Looking forward to seeing everyone's #NoKings photos and placards
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I am so tired of hearing "It does nothing" YES IT DOES. It's not the be-all end-all but it's ONE of the things that gets more and more people involved. AND it influences elected officials. Social attitudes are a big part of what has to change.
@_L1vY_ It takes multiple spokes to build the wheels of collective resistance. Each spoke strengthens the wheel & together, the wheel rolls towards changes for the people by the people
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Looking forward to seeing everyone's #NoKings photos and placards
@_L1vY_ been favoriting and boosting every one that comes through my timeline. I love the funny ones, the serious ones, the artistic ones and the simple ones - we contain multitudes and it makes me so happy 🥹
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I am so tired of hearing "It does nothing" YES IT DOES. It's not the be-all end-all but it's ONE of the things that gets more and more people involved. AND it influences elected officials. Social attitudes are a big part of what has to change.
@_L1vY_ I just read Dr. Stacey Patton's essay on why it's all just white-people feel-good performative bullshit. Deep, deep sigh.
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The momentum fed IN PART by these demonstrations has led to an absolute avalanche of flipped Republican officials in special elections across the country even in very red areas.
The increased visibility of opposition (especially dramatically in rural areas) has kept a lot of queer American kids and youths alive for another month, week, or day.
These events HAVE led to a GREAT DEAL of grassroots organizing & local caregiving.
"You can be thrilled by the things that are happening and horrified by the things that should be happening but aren’t. Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything."
"Changing the world is more like caregiving than like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war."Rebecca Solnit:
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@_L1vY_ I just read Dr. Stacey Patton's essay on why it's all just white-people feel-good performative bullshit. Deep, deep sigh.
@LPerry2 She's allowed to feel discouraged
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These events HAVE led to a GREAT DEAL of grassroots organizing & local caregiving.
"You can be thrilled by the things that are happening and horrified by the things that should be happening but aren’t. Everything we can save is worth saving. Everything we can do is worth doing. We’ve already lost a lot, but we don’t have to lose everything."
"Changing the world is more like caregiving than like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war."Rebecca Solnit:
Dr. Lisa Corrigan, social movement scholar 🧵 11:08 AM · Mar 28, 2026:
"These protests are important b/c:
...as sustained image events, they offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.
...provides political pressure for the country to change directions on ICE, war with Iran, tariffs, SAVE Act, public health, public education, public corruption
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Dr. Lisa Corrigan, social movement scholar 🧵 11:08 AM · Mar 28, 2026:
"These protests are important b/c:
...as sustained image events, they offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.
...provides political pressure for the country to change directions on ICE, war with Iran, tariffs, SAVE Act, public health, public education, public corruption
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...provides political cover for a) GOP electeds to take oppositional stances within their party and b) corporations to oppose the administration.
...Successful movements are sustained across time and consistent messaging, while building community connections.
...Recurring protests provide access points for normies to increase their threshold for public risk while also focusing country's attention to SIZE and SCOPE of resistance to policies
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@LPerry2 She's allowed to feel discouraged
️@_L1vY_ @LPerry2 Not sure if decarceration activist Marianne Kaba would approve of me bringing her up in this context, but she said something to the effect that you can’t know which protest tactics will “work” or in what way, so you should try them all.
Personally I think some of the tactics from the 70s, especially from second wave feminism, are now mocked and derided so that people don’t dare to try things.
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...provides political cover for a) GOP electeds to take oppositional stances within their party and b) corporations to oppose the administration.
...Successful movements are sustained across time and consistent messaging, while building community connections.
...Recurring protests provide access points for normies to increase their threshold for public risk while also focusing country's attention to SIZE and SCOPE of resistance to policies
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...GOP electeds are declining to run for re-election because protests are successfully SHIFTING PUBLIC OPINION AWAY FROM the GOP in undeniable ways.
...protests help steel the public for fights ahead when the admin attempts another coup (even via executive orders) to prevent total washout in Nov
...Sustained protests also offer UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE of public's disgust for the admin, echoed in international protests against US imperialism also fascist & corrupt right wing in other countries
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...GOP electeds are declining to run for re-election because protests are successfully SHIFTING PUBLIC OPINION AWAY FROM the GOP in undeniable ways.
...protests help steel the public for fights ahead when the admin attempts another coup (even via executive orders) to prevent total washout in Nov
...Sustained protests also offer UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE of public's disgust for the admin, echoed in international protests against US imperialism also fascist & corrupt right wing in other countries
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...We know the protests are working as we watch DHS officials crack under pressure of enforcing unpopular & unethical immigration roundups of minors.
...Minimizing the impact of consistent episodic community-centered protests only serves interests of ruling elite and undermines efforts to build political pressure esp. on elected Dems
SUCCESSFUL CHANGE REQUIRES BOTH POLITICAL PRESSURE & COVER. WHICH CAN ONLY BE DONE AT THE SCALE OF MASS PROTESTS.
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