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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

"No, we don't want a monarchy, we want a theocracy" is a not the flex they think it is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 6h

This is Jesse Mack Butler from Oklahoma. Butler r*ped two teen girls over a period of 9 months, nearly killed them by strangulation, which was recorded on video. Butler was convicted of 11 counts of r*pe and sexual assault and was sentenced to 78 years in prison.

But he will serve 0 jail time

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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 5h

It's sad to see the physical representation of his damage

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.

Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Even if he did, which I'd bet is likelier than not, none of this is true. The Insurrection Act is not a declaration of martial law. It doesn't close the courts. It doesn't suspend habeas corpus. It means you can use the military to enforce federal laws, but the laws themselves remain the same.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

When Trump announced 4 days ago randomly that India agreed to stop buying Russia oil, I was surprised because Russia is their largest supplier, we are still in a trade war with India, and their govt has said nothing about it. Turns out he just lied and made it up. Shocker.

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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 19h

Monday..once more into the breach
#LuciferNetflix
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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 19h

Led by Trump, MAGA Republicans have abandoned the idea of politics, which is the process of engaging in debate and negotiation to attract support and win power. What is left when a system loses the give and take of politics is force.
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October 19, 2025

All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as “Hate America” rallies.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

This so bad. They're cheering for the chickenpox.

Racket @racketmn.com · 1d

It's not often you hear a room cheer for the return of chicken pox, let alone measles. Welcome to Freedom Summit 2025.

What I Saw at This Weekend’s Minnesota MAHA Fest Scared the Hell out of Me - Racket

Over 1,000 Christian opponents of modern medicine descended on Alexandria, MN, to testify that drugs, doctors, and Satan were making us all sick at the 7th annual Freedom Summit.

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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday is fun day...post protests hangover relief
#LuciferNetflix
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Any media outlets that don’t address this video of Trump wearing a crown dumping shit on Americans is normalizing it.

As with everything else this authoritarian regime does, you’re either calling it out or normalizing it. There is no third option.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1d

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained.

These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

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hpanzironi @hpanzironi.bsky.social · 2d

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 1d

Saying again
Athese are the folks who developed protesting. Vietnam War, earth day. We may be old, but we're in it

Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 1d

We have to stop comparing. There's clearly one law for them, another for the rest of us. Let's just focus on what we can do about their lawlessness

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

They use govt accounts, employees & resources to make partisan political messages.

They make partisan political speeches attacking the opposition party to troops routinely.

They get pardoned when they commit crimes.

They ignore the laws.

There is zero congressional oversight.

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Stacy Kess, dissident editor @stacykess.bsky.social · 1d

Many people who have never had touches with the justice system will experience it for the first time. Rashaan Hall is right. Do not disparage the criminal because as the fascist regime criminalizes more things, many of us will become criminals. Disparage the corruption. Fight the fascism.

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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 1d

Dad damn it autocorrect, Weens

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

@gtconway.bsky.social: "I think that if people weren't getting together and doing this at this moment, we would be in big trouble...We're going to see bigger, and bigger, and bigger events."

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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 1d

Weeks 😈

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

if nothing else i feel like the president of the most powerful nation on earth posting a video of him shitting on his own citizens should finally make the democrats and media wake up and stop bleating about norms

just go feral

they are

and we outnumber them

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🧟‍♂️ Ick 🪓😱† Wight 🧛 @nickwrightdata.ntw.app · 2d

"follow the money," Fox News? OK

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🧟‍♂️ Ick 🪓😱† Wight 🧛 @nickwrightdata.ntw.app · 2d

@groundnews.bsky.social needs to BAN MASS ARTICLE SPAM from the Sinclair Broadcast Group!!

Literally EVERY SINGLE SOURCE of this #NoKings "news story" rated above "mixed factuality" is OWNED BY #SINCLAIR, posting the EXACT SAME ARTICLE TEXT (likely MANDATORY from above)

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Ground News "Blindspot" notification for an article with the (dumbass) text "'No Kings' protests being funded by foundations run by George Soros: report"

The only five articles from sources listed as more factual than "mixed factuality" posting the exact same nothingburger (and frankly antisemitic) article. Likely by force (something like "required to broadcast" as per what Sinclair enforces)

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 2d

Americans have spoken....

#NoKingsDay

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Jelly8bean @jelly8bean.bsky.social · 2d

Just to mention, these are the folks who developed protesting. Vietnam War, earth day. We may be old, but we're in it

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2d

CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

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