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Rick Porter @rickporter.bsky.social · 1h

Shout out to a number of my neighbors who came out to tell them off and get the f out of our town. And to local reporters who showed up to talk to people and document it. 3/3

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2h

Well, well, if it isn't the NY Post telling the truth here.

Trump posts wild AI video showing him flying fighter jet, dropping sewage on No Kings protesters

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Gary Snyder @garysnyder.bsky.social · 1h

Most of America and the world may not realize it yet, but Larry Ellison has captured our media—surveillance—to the point any hint of freedom or democracy has been snuffed out. He has lusted after China's near-complete control, and he's outdone his CCP brothers. On his elite CCP wife, the 🍯: 🦗🦗🦗 ...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 8h

If you see pro-authoritarian regimes attacking news media for not being friendly enough and SIDE WITH THEM, you have already shown your colors

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Gary Snyder @garysnyder.bsky.social · 1h

Let's start with requiring the President of the United States of America and his administration knowing how to spell the name of the country wrongly, illegally being targeted. [Yeah, it's "Colombia." Not that hard and part of a general grade school education.]

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3h

I laughed very hard at this roast of camo-clad feds in siege mode on the roof of the ICE building

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3h

"Look around. Your enemy is a barista named River." www.theverge.com/policy/80231...

March of the frogs

“We will answer fascism with absurdism, as only Portland can.”

www.theverge.com

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Dave Cobb 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻 @davecobb.com · 19h

Oh man. This.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23h

One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.

#NoKings #Manhattan

Hand drawn sign reads ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY

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Gary Snyder @garysnyder.bsky.social · 5h

Bari Weiss' reference to IDing the leakers relates to the company's electronic surveillance of its employees. Every email is archived and reviewable, every call is logged—and "unknown" no longer is. All of this is unimportant to the graf though. The bylines on that story know who leaked: Bari Weiss.

Gary Snyder @garysnyder.bsky.social · 5h

I agree. Yet, US companies have referred to employees in such terms for generations. Those "dead peasant policies?" Still legal. And:

"The US can say 'we killed 50 million' and so you'd say it's a whole net set of people. And it is. They get replaced by other people—white Christians."

See it?

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Gary Snyder @garysnyder.bsky.social · 17h

IDK, guys. Some say commissioned, others say bought-and-paid-for. The difference? Who's to say? Some say propaganda, others say a difference of opinion. Some say fantastical, and...I say delusional. But feel free to stop at 'bought-and-paid-for.' Lots of bylines work that way, especially these days.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 18h

This was my favorite sign from #Portland #NoKings. #putabirdonit

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18h

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

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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 18h

More people marched today than at any time in the history of the United States.

For @nytimes.com, it was the 6th most important story.

They are making sure that those in power do not see what they do not want to see.

This is not what we were brought up to think of as journalism.

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Gary Snyder @garysnyder.bsky.social · 17h

The New York Times is more like propaganda tinged with a touch of truth. And it is for this purpose, sadly, Jeff Bezos acquired The Washington Post. As for Murdoch's rags, well, he began as a tabloid slinger and will end as one. What little news we get is finely curated or crafted to control.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18h

Really makes you think

Opinion
Opinion by Kathleen Parker
Is this the president we've been waiting for?

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social
I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but
"President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
¿i Some people can reply

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

🌅

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Gary Snyder @garysnyder.bsky.social · 18h

And for 00:00:08 all is right with this world of ours.

Gary Snyder @garysnyder.bsky.social · 18h

[Targeted, accurate, and worth repeating. As often and loudly as is required.]

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 19h

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Gary Snyder @garysnyder.bsky.social · 18h

Here's the thing: If you are a proponent of monarchical rule & Nazism, you can be an American but certain jobs like, for example, president of the United States of America are either just not for you or ill-advised. An unAmerican, anti-America president has a defined, explicit ending under our laws.

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Gary Snyder @garysnyder.bsky.social · 19h

Americans and people of the world, I give you the President of the United States of America:

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

Trump's Truth Social account just posted this AI video of him flying a fighter jet that reads "King Trump."

AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.

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Gary Snyder @garysnyder.bsky.social · 19h

['Now, remember, if you're not sure, you can always call a vowel.' On the board: "A SH_TL__D."]

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Gary Snyder @garysnyder.bsky.social · 21h

A nod to the dystopia a few among us desire for the many and, yeah, insanity. Absolute insanity.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 1d

Insanity.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 22h

Some might see it as a bad thing but I do not. Trump is radicalizing against him people who have political power to spare. No other class of Americans threatens him as much they do.

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