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Former Minnesota Vikings punter, Chris Kluwe, who was blacklisted from the league for standing up for marriage equality, speaks at a city council meeting where he calls Trump a Nazi. He is subsequently arrested and carried out by police.

tikkunolamorgtfo

I just want to clarify a few things, because I have a feeling some people may share this without watching the video in full and/or getting further details from related news articles:

Kluwe was there to specifically protest the installation of a [massively cringe] pro-Trump plaque. Per ABC News: "Kluwe, a Huntington Beach resident, was protesting the council's decision to place a plaque commemorating the public library's anniversary. The plaque included the words "Magical Alluring Galvanizing Adventurous," an apparent nod to President Donald Trump's Make America Great Again slogan."

Kluwe was not just arbitrarily hauled off by cops for speaking out against Trump. If you watch the video until the end, you'll hear him announce his intentions to engage in the "time-honoured American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience." From there, he defiantly approaches the stage where the seven [aforementioned cringe, right-wing lunatic] Huntington Beach City Council members are all sitting, knowing full well that he is about to be arrested and charged with disrupting an assembly.

Thanks to this deliberate act of protest, some of Trump's 24/7 news blitz will now be interrupted by images of a former NFL player being carted away by a gaggle of dour looking cops:

(this is a good thing, if that's not clear; I feel like too many people have forgotten about the tactical use of arrests by activists, especially during the Civil Rights era, to highlight injustice or disrupt a media narrative)

Anyway, kudos to Mr Kluwe for this, I hope more public figures will follow suit.

vaspider

He did not know he would be arrested for "disrupting an assembly," because the cops didn't know why they were arresting him. He figured he would be hauled out, but he said the cops "threw him in a cell while they figured out what to charge him with."

That is a fact that any good lawyer will look at and cackle wildly, because of the words "pretextual arrest." (Basically, if you don't know what you're charging someone with, if you don't CLEARLY KNOW what law they're breaking, you can't -- or aren't supposed to be able to, anyway -- just "arrest someone and figure out what they did wrong later.")

So that's genuinely delightful to me.

(My wife laughed SO HARD when I read an article about this to her last night. Kluwe is well-loved. He's just Like This, and this sort of Like This goes over well with a lot of Minnesotans.)

reachperfection

it's literally the mid 2020s

#i still can’t think of the 2010s as a decade #like….what was it?

batboyblog

In a country where the only real options are “Democrats” or “Nazis who will hurt everyone” the only moral thing to do is not only to vote for the Democrats but also do whatever you can to talk other people into voting for them too

When offered two dishes one of which is poison you don’t complain that the one that’s not poison is overcooked

recall-all-republicans

I'm not sure why this is so hard for so many people to understand.

#getting real tired of third party talks only happening during elections #until a viable third party actually works to gain traction in between elections #then all we have is the 2 parties #we can pick apart the dems through primaries #not when we’re facing an election between someone competent and an actual fascist

It's my 15 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

bro what in the fuck

#15 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone

eggsaladstain

this is truly the funniest timeline

i don’t even know if anyone here still remembers following me on here but i just wanna say that i never left; i was always popping in to see who was still active and to see random gifsets if i was ever feeling nostalgic

but yes i’m crashing out a bit about the tiktok ban not bc i was a creator or bc it was some app I couldn’t put down, it’s bc i’m worried about what’s gonna happen next; tiktok could be the best case scenario and look at how much unrest it’s causing

anyway, i don’t expect to post things here daily but it was just nice to see some of us commiserating about the whole thing

i’ll be on bluesky if anyone wants to give me a follow, same handle as this one

queer-as-city-folk

Hope for the democratic party?

assiraphales

“tik tok is brainrot I’m glad it’s getting deleted” YOU are ignoring an early warning sign of fascism bc silly dances and asmr annoys u. tik tok ban is a part of a MUCH bigger bill that indicates any foreign app, if deemed a threat, can be banned if the owner does not sell it. aka the government is mad bc they cannot censor & their capitalist puppet masters are mad they aren’t making money from it. and if ur ok w that……hm