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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d

The Tea Party's biggest distributed event was on tax day 2009, with 750 modestly attended protests. No Kings had 2,600.

Its biggest single gathering was on 9/12/09 in DC, with somewhere between 75K and a few 100K participants. No Kings had 5-7 million.

So: No Kings dwarfs the Tea Party. [2/3]

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dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 23h

He look so defeated and weak in this rendition.

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dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 23h

If it was ever injured.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

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Thanks to The Xylom's @alexip718.com and others for spreading the word and helping our counting efforts

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dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 1d

Outstanding! Thanks for collecting and posting this great data!

dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent data-thanks for posting G Elliot Morris! Very hopeful info!

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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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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄

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dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait! She will be a great Rep!

dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 1d

Hes regressing to a younger mental age every day.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.

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dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 1d

Holy moly! Red Idaho?!!!

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dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 2d

Winner!

a cartoon of a man with braces on his teeth says i think we have a winner

ALT: a cartoon of a man with braces on his teeth says i think we have a winner

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dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! More of this spirit is needed!

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2d

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

So no terrorism then?

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dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 2d

Rarely reported by both compos mentis and non compos mentis commentators.

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dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 2d

But he can't stop.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Man this country sure has a lot of MarxistAntifaHamasTerroristCommunistSocialistViolentCriminals!

🙃#NoKingsDay 🇺🇸

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 2d

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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dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 2d

Such important reporting. Thank you Nicole Foy for your diligence!

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 3d

$5 BILLION is headed out the door to build new job-creating, zero-emission projects, fix roads and bridges, and improve sidewalks and bike lanes across California.

We're investing in our communities, our people, and the places we drive, walk, and ride every day.

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dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps send them some Monopoly money.?

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dee7777.bsky.social @dee7777.bsky.social · 2d

They will fail on this site. It’s too definable for them to understand.

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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 3d

On Saturday October 18th, I’m asking you to attend the No King’s March in your local communities. We have witnessed the increasing authoritarianism and its policies in our country. We dissent.

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