at the bottom. Text reads: The 3.5% Rule; Maximalist Goals; Historically, when 3.5% of a population has joined together in non-violent action, success at achieving “maximalist” goals has often followed. Maximalist goals are the most ambitious demands a movement can make such as removing a national leader from office, ending an occupying force, or achieving territorial independence. These goals seek to change who holds power or control, rather than making policy reforms within the existing system. Source: Erica Chenoweth, “Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule” (2020) White text on black background with a small 50501 logo at the bottom. Text reads: The 3.5% Rule; 3.5% is based on peak participation, not cumulative participation; Many people mistakenly think the rule refers to everyone who ever joined the movement. Chenoweth’s statistic is about how many people were involved at the movement’s largest moment of visible, act of resistance. The rule is descriptive, not prescriptive; Chenoweth only noticed the 3.5% pattern after the fact, when asked how many people it takes to win. The number was not part of the original hypothesis or a forecast; it emerged from the data. Source: Erica Chenoweth, “Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule” (2020)
April 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
🚨 BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released from ICE custody! His story highlights the urgent need for due process and protection of citizens' rights. #50501 #JuanCarlosLopezGomez
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April 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
darbymcgee.bsky.social
April 19th.
April 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Cory Booker has been holding the Senate floor for *15 hours* to call out Trump’s harm to Americans.

More of this energy from every Democrat please.
April 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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mmorden.bsky.social
Denmark 🇩🇰 sounds nice!
March 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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olderthandirt1.bsky.social
Ohio, anyone working in a food bank can you verify this?
March 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
Not a historian, but to my knowledge, this is the first time a sitting US Senator — or member of Congress, generally — or perhaps any senior US gov’t official — has included an f-bomb in an official press release.

www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-r...
Duckworth: Pete Hegseth Needs to Resign in Disgrace | U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois
www.duckworth.senate.gov
March 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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March 28, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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franceselizabeth.bsky.social
I 100% agree with Tammy Duckworth!
March 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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julieingersoll.bsky.social
Some are mistaking my use of the term "ungovernable" to be support for violent resistance. It is not. There are lots of examples in the replies. In fact, One person replied with a great article about a study of how non-violent resistance is more often effective. It is pinned to my profile
March 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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pennyalexander.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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For 10 Years #MAGA And Non-MAGA, Have Been At Odds.

Now, MAGA and Non-MAGA, MUST Stand Together, To Save America.

ALL #American Families Know Someone Who
1) Depends On Social Security Checks, and/or 2) Has A Family Member With Special Needs.

TOGETHER - ALL AMERICANS NEED TO "VOTE U.S. BACK"!
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March 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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voodooforce.bsky.social
They won’t stop this practice. They’re using signal for everything they do, rather than using the approved methods, to cover their tracks. You can bet that if they’re using it for Top Secret war plans, then they’re using it for everything else too.
March 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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arunadsouza.bsky.social
Remember Abu Ghraib? This is Abu Ghraib. I’m ashamed of our whole species. We should just let the octopuses take over for real. We don’t deserve this planet.
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Mar 26
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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March 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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March 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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mini-marshmallows.bsky.social
We'll never know for sure what life would be like if Kamala Harris was president instead but no way would she have chosen an incompetent idiot like Pete Hegseth and be eliminating FEMA right now. 🙄
March 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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pennyalexander.bsky.social
Donate and phone bank for @crawfordforwi.bsky.social this week!

Anything you can do helps!
All hands on deck!

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March 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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