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The image features a person holding a colorful sign with a vibrant depiction of the Statue of Liberty. The artwork is abstract, with swirling patterns of blue, orange, red, and yellow, creating a dynamic and eye-catching effect. The Statue of Liberty is recognizable by its iconic crown and robe, though the colors and style are unconventional. The sign is framed in black, and the person is holding it up in front of a grand building with classical architecture, including large columns and intricate stonework. The sky is clear and blue, suggesting a sunny day. The building in the background appears to be a government or historical structure, possibly a courthouse or capitol building, given its ornate design and prominent columns.

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CHARLES M. SCHULZ
A Charlie Brown Christmas
1977 U.S. pressing

I am overjoyed!

I know this is seasonably inappropriate, but I couldn’t give less of a shit.

I found this in a used bin today; the record is pristine, and the book is complete and fully intact to the jacket.

This is essentially the entire TV special on record, with a book to read along, and wonderful illustrations of the whole #Peanuts gang to help tell the story.

A Charlie Brown Christmas is my favorite #christmas related thing ever. It doesn’t have to be the holidays for me to watch it either. It makes me happy like few other things do.

I have four different presses of Vince Guaraldi’s soundtrack, but I had never come across THIS before, particularly in such good shape.

It’s only June, but it’s FULLY Christmas in my house today!
So happy!

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #art #music #vinylcommunity #retro #vintage #charliebrown #tv #television #holiday #merrychristmas #snoopy



A Gothic book of hours for the industrial age, the pages of this 1886 prayer book were not printed, but rather woven on the Jacquard loom — a proto-computer programmed with more than 100,000 punch cards: publicdomainreview.org/collect…


Protest coverage from The Oregonian

"Tens of thousands of people gather for ‘No Kings’ protests in Portland"

gift link = oregonlive.com/portland/2025/0…

#USPol #NoKings #Oregon #PDX #Portland #Resist #GiftLink

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Jamaica Farewell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#HarryBelafonte
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Why is Imperialism So Easy to Love? hamptonthink.org/read/why-is-i…


friendica - Link to source

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The sources for this WSJ article about “Democrats” are: Third Way, a guy who was a Deputy Mayor 25 years ago, and a Republican consultant

#journalism

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in reply to Molly White

I think this is best understood at Romney-Republican entryism. The "respectable right" are sad that their party is now a Nazi death cult, so they're trying to take over the Democratic Party and turn it into Reagan's Republican Party (which is to say, a polite far right party).



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The single largest protest in anyone's lifetime is NOT the seventh biggest news story happening in the country, behind "What Does GenZ Want From Instagram?" and "You Can Make This Icecream With Just One Ingredient", and "Gay Person Exists! What Do??"

Do better, NYT.

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in reply to Salvador Espada-Hinojosa

@feministo @chmod777

The US edition of The Guardian is my favorite daily (which weirdly is much better than their UK counterpart)

Teen Vogue, weirdly?? just keeps knocking it out of the park

ProPublica for deep investigative reporting, best in the game

For long form, The New Yorker is full of chaff but when it’s good it’s so good

Minnesotan Reformer and Sahan Journal do great MSP reporting, but prob too local to be of interest for you?

Beyond all that, I tend to discover good reporting via other people’s posts on here



#NoKingsDay #NoKingsProtest #NoKing #NoKingProtests

A 'NO KINGS' protest is now underway in #Pasadena at Colorado Boulevard & Lake Avenue.
A large crowd gathered, more than a thousand people, stretches for blocks in all directions, and is orderly and festive, just peaceful

📸 Pasadena Now



#NoKings #Harleysville is a soft wrap. Hundreds of folks lined up along Main Street (PA Route 63) in Lower Salford Township, Pa. to #protest with signs and bells starting at 3:30. Video on Facebook indicates easily upwards of a thousand people. For reference the township has a population of about 15,000.

Enthusiastic support from local traffic in our red district with honking horns and friendly waves. Only a few scattered folks driving by with one thumb down or one finger up. The passing Cybertruck driver did not look proud.

Lots of friendly faces I’ve seen around and many I met for the first time. Inspired some real #hope in me today that’s been lacking recently.

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europesays.com/2163591/ Ist es das, was ich denke? #Natur #Naturfreunde



In domestic news, we had 2.5cm or 1 inch of rain today. My homemade sandbags are doing very well. #ClimateDiary #StillRaining


With all that's going on in the world, it's still #Caturday. So here's Tennessee!

#CatsOfMastodon #cats

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Many thousands today at the festive #Denver #NoKings gathering. Our sign was popular.

In Mastodon terms, felt like about two hundred faves (smiles observed) and a hundred boosts (photos taken)

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LOL looking up North Korean military parades 🤪

(I can see how, if you are a toddler, how you'd get excited...)

#militaryparade

youtu.be/VbhJalwmGq4?si=eON3qe…

in reply to AI6YR Ben

Wait, wait, wait.

Are the SPECTATORS marching, too?! I'm only in the first few minutes but it kinda looks like it.

#NorthKorea #MilitaryParade

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in reply to AI6YR Ben

North Korea probably did it better. US troops don't train extensively for looking cute while marching, on account of it not being 1950 anymore 😂


A first & second #reticulum #rnode each on a #raspberrypizero each providing their own #wifi #hotspot & running #meshchat on http://<IP_1> :8000 & http://<IP_2>:8000 (different hotspot IP addresses)
using these instructions medium.com/@thakuravnish2313/h… & loramesh.org/subpages/pi_insta… & two wifi adapters amzn.eu/d/6SzEJww
in a #nixos #thinkpad allows both rnodes' meshchat GUI interfaces to be used at the same time on one laptop. Useful for monitoring multiple rnode radios outside or in the attic.




HUGE crowd in Portland today. 100k+?
#nokings #pdx #protest

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europesays.com/2163584/ A Russian column with military personnel got HIMARSed near Makiivka, in occupied Donetsk region #ConflictInUkraine #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict

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Shout out to all the #NoKings protesters today in small towns and cities.

Sometimes it feels like there’s not much that can be done from the periphery. But flexing these muscles is vital to the movement.

Power to the small massive!

youtu.be/hj07Sh4XBIQ

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in reply to Alexander Karn

We had 3 people total in our protest. I bet 300 people saw our messaging, and about half of them gave us thumbs up, honked and waved, or shouted encouragement. Only 5 people openly supported Trump, and I think I changed one of their minds when he came back and parked to debate me. This is in a small town in a red state in the deep south. We made a difference today, and it felt awesome! I hope others take encouragement from this. If you're sitting on the fence, go for it! SHOW UP! Even that tiny contribution can have a huge impact. You encourage and draw attention to those who are more vocal with your mere presence. This was my first protest ever, and I am so glad I went!

#NoKings

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in reply to Aaron

@hosford42 This is encouraging. It’s easy for me to slip into a protest of tens of thousands of people in a big city and be anonymous. What you’re doing takes courage and I really appreciate it

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in reply to Sy Hoekstra

@SyHoekstra I won't lie, it was nerve-wracking on the way there, because I had no idea what to expect. But it stopped being scary as soon as I was actually standing there with my sign. I had turned it into this complicated picture in my head, but the reality of it is simple and direct: Hold a sign for people to read. Speak truth. Chant if you want. Smile and wave if you want. All you really have to do is just *be there* and make it clear *why*, in whatever way you prefer. And even one or two people standing with you eases nerves, so just standing next to people holding the signs and chanting can really, really help.

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in reply to Aaron

@hosford42 @SyHoekstra being brave is infectious! So thank you for your courage.

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in reply to Aaron

@hosford42 @SyHoekstra It's good to go outside your comfort zone sometimes, as long as it's on your own terms. I go on protests but always feel like an outsider (#Autism for the win) but I still go because being there, being counted, it's the important thing for me. Also very tiring, but so worth it.

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@cybervegan @SyHoekstra I feel like, being autistic, we are way more likely to end up at things like this. So many of our common traits predispose us to it. Strong sense of social justice, refusal to conform based on mere popularity, always being the outsider so we are used to it... Honestly, we are probably way more likely to run into other autistic people when we protest than at other times.

I am 100% certain that at *least* one of the other 2 protesters with me yesterday was neurodivergent. One of them was so blatantly so that I was genuinely surprised he didn't pipe up after I mentioned I'm autistic.

in reply to Aaron

@hosford42

Thank you for you and your fellow protestors! We need your voices as well. You probably showed multiple people that they are actually not alone and others sharebtheir disgust with this regime!

@xankarn

in reply to Brad Rosenheim

@Brad_Rosenheim I made a point of it! I told anyone who stopped to chat with us just how many thumbs ups we got, and just how few Trumpsters there were. 😀
in reply to Aaron

@hosford42
3 people? I’ve been getting excited seeing photos of big crowds, but 3 brave people is absolutely awesome! You rock!

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in reply to Looking for explanations…

I'm excited about those big crowds, too! But in these small towns is where they most need to hear about it.

I am so fucking proud of my nation today, regardless. Turning out, standing in solidarity, saying no to tyranny. I have hope again! And wow, do I have goosebumps when I look at all the pictures under the #NoKings hashtag.

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@hosford42
Exactly, and I admire your bravery I doing so.

I’m in Australia and just scrolling through the stuff boosted by people on my favourites list has taken ages , and given me such a lift.

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@hosford42 @Susan60
Glad you had a good time out and about with others today as well Arron !
You are so right.
I also keep seeing the same people at similar places I think my county only has about 120,000 people. I think half the population will be affected by this big beautiful bullshit.
Have a good night! 💤
Take care!
in reply to Aaron

@hosford42 ❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸❤️proud of you. Glad you’re showing up.
in reply to Aaron

Friend lives in rural NC, went out to the nearest town with a No Kings sign. Haven't heard back from him yet. [Edit]: His report: I only had one person screaming at me giving me the finger. Two other men white old men just screamed at me. Three large diesel pick ups blew their smoke in my face but almost every single woman under 60 honked and waved and everybody with long hair and almost every service truck anything with a brown person in it honked and waved and smiled
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@hosford42
You know Aaron, your experience today was very similar to what I experienced in the 1960s when we first started demonstrating against Nixon. And it gradually grows. Some of the people who saw you today and agreed with you will come the next time. You did a courageous thing my friend. This is how we preserve our democracy and our country. Well done.

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in reply to Aaron

@hosford42
Aaron, I'm so proud of you!! You're my today hero! ;)
Yes, I'm sure a lot of people saw you and made them think, and made them proud!
in reply to Aaron

@hosford42 The small town action I saw was so heartening - thank you for showing up. It means as much or more as the 'big' events.

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in reply to Aaron

@hosford42 That's wonderful! Thanks for protesting and thanks for sharing how it went for you. ❤️

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in reply to Aaron

@hosford42 thank you. It's impossible to measure the comfort and support those who stand up give to those afraid to do so. Even in the reddest place you could imagine, there may be people who agree with you, but fear horrible things might happen to them if they speak out. One such person lives across the street from us.

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@hosford42
This is the power of local protests. Locals see their fellow locals protesting. People they know and trust. It isn't a protest far away by some far off other people. I's by people they know and trust.
techhub.social/@hosford42/1146…


We had 3 people total in our protest. I bet 300 people saw our messaging, and about half of them gave us thumbs up, honked and waved, or shouted encouragement. Only 5 people openly supported Trump, and I think I changed one of their minds when he came back and parked to debate me. This is in a small town in a red state in the deep south. We made a difference today, and it felt awesome! I hope others take encouragement from this. If you're sitting on the fence, go for it! SHOW UP! Even that tiny contribution can have a huge impact. You encourage and draw attention to those who are more vocal with your mere presence. This was my first protest ever, and I am so glad I went!

#NoKings


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in reply to Aaron

@hosford42 I've organised one of those three-person protests. It's harder than it looks. Nice job.
in reply to Solarbird

@moira Thanks! We were not organized in any way, though. lol We were just the stragglers who missed the big event, and decided screw it, we're doing this anyway.






Reposting from earlier now that I'm home. #NoKings #Ventura Turned out!

Bunch of great signs, wonderfully peaceful people and a couple adorable puppers.

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