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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2h

"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 5h

j6 was sponsored by billionaires, people were paid to be in the crowd and buses were chartered to bring them in from all over the place, they had a plan a goal and a deadline and equipment

20k morons and a whiffed execution

Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 5h

thinking about how the j6 goons could only muster 20k

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 2h

At some point, the people of the US are going to have to ask themselves why in 2025, we still have a system of "democracy" that is intentionally designed to give the 60% of pro ethno-state white voters more power than everyone else in the country combined.

Questions for the 40% of white folk.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs

“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 9h

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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Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 14h

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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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 15h

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 18h

Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?

lol. lmao.

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DreadwoodGirl @redwoodgirl.bsky.social · 12h

Democrats in my liberal-city-in-a-conservative-county are more leftist on nearly every issue than Dems I knew in the Bay Area. We know first-hand how fucking nuts the conservatives are and how unrepresentative American democracy really is.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14h

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13h

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 16h

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 15h

When there’s so clearly more people who don’t want fascism than do want fascism it becomes pretty fucking unignorable that the Democratic Party has a widespread candidate, platform and messaging problem. Every election is theirs to lose, and they do.

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erin plasma @plasmasword.blacksky.app · 15h

its worth noting the shift in public consciousness because we're talking about billion dollar propaganda being counterracted by just, people having principles and a working moral fabric

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 18h

Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 15h

As someone living in Oklahoma, it's so encouraging to see all the people out protesting. It's not just that hundreds are turning out in Tulsa and OKC, it's also that there are protests happening in towns like McAlester and Ponca City

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16h

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

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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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 16h

Amazing to see so many people protest against Trump and the rise of fascism

What will be crucial though will be to avoid exceptionalising him and understand what has created a fertile soil for these politics

There can be no return to the "normal" that paved the way for the far right

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 17h

Chicago - no kings

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 21d

4 panel comic

Panel 1: ICE “Agent” (thug) punches protester hard in the face.
Agent: STOP

Panel 2: ICE Agent viciously snaps protester’s arm
Agent: BEING

Panel 3: ICE Agent strangles protester
Agent: POLITICALLY

Panel 4: ICE Agent stamps on protester’s head
Agent: VIOLENT

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17h

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 1d

Peaky Blinders meme: No fighting with regime-run accounts. No fucking fighting with regime-run accounts!

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 18h

Personally I love seeing corny, cringy bad protest signs. Means the amateurs are activated

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 19h

Same energy

NYT 1931: HITLER CONDEMNS RIOTS.; He Says They Were Provoked by Paid Agents in Germany.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 19h

I hope everyone at the "No Kings" protests today achieves something they were hoping to achieve.

(The poster below is checking in from the district formerly represented by Matt Gaetz.)

Landguy @landguyminor.bsky.social · 20h

No kings Americans!!!
Apalachicola protest. This town might have 2500 folks. Ten percent are out here!!
#nokings #blueskyartshow #photography #protest

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 20h

Server Ossoff has no idea that server Miller thinks that ethnic cleansing through mass deportation is a good idea, because they "Don't talk politics at work."

Server Walz knows that server Homan is "conservative," but he doesn't know if that means "small government," or "Big racism."

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 21h

Following up on the "dining while Black" thing, and how Black people know and have always known, how many white folk in the US would have supported this Trump admin, while white Dems greatly underestimated it.

Imagine these 4 men are servers at a restaurant.

White diners don't notice a difference🤷🏿‍♂️

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James Widman @jameswidman.bsky.social · 14h

wait then who is Lonk from Pennsylvania

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