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No Kings Oct 18

@noone81.bsky.social

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Anti-fascist. Come get me YamTits. https://www.nokings.org/#map

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No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 19d

💡💡”accurately call it exactly the “civility” that centrists like Klein otherwise pretend to champion, …. These codes of neighborliness or of common decency are, in other words, the bare minimum for us to exist peacefully as profoundly different people who nevertheless share the same time and place.”

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 4h

“What I do know is he didn’t violate a crime.” JD 🤣🤣🤣

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

GS: “Did Homan keep the $50,000 bribe?”

VANCE: “I don’t even know what you’re talking about.” 🤔

GS: “You didn’t answer the Q… We’ll be right back.”

GS gets fed up with Vance’sabsurd lying and gaslighting — and eventually cuts him off mid-sentence.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 4h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 5h

I am that jerk who sends you “it used this much electricity and water” when you send our group chats AI gen ghibli and Ai slop. Sorry. I’m not gonna make you feel good about the cute BS “art”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

#MedicareForAll

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No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 9h

Check your local event. It is just as important to band together with familiar face neighbors and community as trekking to major city centers/DC.

www.nokings.org#map

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 20h

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump says military members will be paid despite government shutdown

President claims he found a way to pay troops and directed Pentagon chief to release funds on 15 October

www.theguardian.com

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

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

The Pentagon has to provide The New York Times information about Elon Musk’s security clearances, a federal judge ruled Wednesday—and the billionaire’s own posting habits helped decide the case. trib.al/f74QkIn

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 1d

State Murder. Systemic Racism. Implicit bias. An innocent man having a medical emergency while still in his public service work uniform is dead.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

“For more than three hours, correctional officers can be seen walking past his cell while he lay on the floor in obvious distress.

The jail nurse was not called until a female guard noted he was foaming at the mouth and having seizure-like activity.”

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 2d

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No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 2d

Also making them social pariahs

No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t believe in prisons but I am all about restitution to taxpayers and their victims!

No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 2d

Sign petition here: www.change.org/p/disband-th...

Sign the Petition

Disband the Rutgers Chapter of Turning Point USA

www.change.org

No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 2d

Sign the petition here: www.change.org/p/disband-th...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

I would go further and say that everyone deserves basic necessities to live whether they have a job or not.

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No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 2d

www.explainsthejoke.com

Cards Against Humanity Explains the Joke

An incredible product totally exempt from Trump's stupid tariffs.

www.explainsthejoke.com

No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 2d

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs with an edition that explains all the jokes, says 'this holiday season… don’t give Donald Trump a f***ing cent'

For US customers only.

www.pcgamer.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

“We have the money. Damn near ALL of it.”

@laurajedeed.bsky.social saying what many have been thinking — as Trump threatens to pull funding from blue cities, blue cities should be looking at withholding federal taxes in retaliation: www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/the-point-...

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

trib.al

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3d

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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No Kings Oct 18 @noone81.bsky.social · 3d

Look, I'm really sorry about this, but I'm just trying to make my nut.

Got a Nut episode of South Park screenshot of angsty/distressed Mr. Mackey with green face mask dressed in ICE style police vest and black shirt with black van and green stripe with “ICE” in white text and “border patrol” on van side. A family (females male and toddler) is in the background with another masked agent wearing a blue hate and two more obstructed from view agents behind Mackey along with a labeled vehicle “CE” (“i” cut off from view).