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Enhanced Protest Techniques

Semi-Respite Open Thread: “Typefaces of Protest”

by Anne Laurie|  July 17, 202010:01 pm| 85 Comments

This post is in: COVID-19 Coronavirus, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Open Threads

Typefaces of Protest: A Short Survey
1/ Paranoid Light pic.twitter.com/MSuBYvDvp1

— Tom Sutcliffe (@tds153) July 13, 2020

With thanks to commentor DMSilev…

3/ Bayeux Moderne pic.twitter.com/URysC3nd2n

— Tom Sutcliffe (@tds153) July 13, 2020

5/ Illuminati Bold pic.twitter.com/o6qaqKqUoA

— Tom Sutcliffe (@tds153) July 13, 2020

Wingding-Grotesk pic.twitter.com/OnhJJ14efA

— Tom Sutcliffe (@tds153) July 13, 2020

Winsome Light. pic.twitter.com/wqvxztaSJG

— Tom Sutcliffe (@tds153) July 13, 2020

The Spousal Unit particularly liked Bayeux Moderne, but my personal favorite is Winsome Light. You know she’s serious, cuz the hearts over her “I”s have been downgraded to mere empty circles!

This was a reply to that thread, and it might actually be of use to some of you for future marches:

Hahaha — I designed a stencil for making signs that people can print at home. You can still flair it up!https://t.co/2GSFWZUWkU

— Marcus Connor (@MarcusConnorNH) July 15, 2020

Semi-Respite Open Thread: “Typefaces of Protest”Post + Comments (85)

Open Thread: Capital City Under Siege Fights Back

by Anne Laurie|  June 6, 202010:21 am| 62 Comments

This post is in: Civil Rights, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Open Threads, Trumpery

A message aimed at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. https://t.co/Du2LFxlJ9d

— Kevin Whitelaw (@KevinWhitelaw1) June 5, 2020

Meanwhile, more concrete "jersey barriers" going in around the White House complex. #dcprotest pic.twitter.com/mQldubHARo

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 5, 2020

After week of protest, Saturday expected to bring largest crowds yet to Washington https://t.co/UTJdJwGehv

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 6, 2020

But seriously: Be careful out there, people…

… Starting at 6 a.m. Saturday, police will close much of downtown to vehicle traffic, creating a pedestrian-only demonstration zone stretching between the southern boundary of the Mall and L Street NW to the north. The western boundary is along 19th Street NW, and the eastern edge is roughly Ninth Street NW through downtown and Third Street NW along the Mall.

A fortified perimeter around the White House, including a tall black fence that was erected late this week after days of volatile confrontations between police and demonstrators, will remain.

Unlike many other large-scale demonstrations that the District hosts, no one person or organization is leading Saturday’s events.

Nearly a dozen different demonstrations run by as many organizations or individuals have been advertised for Saturday, starting at 6 a.m. and running into the night. Many protesters plan to stay out until the early hours of Sunday morning.

There are no leaders to speak to and no agenda to follow…

Even Black Lives Matter DC has repeatedly announced this week that it is not behind all the grass-roots activism that has taken hold and flooded the city with protesters. Online, people from around the Washington region and neighboring states announced their intention to join and encouraged others to do the same.

D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said no arrests have been made during protests since Tuesday. He said he hoped that that streak would continue as he expected on Saturday to see the largest crowd since protests began in the city on May 29…

Watch out. She’s going to paint BLM on your forehead while you doze. https://t.co/9wV16MfLhW

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) June 6, 2020

Honestly I have so much material I'm going to need a 3 hour special at this point

— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) June 5, 2020

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Repub Stupidity Open Thread: Blowhard Discovers What ‘Petard’ Means…

by Anne Laurie|  February 6, 20209:10 pm| 57 Comments

This post is in: Enhanced Protest Techniques, NANCY SMASH!, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Assholes

For a dude who's been in the slammer, this here trust fund baby is shockingly ignorant of how law works. This is what happens when Daddy makes sure you don't need to face the music, folks. https://t.co/kKinlqDbXN

— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) February 6, 2020

y'all know this dude stormed a scif, with a cell phone, and tweeted from INSIDE THE SCIF, during a closed hearing right? https://t.co/ntDXjMYof4

— ALT-immigration ?? (@ALT_uscis) February 6, 2020

BOOM: Bar complaint filed on GOP Rep Matt Gaetz for “grave misconduct.”

Filed by @MiamiDadeDems https://t.co/Q23V9vgOQ2

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) February 7, 2020

… The statement cites an instance in October 2019 when Gaetz and other Republicans entered the closed-door deposition of Pentagon official Laura Cooper during the impeachment proceedings against Trump. After demanding that Democrats hold open hearings, Gaetz and his colleagues remained in the meeting room for hours, eventually ordering pizza.

Gaetz also attempted to sit in on the deposition of former National Security Council member Fiona Hill in October 2019 but was asked to leave because he did not belong to the committee in charge of receiving Hill’s testimony.

In the complaint, a copy of which was sent to Newsweek by the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, Gaetz’s acts were described as “improper, unprofessional and unethical and were meant only to feed Gaetz’s unjustifiable large ego and penchant for grandstanding.”

“Impeachment proceedings are a legal process leading to a trial, and therefore covered by the Florida bar’s rules of conduct,” wrote Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chair Steve Simeonidis in the statement. “But Republican Attorney General Bill Barr isn’t going to hold a member of his own party responsible. So we must appeal to our state’s institutions to restrain this rogue lawyer who has obstructed the impeachment process twice, and generally treats the powers of his elected office like a personal plaything.”…

Most members would need a staffer to pre-tear. Not Pelosi. There’s a reason she’s Speaker. https://t.co/lCiqfi5PYb

— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) February 5, 2020

If only the press in high dudgeon about Pelosi tearing up the speech had a quarter of that outrage about the fact that Trump violates the Presidential Records Act every day because he can’t just look at a doc then set it aside, he rips everything up

AKA he destroys evidence

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) February 6, 2020

I am tweeting this as if I made it myself even though @ManlnTheHoody made it – because he told me to and it’s funny.

pic.twitter.com/Ml6vQrAmPc

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) February 6, 2020

Repub Stupidity Open Thread: Blowhard Discovers What ‘Petard’ Means…Post + Comments (57)

Cold Grey Iowa Caucus Pre-Dawn Open Thread: Proof of Concept

by Anne Laurie|  February 5, 20204:18 am| 42 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Enhanced Protest Techniques, I Can No Longer Rationally Discuss The Sanders Campaign, Open Threads, All Too Normal, Assholes, Cosplay Socialists

i for one love to pivot from calling the DNC an incompetent and fumbling org to accusing it of successfully orchestrating a national-scale conspiracy against the candidates that i like

— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) February 4, 2020

How quickly Bend The Knee turned to petulant attempts at taking the party hostage.

— Iowasca Tripper (@agraybee) February 5, 2020


We are not a joke, people! (Well, not a *deliberate* joke… )

Oh shit, better not mess with these guys. https://t.co/YhchfAs9wK

— Iowasca Tripper (@agraybee) February 5, 2020

We devout Cynics were told not to badmouth the Bernistas’ proclivity to attack Democrats instead of the greater enemy, Trump. When the voting finally started, we were told, Senator Sanders and his closest aides would quickly pull his supporters into line, for the greater good. Because they were mature adults, not hobbyists nursing their adolescent fantasies of exclusion and revenge.

Yeah, well, Iowa — and the Iowa caucus structure the Sanders campaign fought so hard to preserve — certainly provided some valuable lessons, yes it did!

Shows the futility of the endeavor, lol. I'd like to think indulging self-grievance and conspiracy theories backfires because it's the ugliest side of his campaign and one that just has nothing to do with anyone's real life. https://t.co/hGPO4Sqm1m

— Gustave Le Fromage (@davidabenner) February 4, 2020

Bernie Twitter is full of nastiness and venom (and conspiracies and lies) about Pete Buttigieg.

Pete Twitter is full of joy and hope (and substance and belonging).

The day the sun comes up after Donald Trump, what kind of President do we want to pick up the pieces? https://t.co/VWIGI2SMPG

— Brian Goldsmith (@GoldsmithB) February 4, 2020

I will say this… Thank you Warren supporters for not going headlong into conspiracy theories from the Bernie camp.

— Caucus Error Reporter. (@CascadianSolo) February 4, 2020

Not trying to give any advice but like:

Sanders fans have one super good argument (he's leading /will probably win both versions of the popular vote!—that should matter!) and one pretty bad argument (how dare Iowa release partial results!) and they should focus on the good one.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) February 5, 2020

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Also no, let me go out on a limb, the Iowa Democratic Party is not intentionally making themselves look incompetent on an international stage and risking the future of the Iowa caucuses, their greatest power asset. Have you ever like, worked in elections or politics or…any job?

— Xenocrypt (@xenocryptsite) February 4, 2020

Seems like all did not go as planned pic.twitter.com/cVY99rDsmH

— veto players stan account (@Convolutedname) February 4, 2020

Pete Buttigieg quaking in fear as Bernie supporters prepare a battalion of Simpson’s screen grabs, confused conspiracies linking him to Jeffrey Epstein and stuff that’s maybe homophobic but deliberately worded to be ambiguous

— Canadian Bread Price Fixing (@MenshevikM) February 4, 2020

People need to stop pretending the conspiracies are just being pushed by random accounts on twitter. It's his top surrogates & supporters like RoseAnn (who btw has been pushing insane conspiracies for years now). Stop giving him & his campaign an undeserved pass. https://t.co/qHIwCxPih5

— Centrism Fan Acct ?? (@Wilson__Valdez) February 4, 2020

so if I point out that kneejerk conspiracism is a warning sign that you can be manipulated by authoritarians and is extremely dangerous to the long-term health of leftist movements, will y'all take it seriously, or does that make me a shitlib?

— Pythagorean Danskin (@InnuendoStudios) February 4, 2020

Great job planting the seeds of anti Bernie material Rose twitter

— Canadian Bread Price Fixing (@MenshevikM) February 4, 2020

This is what the entirety of the Twitter Left has decided is the case. Really. https://t.co/kXlhgWoudi

— Centrism Fan Acct ?? (@Wilson__Valdez) February 4, 2020

Congrats, everyone. You again did so great, leading to this. https://t.co/P8yDERVkX8

— veto players stan account (@Convolutedname) February 4, 2020

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Domestic Terrorism Open Thread: Good for Governor Northam

by Anne Laurie|  January 16, 20209:47 pm| 83 Comments

This post is in: domestic terrorists, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Gun Issues, Open Threads, Post-racial America, Proud to Be A Democrat

FBI caught Patrik Mathews. Member of 'The Base' Neo-Nazi terror network who snuck in from Canada.

Phew. https://t.co/7Krm7LpjAQ

— YYZedd (@Zeddary) January 16, 2020

… A sense of crisis enveloped the capital of Virginia on Thursday, with the police on heightened alert and Richmond bracing for possible violence ahead of a gun rally next week that is expected to draw white supremacists and other anti-government extremists.

Members of numerous armed militias and white power proponents vowed to converge on the city despite the state of emergency declared by Gov. Ralph Northam, who temporarily banned weapons from the grounds of the State Capitol. The potential for an armed confrontation prompted fears of a rerun of the 2017 far-right rally that left one person dead and some two dozen injured in Charlottesville, about an hour’s drive from Monday’s rally.

The unease increased after the F.B.I. announced the arrest on Thursday of three armed men suspected of being members of a neo-Nazi hate group, including a former Canadian Army reservist, who had obtained weapons and discussed participating in the Richmond rally. The men were linked to The Base, a group that aims to create a white ethnostate, according to the F.B.I.

For weeks, discussions about the rally have lit up Facebook pages and chat rooms frequented by militia members and white supremacists. Various extremist organizations or their adherents are calling Monday’s rally the “boogaloo.” In the lexicon of white supremacists, that is an event that will accelerate the race war they have anticipated for decades…

The rally on Monday, the holiday marking the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was initially organized to protest the Virginia Legislature’s proposed restrictions on gun purchases.

The organizer, the Virginia Citizens Defense League, is prominent in the state’s Second Amendment rights movement, donating tens of thousands of dollars to lawmakers over the years. Its president, Philip Van Cleave, refers to himself as an extremist but issued a statement saying the rally was meant to be a peaceful protest about gun rights.

In the past, its lobbying efforts were focused on loosening the state’s gun laws.

But with a new Democratic majority in the Legislature, the group has made it clear that Monday’s event will be focused on opposing sweeping gun control measures that could be enacted next week....

On Thursday, the House of Delegates and the Senate held their regularly scheduled sessions under tighter-than-normal security by the Capitol Police. The Senate approved several gun control measures, including a bill that limits people to buying only one gun each month.

Also Thursday, a circuit court judge upheld the governor’s temporary ban on weapons in the area around the Capitol from Friday until Tuesday…

The F.B.I. has grown increasingly concerned about The Base as it has worked to recruit more people. The group encourages the onset of anarchy, according to the Counter Extremism Project, an organization that tracks far-right extremists. Experts say that its founder, an American, appears to be living in Russia…

Of course not every ‘gun rights activist’ is a racist, nor is every racist an ammosexual — but is it surprising how much the two groups overlap?

I don't say this lightly but Virginia may have just seriously averted a white supremacist rampage worse than Charlottesville. And the risk may still exist. https://t.co/JT8evonqP7

— YYZedd (@Zeddary) January 16, 2020

Mathews was already a fugitive, his cover as a terror recruiter blown. He'd have only shown his face in Virginia for martyrdom. A damn good bit of manhunting by the FBI.

— YYZedd (@Zeddary) January 16, 2020

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: It Still Matters

by Anne Laurie|  January 14, 20205:55 am| 207 Comments

This post is in: Election 2020, Enhanced Protest Techniques, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Readership Capture

.@BarackObama has landed his first-ever Oscar nomination for American Factory, an original documentary distributed by his Higher Ground Productions in partnership with Netflix: https://t.co/iqpkt59UQ3 #OscarNoms #Oscars #BarackObama pic.twitter.com/GXUu2ClFI2

— Consequence of Sound (@consequence) January 13, 2020

And also:

It matters that all these people ran. Being among the first often means throwing yourself on the pyre of history so someone else who has similar life experience can be perceived as a more familiar, “viable” option next time. The work continues.

— laura olin (@lauraolin) January 13, 2020

Furthermore:

This week, the Justice Department determined that the lies that were peddled about me, my family, & @ClintonFdn are without merit.

I couldn’t be more grateful to everyone that stuck with us while we continued to focus on the work. Let’s keep going.
https://t.co/PfhqybPaWy

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 12, 2020

btw, during the campaign the NYT and WaPo published more than 200 (!!) articles about the Clinton Foundation

— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 12, 2020

The legitimate media does not seem interested in asking Rs to acknowledge that their accusations were baseless. You would think legitimate media outlets would self-reflect on their coverage that often treated long-ago disproved accusations as unsettled.
https://t.co/USHlu3zeeS

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) January 12, 2020

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Noisy Futility Open Thread: Friday Night Party Edition

by Anne Laurie|  January 4, 20208:01 pm| 219 Comments

This post is in: Enhanced Protest Techniques, Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Cosplay Socialists

They couldn’t even be bothered to leave the neighborhood they all live in. https://t.co/hlzO5wioqs

— Malarksist Revolutionary (@agraybee) January 4, 2020

Gee I don’t fucking know Sam, what powerful person owns buildings in New York City. https://t.co/jwBxfcTMCx

— Malarksist Revolutionary (@agraybee) January 4, 2020

There’s a subsect of Performatively Woke social media that will never stop resenting the Boomer Generation who (according to some vaguely remembered high school history slideshow) unfairly scored all the really cool public protests. Willowy young people with flowers’n’beads! Wall-to-wall coverage on the three existing tv news channels! LBJ and Kissinger, who were worthy opponents!…

Today’s big public protests are all ‘whinemoms’ in silly hats, cheerily organizing bus drop-offs and handing out water bottles and snack bags. No more transgressive than your average suburban soccer practice, except the under-18s swarming these modern protests have no respect for their expensively-educated elders.

Obviously, this is all Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi’s fault.

JOE MANCHIN, for Chrissakes, voted to explicitly deny Trump authority to attack Iran. On this Schumer actually kept every member who voted on board. It's just the purest Murc's Law imaginable. pic.twitter.com/NeXlqUGFdb

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) January 4, 2020

Is there anything that sums up modern left-wing activists better than protesting a Trump decision by chanting "Pelosi is complicit" in front of Chuck Schumer's house while he's in DC a month after they impeached Trump.

— Malarksist Revolutionary (@agraybee) January 4, 2020

pic.twitter.com/lefpo9noIp

— anas elhawat (@anashwt) January 3, 2020

Obama signed a landmark deescalation treaty with Iran.

Trump just assassinated an Iranian official and is barreling toward the bloodiest war in 50 years with them.

You hate Obama more than Trump because your 'anti-war' stance was always shallow performative bullshit.

— Social Democratic Party of Galar (@weedlewobble) January 4, 2020

"Trump won in part by running against this mindless militarism".

No…that explicitly didn't happen. Only idiots who selectively took words that they wanted to hear (& ignored all the others), in order to positively contrast him w/ 'bloodthirsty' Hillary, believe this. pic.twitter.com/c5SDPZvGVH

— Centrism Fan Acct ?? (@Wilson__Valdez) January 3, 2020

Every smart politics knower on here read the first sentence of each Democrats' statement on Iran and assumed the rest of it was a clamor for war.

— Malarksist Revolutionary (@agraybee) January 4, 2020

We no longer have time to humor these cosplay progressives.

Everyone involved in this performance is supporting Trump and endless wars.

They should hang their heads in shame.

These fools are a pro-war caucus that Trump & the GOP count on to divide and rat-fuck the opposition. https://t.co/RH8kcJ628r

— dengre (@denngree) January 4, 2020

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