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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5h

i genuinely do not understand why he keeps digging the hole deeper on this one

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 5h

Trump's literal AI slop shitpost is, if nothing else, an attempt to push the wonderful and encouraging images of millions of protesters out of the feeds and timelines. Flooding the zone with shit also means burying everything beautiful and hopeful under the flood. We should not support him in this

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 6h

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 16h

This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, part of the implication of No Kings, especially repeating it, is to communicate both to wavering elites and to MAGA that the will and numbers exist to color revolution the administration if elections are subverted or cancelled.

Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 21h

However, it's a very good sign of what we'll be able to do when he actually attempts to overtly rule by force.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 21h

The 3.5% "rule" also applies to consistent, constant protesting. Not one off events imho.

So yeah, if 15 millionesh people were in the streets every day you could see why that would be problematic for the admin.

We are certainly not there yet.

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 20h

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17h

So the president
- wants to wear a gold crown as he
- dumps feces on mothers holding babies because they are
- protesting kings and fascists?

OK. Just clarifying.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15h

Seems like the president and entire cabinet responding to today's rallies by posting straight up 4chan filth would be a major story tomorrow. Anyone care to place any bets

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 19h

An urgent question.

According to the FEMA Daily Briefing a presidential disaster declaration was requested on October 16th. To the best of my knowledge it hasn’t been granted. Any event of this size should be an easy and immediate yes.

Bryce Maschino @bmaschino.bsky.social · 20h

Where is FEMA?

Western Alaska residents from storm-ravaged villages arrive in Anchorage by the hundreds

Kipnuk and Kwigillingok residents continued to land Thursday night in Anchorage, carrying backpacks and plastic bags filled with their belongings as they exited a military transport plane.

alaskapublic.org

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15h

And the motherfucker wants a Nobel Peace Prize

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15h

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 17h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Genghis @genghis.bsky.social · 17h

There was a dude dressed as a king with a big strikethrough sign in St Paul today

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

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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thekoolaidmom.bsky.social @thekoolaidmom.bsky.social · 22h

#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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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19h

stuff like this is what makes social media worth all the nonsense

Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 19h

Ha!, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social.

We're on opposite ends of the same photo

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 18h

a woman asked me today what the frog costumes are about, and i told her, it was to generate images like this

CarpinSanDiego @carpinsandiego.com · 18h

Im dead 😂😂😂

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Owen K.C. Stephens (He/Him) @owenkcstephens.bsky.social · 18h

What did you do for a Klondike bar?
WHAT DID YOU DO?!

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

Hard to estimate any of these crowd sizes other than “bigger than Trump’s crowds.”

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Genghis @genghis.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah, it goes a couple blocks in each direction from that intersection, though nowhere near as big as Mpls was!

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Witty Volkova ➡️ PAXU @wittlegoblin.bsky.social · 18h

Met a very good boy today #nokingsday

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 18h

Minor pedantic point, just because I remember freaking the fuck out about it at the time: Trump has shared plenty of images depicting himself as a king earlier this year. But yes, no kings is about as foundational as it gets and half of the political spectrum views that as “lol, triggered bro?”

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 18h

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 17h

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 19h

Just arrived on the scene at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. Here less than 10 minutes when agents charged out of the facility and used a pale yellow gas that caused tears and coughing in crowd members. Also shot munitions at those retreating.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 19h

Just arrived on the scene at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. Here less than 10 minutes when agents charged out of the facility and used a pale yellow gas that caused tears and coughing in crowd members. Also shot munitions at those retreating.

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 21h

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

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