Jeff Cuscutis
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This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Speaking of "hate America," this guy and his GOP colleagues are smirking about rejecting the will of the American people. The Americans of Arizona's 7th district chose to send Grijalva to Congress but the GOP hates the majority of Americans and refuse to let them have any say in government.
KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
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Democracy in action, Illinois.

Proud of our state for peacefully showing up and speaking out together in one voice to fight back against Donald Trump’s takeover of our democracy.
View of the Anti-Trump ‘No Kings’ protest in Chicago.
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the grievances of the Right are 'legitimate' and exist because the Left 'goes too far.' The grievances of the Left(s) are illegitimate because they are disfavored groups who should be grateful to get to live in this country.
I am remembering how the Tea Party protests in the Obama administration (2009-2010) were covered and thinking about how that coverage compares to the No Kings protests. #contentiousky
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Remember, the Speaker has absolute control over every piece of legislation in the House, so he can always negotiate anything. EXCEPT a Discharge Petition. Grijalva will sign the DC, and force the Epstein files bill to the floor. As another Skeeter pointed out, this is the Epstein Shutdown.
KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
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What a perfect formulation:

“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
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And here are a few more, from "Big crowds protest Trump across U.S." in the Washington Post to "REIGN CHECK" in the Chicago Sun-Times
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The Times of Northwest Indiana pushes back on House Speaker Mike Johnson's rhetoric:
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In Lewiston, Idaho, the Lewiston Tribune emphasizes the patriotic nature of the protests:
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Here's a much more locally oriented front page: Greenwich Time features reporting from across Connecticut
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Many of Lee Enterprises' papers have the same mass-produced AP recap of the protests:
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In Missoula, Montana, the Missoulian features a sweeping aerial shot of the rally:
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In Laredo, Texas, the front page headline uses a quote from a protester: "Standing up for the country"
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In Fairbanks, Alaska, the News-Miner reports: "Over 2,000 Fairbanksans rally at 'No Kings'" newsminer.com/news/local_n...
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I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:
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Folks who are rightfully frustrated at the indefensible NYT coverage, please do note: in terms of actually reaching people, this is way more important
I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:
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I'm so fascinated by ppl who get angry at the framing of a mass public demonstration as performance, performing your numbers and outrage is the literal point of a protest
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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Whenever anyone does any pro-liberty deed & markets, advertises or broadcasts it - from protests to the Gaza flotillas - you always get "they just want attention".

CORRECT. And they're also DOING something. Literally the entire history of fighting oppression involved getting attention.
I'm so fascinated by ppl who get angry at the framing of a mass public demonstration as performance, performing your numbers and outrage is the literal point of a protest
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970

The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside

Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23

They constantly let America down
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Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
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The event organizers say 7m people showed up. That would mean ~1 out of every 50 Americans came out to protest the president
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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A LAPD police officer reportedly ran over a protester who refused to move aside during the “No Kings” protest in Los Angeles.
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From Wikipedia

“Her paternal grandfather's family is of Dutch Jewish descent and her paternal grandmother's family were from Germany.” “Her grandmother's family moved to England to escape political persecution”

So how far back does “culturally coherent” go with Tory MPs?
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
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It's incredible just how on the ball trans people were about those US think tanks influencing British politics, going to great length to detail all these links and connections, only for it to fall on deaf ears because of how aggressively trans people were frozen out and disenfranchised.
bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!