I'm going to be on with @velshi.com at 11 to talk about my article on the small acts of noncompliance that we can take against our dispicable government. I guess Summer is over. www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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“Whatever reindeer games you’re playing” was a solid reset. This is the best list of the “do something” I could have asked for this morning.
aug 31, 2025, 3:13 pm • 4 0 • view
Thank you, @elienyc.bsky.social !! ❤️🩹💪
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There is a way for people to collectively fight back, and that’s with the power of their spending. Imagine sports events with near empty stadiums. Imagine mass cancellation of cable subscriptions. It used to be said that religion was the opiate of the masses, these days it’s Entertainment.
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The cicadas are silent, kids are in school. Life is relentless.
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Thank you.
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Fuck, yes.
aug 31, 2025, 3:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Exceptional. Brought me to tears. Thank you! I have this sentence now memorized: “This is all we can do for you now.”
aug 31, 2025, 11:03 pm • 1 0 • view
What a fabulous piece. Thank you @elienyc.bsky.social this moved me and made me feel less despair.
aug 31, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Excellent article Elie. Thank you.
aug 31, 2025, 3:14 pm • 5 0 • view
I know it's a bit late but your article was shared with me at a time where I really felt hopeless. Learning about all the little things I can do to keep fighting was a huge help. Thanks for being so awesome all the time. Best to you and yours.
aug 31, 2025, 2:53 pm • 32 0 • view
The seventh-last paragraph about a WW 2 plane is dramatic in its simplicity…though a worker risked his life. Is it true? 🤷🏼♂️ But it’s inspiring.
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This was amazing. Thank you for writing this.
aug 31, 2025, 3:30 pm • 1 0 • view
nasty cookies
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#KindnessIsResistance
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++ 5calls.org
aug 31, 2025, 4:03 pm • 4 1 • view
watching now.
aug 31, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Refusing to heal pocket Elon in overwatch as civil disobedience
aug 31, 2025, 2:47 pm • 7 0 • view
I was gonna just go back to bed but I guess I won't...
aug 31, 2025, 2:49 pm • 32 2 • view
My thoughts exactly.
aug 31, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Come sit side saddle next to me here on the Davenport. ☕️ We can stare at our phones in silence.
aug 31, 2025, 2:53 pm • 5 0 • view
I hope you talk about Trump Administration's lack of transparency....every where
aug 31, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Great piece. "So I’m playing a different game, one that is not about winning or losing, but helping or not helping..."
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The Czech “bomb” is EVERYTHING.
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Damn dude, fantastic hit. There is a lot of frustration on the part of constituents who blame their representatives for not doing things that they have no power to do. We all need to do what we can, and stop regretting impossible might-have-beens. As a prescriptivist, I have to give you points
aug 31, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view
for saying, "factors IN play," instead of the widely used, "AT play." That goes with "set foot" instead of "step foot," and "couldn't care less" instead of "could care less," among others. The bastardization of our precious colloquialisms is out of control.
aug 31, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Excellent
aug 31, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks, Elie. I'm going to save this to reread on the days I just want to hide under my desk.
aug 31, 2025, 3:00 pm • 9 1 • view
Damn, I really needed this right now. I'm going to send the link to this article to friends who have all but given up.
aug 31, 2025, 3:15 pm • 5 0 • view
Thank you for this, I really needed it today.
aug 31, 2025, 3:00 pm • 8 0 • view
Thank you. Shared with many friends. “At all points in history, there are people willing to “break the law” when the law is evil.”
aug 31, 2025, 3:22 pm • 11 1 • view
SABAT/Sabotage : One meaning is "Wooden Shoes" in the Machines Another is the Conscious withdrawal of Efficiency from the Marketplace Highly recommend the Film "The Wobblies" (1979) about the fight of the Industrial Workers Union in the early 1900's youtu.be/t0ruK6IQLWc?...
aug 31, 2025, 3:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Put Mexican flag stickers on your car to distract ICE! Keep protesting! Donate to the ACLU and simular organizations.
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Excellent article and segment! I’m fired up, ready to go!!
aug 31, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Great to see you @elienyc.bsky.social on @velshimsnbc.bsky.social this morning! Your powerfully pointed words inform/inspire us in a unique way m. Hope that weight loss is from improved health rather than its opposite. Many blessings Elie!
aug 31, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I want to protest more but my white friends aren’t.😞Learned helplessness, they’re too old for this protest $hit, or whatever else makes them shrug it off. They complain without action. Frustrating!
aug 31, 2025, 3:38 pm • 1 0 • view
On the first day of LAUSD's school year, we had 92% attendance. The regime has tried to break Los Angeles since June. Our immigrant neighbors have been hiding at home. All summer. But LAUSD had a plan in place for protecting students & the kids came. That is a win for the resistance.
aug 31, 2025, 7:07 pm • 9 4 • view
ICE tried to enter two elementary schools in June, but the principals refused to allow them access. For as large & soft a target as LAUSD is, our kids have been safe at school. The leadership of Alberto Carvahlo, a former undocumented immigrant, has been important.
aug 31, 2025, 7:45 pm • 4 2 • view
You were great! Inspiring. Thank you.
aug 31, 2025, 3:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Look, my congressman is Steve Scalise, or as he described himself “David Duke w/o the baggage”, Who has no problem being keynote speaker at a klan rally. The Klan does have control of the La (R) party, they did try to make Duke Gov when I was 10. The entire caucus IS linked to the worst hate group.
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These people actively cheered the martial law post Katrina that used the cops, mercs, and military to kill residents, they DO hate NOLA but still want to use it as their own personal toilet. They will come here to protest the removal of the “battle of liberty place” monument to a klan massacre.
aug 31, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
They are true believers but I can call up people who don’t suck across the country who have only slightly more interest in listening to me bc I’m not a constituent. I can show up to a town hall, now gone. But call Skkkalise or Jeff Klandry or former Dem John (not that) KKKennedy?! They don’t care.
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Cassidy ran away from us at a town hall during the ACA fight and is in hiding after giving us RFKjr. I can write Dems and say La has one of the lowest cost per voter to sway an election. That also doesn’t seem to work though. “Call your reps” is different here than a city that care didn’t forget.
aug 31, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
An excellent appearance.
aug 31, 2025, 5:12 pm • 0 0 • view
GREAT segment!
aug 31, 2025, 3:29 pm • 1 0 • view
@elienyc.bsky.social …. Really it was helpful… anything… write post cards, read, donate, volunteer, rally, share truth, history and facts. Be kind and inclusive to folks who are being targeted. Thank a union for this weekend. Be mad, sad and uncomfortable. Just don’t be complacent. ✊🏼
aug 31, 2025, 3:34 pm • 4 0 • view
Love everything you’re saying!! This is “all we can do” sometimes SO LETS DO IT
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Great article!
aug 31, 2025, 2:41 pm • 1 0 • view
I've been saying something similar to anyone who will listen for months. Thank you, Elie. This is the way, folks. 👇 "So I’m playing a different game, one that is not about winning or losing, but helping or not helping."
aug 31, 2025, 3:03 pm • 4 1 • view
Meeting in China will offer news about russian support for war
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I turned on just for you. Your words were needed especially as my anger at Martha Raddatz’s infuriating interview with Wes Moore (as annotated by Aaron Rupar) made me lose actual faith in good ever winning over evil. I guess I needed a wake up call/bit of inspiration this morning. Thank you.
aug 31, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
FYI - I opened this in DuckDuckGo to eliminate ads. I listened while scrolling the text.
aug 31, 2025, 6:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks for this article. We will be rallying on the main road through town in St. Charles, Illinois, on Monday. Resist!
aug 31, 2025, 3:35 pm • 2 0 • view
The last paragraph is very on point- I had never thought of it this way.
aug 31, 2025, 3:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Thank you for that article. I marched in rallies this spring and summer, but since then I have just felt like crawling under a rock. I will do better.
aug 31, 2025, 2:51 pm • 6 0 • view
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In my life, I have met some dirty niggas. DIRTY. Killers, Drug dealers, rapists, but not one of them ever made me feel like you. I need a shower after hearing your name. There isn't even a word for the shame you bring to being a Black man in America. Michael Jackson had the right idea.
aug 31, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
I may have to research bleaching so that I won't be associated with you any longer.
aug 31, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
You are a fucking idiot. BUT, even idiots are useful sometimes. You seem like a useful idiot to me. So Useful Idiot, please enlighten me as to why you till support a party that wants pedophiles in schools, and murderers free on cashless bail?
aug 31, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
aug 31, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
One more day then over. Fly your flags tomorrow for Labor Day, show your dis stain for this administration sho treats labor so well. Stand up Do your part
aug 31, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I missed it! Will there be another airing? If so, what time?
aug 31, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you.
aug 31, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for this, Mr. Mystal. ❤
aug 31, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump’s done!
aug 31, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I live in Illinois so calling my reps feels inutile until I remember how ole Mitch gummed up 8 years of Congress while he was mostly out of power. Thank you for pulling my ear. Tammy, Dick, and Delia will be hearing from me in the future
aug 31, 2025, 4:55 pm • 0 0 • view
You were great!!! Thank you.
aug 31, 2025, 3:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Managed to catch your segment. Exactly what we all need to hear right now!
aug 31, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
I would add join a local pro-democracy group. When you start doing small acts with others, they have more impact, you have solidarity with like-mjnded people, and resistance multiplies
aug 31, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Moving article. Thank you.
aug 31, 2025, 9:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Legitimately made me tear up. Teachers need to continue standing up and ensuring the classroom is a site of resistance, but also becomes a place where we are not limited by the failures of our political imagination, but free to imagine—and to begin making— a more just future.
aug 31, 2025, 3:00 pm • 15 1 • view
@wrenispinkle.bsky.social you just talked about this.
aug 31, 2025, 6:45 pm • 4 0 • view
Hell yes ❤️
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