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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

Hope folks feel less alone today, that people join with others to take further and deeper actions, and that everyone fights like hell to protect those most vulnerable to this regime.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

I say all of the time that sincerity is a virtue and it is. I like earnestness.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19h

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 · 20h

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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marybeck9.bsky.social @marybeck9.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings!
Dubuque, Iowa

#nokings #Dubuque #iowa

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 21h

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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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19h

They didn't turn up looking for a fight. They weren't in riot gear for once. No mounted police and I didn't see any snipers (though I might just not have seen them). A lot of the cops weren't even in normal gear they were in like polo shirts

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

ZERO arrests at No Kings in NYC. (And the NYPD isn’t notorious for being sympathetic with people anti-Trump.)

This proves what shameless liars Speaker Mike Johnson & Karoline Leavitt are to slander the participants as violent anarchists.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I find it strange how rarely people in the U.S. and outside of it truly contend with how VAST the country is geographically.

Folks LOVE to mention France but Paris has a population of 2 million people and is 40 square miles.

NYC has a population of 8.5 million and is over 460 square miles

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23h

‼️CONFIRMED: Nearly 7 million people turned out for No Kings today.

With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, today’s mobilization was 14 times larger than both of Trump’s presidential inaugurations combined, marking a historic moment of unity and resistance.
#NoKings

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Bob Van Meter @bobvm.bsky.social · 1d

Several hundred gathered for No Kings protest in Acton, Massachusetts this afternoon beside our revolutionary war monument.

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 1d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Nancy Lucía López @cybergata.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings Downtown Albuquerque, Oct. 18, 2025. Video courtesy VisionBroadcast Media LLC. I love my city. #Albuquerque #NewMexico

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Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 1d

Would you say 10,000 people today? It was huge!

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Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 1d

I also bought this cabbage from a tent on my way back to my car.

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Kathy Gibson @kathyfgibson.bsky.social · 1d

Estimated about 10,000 people at the Naperville #NoKings rally. Both pastors who spoke said we can’t go back to the way things were. We need to build a better country for everyone. Tons of cute dogs. A bunch of us helped someone push their stalled car out of an intersection. It was great.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

If you were out in the streets today, thanks. If you left feeling inspired, please seek out local ways that you can keep organizing with others.

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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 1d

Raleigh Indivisible had a table with other ways to get involved and was running a fundraiser for school snacks to highlight cuts to the school nutrition program.

They did a great job!

Table with report ICE brochures, pins and other materials.

Table with buttons, brochures, and other materials.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 1d

HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd of protesters flood the streets of San Diego for a “No Kings Day” rally showing their love for America and standing up against the corrupt fascist Trump administration. look how huge it is

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

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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derangedme @derangedme.bsky.social · 1d

Here at #nokings in Lisle/Naperville. I thought the sign was self-explanatory … sigh

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI earlier this month, I wrote this about going to the Broadview ICE facility and the horrors ICE & DHS are inflicting on Chicago (and Chi is certainly not alone in this) www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

www.vanityfair.com

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Josh @hatefuljosh.bsky.social · 1d

I did not like FRANKENSTEIN, but I will say that if you are interested it's definitely worth the trip to a cinema rather than watching it at home.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago cyclists are buying out tamale carts to keep vendors home and safe from ICE. blockclubchi.co/42KQ57O

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2d

ICE raided the Swap-O-Rama flea market and was out on the SW Side where they went back and forth with a man who called them Nazis. Read our story from Back of the Yards. With @ckubzansky.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/17/s...

Federal immigration agents raid Swap-O-Rama, patrol Southwest Side: ‘It’s us against y’all’

A battery of armed agents covering their faces entered the open-air shopping staple of the Back of the Yards neighborhood Thursday morning. DHS said it arrested 13 people in the raid.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

FRANK RICH: “.. Mamdani’s secret power, I’d argue, is that he can never be president. .. not angling to go to Washington or be anointed the ‘savior’ of the Democratic Party ..

“.. he is a politician who actually wants to do the job .. a truly radical idea.”

@nymag.com
nymag.com/intelligence...

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