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Rebba.bsky.social @rebba.bsky.social · 6h

No King's Day!
Here we go!! 🗽⚖️🇺🇸

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: Trump is inching closer to illegally invoking the Insurrection Act.

If ever there was a moment for America’s governors — especially in Blue States — to hold an emergency summit, it’s now.

The federal government is plotting invasions of their states.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

Trump’s power depends on maintaining the illusion that he’s all-powerful, and that Americans adore him.

But that illusion is harder to maintain if millions of people are in the streets protesting.

This is why Republicans are trying to discredit No Kings Day rallies before they've even happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s the thing. We still have the power (probably) to say that this image must not be what America is. We still have the power to say “fuck no, we refuse to allow this to be what the streets of America look like.” Attend a “No Kings” rally this Saturday. And then vote in 2026.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 7h

It’s time to abandon the idea of chasing after “swing voters.”

We gotta start targeting the angry. Those who have been failed by the system. Those who are being screwed every day despite giving it their all.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 17h

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 16h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 14h

The speaker of the house doesn’t think one of his members assaulting and threatening women is a serious issue.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 16h

Tell that to Leonard Leo and Kevin Roberts, your Catholic heretics.

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Glen @glenness.bsky.social · 15h

It's a weird sign of the times that wanting #nokings in a democracy is at all controversial.

Strange days indeed.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Sir there were many people calling for “ceasefire” while denouncing Hamas and explicitly saying that Netanyahu was the problem & was not even supported by Israelis. They were also condemned. The lines were drawn very sharply. Please don’t remake history.

Malcolm P. Johnson @admiralmpj.bsky.social · 1d

Not true. If people were merely calling for a Ceasefire, they would have been agreed with, 100% by supporters of Israel, 80% of whom hate Nethanyahu.

But people were using Zionism as an epithet.

People wanted Israel to cease to exist.

And that as the LEAST of it.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Phil Limerick @lummy1949.bsky.social · 2d

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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nahhan sandiego @nahhansandiego.bsky.social · 1d

give me all the lists.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures.

...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

That @JoeBiden put out this magnanimous & gracious statement AFTER all the horrible, dishonest things Trump said about Biden today, says so much about who Joe Biden is as a person. And reminds us all once again of what an utterly horrible, small, bad, & insecure person Trump is.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity is the only way

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DesertYETI @desertyeti.bsky.social · 2d

Christ what an asshole

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Colm MacNiallais 🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇱🇧 @colmmacn.bsky.social · 2d

This is one of the greatest crimes of the 21st century and we are only just starting to see the horror of it. What will be found when the rubble finally starts to be cleared? How many bodies will be found?

There will never be sufficient justice for this, the greatest crime of this decade. #Gaza

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 4d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 2d

Stay Strong !!!
The People are the Power

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 3d

wow guys I am starting to think tariffs are not useful tools to force down China's trade surplus

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 3d

🇨🇳CHINA’S SEPTEMBER EXPORT GROWTH HITS 6-MONTH HIGH Y/Y IMPORT GROWTH HIT A 17-MONTH HIGH. CHINA SOYBEAN IMPORTS HIT RECORD HIGH FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER AT 12.87 MILLION METRIC TONS. SEPTEMBER COAL IMPORTS AT NINE-MONTH HIGH OF 46 MLN METRIC TONS. #CHINA #SOYBEAN #COAL

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