The @nytimes rightly taking heat for burying coverage of the massive protests in tiny pics below the fold on the cover and the story on page 23 — while saying they drew “thousands” (it was millions) and glazing Vance’s marines stunt. What’s going on in there?

Breathtaking incompetence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

We currently have a president who is so childishly crude and grotesque that newspapers consider it indecent to accurately describe the video he recently posted, and TV shows think it is indecent to show it. But many Americans are OK that the Oval Office is home to the nation's crassest toddler.

Imagine thinking they ever cared about debt, fraud, waste, abuse, or anything of the sort. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Does that mean it's more *important*? To be determined. The Tea Party mattered mostly because of how it took over the GOP like a toxic virus, driving it to far-right extremism and laying the foundation for Trumpism. We don't yet know what effect No Kings will have on the Democratic Party. [3/3]

The Tea Party's biggest distributed event was on tax day 2009, with 750 modestly attended protests. No Kings had 2,600. Its biggest single gathering was on 9/12/09 in DC, with somewhere between 75K and a few 100K participants. No Kings had 5-7 million. So: No Kings dwarfs the Tea Party. [2/3]

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

New Epstein emails reveal how he bullied Leon Black for $170M, insulted his kids, and kept influencing his finances—years after his crimes were public. Black says he regrets it, but Epstein’s reach was terrifying.

So in western Alaska, thousands of people are homeless due to flooding rains, one person is dead & two people are missing. But yet, the regime hasn't said a word, no thoughts or prayers, nothing. Once again, they could care less about Americans, it's about enriching themselves through GREED.

OK, so our "Secretary of War" currently has two big priorities: (1) murdering innocent fishermen in the Caribbean, and (2) endangering the lives of commuters in Southern California. Perhaps, we are seeing one of the downsides to having a drunk TV talk show chatterbox running our military.

The most reckless, stupid administration E-V-E-R. Nothing comes close.

Finally came across video of an arrest at a #NoKings event yesterday. 🙄

Nye: We are here to tell our lawmakers that what's going on in our government is wrong. They must stop the abuses of this petulant president and his circle of sycophants. No thrones, no crowns, no king

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress nearly a month ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

Why does the government need private jets is maybe a question we should be asking.

Telling moment: I was walking back from the rally, but a couple miles from it, carrying nothing but my gigantic American flag. An eight year old on his bike sees me with it and yells "No Kings!!" with absolute conviction. My friends, they have lost the flag.

Source: @kylec.bsky.social An amazing crowd and photo. No Kings, Denver, Colorado.

And yet people vote for Trump. It's bizarre.

ANY ARRESTS? Among the millions upon millions of "violent leftist radicals" that took to the streets today I cannot find word of a single arrest. Even when everything is peaceful there is usually an overzealous cop or something. This is unheard of. We need to beat the media over the head with it.

No Kings, Portland, Oregon

We’re the party of freedom. They’re the party of George Santos and Jeffrey Epstein.

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

Portland ICE facility now.

Wow, lots of American flags and peace . Sure doesn’t seem like people who hate America you absolute embarrassment Speaker Johnson

This is Idaho 💙

We stayed classy. #NoKings

DC J6: 1.500 arrests DC No Kings: zero Tell me again which side is violent?

Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs “The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

2. NYC #NoKings 👑

1. Washington DC #NoKings 👑

#NOKINGS New York City, NY

Sanders: Today, October 18th 2025, there are more people out on the streets in more communities all over our country than we have ever seen in American history

A couple of protest signs: “eggs are expensive because of all the chickens in Congress”

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." ~ U.S. Declaration of Independence

This is a blatant attempt to silence and isolate us. He’s stopping the trains, closing the freeways and firing live rounds into California. We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced. #NoKings

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike. (via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

Organizers have reported 7 million attendees at the No Kings events and we’re happy to confirm 7 million and counting! More events are still happening across the country today, so we’ll need additional time to fully certify the final numbers.

I am so absolutely gobsmacked by the turnout today! THIS IS HOW ITS DONE AMERICA!!

Minneapolis! 1.5 miles of people marching! City streets PACKED with protesters. #NoKings 🔥🙏🏼❤️

Dallas didn’t disappoint. #NoKings

“.. I support democracy and our country,” one of them told me. “It’s not about ideology.” #NoKings 👑 @jeremyschulman.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Coast Guard spent $172 million on the jets, according to The New York Times.