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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

Shot (literally) / Chaser

Vance Flexes Marines’ Might as Mass Protests Against Trump’s Agenda Take Place

Vice President JD Vance delivered remarks at a Marine Corps celebration at Camp Pendleton on Saturday. Oliver Contreras/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Vice President JD Vance watched with pride on Saturday as Marines fired 155-millimeter artillery shells over a major freeway in Southern California, calling the demonstration a “testament to the corps’ strength and unbeatable power.”

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail
[www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u](http://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u)...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
[www.nytimes.com](http://www.nytimes.com)

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 1d

It’s a class war.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Compare yesterday's millions to this and how we couldn't escape breathless coverage of the Tea Partiers at their peak.

April 15, 2009 is said to have been the day that had the largest number of tea party demonstrations reportedly in more than 750 cities.[73] Estimates of protesters and locations varied. The Christian Science Monitor reported on the difficulties of calculating a cumulative turnout and said some estimates state that over half a million Americans participated in the protests, noting, "experts say the counting itself often becomes politicized as authorities, organizers, and attendees often come up with dramatically different counts."[74][75] Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, estimated that at least 268,000 attended in over 200 cities.[76] Statistician Nate Silver, manager of FiveThirtyEight.com, has said that a cumulative crowd size estimate from credible sources was of 311,460 attendees in 346 cities, which accounted for all capitols and major cities little noticeable or no reliable media coverage in other protests could have contributed to a lower number of attendees and locations.[77] The largest event, in Atlanta, drew between an estimated 7,000 to 15,000 protesters.[77][78][79] Some of the gatherings drew only dozens.[74]

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 1d

it’s honestly impossible for me to respect any Trump supporters.

if you are proud of this man leading our country, I cannot respect you on any level. the lack of class, intelligence, or taste is just stunning. pure trash

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 1d

They didn’t have time to walk the three blocks from the offices to the main gathering spot and also write something in time for the front page with only, like, a couple months notice.

Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

You can count The Minnesota Star Tribune among the Sunday newspapers that did not put protest news on the front page

hand holding front page up with articles about a brain injury caused by a scooter, a candidate for governor, a lake that has rebounded ecologically, and the federal shutdown ... there is a teaser about the No Kings protest

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 2d

Minneapolis No Kings sign that says When we all do better we all do better

My kid with a moth at the Minneapolis No Kings

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 2d

Agreed about the crowd control thing. Would have been chaos and easy for kettling everyone with all those barricades and corridors they had set up around the park.

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 2d

I thought it wasn’t great. Hard to hear what was being said and hard to tell how big the crowd was. The state capitol grounds is so much better.

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 3d

ICYMI

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 3d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 3d

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 3d

Drawing of a frog with the words Don’t Obey

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 5d

They called Trump Jr. a kid too as a recall when Sr was running the first time around. 🙄

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Der Waffle Mous, but Spooky. @derwafflemous.bsky.social · 6d

suddenly thinking of that bit at the beginning of Hitchhiker's Guide

“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. … What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 7d

Leni Riefenstahl would be so proud of these asshole kissers.

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 7d

Time magazine doing Nazi propaganda and using its language

This is very very specific language they only had one parallel and it’s originally in German.

TIME
HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER
ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS
by MUHAMMAD BIN ABDULKARIM AL-ISSA

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 9d

When I was small I was raised Catholic. I didn’t stay Catholic. I learned a lot. I never thought I would think of Catholics as liberal at all. They aren’t really, but in comparison, they are more so than others. I respect this and I hope they do more.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 9d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 12d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12d

I heard they screened SAVING PRIVATE RYAN at the White House and Trump cried over all those poor soldiers who sacrificed their lives defending Normandy Beach.

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 12d

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 14d

It's okay to insult and say descriptively mean things about terrible people who are not your gender. It doesn't make you sexist.

Sincerely,

A Lifelong Feminist

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 15d

Not just the part Aaron Rupar quoted here, but the whole video… this dude has clearly got no sense of time, his memories are confused, he’s mixing up events in time, doesn’t realize he is doing that…

Dementia in plain sight and no one with true visibility on the national media stage will say it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump: "Please remember I wrote Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, 'You gotta watch Osama bin Laden!' ... I gotta take a little credit."

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 15d

Years? Months.

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 17d

I think she honestly wasn’t listening to what she was asked and just answered what she assumed she was being asked. It’s her generic answer for generic question number 2.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 17d

Kristi Noem’s message to the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny for the halftime show:

“The NFL sucks and we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe…”

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Laurel @lapsan.com · 17d

When I was younger I used to believe that the wolves and sheep could find a way. I was wrong and I can admit that. Hopefully there are enough of us to make everyone else go along with it.

Based on what I’ve seen, and what people I know seem to think, I’m pretty sure there aren’t though.

kottke.org @kottke.org · Aug 20

Refusing to Choose Is a Choice. “You can say ‘all are welcome,’ but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you’re only going to get wolves.” [kottke.org]

Refusing to Choose Is a Choice

I recently found this quote on social media and quite liked the sentiment: You can say “all are welcome,” but if wolves and sheep are both welcome then you’re only going to get wolves. The smart sheep will go somewhere

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

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