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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Supes at #NoKings Manhattan!

Cosplayer Superman beams while holding up a sign reading Fighting Fascism is the Real Punk Rock

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 10h

Cancel my calls, if you need me, I’ll be gibbering in the corner.

They really should #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles @shrubber.bsky.social · 12h

@tkingfisher.com Stephen King says some nice words about your wonderful book. Just thought you'd like to know.

Posted by Stephen King: THE TWISTED ONES, by T. Kingfisher: It lures you in with chatty good humor (especially about NPR Pledge Week) and a lovely dog...then slams the door and bites you in the dark.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10h

The media’s overriding concern is not being accused of bias by the right, which means all coverage is framed around granting the right the maximum benefit of the doubt, however implausible. Such that sewage becomes “a brown liquid” until other possibilities are ruled out. Maybe it’s cake batter!

Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 10h

I get that there are times when disputes over news coverage are a matter of emphasis or perspective on big, sprawling events, but it feels bad for public trust in a publication when it fails to accurately describe a video that’s 20 seconds long, and that everyone can see.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 12h

Steve Bannon: “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”

Media: "We cannot with certainty identify this mysterious brown substance."

Trump trolls ‘No Kings’ protests with obscene AI video and mulls invoking Insurrection Act: Live updates
Trump posts AI video showing him dumping brown liquid on to demonstrators after nearly 7 million took part in nationwide protests against him

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/no-kings-protest-trump-today-live-updates-b2847817.html

Trump posts a fake video of himself flying a ‘King Trump’ jet over protesters.
President Trump has posted a fake video on social media that showed him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/trump-fake-video-no-kings.html?smid=url-share

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11h

The premise here appears to be “He can’t be a king as long as I can think of additional abuses of power he hasn’t yet committed,” which is not how this works.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mike Johnson: "We congratulate them on an apparently violent-free speech exercise ... but if President Trump was a king, the government would be open right now ... by the way, the Mall was open because President Trump hasn't closed it."

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🎃Boo-rendan Agnew🏳️‍🌈 @blcagnew.bsky.social · 15h

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 29d

got into it one time with a swerf when I was new to this work- she called me a "self rape" victim and that if it wasn't for capitalism I wouldn't do this job.

I told her I needed $70 to keep my lights on and food in my fridge. if she could help me raise $70 I could stop making porn for the month.

she told me that wasn't the point and then blocked me.
You know who helped? Full-service girls who had seen the exchange.

Sex workers are better comrades than 99% of people and I will happily die on that hill.

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Big Demon Energy @mayawest.online · 25d

say the line Bart meme-

Quote:
Instead, they arrested 111 sex workers, none of whom was underage and none of which led to a human trafficking arrest.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 10h

We just live in a john carpenter movie now.

A warning over a highway near Interstate 5 in Los Angeles that reads “live weapons over freeway”

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 15h

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 19h

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

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Xiran Jay Zhao @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social · 9h

Idc, "4 people disguised as construction workers heisted the Napoleon family jewels from the Louvre in 7 minutes by rolling up to the second-storey window on a basket lift" is an objectively hilarious event

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

We're calling him Diarrhea Don. He's owning the libs so hard with this, it's brilliant. Everyone talking about the president's uncontrollable bowels, how manly and cool his uncontrollably explosive shits are.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 9h

The military has apologized for damaging the vehicle, saying they confused it with a Colombian fishing boat

John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 11h

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...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18h

It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 1d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

We always get these huge Trump announcements with much media hype and fanfare with lots of big promises and assurances, effusively praising himself looking for awards & prizes, while experts say the details are scarce or nonexistent. Then a short time later we get the reality.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 18h

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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Kaoru Negisa @moonpanther22.bsky.social · 16h

Love to see how something as simple as stealing his shades turns this arrogant asshole into a crying baby. And then he made himself bleed. I feel like Skateboard Kid was baiting him to see how many times he would fall down.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 21h

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

You really cannot comprehend how obsessed this administration is with social media, and really just Twitter, and how much all of its decisions are about landing massive Twitter dunks for a cheering crowd of 30-40k hardcore Nazis

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

(Incorrectly)

WHITE HOUSE
The White House *
@WhiteHouse
We're built different.
Have a good night, everyone.
(Img of Trump & Vance as kings with Jeffries and Schumer wearing sombreros)
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Kaoru Negisa @moonpanther22.bsky.social · 16h

They used angle grinders to break the windows? Or cut through the windows? Because if it's the former, they could have just used a rock. "I need more details of this museum heist," is what I'm saying.

Reuters @reuters.com · 21h

Thieves steal jewels from Louvre in Paris, media reports reut.rs/43u2cX1

Thieves steal jewels from Louvre in Paris, media reports

A robbery has taken place at the Louvre museum in Paris early on Sunday, French Culture Minister Rachida Dati said, with the newspaper Le Parisien reporting several thieves have stolen pieces of jewellery from the Napoleon collection.

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 1d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 17h

Folks who are rightfully frustrated at the indefensible NYT coverage, please do note: in terms of actually reaching people, this is way more important

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 17h

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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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 17h

"you gonna bring together the marxists, the socialists, the antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-hamas wing"

mike johnson threatening me with the end of leftist infighting lol

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17h

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.

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 18h

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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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 17h

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.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

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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