The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

April 08, 2026 - 01:29 UTC

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Fuck these religious bigots. All they offer is misery.
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Love this!
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🌈👍🌞🤩💜
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@nonviolencenews.bsky.social I’m sure you’ve heard about this one? 💓
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thanks
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I love this!
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What right does a state government have to tell one of its cities that they can't fly a flag? Who was the disgustingly conservative judge who ruled over that court battle who let their personal hatred of trans people override their small-government conservatism?
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Welcome to Fremantle. W Australia
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Whatever you may think about the canary in the coal mine, you REALLY want to keep it alive.
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#Boise is a blue city and has been for at least 23 years.
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Boise!
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I'm so happy that my state finally has a good news story associated with it. We were on quite the losing streak.
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❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙💜
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Now that’s action I can get behind. Well played.
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Enough with flags, all flags.
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They look beautiful.
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the 1984 line about the boot stomping on human face forever contains the seeds of the same hope; the boot is trapped: it cannot ever quit stomping.

tyranny requires constant effort. forever.

and nothing lasts forever.
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That had never occurred to me. Thank you 🙏🏼 👍💪
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Cheers to Boise for bringing back the rainbow.
Shame on Idaho. I think there may be a civil rights violation here or freedom of speech or freedom of expression
Not sure...where's a lawyer when we need one?
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What a pos website the Idaho Statesman is.

I turn off my ad blocker to read the article and it’s obliterated with pop ups.
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@zanerocks40.bsky.social
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The article references an issue at Ada schools where a teacher was asked to take down a sign that read “Everyone is Welcome Here.” That’s only a political message to you if your politics are centered in hate. To the rest of us, that’s basic human decency.
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Along with the new Pride-themed flagpoles at City Hall, the downtown merchants have these banners up on light poles right now. I love the dancing Keith-Haring-But-Rounder figures.
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❤️✊🏻
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LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT!
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Dallas ~could ~ find a way
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I have friends everywhere.
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"Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of our rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward"
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C.Thomas’
“theory” for over-
turning Roe v Wade
—the ‘73 7–2 decision
made by 5 GOP+2 Dem
judges—would ban gay+
his own mixed race marriage

To beat ID/USA GOP—
DNC only need offer voters a
far fairer econ/equality deal—
as did FDR+HST 1933-53
idahocapitalsun.com/briefs/idaho-house-approves-request-to-us-supreme-court-to-overturn-ruling-that-legalized-gay-marriage/
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Well played Boise!
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Nice for Boise against those ghouls running Idaho! Fine words from Andor! Keep on making that tyranny leak! Put up rainbows all over! Take pride in this!
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F*cking fantastic.
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🌈🏳️‍🌈❤️
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That is awesome. Yyyyayyy for Boise.
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Leia’s version, “The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers"
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If I'm not mistaken, @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social has already claimed "Malicious Compliance" as the name of his new boys band, amirite?
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Dallas needs to do this, too.
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My husband and I escaped the US for a two-day trip to Vancouver, BC during the 2025 inauguration. We stayed in the Davie gayborhood, and I noticed how the pride stuff was built into infrastructure. Storefront steps, awnings, tile walls. I noted that it was *integrated* and couldn't be "taken down".
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Wow. Way to go, Boise!
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Hey, Texas
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Fuck Andor
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Malicious compliance is my favorite flavor. 🏳️‍🌈🌈✊🏼
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Karis Nemik's Manifesto is my new modus operandi.

"these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the seige.

Remember this: Try."
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The resistance can be like flowing water. If you put up boulders it will find its way around them.
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I've been mentally writing off the whole state of Idaho as a lost cause, but seeing Boise resist like this is heartening. It goes to show that even the "reddest" states are more purple than one might think.
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The population of Idaho is 2 million, Boise which is very young and very liberal is almost 500k. That's 25% of the entire state - and Boise is absolutely booming with young people moving there.

I'm not sure if Idaho is going to stay red.
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Why else do you think you right likes gerrymandering so much?

They don't care what most Americans actually want.
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Deliberately. I’m going to see if i can track down a map of the USA coloured by popular vote proportion.

It’s purple. The whole map. Florida a redder purple than Cali, but it’s all purple
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Lots of folk have been moving to Idaho bc it's cheaper. Most of those folk are RW fleeing from the West Coast, certainly the well off ones are, but a lot are also hippies & young folk, esp changing demographics in the urban areas. State gov can't stop them from coming so tyranny is fragile.
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I'll never forget that it was at a pride event in Coeur d'Alene where the neo-Nazi hate group Patriot Front got arrested out of u-hauls for planning to start a riot.
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There are more Republican voters in California than Texas or Florida, and more Democrats in Texas and Florida than New York.
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We are. I moved here from NYC and did not have to look hard or even try to find people who share my beliefs.
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You’d be surprised. It was the Mormon part of Idaho that prevented right-wing extremists from taking over the top levels of state government a few years ago.
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Please never give up any region because the minorities hold no power. In fact, we need your support more than majority blue regions do and it’s HARD being a leftist in this state. We get knocked around by all sides. I’m glad you realized that it’s not a place to write off completely.
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Always remember that the entire system is designed to manufacture consent and obfuscate dissent. It's easy to think these ideas are popular when the people behind them are also stopping you from hearing or seeing how unpopular they truly are. Everywhere.
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As a blue dot in one of the reddest towns in idaho we are consistently 30-40% blue across the state. We expanded Medicaid and education funding by ballot initiative. We stopped bad immigration and education bills this session. Yeah we’re a mess, but we don’t give up the fight.
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It has been /so/ much fun mocking people for throwing fits about the pretty poles. So much fun.
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Reykjavik Iceland
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I’m not sure I like the phrase “malicious compliance”, bc what is being done here is not “malicious”

it is “confrontational” compliance
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This really brightened my day. Southern Idaho is said be more like "Northern Utah", being Mormon-dominated. It's really nice to see Boise standing up.
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The far Right spends far too much of its time outraged over trivia. Their efforts to destroy the trivia tend to be easily foiled.
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Delicious compliance.
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The party of "small government" that staunchly "opposes censorship", folks.

Bullshit in it's purest form.

Good on the city of Boise.
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I love this!!!!! This is the REAL America!!🇺🇸
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❤️❤️❤️
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Good job 🤣
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When they go low, we push their heads into street sludge and climb over them toward freedom! 🌈
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Works for me.
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My favorite version: “when they go low, kick their fucking teeth in”
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When they go low, we build higher—and leave them stuck in the mess they made. 🌈🔥
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It's not rainbow. It's the trans colors, the colors of misogyny.
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Oh shut up... misogynists are in the white house & they also hate these colors
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awesome!!! 🏳️‍🌈
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youtu.be/wQd4JdFP0d0
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Go Boise! Love the creativity.
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That line / speech voice over at the end was so good
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Rainbow sidewalks have replaced the banned rainbow crosswalks in San Antonio
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My mother's family is from Idaho; my uncle was a legislator for years. He drove a logging truck in N Idaho; very little tolerance for BS

Someone once told him schools were teaching kids to be gay

His reply: "Bullshit. If they are we should look into it as they are not doing a very good job of it"
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My veteran dad would kick the living shit out of Ted Hill. That guy is a real asshat.
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As someone who grew up in Boise, I am proud of them.
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