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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 4h

47's authoritarian regime is very scared of mass organizing, peaceful protest. It is the number-one thing they’re concerned about. Because authoritarian regimes are not popular.

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‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray

Why GOP lawmakers are spreading fear about the upcoming rally.

www.thebulwark.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Gov. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social sounds the alarm about the Republican attack on the voting rights act

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 15h

Here's how they did the whistles, which include a pamphlet with code for "Alert: ICE in the area" (beep beep beep) and "ICE detaining an neighbor, please come form a crowd" (beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep) blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/15/h...

Hundreds Pack 'Whistlemania' Events To Fight ICE In Chicago: 'We Have To Stand Up For One Another'

Hundreds of neighbors joined Whistlemania events in seven neighborhoods to assemble whistle kits that alert when immigration agents are nearby.

blockclubchicago.org

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 1d

It is alarming that the Trump Admin & rogue ICE agents would abduct a 13-year-old child from Everett, transport him to a facility over 500 miles away & reportedly subject him to harrowing conditions.

They must stop violating our constitutional rights.

My full statement:

A graphic that reads:

“It is absolutely alarming that the Trump Administration and its rogue ICE agents would abduct a 13-year-old child, transport him to a facility over 500 miles away without his family, lawyer or a court knowing, and reportedly subject him to harrowing, inhumane conditions, including inadequate nutrition and sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum blanket while still healing from a broken foot.

“He is a 7th-grader who should have been met with compassion and care, not criminalized and sent to an adult prison.

“The Trump Administration must stop violating the constitutional rights of our constituents. I join the chorus of community voices demanding basic adherence to due process, preservation of this child’s constitutional rights, and his immediate return to his family.”

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of promising signs for sure. We must get louder. We must get bigger.

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50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 1d

Take a moment to read this. missouri5050.one/america-has-...

America Has No Kings | Why We Must Rise on October 18

Millions of Americans will take to the streets under the banner of No Kings, a nationwide, coordinated demonstration to assert: no one is above the law.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: Kansas Young Republicans were deactivated after a Politico investigation uncovered racist messages in a group chat among young GOP members.

Chair Alex Dwyer reportedly reacted to “Great. I love Hitler” with a smiley face and heart-reacted to a message about killing political opponents

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50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 1d

If you are attending No Kings Kansas City this weekend, please bring any warm clothes you no longer need to donate to our clothing drive! @dosomethingmo.bsky.social @indivisiblekc.bsky.social @kcwac.bsky.social #nokings #kansascity

No Kings Kansas City clothing drive flyer.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 1d

We must stand tall.

America Has No Kings | Why We Must Rise on October 18

Millions of Americans will take to the streets under the banner of No Kings, a nationwide, coordinated demonstration to assert: no one is above the law.

missouri5050.one

50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 1d

We must not allow these huge data centers.

Missouri Workers Center @moworkers.org · 1d

👀 You see the news? Hundreds of low-wage #MOworkers, public school parents, and our St. Louis neighbors are fighting back against the proposed water-guzzling, energy bill-hiking data center at the Armory — and our coalition is growing! 💪

50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 1d

Fear should not deter us.

50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 1d

On Saturday we must come together to stand against oppression and save our democracy. We must not let fear determine our future. We must rise up and make our voices heard. #protest #nokings #50501movement

America Has No Kings | Why We Must Rise on October 18

Millions of Americans will take to the streets under the banner of No Kings, a nationwide, coordinated demonstration to assert: no one is above the law.

missouri5050.one

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50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 1d

On Saturday we must come together to stand against oppression and save our democracy. We must not let fear determine our future. We must rise up and make our voices heard. #protest #nokings #50501movement

America Has No Kings | Why We Must Rise on October 18

Millions of Americans will take to the streets under the banner of No Kings, a nationwide, coordinated demonstration to assert: no one is above the law.

missouri5050.one

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50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 1d

We must resist. We must persist.

50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 1d

On Saturday we must come together to stand against oppression and save our democracy. We must not let fear determine our future. We must rise up and make our voices heard. #protest #nokings #50501movement

America Has No Kings | Why We Must Rise on October 18

Millions of Americans will take to the streets under the banner of No Kings, a nationwide, coordinated demonstration to assert: no one is above the law.

missouri5050.one

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50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 1d

Rise Together.

50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 1d

On Saturday we must come together to stand against oppression and save our democracy. We must not let fear determine our future. We must rise up and make our voices heard. #protest #nokings #50501movement

America Has No Kings | Why We Must Rise on October 18

Millions of Americans will take to the streets under the banner of No Kings, a nationwide, coordinated demonstration to assert: no one is above the law.

missouri5050.one

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50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 1d

On Saturday we must come together to stand against oppression and save our democracy. We must not let fear determine our future. We must rise up and make our voices heard. #protest #nokings #50501movement

America Has No Kings | Why We Must Rise on October 18

Millions of Americans will take to the streets under the banner of No Kings, a nationwide, coordinated demonstration to assert: no one is above the law.

missouri5050.one

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50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 2d

The end game, even if we get rid of Trump and MAGA, has to be bringing down the oligarchy, the 1%, and corporate control over everything. Otherwise, we end up right back where we are now.

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if all the people braying about the "war on Christianity" might raise some objections if it were a *Democratic* administration who had its armed thugs shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and waiting outside Catholic Churches to disappear parishioners?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

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50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 2d

Bring your chalk on Saturday! #kansascity #nokings #50501movement

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

WATCH: Do you have to move away from the United States in order to get a clear picture of the United States? @evanedinger.bsky.social covers the reasons he couldn’t move back to the U.S. from Europe now. Hint: #3 is about walkable cities & car dependency, but all are worth seriously thinking about.

How I View the US After 13 Years Living in Europe

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

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50501 Kansas City @50501kansascity.bsky.social · 2d

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