Some people are obsessed with a pet issue, so focused on it that they cannot grasp that an existential crisis is happening. Something that makes their issue moot because it threatens to take away the ability of citizens to advocate for issues and vote for candidates that promise progress on them.

Conspicuously denying that reality is an effort to diminish the import of a mass movement, immediately ahead of it, by saying, "Well it's not as IMPORTANT." Because that's really the only way to interpret "bigger," if not size. It's a stupid argument, yes, and there's a wrong side of it.

As a personal shopper, I see it every day. I often check out one or two bags of groceries costing over $100. They told us the prices were going up because of Covid supply chain issues, but after Biden declared the pandemic over, we were told "Actually this is the new normal. Can't risk deflation."

Read "75% of Americans report soaring prices as Trump claims inflation ‘over’" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6oZXpu4o/z...

THIS. Hamas took power in a coup and ruled with an iron fist. It is bananas that Westerners have the bigotry of low expectations and think that that's the best Palestinians can do. Like "They just don't know any better than to be dictators, so we should treat the dictators as legitimate."

No Kings is not "just a march" or "just a protest" either. It's a movement to stop a guy who wants to be king, who put soldiers on our streets because he has no plans to leave office when his term is up. Just like last time, when he had militants sack our Capitol Building to try to reinstall him.

Guys when I say "The No Kings protests are larger than the Civil Rights protests" that is clearly a claim about numbers. What else could it mean? That is the plain-english, straightforward reading of that statement. Stop pretending you've suffered a brain injury for the sake of winning an argument

It’s because absurdity captures attention, highlights the lies of the Trump administration, and makes it profoundly clear that those lies are being told with authoritarian intent

The Founders counted on Congress being interested in protecting its own powers vis a vis the executive. They certainly didn't foresee a speaker like Mike Johnson. www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

Mike Johnson is no patriot. Real patriots like Kamala Harris support No Kings Day. 🔥 ✊ 🔥

No, the president is not the chief law enforcement officer. They command the MILITARY, not the Justice Department. But Trump doesn't see any difference between the military and law enforcement. They're both action figures that beat up bad guys.

Trump suggests he may get even more involved in prosecuting his political foes: "What we're doing is nothing. I don't have to leave it up to them. But I choose to at this moment at least."

🟥 Blindspot for the Right: The Young Republican National Federation called for immediate resignations after a Politico report revealed racist, antisemitic, and violent messages in a private group chat involving party leaders from several states. ground.news/article/youn...

"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...

On "Kids Say the Darndest Things," none of them praised Hitler. Republicans will never cease to claim 39-year old white guys are "kids" and 12-year old black boys are "men."

It's funny, how everyone, in their gut, just knows that Trump made a shit load money on this deal somehow.

The speaker of the house doesn’t think one of his members assaulting and threatening women is a serious issue.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 of course you’ll see ANTIFA! It means anti-fascist! You’re going to see the heart of America stand up and say NO KINGS HERE! WE ARE A DEMOCRACY! YOU WILL NOT DEFEAT US BY SHUTTING DOWN OUR GOVERNMENT NOR ROBBING US OF HEALTHCARE NOR KIDNAPPING US! PERIOD.

"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

So my mom passed away in March. She had dementia. She was given a cognitive test once a week and you know what they always told her ? Take a guess ? They always told her she had a perfect score and that she did fantastic .

Yes your taxes should support disabled people. They should support homeless people. They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly. This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

FYI, its 1500miles from Venezuela through Cuba, to Florida. These open-hulled fishing boats can't carry enough fuel and drugs to make the trip. These fisherman are being murdered in their own territorial waters.

I know everybody is squeezed right now because of Trump's tariffs crashing the economy, but if anybody has anything to spare, you can help save a historic bookstore that's the anchor of our village's main street. gofund.me/b344ead9d

So, FIFA and IOC … have you decided to pull the World Cup and the games from the US yet? So many athletes will be in danger, don’t allow your events to place people in harm’s way.

This is our time. This is our moment. This is our movement. Oct. 18 #NoKings

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

I thought they said it was wrong for an administration to ask a social media platform to take stuff down.

I just can't do the pikachu shocked face anymore about news articles where it comes out that Republicans are nazis, bigots, racists, sexists, and pedophiles. Sorry. It's not shocking. They've been loudly broadcasting who they are for the entire second half of my life.

If Hamas thinks they can renege on the deal, stay in power in Gaza, and refuse to disarm, well what the hell did they think the US troops were going to Israel for? 200 can become 2,000 or more. However many it takes to secure his peace prize.

Someone told him a “wartime president” gets reelected, so now he’s trying to drag us into war with Venezuela. Under international law (UN Charter, Art. 51), force’s allowed only in self-defense. No war. No threat. Just 6 men killed for a tweet. That’s not strength, it’s lawless.

Trump continues to order the murder of alleged drug traffickers off the coast of Venezuela. This is not war. This isn’t even plausibly war. This is the president playing judge, jury, and executioner of foreign civilians.

GoFundMe CEO says the economy is so bad that more of his customers are crowdfunding just to pay for their groceries... Are we winning yet? finance.yahoo.com/news/gofundm...

Remember that time the FBI indicted the 2016 Russian Troll Farm, and part of the evidence showed that the troll farm had learned that they didn't need to spend time bothering to write reasoned arguments, "Hillary is a Satan" worked just as well?

Trump: "They have the devil's ideology. They become violent on the left."

Trump opens the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "This is the first time we've been at the new and improved Rose Garden. And people are loving it. They are loving it like they have not loved a lot of things."

🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🇿🇦 🇵🇸 Swap in any other country and most people can see the U.S. Imperialism. Hell, most people can smell it!😷

Asking someone if they are "a Zionist" is like asking if they support votes for women. Like...yes, but why are you asking? We already got that 105 years ago? The only reason to bring it up is if someone wants to UNdo the thing that already happened long ago.

We need the ability to remove people from threads on here. It was such a useful feature. The way it is now, you can't even see who all your reply is going to.

Time Magazine Editor: You get that picture of Trump's neck for the cover? Photographer: Sure did, boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected Alex Jones' appeal and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him by the Sandy Hook Elementary School families

This regime is getting its plague of frogs first, more curses to come I'm sure.

Being big boys fighting chaos is also their greatest psychic wage, and one that we can participate in reducing.

I think it should be noted that anarchist groups like @crimethinc.com have recognized the trap & are getting behind No Kings

turns out it's all narrative warfare

instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police" they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead-- newrepublic.com/article/2016...

I’m this guy. I don’t have much traction here on Bluesky, if you’re fighting back against Trump and his dictatorial policies, we should be buds.