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Encephalophagy 🎃 @encephalophagy.bsky.social · 13h

"If women in yoga pants are confronting ICE you've lost"

"Even wine moms are going to the rally!"

"This is real protesting, not like those women with pussyhats!"

Hey, real quick, why is it that some of y'all can't tweet about women organising without dripping contempt?

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 2d

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 20h

Can you imagine what Lusty Lady would be doing with Big Dumper

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 17h

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 19h

To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 20h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 17h

If your newspaper doesn't have no kings as the top us story today, throw it in the trash and don't look back

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17h

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

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 18h

Official count estimates are up - before it was "nearly 7m" then it was "roughly 7m" now it is officially "more than 7m." Trend is up!

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Cpanlibrarian @cpanlibrarian.bsky.social · 17h

Where’s my Newsies sequel?????

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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Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 19h

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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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19h

If they think this is bad wait until the tribunals for crimes against humanity.

CBS News @cbsnews.com · 21h

A former ICE director says agents have been put "in a terrible position" and are being tasked with operations "in a city where they don't belong."

Ex-ICE director says Trump's immigration crackdown putting agents in "terrible position"

Federal agents deployed tear gas on a crowd in Chicago, prompting a judge to ask the agents to wear body cameras.

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Cpanlibrarian @cpanlibrarian.bsky.social · 20h

Holy smokes, that’s incredible! Yeah Twisp!

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 21h

I don't think folks have any conception of how radicalized a lot of moms are becoming as they go through shit like "will my babysitter get kidnapped" and "will my child be able to get the measles vaccine"

Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 21h

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

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Cpanlibrarian @cpanlibrarian.bsky.social · 21h

All those people at the downtown Seattle protest, AND big crowds at all the area suburban protests. The map below doesn’t even show more than 25 miles or so beyond Seattle in any direction. That’s a lot of people protesting!

Map of No Kings protest locations in the greater Seattle area, showing 29 different location pins for planned demonstrations

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 21h

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 21h

Among other things, today’s protest is a signal to the press corps. Elites are caving to power but normal people are not. The consumers of the news are speaking indirectly to the producers of the news and making their demands of service clear. What will come of that time will tell obviously.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

They joined Bluesky because they can’t live without your attention. They don’t want to govern, they don’t even really want to “win” in a conventional sense, they just want to play online all day owning libs and it drives them crazy when they lose access to your one wild and precious life.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 21h

Downtown L.A. right now.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 23h

#NoKings, Madison WI

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 1d

WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

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Landguy @landguyminor.bsky.social · 1d

No kings Americans!!!
Apalachicola protest. This town might have 2500 folks. Ten percent are out here!!
#nokings #blueskyartshow #photography #protest

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Caturday meets No Kings day.

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MoveOn @moveon.org · 22h

BREAKING: Our crowd count estimate from the No Kings coalition responsible for planning today’s event is 7 MILLION nationwide.

7 MILLION of you gathered across the country to peacefully protest today.

2 million more than the first No Kings action in June.

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 22h

It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22h

Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.
#NoKings

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