Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Murder normalized.

Yes, we indeed have a serious problem.

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

A crystal clear explanation from @paulwaldman.bsky.social of the GOP's thinking, both now, as it pertains to their government shutdown, and looking ahead to the next couple of years.

There are hard questions we need to ask ourselves right now. But no matter what this administration is planning, we know who we are—we love democracy & plan to fight (peacefully) for it. In a moment where knowledge is power, here is what you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now. YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday. Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms. While you still can. @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

I love Diane Keaton Everything she did Legendary actress, director, and activist Our forever "Annie Hall" The Godfather, the great first wives club , something gotta give and more RIP 🙏 my heartfelt condolences to her friends and family

This hurts. 😢 Sleep sweet, doll. 🤍🕊️

“We're women, more powerful than failure, more than just what makes us comfortable. Be Bold, Be Brave and Be Fierce". ✨Diane Keaton, 01/05/1946 – 10/11/2025 May she rest in power.

I’m tired of being governed by billionaires’ psychoses. Like these are delusional, unstable people but bc they have more money than god we have to live under their crazy?

Someone showed up with a cart of inflatables. The protest is now a dance party outside the PDX ICE facility. Federal police have mostly stood back but did unleash a toxin into the air @nbcnews.com

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

Agreed. States need to get out of contracts with Dominion ASAP. The fox is now in the hen house. 🧾 fortune.com/2025/10/09/f... 🦋 bsky.app/profile/patr...

Listen to Robert De Niro “King Donald The First. F*ck that.” In 8 days we RISE to say #NoKings LFG! Find an event near you. 👉🏾 mobilize.us Peter Thiel Qatari Airbase Portland #SheShed

You should not control a nuclear arsenal if you cannot tell the difference between fiction and reality. The story needs to be told through the lens of mental illness

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood. I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

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

Meanwhile in #Portland

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election? Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official. Be warned.

Sam Alito says non-delivery of mail is too trivial an issue for people to be allowed to sue USPS, but what happens when it's our ballots that are not being delivered? www.rawstory.com/supreme-cour...

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

“It bears pausing on the starkness of these facts: The president of the United States demanded the jailing of two elected officials who belong to the opposing political party” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

So interesting to hear Shonda Rhimes talk about what it took to get Olivia Pope's abortion and Cristina Yang's abortion onscreen. When I interviewd 46 tv writers/showrunners, they echoed these experiences & frustrations (more below). www.usmagazine.com/entertainmen...

#Portland is doing a fantastic job of bringing absurdity to not only disrupt the threatening image of this administration, but to also make more people feel safer in joining in! From playing Benny Hill music to costumes to “ICE fishing” with donuts, all cities should follow. #Momsky #ProudBlue

Breaking News! MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the practices of the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/10/b...

Can we all celebrate and emulate María Corina Machado? She won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting dictatorship! She lives in hiding and was not allowed to run for President in 2024.

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism. They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Vance is back in Indiana today, personally pressuring GOP lawmakers to ignore their conscience and enact an extreme gerrymandering plan. The fact that they have to send in the VP tells us something important and encouraging: political pressure against this plan is working, even in deep red places.

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss. More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

You know, I hadn't planned to go to this, but clearing the calendar now.

Wow—these are notable and alarming escalations in rhetoric. Equating peaceful protesters with terrorists only proves the need for protests.

No Kings is Hamas is quite a claim to make. I mean, we knew this was coming, but it’s still shocking to hear.

I stand with Tish James. The indictment sought by Donald Trump is based on retribution not the rule of law

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole." religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

NY Attorney General Letitia James (D) has been indicted on one count of bank fraud, just weeks after President Trump told the DOJ to go after his “enemies” harder. #ProudBlue apnews.com/article/leti...

Chicago and Portland showing us how it’s DONE!!

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.

The Israeli prime minister's office has unilaterally removed Marwan Barghouti's name from the prisoner exchange list at the last minute, endangering the Gaza ceasefire deal's implementation, a source tells Middle East Eye.

BREAKING: Federal judge issues a TRO in the Northern District of Illinois (including Chicago and the Broadview ICE facility), providing protections for protesters and journalists covering the protests. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Some of the key elements:

Huh. Do I have to file taxes then? apple.news/AAml-uPxoTGW...

Masked agents snatching people at work, church, their child’s daycare. A return of family separations. States are lining up to run their own detention centers. Anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology. We report from inside the American gulag.

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.