The whole thing as a vanity exercise to demonstrate a show of force before the No Kings events. DOD had said that firing bombs over a highway was safe; state officials disagreed and shut down the highway, used by about 80K people daily. Turns out the state officials were right.

It's very telling Centrists can see possibly the biggest-numbers protest in American history happen against the Right and then have their main takeaway be to make up a story about how it owned Leftists.

They had told Newsom to keep I-5 open during this stunt.

In 2020 when I said Democrats should refuse to seat Republicans I was told if they did that nothing would stop Republicans from doing the same.

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

everyone: we don’t want kings rightwing media: this is a confusing protest line, no one is claiming trump is a king the entire trump administration:

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I KNEW IT!!!! I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE A MISLEADING HEADLINE GOD ONLINE JOURNALISM IS SO FUCKING BROKEN

Zero ambiguity here, folks. Trump is now threatening to use the “unquestioned power” of the Insurrection Act under the phony (and unconstitutional) pretense of fighting crime in cities

Every day I learn about a new reason for them to never reopen the federal government

it is really something that 'creating a bunch of bsky accounts to try and trigger the libs' is the first & only coordinated action where all of the cabinet-level agencies are on the same page.

That sound you hear is all the perpetually earnest autistic people sighing with relief.

Remember when this guy's entire political career was torpedoed because he did a kind of funny yell at one rally

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained. These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

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Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Portland ICE facility now.

Saw this one on Reddit and audibly gasped

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Way more grandparents are fully willing to call republicans pedophiles now than I had dared to dream

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

The mad emperor is now tweeting cartoons of himself making poo-poos on people who are mean to him. You thought there were a lot of books and documentaries about Hitler over the past 80 years? You ain't seen NUTHIN' yet.

"oh gross thats a gooner game" who cares man I'll jack off to your favorite game anyways. cranking my hog to call of duty. masturbating to sim city 200. im busting nuts to bejewled. fuck you.

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

I mean good lord don’t any of the people who worship this man feel embarrassed sometimes

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

That’s a lot of people. Unignorably large.

It is sometimes hard to tell how big a rally crowd is cuz once u reach a certain number of thousands it’s hard to see if its big or if its Big Today in Chicago felt Huge from the jump

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lol “No Kings” is such brilliant branding because Trump’s people are such inveterate reactionary shitposters that their only reaction is, can possibly be, “oh him being a king triggers you? Then yeah he’s a king, he should be the king forever.”

#mechatober2025 17, Duelist. Had a very wild train of thought going for this one; an oversized revolver with a basket hilt wrapped around the mech's body. It's not a combat mech, but designed exclusively for competition shooting (at another mech).

Right now @aristemple.bsky.social is at my cabin singing “three kobolds in a trenchcoat.”

Listen to Spidey y'all. #NoKings #Manhattan

Today in Kent, Ohio. Yes, THAT Kent. A psycho Trumper charged into the No Kings rally, throwing punches, assaulted a woman. He was armed. The crowd tackled him. I considered going to Kent for the protest. It's an hour drive for me. Went to downtown Cleveland instead.

Sometimes you work with the signs you've got, not the signs you wish you had.

The thing about cops is that while they're never gonna be woke what they *are* is extremely territorial and I think a lot of them are beginning to chafe at a bunch of ICE GS-5s showing up from who knows where trying to tell them how to run shit in their towns.

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

Happy No Kings day to all who celebrate 🙌 favorite sign I saw today. 😍😍

Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.” Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party” Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.” NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.

Here at the No Kings protest in Salem. A group of veterans and other locals play a song, singing “This land is made for you and me.”

I may not live there anymore, but I was born there and I'm still proud of it.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

this is a tacit admission that the administration is not confident in the legal arguments it would have to make in order to detain them, which should also cast into question the legality of the operation in the first place