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JPD @jpdink.bsky.social · 2h

Right behind you. Thanks for the FYI

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 8h

The only arrests I’ve heard about from the No Kings rallies were Trump supporters threatening peaceful protestors…

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 4h

"King Trump” takes “dump” on peaceful protesters, proving their point. He is a fucking clown.
“No Kings” movement rallies peacefully, but Trump’s AI response blurs line between protest, parody and spectacle.
www.salon.com/2025/10/19/k...

"King Trump" takes "dump" on peaceful protesters, proving their point - Salon.com

“No Kings” movement rallies peacefully, but Trump’s AI response blurs line between protest, parody and spectacle

www.salon.com

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JPD @jpdink.bsky.social · 4h

As much as I cringe at Rand… he does hit the target here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6h

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

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JPD @jpdink.bsky.social · 4h

I thought it must be a spoof… sadly it was not.

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JPD @jpdink.bsky.social · 4h

We are all one family!

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6h

Yesterday, we made history. Around 7 MILLION people across the United States stood up to say #NoKings, with allies around the world in countries like Japan, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia joining us in solidarity.

BUT OUR FIGHT IS NOT OVER.

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Bonnie Alaimo 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @wyseone.bsky.social · 21h

This is how you fight against lying Mikey Johnson.

l.smartnews.com/p-6pXfYeQw/V...

Like a ‘Car’ Without ‘Gas’: Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva Shows Mike Johnson Why Her New Office is Inoperable (Mediaite)

(Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) posted a video tour of her new office to show House Speaker Mike Johnson(R...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

“.. They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes.”

@propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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JPD @jpdink.bsky.social · 6h

By privatizing the services out to all the insurance companies with home offices in RED States. Gutting and ensuring these companies can cover what services they choose to cover with zero regulatory oversight?

My condolences in advance to the many about to be harmed and lose their family members.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Mike Johnson: "We're fighting for healthcare as well. Not just in word but in deed. We put in the one big beautiful bill, real reforms to Medicaid to make it work better."

(The bill in fact cuts nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid.)

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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Persons Day in Canada. It's the day when women were finally included in the legal definition of “persons”. Before that, women weren't people in the eyes of the law or government. It's the basis for our equality. It's something that doesn't exist in the US by the way.

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JPD @jpdink.bsky.social · 6h

Empathy. Compassion. Emotional Intelligence.

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Bryce Maschino @bmaschino.bsky.social · 22h

Where is FEMA?

Western Alaska residents from storm-ravaged villages arrive in Anchorage by the hundreds

Kipnuk and Kwigillingok residents continued to land Thursday night in Anchorage, carrying backpacks and plastic bags filled with their belongings as they exited a military transport plane.

alaskapublic.org

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JPD @jpdink.bsky.social · 6h

From this morning? He is desperate if this follows NO KINGS. He has trashed both politicians before. He is a walking profile for Garbage In and Garbage Out. He has zero credibility with anyone with over a two point IQ unless they are being paid. 7 million + people dude… try burying that count.

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TAKE 2 @take2.bsky.social · 22h

Virginia Roberts Giuffre the Epstein sexual victim, her book, Nobody's Girl, which only her brother and the publisher knows what is in it.

Comes out Tuesday.

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JPD @jpdink.bsky.social · 6h

This is an improvement. Yet I wonder about small town America. How is the local coverage going for the locals unaffiliated with some billionaire’s corporate digital fish-wrap?

JPD @jpdink.bsky.social · 7h

Seen. Heard. Counted. Together we move forward.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Sanders: Today, October 18th 2025, there are more people out on the streets in more communities all over our country than we have ever seen in American history

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20h

This really is a GREAT sign!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 20h

DC J6: 1.500 arrests
DC No Kings: zero

Tell me again which side is violent?

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JPD @jpdink.bsky.social · 7h

Good job Norman! Love seeing this post. Thank you.

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JPD @jpdink.bsky.social · 7h

And the small towns turned out big as well. Good job!

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17h

I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting.

Now the official line is crumbling. 1/

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newrepublic.com/article/2019...

Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.

As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?

newrepublic.com

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JPD @jpdink.bsky.social · 7h

Gavin is hitting them again with the brutal facts!

Or I guess maybe next the GOP could tell Americans the Romans screwed up the Julian calendar centuries ago and so all Democratic dates are wrong.

Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 1d

JPD @jpdink.bsky.social · 7h

Stunningly good job on the crust as well.

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