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The official account for the 50501 Movement in South Dakota. An all-volunteer grassroots movement. 50 Protests | 50 States | 1 Movement 50501 South Dakota links: https://linktr.ee/50501sd Donate: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/southdakota50501

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50501 South Dakota @50501southdakota.bsky.social · 17d

10.18.2025
We Say No Kings

City Hall- Rapid City
300 6th St, Rapid City
12pm-1:30pm

Pierre Post Office
Corner of Sioux Ave & S Pierre St, Pierre
12:30-2:00pm

Federal Courthouse
Downtown Sioux Falls
400 S Phillips Ave, Sioux Falls
4-6pm

www.nokings.org

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50501 South Dakota @50501southdakota.bsky.social · 14h

This is on our list

50501 South Dakota @50501southdakota.bsky.social · 14h

Sidewalk, it is not a march.

50501 South Dakota @50501southdakota.bsky.social · 18h

#nokings #October18 #southdakota #hifromsd #RapidCity #PierreSD #HuronSD #SiouxFalls #MitchellSD #SpearfishSD #WatertownSD #BrookingsSD #VermillionSD #AberdeenSD #SturgisSD

No Kings ● South Dakota ● October 18

- Pierre: Pierre Post Office, Sioux Ave & S Pierre St, 12:30-2pm CT
- Rapid City: City Hall, 300 6th St, 12-1:15pm MT
- Sioux Falls: Federal Courthouse, 400 S Phillips Ave, 4-6pm CT
- Huron: Huron Post Office, 410 Dakota Ave S, 1-2:30 CT
- Mitchell: SD-37 & E Spruce St, 10-12pm CT
- Spearfish: N Main St & W Jackson St, 11:30-1pm MT
- Watertown: US-81 & E Kemp Ave, 10-12pm CT
- Brookings: Hillcrest Park, 1520 6th St, 2-4pm CT
- Vermillion: Ratingen Platz, 5 S Market St, 4-6pm CT
- Aberdeen: Anderson Park, 7th Ave SE, 11am CT
- Sturgis: 2nd St & Lazelle St, 2:30-4pm MT

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50501 South Dakota @50501southdakota.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Support Indigenous artists and businesses. Stand with our Native communities.

Yellow background with text.

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day
October 13, 2025

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50501 South Dakota @50501southdakota.bsky.social · 4d

Ok folks, time to get that chalk back out and CHALK THE WALK!

10/18 EVERYWHERE!
www.nokings.org/#map

#ChalkTheWalk #NoKings #October18

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY: Make your voices heard. Join us in a peaceful protest across our country against the most corrupt, deceitful & criminal Administration in U.S. History. We say NO KINGS, NO CROOKS, NO SPRAY-TAN CONMAN! 👎

Check for a location near you at: www.nokings.org

#BeThere 👍

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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50501 South Dakota @50501southdakota.bsky.social · 5d

50501 South Dakota is an all-volunteer, people powered movement! We need you!

Linktr.ee/50501sd

#50501southdakota #50501movement #volunteer #peoplesmovement #SiouxFalls #RapidCity #Pierre #SouthDakota #showup

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50501 South Dakota @50501southdakota.bsky.social · 5d

Want to learn more about de-escalation and how to keep yourself & others safe during protests? Join this safety webinar!

⚠️ De-Escalation + Protest Safety
📅 Friday, October 10
⏰ 7 PM MT | 8 PM CT
🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hosted by Voices of Florida Fund
De-Escalation and Protest Safety
Friday, October 19
6 PM Pacific, 9 PM Easter
voicesoffloridafund.org
@voffund

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50501 South Dakota @50501southdakota.bsky.social · 5d

Do protests work?

50501 South Dakota @50501southdakota.bsky.social · 5d

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50501 South Dakota @50501southdakota.bsky.social · 5d

• Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one

• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise

• Get bold by joining protests:
nokings.org

• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com

• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us

50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement

Join the movement to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. 50 protests, 50 states, 1 day: #50501.

fiftyfifty.one

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 5d

Image shows a stick figure with the head of Trump using a stick to poke the American flag. Text says: C'MON, DO
A CIVIL WAR I NEED TO
DISTRACT FROM EPSTEIN FILES

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 7d

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7d

Despite strong objections from Governor Pritzker, Mayor Johnson, and the people of Chicago, the Trump regime is preparing to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago today.

If you are in Chicago and need guidance on how to interact with the Guard, here’s a helpful guide:
bit.ly/resistancetoolkit

Responding to Federal Occupying Forces

Click here for another version of this document optimized for readability and accessibility. Table of Contents (click to jump ahead) We the People are PISSED: statement/intro Situation Report: current...

bit.ly

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s another amazing resource from Freedom Trainers:

So the National Guard is (or might be) coming to your city? - Freedom Trainers

Don’t freak out. Don’t panic. Here’s a compendium of some resources. (1) Understand the legal situation State governors usually control their own National Guard. They’re deployed for things like natur...

freedomtrainers.net

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8d

@merovingians.bsky.social gets it.

Go to a No Kings protest. Make connections on the ground. Join or form a group, whether it’s 50501 or something more obviously leftist.

Use those connections for mutual aid and to organize anti-ICE action, boycott, prep strikes and more.

See you in the streets

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 11d

this is why leftists dismissing 50501 and such as a bunch of useless libs is so unserious. 50501 is mustering protests across the country without a major provocation. it's a dress rehearsal and we're really fucking rusty.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11d

I keep going back to this, but one of the reasons South Korea has an incredibly effective protest culture is because they have *decades* of organizational experience through daily/weekly protesting. it helps a lot to do the routine stuff to be able to pull off the big stuff.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8d

And no. You do NOT need to RSVP for a No Kings protest.

Hell, we’d prefer if you didn’t register - or at least make a burner account if you want to help give organizers a crowd size estimate (for like, food and water).

If anyone is telling you have to register, they’re wrong. You do NOT have to.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8d

Stephen Miller calls federal judges who rule against Trump’s law breaking terrorists, and then this happens the next day…

#50501movement #USnews

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Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social · 9d

GEN-Z AND MILLENNIAL VOTERS WILL DETERMINE THIS ELECTION

To flip this seat in December, we have to mobilize young voters to vote, and I'm the candidate to do this! GEN-Z's in Nashville — join us for a phonebank at the Nashville Farmer's Market tomorrow afternoon! #Hopium

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Resistance Rangers @resistancerangers.bsky.social · 14d

Every #ShutDown is a chance to gut NPS staffing and privatize public lands. Lay-offs are still in the works. Call Congress and demand they not go through a Reduction in Force on the Dept of Interior or Park Service! We're partnering with @5calls.org to #RehireRangers: 5calls.org/issue/public...

Text reads: the administration has threatened to fire government staff (including rangers!) during a shut down. We cannot let this happen! On a dramatic image backdrop.

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Resistance Rangers @resistancerangers.bsky.social · 14d

And, if you are a furloughed ranger or federal worker, we've put together some resources for you here: docs.google.com/document/d/e... Many of us have worked a shut down before, and we know first hand the damage it can cause. Again: stay out of parks during shutdowns, please.

A stylized image of a ranger waving a pirate flag (the skeleton is also wearing a park ranger flat hat) in front of a mountainous and forested landscape. The message reads: "worth fighting for" and "stop rangers from being fired"

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13d

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