No King’s protest, at least in rural Utah, has helped spur consistent and expanded political activation. Carbon County Dem meetings grew from 10 to 30. A guy may very run in Kane county which went to Trump with 73% of the vote. It even helped protect our Teachers, firefighters and police Unions

Even Chuck Schumer signed onto this.

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

Okay I misread this initially as a defense of Platner but she’s shitting on him and the campaign for trying to get ahead of it and releasing it. What were they thinking? It’s good this came out now but he had a Nazi tattoo on his chest, clearly knew what it meant, and didn’t cover it up? Huh?

"the president is literally stealing $230 million of taxpayer money to pay himself and knocking down a wing of the white house in order to build a giant ballroom" I dunno I feel like staggering levels of corruption could still be an effective campaign message

It's almost like espousing N@zi beliefs is indicative of being a piece of shit overall, not the cause of it.

I am now ready with a take: It is good when negative things about candidates come out before people vote rather than after they vote.

The issue is that the baseline understanding within the Democratic Party needs to be "the GOP is attempting to wield power unconstitutionally, therefore norm-breaking but constitutional measures are justified to bring their lawlessness to heel.

They like Trump and support his goals

No Fetterman don’t tell them to do that, you’ll make us so very mad 😡😡😡 thehill.com/homenews/sen...

The thing I am never going to get over with Platner is still that the main online claim wasn't that he should win - which, sure - but that it would be illegitimate and corrupt for another serious candidate to even run! Like if you made that argument, nobody should ever take you seriously again IMO

"Donald Trump's government stays unfunded forever or Republicans abolish the filibuster" is an acceptable outcome.

Alaska feels like a place where the floor could cave in under the GOP similarly to how it did for Dems in Iowa. a few demo shifts here and there in constituencies that have been generally breaking against you and it's game over

*very loud incorrect buzzer*

it remains very funny to me that there’s a slightly-moderated democratic socialist in the NYC mayor’s race and it’s not the guy who used to look like this

Maybe one of the most obvious & straightforward things we can do to improve environments for children is to keep phones out of them. The really ugly part is that's probably true to a fair extent for parents too, I say into my smartphone that I have in front of me all the time

so many europeans spend 50% of their time raging about how americans think the whole world is america and the other 50% of their time opining about our politics while having no fucking idea how our government works

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Newsom or Pritzker should loudly signal that people who have clean records who quit because this isn’t what they signed up to do will get their careers back when the winds change.

Cuomo was pushed to resign four years ago by his party and Mamdani - an actual thrice-elected Democratic officeholder - won the Democratic nomination outright. Mamdani is the establishment now, and that’s *good*!

I think about this every time I see people on here insisting that change is won by small numbers of black bloc protesters conducting violent action.

Oh wow

Favorable/Unfavorable for Democratic leaders/orgs: AOC — 74/6 Harris — 80/12 Biden — 72/16 Democratic Socialists — 60/12 Schumer — 40/32

this kid is already god-tier

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SCANDAL — the “paid protesters” all got stiffed yesterday 🤷🏼 💰 Now they know how all those contractors Trump hired feel 😕 (H/T @thegoodliars.bsky.social & @howdypolitics.bsky.social )

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Spotify’s founder, Daniel Ek, is another techno-fascist billionaire. He’s invested in AI that specializes in war, surveillance and violence, so it’s no surprise he’s fine with running ICE ads on Spotify. If you haven’t already, cancel your Spotify subscriptions. Let’s make them feel like Disney+.

An open violation of a ceasefire is only a test if you're Israel

This is just straight-up treason by rubio, he's wrecking our ability to fight organized crime in order to help bukele cover up his apparently cozy relationship with MS-13 leadership and possible theft of us foreign aid, all so trump et al can get photos of us sending hairdressers to torture prison

If No Kings has you pumped to fight for democracy, look to economic resistance. What would it look like to have sustained, joyful, organized campaigns that hit them in the pocketbook? Labor strikes, massive boycotts for the holidays? Use capitalism as a tool to bring the regime to its knees.

A play in three acts

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

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.

we fight hard down here cause we gotta fight the bullshit AND the folks who think we endorse the bullshit just by living here.

Many are saying

actual good advice here

Questioning the validity and efficacy of democratic mass mobilization the day of mass mobilization is like a hair’s breadth from certified wrecker behavior imho

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

#nokings in Rockford, IL Favorite sign so far

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One of my favorite things about the summer No Kings protest was seeing both Ukraine and Palestine's flags flying together, and I'm sure I'll see the same at this afternoon's protest. For freedom everywhere, against tyrants everywhere!

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"Media outlets committed to liberal democracy should take the side of liberal democracy against authoritarianism. Period. The end."

anyway, the people who got this kid to kill himself? bigballs was their VPN provider. :)

Trump clocks in at 37%-61% in new AP-NORC poll. It’s the worst poll of his rancid 2nd term. Happy No Kings Day!

PM Carney reaffirms Canada's position first confirmed by former Prime Minister Trudeau. ca.news.yahoo.com/netanyahu-ar...