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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 1h

Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson calls for a general strike, at least 300,000 people attended the protest. #3E #NoKings #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #EpsteinFiles

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1h

So much tear gas & flash grenades tonight at ICE in Portland. US Gestapo came out, pushed people back & held a line as other feds shot down tear gas canisters from the roof. People were dancing before this as an impromptu rave broke out

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Wilhelm Screams @atterg.bsky.social · 2h

I keep posting or commenting on the internet and then people interact with me and then I get really stressed out and then I just keep doing it more and more! 17 days sober. I should read a novel and put this rectangle away

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 3h

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 4h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 3h

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 4h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Wilhelm Screams @atterg.bsky.social · 3h

Going from crying because I think my mom's going to die, to laughing my fucking head off because of this pathetic shit... I don't know man. Good thing I've been crazy for a long time or I'd worry I was losing it

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 3h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 3h

Trump just posted an AI slop video of himself dumping shit on protestors from a fighter jet while wearing a crown, just in case you were wondering how today’s events impacted his mental health situation.

They’re losing. They’ve already lost. He will get a lot more weird and aggro from here on out.

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Wilhelm Screams @atterg.bsky.social · 3h

My dad's girlfriend aka my first and only and recently acquired cool mother-figure is suddenly in the hospital for blood poisoning from a cat bite and getting emergency surgery because she has no immune system

I'm so scared

Jesus fucking Christ we cannot have another death please God no

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 5h

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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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 9h

A play in three acts

Grok rebutting DHS, saying Will Stancill is not a threat

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Wilhelm Screams @atterg.bsky.social · 4h

I had to see it so you do too. Fucking disgusting. What the fuck is wrong with these people.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 5h

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h

Republicans have been calling the “No Kings” protests a “Hate America rally.” So, we asked protestors what they thought about it. Here are their responses.

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 6h

when i'm president we're going back to sealed beam headlights, mark my words

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Andy Heppelle🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇳🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @andyheppelle.bsky.social · 7h

Nice day at the beach in San Francisco, California #NoKings October 18, 2025

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Wilhelm Screams @atterg.bsky.social · 5h

According to Wikipedia, this makes today the second largest single-day multi-city protest in US history, after Earth Day 1970 (20mil) and followed by the first NoKings protest (5mil) a few months ago.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7h

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

Wilhelm Screams @atterg.bsky.social · 5h

Sticking with the analogy:

Since I want to swim, and want to be around other people who want to swim, I'm just going to join the fucking swim team.

Aaand giggling now remembering that Trump boat parade where a bunch of boats sank hahaha

Wilhelm Screams @atterg.bsky.social · 6h

Does anybody know if Enrique Tarrio is living in Vancouver, WA again? Because I'm pretty sure I saw him this morning in a large white vehicle. I might be hallucinating though.

Wilhelm Screams @atterg.bsky.social · 6h

I saw one today in Portland! Also a hand stitched hat (fabric) 🐸

Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 6h

It really is remarkable just how rapidly the frog imagery spread nationwide. I suspect that with longer lead time, we're going to start seeing crochet frog hats start popping up soon.

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Wilhelm Screams @atterg.bsky.social · 6h

Imagining the struggle the Roganite is having due to his Man I Love Frogs bumper sticker. Because he's a pepe guy. Hahaha sigh

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