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No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 47m

"Donald was incompetent, but others in Donald's administration were anything but. With the help of some luck, complicit institutions, an unprepared media, and a party of willing converts, that machine largely succeeded." - Mary L. Trump

📷 New York, NY

#endfascism #uspolitics #naziism #politics

No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 3h

"In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival."
— Noam Chomsky

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#nokings
#nocrowns
#nokingsday

No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 6h

"Fascism gains momentum as an organizing force for shaping a culture that legitimates indiscriminate violence against entire groups — Black people, immigrants, Jews, Muslims, and others considered “disposable.”" - Henry Giroux

📷 New York, NY

#protectimmigrants #abolishice #immigrantrights

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No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 8h

"In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot."
— Czesław Miłosz

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#abolishice #fuckice #iceoutofportland #iceoutofla #iceoutofchicago

No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 10h

"Racism may wear a new dress, buy a new pair of boots, but neither it nor its succubus twin fascism is new or can make anything new." - Toni Morrison

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Free Speech While We Still Have It

#donaldtrump #stephenmiller

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No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 21h

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."
— Abbie Hoffman

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#stephenmiller#democracy #freedomofspeech #firstamendment #america

No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 22h

"All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force." — George Orwell

📷 Pittsburgh, PA

#nokings #nokingsday #fucktrump #october18th #nokingsinamerica

No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 1d

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
— Thomas Jefferson

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#nokings #nokingsday #october18 #nokingsinamerica #october18th

No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 1d

"Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." — Lincoln

📷 NY

No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 1d

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." — Thomas Jefferson

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#nokings #nokingsprotest #nokingsnyc #nokingsday #nokings2025 #nokingsinamerica #nokingsoctober18th #authoritarianism

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No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 1d

"With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public." - Wallace

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Free Speech While We Still Have It

#kingdonald #nokingsday #protests #uspolitics #peacefulprotest #october18th #nocrowns

No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 1d

"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure."
— Albert Einstein

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#nokings #nokingsday #october18 #nocrowns

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No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 1d

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." — Abbie Hoffman

📷 New York, NY

#nokings #nokingsday #october18 #fuckmaga #donaldtrump

No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 1d

"Fascism is a false revolution. Its leaders are not guilty of confusion but of deception. That they work hard to mislead the public does not mean they themselves are misled." ~Parenti

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Proceeds go to supporting Anti-Maga Candidates

#fuckfascists #nokingsday #nokings

No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 1d

"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure." — Albert Einstein

📷 Brooklyn, NY

#nokings #nokingsnyc #nokingsprotest #kingdonald

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No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 1d

"Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy." — Timothy Snyder

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Proceeds go to Anti-Maga Candidates

#kingdonaldthethief #kingdonald #nokings #nokingsday #nokingsprotest #october18th

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No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 1d

"Today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors."
— Aldous Huxley

📷 Brooklyn, NY

#democracy #trump #america #usa

No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 2d

"Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it."
— Howard Zinn

📷 Washington, DC

#resist
#protest
#revolt
#rebel

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No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 2d

"Every election is determined by the people who show up."
— Larry J. Sabato

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All proceeds go to electing Democratic Socialists.

#votezohran #zohranmamdani #zohranformayor #zohranfornyc

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No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 2d

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself." - FDR

📷 Pittsburgh, PA

#nokings #nokingsday #nokingsprotest #october18 #trumpregime

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No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 2d

"It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do."
— E.A. Bucchianeri

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Proceeds go to the Immigration Advocates Network

#abolishice #iceoutofportland #portland

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No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings in America

All proceeds go to the ACLU.

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#nokings
#nokingsday
#october18th
#nokingsinamerica
#kingdonald
#kingdonaldthethief

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No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 2d

"The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Asimov

📷 Washington, DC

#trumpistrash #dumptrump #trumpadministration

No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 2d

"It is the obligation of those privileged to have food and safety and freedom and healthcare and equality to fight tirelessly for those who do not." - Knost

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#freeluigi #universalhealthcare #medicareforall #america

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No Kings No Crowns @nokingsnocrowns.bsky.social · 3d

"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
— Alan Moore

📷 Washington, DC

#fucktrump #donaldtrump #fuckmaga

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