Nearby coffeeshop did this for several years (had outside refrigerator that community filled). Once we dropped off meat items accidentally delivered to us (we’re vegetarians). Items never made it into fridge - as we walked up, people saw what we had & requested them. www.ktvu.com/news/grassro...

Well I was not expecting BILL NIGHY to be spitting facts today! observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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

In my professional opinion 'lewd conduct' laws are about actual dicks, not inflatable dicks

I’ve carried this sign to every No Kings protest to date. Today, for the first time, I got dozens of compliments on the “Sic semper tyrannis” side. Make of that what you will.

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

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

I love #Boston #NoKings

We got the Lucha contingency out here

Went to No Kings gathering in Marble Falls, TX, a county which voted 80% for Trump, and more than 500 folks gathered on bridge over Lake. Wow. So Amazing.

I would also like to report that I just heard from my mother, who has voted Republican for most of her life. Can't stand Trump Went to her first protest today. 150-200 people in our tiny rural two-stop-sign town

#NoKings 285 people in Morehead, Kentucky, pop. 6789. That's 4.1% of the population! KY Tenants Union even did a training on direct action before hand.

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

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:

Can’t recall who said it but, paraphrased: “The people we want to see mobilized are the people who think they can talk their way out of speeding tickets”

“Eleanor cites a quote from Black civil rights activist, author and documentary filmmaker Toni Cade Bambara — “The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible”…“

I'm very proud of our NKs protest in a very red area. I've never seen more than 25 protesters - today we had 300+ with a half dozen inflatable animal costumes. Most joy I've felt in the last 12 months. The small protests in these areas really help folks feel they're not alone.

#NoKings Miami!

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

Genuinely one of the most important things right now is building up the memory of what happened. Who collaborated? Who was disappeared? From and to where? Who downplayed what was happening? Who was right, just unforgivably early?

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

May we rage when we must and rest when we can. May we build the peace we so desperately need. May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice that peace requires. And may our voices join tomorrow to become a mighty and righteous roar. #NoKings Shabbat Shalom ❤️

WTAF

ICE took a mother from our school today. She went to support her son at hearing. ICE took her for good measure. The bus driver knew mom was kidnapped. She always picked up the kids. Mom used her one phone call to beg Principal to save her children from ICE. We are a country run by a cruelty cult.

This is the beauty of BlueSky. No-one will be force-fed this via algorithm. Trolling draws blocks rather than amplification.

they do sort of seem to be in kind of a blind panic over NO KINGS tomorrow

I am sharing this because people need to know that the majority of people polled know who to blame.

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

Breaking on MSNBC: Two top criminal lawyers in the Eastern District of Virginia have been fired: Elizabeth Yusi, the criminal chief, and her deputy Kristin Bird. Both had been involved with Letitia James case and were skeptical of it.

Hey, if you're here in Mass, and want to get linked up with long-term organizing protecting folks from ICE, sign up to volunteer with LUCE!! They need hotline volunteers in lots of languages. Click here to sign up. www.lucemass.org

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

What's up Bluesky, this is the Department of State and we're here to post some Hatch Act violations

thinking about the guy running the us govt bluesky accounts. thats his friday, trying to troll people on a relatively niche social media site because they won twitter and it made them miserable. catastrophic loser energy

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings. These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate. Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/EOixNrF

tonight is the night I became Dale Gribble and blocked the feds

Alllll these official gov accounts have just been created in the past few hours and they’re all posting Hatch Act-violating partisan propaganda about the shutdown. Genuinely creeping me out and I’m blocking them all

All right, that's it. Pack it in, America.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

When administrators try to soft-pedal censorship of student press by cutting only the print edition, they are reminding us that paper is the medium of liberatory potential.

People ignore that Ghostbusters had solid cosmic horror chops (a pseudo-lovecraftian library with Tobin's Spirit Guide; "After the First World War, Shandor decided that civilization was too sick to survive"), but I think it creates a necessary tension for the gags to land as hard as they do

State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.

Do not obey in advance: NoKings.org.