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Scott Dworkin's avatar

Find a protest honoring John Lewis here: https://goodtroubleliveson.org/

NEW: Sens. Booker and Padilla are proposing a new law to require ICE to unmask and display clear identification. Tell your Senators and Rep they need to support this via the link below. https://tinyurl.com/bp8cau82

NEW: Tell Congress: Reverse Trump’s NOAA cuts and save the National Weather Service https://tinyurl.com/bdbur8df

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Joe English's avatar

Going to do some shameless commerce here. Thank you very much!

Operation Overpasses in NC

July 6th/7th were initial coordinated events with overpasses along I95 and 26 bridges in the Triangle.

The next rendition is on Sun July 20th 930-11 am. OP Overpass Undefeated Against Tyranny will be an expansion of efforts along I95 in NC (as well as other states). We are taking one approach on social media with QR codes to funnel volunteers into a Signal vetting. The other is a more now traditional (sounds funny) Mobilize announcement:

https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/814534/

And the Triangle Unified Brdge Brigade is a coalition being led by Engaged Durhamites for Democracy. Their efforts are becoming legendary...

https://www.mobilize.us/durhamcountydemocrats/event/812094/

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

Awesome thank you for sharing Joe!

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Sam Jones's avatar

That’s great Joe! Thanks for sharing.

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Joe English's avatar

Thanks Sam. Someone already contacted me wanting to model what we are doing in NC. And they crank out the events. Hope to be helpful.

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Great News Turn NC blue!💙

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Cheryl Johnson's avatar

I think it is more "sharing best practices" rather than "shameless commerce"!

If I were a little closer to Durham I would join you!

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Me too! Anyone here signed up for July 17th Make Good Trouble?

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Joe English's avatar

I am alluding to the Car Talk guys/brothers Ray & Tom Magliozzi. And there Shameless Commerce Division...

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Cheryl Johnson's avatar

Oh yeah! They used to be a staple on NPR.

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

Awesome. Love that NC is doing such a great job.

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GG Haegelin's avatar

Scott really appreciate the links to TheHill for communicating demands

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Ms Jonington's avatar

I love seeing those maga hats burned.

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

And it's them doing it!

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Veronika Grimm-Matthews's avatar

I join you! Those hats make the heads under them look idiotic (including our fearless leader's)

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Cheryl Johnson's avatar

But the bright color does serve as a good early warning system about who to avoid when you are out and about in public. So unlike most things MAGA, they do serve a useful purpose!

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Soooo true 👍

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

Love seeing how Trump was diverted and not wanted. Best picture ever.

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JP's avatar
1dEdited

It is fully entertaining to see MAGA just going after this and each other, burning their little hats off in anger and disappointment! 😆

You know it’s serious when the red hat gets burned.

I have been waiting for this kind of implosion for a long time, I hope it continues to escalate.

I would like to read about the Trump voters who now have "buyer's remorse". We TOLD you and you didn’t listen, and now you have no one to blame but yourself. If you did NOT vote for Kamala Harris you are fully responsible for everything that Trump MAGA is doing. Period.

I think it will be safe to wear this "Don't Blame Me, I Voted For her" t shirt this summer 👇

https://libtees.dashery.com/products/74030236-dont-blame-me-i-voted-for-harris-t-shirt

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Cheryl Johnson's avatar

I wore my Indivisible T-shirt to a visibility rally last week in the morning, then stopped off at the grocery store to pick up a few things. A woman came up from behind and commented "I like your T-shirt". The back of it says "Democracy is NOT a Spectator Sport!"

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marcia schulz's avatar

It's a start????Hopng!

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Judith Nixon's avatar

Trump at the FIFA match reminds me of the toddler you take to an older child’s birthday party. He thinks it’s about him and pout/screams when the birthday boy gets to blow out the candles instead

😂

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

Apt analysis Judith!!! :) LOLOLOL

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Joanne Steacie's avatar

Exactly!

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Teri Gelini's avatar

Love the analogy

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Sam Jones's avatar

I wouldn’t be sad if every maga hat in the world suddenly disappeared

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

They're just so abhorrent

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Renae Ritchie's avatar

I like being able to identify the morons from a distance. The hat makes that possible.

Now, if they are burning while being worn????? I guess that's still ok. I can make out bandages.

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Wis's avatar
1dEdited

Ha! Disappear, while taking the ones wearing them with them.

Hmmm… Unless once the satan caps are removed and destroyed, their maga brains start to clear…?

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Veronika Grimm-Matthews's avatar

Including the heads wearing them!

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

And the MAGA JERKS with them!❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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Public Servant's avatar

ICE is a terrorist organization. Please remember how many good civil servants like my partner have been fired by the fascists. We are suffering, but doing everything we can to fight back and need support: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/state-department-purge

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Kathy's avatar

This ⬆️

“That’s because Gov. Ron DeSantis has given the contractors hired to run the Everglades detention center permission to ignore state law and staff it with contractor-employed correctional officers who haven’t been fingerprinted, passed a physical, or cleared a background check.” https://open.substack.com/pub/jasongarcia/p/alligator-alcatraz-a-legal-black?r=fqsxl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

This is a concentration camp.📣📣📣

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

With the Pocket Nazi Miller drooling over it, because this is even better than being a voluntary Kapo.

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Cheryl Johnson's avatar

Absolutely. See this report from Jessica Craven who was on a Zoom with Maxwell Frost after he visited there. Absolutely appalling!

https://substack.com/@jesscraven101/note/c-134666184

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Kathy's avatar

US Rep Frost and Fl Rep Anna Eskamani will never give up fighting! Both are fearless…💪💙

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Cheryl Johnson's avatar

I agree 💯 percent! We need more people like them in Congress!!

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Just watched! Makes me sick that human beings are being treated worse than the alligators!🤢🤮😥😥😥🤬

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Cheryl Johnson's avatar

I AGREE! Please spread the word to make more people aware of this atrocity!

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NoVa Chess Guy's avatar

MAGA burning their own hats? It's great but . . .

I just can't help but think that when they get in the voting booth, they're still going to vote MAGA. They'll figure out a way to justify it.

Reminds of a story in WaPo. A clinic is closing in rural Nebraska because of Medicaid cuts. The town residents? They don't believe it -- rather, they are blaming the hospital or their owners. I.e., it's always somebody else's fault.

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

Oh I am with you on that. This is who they are. I heard one saying I am done with maga, I am all America first now... what?

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NoVa Chess Guy's avatar

A more succinct way of putting it (and I should have ended off my comment this way) is: "After all, it's a cult"

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Sarah Lavertue's avatar

Sad

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Whose? Biden's or Kamala's! These people are hopeless

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Ann Kramer's avatar

As glad as we are to see those hats burn—let’s not alienate MAGA supporters but welcome them by showing them—you got lied to (which we knew all along—but they didn’t)—Epstein is the first lie, ‘only deporting criminals’ is the second lie, ‘tariffs are good for our economy’ is the third lie. If we are going to heal this country—we have to come back together.

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Adam's avatar

I just cannot connect with a flat earther. Doesn't matter if they are no longer magats. Anyone willing to throw out thousands of years of observation and science with a shrug just because no one came to their house and specifically proved that the earth is round to their satisfaction is still unreachable. Same with virulant anti-vaxxxers. Some folks are just unreasonable!

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Ann Kramer's avatar

Yes, there are some we definitely won’t be able to bring back (the WCN are so locked into their cult) but of the 22% of Americans who are MAGA followers, I think a solid half or more are people who can turn off FOX and begin to hear other things. We shall see—but let us hold some space for those who can because in the long run—that will work better for all.

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Adam's avatar

Now this is a proposal that I can get behind.

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Wouldn't spend alotof money or time on them for 2026

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Adam's avatar

Got that right. They need a good bit of time with their tender bits in a vise before it really sinks in.

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

I'm still trying, will never give up on that.

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J.R.'s avatar

I agree

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Sandy McFarlin's avatar

If they are burning something down, let it be MAGA! I would love to see it all burn to the ground, as long as they take the orange 🤡, the heritage foundation, the crazy Q-Anoners, Stephen Miller, Peter Thiel, Yarvin, and every single enabler (looking at you: Alito, Thomas, Roberts, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett, and the GOP Congress.)!

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EER's avatar

YES! ALL THE CRIMINALS that are burning our constitution to the ground!

If MAGA voters finally realize they've been conned, then we're still stuck with the CRIMINAL CON ARTISTS IN OUR SCOTUS!! They perpetrated this regime starting with Citizens United! 👿🤬 Greedy crooked bastards.

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

😈😈😈😈😈😈😈🤬

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Burn it down

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Lori's avatar

Love those hats burning 🔥!!

Pray this is the first of many MAGAS seeing the light and voting for Dems in 2026.

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

It's a clear chance for it. But also, some might get sucked right back in. We shall see.

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Wis's avatar

Pray, yes, but don’t count on it. Sigh.

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Cathy's avatar

The FIFA awards were meant to celebrate the players not give homage to Trump. Was happy to see him being escorted off the stage. Maybe in Trump land he thinks he’s the greatest but to the rest of us he’s a loser.

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

Oh and of course there is more to the story

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Me too! He's like a 2 year old who thinks everything is about HIM

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Lisa Nystrom's avatar

Not surprised they burn like newspaper! Cheaper by the dozen 😂 Keep showcasing the hypocrisy and utter incompetence of this administration! Good trouble all the way!

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

Yes Lisa!

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Jennie Edwards's avatar

I never thought I'd see a MAGA hat burned! It'd be great if they kept up the pressure to release the Epstein files.

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

Agreed Jennie

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Gracie44's avatar

Scott, your news does a body good!

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

Thank you Gracie!

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Theodora's avatar

🔥 Keep on bringing the fire, Scott!

It’s good to see those ugly maga hats burning! 🔥

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Sure is! Shared the picture!😂😂😂😂

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

:)

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Pam Birkenfeld's avatar

Hats burning, good! agent arrested, and Trump booed, great! I have seen others suggesting that on Thursday we not call it protests, but rather gatherings to support and defend democracy!

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

I might still call it a protest here and there, but I think it can be a protest and a celebration---protest against T, celebrating Lewis something like that

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Pam Birkenfeld's avatar

It can be both!

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

Yeah that's a good point Pam!

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Robot Bender's avatar

Had anyone looked into that agent's past? He might be very interesting... 🤔

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

Let me ask my friend who is a local reporter, if not, I will!

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Star Aasved's avatar

I had to laugh at the boos for Trump and I fully expect them to increase as he appears in pubic, particularly in a world-wise event. Much of the world's tired of his BS.

Have to wonder why he stayed onstage with the winning team - must be his need for attention.

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Scott Dworkin's avatar

He waved when Coldplay went on and they literally acted like he was the one being cheered lol

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Star Aasved's avatar

He is clueless, Scott.

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