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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 2h

Join the pro democracy movement. See our pinned post for international solidarity protests here in Greece. #NoKings #NoTyrants

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2h

The Trump regime wants us to be afraid, but we’re on track to make Saturday the biggest day of peaceful protest in modern US history. There are No Kings events almost everywhere — join us to make it clear we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 8h

Join the pro democracy movement:
#NoKings #Indivisble #IndivisibleAbroad #NoTyrants

Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 5d

No Tyrants : Global Day of Defiance October 18th at 2 PM.
Athens: Monastiraki Square
Thessaloniki: White Tower

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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 8h

Join the pro democracy movement:
#NoKings #Indivisble #IndivisibleAbroad #NoTyrants

Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 5d

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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 8h

Every time they say Antifa, we say pro democracy. Not because we aren’t anti-fascist, but because ‘pro democracy movement’ is what you call it when a populace peacefully demands their democratic rights from a corrupt authoritarian regime.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 14h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 5d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Major airports are refusing to air Kristi Noem’s propaganda video blaming Democrats for the shutdown, and there’s a reason: it violates the Hatch Act

You can’t use taxpayer resources for partisan attacks. Period.

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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 1d

Corrupt, corrupt, corrupt:

bsky.app/profile/rwei...

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1d

The questions remain. Why did White House border czar Tom Homan accept a bag with $50,000 cash? Who was it from? What was promised in exchange? Why did the DOJ close the investigation? How does bribery and corruption make America great? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Pressed on Tom Homan controversy, JD Vance and Pam Bondi struggle to answer

The attorney general and the vice president confronted straightforward questions about the scandal surrounding the border czar. Both Republicans struggled.

www.msnbc.com

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

kieranhealy.org

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Tessa Duvall @tessaduvall.bsky.social · 1d

Major news outlets including the NYT, WaPo, the WSJ & CNN won’t agree to a new Defense Department policy restricting journalists’ communication with military sources.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth famously shared details of a military operation in real time in a group chat with a journalist.

Major Media Outlets Rebuff New Pentagon Press Policy

The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and CNN are among the outlets that have said they won’t sign a new Defense Department media policy.

www.wsj.com

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

This. And this again.

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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 1d

Big demonstrations in Greece today. Ours is on Saturday.
#NoKings #NoTyrants

Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 5d

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

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been sitting with this the last few hours. It’s really hitting me just how fucking depraved you have to be to respond to an inquiry about an abducted child with a screenshot of a post on elon musk’s hellsite smearing this kid who has no ability to defend himself. It’s unfathomable.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 1d

We cannot allow an American Gestapo to become normalized.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 1d

the government is kidnapping children

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes it feels like there’s nothing we can do, as citizens, especially when we live elsewhere. But what we can do is make it clear that this corrupt and authoritarian government disgusts us: bsky.app/profile/radg...
#NoKings #NoTyrants #October18th

Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 5d

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

Home of the Brave launched a $1 million national ad campaign in support of the peaceful No Kings rallies on Oct. 18th.

The ads will run in over 185 local papers and The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post calling on Americans to “peacefully protest our false king."

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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, @indivisibleabroad.bsky.social bsky.social, in case any of your followers are in Greece: Our pro-democracy protests on the 18th will be at 2 PM, Greek time, at the White Tower in Thessaloniki and in MonastIraki Square in Athens.
#NoKings #NoTyrants

Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 5d

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 2d

“This is setting us up for the Insurrection Act,” Dr. Jason Stanley warns of Trump's authoritarian tactics in cities across America. “I think we are facing the moment in which a coup is happening. This is the moment.” What’s needed now, he adds, is full-scale nonviolent resistance. #Velshi

‘A coup is happening’: A new warning against Trump’s authoritarian slide

In a stark warning, Dr. Jason Stanley says America is entering a dangerous period with President Trump’s growing rhetoric against the so-called “radical left” and “domestic terrorists.” “I think we are facing the moment in which a coup is happening,” Stanley warns. “This is the moment,” he says, and adds that what’s needed now is full-scale, nonviolent resistance.

www.msnbc.com

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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes it feels like there’s nothing we can do, as citizens, especially when we live elsewhere. But what we can do is make it clear that this corrupt and authoritarian government disgusts us: bsky.app/profile/radg...
#NoKings #NoTyrants #October18th

Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 5d

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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 2d

They are so profoundly corrupt.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 3d

Join us on Saturday. #NoKings #NoTyrants

Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 5d

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Rescue American Democracy: ❌👑 @radgreece.bsky.social · 5d

Be like the frogs of Portland and stand against fascism.
October 18th, 2 PM.

A screenshot from The Oregonian showing two protesters in inflatable frog suits. They are carrying a sign that reads Frogs Together Strong and the caption says Portland’s protest frogs are multiplying.

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