A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day. Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏 History.

Now they are leaning into authoritarianism and mocking those they failed to delegitimize. They tried to impose a false reality—insisting protesters were “terrorists.” The rallies were peaceful. And now they face an uncomfortable truth: you can’t put seven million people on trial.

Here is my countdown of the Top 40 protest signs from No Kings 10/18. These are good, but stay tuned because the Top 20 are pretty epic. Here is 31-40. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs “The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

So the president - wants to wear a gold crown as he - dumps feces on mothers holding babies because they are - protesting kings and fascists? OK. Just clarifying.

America-hating Antifa showing up for a *second* time today.

So proud to kick off today’s inspiring, record setting No Kings rally in DC. Twice the size of the first No Kings DC rally. Nationally, the early numbers suggest today was the BIGGEST DAY OF PEACEFUL PROTEST IN OUR NATION’S HISTORY. LFG. We have a democracy to save.

Trump responds to No Kings by posting video depicting him as a king

Wow, lots of American flags and peace . Sure doesn’t seem like people who hate America you absolute embarrassment Speaker Johnson

Downtown L.A. right now.

When you compare the signs at No Kings to the signs at Trump rallies, it's almost unfair how much cleverer witty Antifa is compared to tiring MAGA.

Deep red Collin County looking rosy!! This is maybe 20% of the McKinney, Texas protest. And this is when we were leaving just before 2 when it was done, so there had been a lot more people. And it was raining!! #NoKings

Game recognizes game

Those Epstein files must be bad. #KY04

George Santos is the 10th GOP Congressman to get a pardon or clemency from President Trump. The other nine were also all convicted of various criminal charges:

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 74 out of the last 86 days. They have worked 12 days in 3 months. Epstein Shutdown.

Bring as many American flags to No Kings as you can.

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

I swear I did not have "I'm better at ducking bullets than Charlie Kirk" on my Donny Batshit Bingo card

The Consoler-in-Chief.

Put a banner on every closed rural hospital WE SAVED ARGENTINA INSTEAD

Seems the Narcissist-in-Chief is mad about the Time Mag cover neckgina pic so please don’t share it widely Thank you for your attention to this matter

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

4/ Ok, so then the obvious next step is to negotiate a compromise. That's how we've always avoided shutdowns. And Republicans need to convene those talks, bc they're in charge. But here's the kicker - Trump is telling them to BOYCOTT NEGOTIATING. And they are following orders.

Columbus aint do a damn thing but get lost. Happy Indigenous People's Day

Epstein The shut down is over Trumps little Johnson's refusal to swear in the final vote that would require the house to release the Epstein files. Oh it's about health care too but the main reason for the shut down is EPSTEIN

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

Of all the excuses not to show up to work while still collecting a paycheck, refusing to show up for 2 months so you can conceal info about sex trafficking because the perps are wealthy and powerful can only be conjured up in the toxic mind hive of Trump & House GOP leadership.

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night. “Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

all at once? won’t that make him autistic

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection. Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

now do jan 6th

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles. You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

Reminder: The guy demanding credit for a ceasefire in Gaza is the same guy instigating a civil war here at home.

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials. I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

Trump is desperate...he's going for martial law.

Trump would rather burn down the country than release the Epstein Files. Over 80% of voters want it released. Release the Epstein Files.

Let’s try this again it’s a new day. I’m bewildered that no one has answered. Dear MAGA: why would Donald consider pardoning Maxwell, a sex trafficker for Epstein? Again a reminder, Biden is not president and you guys called for the release of the files repeatedly. So… why?