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Loglady Marmalade (Coleen) @coldbean.bsky.social · 8h

Sadly, I overdid it using my busted foot these past few days and I have to stay off of it today, but I’m with the New Orleans no kings Palestinian liberation contingent in spirit #nokings #freePalestine #UnitarianUniversalist

First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans @firstuuneworleans.bsky.social · 2d

New Orleans UUs say No Kings! Join us Saturday, October 18, at 3:30 on the Lafitte Greenway.
Gather at the Lemann Swimming Pool mural (corner of N Prieur & Lafitte) at 3pm to walk together to the rally on the great lawn.
Bring signs & wear yellow! #uuSky #nolaSky #UnitarianUniversalist #NoKings

New Orleans UUs say No Kings! Join us Saturday, October 18, at 3:30 on the Lafitte Greenway for the New Orleans No Kings protest.
Gather at the Lemann Swimming Pool mural (corner of N Prieur & Lafitte) at 3pm to walk together to the No Kings rally on the great lawn.
Bring signs & wear yellow!

No Kings Rally in New Orleans
Saturday October 18
3:30pm
Lafitte Greenway

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Loueyville (Booeyville) @loueyville.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe my favorite living artist. Her silhouette exhibition at 21C here in Louisville years-- like 15+ yrs-- ago blew my mind.

(Fun fact: After I saw the exhibit, one night I got tipsy and painted a floor-to-ceiling silhouette of a tree in my living room. 🤷‍♀️ As you do. I guess. Still there.)

Lois Beckett @loisbeckett.bsky.social · 1d

Charlottesville finally took down its Confederate monuments in 2021.

The statue of Robert E. Lee was melted down.

The statue of Stonewall Jackson was given to artist Kara Walker.

This is what she did with it:

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

Breathtaking, unsettling, healing: a new exhibit by Black US artists transforms Confederate monuments

The sweeping exhibition Monuments opens in Los Angeles on 23 October and is on view through May

www.theguardian.com

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 8h

Protests in New Orleans are always so joyful - bands, costumes, props, dancing. Between that and the Portland anthropomorphic inflatables, this country is adopting the best of the weirdest.

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Malber1 @malber1.bsky.social · 7h

UP
AND FIGHT,
INEeD to BE ABLE TO TELl MY
GRANDCHILDREN
THAT I DID NOT STAY SILENT

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Malber1 @malber1.bsky.social · 7h

From the red state of Louisiana.

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Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social · 7h

It's really good to counter the administration's lies but let's put a big asterisk next to acting like the arrest decisions of a police department are indicative of a truth. The flip side of this is that those being arrested trying to defend their neighbors from ICE are "Hamas terrorists etc"

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 8h

Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.”

Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”

Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”

NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

#NYC #NoKings 👑

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Mamma Rougaroux @mammarougareaux.bsky.social · 6h

They are spending like they are in their last month on earth

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

“.. It was not immediately clear where the funding for the jets came from.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social · 7h

Folks not from Louisiana - this is Scalise's district, one of the reddest counties (called parishes here) in the country.

Mamma Rougaroux @mammarougareaux.bsky.social · 7h

Red Hammond Louisiana showed up!

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✨🌷🌸💐🌺✨Reluctant Fall Maenad✨🌺💐🌸🌷✨ @maenadjess.bsky.social · 7h

WAY TO GO CHICAGOOOO

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 7h

An astonishing crowd! By u/sandrakaufmann in r/chicago

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Malber1 @malber1.bsky.social · 6h

Across the world!

Live your life so people across the world don’t come out to protest your ass!

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 8h

If ten million people across the country skipped football, grilling, puttering around the house to come out in public to specifically say they hated me, I would probably feel pretty bad.

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Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social · 5h

Always

Screenshot of a blue sky post Melissa Paints
@melissavandiver.bsky.social
Like let's remember that the police are the perpetrators of the violence, it is their decision whether there is significant violence at any given demonstration.
Them choosing not to arrest any demonstrators in NYC today is not a neutral decision made in a vacuum
October 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I am B @greencpa.bsky.social · 11h

I’m proud to be a UU. Our religion has a long history of showing up for social justice, peace, and democracy.

#UU #PDX

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First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans @firstuuneworleans.bsky.social · 11h

We are proud to be in that number! #UU #UnitarianUniversalist #uuSky #NoKings #NoKingsNOLA

The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 1d

📢 The UUA is an official partner of the No Kings National Day of Mobilization—a movement for resistance, resilience & action.

✊ On Oct 18, UUs nationwide will join millions declaring: No Kings.

🔗 Resources: https://bit.ly/3INTThW
📰 UU World: https://bit.ly/4739W3a

#NoKings #UU #Democracy

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brainbolt.bsky.social @brainbolt.bsky.social · 5h

UU Proud

First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans @firstuuneworleans.bsky.social · 11h

We are proud to be in that number! #UU #UnitarianUniversalist #uuSky #NoKings #NoKingsNOLA

The Unitarian Universalist Association @uua.org · 1d

📢 The UUA is an official partner of the No Kings National Day of Mobilization—a movement for resistance, resilience & action.

✊ On Oct 18, UUs nationwide will join millions declaring: No Kings.

🔗 Resources: https://bit.ly/3INTThW
📰 UU World: https://bit.ly/4739W3a

#NoKings #UU #Democracy

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Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social · 5h

I can't *show* you the shit my mom texts me. Like it's risky to post that shit on the internet. She is a former Republican

Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 6h

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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Hell Baby 🍉 @champsuperstar.bsky.social · 5h

CBS News Chicago puts estimates at 200-250k attendees at Grant Park No Kings.

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Anonima NOLA @anonimanola.bsky.social · 5h

Also a shout out to everyone that handed us throws. New Orleans style. ❤️

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Anonima NOLA @anonimanola.bsky.social · 5h

Home from the New Orleans protest. No pics, because we didn't bring phones and were in costume. Shout out to the thousands of New Orleanians I saw out there.

Special thanks to Skeeta Hawk Brewery for serving the people and giving discounts to those in costumes. They busted their arses to serve us.

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 4h

I still think it's confusing. Like, how many frogs am I supposed to care about now?

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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NOLA.com @nolanews.bsky.social · 4h

Thousands gathered on the Lafitte Greenway lawn for the nationwide "No Kings 2.0"protest against what organizers described as the "authoritarian excesses and corruption of the Trump administration."

Photos: 'No Kings' Rally brings thousands to the Lafitte Greenway

Thousands gathered on the Lafitte Greenway lawn for the nationwide "No Kings 2.0"protest against what organizers described as the "authoritarian excesses and corruption of the Trump administration."

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Wolfmanning Skull 🎃 @manningkrull.bsky.social · 4h

We meet again

The same giant skeleton lady puppet from the post I'm quote posting. A day of the dead style puppet walking in a parade.

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marcorasi.bsky.social @marcorasi.bsky.social · 4h

Decatur street at dusk, New Orleans

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NOLA.com @nolanews.bsky.social · 4h

The second Louisiana Shrimp Festival/Shrimp Aid featured panels, food presentations and live music. SeaD Consulting presented on testing to determine if shrimp is local or imported in New Orleans, Saturday,