You can tell they’re just recycling their 2003 talking points because it doesn’t even make sense: “No Kings” is self-consciously draped in the imagery of the United States’ founding. It’s pretty much “Make America Great Again” but for liberalism, not: “Saddam Hussein is a product of US imperialism.”

With the return of the “hate America” rhetoric you can really discern the through-line from Bush-era conservatism to MAGA. Trump is the abusive dad that the post-9/11 GOP longed for.

On Saturday, the American people will rise up again for a truly historic day of defiance. Make your plan to be part of the biggest day of peaceful protest in modern US history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

What we're seeing in Chicago and Portland is straight out of the fascist playbook: 1. Create a violent situation by attacking peaceful protesters. 2. Cite the violence as an excuse to crack down further on the peaceful protesters. 3. Brag about establishing "law and order."

instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police" they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead-- newrepublic.com/article/2016...

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Maine Democrats are facing a choice for who will take on Susan Collins and that’s exactly how it should be. A competitive primary isn’t a distraction. It’s a crucible that tests candidates and shows who’s strongest. #mepolitics amyfried.substack.com/p/a-maine-de...

Kavanaugh: don’t worry, brown citizens, racist ICE stops will be brief Roberts: don’t worry, Black voters, things have changed in the South Kennedy: don’t worry, America, corporate cash cannot corrupt our democracy Reality: Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Care to reconsider? Roberts Court: No.

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

I ventured back to the 'front line' in Portland, where I spoke with a protester rocking a No Kings sign outside of the infamous ICE facility

For 50+ years Portland has been the place where queer kids from smaller town Oregon go once they turn 18, the place where "artsy" kids escape to, the place where kids who aren't totally into the church they were raised in or who were sexually abused in that church and were believed by no one.

I know that sounds contradictory on the face of it--libertarians FOR authoritarianism? WTF, how is that a thing? It's a thing because many Oregon libertarians are also right wing evangelicals (like the guy below) who believe that they know how "true" freedom manifests. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Time to re-start freedom schools nationwide. Our history has always been contraband.

UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, [email protected] UT President, Jim Davis, [email protected] #SaveUT #EducationalLiberty For more info: [email protected] 5/

tuition-paying students what they can and cannot study. Call to action: Amplify your discontent on social media and tag @UTAustin and @UTAustinCOLA Write to: College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, [email protected] 4/

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

CBS News picking up an anti-Mamdani story from The Free Press and...misspelling his name. Oy.

Did you know that the New York Times reporter who wrote the first fawning profile of Trump in 1976 also promoted the hoax about poisoned Halloween candy? Misinformation is contagious. The media helped build the Trump myth, and we're all suffering now. I wrote about it in my free newsletter.

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread: I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong. So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

Make these ICE goons look like the fools they are.

like, people do deradicalize; people do change. this is possible. I think you need a *lot* more evidence of MTG's good faith though. starting with some really heartfelt discussion by her of why her past bigotry (against a whole range of people!) was bad.

This ratio record will never be broken! Sally Jenkins has just given us the Joe DiMaggio 56-game hitting streak of ratios

“I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district." trib.al/zTN18Tp

If you remember the Iraq war, you will remember The Surge: massing troops into key cities to establish control. Trump is describing American cities as if they are Baghdad in 2007. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Even as FBI is being downsized, it must allocate more of its resources to the only part of the govt that is growing: immigration enforcement. The scale of this growth is hard to comprehend. DHS has a slushfund of $10B - bigger than the old ICE budget - to pay other agencies and state & local cops.

New, from me: Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce 1. Purge - those deemed disloyal 2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military 3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

On the bullhorn here is Joey Gibson, leader of OR far right group called Patriot Prayer (and an occasional guest on Fox News back in the day). You can see Medina with him, standing inside the entryway to the OR state capitol where police have told them to disperse.

It's notable that one of the people who was invited to the White House for their "antifa round table" was Nick Sortor, a guy who has literally worked for "InfoWars." The feds are approaching the media aspects of this situation like an unabashed authoritarian state would. bsky.app/profile/opb....

I'm loving this Pope.

They are pulling moms out of carpool lanes www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUNR594/

Nice recap

Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” would let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our colleges and universities. We must demand that our schools reject the regime’s blackmail attempts by committing to uphold freedom of speech and provide an affordable, safe education for all. 👇

Rogers Park Northernmost lakefront n’hood in Chicago Home of Loyola U (RIP Sister Jean) One of few n’hoods w no racial majority. One of the most densely populated places in America, & one of the most racially/ethnicly/religiously/linguistically diverse An amazing community And under attack

Chicagoland is a friendly, safe, vibrant, & fun place. I’m very happy my kids have grown up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of the city, & in Evanston. They’re both wonderful places. But ICE is attacking us. People are doing everything possible to protect their neighbors. But it’s hard.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Trump is using unmerited criminal prosecutions & unnecessary National Guard deployments to push autocracy But the courts are pushing back I explain why he will fail in my NEW @contrariannews.org Publisher's Roundup 👇 -TN contrarian.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

Echoes of a very dark past. From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Same vibe as Stephen Bannon's film "Occupy Unmasked." Read of the circumstances in which I saw that and first became aware of Bannon, and how neatly the experience foreshadowed the attempted fascist takeover of our nation that Bannon helps lead, at the link. washingtonspectator.org/trump-bannon...

We need something like a “Fascistpedia” to keep track of those who collaborated with the regime. Later, they'll be scurrying to hide their cowardice and moral rot. A permanent record will guarantee enduring shame. Let’s give them their own museum.

"Homeless Industrial Complex"? Allow me to translate from the wingnutese:

I sure hope this peace deal holds for all the right reasons. The nightmare cannot be allowed to go on. But it's still tenuous and the victory dances are presumptuous and frankly, dangerous. This need to prematurely give Trump the adulation he craves could blow up everyone's faces.

A reader recently emailed me a question I've been asked 100 times: How do we—the little guys—turn the tide. It got me thinking about a related but in some sense more challenging question: What would a national resistance that we could place our faith in look like? www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...

I’ve already written about Pam Bondi's feces-flinging-howler-monkey performance before the Senate, but we should not gloss over some of the dazzling details of the week. PLUS: No Nobel for you, Donald. charliesykes.substack.com/p/no-nobel-f...

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

Just finished signing my envelope and am sending it in with a big #Yeson50. Hubby is wrapping his up too.

Our plane to Spain is in the air! 🙌🙌 Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

By rule of law democracy standards, the Letitia James charges are very bad. But by fighting against authoritarianism standards, not so much. James doesn’t deserve it, but she’ll be good at defending herself, and tie up regime resources; more limited given who they had to push out to go after James.