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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 8h

There are so many social losses, financial, educational and career losses, losses to public health & safety, to privacy, to community, economic losses,

The strain is real but it isn't personal failure.

they've scattered tacks all over the road. Wheels go flat.

it is hard and getting harder.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 8h

The streets of Washington DC were flooded with brave patriots who stood up to the regime and called to remove the regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 8h

Like I always say - when you march, you're marching for ten people who couldn't ✊

Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 10h

When you see 2-3 percent doing something costly like protesting, you figure there are at least 10x who would like to but couldn't, 20x who largely agree, and 5-10 percent who are undecided but really thinking about what is going on.

The sum is way over 50 percent any way you cut it.

Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 10h

Just saw an extremely dumb post about how this is not what democracy
looks like because only 2% of the population turned out, it's what freedom of assembly looks like, and what the bleep do people even think democracy is? Freedom of assembly being part of democracy is elementary school civics.

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🐸 Helen Kennedy 🐸 @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 8h

The record protests are the 6th headline down on the NYT mobile app.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 9h

HOLD UP. George Santos is the lead story on the @nytimes.com website on Saturday night? Not the millions of Americans protesting Donald Trump today at 2,700 events in all 50 states? Come on.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/n...

Social Media, Pleas From Allies and Prison Essays: How Santos Won His Freedom

On Friday evening, President Trump commuted the sentence of former Representative George Santos. “Good luck George, have a great life!” the president said.
Santos’s Release Frustrates His Former Colleagues and Constituents

George Santos, the disgraced former Republican congressman, was freed from prison on Friday after President Trump commuted his sentence. On Long Island, in his former district, some people called the decision an outrage.

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 8h

Bit of advice. If you are enjoying some hope and comfort from today's events, do not read the Facebook comments on your local news' coverage of the rallies. Yikes. 😳

I'm proud of us as a country today, and going to hold fast to that.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

Hating Donald Trump isn't hating America, it is loving everything America strives to be.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 8h

I wonder what intent this offense requires. Because I don’t think you can argue this costume is supposed to be arousing.

thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 15h

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

“So it looks like you’re flying a fighter jet and wearing a crown, but it turns out it’s really a bomber and the bombs are poops. You’re up there pooping on all the cities in America because you’re the king of America, and so of course you shit on it when it doesn’t behave. It’s high concept, sir.”

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 8h

Trump's cabinet all see themselves as proudly robbing the American people. www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-pu...

DHS Purchase Of Business Jets During Shutdown Draws Democrats’ Ire

The department said it would not allow the federal shutdown "to slow down this process" of replacing the jet, but Democrats want to know where the money is coming from.

www.huffpost.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 8h

Seems like the president and entire cabinet responding to today's rallies by posting straight up 4chan filth would be a major story tomorrow. Anyone care to place any bets

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 8h

LAPD on horseback disperse protesters on No Kings Day in downtown L.A. ~ @shoton35mm.bsky.social

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 8h

The average amount of SNAP received is about $173. Which means you could fund nearly a million families for a month if we just didn't buy her two private jets to fly around and do racist pressers. Which by the way, seems excessive.

Rory Flynn @roryflynn808.bsky.social · 14h

Do I understand this correctly? We're shelling out $172 million for two private jets for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and other federal officials while no funds are available for SNAP (food stamp) recipients in November. Does that about cover it?

LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 14h

$172 million on private jets for Kristi Noem? Incredible.
Meanwhile, the Coast Guard is supposed to save lives and protect our coasts, but apparently it’s easier and far more important to fund her personal travel budget. Wasteful doesn’t even begin to cover it.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 10h

It’s raining at the ICE facility in South Portland and agents on the roof put up a tent. It didn’t seem like ICE could still lose the crowd’s respect but it appears they did.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

The Trump regime closing I-5 so it can shoot live artillery over the freeway underscores what a dystopian nightmare we are living in. The US military threatens US citizens thanks to an unhinged simpleton in the Oval Office and a TV chatterbox running the Pentagon.

www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Interstate 5 closure brings gridlock, new battle between Trump, California

California closed part of Interstate 5 on Saturday after military officials confirmed artillery would be shot over the freeway. Then it reopened temporarily.

www.latimes.com

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 10h

Today was not only about peace, togetherness, and America, it was also about happiness. The political Right today is a miserable malignant lot, many of them dopamine addicts living rush to rush. Today was a good reminder - we're way more balanced, centered, and content.

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Tony Michaels 🎙 @thetonymichaels.bsky.social · 10h

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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 10h

Lol watch this

Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 16h

The best wood, the most beautiful cardboard

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 10h

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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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 10h

Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 10h

This kind of work creates POLITICAL COVER for people (normies and politicos) to peel away from the fash and do hard but necessary work to recreate the public sphere. It's THE LITERAL EMBODIMENT of liberal pluralism in the BODY POLITIC.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 10h

If you want people to do hard things EN MASSE, you must support them when they show up in the MILLIONS to tell the ONE SPECIAL BOY to GTFO.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 10h

Class is in session! Thanks, @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social, for this analysis of the importance of this moment.

"This is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography." Yes!

Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 10h

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

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Barbara Banfield @barbbanfieldrn.bsky.social · 10h

Time for Dems to simply act and let the Republicans deal with it.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 12h

show me what democracy looks like:

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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