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Freya
@dragnflite.bsky.social
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Accidental owner of multiple dogs. Feeder of two lovely pasture ornaments. I've changed. You can change, too. "We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn."- Bateson. And my favorite quote "Some things need to be broken" by PC Hodgell.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 45m
There have been three major protests of the Trump era. Hands off had ~3 million people, the first No Kings had ~5 million people, and yesterday had ~7 million people. You certainly wouldn't know these were some of the largest protest in American history from reading the New York Times the next day.
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Joyful Trouble @mini-marshmallows.bsky.social · 1h
Another photo of Doug Emhoff at No Kings in Santa Monica yesterday.

If Kamala had won we’d be at brunch. 🤭
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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 8h
At what point does this start to worry the GOP politicians?
gelliottmorris.com G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 9h
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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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 8h
Brilliant photo.
noturtlesoup17.bsky.social amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 10h
Portland ICE facility now.
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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 10h
It's hard not to wish at least 40% or more of the country wasn't either willfully stupid or out and out evil, but we have to see it and deal with it. Being an ostrich about our situation won't help anyone. It's an uphill battle, against powerful news orgs backed by a vocal, very solid base.
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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 10h
His main problem is coming up with some esoteric offbeat takes and never admitting he is wrong.
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Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social · 12h
It doesn't make all his posts good or whatever but the fact that Stancil actually ran for public office speaks very well of him. The same impulse is at work here.
rivertam.bsky.social River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 14h
Say what you want about Stancilism but the man himself is on a generational posting run
davidingram.bsky.social David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 16h
A play in three acts
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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 10h
Agree. I'm in a purple state, and believe me, the more rural the worse it gets.
tomakeitfall.bsky.social Joey @tomakeitfall.bsky.social · 14h
There are red states. I'm in OK and while the cities are purple ish, anything the state votes on as a whole is overwhelmingly red. In fact as turnout increases it actually gets redder.

Progressives love to think that every red state is hiding a tranche of leftist rednecks, but it's just not true.
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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 14h
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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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 13h
*CBS News*, for Chrissakes, has it as its top story now
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10h
It is genuinely a wonderful thing in this horrible time to undertake acts of resistance and protest that are also extremely funny. Joy is resistance.
frettie.bsky.social Frettie Fingers @frettie.bsky.social · 16h
#nokings
Portland frog brigade
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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 10h
Who'd likely have disowned her by this point.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 12h
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
3:45 p.m. Federal agents detained another person and fired multiple rounds of pepper balls as agents on the ground streamed out of the building in order to block the road and let several cars into the complex. The agents had begun retreating back to the gate, when they advanced toward the crowd again. A person was standing about a foot away from from the blue line marking the boundary protesters are not allowed to cross, holding a sign and not appearing to be doing anything else. An agent reached out, grabbed the person and dragged the person behind the line of other agents.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12h
all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines
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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 11h
It is also why we haven't saw any of them saying just go watch his interviews, because it is obvious.
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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 11h
Seriously? That's fantastic because I thought they'd been successful in convincing a huge number of normies that he was some great person.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h
various 70 plus years old I know have expressed opinions like "I would strangle Miller with my bare hands" and "the old people should do the bombings because we have less to lose"
cameroncorduroy.bsky.social Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 14h
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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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 13h
We stayed classy. #NoKings
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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 12h
Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.

My friends, they have lost the flag.
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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 11h
It's just a tiny sword. Very symbolic of him.
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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 12h
Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.
Jd Vance posted an AI video of trump as a king. Complete with crowned and sword. They fucking love their kings..
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 11h
lol “No Kings” is such brilliant branding because Trump’s people are such inveterate reactionary shitposters that their only reaction is, can possibly be, “oh him being a king triggers you? Then yeah he’s a king, he should be the king forever.”
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Freya @dragnflite.bsky.social · 11h
Fantastic.
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CarpinSanDiego @carpinsandiego.com · 12h
Im dead 😂😂😂
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11h
Amazing that “No kings and no Nazis” is suddenly a controversial slogan and up for debate in 2025. These are the two most basic creeds of American history.
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