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Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 4h

Only Democrats have agency. They are supposed to control Republicans with their god-like intelligence and power.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 15h

Interesting claim. Is there any fucking merit to it at all, noble truth-tellers?

Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 15h

Still draining the swamp, I see.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 18h

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

The correct response to Republicans widely depicting the coming protests as terrorism is to go out and protest. Each person should get 10 more people to do so. If Republicans are going to hint at violent state responses to legitimate protest, the only answer is bigger numbers.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 1d

The organizers behind the No Kings Day of Action on October 18 -- the event Johnson called a "hate America rally" -- have this to say in response.

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings coalition issued the following statement"

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

Democrats send desperate email pleas to you and then take your hard-earned money 🅰🅽🅳 🅶🅸🆅🅴 🅸🆃 🆃🅾 🆁🆄🅿🅴🆁🆃 🅼🆄🆁🅳🅾🅲🅷.

Democrats are funding far right media with our money. They are actively funding anti-American fascism.

This better fucking stop.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

The left should have *never* counted on the mainstream media to be fair or to care about its priorities.

Build your own and bully the rest. It's that simple.

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Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 1d

He ought to just claim he won the award and that reporting to the contrary is fake news. Would be a great loyalty test for his followers and get him the admiration from them that he craves from the people who despise and will never honor his repugnant values.

Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 1d

He ought to just claim he won the award and that reporting to the contrary is fake news. Would be a great loyalty test for his followers and get him the admiration from them that he craves from the people who despise and will never honor his repugnant values.

Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 1d

People who hate tyranny in general also tend to specifically hate attempts to silence their dissent.

#NoKings

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

"In the U.S. the risks of stepping forward pale compared to those faced by dissidents elsewhere. Surely it’s not too much to hope that some heretofore timid Americans could find inspiration from the example of María Corina Machado and 'refuse to stay silent.'”

www.thebulwark.com/p/insidious-...

The Insidious Effort To Rationalize Trump’s Lawfare

This is not a president justified in going after those who went after him. It’s a person making a mockery of our justice system.

www.thebulwark.com

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1d

If you can show up on October 18, you should. The country is shifting. The battleship is turning. And while, yes, usually mass street protests don't do much, there are exceptions.

And sometimes those exceptions go down in history.

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Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 1d

This brilliant guy -- Judge Holden, they call him -- he says, have you heard this? War is god. War is god. Isn't that something? Tremendous judge, by the way, and some say our finest. Maybe -- who knows? -- maybe one day he'll be on the Supreme Court. But war is god. Anyway, we're looking into it.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

many ppl are saying - have you heard this yet? it’s true - many people are saying that life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. it’s true. you’re hearing it more and more.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

This is a land of wolves now? Wow. I didn’t know that. You’re just now telling me for the first time. The rule of law lived an amazing life. What can you even say?

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Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 1d

Because so many modern Christians, especially in the US, think there was a different kind of more deserving poor person in Jesus's time that has since gone extinct, and the Jesus they know would have contempt for the undeserving poor people they know.

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Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 1d

Why not both?

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 2d

Bad man orange.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

By floating false allegations of violence, Trump wants to scare people away from exercising their constitutional rights. We won’t let him succeed.

Don’t let this smear distract you. The best response to attacks on our rights is to exercise our rights. That means showing up in huge numbers on 10/18.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2d

number 37 will shock you

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 2d

The meltdown in MAGA Land on Trump's behalf when the committee announces the actual winner is going to be very entertaining.

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Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 2d

What if...the greatest threat to global stability being seriously considered as a recipient for the world's highest peace honor was an insult to human intelligence and the concept of peace?

Curious Witness @curiouswitness.bsky.social · 2d

"Give me the peace prize or suffer my wrath."

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