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Jen Willis 💫🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 3h

I've had this experience, too, at rallies small and large.

I also think a lot about my grandfather, a career soldier who fought in both World Wars and retired as a Major General — and hope he'd be proud of us for standing up.

The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 3h

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

"The evil Jew is funding the entire US left" is a piece of rank, obvious antisemitism that we have just collectively decided to accept in public, because IOKYR.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Ernst: "I think it is extremely important that we look at who is funding these protests. We have to get to the bottom of this. It could be the usual suspect -- George Soros."

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 7h

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️

ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t have a very artistic eye. I’ve always had trouble framing photos. I’m trying to take more time to look at different angles and zooms so can snap a photo I’d like to look at. Here are some recent efforts.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 7h

Young Republican private texts are filled with deranged racism, sexism, and a fetish for violence, yes, but do you know where else you can find people on the right talking like that?

X. Reddit. TikTok. YouTube. Pods. Blogs.

This is just who they are, there's no f'ing revelation about it.

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 8h

There's a community college in Colorado that keeps advertising a job for an astronomy faculty. I get so excited each time I see it because that's, like, IDEAL. But every time I click it the body of the job ad says it's for an adjunct position. This is why I have trust issues.

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 8h

It's that time of the month when I realized that I spent way too much time reading up on the topic of my monthly lecture and now that I've read a bunch I realized that really I read the wrong stuff and now I have to rush to get the lecture done. Every month, like clockwork 👍

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 9h

“what point was he trying to make” feels like a pretty obvious follow up question

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?

MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 11h

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

Conservatives don’t know what satire is, it’s a word Rush Limbaugh taught them to say whenever they can’t justify or defend something bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?

MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.

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Dr. Mindy Townsend 🌻💫 @vogonpoetry.bsky.social · 9h

what a little twerp

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?

MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 22h

The only excuse Lois Lane has for why her interviewing Superman isn't unethical, despite their romantic entanglement, is that it would be even more unethical for the paper's other top reporter, who is Superman, to interview himself, yet she cannot say this. This dilemma should be taught in J-school.

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Evan Wilhelms @evanwilhelms.bsky.social · 10h

Lol there were like 1500 in *Wooster, Ohio* on Saturday

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 13h

Arguably, one company should not be responsible for 33% of online services

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13h

Amazon cloud business hit by outage on.ft.com/4hkjs6Z

Amazon cloud business hit by outage

AWS reports ‘operational issue’ affecting ‘multiple services’

on.ft.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 23h

Failure to return the shopping cart to one of the cart returns if you are able is a sign of someone who does not value the social contract.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing.

And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power.

When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Could not be clearer that we’re in a moment of almost universal elite rebellion against any kind of restriction or limit. You saw this shift in all the rhetoric too; Trump I was all about the little guy but everyone dropped that and started talking about grindset and being “aristocratic.”

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

one interesting thing is the collapse of mass support for trump before he took office. his in-person events were sparsely attended. his conventional fundraising (donations in the dollar to thousand dollar range) was more or less nonexistent.

Trump I was a grassroots phenomenon. Trump II was elite.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 1d

The "tactical frivolity" of dressing up like a giant penis is so next level here because it perfectly illustrates just how absurd policing is.

thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 2d

#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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UncannyKyle @uncannykyle.bsky.social · 2d

Downtown Sioux Falls, South Dakota, home of Senate Leader John Thune. Don’t let anyone tell you we’re not fighting in the red states. #NoKings

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Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector editor in chief @journalist-sherman.bsky.social · 2d

I went to rural Kansas to cover a love-themed No Kings rally in the shadow of a detention center that houses about 150 immigrants #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/10/18/s...

Small No Kings event puts love ahead of politics in rural Kansas town where immigrants are detained • Kansas Reflector

Kay Krause hosts a "love in action" rally at her house in Cottonwood Falls as part of the 42 No Kings events that were planned across the state as part of a nationwide uprising.

kansasreflector.com

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Amras, A Werewolf Story θ∆ @amras.me · 2d

I don’t have kids, I don’t want kids, I don’t particularly enjoy being around kids. But let me be very clear and as unambiguous as possible: I STILL WANT MY TAXES AND SPARE GOING TO FEED KIDS, YES, 100%, YES.

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 2d

Let me go on the record: as much money I have, whatever I can spare, I will ALWAYS want the extra to go to feed children

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"Do you really want your tax dollars going to feed someone else's kids??"
Yes! 1000% yes, 1 want my taxes to help feed hungry kids. WTF is wrong with people?

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 2d

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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