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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 7h

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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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 9h

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

OPERATION INFLATION

www.operationinflation.com

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 8h

This is telling us what we already knew: they’re not being used for immigration enforcement, they’re being used as paramilitary thugs.

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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 12h

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 8h

Crowd size at the ICE facility in S. Portland is growing. Many people came here from today's No Kings March. About 12-20 federal officers are planted on the roof, surveiling the scene. DHS agents fired off teargas at least twice this afternoon/evening. Things just feel like a chaotic parade now.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8h

Chicago No Kings

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11h

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

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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Alan @alanrealized.bsky.social · 11h

Beaverton, Oregon is out! #NoKings

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 11h

Finished the March in Portland half an hour ago and folks are still streaming over both bridges. The turnout is massive. No idea of the head count yet.

I love this city. We are good people. So proud of us today.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Mayor Johnson: There are those in this country that have decided, at the behest of this president, to declare war on Chicago and American cities across this country. They have clearly decided that they want a rematch of the Civil War. We will not submit to the authoritarianism that is coming down.

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 10h

oh no

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, part of the implication of No Kings, especially repeating it, is to communicate both to wavering elites and to MAGA that the will and numbers exist to color revolution the administration if elections are subverted or cancelled.

Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 11h

However, it's a very good sign of what we'll be able to do when he actually attempts to overtly rule by force.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 11h

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.

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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 11h

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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 12h

There are seemingly multiple waves of people crossing the Hawthorne Bridge by the thousands. I thought the group was maybe petering out but no…there’s still tons of people downtown waiting to cross to the east side.

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 11h

Portland Police Police estimate so far is 40,000 to 50,000 at downtown Portland No Kings today @statesnewsroom.com @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 12h

Crowd swells into the tens of thousands in Portland as the March begins @oregoncapitalchronicle.com @statesnewsroom.com

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 14h

Here at the Portland #NoKings, the costumes are ON POINT.

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 14h

democracy is the cringiest form of government except for all the others

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 15h

A crime so bad you need not prove it in a court of law! Your punishment? Death or a very stern warning before going home.

It boggles the legal mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

U.S. to Repatriate Survivors of Its Strike on Suspected Drug Vessel

www.nytimes.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

this is why I think the admin spending all week yelling about a “hate America” rally was stupid

anyone who tunes in gets to see funny signs, joyful crowds and shit like “an enormous constitution being carried to the White House”

this is a crowd that loves America and wants it to be better

Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 17h

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 14h

Brendan Carr did this—by weaponizing the FCC's broad discretion over broadcasters to install Bari Weiss as head of CBS News

This is essentially how Viktor Orban took over Hungarian media. And it's just the beginning... My take on Don Carrleone’s mafia racket: thehill.com/opinion/civi...

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besha (but spooky) @besha.bsky.social · 15h

Not only is there a No Kings protest in the town of 3500 where I went to high school, there’s also a No Kings protest in the one-stoplight town I’d drive through in my commute.

I need anyone who scorns normie organizing to understand how brave and also how angry you have to be to do this.

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Blue Texas @turntexasblue.bsky.social · 15h

No Kings-Chicago, IL

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 16h

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Emily Bunny @emilybunny.bsky.social · 16h

Also the communication is criminally poor

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