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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 12h

Pro-regime media is funded by your wordle addiction. If you or someone you know is struggling with a NYT subscription please show them video games

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14h

New NYT euphemism just dropped

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John Breen @acab.dad · 7m

If you don’t know what Femi (or Mayor Johnson) is referencing here, check out Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. DuBois.

It’ll change how you see the Civil War, and particularly the role of enslaved Black people.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 41m

so here's the bit where he says it - notable that he explicitly links it to the General Strike interpretation of Civil Wars history

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BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom)

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson calls for a general strike against the “tyranny” of Trump and the greed of the ultra-rich. An estimated 300,000 filled the streets for the “No Kings” march, powerfully re...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2h

So we can agree, finally, that opposing authoritarianism directly, on its own terms, for what it is, is politically powerful?

I'd say this IS the "kitchen-table" issue, given that people sat around their kitchen tables to make signs, and then showed up in public in truly historic numbers.

Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 10h

“Largest single-day protest in American history.” Roughly 2% of the population rose up to demand the restoration of democracy. So powerful.
From @gelliottmorris.com

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Second "No Kings Day" protests the largest single-day political protest ever*, with 5.2-8.2 million participants

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

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 2h

This wins the internet today

Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 3h

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 5h

It's less than 24 hours after 5-8 million Americans marched against a president who called them domestic terrorists, and there is zero reference to it on the current NYT home page, except for a Bouie op/ed that came out several days earlier.

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 11h

It’s just wild how this short Onion piece is more accurate and insightful than most news coverage over the past two years.

CAIRO-As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. "In line with the terms of the deal, Hamas will release all remaining Israeli hostages, and Israel will still murder innocent Palestinian civilians on a regular basis, but at a slightly slower pace than we have been of late," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, ratifying the accord that would temporarily promote the systematic discrimination, dehumanization, and persecution of the Palestinian people over their outright genocide. "Once the hostages are freed, we will dial down the attacks on Gaza hospitals, schools, and aid centers by roughly 10%, give or take. I have had my staff lay out a less rigorous schedule for committing atrocities, and in the down time, the IDF can always fall back on horrific maiming practices and general torture. It was a major concession on my part, but I have been convinced that it's the only way to get our people home safe, and for Israel to continue committing human rights violations without consequence." Netanyahu assured the rest of the world it would soon go back to never hearing about the routine slaughter of the Palestinian people, as opposed to barely hearing about it.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

The genocide continues.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12h

BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.

Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire

Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 11h

I think this is the right comparison to make, and it’s basically a man bites dog / dog bites man scenario. These legacy papers don’t think liberal protests are a surprise, so the coverage isn’t given priority

Pamela Oliver @pamelaoliver.bsky.social · 11h

I am remembering how the Tea Party protests in the Obama administration (2009-2010) were covered and thinking about how that coverage compares to the No Kings protests. #contentiousky

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 12h

Nominal wage growth for the bottom quartile is below late 2010’s levels while core inflation and interest rates are higher — it’s probably the worst time for that cohort since at least the early 2010’s:

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 12h

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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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 20h

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Yves Montand "Bella ciao" | Archive INA

YouTube video by Ina Chansons

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 21h

The record protests are the 6th headline down on the NYT mobile app.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 22h

HOLD UP. George Santos is the lead story on the @nytimes.com website on Saturday night? Not the millions of Americans protesting Donald Trump today at 2,700 events in all 50 states? Come on.
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Social Media, Pleas From Allies and Prison Essays: How Santos Won His Freedom

On Friday evening, President Trump commuted the sentence of former Representative George Santos. “Good luck George, have a great life!” the president said.
Santos’s Release Frustrates His Former Colleagues and Constituents

George Santos, the disgraced former Republican congressman, was freed from prison on Friday after President Trump commuted his sentence. On Long Island, in his former district, some people called the decision an outrage.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22h

This is Boise, Idaho one of the most Republican states in the US joining millions of protestors. The people have had enough of the Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 21h

Protesters aren't the rioters. The cops are.

Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 22h

Los Angeles, CA -

Absolute chaos resulting from LAPD charge using batons, horse mounted units, “less lethal” projectiles. Protesters going in every direction. LAPD themselves don’t seem to know where protesters or press are supposed to be.

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Hannah 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @hanners64n.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings Nome Alaska 💥⚡

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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!

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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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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 1d

Just arrived on the scene at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. Here less than 10 minutes when agents charged out of the facility and used a pale yellow gas that caused tears and coughing in crowd members. Also shot munitions at those retreating.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 22h

Portland ICE facility now.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago No Kings

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 22h

Had a similar experience in Chicago today. Though did roll my eyes real hard when some White lady thanked the cops for “keeping us safe”.

JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve been at enough NYC protests and marches over the years to feel pretty certain that there was some central decision to police this one with a very light touch. Not for nothing, but I was struck how often the officers telling us to move back to the sidewalk said “please”.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23h

“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 · 1d

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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ACTupper @actupper.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like the universities slowly all going "Nah." to the regime's attempt coerce fealty is an important bellwether too. The panic is starting to fade at institutions, and they're seeing that cooperation doesn't guarantee protection. That impacts behavior.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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