Kind of amazing to think about how different the world might be today if PayPal had just... failed early on and shut down. You can trace so much nonsense today back to PayPal getting bailed out by eBay.

By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23

DAILY MEMO: After No Kings Protests, Feds Wreak Havoc in Santa Ana and O.C. Today's video is too long for BSKY, so you'll have to find it here, apologies. lataco.com/daily-memo-a...

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"Sam Rivers wasn't just our bass player — he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound," the band wrote in a eulogy to the founding member. on.nbcboston.com/EVxgnxn

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

This is obviously where we need to be headed. Am ambivalent whether he’s the person who should be initially socializing but whatever, here we go

This is art.

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

This is not the same blackout the system as blackout the system org which is a mass movement to shut down. This is shutting down corporate America for Christmas. And if it takes hold, which is very likely, it’s the first step towards the national one.

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.

100%

Mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson calls for a general strike, at least 300,000 people attended the protest. #3E #NoKings #EndImpunity #EndOligarchy #EndAutogenocide #EpsteinFiles

Well that didn't take long

Please tell me a First Amendment lawyer is willing to step up here and defend this woman.

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Im dead 😂😂😂

For not caring at all, he seems to be very pissed. What a pathetic miniscule guy. #NoKings

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Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Today’s peaceful protests demonstrate even more conclusively that the real threats of violence have always come from the red team.

No Kings, Portland, Oregon

Epically beautiful and also a bit scary and heartbreaking. We are on the precipice now of revolution or dictatorship. Those are the only jump offs. America largely made their choice today. Already there are mass calls to cancel Christmas. A national grab your wallet, fuck the corps. It could work.

I have friends everywhere. #NoKings

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.

This is the biggest single day protest in US history. Millions upon millions of people across the United States reject the Trump regime and fascism. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

No Kings organizers say it would be easier if people just let them know if they did not attend a rally.

DC churches rang their bells in support of protestors today. We must keep those bells of freedom ringing. No Kings

BREAKING: Our crowd count estimate from the No Kings coalition responsible for planning today’s event is 7 MILLION nationwide. 7 MILLION of you gathered across the country to peacefully protest today. 2 million more than the first No Kings action in June.

There were many great moments at Ellsworth, Maine's #nokings rally, but I particularly like what was said by Indigenous language keeper Dwayne Tomah, director and curator of the Sipayik Museum and a past member of the Passamaquoddy Tribal Council.... #indigenous #maine

Abrams: The destination this nation was built on was a nation that sees all and serves all and stands for all. That's the destination. And yet we are living in a moment where ethno-fascists are in charge of the government…

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

I've been saying Boston won't take this shit.

my hot take is today is about showing maybe millions of people how it’s fun to say fuck the government

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings

California Dreamin’ of No Kings in San Diego.

Numbers coming in that NYC and DC broke records. DC more than doubled the last No Kings numbers and NYC tripled theirs. DC estimated over 200,000 NYC estimated over 300,000

No Kings-San Francisco, CA

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

They changed it to “millions,” lol:

#A_NewHope ✊

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

bruh

ooh well done

No Kings NYC

I feel that some of you need regular reminders of how unpopular this man is. And frankly I see him getting even more so as the economy worsens. Again, this doesn't mean that he will give up any power but it does mean that WE HAVE POWER TOO.