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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 3h

The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 4h

Portland ICE facility now.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3h

So the GOP was "mostly quiet" all day today during the protests, and apparently spent all that time to come up with the strategy of responding with "hell yes, we want Trump as king?" and they think that's going to resonate?

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

Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day

Outside of typical remarks from Donald Trump, JD Vance and Mike Johnson and a Fox News report, party stayed mum

www.theguardian.com

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 4h

If your newspaper doesn't have no kings as the top us story today, throw it in the trash and don't look back

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 3h

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants

Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

www.gelliottmorris.com

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siobhan @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 5h

mr trump as your comms strategist i can only encourage you to keep depicting yourself as a mad king dumping shit on people

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

Trump's Truth Social account just posted this AI video of him flying a fighter jet that reads "King Trump."

AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 7h

That is, they have millions too. But I don’t think you could get men, women, and children of all types and in all 50 states to give up a nice Saturday to show it.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 7h

There is no final victory or defeat. There is only a new phase of the battle.

AnnieOPopoAgie 💙💙💙 @annieopopoagie.bsky.social · 7h

And Nixon still hopes for a fight??

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 7h

Keep the faith.

Sean Gill @seangill.bsky.social · 7h

Even in Seattle they know there’s one leader who could unite our country

A sign at a rally bears the phrase “I miss Nixon”

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Stage Write @stagewrite.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you for listening, sir.

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Swarm of cheese @stoney.monster · 5h

It’s not about changing minds, it’s a political show of force
and a warning.

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Angryblackbiguy @angryblackbiguy.bsky.social · 5h

Anyone who was out in the masses will tell you what it does. It gives you hope. You cannot be in that sea of humanity and not be moved. Cynicism is not always needed. The crowds were joyful in Chicago. That joy matters.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 5h

First, it staves off apathy, cynicism, and despair.

Second, it demonstrates to those who might use violence against innocent civilians that they would be doing so against grannies, kids, neighbors.

Third, it shows allies and partners that the America they need is alive.

𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 5h

Here is my question, and it’s an earnest one I promise: whose mind will it change and to what end?

I don’t have any answers about what we need to do. But like, we did protests in 2017, and 2020. Among the biggest in NATIONAL HISTORY. Voting in my opinion has a much more direct effect than this.

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 7h

The numbers I am seeing, and the breadth of people and places with basically no arrests and so forth, seem to me an unqualified political loss for them. It is a show of strength rather than the fight itself, but you can’t downplay it.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5h

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way:

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

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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Priscilla Maloney @priscillamaloney.bsky.social · 4h

If we're talking about true heroes-how about this one instead: bsky.app/profile/john...

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4h

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.”

Damn. Just … damn.

Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 6h

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 5h

In case you were wondering, @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and I made it home safe, just like the rest of the 7 million out today. Now we're watching Ghostbusters and scrolling through social media for No Kings content. SNL later maybe?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 5h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Priscilla Maloney @priscillamaloney.bsky.social · 4h

Look at his eyes as he is speaking.

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Elaine F. Almquist @ealmquist.bsky.social · 4h

Be like Ret. Army Brian Wofford.

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kkmortier @kkmortier.bsky.social · 4h

We need more Sgt. Woffords right now and every day after.

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Priscilla Maloney @priscillamaloney.bsky.social · 4h

This is stunning. The most powerful thing I've heard from today.

Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 6h

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

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Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 6h

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

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Priscilla Maloney @priscillamaloney.bsky.social · 4h

This is stunning.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4h

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.”

Damn. Just … damn.

Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 6h

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 7h

My grandmother, a Nixon/Clinton Republican, was trending Bernie by the time she died in 2021. She was the nicest, gentlest, best person I ever met. But she was poor in the Depression. Don’t cross her. If she’d seen ICE she’d be ready to bury a few in the cornfield.

Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 8h

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

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