Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

If your newspaper doesn't have no kings as the top us story today, throw it in the trash and don't look back

there are people in big ass positions of power who are enabling this shit and the mass power of the people can convince them to rescind their complicity and that’s the only way a regime collapses

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction.

My friends, they have lost the flag.

just one reason why ranked choice voting is better

lord I have just watched this like eight consecutive times, thank you

It’s the largest protest in American history and you should unsubscribe if your newspaper leaves it off their front page

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

didn't get a picture but the woman next to me had a sign saying "we have frogs everywhere"

he's not fooling anyone, that is clearly Sir Anthony Hopkins

almost like cops make crime, not the other way around, so if the cops don’t make it, it ain’t there

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

guy who brought the trans flag we iwo jima’d described himself as “yeah i was pretty neutral about trans people, think i still am honestly, but these people are being so goddamn weird about it that i gotta get off the fence”

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.

Guys im seeing all these nokings protest pics and im not seeing anyone in all black flying drones over the cops and talking on Chinese knockoff radios its like ur not taking this protest seriously

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings

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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I like a strongly varied hickory for flooring as well