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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

No kid should ever have to protest or advocate for their friends’ basic humanity.

But they’re standing up at No Kings anyway.

A little boy holds a handmade sign with hearts glued to it. It reads, “leave my friends ALONE Donald Trump”. He’s bravely protesting at the No Kings Evanston protest.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 18h

I didn't get a picture of the best sign I saw today, but I remember what it said:

Somewhere in America
A little Hispanic girl
Is hiding in an attic
And keeping a diary.

#NoKings

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

While people continue to struggle to get FEMA aid approved after their lives were destroyed by natural disasters.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 10h

"No Kings" illustrates the uncomfortable truth about US politics: That the > 50% of white US people that want to turn the US into a white ethnostate (their words) is a lot of people. But the > 40% of white US people that don't want this, plus > 50% of brown people and > 90% of Black people, is more.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 5h

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 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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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 5h

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Trump calls Colombian President Petro an ‘illegal drug dealer’ and announces an end to US aid to the country.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 1d

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 8h

Deep and epic cut right here. So good!!

Ryan Hill @ryanhillart.bsky.social · 17h

WWII meme Kilroy was here as the Portland Frog

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Just a Housewife 🖇 @justahousewife.bsky.social · 18h

I am not Christian but this pleases me immensely.

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John Patrick Pullen @jppullen.com · 19h

youtube.com/shorts/H2eSV...

Meet the Portland protest frog that started a movement

YouTube video by The Oregonian

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 9h

And you're also mostly retired so those of us with small children who can't be there when the kiddos get sick thank you SO MUCH!!!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The antifa terrorist marxists are out

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 9h

How do we organize this? What are the examples you reference?

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 9h

Just said same thing!! Who knows what it's going to look like by then

Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 9h

Someone should tell them all that our current legal structure is actively being dismantled so...not sure what they learn about will still exist after they finish law school.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 17h

World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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Fear Captain @cheercaptain.wang · 17h

I wasn’t exaggerating it rules so hard

Pin from today’s No Kings protest showing Barney and Friends and the phrase “Join Antifa”

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

This really is a GREAT sign!

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Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 17h

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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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 16h

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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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 9h

Not sure where I would go. We've been here a long time at this point so really don't know anywhere else but... I suppose Mexican natives were here first. They didnt cross the border - America made the border cross them.

But... at what point do we start ignoring a family's history of invasion?

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 9h

Hi!! I'm directly descended from the original foreign invaders who came on the Mayflower in 1620.

My family stuck around, fought in Revolutionary War & later for the Union in the Civil War. But hey, we still invaded from a foreign place. Native Mexicans were here first.

Should I report myself?

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 9h

Not sure where I would go. We've been here a long time at this point so really don't know anywhere else but... I suppose Mexican natives were here first. They didnt cross the border - America made the border cross them.

But... at what point do we start ignoring a family's history of invasion?

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Liz C. Tyler @rebellawyer.bsky.social · 9h

Hi!! I'm directly descended from the original foreign invaders who came on the Mayflower in 1620.

My family stuck around, fought in Revolutionary War & later for the Union in the Civil War. But hey, we still invaded from a foreign place. Native Mexicans were here first.

Should I report myself?

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