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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Warren: The only movement these Republicans can manage is bowing down to Trump. When you ask them about today, they claim the No Kings Rally is anti-American. They’re wrong. Hundreds of thousands of people protesting peacefully for what they believe in—that is deeply American. That is patriotism.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 10h

Denver #NoKings

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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 14h

What a day for an enormous NYC march for the country we love. This is truly what democracy looks like — and there are #NoKings in the USA!

@indivisible.org @riseandresist.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11h

But the Trump regime assured us that they've been killing narco-terrorists! How could this be?!

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you. 🙏

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 15h

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

A bald eagle showed up to the York, Pennsylvania protest! You know it’s bad when even the country’s mascot hates Trump

Even the animals are saying No Kings today!

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 15h

We Have No Kings

Not now. Not ever.

www.notesfromthecircus.com

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 15h

In America, we are bound by a single audacious idea: that ordinary people coming together, can govern themselves. And we have no fucking kings!

Furthermore, the institutions of our great Republic were built not to enthrone men like Trump, Vance, Thiel, Musk, and their ilk—but to contain them!

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 1d

Meritocracy restored!

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: Per our scoop last night, Suzy Weiss, sister of Bari, did indeed appear on CBS this morning to talk about her recent article in The Free Press.

Second Free Press writer on CBS this week.

Read more on staff concerns on The Free Press's presence inside the newsroom:
zeteo.com/p/inside-bar...

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2d

History doesn’t whisper. It slaps.

We won’t recognize democratic collapse as it happens—we’ll rationalize it, normalize it, call it “sufferable.”

By the time we’re ready to act, the choice will already have been made through our accommodation.

History Will Not Wake You Gently

A meditation on Vlad Vexler's thoughts on Michael Ignatieff's essay

www.notesfromthecircus.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Be part of this, show up for #NoKings on Saturday — and join up with an organization afterwards — do what you can, it matters.

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 2d

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

The resistance reaches into Trump country

As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 2d

I am planning on going to No Kings gathering this weekend in central Texas. And since I was terminated by MSNBC a few weeks ago, can someone let me know where to pick up paycheck that GOP keeps talking about. I have asked many folks going to No Kings, and none are getting paid.

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2d

History doesn’t whisper. It slaps.

We won’t recognize democratic collapse as it happens—we’ll rationalize it, normalize it, call it “sufferable.”

By the time we’re ready to act, the choice will already have been made through our accommodation.

History Will Not Wake You Gently

A meditation on Vlad Vexler's thoughts on Michael Ignatieff's essay

www.notesfromthecircus.com

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2d

Serious question: does anyone know if John Bolton still thinks Kamala Harris would have been equally bad for the country as Trump?

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING:

Trump's former National Security Advisor John Bolton has been indicted by a federal grand jury.

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 2d

To apologize is weakness. To show cruelty is strength.

Nazis get rebranded as “kids doing stuff,” while apology and accountability are punished.

This is what happens when moral gravity reverses—and it’s how fascism hides in plain sight.

The Great Moral Inversion

When “I Love Hitler” Becomes Youthful Indiscretion and Apologies Become Extremism

www.notesfromthecircus.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, What’s Happening In America Today Should Scare You. But Don’t Be Paralyzed By Your Fear: I sat down with Mike Brock, my go to observer and moral truth sayer for these unprecedented political times in which we are living. And yes, there is plenty to be afraid of. There’s a fascist in the White…

Yes, What’s Happening In America Today Should Scare You. But Don’t Be Paralyzed By Your Fear

I sat down with Mike Brock, my go to observer and moral truth sayer for these unprecedented political times in which we are living. And yes, there is plenty to be afraid of. There’s a fascist in the White House and a long line of fascist capitulators bending the knee to him. But our fear must not paralyze us. That’s what all tyrants want. Our fear must motivate us to act. To resist.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3d

Fear is a great motivator. And you should be scared by what’s happening in America today. Very scared. But don’t be paralyzed by your fear. Use it to act. To resist. A conversation with @brockm.bsky.social. Have a listen.👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Yes, What’s Happening In America Today Should Scare You. But Don’t Be Paralyzed By Your Fear. A Conversation

Podcast Episode · The Social Contract with Joe Walsh · 10/15/2025 · 49m

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 3d

Check out our ads running in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and more than 185 local newspapers today.

We're encouraging Americans to stand up to Donald Trump and join their local, peaceful No Kings protests this Saturday. @gtconway.bsky.social

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 3d

Writers Blake Dodge and Katherine Dee worry that Heather Cox Richardson isn’t allowing for the possibility that Trump has good and defensible reasons for all the things he’s doing. I worry I’m reading intellectual frauds serving malign interests.

On Presuming the Tyrant's Virtue

The Ethics of Seeing What’s in Front of You

www.notesfromthecircus.com

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 4d

Peace is good. Amnesia is not.

Honest accounting means examining the totality, not cherry-picking the outcome.

On Praise and Moral Sufficiency

By all means, celebrate peace. But do so without historical amnesia.

www.notesfromthecircus.com

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🏰⚡ℌ𝔞𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔡 𝔄𝔟𝔟𝔢𝔶🦇👻 @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 4d

Marc Benioff who bought Time Magazine in 2018, used to be a Hillary Clinton Democrat. This year he went full MAGA and is now an avid supporter of Trump. A few days ago he called on Trump to send the National Guard into San Francisco.

Most of the US legacy media belongs to rich fascists now.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d

The man who now owns this magazine was interviewed by the NYT recently.

He “did not have a negative word to say about Trump or his policies. ‘I fully support the president. I think he’s doing a great job.”

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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 5d

Self-dealing.

Montana Skeptic @montanaskeptic.bsky.social · 5d

It's all one enterprise. Musk, Inc. As Tesla shareholders will discover as soon as Elon can get his hands on Tesla's cash to shovel into the xAI cash incinerator.

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 5d

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

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