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The Real Zanetta @therealzanetta.bsky.social · 2h

He continues to show what a SMALL, PETTY, IGNORANT LITTLE thing of a man-boy he truly is.

Kristi Noem

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Whistler Heidi @whistlerheidi.bsky.social · 4m

Love it! #NoKings

ElCoroBoy @rjbg4.bsky.social · 1h

From one of yesterdays "No Kings" marches, starring South Park's Kristi Noem as "Alice" 🤣🤣🤣

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US Political Politics News 💙🌈🦋The Fighting Liberal Democrat @us-political-news.bsky.social · 47m

Don't tell Trump or Speaker Johnson or Kristi Noem...

But NYPD said there were no arrests at the peaceful No Kings protest in New York City...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25m

There are many iconic photos that depict the rise of the MAGA dictatorship. This is one of them. Using inmates of a Salvadoran torture prison as a backdrop for your fascist image-building, that's Kristi Noem.

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💙 True Blue Believer 💙 @truebluebeliever.bsky.social · 15h

#NoKingsEver #We💙America #WeAreStrongerTogether

WE HAVE BEEN TOO QUIET FOR TOO LONG. THERE COMES A TIME WHEN YOU HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING. YOU HAVE TO MAKE A LITTLE NOISE. YOU HAVE TO MOVE YOUR FEET. NOW IS THE TIME. - JOHN LEWIS

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

"I think there's no question that Donald Trump wants [John Bolton's] prosecution to proceed because that book makes [Trump] look like a fool. ... The classified information allegedly in the drafts wasn't the issue, the issue was that Trump didn't like how he knew Bolton was going to portray him."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

"The New York Police Department said Saturday afternoon that it had not made any protest-related arrests. The D.C. police also said Saturday afternoon that it had made no protest-related arrests."

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19h

Large crowds are gathering across the country on Saturday for a new round of “No Kings” protests against President Trump, amid tensions over a government shutdown, immigration crackdowns and military deployments to fight crime in Democratic-led cities. https://wapo.st/48w1pbA

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19h

Large crowds are gathering across the country on Saturday for a new round of “No Kings” protests against President Trump, amid tensions over a government shutdown, immigration crackdowns and military deployments to fight crime in Democratic-led cities. https://wapo.st/48w1pbA

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings! Just a Cava bag with $50,000 in it. Normal stuff.

#NoKings @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

📍Washington, D.C.

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Ïne Back Ïversen @ineiversen.bsky.social · 20h

now fully behind EU’s new sanctions on russia.

The 19th sanctions package includes:
🚫 Full ban on russian LNG imports from Jan 2027
💶 New financial and energy restrictions

Another door closes on the Kremlin’s cash flow. ⬇️

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Whistler Heidi @whistlerheidi.bsky.social · 15h

#NoKings

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 20h

The sexual harassment allegations uncovered by Politico are fucking wild.

Jeffrey Tucker was accused of trying to dress women up like they were “dolls” and other sex pest behavior like encouraging people to have sexual relationships.

AIER sounds absolutely miserable and weird as hell.

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AIER leadership and senior staff stood by and took no action while former AIER

Editorial Director Jeffery Tucker dressed the female staff members, interns and other affiliated

iters up in old fur coats bought from estate sales by Jeffery Tucker and paid for by AlER.

Later the pressure to wear and model pearl necklaces was also introduced by Jeffery Tucker.
ANSWER: Respondents deny the allegations contained in Paragraph 13.

14. AIER leadership, including but not limited to Jeffery Tucker and Edward
Stringham, would insist that the women model the furs and then ogle the women and gape at them, asking the males and females in attendance, i.e., the females' coworkers and managers,
"Isn't' she beautiful?" and "Doesn't she look lovely dressed like this?".
ANSWER: Respondents deny the allegations as written in Paragraph 14.
15. Jeffery Tucker offered a fur coat to a visiting scholar and told her he wanted her
to wear one. He told her he buys them for "women in the house".
SWER: Respondents have insufficient information as to the truth or falsity of this
vague allegation, and so, they deny it.
Jeffery Tucker routinely told the women in attendance at AlER happy hours and
dinners how to sit and act, as if they were dolls he was positioning.
ANSWER: Respondents deny the allegations contained in Paragraph 16.

20. Jeffery Tucker openly told the interns, visiting fellows, scholars, conference
attendees and staff members about his prior lawsuits for sexual harassment and called the women
"tramps" and that they only wanted money.
ANSWER: Respondents deny the allegations contained in Paragraph 20.
21. In May 2020, Jeffery Tucker told Mrs. Grochmal that he had previously been
sued for sexual harassment at AIER and the woman was a "slut" and a "gold 'digger".
ANSWER: Respondents lack sufficient information to admit or deny the allegations contained in Paragraph 21 and therefore deny same.
22. Starting in the late winter of 2020 and continuing throughout her employment at
AIER, Mrs. Grochmal also complained multiple times to her boss, Brad De Vos, about the sexual harassment and sexually hostile environment. He responded that Mrs. Grochmal should "not get involved". He stated that Jeffery Tucker had done this at his previous jobs and that it was only a matter of time before Jeffery was his own demise. He took no action.
ANSWER: Respondents deny the allegations contained in Paragraph'22.
23. Circa November/December 2020/January 2021, a female employee was washing
dishes in the AIER Gatehouse when Jeffery Tucker came up behind her and started massaging her. The intern told Human Resources who sent a Slack (internal messaging system) message stating that employees were not to give massages to each other. No other action was taken and AIER deleted the Slack message.
ANSWER: Respondents have insufficient information at this time to admit or deny the allegations contained in Paragraph 23. Further answering, Gail Roger has no recollection of the female employee informing her of the alleged incident or that she (Roger) sent a Slack message or later deleted it as alleged.
24. In the late winter 2020/early spring of 2021, there were physical and verbal fights between upper management and their staff lovers in AIER buildings.
ANSWER: Respondents deny the allegations contained in Paragraph …

45. Jeffrey Tucker's sexualization of the atmosphere at AIER and objectification of
the women at AlER sent the message to other males at AlER that making sexual overtures at work was acceptable and encouraged. Jeffrey Tucker would publicly pressure AIER employees to have romantic relationships, which made them uncomfortable.
ANSWER: Respondents deny the allegations contained in Paragraph 45.
46. Jeffrey Tucker pressured the interns, fellows and staff members to attend
ommunal dinners after work and drink alcohol.
ANSWER: Respondents deny the allegations contained in Paragraph 46.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 18h

More abdication of responsibility from the New York Times. They should be ashamed to publish garbage like this rather than doing their job and ESTIMATING crowd sizes for what may be THE LARGEST PROTEST in American history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/i...

How The Times Covers Crowds: Focusing on the Content, Not the Count

www.nytimes.com

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PhatRhat @phatrhat.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking hell. What is it that the world still needs to hear before these fuckers are held accountable in their courts of law? The biggest, most abusive child abuse ring in modern times, probably only 2nd to the Catholic Church, and who the fuck, in some kind of governance, is *doing something*.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Virginia Giuffre’s brother responds to Prince Andrew giving up royal titles

#Newsnight

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA1l1bgETvs

"Happy & sad tears" | Virginia Giuffre’s brother responds to Prince Andrew giving up royal titles

YouTube video by BBC Newsnight

www.youtube.com

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Whistler Heidi @whistlerheidi.bsky.social · 15h

😂😂😂

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 23h

This is a blatant attempt to silence and isolate us. He’s stopping the trains, closing the freeways and firing live rounds into California. We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced. #NoKings

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20h

Hark, Speaker Mike Johnson! Looking at all the many, many pics of the enormous, joyous “No Kings” rallies throughout the United States today, I am struck by what lovely weather your Lord and Savior provided. Apparently, God is a fan of, as you claimed, "America-hating Antifa terrorists." Glory!

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Whistler Heidi @whistlerheidi.bsky.social · 15h

Rooting for my American neighbours from the Canadian mountains! So much respect for what America accomplished today! #NoKings

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 16h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

That’s a lot of Soros checks.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21h

Times Square, NYC. #NoKings

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Robert Genaille @robertgenaille.bsky.social · Sep 9

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
- Antonio Gramsci

Watching the current international order collapse in on itself is not something I thought I would be alive for and it is something I would have preferred not to be experiencing.

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Robert Genaille @robertgenaille.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone should be angry about injustice. Not just those experiencing it.- Mikki Kendall

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 15h

From Colombia’s President regarding one of the illegal U.S. strikes in the Caribbean.

La lancha atacada el 16 de septiembre era colombiana, tenía un motor arriba en señal de daño y estaba apagada, presumiblemente estaba en aguas colombianas, quien estaba allí era un pescador de toda la vida: Alejandro Carranza, que no ha vuelto a su casa.

Alerta a la fiscalía general de la Nación. Le solicito actuar de inmediato. Otorgar protección inmediata a los familiares víctimas y asociarlas, si quieren, a las víctimas de Trinidad Tobago para iniciar acciones judiciales en el mundo y en la justicia de los EEUU
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The boat attacked on September 16 was Colombian, had one engine up, a sign of damage, and was turned off. It was presumably in Colombian waters. The person there was a lifelong fisherman: Alejandro Carranza, who has not returned home.

Alert the Attorney General's Office. I urge immediate action. Provide immediate protection to the victims' families and, if they wish, join the victims in Trinidad and Tobago to pursue legal action internationally and in the U.S. courts.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19h

#NOKINGS
100K+ in Chicago

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