Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Not all heroes wear capes.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

Hot air and ill-informed banter

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

The only way through is to slog through the muck one step at at time.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Bark louder, little dog.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

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AM in NC – NO KINGS – Durham, NC

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Update:  I mixed up the images from another protest.  Click below for the No Kings post with the correct images from AM in NC.

AM in NC – NO KINGS – Durham, NC (with the Durham Images this time!)

Here are some photos from Durham, NC.

Crowd estimates I saw put the number of people around 5,000!

It was a happy, joyful day full of solidarity and protesters of all ages.

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    3. 3.

      Mai Naem mobile

      I don’t know if it was CBS or ABC I was listening to but they said there were 5 million No Kings protesters throughout the country. I’ve seen extrapolations of around 7 million.  I’ve seen estimates of 11 million. I honestly think 11 million would be closer to the real number. There were several small towns in Arizona that had decent turnouts. That’s in addition to big turnouts in several metro Phoenix spots and Tucson. NYC, LA, Chicago and Philly should easily be a million.  There were decent sized crowds in Fairbanks and Anchorage for crying out loud.

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    4. 4.

      KenK

      @Mai Naem mobile: my wife and I think that any count will be undercounted . To whit, in our little NK event in Williamsville NY, there were a substantial number of cars driving by that were very supportive. OK, the cars weren’t, but their drivers and passengers were. How are these drive-bys accounted for?

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    5. 5.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      “No FU – KING”. Nice.

      I’ve seen some Indivisible threads say they hit 11 million but what they’re basing that on, no clue. They were shooting for 12 million (that I didn’t know nor can confirm).

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      dc

      Where in Durham are these photos? I went to the downtown rally and then march to our so called Central Park area.

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    10. 10.

      frosty

      @Mai Naem mobile: ​The 3.5% threshold from Erica Chenoweth is 11 million for the US population, and 8 3/4 million for the voting age (>18) population. These estimates are close. We need to sustain it and get a few of our supporters out of their cars!

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      Sheila in nc

      I was there too. My lame last minute sign said “Pro-Science, Anti-Kings”. Got to sing some.

      The crowd was HUGE. Anita Earls was VERY impressive.

      Dunno how many they got in Chapel Hill.

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      Another Scott

      Thanks for all the pictures.  It’s quite inspiring.

      I’m seeing more stories appearing in news sites I monitor.  Here’s the latest from the VirginiaMercury.com

      The first photo – The presidential seal is over-the-top huge. Just comically so.

      Grr…

      The soldiers on the right seem to be intentionally not doing their rest stuff properly (especially compared to most of the guys on the left).

      I enjoyed the various digs (as I read it) in the text:

      […]

      HIMARS were among the weaponry the U.S. provided to Ukraine’s forces under President Joe Biden.

      […]

      When asked about the timing of Trump’s birthday, Aiken said “whether it’s on his birthday or not, I don’t care. That’s not the purpose of this.”

      […]

      Not everyone at the parade was wishing Trump well. Angelica Zetino, 24, and Shoshauna Brooks, 27, from Rockville and Gaithersburg, Maryland, stood out among the crowd as they carried signs protesting Trump’s administration, particularly recent immigration raids.

      The pair began their morning at a “No Kings” protest in Rockville before heading to D.C.

      “They (the administration) just want to put on a show, which is OK, but we’re here to support the people that can’t have a voice for themselves,” Brooks said.

      Tom Moore, 57, of the District of Columbia,, took issue with Trump’s words this week that any parade protesters would be met with force.

      “That’s not acceptable. He didn’t say violent protesters. I wasn’t planning on coming down here before that,” said Moore.

      Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on June 10 that any protests at the military parade “will be met with very heavy force.”

      […]

      Military aircraft that could be seen above Washington in ceremonial flyovers, from AH-64 Apaches, UH-60 Blackhawks and CH-47 Chinooks. Army Golden Knights parachuted down to the White House South Lawn, red smoke in their wake, to present Trump with a folded flag. The president has never served in the military.

      […]

      This short training video shows that those arguing that the Army likely was expressing displeasure with having to be at 47’s stupid politicized Dear Leader birthday parade may be on to something. They know how to stand and march and do the other things.

      Best wishes,
      Scott.

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      sab

      My ex-coasty husband thinks they haven’t marched since basic training. I think that’s nuts. I am a believer in malicious compliance.

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      AM in NC

      @Steve Holmes:  I think WaterGirl posted the wrong photos under my nym.

      Next Durham protest, we should to a Balloon Juice meet up-looks like there’s at least a handful of us who went!

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