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Director, Stratification Economics at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltinstitute.org Sociologist, Dad, Autistic person, Bathos-Enjoyer Taxes are what we pay for civilized society Opinions are my own
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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

It is official! Despite tanks and planes, Trump’s parade was “listless and low-energy.”

I think we can take them

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

Very low energy. Sad!😂

Trump looking absolutely inconsolable at his fascist-themed 79th birthday party which no one turned up to other than those who had to because he's their boss.

I don't what I expected, but the massively oversized viewing stand for Trump & co. plus the width of the empty street manage to make the relatively small groups of soldiers and single-file vehicles streaming past seem kind of small and visually overwhelmed. It's not giving "glorious triumph."

The sheer, seething, blood-boiling hatred you could feel for Trump and his pack of Nazi rapists and murderers at that rally, with many signs calling them this more or less explicitly, is waiting, just waiting, for someone to really tap it

No Kings: At least 5 million people across the country Trump's fascism birthday parade: Maybe a few thousand?

🧵 What if they threw a tank parade and nobody came?

1m people allegedly in boston today. the scale of this is just crazy. i think record-breaking www.wcvb.com/article/more...

Love the photo bomber on the right! 🤣

No kings in New York City! That’s one ginormous protest! #nokings #newyorkcity #nyc

Marched with my union @psc-cuny.org and tons of New Yorkers today to say #NoKings

Proud of Minnesotans

Get in losers. We're building a popular front.

NEW: In the last few hours, Minnesota authorities warned people against attending protests, with a killer on the loose. This is the current view of the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. DEFIANCE. 👏 #NoKings #50501Movement (📸 Daviss)

NEW: @artiscuriskis.bsky.social and I wrote about what it's like to be wearing a mask at New York's Nassau County's #NoKings rally for @motherjones.com. The county notoriously has a mask ban, making covering your face a form of resistance in itself. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

surprising number of "i have friends everywhere" signs

the way the far right is blatantly lying and trying to blame the assassination of democrats on democrats is one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen

“No Kings” is one of the sharpest bits of political branding/rhetoric in a while. Extremely concise and in every headline, historically rooted, specific to the American tradition but also universalist, nails what’s exceptional about Trump in a way that almost all factions in opposition can endorse.

Rain hasn't stopped us in NYC. This is large.

I am wearing mine today for the priest r

remembering headlines from last year

I understand but then they win

Peaceful. Patriotic. Safe.

After targeted shooting of two state representatives overnight, Indivisible Twin Cities says #NoKings rally will still go on today: “In the face of this horror, we will mourn and mark our determination for a peaceful, just, democratic future”

Call me crazy, but I don't want to live through "years of lead" and I really don't think that doing so will end well for the causes that I care about!

Note we are much more heavily armed and our level of background violence is already much higher than it was in Italy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_o...

Update: Gov. Walz confirms that Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed. Officials are “cautiously optimistic” that state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife will survive their injuries.

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

You know it would really help those of us critiquing neoliberalism if the term wasn't used as a bogeyman. "The Nintendo Switch 2 is $450 because of neoliberalism." "My bedtime is 10pm because of neoliberalism."

Two Minnesota state legislators were shot in their homes last night according to early news reports. There is an ongoing manhunt

🧵 on incentives