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[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

An even better version! (Apparently hand-drawn, rather than AI.)

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Millions turned out across the country today for a coordinated day of protest against President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies.

Organizers expected more than 2,600 "No Kings" rallies, in big cities and small towns, across all 50 states and some European capitals, including Paris, London, Madrid and Berlin.

A similar event in June brought out more than 5 million demonstrators across the country, but this time, organizers said the mobilization was even bigger.

@AliRogin spoke with @Rob_Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group that is one of the protest organizers, for more.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

San Francisco protestors created a giant sign to support California’s Proposition 50 and to oppose the authoritarian policies of Donald Trump’s regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

[Depressed Matt @SuicidalMatt909]

😂🤣😂🤣

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

MAGA and Trump like to say that protesters are paid by George Soros and that’s got to be the most ridiculous thing we’ve heard from them yet. Nobody has to pay someone that is fighting for their Democracy and the future of their children! The Fight for Freedom is Free! 🔥

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Trump’s ICE has reportedly arrested a mother of a 3-year-old for playing music outside an ICE facility in Portland, according to her husband.

Witnesses say agents tackled her into the mud before transferring her to a federal prison in another state.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Here is @MikeJohnson taking selfies with Bobby Walker….the one that texted "rape is epic" in the Young Republicans group chat

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the Republican Party. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context that these are people who are part of one of two major parties and they believe in gas chambers and rape and discrimination based on the color of people's skin. These are racist, sexist, disgusting remarks ... there's gotta be consequences. Kick them out of the party. Take away their official roles. Stop using them as campaign advisers. This bullshit has to stop.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Breaking: Text messages of Young Republican groups across the country have just been leaked.

They talk about putting Democrats in “gas chambers,” attacking “Jews,” calling Black people “watermelon people,” calling to “rape” their enemies, and bringing back slavery.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Which is more alarming? That the Homeland Security secretary might actually believe that “Antifa” is as dangerous as Hezbollah or Hamas? Or that she’s willing to engage in this level of lying and demagoguery? Neither is good!

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

[SilenceBeDamned🇺🇸🦅 @SilenceDamned]

Oh, please—spare us the fever-dream paranoia masquerading as patriotism, peddling this baseless fever of "leftwing terrorism" as some shadowy cabal bankrolled by Soros and coddled by activist judges, when the cold, hard data from the FBI and DHS paints a starkly different picture: it's far-right extremists—white supremacists, militias, and election-denying insurgents—who pose the deadliest, most proliferating threat to American soil, from Charlottesville to January 6th's blood-soaked insurrection. Your so-called "movement" is a grotesque exaggeration of disorganized protests and fringe agitators, not a funded terror syndicate, and the notion that Democratic prosecutors are "shielding" it ignores the relentless indictments of rioters across the spectrum while your side cries foul only when the cuffs click on their own. Invoking "legitimate state power" to "dismantle terror networks" isn't a remedy; it's a dog-whistle for authoritarian overreach, the very poison that erodes democracy, and if you want to fight real threats, start by staring down the mirror instead of scapegoating the left with this inflammatory fiction that fans the flames you claim to fear.

[Bennett Haselton @bennetthaselton]

Unbelievable. Outside the Portland ICE facility, a man and a woman were standing and talking to a pair of cops with shields when one of them draws his pepper spray and unloads it into her face. She was still crying out in pain several minutes later and had to be taken away to get medical attention.

[Naomi Kaufman Price @writeo]

Sold out women’s soccer game tonight a couple of miles from ICE building. (Thorns won!) Many restaurants are so busy you can’t get a reservation. We walk all the time.
It’s ICE goons who cause the mayhem.

[The Oregonian @Oregonian]

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest https://t.co/Eg2X7ceqKj

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

The only violence in Portland is being committed by ICE, almost all of it unprovoked as they try to create the violence they claim exists in that peaceful city

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Federal Judge Karin Immergut has blocked Trump’s deployment of troops in Portland, Oregon.

RETWEET to thank Judge Immergut for standing up for our democracy!

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Translation: “We’re desperately trying to rig the midterms. Our policies are so unpopular, it’s our only option left.”

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

As the shutdown looms, let’s play; what are the facts?

FACT: Trump wants to distract from Epstein. RELEASE THE FILES

FACT: Republicans run the House, Senate, & White House… if there is a shutdown, Real Math says it’s the REPUBLICANS’ SHUTDOWN.

FACT: Republicans only know how to break shit & then deflect & deny any accountability.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Netanyahu: I need $6 billion more
Trump: Approved

Argentina: We need $20 billion
Trump: Approved

Musk: SpaceX needs $5.9 billion
Trump: Approved

Bezos: Amazon needs $16 billion
Trump: Approved

Average Joe: My wife got cancer. I lost my job. Can we get Medicaid?
Trump: Denied