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Five No Kings protestors with signs

#NoKings #NoKingsIndianapolis

Checks and Balances, Not Kings in Palaces! Protesting with family and friends in Indianapolis.

Here you go for a smile and a boost to your fight for democracy! Thank you #colbert Thank you #Portland Thank each of you who go out there everyday and say no to #Trump #MAGA #ICE #Fascism #Authoritarianism Let’s here for the #frogs 🐸

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

Eswatini is Africa’s last remaining absolute monarchy.

In other words, it's just the kind of country—small, untroubled by democracy, and presumably eager to avoid a superpower’s wrath—with which the Trump administration has been eager to do business.

Oh man. Just finding out he was cheating on me!

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She touched ao many people and creatures in such a special way💕😇🪽

Jane Goodall was a hero who used her life to make the world a better place. If the world uplifted and amplified people like her over fascists and billionaires, the world would be a very different place. #3E

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

She also screams, “No I didn’t. You told me I had white stuff on my mouth!” My guess is he accused her of spitting at them to justify detaining her, when in reality he had told her she had white stuff on her mouth to trick her into spitting. Is this is a known tactic? If so, word needs to be spread.

More to the point, how can we trust that any of these recent assassinations/attempts weren’t psyops orchestrated by them? I’m not big on conspiracies, but when they have unlimited money/resources, zero guardrails or conscience, and a background in splashy faux-reality programming? I mean, come on!

Yes, that’s the Curtis Yarvin playbook. Gut the government out of existence, forcing people to turn to unregulated corporations for every need from health care to weather forecasting to police and fire protection. Corporate profits supplant public interest. What could go wrong?

Indeed I have. And they need to know they do not have the people’s support and we are watching. Again… not sufficient, but necessary. Lack of visible dissent only further emboldens them. And even if protesting doesn’t change a thing, I don’t intend to go to my grave knowing I didn’t at least try.

…And the larger our numbers, the greater the impact. So I hope to see you on the front lines on the 18th, silly sign in hand. :-)

We don’t protest to convince the regime to change its ways. You’re right; that would be an exercise in futility. We protest to show the courts and our local reps that the regime doesn’t reflect the will of the people. And to spread hope among the downtrodden and inspire others not to bend the knee.

You got a better plan? Do both! Sure, protests aren’t *sufficient* to stop authoritarianism, but they are, I’d argue, *necessary* to do so. It inspires hope and galvanizes resistance when people see they are not alone in opposing what’s happening. Sustained, organized, peaceful resistance works.

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

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Protesting with my fam and hundreds of other decent human beings near Camp Atterbury, future site of yet another planned detention prison for immigrants. @maddow.msnbc.com @allinwithchris.bsky.social

The IRS's free tax filing tool is now reportedly "gone," according to Trump's IRS chief.

This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file.

Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.

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"God, I just want to say, we love you, God."

Ya know, maybe stacking an incompetent administration with unhinged theocrats who think God wants them to bring about a world-ending war in the Middle East so Jesus will return was a bad idea.

The fact that many others are doing this only makes it more concerning. I worry the original idea was planted by a bad actor with nefarious purposes. The secure collection and transport of the goods is not the issue. The concern is an infiltrator bringing and misusing a can to set the rest of us up.

Bumble Bee urges consumers to not throw cans of tuna after President Trump’s campaign rally claim | CNN Business Bumble Bee Seafoods unexpectedly found itself name-checked by President Donald Trump Tuesday evening, when Trump claimed protesters were throwing cans of tuna at police.

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Donald Trump’s war on soup US president enlightens us on why a ‘big bag of soup’ is a more effective weapon than a brick.

Maybe I’m being paranoid, but did a spy from Kash Patel’s office come up with the idea to make this protest a canned food drive? Trump‘s favorite lie about protesters is literally that we use *soup cans* and other canned goods as weapons. False flag vibes, anyone?

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Per @cnn.com, “scores” protested nationwide. I’d love to know if this use of lowball denominations (dozens, scores, hundreds) is just laziness or if the media is minimizing to avoid the ire of corporate funders or this litigious administration. Thoughts?
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@50501 Hands Off Indianapolis protest. Clearly thousands strong. Tally counter est. = 4,860. Local CBS affiliate reports 200-250 “at its peak.” Local NBC affiliate initially reports “dozens” (after pushback, changes to “hundreds”). How many other cities saw the same?! @allinwithchris.bsky.social

Early day authoritarianism - Throw yourself into convincing friends how bad it is, but to still have the hope and courage to resist. Go to protest afraid it will be the same 400 people, but instead, it’s 10x that! Return energized, only to find the news too cowed to report the true size. “Dozens.”

@maddow.msnbc.com Please compare this footage to Indianapolis NBC affiliate (WTHR) saying there were “DOZENS” of protestors. The organizers’ ticker counter showed over 4,800! Another media outlet posted an aerial photo from a drone that flew by before the crowd had fully formed. Maddening!

@maddow.msnbc.com Please compare this footage to Indianapolis NBC affiliate (WTHR) saying there were “DOZENS” of protestors. The organizers’ ticker counter showed over 4,800! Another media outlet posted an aerial photo from a drone that flew by before the crowd had fully formed. Maddening!

@maddow.msnbc.com Please compare this footage to Indianapolis NBC affiliate (WTHR) saying there were “DOZENS” of protestors. The organizers’ ticker counter showed over 4,800! Another media outlet posted an aerial photo from a drone that flew by before the crowd had fully formed. Maddening!