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JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 1h

To those in power who think this movement is just noise, listen closely. The sound you hear is history clearing its throat. It’s the same voice that once shouted “No taxation without representation,” now roaring “No kings.” You do not rule here.

We rule.

“We the People.”

-Meidas+

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 1h

Amanda, a former USAID worker fired under this administration, said it best: “Fifty percent of the country didn’t vote for this shutdown or for the dismantling of government services people rely on.”

She’s right. People voted for change, not collapse. For strength, not suppression.

-Meidas+

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 1h

That’s what this weekend was—a reckoning. A reminder that the Constitution isn’t a prop for politicians to wave around during campaign season. It’s a living, breathing covenant that demands participation.

-Meidas+

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 1h

Bernie didn’t mince words: “Trump is enacting a detailed, step-by-step plan to destroy all of the things that protect our democracy.”

The crowd roared, not with violence, but with conviction.

-Meidas+

#NoKings

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 1h

The Founding Fathers wrote: “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

The consent of the governed.

Those words were born from tyranny—from a king who believed himself chosen by God and unaccountable to anyone. Sound familiar?

-Meidas+

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 1h

The #NoKings movement isn’t about party politics. It’s about ownership—who owns this country, who the government serves. The #DeclarationofIndependence & the #Constitution are contracts, signed in blood and rebellion, and the people who marched this weekend decided to enforce them.

-Meidas+

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 1h

ABC, NBC, CBS all aired the CK funeral, live. Not one of them aired the #NoKings March.

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 1h

22 #MAGA were #arrested for attempting to attack peaceful protesters in OH, KY, CA, SC, NC, MI, OR, FL, VA, TX & PA. The incidents involved guns being drawn, vehicles driven into crowds & other acts of aggression. Police depts across nation report #NoKings had 0 arrests.

#Trump

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 7h

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 9h

Political evangelicalism can be quite godless. When a pastor declares at a ReAwaken America rally that he has “come ready to declare war on Satan & every race-baiting Democrat that tries to destroy our way of life here in the U.S of A,” he is imitating #Trump, not Christ.

NYT, David French

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JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 9h

All too many conservative Christians want to demolish the existing order, including America’s commitment to pluralism and individual liberty, and put their version of Christianity at the center of American political life.

-NYT, David French

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 9h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

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JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 9h

The #WhiteHouse has posted a photo of #Trump and #Vance wearing crowns intended for Queens.

Not Kings.

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JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 9h

Trump is stopping all SNAP benefits as of Nov. 1st, after he cut food pantry funding. A lot of hungry children in 2 weeks. Enjoy your Thanksgiving meal, Republicans.

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 9h

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 10h

“We have brought so many to politics for the first time in a long time, and there’s a responsibility that you don’t waste that hope,” Mamdani said. “You don’t get a second chance in convincing someone that they have a place in the politics of our city and our country.”

-NYT Magazine profile

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JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 10h

“Mamdani stressed that any successful candidacy would require a social media movement. He was Mira Nair’s son after all, raised with an understanding of how storytelling can shape political reality.”

-NYT Magazine profile

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 10h

The Democratic establishment’s embrace of #ZohranMamdani has only made the [cowardly] inaction of #HakeemJeffries, #ChuckSchumer and #KirstenGillibrand stand out even more.

-NYT Magazine profile

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 11h

Ritchie Torres, the Bronx Democrat and frequent critic of progressives, said #Mamdani is “a once-in-a-generation communicator.”

-NYT Magazine profile

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 11h

“I was an Indian in Uganda. I was a Muslim in India. And I was all of these things in New York City,” Mahmood Mamdani explained to his son #ZohranMamdani.

“To be a minority is also to see the truth of the place amidst the promise of it.”

-NYT Magazine profile of #Mamdani

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JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 11h

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JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 12h

“Zohran [Mamdani], to me, is more of a progressive capitalist,” Wolf told me. “He’s someone that wants to figure out how to use the government in an appropriate way on things that help equality and help the underserved.”

-NYT Magazine

JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 21h

Record Turnout For No Kings Day
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Record Turnout For No Kings Day

MAGA sulks in a huff

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JamesJamesMorrisonMorrison @cormaca.bsky.social · 22h

Ukrainian President Zelensky was back in DC yesterday. He was resolved, firm & focused, while Trump was distracted & clearly out of his depth. Zelensky never flinched & once again showed the world what real leadership looks like.

-Scott Dworkin

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