Norma Desmond’s Pool

i hope this guy is ok but also this imagery is perfect to undermine the fascists

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 ...

Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th.
Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country.
I'll be there. Please join in.
www.nokings.org

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

LOUD & CLEAR 📣

An unexpected visitor outside the Tesla diner last night.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

I mean come the hell on…

The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale.

But they want us to think they do.

When you see the full joke by jimmy Kimmel you realize there was no joke about Charlie Kirk. The joke was about Donald Trump. The reality is Trump and maga want to make it clear you can not mock their beloved supreme leader.

designating ANTIFA an enemy of the state is telling on yourself

Free speech censorship
Political hit lists
Detentions w/o due process
Internment camps
Military in our streets
Corrupted law enforcement
Demonization of vulnerable communities Coercion of private institutions
MSM amplifying state propaganda

We are not barreling towards fascism.

We are in it.

Honoring Charlie Kirk's memory by ruining the lives of anyone who accurately quotes Charlie Kirk

under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus

A “response” to their Supreme Court issuing a ruling after due process. It isn’t enough that have destroyed the integrity of our Supreme Court. Now they arrogate to themselves the power to demand that the high court in other nations subvert the rule of law as well.

This is insane.

Trump's WSJ Epstein Fury The Wall Street Journal is said to be working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, prompting protest from the White House.

Scoop: The Wall Street Journal is working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein—but is said to be facing pressure from the White House, with Trump himself calling Editor-In-Chief Emma Tucker to object.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/wall-stree...

Trump Is Using TikTok To Claim Imperial Powers Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

In essence, Bondi declared that the president, through the attorney general, has sweeping power to arbitrarily favor companies or individuals and exempt them from federal laws that he believes interfere with his foreign policy powers. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...

He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.

Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.

NYT breaking news: New advisers to the C.D.C. pulled back endorsements of some flu vaccines, in the clearest signal yet of a shift in federal regulators' approach.

i’m telling yall, get whatever vaccines you need now bc there’s no guarantee they’ll be around later

The news media have normalized a president brazenly lying every day. Decent people are appalled, and that should include journalists, but instead the media have accepted lying as part of the game.

Will the Morning Joe hosts and guests all be wearing Black tomorrow? That's the suspense.

Left's strong night, updated:

—Mamdani finishes well ahead.
—All 10 challenged NYC Progressive Caucus members win, or way up. Jumaane Williams, too.
—Left may add councilors (AOC- or WFP-backed newcomers up)
—WFP-endorsed candidates win primaries for Syracuse & Buffalo mayor.

Andrew Cuomo concedes the New York City mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani, who leads in the first-choice vote The progressive state lawmaker surged from relative obscurity to become the main foil to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo's comeback bid in the Democratic primary.

BREAKING: Andrew Cuomo concedes in the Democratic primary for New York City Mayor, as Zohran Mamdani takes the early lead in the ranked choice race.

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

again, ppl dumping on this to some degree...but there was not this kind of pushback with Iraq. D party leaders were on board. now they're not. that's good.

Opinion | Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims ICE officials keep touting a 413 percent increase in assaults on officers to justify officers masking their identities.

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument.
Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

this is a good time to remember that conservatives only ever want to be in more left leaning spaces to get reactions out of people, if enough people block them they’ll get bored and leave

Trump created the problem. The single reason Iran was so close to obtaining a nuclear weapon is that Trump destroyed the diplomatic agreement that put major, verifiable constraints on their nuclear program.

It's like everyone seems to know this except the mainstream journalists.

A screenshot of a Wired article by Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra, published May 14, 2025, with the headline: "CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers."

A screenshot of a Wired article by Lily Hay Newman, published June 16, 2025, with the headline: "Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets' Addresses."

One month apart.

Yeah I know all that but did he say something that got him banned?

JD Vance just made an account on here and then was swiftly banned.

I am obviously no fan of the VP, but Bluesky will never experience the growth it needs if it instantly bans any dissenting voice, including the Vice President of the United States.

Feels like the wrong way to run things IMO.