The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

I had to go there! 🤭🤭🤭🤭

HEY New York Times, IT WAS SHIT HE DUMPED ON PROTESTERS! If he can post it, the least you can do is write it!

Pedro Pascal, the Mandalorian and Mr. Fantastic himself, dancing to an anti-ICE cumbia song at the LA No Kings rally on October 18th! 💙 Wepa! (IYKYK)

Her day will come.

My feelings, exactly.

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I have never seen such a perfect image

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence. If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

just about everyone said this one was bigger than June’s, wherever they were that factor alone is important. 3.5% feels achievable! it’s not like the administration is going to get better and make anyone less mad!

So the mainstream media is going to pretend that the US president literally shit posting an AI video ISN’T a sign of his mental deterioration? Really? WTF

THIS THIS THIS ALL DAY. We (meaning: white people) need to show up to the polls with the same energy and clear minded purpose to vote in ways that benefit EVERYONE that we bring to No Kings Day. Otherwise it is just performative BS.

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Quit.

You're high off the No Kings demonstration but don't know what to do next? Decolonize your mind. Practice active anti-racism. Talk to your friends about how you can commit concrete acts that dismantle white supremacy. Think about how you interact with Black people. Unpack your internal biases.

So many of you get your authority by being white. That's it. You don't know any more than I do. You're not smarter than I am. You're just white and that grants you a level of authority that I am not granted without proving myself. You're trading in white supremacy. You should think about that.

Well I certainly didn't have a huge blow up penis being tackled and arrested for protesting on my bingo card. You? #NoKings

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A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day. Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏 History.

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#nokings rally I went to in Extremely Normie Chicago suburb was easily triple the size of earlier one. TRIPLE. & that was much bigger than I thought it would be. Previous one, occasionally cars would beep, this time every single car was leaning on the horn the whole time. Encouraging cacophony. 👊🏻💚

You heard it hear first: this is the largest protest in Chicago history. 500k+ is my guess, I've never seen anything like this

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained. These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

Like I always say - when you march, you're marching for ten people who couldn't ✊

Awesome🌟🌟🌟

Call me old fashioned but I miss the days when we would all be shocked if a President posted a video of himself flying over protesters and dumping poop on them. I miss the days when a video like that would have been grounds for instant removal from office. I miss accountability.

This is what I’m against: a President who shows nothing but the most vile contempt for anyone who doesn’t worship him.

If I’m not mistaken, the founders of antifa have arrived.

Police just detained two protesters. One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.

Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them: MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING. This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.

This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.

If you want people to do hard things EN MASSE, you must support them when they show up in the MILLIONS to tell the ONE SPECIAL BOY to GTFO.

Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo.

Exactly. I kept noticing the people driving through the intersection, beaming and honking their asses off. To see neighbors feeling supported was the best I have felt in a LONG time. There is no substitute for solidarity.

I really hope an editor pays Lisa to write this thread up. it’s a great example of how academic work contributes to movement work. @bostonreview.bsky.social? @therumpus.net?

When the conflict expands in scale & scope, the good feelings help propel people to do hard things. Shitting on the public rallies is fucking dumb. It's also ahistorical and lacks any serious engagement with the history of social movement successes in the US. It's just trashy demobilization.

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.

The what now? I don’t want to know, do I? 🙈🙉🙊

Georgia Packer just wrote about this. He points out that MAGA has abandoned the American values that the right co-opted: “respect for law and custom, patriotism, family ties, common decency.” The legacy media has just failed to acknowledge this. They’re stuck in the past. It’s why they’re dying.

C'mon, New Jersey. You've got a terrific lady, Mikie Sherrill, running for governor. Elect her!

their ducks: not even in a row. in disarray. shambles our ducks: slowly arranging themselves into uncountable phalanxes

We already know how to beat Trump — and it's not with scaremongering like this

Chicago from the air. I changed my mind. We are something to fear.

Our local Indivisible is estimating there were at least 1,600 of us (not including all the honking cars that drove by). There was also a larger rally 20 minutes away at the county courthouse.

There were at least 300,000 people at No Kings in NYC. Three Hundred Thousand.