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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 2h

A unifying color (and/or symbol) has been integral to movements against fascism across places and times. It allows us to know we are indeed a very big we. And to telegraph to others our beliefs in freedom and fairness, prosperity and peace. It makes us a team folks want to join.

Bright yellow background with No Kings written at the top left, below a crown Xed out in red. Below that the words: Saturday, October 18th. Wear yellow. Show up. Show out. nokings.org
Lower right a sign reading "Rejecting Kings Since 1776" and an arm holding it up on a stick.

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Mary @marymh.bsky.social · 4h

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The signs of fascism are here. Help stand up for democracy on October 18th visit NoKings.org

YouTube video by Indivisible: Central Ohio

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OHIO 50501 @ohio50501.bsky.social · 10h

FIVE DAYS - Oct. 18 - NO KINGS!

At least 2,500 events are planned across every state, Europe and Canada.

Say it loud and say it proud - we don't bow or kneel before tyrants!

WE RISE!

Join this patriot movement to take the country back!

Commit. Support. Share.

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October 18th

National Day of Action

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 7h

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Here's the entire @lastweektonight1.bsky.social episode on the misadventures of Bari. Give it a watch:
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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 12h

Home of the Brave launched a $1 million national ad campaign in support of the peaceful No Kings rallies on Oct. 18th.

The ads will run in over 185 local papers and The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post calling on Americans to “peacefully protest our false king."

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Mary @marymh.bsky.social · 23h

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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of #NoKings posters and car signs were made at @simplyartstudios.bsky.social yesterday. Join us for more resistance art on Thursday from 3-6pm. 1285 Grandview Ave. Park free in back until 5.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Once they understand that it is an unelected bureaucrat carrying out a coup, who knows.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/AoXcgAq

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Ohioans Against Extremism @ohagainstextremism.bsky.social · 2d

Our #Ohio school board candidate tracker is up and running!

OHAgainstExtremism.org/RedFlags

Are there candidates missing? Email screenshots, links, and other information to [email protected]

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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 1d

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No Kings! Be there and help make History. Saturday Oct 18th 4:00-5:30 pm Ohio Statehouse in Columbus

YouTube video by Indivisible: Central Ohio

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Columbus Underground @colsunderground.bsky.social · 2d

Full video interview on YouTube: youtu.be/PiBppiGNiH8?...

Confluence Cast: Candidate Jesse Vogel

YouTube video by Columbus Underground

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Indivisible Central Ohio @indivcentraloh.bsky.social · 2d

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 3d

This is brutal.

This is America 2025.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 3d

Well, well, well.

What party will Tim Ryan run with this time, now that he shills for gas and oil? @rooster.info: bit.ly/47jC2sk

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@sustainableytown.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social @toledonews.bsky.social @sarahedon.bsky.social

Tim Ryan isn't a registered Democrat

As of Thursday afternoon, Ryan also had a campaign sign for a Republican candidate outside of his home in Plain City.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans are currently going around the media to claim the nationwide peaceful No Kings protest on 10/18 is a “Hate America” rally.

Actually, No Kings is a rally of love—love for the founding ideals of America, love for the democracy and freedoms we cherish, love for one another.

Let’s show it:

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

But that’s no excuse for not showing up.

Show up to a protest on the 18th. It’s a way to stand up and be counted for the proposition that what these people are doing to your country is not right, not acceptable.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 3d

This year has felt like 9 months of babysitting somebody else’s kid and they’re making you play a boardgame you don’t wanna play and making up the rules so only they can win and also they’re screaming the whole time and their parents aren’t coming home anytime soon and you’re paying them $150 a day

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 3d

The more you know...

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 3d

Troubled by how many imagine Machado is a great hero because she's not Trump. She's a hard right former coup sympathizer who calls for military intervention & destruction of socialism. Her opponent, Maduro, is an awful dictator. That doesn't make her a dream, anymore than not being named "Trump."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3d

Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, was on a trip with a lower-ranking female colleague and canceled her hotel room so she would have to stay with him.
The Trump regime is a magnet for crooks and creeps.