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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 7h

No Kings in Madison, Wisconsin:

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 2h

I am telling you EVERYONE in Alabama is texting about the 3 cops in Fairhope tackling the woman in the enormous inflatable dick costume. EVERYONE.

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rds-level-10.bsky.social @rds-level-10.bsky.social · 2h

UN diplomat calls Trump “Stark, raving mad” in an X post

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 4h

lol “No Kings” is such brilliant branding because Trump’s people are such inveterate reactionary shitposters that their only reaction is, can possibly be, “oh him being a king triggers you? Then yeah he’s a king, he should be the king forever.”

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ceej @ceej.online · Mar 15

TECH EXEC IN 2005: We believe the world is a better place when people are able to communicate online
THAT SAME TECH EXEC IN 2025: The greatest existential threat to humanity is the ability for women to talk back to me

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2h

"Oh you don't like me? Well what if I were King Fighter Pilot and I had a super awesome fighter plane and went yyyyoooom zoooom and flew over your protest and dumped poopoo and kaka all over you hahahaha who's stupid now checkmate and what if my plane had a force field so you couldn't even shoot it"

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2h

He is such a blithering, thoughtless, stupendous embarrassment and I WISH it were funny but it's somehow pathetic and dangerous in equal measure.

It's also just...that anyone at all can support this guy at this point is embarrassing too, we are all a goddamn embarrassment lmao jesus christ

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2h

A US president, furious about protests essentially clarifying everyone thinks he sucks and responding to it with AI videos of him in a crown flying a fighter jet dumping shit onto American citizens & Nancy Pelosi kneeling to him as a king? Fuck dog, not even satirical Cyberpunk scifi predicted this

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4h

The latest AP-NORC poll had Trump at 37% approval, but, sure, lean into Trump-is-King. Good idea.

MAGA really doesn't know how to think about anything except to take the opposite position of their enemies, real or perceived.

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 5h

Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.

Jd Vance posted an AI video of trump as a king. Complete with crowned and sword. They fucking love their kings..

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 2h

I suspect the memerotted edgelords in the US government seriously overestimate how Online the average American is. I don’t think most USians will find it amusing

Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 3h

You live in a world where the president of the United States of America posted a video of himself as a king who is literally shitting on Americans.

I just want us all to process that for a minute.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 3h

sometimes after they tuck the president in at night he secretly stays up past his bedtime posting a hundred AI slop videos from the same account he uses to issue official policy statements. it rocks.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 3h

I know he won the popular vote this time but I genuinely don’t think he has a large enough base to get away with posting a video of himself shitting on American cities and people.

For a dude who supposedly studies dictators he’s skipping over the part where he controls people using fake love.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2h

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 8h

LET US LIVE 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4h

your analysis of this political moment is going to fail if you keep using reductionist labels like "wine mom". first of all, there are dozens of factions just within that one term, from whiskey women to chardonnay chicas, and understanding their unique informal coalitions can take decades of study

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 3h

Rallies like this bring together multigenerational groups and the playfulness can help create enthusasim for big tent politics against the monoculture of fascism.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 3h

When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 3h

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 3h

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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Molly White @molly.wiki · 2h

cops tackling and marching off with a giant penis, Kristi Noem menacing a chicken she swears is antifa, feds pepper-spraying a frog

ridicule is an extremely effective protest tactic and foil for authoritarianism

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4h

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 2h

People disgusted over how the POTUS posted a video of himself as a fighter jet pilot literally shit-bombing Americans are conveniently forgetting how Obama once wore a tailored brown suit so, you know, BOTH SIDES, people, and--oh, hold on, getting a major job offer from the New York Times, here.

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 8h

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12h

Amazing sign being held by a small child

Child-drawn sign reading DONT MAKE me GO to LAW SCHOOL

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AITA Hoffmann @jrbolt.bsky.social · 6h

Normie protests are good. Mobilize the normies. Radicalize the normies

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 6h

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

19thnews @19thnews.org · 6h

Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.

Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country

On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 4h

The Democrats keep doing a tiny bit of progressive stuff, losing, then going WELL CLEARLY IT WAS THE PROGRESSIVE STUFF and the reality is obviously people want waaaaaaay more progressive shit but Dems are incapable of figuring it the fuck out.

Schumer and Jeffries with words

SUPPORTS EDUCATION

CAN'T READ THE ROOM

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