This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

No Kings. Millions of citizens.

"We do ultimately depend on the common sense and common courage of the people. “No Kings” is an expression of protest. But it is also an affirmation of responsibility. We the people ordained and established our free government. It’s up to us to keep it." www.thebulwark.com/p/its-gettin...

Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.

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“It’s a proud refusal to be bound by the most basic standard of goodness, a deliberate expression of contempt for everything decent.”

Literally: This. Is. How. It. Happens. Especially pernicious because the effects are largely invisible even as they accumulate. It just seems like the opposition is weak and ineffectual; you never see what people would have said and done if they weren't threatened and intimidated.

Hey media and experts who believed Trump was "coming around" on Ukraine even though each previous time you thought that, he was just stalling as Putin's Whore and yet you fell for it again? Go fuck yourselves. And quit.

His mental state is deteriorating quickly --- the grandiose narcissism is out of control. It sounds exactly like something a religious cult leader would say.

🚨BREAKING:President Donald Trump publicly endorsed the North Carolina GOP’s latest congressional gerrymander Friday, celebrating a proposed map that would secure Republicans an additional U.S. House seat in 2026 — by further eroding fair representation for Black and Democratic voters.

Considering that his own VP, JD Vance, labeled Trump a serial sexual assaulter and said he believed victims like "Katie Johnson" (a pseudonym), who was 13 years old at the time of the alleged assaults, what's in the files must be really bad. Perhaps confirmation of allegations like Katie's ?

Really starting to think the entire Epstein operation was more about blackmailing the rich and powerful, with foreign govts assisting in the pressure.. They are locking this down waaaay too hard to just be about a pedo. Way too hard.

Donald Trump pardons/commutes the sentence every piece of shit he can find. Today’s piece of shit…just happened to be George Santos.

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

🧵Giuffre's father worked at Mar-a-Lago, He had a lot of photos of himself & Trump posing together. Yet Trump says he doesn't know anything about Giuffre. In her memoir, she also recalls the moment Ghislaine Maxwell approached her and took her to Epstein after her father introduced her to Trump.

A panel of federal appeals court judges stopped Trump’s National Guard deployment in Chicago by warning that ‘political opposition is not rebellion,’ and it does not justify executive power grabs. It’s an important line in the sand.

Now release the Epstein Files. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Histotripsy: using ultrasound to destroy cancer tumours without surgery. #ShareGoodNewsToo www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Donald Trump: No health care for you, but a new ballroom for me.

It doesn't make sense because fascists lie and they destroy everything around them like cancer. They don't traffic in reality and anytime we assert reality on them they react violently because we're not complying with their gas lighting.

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

im not exactly a constant churchgoer but its just wild to purportedly be a follower of *jesus christ* while arguing that the poor aren't priority one. you didnt do the reading. you didnt even read the damn cliffs notes.

Only by the men is it unremarked.

This administration is packed with compromised cowards who don’t trust each other. No honor among thieves. Exploit it.

Maybe the Salesforce Tower jumbotron should just permanently display that Eye of Sauron they put up on Halloween

Funny, how the "No Kings" protesters were "elderly white hippies" in August (per Stephen Miller), but are "pro-Hamas terrorists and violent criminals" in October (per Karoline Leavitt). It's *almost* as if this regime makes its shameless lies up as it goes along . . .

war on Christmas

Trump's DOJ is going after his political enemies. The Washington Post editorial board is suddenly concerned. But it wasn't concerned when it endorsed Pam Bondi for AG, calling her a "qualified" and "serious" pick. Billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to both avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

The people around Donald Trump are taking advantage of his diminished capacity to break the law. Whatever they do now, we won’t forget — and we will hold them accountable.

Three reasons I have hope for America, even after a very dark week: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/why-i-have...

Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

People wrote mean things like "stop the kidnapping," "hate has no home in Arlington," and "no white nationalism." in chalk on the sidewalk in front of Stephen Miller's house, so he called them terrorists and now the Miller's are selling their 6,000 sq ft house. www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...

Our enemy here is not Trump, says @ezralevin.bsky.social, one of the organizers of tomorrow's No Kings march: "our enemy is fatalism, nihilism and cynicism" www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/u...

Experiencing severe hardship in childhood can have a lasting impact. Understanding this better could open the door to more effective treatments

AM MUST READ in Public Notice: How the Supreme Court Taught Trump to Rewrite History "the Supreme Court has been manipulating the legal principle of stare decisis to give their own personal preferences a cloak of legitimacy." h/t Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-scot... #NoKings

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

It is weakness and it is dangerous and the lesson is that we should never ever put weak men in charge of anything. By @jilldlawrence.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

And there you have it. These strikes are clearly not legal. Pete will push commanders aside until he finds one who won’t question these extrajudicial killings. #SOUTHCOM

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Big tech: From capitulation to collaboration. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Amen… 🧵

Oh my. Pope said I’m the boss and who gonna tell me no. This is a big deal. Some of the people treasonously and avidly working to end America’s democracy are directly from Opus DEI. www.meidasplus.com/p/the-opus-d...

Excellent! These are the catholic deviants on the Supreme Court, right?

Good

It occurs to me Trump is doing something extremely similar to what Sam Bankman-Fried went to prison for. SBF took funds from customer deposits at his crypto exchange FTX and put them into his other company Alameda Research to keep it solvent.

I don’t think these guys are really cut out for fascism. m.economictimes.com/news/interna...