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DuendeonSpooko @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 4h

Semi-rural Idaho here. Nearly a 1000 people showed up, and we had ZERO opposition. Also the car and bystander ratio of folks in support has gone from about 50% to something like 80% over the last year. If you'd told me this in January I wouldn't have believed you.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 9h

Just want to give a shout out to my 83 year old dad- normally conservative, a former SCOTUS law clerk for Rehnquist- who protested out in the rain this morning in St Louis. #NoKings

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Frettie Fingers @frettie.bsky.social · 9h

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8h

We showed out y'all.

Source unknown but its an aerial shot of the Missoula No Kings rally.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 7h

I don't think folks have any conception of how radicalized a lot of moms are becoming as they go through shit like "will my babysitter get kidnapped" and "will my child be able to get the measles vaccine"

Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 8h

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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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7h

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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✨🦋𝓢𝓗𝓔𝓘𝓛𝓐 🦋✨ @sheilaharris.bsky.social · 6h

This is Idaho 💙

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 6h

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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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 6h

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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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 5h

To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Indivisible Northern Nevada ❌👑 @indivisiblennv.bsky.social · 11h

Reno, NV, we love you ❤️

#NoKings

@maddow.msnbc.com
@indivisible.org

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 9h

No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics

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Micah Drew @mddrew.bsky.social · 9h

Polebridge, Montana, and the surrounding North Fork area only has around 100 full-time residents. On Saturday, the hamlet on the edge of Glacier National Park saw more than 60 people attend a No Kings Indivisible rally at the dirt road intersection.

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 10h

Provo UT showing up for #NoKings

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Doug Foote @footesteppes.bsky.social · 9h

OKAY BOISE!! #nokings

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 10h

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

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Doug Foote @footesteppes.bsky.social · 9h

You need to put opt out language in your fundraising texts

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Doug Foote @footesteppes.bsky.social · 9h

@sethmoulton.bsky.social you need to put “reply stop to quit” language in your texts or it’s a violation of CAN-SPAM

Fundraising text from Seth Moulton without opt out language

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10h

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 11h

Holy fuck! No Kings protesters are marching through Center City in Philadelphia. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

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Penny P @mstmompj.bsky.social · 11h

No Kings protest in The Woodlands, Texas (north suburban Houston). This is the first such protest to occur in the community. I overheard a number of folks telling others that they had never attended such an event before but had gotten to the point of feeling they needed to do something.