Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

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

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

First Trump administration story in a while that genuinely shocked me:

The President of the United States. Unbelievable.

Grotesque corruption. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.” Damn. Just … damn.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

I’ve said before this could the the thing that brings Trump down. There must be an investigation to learn if this is true. And what were the circumstances of this bombing? What info did the U.S. have? Who gave the order to go ahead? Was it Trump himself?

The “it’s actually not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic” party is now “nah, it’s actually a monarchy” party.

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

The linked course is an incredibly well-written, clear explanation of how LLMs work and outlines really thoughtfully what the can, and can't, do. Recommended read for absolutely everyone out there. #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky 💻🧬

"The New York Police Department said Saturday afternoon that it had not made any protest-related arrests. The D.C. police also said Saturday afternoon that it had made no protest-related arrests."

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

Just found out today that someone I knew from the late 90s was recently shot and killed. The news article linked to a gofundme for his surviving family. I think it would be appropriate to share it here. gofund.me/e8c0c5f32 Here's the news link: www.wsls.com/news/local/2...

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Oh. If we had a functioning Congress this would demand bipartisan hearings and investigation.

Laws are not self-executing. Is this an obvious Hatch Act violation? Of course. But without good men and women in government faithfully executing the laws, it doesn't matter. When this is all over, assuming we still have a constitutional government, there needs to be an accounting.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "Everybody has got to find their spine...At this #NoKings event on Saturday, average people are going to show up to register how upset they are with what Donald Trump is doing to the country. But America's elites have more or less rolled over."

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:

A revealingly creepy formulation by Speaker Johnson. What does he mean by “they” are going to “descend” on “our” capital? WE are going to assemble in OUR communities exercising OUR constitutional rights in defense of OUR nation.

I’ve been lucky enough to help my country & neighbors since I was 17 years old. I’m 54 now. I don’t like pledges of allegiance all that much. But I love my country. I don’t like flags all that much. But I love my neighbors. So tomorrow we will be at No Kings. For my country and for my neighbors

The fascist playbook. In 1963, Wallace was a Democrat, a Southern Democrat. The Great Realignment into Sane People and Fascists was just starting.

Important: Sen Chris Murphy just sent pointed questions to Kristi Noem about DHS's account of shooting of US citizen by Trump's paramilitary forces in Chicago. The official line is imploding. Murphy wants Noem to explain why DHS misled. More like this, Ds. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Half-moon

I am not not, nor have I ever been, a Communist. I WILL be at NO KINGS Oct. 18. We ALL must be there tomorrow. LFG, people! Now is the time.

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

This report is absolutely shocking. ICE does not have the authority to detain US citizens during immigration enforcement — full stop. The Trump administration is out of control, violating the rights of American citizens. They must be held accountable. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Amid reports that there were some survivors of the most recent U.S. boat bombing, I ask: would it be acceptable for Marines to pull up and shoot those survivors down in the water? What’s the logical difference between that and what we’ve been doing? Trump has crossed the line into murder.

Predictable and alarming:

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed. Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

Stephen Miller wants a violent incident on Saturday. Let’s frustrate him with how peaceful we can be. Don’t engage hecklers, watch for agitators, take video evidence when needed. I saw this graphic floating around. In general it has the right idea. Overcome evil with good.

There isn’t another side to the argument. Every actor in the system—from defense attorneys to Justices on the Supreme Court—recognizes what is happening. The only question is how the criminal justice system should respond.” open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

RFK Jr. keeps repeating this ridiculous, ignorant bullshit. Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting. bsky.app/profile/carl...

I’m old enough to remember when we had a system of checks & balances that involved Congress, when Congress controlled the purse and legislated, and the president respected the Constitution & rule of law. I’m old enough to remember when a U.S. president wouldn’t want to be King George or a dictator.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

The first No Kings rally was the most patriotic event I’ve ever attended. It was like a Fourth of July parade, if they’d had Fourth of July parades in 1776 — defiant, crude, Stars and Stripes as far as the eye could see, veterans, hippies, church groups, all united for democracy and against kings.

This is dark. But also, this display of solidarity on the part of the pentagon press corps should be a model for dealing with the regime

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.