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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 16h

she is not a journalist, she’s a career op-ed writer who was allowed to commission articles for the opinion page that could’ve never passed basic newsroom standards. she has no clue what she’s doing. there’s a reason actual journalists look down on her www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 18h

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained.

These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 15h

I gotta check out more print examples, they're just so clear

NYT doesn't even have No Kings above the fold today and there's NOT EVEN A FRONT PAGE ARTICLE. The article is on page 23

NYT is ynlike literally every other newspaper in the country. Why do they do this? It's not accidental

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

I see it as the top photo and top three articles?

I might be missing something

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

Excellent point

And also:

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American Woman @lov4all.bsky.social · 16h

NYT headquarters is literally around the block from Times Square and Seventh Avenue where the NO KINGS protest was taking place.

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

Obviously you could keep doing this exercise but last one:

Cincinnati Enquirer: Cincy football the top story followed by No Kings protest

I genuinely value much of the NYT's reporting but I think I'm going to email them tomorrow requesting to cancel

The non coverage of No Kings is not accidental

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle, NY Daily News: No Kings was the top story

Long Island Newsday: Santos commutation was the top story and then No Kings

Long Island Newsday: Santos commutation is top story and then No Kings

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

The Kansas City Star, The Oregonian, The Atlanta Journal Constitution: No Kings was the top story

Jackson MS Clarion Ledger: local murder, Ole Miss football and then No Kings

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

No Kings was the top story in newspapers across the country, from Montana to Nebraska to Arkansas

But it was the sixth headline and third photo in the NY Times online homepage yesterday

Baffling. Confounding. Absurd. That's putting it nicely

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 17h

I looked at 38 papers. The NYT was one of only a few not to have it as the top story and photo

The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game

I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history

NYT on the protests: sixth headline and third photo down. This is Saturday at 8pm

WSJ: protests are the top story and photo

Wapo: protests are the top story and photo

Chicago Tribune: protests are the top story and photo

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

No Kings was the top story in newspapers across the country, from Montana to Nebraska to Arkansas

But it was the sixth headline and third photo in the NY Times

Baffling. Confounding. Absurd. That's putting it nicely

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 17h

I looked at 38 papers. The NYT was one of only a few not to have it as the top story and photo

The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game

I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

No Kings was the top story in newspapers across the country, from Montana to Nebraska to Arkansas

But it was the sixth headline and third photo in the NY Times

Baffling is putting it nicely

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 17h

I looked at 38 papers. The NYT was one of only a few not to have it as the top story and photo

The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game

I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

Lincoln KS Journal Star and Des Moines Register: No Kings was the top story

Columbia, SC's The State and MT's Missoulian: Clemson and Montana football were the top story, No Kings was the second

NYT: No Kings was the sixth headline and third photo

Clemson football followed by No Kings in Columbia SC newspaper

No Kings top story in the Des Moines Register

No Kings the top story in the Lincoln Journal Star

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

Arkansas Democrat Gazette, The Tennessean, Louisville Courier Journal, Charleston Post and Courier: No Kings was the top story

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

Salt Lake tribune, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Milwaukee Sentinel: No Kings was the top story

Indy Star: Purdue football was the top story

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

Kansas Salina Journal, New Hampshire Union Leader l, Concord Monitor, Portland Press Herald: No Kings was the top story

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

San Diego Union Tribune, Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, Tampa Times: protests were the top story

Orlando Sentinel: protest was the top story

Tampa Bay Times: protest was the top story

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago Tribune, Arizona Republic, Houston Chronicle, Star Tribune: protests are the top story

Boston Globe: protests are the top story and photo

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 17h

I looked at 38 papers. The NYT was one of only a few not to have it as the top story and photo

The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game

I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to one of the largest protests in history

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Lord Guardian of Gastown @darkdementus.bsky.social · 17h

I looked at 38 papers. The NYT was one of only a few not to have it as the top story and photo

The handful of exceptions were pretty much all places with a big D1 football game

I genuinely don't understand why the NYT is so reticent to give coverage to a huge protest. Bizarre is putting it nicely

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. I support democracy and our country,” one of them told me. “It’s not about ideology.”

#NoKings 👑
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www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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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

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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.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 3d

This is a beautiful truth.

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