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Seattle Indivisible @seattleindivisible.bsky.social · 7h

They have GONE. TOO. FAR. They’ve attacked peaceful protestors, put the military in our streets, defunded scientists, threatened our schools, defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people, attacked civil rights, and slashed services. #nokings #nokingsseattle #seattle #nokingsinamerica

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Fuse Washington @fusewashington.org · 12h

Trump thinks he can rule us like a king on behalf of his billionaire backers. But Americans have a strong track record of sending kings who mess with everyday working people packing.

#NOKINGS October 18th. Seattle Center. Join us: actionnetwork.org/events/2025-...

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Seattle Indivisible @seattleindivisible.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is a wanna be king. He wants to be a dictator. It takes people power to enable people power, but it also takes a little bit more.

We are expecting for No Kings Seattle Oct. 18 to be the largest protest in Seattle history. 🧵
We can’t do it without you! secure.actblue.com/donate/nokin...

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Seattle Indivisible @seattleindivisible.bsky.social · 2d

Seattle No KINGS 12:00 - 4:00 Oct. 18th. Seattle Center Fountain! March for Democracy. #nokingsseattle #nokings #seattle @fusewashington.org @westseattleindivisible.com @weareoneamerica.bsky.social @ourcommonground.com

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Seattle Indivisible @seattleindivisible.bsky.social · 1d

Meet here: Seattle Center Fountain. Rally Noon, March 1 pm thru downtown and end nearby. Seattle No Kings rally and march details: up to date www.seattleindivisible.com/nokings
-/ locations / accessibility / safety / transit

#nokingsseattle #nokings #seattle #DefendDemocracy t

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 16h

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 17h

It does feel a little bit like a glass cliff situation for Weiss.

Couldn't happen to a more deserving person though.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 17h

Isn't the average age of CBS News viewers 75? No one can "maintain" that because it isn't as if people are aging into watching CBS News, but they do age out of it.

The argument for Weiss & Ellison: they have created audiences.

Argument against: not mass market audiences.

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Wing2J @wing2j.bsky.social · 23h

a cartoon of a girl standing in front of a door that says that sign can 't stop me because i can

Alt: a cartoon of a girl standing in front of a door that says that sign can 't stop me because i can

media.tenor.com

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Seattle Indivisible @seattleindivisible.bsky.social · 1d

On October 18 at noon, Seattle Indivisible and the No Kings Seattle Coalition are co-hosting the No Kings Seattle Oct.18 Rally and March at the Seattle Center. You can learn more on our website. /fin Www.seattleindivisible.com/nokings

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Seattle Indivisible @seattleindivisible.bsky.social · 1d

Over the past months, Trump has escalated efforts to consolidate power, punish political enemies, and weaponize the machinery of government. Only the people, in numbers, can stop him. 🧵

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Seattle Indivisible @seattleindivisible.bsky.social · 1d

Hosting an event this big is huge. We have over a 100 volunteers working now to organize an impactful and safe action. We are pitching in what we can, printing flyers at home, borrowing tents,sandwich boards, and walkie talkies. Please help make it happen by donating to the No Kings Seattle.🧵

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Seattle Indivisible @seattleindivisible.bsky.social · 1d

$11-15 Pays to rent one table or ten chairs
$25: union-printed rally signs
$250: one Porta Potty rental and delivery
$750: Seattle Center use fee
$4,201: stage hands
$9,000: AV (audio/visual) team
$9,006: rent the bigger ones sound system

Let's tell Trump that in America we don’t bow to Kings.🧵

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Seattle Indivisible @seattleindivisible.bsky.social · 1d

You told us at the last event you wanted more bathrooms, better sound and to see the speakers. We have more safety volunteers. This is what it takes to deliver that experience in an event this size. We've been working around the clock. I'm proud of our team but we could use your support.🧵

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Seattle Indivisible @seattleindivisible.bsky.social · 1d

OneAmerica.West Seattle Indivisible North Seattle Progressives Wallingford Indivisible Fuse Washington League of Women Voters of Seattle King County OneAmerica commonPower MLK Labor AAUW - Seattle ACLU of Washington SEIU 775 50501 Movement Washington State Planned Parenthood Action Common Defense🧵

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 20h

I did a volunteer on-boarding yesterday. Solid third was women >70.

Men of all ages are underrepresented. And they are probably there with a female partner and often *because* their female partner has roped them in.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

underrated part of this is that stoller very clearly has no idea what "the passive voice" is

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 1d

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 1d

It is a fruit—it is an aggregate accessory fruit, each of the seeds is a fruit. It is not a berry, which is a fleshy fruit surrounding a pit (seed). Raspberries and blackberries aren'tberries either but pumpkins are.

Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 1d

Yup, vegetable is a culinary category. Fruit is both a culinary and botanical category and it doesn't have the same rules in each.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 1d

My childhood exposure to mushrooms was almost entirely *canned* button mushrooms.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 1d

Don't forget the critical erosion of the rule of law, a cornerstone of a functional market economy, and absolute chaos the tariff policies that makes any one who produces, moves, or sells a physical product in the US's life a waking nightmare.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 1d

We had a *tiny* bit of a labor shortage coming out of COVID. Workers got a teeny bit of leverage and execs didn't like that, so we got Trump 2.0.

Trump is creating catastrophic, economy-shifting labor shortages coupled with skyrocketing health care costs and stagflation.

Perfect. No notes.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

i would not be surprised if business types, particular family business tyrants, are starting to sweat things as their cravings for ~labor discipline ~ have given way to fears of labor shortage

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

i would not be surprised if business types, particular family business tyrants, are starting to sweat things as their cravings for ~labor discipline ~ have given way to fears of labor shortage

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

oh things must be bad bad

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Crazy week.

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Kathleen @kathleencarson.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah... a theology degree from Bob Jones is not exactly something I would trust to be a deep and serious examination of the different understandings of the divine.

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