Apparently at around 1:30 PM ET, the main accounts for the No Kings coalition on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. Admins have lost access to the account and are unable to log in. This happened at the peak of the organization's national day of action. Instagram, of course, is owned by Meta.
❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.
I know America. I know that, in America, we believe in a country big enough for all of us. So, JD Vance, don't you dare come from Ohio to lecture me. You don't know a damn thing about America.
Russia is now exempt from the Lindsey O. Graham Russia Sanctions Act. The US government is clearly allied with Putin against Ukraine. Vote Republican enablers out.
We've got to nationalize SpaceX. We have no choice. We can't operate our military without them and we can't trust them to serve our national interest. There is literally no other option.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h agoThe United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
I always have mixed feelings about these images. Yes, it's inspiring to see these college students committed to democracy, but the fact that they have to do anything remotely difficult to exercise their voting rights is enraging. Taking part in a democracy should be as easy as possible.
BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social · 2d agoThis is just beautiful to see
NEW: DOJ says presidential records belong to the president — not the people — but an appeals court panel today said that argument would lead to perverse, and even dangerous, results. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity
Over the decades we've had to visit people in memory care units. This is the kind of thing you would hear. (I mean, *listen* to it.)
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump claims he has already talked to Google about changing the name of the Atlantic Ocean to the "Trump Ocean"
Chuck Schumer — one of the most powerful Democrats in the country — has not issued statements to the press or through his social media channels about the administration’s attack on Ilhan Omar, which critics have described as a five alarm fire for the state of democracy in the U.S.
Chuck Schumer Hasn’t Said a Word About Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan Omar
Ethics lawyers say the raid violated the Hatch Act. Schumer has been silent.
truthout.org
the more i think about this the more i feel like it's possibly one of the most outrageous scandals to happen in global politics in a long time. if it is what it looks like it's an absolute watershed crisis moment for the US and world.
Keubiko 🇨🇦 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦 💪@keubiko.bsky.social · 2d ago👀
so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d agoB/C grade source in terms of reliability but likely accurate www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7a210b0...
Lankford: "You can think about where we would be right now based on where Joe Biden was leading us if Kamala Harris would've won and we have had a Democratic House and Senate ... completely different future based on the last election."
Good luck to Republicans responding to this smart line of attack by just insisting over and over again that the man saying it is gay, or crazy, or both.
Dan Ancona@danancona.bsky.social · 3d agoGoddamn: "We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis. We have seen for the last five decades, since the late 1970s, corporate special interests, billionaire mega donors buying politicians, and then those politicians in both political parties...
People need to understand that the only reason Trump backed down on SpaceX and Starshield so quickly is that he got push back right away, politically and from Ukraine. He is a bully and a coward. Stop criticising Zelensky for standing up to him.
Stuff like this is why the Canadian political establishment is (correctly, IMO) assuming that Democrats can NOT be trusted to return the bilateral relationship to the status quo ante going forward.
Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 3d agoMy first stop was Alberta, the only province not boycotting Californian wines. I spoke to provincial leaders about the importance of the Canadian market to California farmers and the importance of continuing close collaboration on dairy, beef and energy trade.
Does arresting the wife of an enlisted man and mother of four US citizen children, a person who’s been here since she was 6 years old, make our country great again?
Nick Miroff@nickmiroff.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org
The January 6 Memory Project
A public archive of Department of Justice news releases and related court filings concerning prosecutions from the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
jan6memoryproject.org
NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
He Joined the Military. They Reported His Wife to ICE.
When a soldier’s wife went to pick up her military ID at a base in Texas, ICE officers showed up.
theatlantic.com
again this is why you have to retaliate. if they are only afraid of republicans this will happen all over again
Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 2d agoCourageous stuff here. Real leadership. www.ft.com/content/5862... US business leaders are waking up to the perils of plutopopulism
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Recorded a podcast with Ryan Devans of Tailors' Keep. We talked about how Asian manufacturing nowadays is often better than US manufacturing. This pissed off a bunch of people on Instagram, but I think shoring up US manufacturing requires facing hard facts. Pod preview: pod.link/blamo/episod...
Vladek desperately desires the return of the court that compromised our democracy with Citizens' United and struck down crucial parts of President Obama's legislative legacy. reject this shit. pack the courts. bsky.app/profile/mero...
the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 3d agoi'm sorry but people like Vladek just desperately want the political status quo of 2015 back and refuse to acknowledge it was already Bad
a constitutional republic where control of the legislature and executive grants you the opportunity to reshape the judiciary, and this is an outcome that is known to voters, is a *vastly* preferable system to the one we've lived our whole lives with
Micah@rincewind.run · 3d agowhat I hope this thread makes clear is two things: 1. expanding the court has real problems, and these are valid concerns 2. there are no good options left, and this is the best of the bad ones unless we want to accept a conservative supermajority for the rest of our lives
Troy Jackson: "Elon Musk is running ads for you. In fact, they're running ads in Portland, Oregon, for you. But you also got an ad where you use a Teamster official saying that he supports you. He's asked you for a cease and desist."
