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Kerbal Engineering Systems @kerbalsystems.bsky.social · 17h

Austin PD's statement was even more explicitly pro-protest, they literally thanked everyone for coming out lol

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

#withalttext

Tweet from the verified NYPD News account reads: "The majority of the No Kings protests have dispersed at this time and all traffic closures have been lifted. We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests." The post is timestamped 3:27 PM on 10/18/25 and shows 50K views. The NYPD badge is displayed in the top left corner.

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thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I think the lib politicians might have a problem if the dsa politicians are dominating the stage at these lib protests. the problem being that the lib representatives suddenly do not look particularly lib

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

Annie Pearl Avery, a long time civil rights activist, with her head in her hand after speaking at a “No Kings” protest at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on Oct. 18, 2025. Avery told the small crowd that people have the power. (Anna Barrett/Alabama Reflector)

A woman holding her head in her hand while sitting in a wheelchair. People are lined up next to her holding signs saying Free speech not fascism and Hate never made a country great

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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 1d

Austin Texas

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

Hell yeah

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

Case in point: the South isn't perfect (no region is), but folks would do well to remember that gerrymandering and voter suppression make our region look redder than it actually is. NY gave us Trump and CA gave us Reagan. Regional politics aren't simple, and writing places off can't be the move rn.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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lkraus.bsky.social @lkraus.bsky.social · 1d

Frisco Texas! #NoKings

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Georgia Recorder @georgiarecorder.com · 1d

Organizers say more than 10,000 people have turned out for the No Kings rally at the Atlanta Civic Center in Georgia. The actual number could be closer to 12,000, says Laura Judge with Indivisible North Metro, which is one of the event's organizers. (Photo by @alander.bsky.social)

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OrangeSage @orangesage.bsky.social · 1d

#NoKings Miami!

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Minor Spear Carrier @tyrellmayfield.bsky.social · 1d

PHILLY

I stepped out to walk across Philly last night and get a sense of things. City Hall always captures me here, Philadelphia has maintained its European layout and much of its early architecture.

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 1d

And which drew on a long tradition of Black southern resistance to Jim Crow that I hope people learn more about in the coming decades. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was not a sudden outburst of indignation; it was the fruit of well over a decade of organizing by Rosa Parks, E.D. Nixon and others.

whet moser @whetmoser.com · 1d

(i think a big part of the difference between the civil rights movement and no kings is that the former was organizing against a system of government that had been in place for 75-forever years and no kings is organizing against a guy who has been president for less than five years)

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

Ashley and Alex Ludvik, a married couple, participate in a “No Kings” demonstration in Birmingham, Ala. on Oct. 18, 2025 while wearing T-shirts for the University of Alabama and Auburn University. The Ludviks said they are divided by football but not politics. (Olivia McMurrey for Alabama Reflector)

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

Protestors march in a "No Kings" demonstration in Montgomery, Alabama on Oct. 18, 2025. (Ralph Chapoco/Alabama Reflector)

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · 1d

Terre Biederman of Arab, Alabama and Lynne Rogers Homewood, Alabama wear signs saying “Not a paid protestor” at a “No Kings” demonstration in Railroad Park in Birmingham, Alabama on Oct. 18, 2025. (Olivia McMurrey for Alabama Reflector)

Two women seated on a park bench wearing signs on their backs that say "Not a paid protestor"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

let's goooooooo

Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 1d

Bluesky is real life.
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.
Poster

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Marsha (Scary Name)🔐 @marsha.bsky.social · 1d

This is a working block list for new MAGA accounts that have signed up since the White House signed up bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 1d

Things that will never get old:
- a rainbow after the rain
- grilled cheese sandwiches
- dinner with good friends
- PB&J
- punching a nazi 👊

Captain America punching nazis in their face

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Someone who saw the evidence in that case and wanted to have dinner with Epstein is not anyone who should be allowed near children.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show

Full Story: bit.ly/4nVTRUe

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Block and move on. Don’t engage with filthy little trolls who have no game. Let them wallow in their squalor and they’ll get bored and leave back to their Nazi bar.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

By my count: Of the 15 Departments of the US Government, 13 launched new BlueSky accounts tonight (all but Justice and HUD), and all 13 have posted explicitly partisan political posts blaming Democrats and/or Chuck Schumer for the government shutdown.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 2d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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chelsea bridge 🏳️‍⚧️ @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 2d

if you're trans you have to stay alive. i do make the rules

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