I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Given Trump's destruction of the White House, was thinking, "Maybe Dems should propose that when President OAC takes power they'll move the Capitol to Denver, make DC and PR a state, and rebuild from the start." Just as a way to use Trump's destruction as a way to talk about HOW to rebuild.

I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

Perhaps the gravity of the office may yet change the man.

The president needs your help! He's collecting diarrhea for his plane. He has a plane that's 99% toilet with other people's diarrhea in it and he wears a little crown when he drives it around. Brave patriots please send your loose stool to your favorite diarrhea president for his diarrhea plane.

Motion to replace the saying “jumped the shark” in the American lexicon with “flew the poop airplane.”

You guys I think if we made a convincing website we could get MAGAs to send bags of their own shit to the White House to “donate ammunition for the president’s diarrhea jet”

It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

#NOKINGS New York City, NY

Look at this turnout in Charlotte! #NoKings (via Marco Foster/Threads)

“You sucked in home alone 2”

It’s amazing that Antifa was able to hire this many protesters. Their back-office payroll processing and HR pipeline is just first-class; just imagine the tax paperwork to hire up across all 50 states, not to mention all the rounds of Zoom interviews for prospective protesters….

Same energy

South Koreans held their government accountable earlier this year. And now they’re protesting for American’s rights and democracy on No Kings too! Thank you South Korea! #NoKings ❌👑

Hell yeah

No kid should ever have to protest or advocate for their friends’ basic humanity. But they’re standing up at No Kings anyway.

No Kings, Des Moines, Iowa Anti-Fascism is Pro-American #NoKings #Iowa

1. Washington DC #NoKings 👑

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities. Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

Karoline Leavitt should resign. They try to make us hate each other to distract from the fact that they're robbing us all blind. It's sick.

The GOP is having an absolute aneurysm about these protests, and they haven't even happened yet. Make a fun sign! Bring some snacks! Let out some cathartic yelling! Exercise your First Amendment rights!

If you are not reading Lyz's work you are really missing out. She is one of those rare writers who can go from hilarious biting sarcasm to incredible heartfelt emotion. Her writing is absolutely brilliant, always incisive, and absolutely worth your time and money.

Federal officials telling social media companies to take down posts was supposedly a free speech crisis. It’s not even really hypocrisy, since the right was lying about much of it. And this isn’t misinformation, foreign influence ops, or public health, just 1A-protected speech the govt doesn’t like.

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create. So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

I *really* want more reporting on this because the book was pretty heavily vetted by lawyers in advance of publication….

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil. The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage. /1

Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration. @politico.com had a big piece about it.

Everyone on X is Big Mad about this article, so do with that what you will. www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

Impeccable speech. Damn autocorrect. Impeachable! Impeachable speech.

The vast percentage of roles in the modern US military are *not* in combat. Who cares if your mechanic can do 100 pushups? If your cook can run a sub-6 minute mile? If your intelligence analyst can deadlift 300 pounds? And who cares if your Sec of Defense is great at PT if he cannot think or lead?

Mom will give up the sleep, don’t worry

What the fuck?

Des Moines is the semi-liberal bastion in Des Moines, and the Des Moines Public Schools are one of the particular bugbears for the Iowa GOP. This is absolutely a specific political attack on the DMPS, on the African community in Des Moines, and on the most diverse city in the state.

Ian Roberts, who grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics 800 meters for Guyana, has been arrested by ICE. Roberts is the *Des Moines (Ia.) Public Schools Superintendent.* www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...

What in the absolute FUCK. The only words I have right now are F-bombs.

Wait, that’s not what MY research* said! * random bloggers

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

I’d like to know the background to why those agents knew he’d take it because there wouldn’t have been a sting otherwise.