"Nationwide protests comprised of millions of people are a direct rebuke to the president’s narrative. They send a signal to the most disconnected parts of the American public that the president is far from as popular as he says he is, and they send a clear warning to those institutions under pressure from the administration: Bend the knee and lose our business and support."
~ Jamelle Bouie
"Today was the largest political protest in American history.
Don’t let Donald Trump pretend he’s popular, beloved, or even respected.
He isn’t. And he never has been."
~ Steve Hofstetter
#NoKings #democracy #Trump #authoritarianism
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Today was the largest political protest in American history. Don’t let Donald Trump pretend he’s popular, beloved, or even respected. He isn’t. And he never has been.Threads
Here's what Olear said at Kingston:
"If there’s one thing we can say about Donald, it’s that he’s unfit.
This is why we’ve come here today—to give him our message, which consists of just one single word—the word Donald Trump hates most of all to hear:
NO.
ICE in our cities? NO!
Soldiers in our streets? NO!
Political retribution? NO!
Plenary authority? NO!
No thrones. No crowns. NO KINGS!"
Noting that he spoke at the No Kings demonstration in Kingston, New York, Greg Olear says,
"The press estimates there were seven million Americans participating in the rallies. This figure seems low to me.... WaPo had it as the lead story yesterday. The craven New York Times led with the Venezuela stuff, which, in hindsight, seems like it was cooked up just so the New York Times would lead with it and not No Kings.)"
#NoKings #democracy #Trump #authoritarianism
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Delivered at Academy Green Park, Kingston, New York, October 18, 2025Greg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)
"Americans across all 50 states marched in protests against the Trump administration on Saturday, aligning behind a message that the country is sliding into authoritarianism and there should be no kings in the US.
Millions of people turned out for the No Kings protests, the second iteration of a coalition that marched in June in one of the largest days of protest in US history."
~ Rachel Leingang and Edward Helmore
#NoKings #democracy #Trump #authoritarianism
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Crowds of Americans, many in costumes, aligned behind message that US is sliding into authoritarianismRachel Leingang (The Guardian)
"Such a high turnout means businesses and institutions that thought they must cater to the administration to appeal to a majority of Americans will be forced to recalculate.
And the protests showed that Americans care fervently about democracy."
"The No Kings demonstrations ran the gamut from hundreds of thousands of protesters in large, blue cities, to smaller crowds in small towns in Republican-dominated states. Together, they demonstrate that the administration’s claims to popularity are a lie."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#NoKings #democracy #Trump #authoritarianism
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Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an administration apparently bent on replacing that d…Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
The government does not track how often immigration agents hold Americans. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
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#News #ICE #Immigration #Trump #USPolitics #Law #American
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.ProPublica
"Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps such as ICEBlock which were designed to report sightings of ICE officials in real-time to warn local communities. Eyes Up, meanwhile, was more of an aggregation service pooling together information to preserve evidence in case the material is needed in the future in court.
The news shows that Apple and Google’s crackdown on ICE-spotting apps, which started after pressure from the Department of Justice against Apple, is broader in scope than apps that report sightings of ICE officials. It has also impacted at least one app that was more about creating a historical record of ICE’s activity during its mass deportation effort."
#USA #Trump #iCE #Immigration #Deportation #Apple #SocialMedia
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Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
"Welcome to the new normal, where a late-night comedian making fun of the president is 'the sickest conduct possible,' but calling for trans people to be institutionalized was just Charlie Kirk practicing politics the right way."
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
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"The timing isn't coincidental. This is happening while people are still being fired for not mourning Charlie Kirk appropriately. Karen Attiah lost her Washington Post column. Airline pilots got grounded. Hospital workers were terminated. Now a comedian with one of the longest-running shows on television gets yanked off the air for making a joke about Trump…."
~ Parker Molloy
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
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The comedian condemned Kirk's murder and called it "monstrous." That wasn't enough. He had to mourn correctly or lose his show.Parker Molloy (The Present Age)
"Time and again, the corporate media would rather surrender than fight for their First Amendment rights.
But ownership is also driving the shift. …
There are exceptions, but much of the corporate press is now too loyal to, or too afraid of, Trump to act as a true check on power."
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
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"That could never happen here, right? Not with our long tradition of a vibrant, free media?
Well, the MAGA Right is on the verge of controlling the vast majority of the American media ecosystem.
A dynamic highlighted by the fact that Disney announced it was bowing to pressure from the Trump Administration and pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely because of comments he made about Charlie Kirk."
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
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"One of the necessary conditions for an authoritarian takeover is control of the media. It’s a critical step to quash dissent—turning a free press designed to hold power accountable into a propaganda organ that amplifies the state’s message."
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
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The Kimmel suspension is a scary sign for the future of free speechDan Pfeiffer (The Message Box)
"And while they cloak their project in American flags and talk of law and order, the blueprint is the same one authoritarian regimes across the twentieth century wrote in blood: silence the critics, glorify the leader, criminalize dissent."
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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"Donald Trump and his loyal enforcer Stephen Miller have once again revealed the heart of their political project: to recast the state as an instrument of vengeance against dissent. ...
Trump and Miller do not simply want to punish their critics—they want to reshape America into a machine of loyalty and fear. Their vision requires enemies because enemies justify repression."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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the murder of Charlie Kirk has freed the regime to do what it has always wanted to doMark Mansour (America’s Fractured Politics)
"It’s not just about one late-night comedian or even one assassination.
It’s about when America will finally wake up.
Or fail to."
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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"Kimmel’s accusation that Trump is using the Kirk murder for political payback was right on the money.
It’s not as if this is surprising. It’s not as if we haven’t been warned about what’s coming again and again. It’s not as if the President of the Right hasn’t signaled his yearning for absolute rule day after day after day."
~ Lewis Grossberger
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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Free Speech Shot Down By TrumpLewis Grossberger (Lewis Grossberger's Raw Truth Bulletin)
“You may think you’re angry over Colbert and Kimmel but as someone who is familiar with the history of Nazi Germany I promise you, you’re not nearly angry enough yet.”
~ J David Clark
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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"Don't you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition."
~ Mehdi Hasan quoted by The Bulwark
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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"Trump and MAGA did not get Kimmel suspended for a joke. They got Kimmell suspended for a show of power. They are sending the message to stick to their approved MAGA script or they will come for you."
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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"This approach has been widespread in the punditocracy, which has almost uniformly moved to hold Kirk up as a rare avatar of civil disagreement in an uncivil era.
These pundits' paeans to Charlie Kirk's 'civil' approach to politics ignore the many illustrations of his incivility."
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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"As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright ignore the ugly things that he said and instead to stress the polite ways he said them. It's an emphasis on style over substance."
~ Kevin Kruse
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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"It is really important to understand the contrast between Trump’s behavior and those of previous presidents for two reasons [after a highly publicized murder of an outspoken ideologue]: First, to get a clear measure of the extent of our moral descent. And second, to fully understand the authoritarian dangers our republic is facing."
~ Berny Belvedere
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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The contrast between their and his behavior is a measure of America's moral descentBerny Belvedere (The UnPopulist)
"Fueled by the rhetoric of prominent politicians, social media platforms have turned into a staging ground for collecting names and orchestrating campaigns to call for firings. Conservative social media influencers have encouraged people to submit posts of coworkers or community members, and then have used their large platforms to amplify calls for punishment."
~ Daniel Moritz-Rabson
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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The US has entered a new era of McCarthyism as the Trump administration equates leftist critique with “terrorism.”…britney (Truthout)
"What happened to Jimmy Kimmel Live! is not just about a late-night host or a single corporate decision. It is a flashing red warning sign of how fragile the foundations of free discourse have become in the United States."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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In a stunning move that exposes the fragility of free expression in American media, ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! has been pulled indefinitely.Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)
"We are governed by liars and crooks whose agenda is to demolish the rule of law and the rights of the rest of us, including our First Amendment right to free speech (Happy Constitution Day, by the way!)."
~ Rebecca Solnit
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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Hannah Arendt famously wrote, “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e.Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)
"Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show program was indefinitely suspended so billionaires can continue abusing Charlie Kirk’s murder to gain control of our media and lay the red carpet for Trump’s fascist agenda.
That’s the truth. Everything else is just propaganda, obfuscation, and pretext."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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The broligarchy is consolidating power for Trump and MAGA, using Charlie Kirk's murder, to gain control of our media, crush dissent, and punish critics and comedians like Jimmy KimmelTHE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"Do people understand now what the authoritarian project is aiming for? ...
What happens in a society where one side is required to operate at all times and in all places in perfect good faith and the other side faces no such constraints?"
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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What happens when comedians are held to stricter standards than vice presidents?Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)
"Kimmel’s suspension has produced an uproar. Comedian Paul Scheer noted that Kimmel is off the air but Brian Kilmeade of the Fox News Channel, who recently called for killing homeless Americans by 'involuntary lethal injection,' is still employed."
~ Heather Cox Riichardson
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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This evening, John Koblin, Michael M.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"This is the way Putin runs Russia. Threaten newspapers and broadcasters that they will be shut down unless they take the Kremlin’s line. ...
Nobody is safe with this fascist regime in power. Free speech is dead so long as Putin’s best friend is in the White House."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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ABC just announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live will be suspended “indefinitely” over comments he made on Monday night about the killing of right-wing Christ figure, Charlie Kirk.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
"The overall design of Trump’s policy is clear enough: weaken the United States abroad to create an environment friendly to dictators, while using the American armed forces as an intimidation force to make dictatorship possible at home."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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A video mocking Donald #Trump and his relationship with the late paedophile Jeffrey #Epstein is being projected on to the side of Windsor Castle, including Photographs of Virginia Giuffre, Epstein and Ghislaine #Maxwell and a handwritten note of Trump to Epstein. 👇🏻
Brits are the best! 🧡
(Source: Skynews)
Well done Channel 4. Now do Farage..
"More than 100 of Donald Trump’s inaccurate statements are to be dissected by Channel 4 to coincide with his state visit, in what it described as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”.
#Channel4 #Trump #Fascism
#UKPolitics
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Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statementsMichael Savage (The Guardian)
Mary Trump: #Trump Rhetoric Ignites Violent Spiral in #America: youtube.com/watch?v=C6Zb4OgiSQ…
Chris Hedges: The Martyrdom of #CharlieKirk: youtube.com/watch?v=34_nScNLga…
Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the m...YouTube
"He even dressed as Donald Trump for Halloween. The family wasn’t shy about their culture of guns, their politics, or their worldview.
This is who the killer is. This is what we now know. And yet Trump and his cronies immediately blamed the left."
#CharlieKirk #Republicans #MAGA #Utah #guns #GunCulture #Trump #Mormon
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"Tyler Robinson comes from a Republican family. His father owns a business installing kitchen countertops and cabinets. His mother is a licensed social worker. His family is white, Mormon, and self-described as 'gun-toting.' There are endless photos of Tyler and his family with guns. His mother posted about him proudly."
~ Ben Meiselas
#CharlieKirk #Republicans #MAGA #Utah #guns #GunCulture #Trump #Mormon
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NEW: Programs for #Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push
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Federal funding for organizations that help students with hearing and vision loss across eight states will stop at the end of the month, according to letters sent by a top #Education Dept. official and obtained by ProPublica.
#news #kids #trump #government #DEI
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Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”ProPublica
