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"Yesterday, after seven hours of deliberation, a D.C. jury acquitted Dunn. He’s a free man again—at least until the next time he bumps into federal agents outside a Subway."

Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Amazing that their strategy of stealing No Kings branding didn’t work ! @indivisible.org

The newsletter also has some deep thoughts about the bloodbath at Teen Vogue

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What is dentists' favorite time of day?
Tooth hurty 🤣💜💜

FORGET about 2026 and 2028 for the next 10 days.

Focus on elections in 2025. There are **52,000** of them, according to @hcrichardson.bsky.social, and they all matter.

Trump has already gotten off scot free from dozens of lawless actions.

And now he is demanding $230 million in taxpayer dollars as "compensation" for past investigations.

This wannabe dictator is drunk on power and no amount of money will ever be enough to satisfy him.

How poetic: Trump tears down the White House in the midst of his efforts to tear down our democracy.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Those glossy GOP mailers flooding your mailbox are paid for by PA’s richest billionaire—designed to trick you into voting NO so they can rig our Supreme Court for themselves.

Vote YES to RETAIN to keep our courts fair. ⚖️

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#Voices4Victory
#PACourtsMatter

Jimmy Kimmel on the No Kings protests: “So just to be clear, peacefully protesting a wannabe dictator means you hate America. Attacking the Capitol to overturn an election? Patriotic walking tour. There is nothing more American than a political protest”

Interesting stance to take, because so many GOP House reps famously won't meet with their constituents.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

This one got me, right in the paralegal 😬

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Micah on Bluesky: “they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work see you all there”

Ron Filipkowski on Bluesky: “The No Kings protests have been some of the most peaceful and well attended political assemblies in American history. In fact, MAGA has mocked them as a bunch of boomer grandmothers. Now they are apparently terrorists.”

Jon Favreau on Twitter: “A top Republican in Congress just called millions of Americans terrorists. The last No Kings protests saw 4-6 million people turn out. They were peaceful. They were joyful. There were American flags everywhere. Those of us who will be participating next weekend in what Emmer calls a "hate rally" for "terrorists" love our country - particularly its promise that we're all created equal, that we all have the right to speak freely, to enjoy equal protection under the law, to believe what we want, and to choose our leaders without fear of reprisal. The No Kings protests are happening because Emmer and Trump and his regime are trampling on those rights and freedoms.”

Leah Greenberg on Bluesky: “"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"”

MAGA wants us afraid and divided, but we’re not backing down. Let’s make October 18 the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

Why Anti-Voting Activists Are Using the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Election to Spread Disinformation Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

Next month, voters will head to the polls for a contest that could have huge implications for the future of fair elections in the Keystone State — which means for the next presidential election, too. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/why...

Dont forget DC and Go-Go music.

There are no words to adequately express the horror and grief here. No words. This is DOGE.

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

Thanks, New Yorker

Look at what they have to face

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”

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Vote YES to retain so we will keep our PA Supreme Court Justices on November 4th. These justices have protected our voting rights.

Make sure your friend know to vote too!

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In one sense, this is the Admin recklessly undermining basic norms of liberal democracy.

In another sense, this is the sweatiest flailing around since Giuliani was giving conferences outside a landscaping shop. It's just blindly groping around for any lever of power, regardless of how dumb it is.

America is currently a giant experiment to see how long we can keep stuffing a year's worth of news and outrage into every single day before everyone's heads explode