There goes the First Amendment.

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

not much to argue about on this one, I guess

This is Idaho 💙

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

No Kings protests across US kick off with National Guard on standby Protests are planned in over 2,500 cities across the US, including New York, DC, Atlanta and Los Angeles.

No Kings protests begin as huge anti-Trump rallies sweep across US www.bbc.com/news/article...

Amazing energy…including those inflatable animals. That’s the spirit to be proud of…it absolutely is the time to stand up and step forward, and Americans did that today.

#A_NewHope ✊

YouTube video by MeidasTouch Trump DOJ PUT IN THEIR PLACE as ARRAIGNMENT Goes HORRIBLY

A good summary of the Comey debacle youtu.be/WQkC8G20kOg?...

Meiselas: Trump says he’s focusing right now on laying off the Democratic agencies and government employees, whatever that means. Again, completely pathetic behavior, and in normal times, this would be impeachable and/or 25th Amendment territory.

This is a big deal.

Standing up to ICE in the suburbs, the People’s Patrol puts its faith in resistance Cristóbal Cavazos leads a rapid-response effort to document ICE activity. Meet the man confronting Trump’s deportation blitz.

"He rushes to his car. He opens the hatch and packs in five-gallon buckets, drumsticks to pound on them, and bullhorns..."

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Republicans aren’t just trying to blame Democrats for the shutdown, they’re punishing their states, too

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 ...

look at the map here -- more than 2000 protests planned already...

www.nokings.org

Normalize fearless American leaders stepping up and calling out trump's dementia out loud, and demanding that the 25th Amendment be invoked.

A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli , 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto , 1d ago) to @drmistercody states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."

History has many painful lessons.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

Fox News reporter to Mike Johnson: "How can you say 'they take no pleasure in this,' and then the next minute say, 'Oh, they're just having fun and trolling?'"

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

What's happening with Jimmy Kimmel is about politics and power.

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”

Nailed it.

Scary

🚨BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just motioned to SUBPOENA FCC chairman Brendan Carr in the House Oversight Committee to stop the intimidation of private businesses and assault on free speech

I'm not distracted.
Release ALL the Epstein files.

NEWS: Trump has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times, a few of their writers, and Penguin Random House, seemingly because they published things about him he didn’t like.

Melissa and Mark Hortman wasn’t even noticed by him.

It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all

Graham Platner: "Susan Collins has been in the Senate for almost 30 years... People know that she's a self-interested politician who has tried to play this charade for many years about how she tries to be a moderate... Everybody sees this for what it is."