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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

It’s time folks for some #SidewalkChalk civil disobedience. Grab some chalk, go outside with your kids, and draw, write, sketch, vent, play hopscotch. This shit has gone too far. #ChalkCrime

aug 30, 2025, 5:06 pm • 493 158

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laura bishop @lbblaura.bsky.social

Absolutely outrageous. Are these officers proud of themselves? Is the National guard happy to be a part of this? Chalk!? C’mon, man.

aug 30, 2025, 5:14 pm • 5 0 • view
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iWon’tBendTheKnee @nmfr.bsky.social

It’s like our federal government has turned into a fully-armed HOA board.

aug 30, 2025, 5:11 pm • 36 1 • view
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Obregonia Jones @obregonia.bsky.social

I'm disabled and can't really reach the sidewalk. But if I put chalk on the side of a building I would probably get the death penalty these days. Somebody draw a wheelchair or something for me. lol

aug 30, 2025, 5:20 pm • 8 0 • view
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Liz Pollock: bookseller, non-fiction writer. @lizpollockbooks.bsky.social

objective = create new jump rope rhymes! playground & double-dutch!

aug 30, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
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scroobius-pip.bsky.social @scroobius-pip.bsky.social

Use something hydrophobic so it only shows up when it gets wet. www.popsci.com/how-turn-rai...

aug 30, 2025, 5:46 pm • 6 0 • view
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Ken Wilson 👊🇺🇸🔥😉 @kcwilson.bsky.social

Law Enforcement in DC is now acting much like an out of control HOA.

aug 30, 2025, 6:58 pm • 5 0 • view
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

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aug 30, 2025, 5:06 pm • 60 13 • view
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

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aug 30, 2025, 5:07 pm • 76 23 • view
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4gabriel.bsky.social @4gabriel.bsky.social

I remember this with occupy in 2007-2008-cops in several states beat the shit out of people drawing on sidewalks out side of banks like BOA & Wells Fargo- because cops work for banks and oligarchs -we just pay their checks but they don’t work for us

aug 30, 2025, 5:10 pm • 2 0 • view
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

Take pics and attach them to this thread.

aug 30, 2025, 5:07 pm • 106 2 • view
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

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aug 30, 2025, 5:38 pm • 174 11 • view
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bcwbcw.bsky.social @bcwbcw.bsky.social

I suppose you could attach a rainbow of chalk to a board or rake or something and drag it along under your car, leaving a miles-long pattern.

aug 30, 2025, 6:53 pm • 6 1 • view
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Julia @sdrose.bsky.social

Ooh, think about what fun a police chase could be wherein you could paint the whole damn town!!

aug 30, 2025, 11:10 pm • 2 0 • view
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

@freedcproject.bsky.social

aug 30, 2025, 5:24 pm • 20 1 • view
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Laura Dunaway @laura1256.bsky.social

My friends and I drew chalk rainbows and hearts on the sidewalk a few days ago. We live in Florida’s capital city.

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aug 30, 2025, 5:17 pm • 138 5 • view
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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social

One could even just stand here and hold chalk Like the Chinese who held blank sheets of paper

aug 30, 2025, 6:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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Are they still there? Hoping so

aug 30, 2025, 5:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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Laura Dunaway @laura1256.bsky.social

Just stopped by - it’s still there!🌈❤️🙌🏼

aug 30, 2025, 6:47 pm • 2 0 • view
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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 @methu.bsky.social

Glad to hear it Laura

aug 30, 2025, 7:09 pm • 1 0 • view
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Laura Dunaway @laura1256.bsky.social

They were there yesterday. We had some rain overnight so we’ll see!

aug 30, 2025, 6:01 pm • 1 0 • view
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angelaisms.bsky.social @angelaisms.bsky.social

It literally washes off in the rain. The people enforcing this nonsense need to start introspecting hard.

aug 30, 2025, 5:17 pm • 1 0 • view
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Walter Mondale’s Ghost 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦🇮🇱☦️ @ghostofmondale.bsky.social

Should Saint Paul, MN join in?

aug 30, 2025, 5:21 pm • 2 0 • view
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

Absolutely

aug 30, 2025, 5:22 pm • 6 0 • view
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Eberhard Tarpenning @keikiokaaina.bsky.social

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aug 30, 2025, 5:16 pm • 9 0 • view
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ltlging.bsky.social @ltlging.bsky.social

What next? Double Dutch?

aug 30, 2025, 8:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social

There you go. With yellow and blue jump ropes.

aug 30, 2025, 9:21 pm • 2 0 • view
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bornagainvirgin.bsky.social @bornagainvirgin.bsky.social

How dangerous is chalk on the sidewalks?

aug 30, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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namaste201.bsky.social @namaste201.bsky.social

Depends on how long before the next rain and how short the hose is. In either case, you're talking a potential of several days of blatant rebellion. 😉

aug 30, 2025, 7:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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bornagainvirgin.bsky.social @bornagainvirgin.bsky.social

So stupid. Now they are upset about chalk? Really, I know they’ve killed journalists just want us gone. As far as they are concerned, we should just go with/the flow w/them. No way in hell. More chaulk! Ha!

sep 2, 2025, 7:48 pm • 1 0 • view
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Emergency Motown System @motown.bsky.social

Everyone knows Florida is the top shithole state. Even the Floridiots.

aug 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social

How is chalk defacing when it literally washes away? I mean, do they want to stop crime or do they want to criminalize something that literally doesn’t matter once you take a hose to it and spend all their manpower on that?

aug 30, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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namaste201.bsky.social @namaste201.bsky.social

did you think they were going to risk their necks fighting real crime? I mean, where are the gangs, the murderers,the rapists? I know, they see chalk in your pocket & think you're a leedle too excited to see them.😂

aug 30, 2025, 8:00 pm • 1 0 • view
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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social

😂 Those damn children and that demonic chalk spreading hopscotch! Whatever are law abiding citizens to do?!?

aug 30, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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namaste201.bsky.social @namaste201.bsky.social

You know what hopscotch leads to. BUTTERscotch! Melting down the sides of those pristine sidewalks into the drain, gumming up the inside surface of the storm drains, attracting bugs and drug addicts that then fight each other over a surface to lick. All bc of hopscotch and sidewalk chalk!!

aug 31, 2025, 12:45 am • 1 0 • view
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melusina @melusinagr.bsky.social

🤣

aug 31, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
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Betty J @betty1992.bsky.social

Thank the Lord Almighty we have a Pedophile in Chief protecting the COUNTRY from hopscotches!!!

aug 30, 2025, 5:45 pm • 4 1 • view
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pkrokken.bsky.social @pkrokken.bsky.social

Pop our tax dollars at work. Oh the evils of sidewalk chock!

aug 30, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lawyer dude @legalwombat.bsky.social

Precisely because no one is arresting folks for drawing hopscotch, one wonders whether there are selective prosecution and first amendment retaliation claims

aug 30, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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Geoff Casavant @geoffcasavant.bsky.social

Or, get spray chalk and use it to have fun. Then take the empty cans, go where the cops are, and play "I'm not touching you" with the sidewalk for a while. They have to watch just in case, but with empty cans it's not even an attempt.

aug 31, 2025, 1:27 pm • 0 0 • view
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Lorren 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @lorren13.bsky.social

Maybe like a Hindu Holi - Festival of Colors?

aug 31, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 0 • view
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Art Krikorian @akrikorian.bsky.social

First it's chalk, then a sandwich. I fear this will escalate to Jello.

aug 30, 2025, 6:31 pm • 6 0 • view
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lindsrn.bsky.social @lindsrn.bsky.social

Perhaps we can include some chalk with our weekend plans?

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aug 30, 2025, 5:43 pm • 7 2 • view
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RodeoNew @rodeonew.bsky.social

A few years ago Las Vegas Metro got a power washer to remove chalk from in front of their building, estimated it costs thousands of dollars worth of labor and equipment usage to operate, and charged the “vandals” I don’t recall if the prosecutors brought the case but I know it didn’t last long…

aug 30, 2025, 5:39 pm • 2 0 • view
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kely2025.bsky.social @kely2025.bsky.social

Reminder: there is such a thing as spray chalk. Faster, more efficient.

aug 30, 2025, 6:23 pm • 55 4 • view
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Pengrondor @pengrondor.bsky.social

Almost accidentally did a "crime" this morning but got playing with something else. Probably going to intentionally do a "crime" now 😜.

aug 30, 2025, 6:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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Ripley @majdefcon1.bsky.social

The guy is in a banana costume - a clear threat to public safety 🤡

aug 30, 2025, 5:25 pm • 1 0 • view
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social

aug 31, 2025, 2:44 pm • 16 1 • view
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Kristine Hoffman @tooskiduck.bsky.social

Their petty "laws" are making "criminals" of us all. It's time, way past time, to stand up and emulate MLK and Gandhi. Where and when are the next nationwide protests?

aug 31, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view
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UpDownLeftRight @newsky99.bsky.social

👑Kamala won👑 ❌Cheato cheated❌ 🚫He rigged the 2024 election🚫 Just like the rigging in TEXAS BECAUSE HES IN THE FILES EPSTEIN! RIGGING! NEW ELECTIONS NOW! ✅NO CITIZENS UNITED ✅A PAID HOLIDAY 🚩NEW ELECTIONS NOW! 🚩NEW ELECTIONS NOW! AMERICA WILL BE BACK. TERMINATE THE TERM!

aug 31, 2025, 12:33 am • 0 0 • view
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Flemming Erik Carlson @flemmingcarlson.bsky.social

👍

aug 31, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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bornagainvirgin.bsky.social @bornagainvirgin.bsky.social

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂nothing like waaaaaaaay overkill. Hilarious. Dastardly chalk. They are trying to pass a law now, no chalk. Yet we gave a 34 count felon pedo as president. Where’s the Epstein files????

aug 30, 2025, 7:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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Kassax @kassax.bsky.social

"What are you in for?" "TIC-TAC-TOE"

aug 30, 2025, 5:12 pm • 20 0 • view
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fairlynormalmimi.bsky.social @fairlynormalmimi.bsky.social

This country is out of order.

aug 30, 2025, 5:42 pm • 3 0 • view
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Levi Anthony Luckenbach @lluck002.bsky.social

@jollygoodginger.bsky.social

aug 30, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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Levi Anthony Luckenbach @lluck002.bsky.social

I predicted this

aug 30, 2025, 6:30 pm • 4 0 • view
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

I lived it, man.

aug 31, 2025, 2:33 pm • 5 0 • view
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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

www.instagram.com/reel/DNbV7G6...

aug 31, 2025, 2:36 pm • 2 0 • view
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Gvern @gvern.bsky.social

How stupid can you get

aug 30, 2025, 5:58 pm • 1 0 • view
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alohatsunami.bsky.social @alohatsunami.bsky.social

You forgot to mention the canine unit! 🐕 Ha! #ChalkCrime (the worst of the worst criminals in the U.S.)

aug 30, 2025, 5:29 pm • 3 1 • view
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lkotran.bsky.social @lkotran.bsky.social

My granddaughters’ elementary school had a Chalk the Walk day right before school opened. Great success. Time for a similar day in Washington, DC.

aug 30, 2025, 5:12 pm • 11 0 • view
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Julia @sdrose.bsky.social

Can you get that guy to make a Dog Shirt Daily appearance? He’s a terrific kindred spirit.

aug 30, 2025, 11:09 pm • 0 0 • view
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Eberhard Tarpenning @keikiokaaina.bsky.social

My first attempt.

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aug 30, 2025, 5:15 pm • 196 10 • view
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singmeadowlark129.bsky.social @singmeadowlark129.bsky.social

Nice!!!!

aug 30, 2025, 5:33 pm • 4 0 • view
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Chris @seamripper.bsky.social

Remember "someone did this". You don't want to implicate yourself in such a #sidewalkchalkcrime

aug 30, 2025, 6:34 pm • 1 0 • view
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Eberhard Tarpenning @keikiokaaina.bsky.social

Civil disobedience has consequences. Besides, it'll give me a chance to write my sidewalk chalk letter from a Birmingham jail.

aug 30, 2025, 6:50 pm • 2 1 • view
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Solomon Hinton @solomonhinton.bsky.social

It’s demented and it all must stop

aug 30, 2025, 5:10 pm • 3 0 • view
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Carrie Prystalski @carrie2.bsky.social

"errant chalk"

aug 31, 2025, 9:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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ElizaD 🐈🎈🔹️ @delizad.bsky.social

#chalkcrime please Ben! Super important to cover this beat. The chalk crimes or out of control on our city street! 😄

aug 30, 2025, 7:15 pm • 2 0 • view