I agree we need a big coalition. So if transphobes want to fight fascism, I'd say they need to recognize that antifascism is going to need a big tent, so they're going to have to stop issuing political purity test and let trans people live their lives. We can't afford to shrink the tent for them.

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!

This, by the way, is why the "no demands" criticism of No Kings falls short. No Kings does not require promises from the government because the promises were already given and broken. The demands are that the promises in the form of the laws and Constitution of the United States are enforced.

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

At age 26, this is very much how I'd characterize the experience. Are you telling me it isn't permanent?

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

Not to steal Sardonicus' justified rage I'm just thinking about how my first time volunteering to do anything was helping my choir in school raise money for a young girl my age who was sick. She had cancer, her parents couldn't make payments, she died. ACA could have saved her. Expansion could have

I wonder what it's going to take for a history textbook to ever state plain the fact that a Black liberal being elected President of the United States broke this country's psyche so hard that it spent the next (at least) 8 years simultaneously schisming itself & pretending it wasn't. Because, like…

The Nobel Committee has a chance to do the funniest thing next year

Props to this guy

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

it’s true you never really know what someone else is going through. like me for instance, right now i’m in the car wash and lemme tell you something i…am…afraid

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For posting AI generated videos of Himself flying a Plane full of Shite

I’m just sick. One of my students-a sweet, kind freshman came to my office yesterday. Through the sobs she told me how her brother, a 22 year old dreamer, brought to this country from Guatemala when he was a child, was abducted by three men on his way to work. They don’t know where he is.

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

waking up and groggily trying to piece together what people could possibly mean by “trump diarrhea video” i hate this world

Some food for thought about yesterday. 7 million is not 3.5% — that’s more like 12 million — but if we can continue to grow and sustain yesterday’s progress the regime cannot stand.

Companies should have to pay for your commute to/from work as well as the time spent actually at the job. It's time you're taking out of your day on your employer's behalf, so they're taking from us by requiring we travel to a place but not paying us for it.

Go Dallas! www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/d...

There are no kings in America, and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.

“likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

a good sign i didn’t snap a photo of was “united we ribbit. divided we croak”

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Thinking about the @lindsayellis.bsky.social video where she noted how white nationalists co-opted American history X and all these other “strong” critiques but can’t handle “Springtime for Hitler” because of how ridiculous it makes them look

This is great, 🐸 power 💪 #NoKings

Man what I wouldn’t give to see how historians contextualize this in a hundred years

all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines

If I may be an earnest dork for a moment, this one actually got to me 🥲

They have sounded forth the ribbit that shall never call retreat; They are lifting up the hearts of men with jazzy dancing beats; Oh, be swift to go and follow in the prints of webby feet! Our Frog is marching on.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the frogs They are leading forth the unicorns & funny cats & dogs They are coming from the rivers, from the ponds & from the bogs Their truth is marching on Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah Glory glory hallelujah Their truth is marching on

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Frogs; They is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; They hath loosed the fateful lightning of their terrible swift swords; Their truth is marching on.

WE ARE COMING, FATHER ABRAHAM, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE, FROM MISSISSIPPI'S WINDING STREAM AND FROM NEW ENGLAND'S SHORE. WE DARE NOT LOOK BEHIND US BUT STEADFASTLY BEFORE. WE ARE COMING, FATHER ABRAHAM, THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE!

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Breaking: Today is officially one of the biggest days of protest in American history. Over 7 million Americans turned out to No Kings events to stand up against MAGA fascism.

I went to my first ever protest today. I actually did it!

Who's against "No Kings"? 1. Kings. 2. Courtiers. 3. Servile lackeys. 4. Two rascally tailors who sell the king a suit of clothes so fine it can be seen only by the smartest people, causing the king to strut around with his flabby flesh and mushroom micropenis on full view, then skip town, laughing.

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Now to be That Bitchy Lady: musical instruments are excellent to bring on marches. Playing them in the crowd at a rally when there's someone on stage making a speech is rude. So are bluetooth speakers playing music.

No-Kings livestream:

(Shared the wrong link earlier) If your event gets rained out or if you can't come in person, No-Kings is doing a livestream event in about an hour! www.youtube.com/live/raD5GuV...

Yes, please! The world is so much more fun together! This has to be an untapped selling point!

Got a lovely photo of a frog from this guy! unsplash.com/@zmachacek

"Why are there so many, Trump thugs in ski masks? And why do they have to hide? You can spray us with pepper, But won't surrender! We'll respond with a naked bike ride!" - General Kermit T. Frog

I fucking love this: youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?... (Image includes a brave protestor in a frog suit standing up to ICE)

“Please someone listen to me, I don’t want to die” These are the words of a woman named Harmonie who had an ectopic pregnancy Her obgyn refused to help, citing a 1% chance the fetus could survive She lives in a blue state & still couldn’t access the life saving care she needed

One cool thing about advocating for diversity in health sciences is that you can actually live longer and have better quality of life (and suffer less) simply by telling racists they suck and their opinions are not valid

Breaking: Text messages of Young Republican groups across the country have just been leaked. They talk about putting Democrats in “gas chambers,” attacking “Jews,” calling Black people “watermelon people,” calling to “rape” their enemies, and bringing back slavery.