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NO KINGS Elmhurst · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.**
Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
October 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
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“Donald Trump has figured out the cheat code for authoritarianism: Fake emergencies bring real power,” @rosenzweigp.bsky.social argues. Yet more troubling is the lack of effort from Congress or the courts to curtail the use of such “emergency” powers:
Trump Is Inventing Fake Emergencies to Gain Real-World Power
Today, the structure of law granting exceptional emergency powers is a grave threat to democracy and an avenue toward authoritarian rule.
bit.ly
September 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
“Donald Trump has figured out the cheat code for authoritarianism: Fake emergencies bring real power,” @rosenzweigp.bsky.social argues. Yet more troubling is the lack of effort from Congress or the courts to curtail the use of such “emergency” powers:
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There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
August 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
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Like you I've seen all the pics people post here abt the steady increase of tacky gold crap he keeps adding to the oval office. But somehow it wasn't until I saw this picture that it just hit me. What the actual fuck. Like a Vegas whorehouse.
August 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Like you I've seen all the pics people post here abt the steady increase of tacky gold crap he keeps adding to the oval office. But somehow it wasn't until I saw this picture that it just hit me. What the actual fuck. Like a Vegas whorehouse.
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Cutting off mRNA research because the first mRNA vaccines weren't good enough - *even if that were true, which it really isn't* - is like if we banned personal computers in 1981 because the IBM PC was too expensive
How RFK Jr. Mastered Fake Science—and Screwed Us in the Process
He’s Making America Great Again—for lethal pathogens.
www.thebulwark.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Cutting off mRNA research because the first mRNA vaccines weren't good enough - *even if that were true, which it really isn't* - is like if we banned personal computers in 1981 because the IBM PC was too expensive
Saw this at a construction site. Nobody around, so asking if anybody knows what it is?
August 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Saw this at a construction site. Nobody around, so asking if anybody knows what it is?
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It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy (from 2022)
It didn’t start with Trump: The decades-long saga of how the GOP went crazy
The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.
www.motherjones.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy (from 2022)
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[A]s Pritzker knows, our neighbor’s mess is our mess too. TX’s attack on democracy is going to affect the composition of the House & that affects everyone in the country...We’re all one country, which is why it makes sense for TX legislators to fight for democracy by coming to IL. ~Noah Berlatsky
wrote about pritzker welcoming Texas legislators, and why solidarity with people in red states is important for everyone now. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/pritzker-m...
Pritzker Models Solidarity
No red, no blue; just fighting fascism
www.everythingishorrible.net
August 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
[A]s Pritzker knows, our neighbor’s mess is our mess too. TX’s attack on democracy is going to affect the composition of the House & that affects everyone in the country...We’re all one country, which is why it makes sense for TX legislators to fight for democracy by coming to IL. ~Noah Berlatsky
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Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.
August 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
Keep Colbert on Air!
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition t...
sign.moveon.org
July 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
We need Colbert’s bold and frank commentary now as much as ever, and we need to stop corporations like CBS from cowing to political intimidation of this administration. Add your name to the petition to demand they reverse their decision and keep Colbert on air! sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...
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Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
May 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
April 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
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"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio ...
"Hegseth hasn't used the press room to brief reporters. But it has been a set for his TV appearances..."
www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...
"Hegseth hasn't used the press room to brief reporters. But it has been a set for his TV appearances..."
www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...
Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.
www.cbsnews.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently ordered modifications to a room next to the Pentagon press briefing room to retrofit it with a makeup studio ...
"Hegseth hasn't used the press room to brief reporters. But it has been a set for his TV appearances..."
www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...
"Hegseth hasn't used the press room to brief reporters. But it has been a set for his TV appearances..."
www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...
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Project Mail Storm!
April 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Project Mail Storm!
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Commentary: As the executive branch brazenly flouts the Supreme Court, we have reached the constitutional crisis so many have feared, and its consequences put our most basic freedoms at risk.
Elizabeth Shackelford: President Donald Trump’s war on due process should terrify us all
As the White House flouts the Supreme Court, we have reached a constitutional crisis whose consequences put our most basic freedoms at risk.
trib.al
April 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Commentary: As the executive branch brazenly flouts the Supreme Court, we have reached the constitutional crisis so many have feared, and its consequences put our most basic freedoms at risk.
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The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.
April 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The next days and months and years will demand from all of us great courage — and solidarity. Be prepared.
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The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points.
And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.
And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.
April 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points.
And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.
And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.
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Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
March 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Tucson, Arizona today.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.
23,000 showed up.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
March 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
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"The director of the program to enrich uranium took a job with NATO...
"Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads...
"The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
"Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads...
"The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts
Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting th...
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"The director of the program to enrich uranium took a job with NATO...
"Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads...
"The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
"Also gone is the director of the program to modernize production of spheres of radioactive plutonium that are fitted into warheads...
"The office that oversees the Los Alamos lab lost 9 staff...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...