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CELEBRATION as a form of resistance! A powerful gathering that fuses art, performance, movement-building, & direct action. On the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, we reclaim the spirit of collective power and reimagine revolution as joyful, communal, and transformative. 4/19/25, PA
Photo of an American protest. Woman holds sign that says, “I love you. You’re probably thinking, “You don’t even know me.” But if people can hate for no reason, I can love. A young girl stands, waving a small American flag, looking at the sign. Protest sign. Says, LET THE WARNING RIDE FORTH once more: TYRANNY is at our door. No kings in America White painted brick wall. Painted sign on the wall. A royal crown painted in American flag colors, stars & stripes & $ signs. Black X across the flag crown. NO KINGS IN AMERICA Photo of an American protest. People line sidewalks holding signs, such as; “BEEP YOUR HORN,” “DeMusk America,” “I love you. You’re probably thinking, You don’t even know me. But if people can hate for no reason, I can love,” & “Fight Truth Decay!”
April 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Roses are red.
Rainbows are queer.
Trans lives are sacred.
You belong here.

words by Sarah Epperson

art by Sarah Beth Tillman
Colored pencils on a poster. Says, Roses are red. Rainbows are queer. Trans lives are sacred. You belong here.
April 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The protests were gorgeous today! I got to love on so many. Millions took to the streets! Take heart, dear ones. Let this momentum fuel you!

PROTECT TRANS KIDS!

#HandsOff
Photo: Woman. Minister, wearing a Progress Pride flag stole & Black Lives Matter shirt. Rainbow makeup. Wonder Woman tiara. Photo: Woman wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt. Rainbow makeup.
April 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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I have been to the otherworld 💫 & back during a 4 day magical conference! There was dancing, of course, & mischief.

We must take our JOY as we are able! It is required. It is fuel. It strips power from those who seek to harm us.

Go forth & giggle & get into some good trouble!

I love you.🌹
Photo at a magical gala where the band Kindred Crow perform in the background. Woman dressed in black satin and sequins, wearing a crown, dancing with a hand fan that has the symbol of the flower of life printed on it in silver on a black, glittery background, on a dance floor.
April 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Some humor in an incredibly terrible situation.

#SignalGate
#WhiskiLeaks
#StupidCoup
Photo of a forelorn Elon Musk with a blurry background. Post says, “You guys have a group chat?” Posted by danemers
March 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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It’s a beautiful day to pull on the throttle and RIDE!
Photo of a woman on a silver Vespa
March 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Sunday brunch with beloveds! Please make JOY a part of your life when and as you can. I needed this.
March 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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The disgraceful Republican Administration does NOT represent my support of Ukraine. How about you?

Please give as you are able. u24.gov.ua

Thank you President Zelenskyy! 🇺🇦
Glory to Ukraine!
Flyer in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Golden yellow on the bottom. Sky blue on the top. Says, HERE’S THE OFFICIAL FUNDRAISING SITE FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF UKRAINE: u24.gov.ua IF EVERYONE WHO DONATED TO KAMALA HARRIS DONATED $10, WE’D RAISE $750M YOUR DONATION WILL BOOST DEMOCRACY AND STICK IT TO TRUMP AND VANCE! TELL A FRIEND!
March 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Glory to Ukraine! My altar has been up for 3 years and will stay up until the war is done. May President Zelensky be protected and all harm cease!
Photo of an altar in support of Ukraine. Altar cloth is the Ukrainian flag. A tealight burns on a glass sunflower candle holder. A square, blue, glass dish holds stones and sea shells from the Black Sea. Two stones are painted. One says, Zelensky and has a Ukrainian flag painted on it. The other says Kyiv. A Russian bear figurine is tied up with rope and a padlock and is lying on its side on a bed of sunflowers. A crystal dish is filled with red pysanky. Above the eggs stands a motanka. Her dress, facial embroidery, and head scarf are red, black, white and orange.
February 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Glory to Ukraine!

This statue of goddess Berehynia, holding up an arch of guelder rose flowers, tops the victory column in Independence square in Ukraine. She was built in 2001 to honor the tenth anniversary of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union.

May she continue to guard & protect 🇺🇦
Photo of the monument statue of goddess Berehynia on a raised column. Located in Maidan Nezalezhnosti "Independence Square" Kiev, Ukraine. Blue skies, statue of Berehynia in blues and gold, her robes flowing in the wind, up stretched arms holding a branch of guelder-roses.
February 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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A friend read this and then sent it to me because it reminded her of me. I am keeping this close for those moments that I forget just who I am.

~by Morgan Harper Nichols
Black text on orange background. Says, “and perhaps what made her beautiful was not her appearance or what she achieved, but in her love and in her courage, and her audacity to believe: no matter the darkness around her, Light ran wild within her, and that was the way she came alive, and it showed up in everything.
February 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Text: AND THE WORLD IS MADE RIGHT WHEN WE F**K by Tom Hirons When we fuck, love eagles fly out of the sun. White horses charge over land and sea; a silver-sailed ship takes to the air. Towers crumble. Civilisation falters and finally the shuttering guns shatter and the smoke factories are still. When we fuck fools cease foolishness, idiots renounce idiocy. The wise fuck each other. And when we fuck we fuck the stars back into the sky. We fuck the broken circle back together. We fuck and the underworld shudders. We fuck, and Heaven trembles and songbirds sing and all the world remembers the way back to love from confusion and that the shortest distance across this troubled universe is right here between my body and yours. When we fuck, three holy queens whose names aren’t known step forward in the three quarters of the Earth. In the final quarter, an uncrowned king rises from the sea, and all men and all women remember loyalty to that which is good and holy, and the world is made right, and the world is made right, and the world is made right. When we fuck, brokenness reveals its exquisite perfection; the apparent dichotomy between form and formlessness is exposed in its absurdity. all paths become one path, all notions of self and another show themselves to be nothing but the play of light in the field of wonder, and you are an agent of ecstatic revelation and we are both many and one, all intermingled in an everlasting flash of lightning-forked fucking in the dazzling dance of wonderment and the fuck-flecked flicker of what we become beyond us. Bring your hips over here, I say. Let me turn everything to honey. Put your body against mine and let us fuck our praises with this life-force, to each other, to the mystery of desire and live and this world, stepping sideways through our flesh and into the wondrous. I see, tonight, the stars and our bed are bearing witness to a new and delightful dance. My love, come here—now—and fuck me. From The Queen of Heaven (2024) Buy it at feralangels.com www.tomhirons.com insta/threads @BearSpeaksToTheStars facebook: @hironstom bluesky: hironstom.bsky.social substack: @tomhirons
February 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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All of Elon’s losses are giving me LIFE! His pathetic whining FUELS me.

To the opposition fighters, never ever give up!
Screenshot of posts. Elon Musks tweets, If ANY judge ANYWHERE can stop EVERY Presidential action EVERYWHERE, we do NOT live in a democracy. Alex Cole tweets a response. Says, Breaking: Elon Musk discovers the U.S. Constitution and is furious about it.
February 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Let’s GO!
White text on back background says, For the opposition’s URGENT consideration Before you post defeatist comments on social media or in conversations, please pause and reconsider the impact. We are at the BEGINNING of a long haul. We are nowhere near beaten, though they are certainly trying, and a great deal of situations are FUBAR. White text on black background says, Comments that suggest that it’s all over, it’s too late, there’s nothing to be done are FUEL for those who work evil and these comments HARM us. I’m NOT saying that posts about feeling overwhelmed and scared and asking for support are bad. Please ask for help as needed! White text on black background says, I’m specifically asking for the comments that declare their victory to STOP. Again, it is NOT over. Defeatist comments HURT us and help those who are trying to hurt us. White text on black background says, Until my final breath, from GITMO or wherever I may be I Will NOT Concede I love you. Let’s go!
February 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Vance is telling outrageous lies about the law which seems to suggest that they are getting ready to illegally defy court orders.
Screenshot of JD Vance’s Twitter post. Says, If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a proscecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.
February 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Elon Musk agrees that this is a coup and he’s going after judges who uphold the constitution.
Screenshot from Twitter. Elon Musk’s account. Elon posts “Yes” and shared Mike Lee’s post that says, “This has the feel of a coup—not a military coup, but a judicial one.” Screenshot from Twitter. Elon Musk’s account. Elon writes “It’s time” as he shared Insurrection Barbie’s post that says, “Can we have a serious conversation about starting to impeach some of these judges.”
February 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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As an AmeriCorp VISTA Leader working for a few years in national service in the late 90s, I was required by federal law to take the oath to defend the constitution of the United States.

My oath has not expired.

My activism is in defense of our constitution which is in crisis.

I will not submit.
"I, [ ], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."
February 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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for Love
Image of a piece of paper with a poem typed on it. The poem is on a bed of dried leaves on the ground. Poem reads: In a Dangerous Time. I think of the bones of the unsung rib cage, the way they protect the heart. How bone, too, is living, how it constantly renews and remakes itself. I think of how ribs engage with other ribs to expand, to contract, and because they do their solid work, they allow the heart to float. This is what I want to do: to be a rib in this body of our country, to make a safe space for love. There is so much now that needs protection. I want to be that flexible, that committed to what’s vital, that unwilling to yield. by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
February 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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We will NOT submit!

Keep up the push back, you magnificent menaces

When we
FIGHT
We win!
Image: Kermit the frog plays a banjo while sitting on a log. Says, Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me (twice) in the style of a Rage Against the Machine lyric
February 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Madness, accelerating
Text reads: There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is it raining? Is it snowing? Is a hurricane a blowing? Not a speck of light is showing so the danger must be growing Are the fires of Hell a-glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing? Yes! The danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing. And they're certainly not showing any signs that they are slowing...
February 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Sacred path and winding road led me back to myself today. Head up. Shoulders back. Resolute. Guided by love and wisdom. I was born for these times. So were you.🌹
Photo of a large Chartres style labyrinth on canvas with an outstretched hand that holds a crystal ball replica of earth. Says, Sacred path and winding road led me back to myself today. Head up. Shoulders back. Resolute. Guided by love and wisdom. I was born for these times. So were you.
February 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Cassandra here, reporting in. I’ve posted this frequently in the past few years. Even I did not know how outrageous Musk would be or how fast he would move. We’re all getting that education now.
Text reads: Jenny I’m sorry but you sound too paranoid! Why are you saying all this stuff? This question was posed on November 9, 2024 by a doubting family member after I warned them. Beneath the text is a fine art painting of Cassandra, by De Morgan, Evelyn. Cassandra is cursed to know the future, but nobody believes her. Red headed Cassandra in blue robes stands, pulling her hair as a city is destroyed in fire and smoke behind her.
February 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Dem leadership (aside from a few stars) are guilty of abdicating responsibility & dereliction of duty. Dems have been given specific, legal, effective tools to fight back. Instead, have chosen compliance with our mad king.
Please send former (or upset) Rs to lead this utter failure to respond.
What Senate Democrats Must Do This isn't a moment for half-measures or political games. Democracy is at stake, and Senate Democrats must respond as if the Constitution is on the line-because it is. • Shut Down the Senate. Use every procedural tool-quorum calls, endless amendments, and withholding consent —to grind Senate business to a halt. No votes, no deals, no cooperation until Trump's freeze is rescinded. Specifically, they must: - Commit to oppose all nominees while this freeze remains in place, including calling for Russell Vought's nomination to be rescinded. - Reject every request for Unanimous Consent to advance Senate business - Vote NO on all Cloture votes, Motions to Proceed, or any other procedural vote - Request Quorum Calls at every possible opportunity to slow things down • Refuse to Negotiate. Trump is using federal programs as hostages in a power grab. Democrats must refuse to engage in any funding or debt ceiling negotiations while this freeze remains in place. No compromises with dictatorship. Sound the Alarm. Every senator must become a megaphone for what's at stake. Go on TV, hold town halls, and flood social media with the stories of families who will lose food, homes, and healthcare because of Trump's chaos. • Back Legal Challenges. Support every lawsuit challenging this freeze. File amicus briefs, amplity cases, and make it clear this isn't just morally wrong-it's illegal.
February 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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These unconstitutional orders will cause preventable and purposefully cruel end of life for many who rely on these supports.

The USA is in a constitutional crisis. Please call your legislators!

Contact your elected officials: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

(flag code: Dire Distress)
USA capitol building in background with USA flag in the Dire Distress position, upside-down, in accordance with the official flag code to be used only in times of extreme danger to life or property Call script for elected officials on the Trump Administration freezing all federal aid. YOU: Hi, my name is [NAME]. I'm calling from [ZIP CODE]. YOU: I am calling on [HOUSE MEMBER/SENATOR] to speak out against President Trump's actions on Monday in freezing all federal aid. This is blatantly illegal; the Executive Branch can't unilaterally decide to ignore laws that were passed by Congress, especially when it comes to financial aid. YOU: Members of Congress and the Senate must take action, and clarify how they will stop the freeze and ensure that the millions who are directly impacted by financial aid will not be harmed. YOU: [OPTIONAL COMMENT] Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121
January 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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What we’re going to do is join with others who also seek to push back fascism.

What we’re not going to do are purity tests where we will only agree to work in silos with others who think exactly like us. In other words, waste ZERO time infighting and keep a laser focus on ONE GOAL…

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January 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM