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Your Place Is In The Resistance

Wednesday Morning Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  October 22, 20256:31 am| 480 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Open Threads, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You, Your Place Is In The Resistance

Two weeks from today:

It's not going to get better on its own. Support the 911 March for Health and Science.
RFK Jr. Must Go!!
kffhealthnews.org/news/article…

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— Science Accountability Institute (@scienceai.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM

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It’s really notable how — in just the past week — business lobbies have begun to push back on White House tariff, immigration and export/trade policy.
@wsj.com @cnbc.com @bloomberg.com @reuters.com

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM

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(Bloomberg) – Small businesses are urging the US Supreme Court to affirm lower court rulings that President Donald Trump's global tariffs amount to a massive illegal tax on American companies.
@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article…

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM

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ACKMAN, on @cnbc.com this am: “Trump is the most pro-business President in history.”
Everyone else:

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— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM

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By 57% to 22%, voters disapprove of Trump's bail out of Argentina, per the new Economist/YouGov poll. Trump voters disapprove by 40% to 35%, even with Trump's name attached to it.

— Geoff Garin (@geoffgarin.bsky.social) October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: NO KINGS

by Anne Laurie|  October 18, 20254:33 am| 190 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Your Place Is In The Resistance

Facts don’t care about the GOP’s feelings — there’s nothing more American than rejecting a mad king. Please join us tomorrow: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i… #NoKings

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— Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) October 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM

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or you could just smile and wave and chat with a grandma or two

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— Zeddy (@zeddary.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM

Look I went to one in June imagine a school pep rally where everyone there actually wanted to participate. Which is what a mass movement historically feels like when you have the numbers which we do.

— Zeddy (@zeddary.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM

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Republican officials have spent years psy-oping themselves into thinking that there are no sincere, good faith liberals or progressives anywhere in America. So no wonder they're totally unequipped to deal with a large crowd of normal people waving American flags.

— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM

So far they seem to be oscillating between:
-"These normal people waving American flags hate America, actually."
-"What we have here are millions of paid protestors."
-And my favorite, "No kings is bad and unamerican, actually."

— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM

People got mad at me during Trump I when I suggested that black bloc and the far right are actually symbiotic life forms, but it couldn't be clearer that the GOP *wants* black bloc to be their main enemy and don't know what to do about the fact that it isn't.

— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM

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just go to the protests
take whatever precautions you personally feel comfortable with but these are massive, joyful events, go and have fun

— Micah (@rincewind.run) October 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM

I have come out of both previous events feeling energized and happier and it’s been really good for my overall mental health given how much time I spend online
I suspect I am not alone in that

— Micah (@rincewind.run) October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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?Welcome to No Kings Eve. Trump is sounding and behaving kingly, and Republicans are at DEFCON 1 on the desperation meter. You can tell by their hallucinatory talking points, which are untethered from both reality and the Constitution. New from me at @msnbc.com:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb…

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— Jill Lawrence (@jilldlawrence.bsky.social) October 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM

You might find this hard to believe, but Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans are making stuff up. This is a go-to move when they fear their power and corrupt authoritarian plans are at risk, and that’s happening a lot lately. Now, with millions of people signed up to attend thousands of “No Kings” demonstrations Saturday across America, the GOP’s desperation meter is at DEFCON 1.

The alarm is clear from the overwrought Republican leaders spouting hallucinatory talking points in which “No Kings” protests become “‘Hate America’ rallies.” They are weaving a tale of extremists, terrorists, Marxists, agitators, “the pro-Hamas crowd” (House Speaker Mike Johnson’s phrase), and professional protesters supposedly paid by billionaire George Soros. It’s straight-up fearmongering.

In truth, anti-Trump protests, like the first “No Kings” demonstrations earlier this year, have drawn people of all backgrounds, united not by payment but by their deep concern — even despair — about what’s happening to their country. Some may show up this weekend wearing inflatable costumes as frogs, chickens, bears, dinosaurs or unicorns, as they have in Portland, Oregon, and outside Chicago. In D.C., we might once again see and hear a trombonist with the stage name Michael McTrouserpants…

While the president and his allies have been known to revel in violence against Trump’s political opponents, the No Kings website features links to primers on safety, de-escalation, and “sacred” religious protest traditions, and this stern warning: “A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.”…

The fictional GOP portrait of protesters as deplorables and undesirables is part of a strategy to stop the resistance before it flexes its growing power against a president who is already decidedly unpopular. Nonviolent public protests can generate dramatic changes in public opinion and, ultimately, in public awareness and public policy as well.

Saturday Morning Open Thread: NO KINGSPost + Comments (190)

TGIFriday Morning Open Thread: Good Day for A Doc Dump?

by Anne Laurie|  October 17, 20257:12 am| 256 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Your Place Is In The Resistance

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— Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) October 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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@ccscott.bsky.social
Celebrating No Kings early in the original No Kings city.
😊💙

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— TheBionicBee 🐝 (@suewho82.bsky.social) October 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM

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Pritzker: "It's clear that Donald Trump has diminished capacity, which I think is sad — that the people around him are not getting him help, and instead they're just taking advantage of him. And that's what Stephen Miller is."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM

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man, texas national guard is a fucking shit job

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— GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) October 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM

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282 former DOJ officials signed a letter sounding the alarm about "this administration’s degradation of DOJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it."
The fact that hundreds felt compelled to say this speaks volumes.

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— CREW (@citizensforethics.org) October 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM

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OTHER COUNTRIES are having NO KINGS events as well!! NoKings.org

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— ❌👑 Bernadette🫘🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🟧💙🐈‍⬛ (@vintageknits.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM

lmfao

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— cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM

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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Resist

by Anne Laurie|  October 16, 20256:53 am| 269 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Politics, Your Place Is In The Resistance

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— Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM

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Mike Johnson: "I don't think it will end before the Hate America Rally on the Mall on Saturday, where all the Marxists and antifa people and all the people who hate Trump and hate America will be there."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM

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yeah run this everywhere

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— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM

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This is almost literally what the English Civil War was fought over.

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— Don Zeko (@donzeko.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM

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shaheen talking like this should probably underline that senate dems are committed to holding the line

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— GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) October 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM

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A lot of time and effort has gone into survey research around what is the best protest sign slogan, message, wording etc and to be frank the research is pretty clear the most effective things you can do at a protest are express joy and express camaraderie, don't overthink it

— JLRay (@jlray.bsky.social) October 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM

Thursday Morning Open Thread: ResistPost + Comments (269)

Wednesday Morning Open Thread: They Break Upon Us

by Anne Laurie|  October 15, 20255:33 am| 232 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republicans in Disarray!, Your Place Is In The Resistance

mike johnson’s son currently confiscating his phone and deleting all his news apps

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— GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) October 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM

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i am making a THEY DO NOT BREAK US THEY BREAK UPON US flag that i will wave as high as i can on saturday for no kings. repost this with what you intend to do. encourage every person you know to hit the streets.

— GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) October 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM

we have the rest of this week to rally every fucking person all of us knows to hit the streets, i have ten people i am bringing out, repost this with better numbers than mine, you competitive people, beat my numbers

— GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) October 15, 2025 at 1:24 AM

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Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon.

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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) October 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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A Florida judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the planned transfer of prime downtown Miami land for Donald Trump’s future presidential library.

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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) October 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion judgment for calling Sandy Hook school shooting a hoax.

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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) October 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM

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President Donald Trump has faced backlash after bragging about his ability to dodge bullets at an event honoring assassinated activist Charlie Kirk.

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— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast.bsky.social) October 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM

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And, in reference to an item from Cole’s late-night post:

Kansas Young Republicans shut down after Politico report on racist, violent encrypted chat | #ksleg via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/10/14/k…

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— Kansas Reflector (@kansasreflector.com) October 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM


Shocked — shocked! — to discover there is *gambling* going on at this gaming establishment!…

When I lived in DC I was once on the Metro w 3 guys like this: doughy, bad haircuts, dark ill-fitting suits on a Fri or Sat night. I looked at them & said “you guys here for C-PAC?” They smiled and said yes. I didn’t respond. After about 3-4 seconds their smiled sagged & they slumped in their seats

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— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) October 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM

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Saturday Morning Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  October 11, 20253:23 am| 227 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republicans in Disarray!, Trump Crime Cartel, Your Place Is In The Resistance

No Kings 2 is Saturday, Oct. 18.
Nobody is getting paid to be there. But you can demonstrate to the world that you oppose the rise of fascism in the U.S.
Find your local protest here: www.nokings.org#map

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— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM

Making sure all my enemies know that there's a big rally about how much I suck coming up, & also that it really bothers me

— Hemry, Local Bartender (@bartenderhemry.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM

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This is an odd assessment, imho, because the WH actually doesn't really care about congressional priorities and the first real time it encountered them, the entire thing fell apart and the government shut down.
Most of the WH is about pulling levers where congress has given it power.

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— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM

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They care relatively little about passing any bills, because most of what they want to do is in the grey areas of executive power.
So yeah, this strikes me as dumb. Especially when congress is literally about to revolt on the Epstein files as soon as Grivalja gets sworn in.

— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM

There is a misjudgment of "this congress is heinously dysfunctional and can't pass bills" as "we are owning congress like little babies."
They actually are relatively inept when it comes to managing congress, as they can't get anything through a friendly one.

— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) October 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM

From the replies:

yeah honestly what Johnson and Trump are doing rn is akin to a prime minister abruptly proroguing parliament. it’s a last resort, something you do to buy time when you’re afraid you’re going to be embarrassed or challenged on the floor

what we have here is a “strongman” terrified of the House coming back into session

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This is what it looks like when one side is about to cave on a shutdown. How do I know? I had a front-row seat as as an aide to the House GOP leadership during the very first shutdown, in the 1995 battle with Clinton. When they get nervous and defensive like this, they're looking for a way out.

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— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM

I'm not talking about the merits of the arguments here. I'm talking about what kind of arguments you start to make when you know you're losing in public opinion and it's only going to get worse.

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM

The only real obstacle is that if they reconvene and pass a CR, they're going to have to deal with the Epstein discharge petition. And Speaker Johnson seems like he REALLY doesn't want to do that, with an intensity I can't fully explain.

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM

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TGIFriday Morning Open Thread: What A Year This Week Has Been…

by Anne Laurie|  September 19, 20255:56 am| 297 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Your Place Is In The Resistance

… And it ain’t over yet!
 

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

— Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM

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trump is at his second-lowest approval rating across both terms and we're not even through the first year of this term, and, just to emphasize it again, *they have no plan to turn any of it around*. everything's getting worse pretty quickly and they're sephiroth posting to each other

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) September 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM

these guys are not popular, they are getting much more unpopular very quickly, and they have absolutely no plan to turn any of it around. i'm not even sure they are aware that they need to, which is not a mistake a more competent regime would make.

— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) September 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM

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there is no fever to break. i’m sure absolute monarchs of europe thought the “fever would break” over the ideals of religious tolerance and government by consent of the governed but not withstanding fits and starts it’s around.
trumpism is here to stay. may not kill it but keep trying.

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— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM

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This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

— Jeet Heer (@jeetheer.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM

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Reminder: before you go full-on defeatist about the rule of law, keep in mind it remains often effective on a micro-level. It’s on the macro- that the FedSoc types have killed it. Hard work and good lawyering can make a difference for regular people — though not always, and not all of them.

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— Disney Surrenders Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) September 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM

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Note sender:

IS EPSTEIN THE REAL REASON TRUMP HAD KIMMEL CANCELED?!

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— Chuck Schumer (@schumer.senate.gov) September 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM

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