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Dang: "According to our back-of-the-envelope math, that puts total attendance somewhere in the 4-6 million people range. That means roughly 1.2-1.8% of the U.S. population attended a No Kings Day event somewhere in the country yesterday." open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

As hundreds of thousands pour out across the country and the world to say #NoKings - DC looks like a ghost town. 😬

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman. -Free school breakfast and lunch -Restoring voting rights for felons -Paid leave Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

LOL "outdated" miasma theory is pure fantasy dreamt up around 400 BC that's been dead in the legitimate medical and scientific communities since 1880

My heart breaks for all those affected by the politically motivated attacks and murders in Minnesota, and especially for the families of Senator John Hoffman and Representative Melissa Hortman.

I want to buy this guy a beer and ask him to tell me his stories

that's little rock, arkansas showing the hell up #nokings

If 102-year-old Kurt Goldschmidt, a survivor of the Holocaust, says "no kings" you'd best get up and stand up for your rights before it's too late. Mr. Goldschmidt knows all too well what he's seeing in Trump's America. It was an honor to stand with him today. #NoKingsInAmerica

Gov. Walz is using past tense for Leader Hortman and says that Sen. Hoffman and his wife are still alive 🙏

Why, it contains no king.

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

I'd wear this on a shirt

That there’s a headline.

Every time I read about this man being awarded this position I fight the urge to scream about the fact that the only postsecondary education he actually completed was auctioneer school. Merit-based hiring my bum

Fox hosts, parroting DHS, claimed Sen. Padilla "ran at,” "lunged at," and tried to “bum-rush” Kristi Noem. Video disproves their claims, showing Padilla standing calmly across the room asking his question as security grabs him.

[alanis morissette voice] it's like raaa-ee-aaaaaain / on your military parade

...so I'm a tank in my ongoing d&d campaign but 5'3" irl, guess I gotta pick something else

While he touts his "tough on crime" stance, he’s failed to call out Donald Trump and Elon Musk for blatant violations of the law — including those actions with devastating impacts on the commonwealth. Virginians deserve better than Miyares. virginiamercury.com/2025/06/13/m...

Who else nearly fell out of the seat when you heard Cosplay Kristi accuse Sen. Padilla of “political theater”?

Gift link. Watch the video in the lede: This Is How the Protests Could Break Trump’s Deportation Machine www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...

I don't know how many times these people have to say "non-whites are not americans unless they are part of my inner circle, we want to do ethnic cleansing" before people start listening bsky.app/profile/pale...

"Our ongoing research on protests in the US reveals that within the first two weeks of the second Trump administration, protest activity surpassed that of 2017. By the end of March 2025, there had been three times as many protests as had taken place in 2017." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...

Subtle!

Okay I'll bite, what the hell are "FBI rights"? (0:53) So weird that we never covered that in law school

Remember: the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran forced the country to give up 97 percent of its fuel Trump blew up the deal

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to "return control of the California National Guard" to CA Gov. Newsom, finding that Trump's order taking control was illegal because it did not follow the required procedure. The order is stayed until noon Friday. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

For no reason, today I've been thinking about that time a bunch of GOP House members broke into a SCIF where classified hearings were being held with media in tow, refused to give up their devices, and live tweeted from inside. No one was escorted out or put in cuffs. www.wired.com/story/republ...

If he weren't doing such evil things literally all the time, I'd be worried about this guy's brain health

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

this is not legal advice but there are like twenty circuit court cases holding that you do in fact have a first amendment right to record the police

The use of the Royal We gives it extra credibility

Catching up some +news+ today, and I'm given to understand that House Republicans killed Big Bird?

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO

So giving legal things away is illegal...?

"Offline, in real-world Los Angeles, most Angelenos are having a perfectly normal day. But online, the fires and riots are still raging. The powerful algorithms that fuel social media platforms are feeding users days-old and sometimes completely fake content." www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/m...

The least-off do the worst, and the best-off do the best on the GOP reconciliation bill, per this new analysis from CBO. You can dig into the data yourself. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

... also A. You literally control what's in your own feed, and B. No one's making you be here, so why are you reveling in your discontent and trying to subject others to it

The free-speech anti-cancel-culture people say you should boycott Walmart because the founder's daughter-in-law bought an ad www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Love being the age where I just get a random shooting pain in my wrist in the middle of a set of push-ups and can talk with my friends about the indignities of colonoscopy prep

Maybe not +the+ most depressing 🧵 you'll read today, but it'll be up there:

Today, the House of Representatives will vote on a rescission package that will instantly gut all federal funding for public media. All of it, gone. Here’s more information: protectmypublicmedia.org?utm_source=n...

Oh man, this is nuts reporting. “Federal agents came to suspect that Bukele…had diverted U.S. aid funds to the gang as part of the alleged deal to provide it with money and power in exchange for votes…”

maybe the 10th time i’ve had to post this one. shout out to the Slate staff writers going through it but i’m built different