Didn't see it at first but Cook County sheriffs have also kettled people all the way up to the side of this house on the Maywood corner of 25th and Lexington, preventing people from dispersing south.

And they accuse us of hating America?!?!

There was no protestor violence at the #NoKings marches. but as always, when night falls, the police violence emerges.

like this is vicious. they waited for the grandmas to go home so they could do this.

Y’all are acting like you’ve never seen a 79 year-old drug addict post AI vids wearing a crown flying a fighter jet dropping sh*t on US citizens at a rally the same week he bitched out the world for not getting Nobel Peace prize & blew up boats so he could joke about it before.

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

Today was great. But friends, please know that NYPD chose to stand back bc white people were overrepresented among marchers When cops let us assemble peacefully, they're doing so to create contrast w/gatherings of black and brown ppl where cops are violent--so they can blame POC for that violence

Of the 2,500 No Kings gatherings across America, few were more saturated in American history—in flags and historical costumes—than the one on the Battle Green in Lexington, where the Minutemen fought another king 250 years ago.

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

Don’t take the bait, don’t share the sh*t. He’s playing y’all & getting you to stop talking about huge No Kings turnout today.

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

Hero’s of the day - In a small town of Beckley, WV, Kendra Sullivan staged a one-woman No Kings protest. She was confronted, had the police called on her, but stood her ground. She was physically threatened. Police came more than once and protected her right to protest. This is how we do it.

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

Protesting is hard work

It is true every day, but days like today just are huge reminders that for all it's many and varied faults this country was always great and it deserves better than what it's political branches give it in return

While people continue to struggle to get FEMA aid approved after their lives were destroyed by natural disasters.

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

The Trump administration is offering $60K in student loan forgiveness as a recruitment tool for ICE, which just proves fighting Biden on student loan relief was never about the loans or “paying your own debt.” It was about who was offering it and who it would’ve helped.

The most upsetting part of this story to me is the line where the Times says it is “unclear” where the money came from. Under our constitution, it is either extremely clear where money comes from - a congressional appropriation - or an illegal channel. So so, @nytimes.com

America-hating Antifa showing up for a *second* time today.

Per CNN, the White House issued a two-word response to No Kings Day: "Who cares?" This is what they think of us—all of us, even their useful idiots. They don’t give a shit!

Trump posted an AI video of himself wearing a crown and dumping shit from a “King Trump” jet on No Kings protesters. This is what Trump thinks about voters.

One of my favs

Newsom or Pritzker should loudly signal that people who have clean records who quit because this isn’t what they signed up to do will get their careers back when the winds change.

One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends. #NoKings #Manhattan

Thank you Humans for showing up today 🌊🌊

Thank you to the tens of millions who got out there today and marched - you are true patriots. #ResistTrump

🙌

"The New York Police Department said Saturday afternoon that it had not made any protest-related arrests. The D.C. police also said Saturday afternoon that it had made no protest-related arrests."

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.

I’m still thinking about this, actually. School kids go through mass shooter drills these days the way we went through fire drills when we were their age. And it’s OUR fault. The least we can do is let them have their own ridiculous and loud JOY. “6-7” makes it them laugh and they’ve EARNED it.

“Is he starting to memorise jokes from Cap'n Billy's Whiz Bang? Are certain words creeping into his conversation-Words like, like ‘swell’?”

Hi from a DC area supermarket bsky.app/profile/wait...

My kid: it’s a meme, it means nothing Me: then why say it? My kid: because it’s stupid Me: right…

New York mag published an article about how kids running around yelling “6-7!” is stressing grown ups out and I guess, yeah, part of the existential experience of aging is not knowing what the kids are talking about but I find this hilarious and mundane and not worthy of think-pieces lol

In addition to all the grandmas and normies at No Kings I was very happy to see a lot of Columbus' venerable benign weirdos. Bagpipes guy. One of those dudes with hundreds of action figures glued to his 1994 Saturn SL3. Those kinds of folks. Weirdos are an important part of the municipal fabric.

Algonquin, IL. 9:30am

Palatine, Illinois at least a thousand - wish I could count them all.

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

I don't think folks have any conception of how radicalized a lot of moms are becoming as they go through shit like "will my babysitter get kidnapped" and "will my child be able to get the measles vaccine"

the whole article could have just been ten pages of “Brilliant Things Eleanor O’Brien Said,” and some gold was left on the cutting room floor, but this is such a banger of a closer and it’s so very much the theme of today

"I hear very few people are gonna be there" -- Donald Trump, 10/15/25

And no one needs permission to do this so the campaigns can be decentralized and targeted to local communities.

TODAY — At the No Kings rally in Chicago, organizers recognized the work of independent news outlets including The TRiiBE and Unraveled Press, and nonprofit newsroom Block Club Chicago. Video: CBS Chicago

Democracy in action, Illinois. Proud of our state for peacefully showing up and speaking out together in one voice to fight back against Donald Trump’s takeover of our democracy.

What did you do for a Klondike bar? WHAT DID YOU DO?!

The regime tried to scare people and failed. That's good.

Over on the bad place they keep saying today's protests were all middle-aged to elderly white people. 1. A lot of old white people, yeah, but not entirely. B/c the POC did a LOT during the last few elections, & now trump is targeting them. They SHOULD stay safe. White ppl owe them. 1/2

They're saying 7,000,000 attended protests today. But what about The Honkers? I attended 2 protests today, snd the honking from the drivers passing by was nearly constant. Much more honking than in June. If you include The Honkers, I'll bet it was closer to 10 million.