This is quite a hed/subhed.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.

As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:

10M adults on ACA plans are self-employed or small business owners and employees.

A restaurant owner in Virginia could see his monthly premium double, shooting up to $1400 a month.

Small businesses are the lifeblood of our communities – and Republicans are shafting them. Hello?

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

Let me tell you all what I’m seeing at No Kings: a TON of American flags, some pride flags, a few Ukrainian ones, very few far-left ones.

There are maybe 4 people I’ve encountered who look to be far-leftists. One of them was a kid dragged along by their parent. None were menacing or violent.

We are the 99%!

#NoKings rally in Cincinnati!

No Kings rally today in Ocracoke as North Carolinians are telling politicians in the legislature: STOP gerrymandering OUR voting districts!

No Kings Means NO Gerrymanders!

Add your voice: CCNC.me/NoKings 📣

#NoKings #Ocracoke #NorthCarolina #EndGerrymandering

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

The youngest one was 24.

So he paid between one eleventh and one sixteenth his earnings. Even middle class folks pay 20-25 percent or two times what he pays. And he still wants more

White supremacy is when Republican men and women in their 20s & 30s praising Hitler, genocide, and rape are “just kids”—but 18-year-old Michael Brown was no angel, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was a thug, 16-year-old Kalief Browder was a criminal, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice should’ve known better.😐

Remember how we just went through a multi-week newscycle where Democrats and liberals were lambasted for their "violent" political rhetoric, which included Fox hosts claiming that only one political party was demonizing their political opponents as evil? And how libs needs to lower the temperature?

Republicans control the House.
Republicans control the Senate.
Republicans control the White House.

This shutdown has Republicans' name written all over it.

Here’s how/why Republicans jack up your electric rates: stall/kill clean energy projects, so expensive fossil fuel plants have to come online to pick up slack.

Polluting plants, otherwise idle, now get paid; your money goes to corrupt payday for big Trump donors.

The shutdown is a dream come true for the regime. They want a collapse; it's the playbook of #Project2025.
@antwestcoast.bsky.social

Republicans are going to cheat & gerrymander with the rubber stamp of the Supreme Court.

It will be very hard for Democrats to take back the House and Senate.

Meanwhile, Trump will send the military to crush protests, and when he gets desperate, he'll implement martial law.

Eyes wide open, folks.

Speaker Mike Johnson's goal with telling MAGA base that the No Kings rally is a Hate America rally and that it's filled with Antifa terrorists is to incite violence against the rally. He knows MAGA will commit violence. Then Trump can call out the military on Democrats to silence dissent.

Whoa‼️ Dems could lose 19 seats due to GOP gerrymandering.

CA, UT & MD can’t fight fire with fire alone. Other blue states must step up, and every Democrat needs to vote. Don’t sit out any election.

Push your governors and legislators to act. Tell friends and family to vote. Help them. #YesOnProp50

Me after seeing the leaked texts of young Republicans *in 2025* praising Hitler & calling to gas all of us.

The only thing I’m more (not) shocked by is this will not in any way shame them, further empower them.

Remember this next time they pretend to be offended that anyone calls them Nazis. Smh.

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

"College is unaffordable"

Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To.

“Republicans have consistently used “just joking!” as a shield to downplay and defend Trump’s indefensibly incendiary and bigoted rhetoric.”

@playtyperguy.com

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-just...