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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h

Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.”

Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”

Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”

NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

#NYC #NoKings 👑

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16h

Yesterday I wrote about the effort by center-left pundits to police what people are passionate about.
www.pbump.net/o/sincerity-...

Sincerity is not the problem

As is inevitably the case after an election — and is especially the case after an election with an unexpected result — allies of the losing presidential candidate in 2024 looked for people to blame. O...

www.pbump.net

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 16h

#NoKings Dodgeville, Wisconsin

Biff from the Driftless @driftlessbiff.bsky.social · 19h

Dodgeville WI - Population 5000 - 780 attendees besting June numbers by 200

780 attend No Kings Rally in Dodgeville WI

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Acorn Baden @acornbaden.bsky.social · Apr 3

Erica Chenoweth has address the adaptations that authoritarian regimes have made in the last 10-15 years and has suggestions for how movements can update their own playbook to try to succeed against those adaptations youtu.be/XwyUT-PHLPI?...

PRIO Annual Peace Address 2024: The Electoral Year – Can Civil Society Save Global Democracy?

YouTube video by Peace Research Institute Oslo

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 15h

The 3.5% "rule" also applies to consistent, constant protesting. Not one off events imho.

So yeah, if 15 millionesh people were in the streets every day you could see why that would be problematic for the admin.

We are certainly not there yet.

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Apr 1

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

The cover page for a discussion paper called "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule" by Erica Chenoweth. In the image, peaceful protesters can be seen in front of the US Capitol building.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 15h

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

A young boy holds a sign that simply states in plain handwriting: Trump hit on my girlfriend

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Chris Johnson @cxj.bsky.social · 14h

Spot on.

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15h

it is far better to be in a country with a mass visible protest movement than one without it

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 15h

Coast Guard bought Kristi Noem two private jets (I guess if one breaks down). Cost: $172 million. Is that what you call draining the swamp?

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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 15h

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h

we're approaching macy's parade level teamwork here

Frettie Fingers @frettie.bsky.social · 17h

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15h

Endless lines of protestors in Downtown Los Angeles

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14h

Weird approach considering that the GOP spent all week hyping this up as an apocalyptic festival of Marxist antifa grievance

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16h

"Who cares?" says the president about a day of peaceful NO KINGS protest in approximately 2,500 cities, towns, villages all over the United States, and in many other parts of the world.

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 14h

Anchorage, Alaska joins the nationwide Hundreds No Kings protest.

Hundreds rally at Town Square Park downtown, lots of creative signs and inflatable animals, and speeches about to begin

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Screen cap from linked article, with heading Significance and then text:

Large Language Models (LLMs) are used in evaluative tasks across domains. Yet, what appears as alignment with human or expert judgments may conceal a deeper shift in how “judgment” itself is operationalized. Using news outlets as a controlled benchmark, we compare six LLMs to expert ratings and human evaluations under an identical, structured framework. While models often match expert outputs, our results suggest that they may rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification. Our findings suggest not only performance asymmetries but also a shift in the heuristics underlying evaluative processes, raising fundamental questions about delegating judgment to LLMs.

Sentence starting with "While models often" is highlighted in blue.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17h

Dallas didn’t disappoint. #NoKings

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 16h

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 22h

I am not healthy enough to protest today. It's been a rough few weeks. If I had a wheelchair, maybe. But my heart is with you. Please get out there since I can't. No RSVP needed. You don't even need a sign! Just be there and love your fellow protestors. Remember community. Make some friends.

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Bob Calder @bobcalder.net · 23h

#nokings Tallahassee

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

So no terrorism then?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks to @mplsforthemany.com for the Rank 3 addition to my yard sign collection. (Neighbor’s Omar Fateh sign in the background.)

I’ll be ranking:
1. @dewayneforminneapolis.com
2. @omarfatehmn.com
3. @jazzformayor.bsky.social

Thanks to the teams for those folks for bringing me signs too.

Yard with signs for Omar Fateh, DeWayne Davis, and Jazz Hampton side by side (where the volunteers placed them) and then a Minneapolis for the Many rank 3 sign and neighbor’s Omar Fateh sign

Closer view of the sign from Minneapolis for the Many that says to rank Omar Fateh, DeWayne Davis, & Jazz Hampton. With neighbor’s Omar Fateh sign in background.

Closer view of the Jazz, DeWayne Davis, and Omar Fateh signs in my yard. I left them where the volunteers placed them.

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Chris Johnson @cxj.bsky.social · 15h

Amen. Every time I've heard Mary speak, it's the most amazing breath of fresh air on the subject of actual crime prevention from any elected or politician. For once, we get someone who might change things, and the conservatives ("moderates") all gnash their teeth and demand a Big Mean prosecutor.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 17h

frog and chewbacca dance to brass solidarity band, the band formed by community members around george floyd square, at no kings minneapolis

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Heidi Tasker @heiditasker.bsky.social · 17h

Seen in Auburn, Maine #NoKings

A woman at the 10.18.2025 #NoKings rally in Auburn, Maine. She’s wearing an American flag themed fist hat, and her sign reads: They’re eating the CHECKS. They’re eating the BALANCES.
There is a dog and a kitten on either side of her sign, each with large googly eyes.

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