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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 10h

my sources in DC are telling me that trump has obviously diminished capacity and the people around him are taking advantage of him

Super Bowl Champion Basketball Fan, NEVER of the Sixers @drewhamm5.bsky.social · 10h

I’m hearing trump has obviously diminished capacity and the people around him are taking advantage of him. Is there any truth to this?

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 15h

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 18h

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 13h

7 million. That’s like 2% of the population. One out of every 50 Americans was physically protesting today. Amazing.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h

New reporting reveals over 7,000,000 Americans participated in today’s No Kings Day rally.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 13h

~1,000 at No Kings in Menomonie WI, population 15,000 and change. Reddish county, purple state.

A moderate crowd in a small town park view through a plastic window in an inflatable costume.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15h

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 17h

I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.

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SmilingMooseMainah🎃 @smilingmoosemainah.bsky.social · 17h

I haven't heard official numbers but I would guess 1500+ in Bangor, ME. #resist #NoKings

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20h

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 18h

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21h

Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?

lol. lmao.

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Caroline Losneck @carolinelosneck.bsky.social · 18h

The most Maine sign seen, Portland Maine

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 19h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18h

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 20h

Was at a #NoKings event in Freeport Maine this morning — there are protests there with some frequency but the turnout today was much, much more than anything I've seen there before.

Great turnout demographically too. Smalltown ME protests tend to be mostly retirees but this was *everybody.*

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

precisely.

Lee Foltin @leefoltin.bsky.social · 1d

These accounts need us WAY more than we need them.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

i know the desire to fight with these sick freaks is strong but resist the urge and just block. it’s better for your brain.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

block this shit

Verified Account Tracker @verified.pds.mmatt.net · 1d

✅ @homelandgov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.

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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 2d

"I'm a huge supporter in the gay community out here."

I know there's no way to fact check the whole story but I wish Wired had fact checked this claim. I bet you could contact every lgbtq org within a 200 mile radius and not a single one of them will have even heard of this guy.

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Bikes are good 🩷💜💙 @bikesarecool.bsky.social · 3d

This whole movie slaps

Tiernan Blanched Bone Shards @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 3d

But WHY is one of the best pirate songs ever written from The Muppets Treasure Island?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RisL...

Muppet Treasure Island: Shiver My Timbers

YouTube video by WeirdlyLoveable

www.youtube.com

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 3d

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 3d

No Kings Boise had a bigger crowd than his military parade, but you gotta remember he gets his intel from Tulsi Gabbard.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump on No Kings: "They have their day coming up. I hear very few people are gonna be there, by the way. But they have their day coming up and they want to have their day in the sun."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing.

And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power.

When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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