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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 10h

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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Gray @loserwithanartacc.bsky.social · 1d

Shoutout to big intimidating character who loves small creatures gotta be one of my favourite genders fr
#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #criticalrolevaelus #crspoilers

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21h

“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants

Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

www.gelliottmorris.com

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 8d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 3d

I’m fucking high, right? This is a hallucination brought on by overwork and tequila, right?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC

An Ugmonk Analog card standing up in the card holder on a desk beside a keyboard and laptop sitting on a riser.

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 1d

Protesters aren't the rioters. The cops are.

Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 1d

Los Angeles, CA -

Absolute chaos resulting from LAPD charge using batons, horse mounted units, “less lethal” projectiles. Protesters going in every direction. LAPD themselves don’t seem to know where protesters or press are supposed to be.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

Portland ICE facility now.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

LOS ANGELES, CA—The main #nokings march is done over at city hall, but a sizeable crowd of a couple hundred has congregated at the intersection of Alameda and Commercial, where police have taped off the street away from the MDC

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Vulture Young @coyoteastronaut.bsky.social · 1d

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That's...ouch.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 1d

The cruelty is the point.

We have the money so that everyone can have modest housing, health care, and food. We don’t prioritize doing so because HEAVEN FORFEND someone receive benefits when they could be suffering instead and making rich people feel better about themselves.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3d

We have money for a $20b bailout of Argentina, but the acting director of SNAP has just announced that SNAP benefits will be cut off on November 1.

Just as a heads up, the ANNUAL budget allocation for SNAP is $100b.

abcnews.go.com/GMA/Food/pro...

What to know about SNAP benefits amid government shutdown

Federal officials warn that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could be at risk for funding amid the government shutdown.

abcnews.go.com

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Sarah Følina | PCD era | TØP CLT, ATL, BHAM @subtlefire.bsky.social · 1d

listen to the frog: ANTIFASCIM IS NORMAL

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

HOUSTON CHRONICLE

interviewed in frog character. We asked the bouncy green, giant amphibian whether it hates America?

"No, in fact, the reason everyone is out here is because we love America, and the idea of America, so much that we're not willing to lose our democratic republic to a wannabe king," the frog said.

But why the frog outfit?

"The frog has sort of become the symbol of the boogeyman antifa that Mike Johnson is afraid of, almost as much he is afraid of naked bike riders," the frog said, adding that "antifa is normal, antifascism is normal and anti-fascists are everywhere."

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Vulture Young @coyoteastronaut.bsky.social · 1d

Torn between wanting to be excited and associating it with my shittiest ex.

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Vulture Young @coyoteastronaut.bsky.social · 1d

And all the good covers?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.”

Damn. Just … damn.

Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 1d

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

First time protestor? I Hope you continue.

Here are 13 rules to protect yourself while protesting fascism

www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...

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Vulture Young @coyoteastronaut.bsky.social · 1d

What an extremely normal time we are having in the United States.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 1d

four dicks

three cops taking away a handcuffed woman who is dressed in a penis costume

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hpanzironi @hpanzironi.bsky.social · 1d

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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.