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Indeed, numerous counties that voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2024 have featured significant participation, in relative terms. Over 80 percent of the voters in Edmonson County, Kentucky voted for Trump in 2024. In March 2025, organizers reported that 150 people attended a protest at Mammoth Cave National Park as part of the Resistance Rangers protest against national park worker layoffs and federal cuts to national parks. This was the first action at Mammoth Cave National Park during either of Trump’s terms. Meanwhile, over 86 percent of voters in Hardin County, Texas voted for Trump in 2024. The county seat of Kountze, with a population of 2,125, also saw a protest in March 2025 at Big Thicket National Preserve as part of the Resistance Rangers day of action. Organizers reported that 25 people attended, constituting 1.2 percent of the town’s population. Support Waging Nonviolence Support Us Waging Nonviolence depends on reader support. Become a sustaining monthly donor today! In Harlan County, Kentucky, some 88 percent of ballots were cast for Trump. The town of Harlan saw one protest in July 2025 against the “Big Beautiful Bill,” with an estimated 20-30 participants, or between 1.1 percent and 1.6 percent of the town’s population. One counter-protester was arrested after pointing a gun at protesters. Trump similarly won about 88 percent of the vote in Campbell County, Wyoming. The county seat of Gillette has seen at least two protests so far in 2025: one on April 5 (Hands Off) with an estimated crowd of 75, and one on June 18 (No Kings) with an estimated crowd of 175 — about 0.5 percent of the city’s population. A group of counter-protesters showed up during the No Kings protest; some heckled speakers while others hailed Hitler and chanted “Trump is King.”

One way you beat fascism is to get 3.5% of the population out protesting.

Here are some details on what is bringing people out in Trumpland.

And for those coming out in Trumpland on Saturday? Stay safe!!

wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...

YouTube video by The CrimePiece ICE Officer Arrested for DUI w/ Kids in Car. Not Happy About it!

Tricia McLaughlin, DHS lying-ass propagandist, often points to DUI arrests when claiming ICE is reporting "the worst of the worst."

Turns out this drunk worst of the worst works for ICE.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZtV...

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

/4 Worry that the opportunities to demonstrate peacefully are diminishing under a cloud of lies and thuggery and hostility to free speech.

Worry that someday you will be ashamed of yourself if you just let this happen without saying anything.

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go!

Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest.

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No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

BTW, you can find a No Kings event near you at this site: www.nokings.org

/2 The Roberts Court 6-3 majority is best understood not as a genuine or legitimate independent adjudicatory body but as a ceremonial adjunct to the Trump government, like a First Lady or a second-born prince in a constitutional monarchy.

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

Reid, in a statement through her attorneys, said the verdict shows “that this administration and their peons are not able to invoke fear in all citizens.” “I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump’s irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man,” she said. “Knowing that I can stand in front of 12 of my fellow citizens and be found not guilty for standing up for basic human rights makes me feel like, despite the scary times we live in, we have hope for the future.”

This quote from Sydney Reid, who was acquitted in a humiliating case for Jeanine Pirro today, is <<chef's kiss>>.

She's right tho--criminal cases have the possibility to backfire in really significant way.

www.huffpost.com/entry/sidney...

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

It is, and remains, the policy of the United States that information marked TOP SECRET//SI//[redacted] [redacted]//HCS//NF should only be properly handled through correct channels inside of a SCIF or alternatively shared via Signal in the group chat with the editor in chief of Atlantic magazine

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

"Detach Quote" is one of the best Bluesky features.
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When someone quoted your post do dunk on you - tap "..." in your quoted post, and select "Detach Quote." It will be removed from the quote, and the would be dunker will look like a moron.

a black and white photo of a man in a pinstripe worsted suit, white shirt, and textured necktie. the tie has a nice dimple under the knot.

a photo of donald trump upside down. there is also a nice dimple on his red tie

when you tie a tie, try to put in a dimple, like so

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Say @bencollins.bsky.social?

Do you get to evict Alex yet?

Traditionally that’s the trade off — the cop proves their authority and then expects people to respect it.

ICE refuses to give us proof but demands we respect them as if they had.

That’s not how this works

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

Zohran on stage at the rally.

In twelve days, New Yorkers will begin to cast their ballots and face a stark choice.

A choice between democracy and oligarchy. Between a city you can afford or more of the same. Between the hope of a brighter future or a broken past.

We will choose the future.

NY and NJ people! I'll be talking about concentration camp history and how mass civilian detention without trial took root all over the world more than a century ago. Join us at 5:30pm on Tuesday October 21 at Ramapo College in Mahwah.
www.ramapo.edu/holocaust/ce...

Going to write a song titled "Emergency Naked Bike Ride."

The middle-aged white guy standing up in a crowd from Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Did you miss it this week?

I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Goes like this.

Via the people now called creators, audiences are migrating to the social layer in the internet stack. Maybe there's a way to move with, rather than against that.

newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...

How to keep troops loyal: make them beg for food from the people you want them to oppress

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

Imagine that