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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8h

Here’s a list of companies to file complaints with and boycott for running ICE advertisements.

ICE recruitment ads appearing on Spotify, HBO Max and other streaming services

DHS says the ad blitz has led to more than 175,000 applications and 18,000 tentative job offers

www.independent.co.uk

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

If you were at the No Kings events, please wear a mask for the next few days.

Covid is not over.

You can infect others before you feel symptomatic.

People are losing their healthcare. They’re losing their food assistance. They’re losing housing.

We need to protect each other.

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Rosegarden54 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 20h

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

If you see a MAGA event with American flags just keep asking them “is this part of No Kings?”

Great way to spread awareness as well!

Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 1d

This thread is fantastic. Go read it.

Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 1d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

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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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Who remembers what happened to Target?

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 7d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

This should also be a warning.

Looking at you 🍎

www.wired.com/story/apple-...

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the thing: She is refusing to comply by citing law. We must continue to highlight why Tr*mp's edicts are illegal and unAmerican. We KNOW he wants to violate the law. He is trying to move the needle and y'all keep acting like he can instead of saying, "Fuck you, you don't get to do this."

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

MSNBC contributor downplays NSPM-7, saying: "The government still has to, at least by law, comply with the existing law, right?"

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ACLU @aclu.org · 22h

It's Prison Banned Books Week — a week dedicated to shining a light on the widespread denial of incarcerated people's freedom to read.

We all have a First Amendment right to read and receive information, in and out of prison. Censorship has no place in a democracy.

Blue graphic with white and yellow text: "Jails and prisons ban more books than all public schools and libraries combined. Incarceration shouldn't strip us of our right to read." Red and yellow tinted photos of a jail cell and a stack of books in the bottom right.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23h

Our confirmed count stands at 8.1 million participants worldwide for yesterday’s No Kings protest. Thank you to everyone who helped verify the numbers through our submission website. While some MAGAs attempted to submit false or misleading data (such as reporting “one person” for major cities)

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Not an expert but pretty sure this isn’t how ceasefires are supposed to work.

Israel says it will return to ceasefire hours after carrying out strikes on Gaza - live updates

Hamas and Israel accuse each other of violations, as hospital sources in Gaza say death toll reaches 44 and IDF says two soldiers killed.

www.bbc.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Our pro-democracy movement is surging. Now it’s up to each of us to channel this incredible energy into the organizing power it will take to win.

Join us on Tuesday for a mass call of movement leaders and activists to discuss what’s next: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... #NoKings

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to everyone at the #NO_KINGS rallies for making your voices heard & being part of history.
The massive crowds were joyful, passionate & spectacular!

So were the signs...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t be a Dick-Tator

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 1d

When the organizers do a total headcount of NoKings2, I hope they remember to count the many online events that were held today for disabled folks - including long Covid folks - who couldn't be with us in person. Online rallies are real rallies. @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 2d

Here at the Portland #NoKings, the costumes are ON POINT.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

#A_NewHope ✊

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

No Kings Coalition says two million more people protested today than in June. Nearly 7 million total.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

There was an incredible turnout across small-town USA! Many events weren’t even on our radar. Our coalition initially tracked around 3,000 events, but the number has now surged past 4,000 and counting.

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 1d

If you're going down to the ICE Facility in Portland to protest, we are hearing that it is already getting spicy. ICE propaganda machine is itching to manufacture the headlines they were denied by millions at No Kings rallies.

Don't give them a single piece of usable footage. Deny them.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing video from Chicago today.

No Kings

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d

📣POLITICIANS ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW📣

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

Over 2.3 million confirmed so far and the rural wave is real. We were tracking ~3,000 events, but small towns across the country are pouring in with numbers we hadn’t included. A submission portal for city + attendance is coming soon. All counts will be double-certified before the final release.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

7 million people took to the streets across the nation to protest in defense of our democracy.

This country belongs to the people. We will fight for it with everything we've got.

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