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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 1d

If she ain't got bail money and a year of drinks in that gofundme the Internet has failed at everything

thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 1d

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

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Lilly of the Weekends 🪿 @theejadedvet.bsky.social · 18h

This is incredible and for once I might watch college football

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 1d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Lilly of the Weekends 🪿 @theejadedvet.bsky.social · 18h

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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:

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Lilly of the Weekends 🪿 @theejadedvet.bsky.social · 18h

I know they're up there, but I don't expect them to be smack in the middle of a pretty well-traveled trail. Tho it was the tree across the path that really caught me by surprise -- because while I'm not looking for bears, I'm *absolutely* looking for copperheads. It's that time of year.

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Lilly of the Weekends 🪿 @theejadedvet.bsky.social · 18h

The bear, finding me unconscious on the trail: I feel bad about scaring her and I *was* just having some nice berries, but she probably wouldn't pass up free steak either 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Lilly of the Weekends 🪿 @theejadedvet.bsky.social · 18h

Saw a bear in the wild for the first time yesterday, up on that ridge. Proceeded to scramble my gimpy ass down the rocky hill I was on so fast that I didn't see the tree growing crooked across the path...and nearly knocked myself out. 😵

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics

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Dinner in Alaska 🏴‍☠️ 🫎 @dinnerinalaska.bsky.social · 1d

They’re eating the dogs says the dog 😂

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Looking forward to hearing the NYPD is woke lol

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#NYC #NoKings 👑

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Lilly of the Weekends 🪿 @theejadedvet.bsky.social · 1d

Sad when with zero context you immediately know who the two blonde whores are, and even sadder when you know what positions they hold. Other than on their knees, of course.

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🔥🗽🔥SoCal Redhead🔥🗽🔥 @vlf79.bsky.social · 1d

They closed the 5.

This is the stupidest thing our #military could agree with doing. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

So no terrorism then?

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 1d

When they said fuck nazis they meant it and they are really fucking confused as to how that message has been mixed

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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 1d

I am in the reddest of the reddest of the fuck you red states.

They done pissed off everyone who wants to know who raised them cause they sure didn't. People who man polls, who volunteer, who are known and trusted locally.

They are protesting, because democracy. Full stop.

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D. @momadancer.bsky.social · 1d

Nice job Madtown

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Joe DeLong @joedelong.bsky.social · 1d

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

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Unknown Belgian Taper @runawaypiper.com · 1d

Algorithmically compiled block lists are prone to error but this one is being confirmed manually

Thank you Marsha

Marsha (Scary Name)🔐 @marsha.bsky.social · 2d

This is a working block list for new MAGA accounts that have signed up since the White House signed up bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Lilly of the Weekends 🪿 @theejadedvet.bsky.social · 1d

I LOVE that the anti-fascists appropriated fascist culture and did THIS with it 🐸🖕🏼😆 #NoKings

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

We have frogs everywhere. #NoKings

A photo of a person in a frog costume holding sings that read “You’re Fired” (alongside a drawing of Godzilla) at the No Tyrants protest in Tokyo, Japan.

A photo of over a dozen people standing on steps at the No Kings protest in Melbourne, Australia. There are multiple “NO KINGS” signs and a person in a frog costume is at the front of the protest.

A photo of over a dozen people at the No Tyrants protest in Barcelona, Spain. A person in a frog costume is holding a sign that reads “I STAND WITH OREGON/EL PUEBLO UNIDO/ABOLISH ICE/NO TYRANTS.”

A photo of dozens of people at the No Kings protest in Frankfurt, Germany. A person in a frog costume is shown walking alongside a person in a unicorn costume.

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Lilly of the Weekends 🪿 @theejadedvet.bsky.social · 1d

"Immigrant advocates and observers say" gee too bad there aren't investigative journalists who could look into this and report it as FACT instead of hearsay 🤔

Ffs @npr.org

NPR @npr.org · 2d

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.