Everything happening in the U.S. now is easier to understand when you stop thinking a political party took power and realize instead that an organized crime ring did.

New York:

Adelita Grijalva: "There is so much that cannot be done until I'm sworn in. So every moment that passes that I'm not able to provide constituent services or be a voice for Arizona, I cannot bring the issues forward that they send me here to do."

Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation. But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop

Want to know what to do next after #NoKings? Join movement leaders and fellow local activists to come together, celebrate what we accomplished, and learn about what’s next.

Amazon just turned every single Ring camera into a potential ICE camera for sending your neighbors to concentration camps.

This is an interesting analysis, especially in light of yesterday's puerile video from the white house. “What they’re offering people is not health insurance or economic security,” Stanley says. “They’re offering them delight in the torture of others.”

Remember: - The Legault admin doesn't give a fuck if #Montreal's transit doesn't work - They, like all other neoliberal govts, purposely defund public transit in order to break it - At which point they then privatize it, enriching their friends & donors Know your enemy: it isn't the union

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:

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

@nicolefoy.bsky.social is the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. She did it because the government isn’t. This is what she found.

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...

We’re in the middle of a nationwide frog costume supply chain crisis. Thanks, Trump.

No costume but we did what we could. #NoKings #Malmö #Sweden

🇬🇧🔥Ironically, LONDON is kicking off #NoKingsDay 💪🏽

Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting. Now the official line is crumbling. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/2019...

If you’re out & about today, don’t forget to lock your phone with a passcode & turn off your facial recognition.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Block the regime bsky.app/profile/did:...

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

Ô mon Dieu, ce dossier sur les relations entre Soraya Martinez et les grands promoteurs est assez troublante. #polmtl pivot.quebec/2025/10/15/e...

2025 feels like that late-stage game of monopoly where you just go round and round paying rent and utilities forever and nobody knows what the rules are anymore and everyone’s just waiting for it all to end except the one player who cheated and has all the money

This week Vivek Ramaswamy spoke at a Turning Point USA event originally scheduled to headlined by the late Charlie Kirk. But during the Q&A things took a turn as Ramaswamy fielded questions about his Hindu faith…🐆💀

Put a little tutorial and downloadable stencil options on my website for you. www.badasscrossstitch.com/communitypro... #craftivism

Don't obey. Stand up to fascists. Make good trouble. *Seen In Downtown Portland

Just to be clear, this musician is lawfully exercising First Amendment Rights in broad daylight.

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

The European Union says Russia should pay for Ukraine's reconstruction. Shouldn't Israel pay for Gaza's reconstruction? Just as Germany was forced to do after the Holocaust.

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you. Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide. So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Statement from the President of the Parliamentary Press Gallery:

Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider : are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No. *but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no. *but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no. maybe you're not being negative *enough*

"The lack of connection in a dictatorship is a weakness that can be exploited and turned against the dictatorship. Never miss an opportunity to create animosity and suspicion between the tyrant and their subordinates and allies."

Good for them: it is a violation of the Hatch Act that limits the use of public assets for partisan messaging. Orgeon has its own version of that law, and covers those who run the airport. Other airport administrators should look to see if they are in the same position.

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

"We can shake our heads at d delusion of these MAGA nutters just as we laugh at d US Congressmen who wrote a letter 2 Canada this summer telling us 2 keep d smoke from a burning planet on our side of d border. However, when it comes 2 d state of the planet, there is plenty of delusion 2 go around."

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Today I learned that the collective noun for frogs is "army." Huh.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

If anyone makes a amphibian Gadsden flag, I will be first in line to buy it

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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6 Canadians — including a First Nations woman — have been detained by Israel after their aid ship was intercepted in international waters while carrying medical supplies to Gaza. Canada must demand their immediate release. 🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www.... #cdnpoli #HumanRights #SaveTheCBC