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"Motivating 2% of the population to do anything on a coordinated basis has rarely happened in the history of our nation. Some readers noted that early editions of the New York Times said that 'thousands' had shown up to protest; later coverage by the Times on Saturday (updated on Sunday) gave a fair accounting of the large crowds. See New York Times, '''No More Trump!’: Protesters Denouncing the President Unite Across the Country."
"The New York Times was almost as unmoved [as CBS], despite the many huge gatherings in the paper’s own backyard. The Times’s print front page on Sunday morning featured two small photographs, below the fold, and the story appeared on page 23. It was part of their wrap-up titled 'The 47th President.'”
~ Margaret Sullivan
#NoKings #Trump #MAGA #NewYorkTimes
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https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/who-cares-about-7-million-people
"The two No Kings protests are substantively important because our mainstream media are determined to regard nearly half the country’s electorate, and certainly half the country’s population, as absent, unimportant, irrelevant."
~ Timothy Burke
"The abrupt alignment of much of the press and a fair amount of the culture industry behind Trumpist themes and Trumpist framings has been incredibly striking, and all the more so when it has come at a significant financial cost in lost subscriptions. ...
Every day that my finger hovers over the cancel button for the New York Times, I have to think that there are tens of thousands or more subscribers feeling the same way."
"The people that the media and culture industry are ignoring are still a major revenue source for them. So their rush into Trumpist frameworks is all the more striking."
"MAGA is very triggered. 22 MAGA arrests for attacking No Kings in OH, KY, CA, SC, NC, MI, OR, FL, VA, TX, and PA. Meanwhile, police report arrests of ZERO protesters. Incredible job, everyone – you made it impossible for Trump to sell his propaganda."
~ AmandaAgerd
"No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response."
~ Paul Waldman
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/no-kings-protest-october-2025-trump
"I have a theory about the deeper purpose of the MAGA attacks on No Kings Day 2. America, I’d argue, is currently operating in a strange condition -- what I would call a 'bubble autocracy.' Donald Trump has not yet consolidated anything like absolute political power. But parts of our society —"
~ Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/civil-resistance-confronts-the-autocracy
(continued from /19)
"the Republican Party and a number of supposedly independent institutions like, say, CBS — are in effect living inside a bubble in which they operate as if he has. Within that bubble, a cult of personality around Trump has been built, a cult of personality worthy of Kim Jong Un. And to show their fealty to Dear Leader, Republicans must engage in bizarre rhetoric."
"Call it 'mendacity inflation.' ...
Protests with a wide base of support can ultimately pierce the regime’s bubble. In fact, in the aftermath of the massive scale and breadth of the demonstrations, the MAGA propaganda machine has gone remarkably quiet, although Mike Johnson has claimed that the demonstrators were all Marxists."
"I have written before about how traditional Supreme Court journalism’s myopic focus on technical questions and judicial philosophies too often obscures the motives of the real people who are empowered to make these decisions."
~ Jay Willis
#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #fascism #media
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https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-roberts-killing-voting-rights-act/
"A live artillery shell exploded prematurely during a marines live-fire demonstration that launched over a southern California freeway in celebration of the military branch’s 250th anniversary, raining shrapnel down on a California Highway Patrol vehicle and a motorcycle that was part of JD Vance’s detail, according to a police report."
~ Diana Ramirez-Simon
#Trump #military #California #NoKings #media
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/19/california-marines-explosion-freeway-jd-vance
"A 155-millimeter shell fired during a live-fire demonstration for the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a California Highway Patrol vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President JD Vance’s protective detail, according to a patrol report."
~ John Ismay, Laurel Rosenhall and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
#Trump #military #California #NoKings #media
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/shell-interstate-5-marines-california.html
"We have to stop sane-washing this Administration and this news cycle....
Remember the live-fire artillery drill in California that I exclusively reported on earlier this week? One of those shells detonated early, directly over Interstate 5, & damaged a vehicle in Vice President JD Vance’s security detail.
When I first reported this plan, critics called it 'fearmongering.' They said it couldn’t be true."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #military #California #NoKings #media
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-breaking-news-update
"BREAKING: Live munitions from a Trump-Vance “military demo” flew over I-5 and struck a CHP vehicle. The White House wanted the highway open—but Gov. Newsom shut it down for safety. That decision likely prevented injuries or worse.
We have obtained these photos…."
~ Meidas
#Trump #military #California #NoKings #media
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https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xjc7mkotpenvhh6ffewkdpyn/post/3m3lcoolty222
"Not only that, but on Sunday the California Highway Patrol announced that their vehicles were hit with shrapnel from the munitions fired over the highway. Had the highway not been shut down by Governor Newsom, people driving on the highway could have been killed by the falling shrapnel."
"Then, the popular fact-checking site Snopes essentially called our reporting bogus and used Trump’s statements attacking us as their authoritative source to say we were full of it.
It turns out our reporting was spot on."
Ben Meiselas notes that when Meidas reported that the Trump administration planned to stage a live-fire artillery drill in California over I-5 on No Kings day, everybody and their siblings said that Meidas was creating fake news: none of this was going to happen:
"The Marines issued a statement claiming they were not firing live munitions over the highway. Trump’s press team called us fake news."
#Trump #military #California #NoKings #media
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/they-tried-to-come-for-us-and-failed
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"Daniel Garcia-Pena, #Ambassador of #Colombia in the United States of America, has been recalled for consultations by President Gustavo #Petro & is now in Bogota," the Colombian foreign ministry said. "In the coming hours the national government will inform of the decisions taken."
#Trump said #US financial #aid to #Colombia would be cut off & details about the new #tariffs would be unveiled Monday, but it was not clear what funding Trump was referring to.
Colombia was once among the largest recipients of US aid in the Western Hemisphere, but the flow of money was suddenly curtailed this year by the shuttering of #USAID, the US govt's #humanitarian arm.
Colombia currently pays 10% tariffs on most imports to the US, the baseline level Trump imposed on many countries.
#Trump also called #Colombia President Gustavo #Petro an "illegal drug leader" on Sunday, an accusation Petro's govt said was offensive.
Trump's drug dealer comments marked a new low in relations between Washington & Bogota…
Petro has objected to the #US military's strikes against vessels in the #Caribbean, which have #killed dozens of people & inflamed tensions in the region. Many #legal experts & #HumanRights activists have also condemned the #military actions.
#Colombia recalls ambassador from the #US amid tariff, drug spat
Colombia's foreign ministry said early on Monday the country has recalled its #ambassador from the #UnitedStates, after #Trump said he would raise #tariffs on Colombia & stop all #aid payments to the South American nation, in a feud that stems from the US #military bombing boats Trump claims are transporting drugs.
#geopolitics #law #murder #SoftPower #diplomacy
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/colombia-recalls-ambassador-us-amid-tariff-drug-spat-2025-10-20/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
#Petro, who can be as vocal on social media as his American counterpart, rejected Trump’s accusations & defended his work to fight narcotics in #Colombia, the world’s largest exporter of cocaine.
“Trying to promote peace in Colombia is not being a drug trafficker,” Petro wrote. He suggested that #Trump was being deceived by his advisers, described himself as “the main enemy” of drugs in his country & said Trump was being “rude & ignorant toward Colombia.”
In a social media post, #Trump referred to #Petro as “an illegal drug leader” who is “low rated & very unpopular.” Trump warned that Petro “better close up” drug operations “or the United States will close them up for him, & it won’t be done nicely.”
Later in the day, Trump told reporters that #Colombia has “no fight against drugs” & “they are a drug manufacturing machine” with “a lunatic” for a president. He said that he would announce new #tariffs Monday.
#Trump calls Colombia's #Petro an ‘illegal drug leader’ & announces #tariffs & an end to US #aid
The #US will slash assistance to #Colombia & enact tariffs on its exports because the country’s leader, Gustavo Petro, “does nothing to stop” drug production, Trump said Sunday, escalating the friction between Washington & one of its closest #allies in #LatinAmerica.
#geopolitics #SoftPower #diplomacy
https://apnews.com/article/trump-petro-colombia-drugs-us-aid-c3955b2ce351737119920741178e0567
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Ofcourse Trump is lying about his criminal acts....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/20/trump-attacks-venezuela-drug-boats/
#Trump #criminal #Venezuela #drugs #geopolitics @geopolitics
A sign carried by Indiana protesters at a No Kings gathering yesterday. shared by daghost_official.
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence #churches #ReligiousFreedom #NoKings
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DP95O8pkSBT/
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A sign carried by No Kings protesters in Indiana reading, "Don't pretend God supports ICE raids"
Andrew Roth on "the ‘enormous conflict of interest’ at centre of Jared Kushner’s Gaza ceasefire deal: US president’s son-in-law was instrumental in getting deal – which could bring him huge windfall if plan to redevelop Gaza ever comes to fruition."
#Israel #Gaza #Hamas #ceasefire #peace #Trump #JaredKushner
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CBS News reports on how ICE's terrorism — the terrorization of the immigrant community — is affecting churchgoing immigrants who fear being assaulted by ICE while they're at church, something previously unheard of.
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence #churches #ReligiousFreedom
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Trump doing Putin's work, absolutely horrifying, big respect for Zelensky, who stays "cool" , at least in public.
https://www.ft.com/content/7960c6aa-dbfa-4a55-91e8-ae44601842ec
#trump #putin #zelensky #geopolitics #russia #ukraine @geopolitics
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#Fascist? Difference between the word "fascist" used for normal modern people that don't care enough and really bad "Fascist" (there is a BIG difference)... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
@xankarn I like your post at the top a lot -
I saw after something I think we have to be careful with as there is a fine line between many people who do care on low / high spectrum (even to comment otherwise wouldn't care enough to ask why) so it's good to not really quickly exclude these people or even write them off so easily as all or nothing support us or fuck off.
I don't mean those that have a profile full of bad stuff more professionally - but really at protest people have asked me similar things (which in person is more clear) and they have been mom and dad people too full of weird concern / old or new ways and yes some fascistic things they will take to their death. But it's good not to condemn them so quick, even online.
I'll give you an example but from the 'best of us' types of people here on #Fediverse - some of hero level (Teachers, Privacy advocates, whole range) and they have said some actually wild or vile stuff (like seconds from the message of me saying I'm a fan or appreciate them) - and THAT got me angry. "Lesson I learned" was "from nothing" people can actually create more antagonism or enemies from someone actually over-genuine or over-writing (as you do to your hero's or wanted to help overly).
It was like totally unexpected - I totally was not sending those vibes and they literally created it double back to me (I don't know how guessing so clearly wrong or not asking more or not reading more into my message or all my posts allows people made them make such big mistakes - so it shows even the best have these things. Almost opposite and this 'fine' line of fascism (I could say they are... and actually I'm reconsidering this post but I'm sure in person they are better or their history says so, so I have to forgive and not chase them as a fan or co-creator, or anything - which is a human shame and part of all this problem when you can't even join the good people even a bit)
So seriously careful with PUTTING people into labeling them and blocking quickly and therefore not even allowing much room to work with them slowly (or indirectly from your good posts) - the long-burn convincing or even let them realise on their own,,, is golden - and it may even be low % but usually the people who care also speak so again have to be careful and see from profiles or not have to guess and condemn people so wildly to lose even 20% of those asking what's the point...
Again I know there is a % nativity and plenty of bad - but responding in unhelpful way also isn't great - even in my nativity saying MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT THAT FASCIST or as extreme as we feel asking questions we find hard to answer.
It's true they don't care but I've been writing about #fascism as a word being used for people that don't care enough (and there is a BIG difference).
So don't be too quick, check their profile and honestly even from the left that block the left - It does create *more* anger rather than allowing people to speak a bit - as there is a natural sparring or sword fighting that happens to get our minds in better shape... nothing that wrong with saying "what's the point?" and letting people practice answers if they are not a professional fascist.
Remember fascism come frmo authoritarian hierarchical government (or governing) like #state and #banks (which many people are under IF NOT ALL and some thing negative maths or numbers are neutral - even Left / Liberal people so needs a whole re-format of people brain since they were born into money thinKING is ok), Obviously money and that hierarchy is the problem (but not everyone is there yet or willing to do everything without money more often)
LONG STORY SHORT:
It is going to take a long time for all the specrum and points - and sometimes it's not as clear getting rid of Trump either - and getting the next one to jump in the financial hot-seat. It's all the rich-isms and even comfy people with it too (sorry a lot have it after spending time in studying / wondering why good people have similar isms)... ⏲️ Time.
Thanks for reading, even reading once more to get the points...
Much love to the #NoKings people and #Animal dressers out there (#Frogs and #unicorns etc),
⚠️ Admittedly lots of hashtags to really sort this #Fascist thing a bit more - as people unversed use for everyone imperfect much like those being a #Terrorist incorrectly used by the other sides. Too easy to call people fascist and terrorists. Could say people don't care or have relativity (it's not the same but often more true)
#Portland #Antifa #Frog #Frogs #AntiFascistFrog #Trump FrogBrigade
P,S For those that can talk 'long' -
I'd like to know how we can continue this good work with the lesser / smaller #bigboss baddies ❓ ...because after this I feel like they go under the radar because it's so integrated and born-in as a system.
(just an after-thought).
Thanks again for reading / considering / adjusting / staying true and passionate.
"'Kardon was part of a clergy group that was to lead a worship service outside the Chicago facility…. ...
Kardon has never been arrested before. She said she was beaten with a baton while she prayed and was then dragged from the group and handcuffed.'"
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
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"On October 17, another pastor was assaulted by ICE while praying. According to Baptist News Global:
'United Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon of United Church of Rogers Park, Ill., was violently arrested along with eight others at a peaceful protest at the Broadview ICE facility this morning.'"
~Diana Butler Bass
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
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Undocumented immigrants paid $100
billion in taxes in 2022.
It would cost $300 billion to deport
them all.
They're here, they're working, they're
contributing, they're following our
laws.
Give them a path to citizenship.
"Immigration enforcement isn’t the problem. Dehumanization and injustice are."
~ Esau McCaulley
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/7
https://www.holypost.com/post/what-does-it-profit-a-nation-to-deport-immigrants-lose-its-soul
"And in Tuesday’s raid in Chicago, teenagers were reportedly 'slammed to the ground' by masked agents and one U.S. citizen may have been detained for five hours."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
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"Consider some recent horrors: an American citizen wrongly detained and treated with shocking brutality. A Mexican immigrant fatally shot by ICE officers for stated reasons that are falling apart under journalistic scrutiny. A minister shot in the head by a pepper ball while he had his arms raised in prayer."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
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https://newrepublic.com/article/201802/trump-ice-raids-chicago-democrats
"Federal agents have been caught on video body slamming people to the ground, kneeling on people’s necks, and pointing weapons at close range. Dozens of people have already died at ICE’s hands , including US citizens, but this tally is artificially low because the Trump administration tightly controls media access to ICE detention facilities."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
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"On too many videos circulating on social media to count, masked ICE agents have been recorded getting more and more aggressive with members of the public, deliberately escalating non-violent exchanges into violent ones."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
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"More than that, his statement was meant to groom the public. The Trump administration is trying to get US citizens used to the idea that federal agents could use lethal force—to the point of killing people— against anyone who exercises their Constitutional right to peacefully protest against government actions they don’t like."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
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"This week, blind to Constitutional law and US history, Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan said that protests at ICE raids 'could lead to bloodshed and people dying.' Suggesting that masked ICE agents might kill protestors for simply shouting hateful slogans at them, Homan was building the permission structure for federal agents to use 'full force' violence against non-violent protestors."
~ Sabrina Haake
#Trump #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
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https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/james-madison-smiled-on-no-kings
At least 3 of the #MS13 leaders #Bukele requested had divulged incriminating info about members of his govt suspected of cutting deals with the gang, ofcls said. One of them — César López Larios, whom US prosecutors charged last year w/directing MS-13’s activities in the #US — was sent back to #ElSalvador 2 days after the #Rubio - Bukele phone call. The others remain in the US, waiting to learn whether they, too, will be handed over to the very govt they were cooperating against.
#Informant agreements are based on assurances the cooperators will be #protected by the #UnitedStates. Reneging on promises made in exchange for information will hinder the ability of US #LawEnforcement to develop relationships with potential cooperators in the future.
“Who would ever trust the word of US law enforcement or prosecutors again?” Farah said.
#law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #immigration #judiciary #Trump #Rubio
“The deal is a deep betrayal of US law enforcement, whose agents risked their lives to apprehend the gang members,” said Douglas Farah, a US contractor who worked with federal officials to investigate & help dismantle the #MS13 gang.
Nixing the agreements also threatens to damage the credibility of the #DOJ, which routinely relies on #informants to build cases against high-level criminals, ofcls said.
#law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #immigration #judiciary #Trump #Rubio
For #Bukele, a return of the informants was …a key step in hindering an ongoing US investigation into his government’s relationship with #MS13, a gang famous for displays of excessive violence in the #UnitedStates & elsewhere.
But in promising to terminate the #informants’ arrangements, current & fmr #DOJ ofcls say #Rubio threatened to undercut years of work by US law enforcement to apprehend & secure the cooperation of high-ranking members of one of the world’s most deadly gangs.
While the outlines of the quid pro quo have been public for months, the #Trump admin’s willingness to renege on secret arrangements made with #informants who had aided #US investigations has not been previously reported.
…The deal would give #Bukele possession of individuals who threatened to expose the alleged *deals* his govt made with #MS13 to help achieve #ElSalvador’s historic drop in violence, officials said.
#law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #immigration #judiciary
To #deport them to #ElSalvador, AG #PamBondi would need to terminate the #DOJ’s arrangements with those men, #MarcoRubio said. He assured #Bukele that Bondi would complete that process & Washington would hand over the MS-13 leaders.
Rubio’s extraordinary pledge illustrates the extent to which the #Trump admin was willing to meet Bukele’s demands as it negotiated what would become one of the signature agreements of Trump’s early months in office.
In the days before the #Trump admin deported hundreds of #Venezuelan immigrants to #CECOT, a notorious prison in #ElSalvador, the president of that country demanded something: the return of 9 MS13 gang leaders in US custody. Secy of #State #MarcoRubio, in a March 13 phone call with Salvadoran President Nayib #Bukele, promised the request would be fulfilled….But there was one obstacle: Some of the MS-13 members Bukele wanted were “#informants” under the #protection of the US govt, Rubio told him.