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Tweet from the verified NYPD News account reads: "The majority of the No Kings protests have dispersed at this time and all traffic closures have been lifted. We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests." The post is timestamped 3:27 PM on 10/18/25 and shows 50K views. The NYPD badge is displayed in the top left corner.

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A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Reading this thread was the most fun I've had on these internets in months. Thank you, @bevismusson.bsky.social

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

We are still learning more details on the ICE raid in Madison, as advocates mobilize to defend immigrants in Wisconsin

ICE arrests in Madison signal escalating enforcement in Wisconsin • Wisconsin Examiner Immigrant rights groups sounded the alarm after seven people were arrested by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Madison

ICE arrests in Madison signal escalating enforcement in Wisconsin via @isiahholmes.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/ice-a...

Paris Schultz tweets: "Illinois State Police and Cook County DOT officials now setting up barricades outside the Broadview ICE facility to create "first amendment zone" for protesters. ISP officer says he hopes it will mitigate a lot of the problems.

This WILL NOT mitigate any problems, and the state should not be pulling this shit. @govpritzker.illinois.gov, you've talked a big game about opposing Trump, and now the state is pulling this? "Free speech zones" exist to make protesters irrelevant. Everyone knows this.

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship “There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.

1) pic of Melissa and Mark Hortman 2) pic of Melissa Hortman and dog Gilbert

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Hotel Sardinero window view onto Plaza de Antonio Martinez in Madrid. You see double doors opening to an old style cement rail, with trees, a white apartment building, and what appears to be a church steeple in the background.

Morning view of first light, a glimmer of sunrise in the backgroundand a rustic white building flanked by hedges in the foreground. Exe Doña Carlota hotel in Ciudad Real

Window with metal grates overlooking a cobblestone street and a one story building. Palacios de la Serna in Ballesteros de Calatrava

A sliding wooden and glass door to the right, opening to a small balcony, enclosed with glass and iron railings, visible on the left.

Stayed in a series of Spanish hotels with excellent windows.
#Spain #Madrid #CastillaLaMancha

The Senate primary in Maine looks like the next test of old guard vs. new for Democrats. Despite being a political novice, Platner raised over $1 million in the first nine days. But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., reportedly is working behind the scenes to get 77-year-old Gov. Janet Mills to enter the race.

Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The internet was better when it was a place in your house where you had to go

We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves.

All of us get protections or none of us do

Gavin Newsom is anti-trans and I will never, ever vote for him.

That’s very disappointing. Thanks for the reminder.

This is what democracy looks like.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that THIS is what all Democratic Congresspeople should be doing.

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”

This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.

Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

Texas GOP Uses Emergency Flood Relief to Push Trans Bathroom Ban After deadly flooding in Texas, Republicans used an emergency legislative session called to tackle the state’s most pressing issue: where trans people pee.

1. Texas Republicans are attempting to use the devastating floods to push... a trans bathroom ban.

That's right, the emergency session which has been billed as primarily for flood relief is being used to sneak in anti-trans legislation.

The latest from S. Baum.

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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

A hand drawn grid, laying out a plant garden plan. Including twelve native plant species

Whew, a bunch! This is the plan, May be too hard to read. Goldenrod, sedges, coreopsis, a false indigo...and my current favorite, Culver's Root.

I was surprised there was no alt text, too!!

4x20' garden bed, mulch covered, with potted plugs laid out in their future spots

Second native bed almost in. I can't wait for next summer to see if/how they survive!
Madison, WI
#NativePlants #GardenSunday 🌱

delete your period tracking app right now

Mamdani: I would say that for the former governor to have spent an entire day speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very politics New Yorkers want to leave in the past.

An eloquent image:

Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.

I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.