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“No Kings Day”: A compilation

The really amazing thing is, this position which is furiously being pushed by The 'Daily Rowling' Times and the EHRC is just wrong in law. Toilets are not mentioned in the Equality Act - and are subject to separate legislation.

"Gee wrote seriously for children: his worldbuilding is vibrant, startling, textured but it is also deeply enmeshed with the realities of oppressive and violent societies. Like the best children’s writers, Gee never underestimated his reader’s capacity to walk with him into these dangers" Yes. Yes.

The assassin 1) had ties to New Apostolic Reformation & 2) allegedly had hit list In 2022 I went to New Apostolic Reformation conference (where Trump Jr & Roger Stone spoke) A speaker projected this image, prophesying “Angel of death” would visit these Dem political opponents. It was a hit list

Rule of thumb: if there’s more people in the parade than there are people watching the parade, it’s not a successful parade.

I'd forgotten that, back in 2019, I adapted the shot of 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square. It feels even more relevant now. #nokings #nokingsday #protests

Huge crowds. Huge. Only fake news says otherwise.

Millions

Vance Boelter and his wife attended the Assembly of God church in Gaylord, MN, where their children attended weekly Bible studies

UPDATE: Minnesota authorities have identified Vance Boelter (57) as the alleged murderer. The kill list recovered from his car also targets Gov Tim Walz, Rep. Ilhan Omar, several Democratic lawmakers, & abortion-care providers. If you know where Boelter is call MN state tip line at (651) 555-TIPS.

1. BREAKING The Associated Press has confirmed that 57-year-old Vance Boelter is the suspect in the assassination and attempted assassination of two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers and their spouses.

“Two people familiar with the matter identified the suspect being sought as 57-year-old Vance Boelter.”

So Vance Luther Boelter was CEO of a private military company in the Democratic Republic of Congo? You do not say?

Not surprisingly the Minnesota gunman is Vance Luther Boelter, a former military, anti-abortion Christian nationalist.

In some sermons that we reviewed, Vance Boelter can be heard railing against the LGBTQ community and abortion www.wired.com/story/shooti... story with @timmarchman.bsky.social and @leahfeiger.bsky.social

The Minnesota assassin has been identified as Vance Luther Boelter, a known MAGA and Trump regime loyalist according to the people closest to him. Investigation still underway.

The FBI is offering “a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Vance L. Boelter.” Boelter is a suspect in the targeted shooting of Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota.

BREAKING: Suspect in “targeted” Minnesota shootings has been identified as Vance Boelter. A manhunt is ongoing.

KARE 11 TV in the Twin Cities reports that Vance Boelter's best friend says Boelter voted for Trump and is "a strong supporter"

“Why don't you buy a nice Scottish island or a farm and start a JK commune for traumatised Terfs.”

Original post is locked, so here's the @waybackmachine.bsky.social copy: web.archive.org/web/20201027...

Republican senators freaked out when asked about Trump's military parade costing $45 million. Some hid in elevators. Some stared off into space. Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) snapped: “I answered the question I wanted to answer!” www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-se...

Trump goes to the G7 in Canada. #G7summit #ElbowsUp

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

As the sayings go: There are no atheists in foxholes. There are no libertarians in a pandemic/ bank run. There are no conservatives in waist-deep water. www.ajc.com/blog/politic...

The University of Michigan has canceled its undercover surveillance contracts after The Guardian published a story revealing private investigators trailing and recording pro-Palestinian campus groups. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Holly Crap

I have a wee chuckle thinking about how the current US apparatus would react to an average French regional farmer protest. Like, all of them. Repubs and dems, cops, feds, the entire fourth estate. They’d all just totally lose their minds.

That's the stuff.

my latest: Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting back up into two companies, just three years after its multibillion-dollar merger. it's a disaster entirely of David Zaslav's making—yet he gets to keep Warner and HBO for himself, in an arrangement that promises to be disastrous for American culture:

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

The DOJ just charged a Russian national with moving hundreds of millions through the system—mostly using a foreign stablecoin called Tether. The GENIUS Act includes a massive loophole that allows Tether to evade basic safeguards. It must not move forward without real fixes.

Anecdotally, I can say that since the Cybertruck released, it has almost entirely consumed the overflow lot of the south Charlotte, NC, Tesla dealership. This dealership has never once had a full lot. They're hiding them there so it doesn't look like there's a problem.

New Zealand sanctions two top Israeli ministers

In the latest chapter of Wellington’s zoning war, the airport could be handed expansive control to approve or block housing projects across much of the city. thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-...

Cripes, she is brilliant. No wonder she annoys the hell out of the mendacious right wing bigots

Two Israeli government ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, have been sanctioned by the UK

In London, you don’t just find stability and certainty.   You find a city which stands strong as a bastion against hate.   And a city which shines bright as a beacon of hope, progress and possibility.