Attribution: No Kings The Emperor Has no Clothes by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com
Attribution: No Kings by Pat Bagley, PoliticalCartoons.com
Attribution: NO KINGS DAY PROTEST by Randall Enos, Easton, CT
For years the media has been lying by omission when they leave out the parts that don’t feed their narrative. But this time it’s gone too far.
how the algorithms handle today’s “no kings” day? probably same visuals on both sides if violence erupts but different narratives.
Need a reason to get involved today? Piss off this guy.
even our Trail friend Sam is out marching today (see :37 seconds in on vid)
This isnât just a music video. Itâs a movement.
A reminder that art can still punch through the noise, that laughter, courage, and unity can rise from the most unexpected places.
nflatables, freedom, and a whole lot of heart. This video uses AI-generated imagery, created with care and direction, not automation. Every scene was crafted to symbolize unity, freedom, and creativity through the eyes of inflatable characters representing everyday people standing up for hope, humor, and humanity.
The landmarks and locations shown are figurative, not literal, symbolic backdrops for a bigger idea: that these messages could belong to any city, any person.
For those curious about âAI slopâ, that phrase refers to low-effort, mass-produced content with no intention or artistry behind it. This project is the opposite of that. Every lyric, every shot, and every detail was planned, refined, and built with storytelling in mind. Itâs human emotion expressed through new tools.
A special thank-you to the real-life inflatables out there, the people who actually suit up, show up, and remind us that art and courage come in every shape imaginable. Youâre the ones truly daring greatly. You are the heroes to so many, including myself.
As Theodore Roosevelt said:
âIt is not the critic who counts⌠The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena⌠who strives valiantly⌠who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.â
Hereâs to daring greatly, and to everyone still creating fearlessly in this strange new world. đ
lyrics to NOKINGS! Anthem:
[Verse 1]
We remember who we are
Built this fire from a spark
Wrote our names across the stars
We the people, thatâs our march
Not a throne, not a chain
Not a crown to stake the claim
Weâve been quiet, weâve been tame
Now the fireâs back in our veins
[Pre-Chorus]
Fill the streets, let the sound ignite
Every heartbeat drumming light
Raise your hands, raise your sight
This is what freedom looks like
[Chorus]
NO KINGS!
No crowns crushing peopleâs dream
Stand tall, stay loud, stay free
We remember what that means
NO KINGS!
No master of our will
We bend, we build, we fill
With courage that canât be killed
[Verse 2]
Inflatables rise, shoulder to shoulder
Heroes of air, hearts getting bolder
Cartoon bright, but the message is older
Power to the people, getting louder, not colder
We donât bow, we donât break
We donât yield to fear or fake
We the ones who elevate
Every voice, every state
[Pre-Chorus]
March the miles, lift the signs
Write the truth between the lines
This ainât rage, itâs redesigned
Loveâs the root of the spine
[Chorus]
NO KINGS!
No crowns crushing peopleâs dream
Stand tall, stay loud, stay free
We remember what that means
NO KINGS!
No thrones, no puppet strings
We the people, living things
And weâll never bow to kings
[Bridge â Chant]
We rise (We rise!)
We the line (We the line!)
We the hands that built this time
Not yours to claim, not yours to sign
We the air, and weâre divine
(Pump it up!) â (Fill it out!) â (RELEASE â THE files! )
[Final Chorus]
NO KINGS!
No crowns crushing peopleâs dream
Stand tall, stay loud, stay free
We remember what that means
NO KINGS!
No masters, no divide
Just a million side by side
And a flag that still believes
[Outro Chant]
No kings! (Hey!)
No kings! (We rise!)
No kings! (We shine!)
We the people â every time.
Happy No Kings!
Folks are protesting in solidarity worldwide, but they wonât show you that on the evening news.
Russian President Vladimir Putin put his relationship with President Donald Trump back on track with a phone call just ahead of Trumpâs crucial Friday meeting with Ukraineâs President Volodymyr Zelensky, that was meant to include discussions of providing Ukraine with powerful new long range weapons.
Up until the Thursday phone call, Trump had seemed ready to boost Ukraineâs arsenal and negotiating position with Tomahawk cruise missiles. But in its wake and after the subsequent meeting with Zelensky, Trump played down all talk of the missiles and instead focused on yet another summit with Putin.
âZelenskyâs tour summed up in one sentence: Putin outmaneuvered everyone again,â posted Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russiaâs sovereign wealth fund, who has been one of the main points of contact with the Trump administration.
It was the latest swing in Trumpâs back and forth positions on the Russia-Ukraine war that often change following contact with Putin, who has shown a great deal of skill in persuading the U.S. president to his view of the conflict.
So far, Russia has succeeded in deterring Trump from imposing further sanctions â or sending more powerful weapons to Ukraine â by continually dangling hopes of a peace deal, while it ramps up attacks.
âHopefully weâll be able to get the war over with without thinking about Tomahawks. I think weâre fairly close to that,â Trump said to journalists as he began his meeting with Zelensky. âWe donât want to be giving away things that we need to protect our country.â
Instead of new support for Ukraine or sanctions on Russia, Trump announced a new summit with Putin â a bonus for the Russian leader â âto see if we can bring this âingloriousâ War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end.â There was no talk of Russia curtailing its ongoing bombardment of Ukraineâs energy infrastructure ahead of winter.
In a similar fashion, after the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska in August, Trump abandoned pressure on Russia to agree to a ceasefire and Moscow intensified its attacks even as Putin ignored U.S. urgings to meet Zelensky.
Trump shrugged off concerns Friday that Putin was again trying to buy more time. He was concerned about it, âbut you know, Iâve been played all my life by the best of them, and I came out really well,â he said, adding it was âall rightâ if it took a little time. âBut I think that Iâm pretty good at this stuff.â
More at link
The revolution was also well branded â âNo Kingsâ is todayâs anthem.
2 minutes of defiance, then straight to the streets.
A federal prosecutor who resisted President Trumpâs demands to bring charges against Letitia James, the New York state attorney general, was fired along with her deputy on Friday evening, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The dismissal of the prosecutor, Elizabeth Yusi, was the latest fallout from attempts by career Justice Department officials to pump the brakes on Mr. Trumpâs wide-ranging efforts to seek retribution against his perceived political opponents.
Ms. Yusi, who oversaw major criminal cases in the Norfolk office of the U.S. attorneyâs office for the Eastern District of Virginia, had pushed back against Mr. Trumpâs public calls for Ms. James to be indicted, telling colleagues that she had not found probable cause to file charges, the people familiar with the matter said. It was not immediately clear why her deputy, Kristin G. Bird, had also been fired.
I know Zelensky is just playing the game, but didnât like that he had to congratulate Adolf on the ceasefire that wasnât a ceasefire.
âAmericans are democracyâs equivalent of second-generation wealthâ: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump
âWhen Trump holds a cabinet meeting, he sits there and the people next to him start to flatter him. And I think, isnât this the same as Mao Zedong? Trump sells the same thing: a little bit of populism, plus a little bit of small-town shrewdness, plus a little bit of âI have money.ââ
He places the US on an arc of history we have long pretended to transcend. âAmericans are democracyâs equivalent of second-generation wealth,â he told me. They were born into democracy and have no appreciation of what life is like without it. Chinese people, on the other hand, âhave been bullied by rulers for thousands of years. Weâre very familiar with these situations.â
There are many American reporters, Wang said, who report competently on China. But when I asked how the US media was doing covering the US, he burst into laughter. âIf I were the New York Times, I would be putting curse words on the front page every day,â he told me. âF-word, F-word, F-word.â
âYour strengths arenât your people,â he told me later, expanding on his theme. âI could find a bank teller in Hong Kong, bring them here, and they could do the job of 10 Americans.â What the US has got, according to Wang, is allies and a reliable currency. (âAnd now youâre threatening to annex Canada?â)
âYou think Trump has thought it through?â he asks. âI donât think so. Trump is really simple. He doesnât think very deeply.â Trumpâs brain, Wang told me, is a âqian dao huâ â a lake with 1,000 islands, none of them connected.
Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the kingâs brother
*Trigger warning. I couldnât finish reading it, but this is book is being released on Tuesday & tRUMPâs Guardians of Pedophiles will feel more pressure from MAGAtLand and beyond to release the EPSTEIN files.
Remember, Elon, Bannon, Thiel and tRUMP are implicated.
Trump Scores Points With MTG by Pardoning Bestie George Santos
The move comes hours after the Georgia congresswoman, a vocal Santos ally who previously asked for his sentence to be commuted, went scorched earth on her own party, telling Axios in an interview that the GOP was not putting America first.
*If mTg goes quiet on EPSTEIN & ACA, we know why.
The language used by the president mirrors wording in a letter Greene sent in August asking for Santosâ sentence to be commuted.
Greene, formerly a reliable Trump ally in Congress, has grown increasingly critical of her own party in recent weeks, finding herself embroiled in a MAGA civil war over the handling of the Epstein files, lashing out at Speaker Mike Johnsonâs âhypocrisyâ and criticizing the Trump administrationâs $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
In her Friday interview with Axios, MTG stressed that she still supported the presidentânoting that heâs done âa great job in a lot of placesââbut that his administrationâs focus on global conflicts has irritated her.
Despite this tension, Greene celebrated the news on Friday, writing on X, âTHANK YOU President Trump for releasing George Santos!! He was unfairly treated and put in solitary confinement, which is torture!!â
I thought Marjorie might have something to do with Santos. She has been preaching his cause in all of these recent media appearances, But making the solid point that he gets solitary while Maxwell gets a cozy sauna.
My Dodgers are going to the World Series. Waiting on the Mariners
If we get a West Coast series, I’ll be wearing Dodger blue and getting berated by the neighbors.
Was Santos Greeneâs payoff to shut up? How did he get a ride-or-die friend like her? Santos would have let her rot without another thought.
Pick-a-nick
today’s meme…
meme #2…
meme #3…
First round of our coverage done, my neighborhood gathering now headed downtown for the main event about Noon. I’ll open up a chat for that coverage later.
The Andrew Formerly known as Prince.
Show the Files
The Epstein Files
The ones they been tryinâ
To hide away.
Ha!
Charles sent his reprobate brother packing. Iâd trade a dictator like Dodo for a king like Charles.
Since the first Charles lost his head on the block, most English kings have bowed to the will of the people. Even ours let us go.
Bernie is wowing the crowd. He’s still got it. He gave us the bill of particulars showing Trump’s assault on Democracy. That was lacking with other speakers.
If Dems were smart, they wouldâve adopted Bernieâs ultra-rich v regular Americans long ago. Dems are so afraid of being called Democratic Socialists; they need to educate folks, not shy away from labels. Mamdani is the way forward.
A little pet-like theory regardiing the Andrew formerly known as Prince. (AFKAP)
While in England Stump gave Charles a âknowingâ wink of some sort as in âI know all about your brotherâyou need to support me in this âEpstein Hoax.â
This crude wink was probably so typically clumsy that The King knew he had to take evasive action.
Also a really strong shot across stumpâs bow.
Whadda chump.
It will be ~interesting~ to see how much coverage the big, three broadcasters give to the protests & their slant on it tonight.
Astute observation, Sturg. I figured it was just the book coming out next week, but it makes perfect sense that the royals are in damage control after a visit from the mob boss.
According to the No Kings website, these are the countries with rallies planned:
Austria
Canada
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Mexico
Panama
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
However, in countries that still have a monarchy, the motto âNo Tyrantsâ or âNo dictatorsâ has been adopted.
The news in other countries may document todayâs events, at home and abroad, better than our media.
When Bernie, or anyone, uses the word oligarch it really doesnât resonate in a dangerous way with most Americans.
Someone referred to Bezosâ new wife as a âgreedbotâ and thatâs what all of the billionaires should be called: Greedbots
Small fact. The King couldn’t take away the “Prince” title since he was born with it as a “prince of the blood” in direct line of succession. What he did was actually worse. Every other title was awarded by the reigning monarch, in his case his mother and he has been stripped of all honor. Losing the “Duke of York” means his wife is no longer the Duchess of York, but his daughters keep their titles of “princess”.
Give CNN credit for ample coverage. They just did the first 15 minutes of their 3pm hour on it, interviewing many articulate participants at multiple sites.
Local governments are warning citizens that because the federal government has been shut down for weeks with no end in sight, November SNAP benefits may not be issued.
The Adams County Government shared on its social media pages that new and ongoing cases will not receive November benefits.
*Happy Thanksgiving?
Here is Bernie’s speech. He put a lot of meat on the bones about why we fear the monster.
A Vermont state lawmaker has resigned over racist and antisemitic chat messages that circulated within the Young Republican political group, another substantial consequence in a scandal that on Friday saw the New York state Young Republicansâ charter revoked.
State senator Samuel Douglass, the only elected official known to have taken part in the leaked group chat exposed by Politico, resigned Friday over his participation.
In a statement posted online, the 26-year-old Douglass said he was âdeeply sorry for the offenseâ caused by his comments. He added that his decision to step down, effective Monday, âwill upset many, and delight others, but in this political climate I must keep my family safeâ.
His statement also said that he and his wife, who have recently welcomed their first child, had received âsome of the most horrific hate one could imagineâ, including threats of violence.
*Prove it.
*And âsome of the most horrific hate one could imagineâ didnât have to be imagined; it was in the group chat.
In one exchange, Douglass replied to a message about a âvery obese Indian womanâ by saying: âShe just didnât bathe often.â In another, Douglass was said to have described how a Jewish person may have made a procedural error. His wife, Brianna Douglass, also on the chat, responded with an antisemitic remark, Politico reported.
Other messages in the chat reflected factional infighting in the Young Republicans that included calling Minnesotan members a slur for gay men and other LGBTQ+ people, Nebraskans âinbred cow fuckersâ and members from Rhode Island âtraitorous cuntsâ. There was a reference to a âfat stinky Jewâ along with comments and jokes about gas chambers, torture and rape, according to Politico.
Major highway in California to shut down as US marines fire live artillery over it
Earlier in the week, California governor Gavin Newsom had decried the plans to fire live rounds over Interstate 5, calling it an âabsurd show of forceâ and âtotally uncalled for â.
On Saturday morning, Newsom was concerned that the stunt could put Californians in harmâs way. âFlying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isnât just wrong â itâs dangerous,â Newsom posted on social media.
This show of force coincides with No Kings rallies and marches being held across the US, including several locations in California, aligning behind a message that the nationâs slide into authoritarian rule under Trump needs to stop.
Newsom cautioned those participating in the rallies: âI urge our nation to use this weekendâs No Kings marches as a declaration of independence against the tyranny and lawlessness currently running this country. Use your voice. ACT PEACEFULLY. Protect yourself and your community. THERE ARE NO KINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.â
In a statement to the New York Times, a spokesperson for Vance, William Martin, said Newsom was misleading the public about the safety risk for the event on Saturday. He said it was routine training.
*Routine training with live missiles over US civilians? FDT & FJD
I rate this second best speech at National Mall today, after Bernie. I watched them all..
This crude wink was probably so typically clumsy
He prolly couldnât stop hisself from making a wisecrack about a tampon. Charles is ready to off his head.
The York title was revered by the late Queen because it was once her fatherâs. She was born Princess Elizabeth of York, just like Andrewâs daughters. The girls have escaped their fatherâs taint.
Charles is not the first King to attaint his brother. The Wars of the Roses was a family feud.
âNo Kings.â Just your neighbors.
Not radicals. Not Antifa. Just people who still think no one in America wears a crown.
âThe Wars of the Roses was a family feud.â
As was WW1.
The Trump crowd seems genuinely confused by our peaceful No Kings Day. Last time they marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, 140 cops got injured.
It is the loss of titles that will certainly hurt him most. Andrew has not formally lost them â removal of his dukedom requires an act of parliament, which neither government nor Buckingham Palace will want, taking up as it would embarrassingly public lengths of time â and he canât shed his princely tag since he indubitably is the son of a monarch.
But he wonât be able to use them publicly or privately and that will be a terrible blow to his sense of entitlement and status. As one of his former dates told Andrew Lownie for his recent book Entitled, he always introduced himself to her friends as the Duke of York, saying: âIt struck me how impressed he was with who he is, or how impressed he wanted others to be. Every joke always ended with: âbecause Iâm the Duke of Yorkâ.
Friday nightâs statement represented the last shred of dignity in that he was allowed to pretend that he was relinquishing the use of his titles and the knighthood of the garter voluntarily, out of a belated sense of duty. He wasnât. After at least 10 years of private wrangling among the family and personal anguish on the part of the king about what to do about the Andrew problem, and with his mother no longer around to protect him and pay his debts, there was no alternative but to cut him loose. Evidently Prince William was prepared to be more ruthless than his father.
He still has the Royal Lodge, where he lives with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, (what does he need a place that big for? Itâs not as if he has that many friends) and apparently spends his days watching golf on the television and taking solitary rides in Windsor Great Park.
What will he do for money? No longer a working royal, he hasnât qualified for public funds for the last six years. There are residual savings from the sale of various properties, he still has a navy pension and presumably there will have to be private subventions from the king. Famously profligate, he and his ex-wife lacked the means to keep up with the Arab and American billionaires with whom they liked to mingle. This must have been one of the reasons he was attracted to Epstein, though the sex â which he still denies â was probably another. What he offered them pathetically in return was status and access to flummery and palaces.
He was an idiot, and worse: a powerful man who brought pain to others: a dark stain tarnishing the family escutcheon and rocking the institution itself.
We carried flags today for patriotism, not for attacking police officers.
The J6ers carried tRUMP flags. Now, they wear masks and kidnap folks, but they are getting paychecks so their identities an be traced.
Christmas is cancelled thanks to the Guardians Of Pedophiles, Tacoâs illegal tariffs, and corporate greed.
No food stamps in November means no Thanksgiving for many, either.
The US bread lines will be long and tRUMP and his enablers will answer for it.
Craig – You get another chance to protest on November 5th, but we need a rolling strike. I feel like the House is on strike, so maybe the people should just stay home, too. Not everyone can, but start using those sick days & that PTO all at once, theyâd notice.
this might be the winning sign of the day
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Attribution: No Kings The Emperor Has no Clothes by Bill Day, FloridaPolitics.com
Attribution: No Kings by Pat Bagley, PoliticalCartoons.com
Attribution: NO KINGS DAY PROTEST by Randall Enos, Easton, CT
For years the media has been lying by omission when they leave out the parts that don’t feed their narrative. But this time it’s gone too far.
how the algorithms handle today’s “no kings” day? probably same visuals on both sides if violence erupts but different narratives.
Need a reason to get involved today? Piss off this guy.
even our Trail friend Sam is out marching today (see :37 seconds in on vid)
This isnât just a music video. Itâs a movement.
A reminder that art can still punch through the noise, that laughter, courage, and unity can rise from the most unexpected places.
nflatables, freedom, and a whole lot of heart. This video uses AI-generated imagery, created with care and direction, not automation. Every scene was crafted to symbolize unity, freedom, and creativity through the eyes of inflatable characters representing everyday people standing up for hope, humor, and humanity.
The landmarks and locations shown are figurative, not literal, symbolic backdrops for a bigger idea: that these messages could belong to any city, any person.
For those curious about âAI slopâ, that phrase refers to low-effort, mass-produced content with no intention or artistry behind it. This project is the opposite of that. Every lyric, every shot, and every detail was planned, refined, and built with storytelling in mind. Itâs human emotion expressed through new tools.
A special thank-you to the real-life inflatables out there, the people who actually suit up, show up, and remind us that art and courage come in every shape imaginable. Youâre the ones truly daring greatly. You are the heroes to so many, including myself.
As Theodore Roosevelt said:
âIt is not the critic who counts⌠The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena⌠who strives valiantly⌠who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.â
Hereâs to daring greatly, and to everyone still creating fearlessly in this strange new world. đ
lyrics to NOKINGS! Anthem:
[Verse 1]
We remember who we are
Built this fire from a spark
Wrote our names across the stars
We the people, thatâs our march
Not a throne, not a chain
Not a crown to stake the claim
Weâve been quiet, weâve been tame
Now the fireâs back in our veins
[Pre-Chorus]
Fill the streets, let the sound ignite
Every heartbeat drumming light
Raise your hands, raise your sight
This is what freedom looks like
[Chorus]
NO KINGS!
No crowns crushing peopleâs dream
Stand tall, stay loud, stay free
We remember what that means
NO KINGS!
No master of our will
We bend, we build, we fill
With courage that canât be killed
[Verse 2]
Inflatables rise, shoulder to shoulder
Heroes of air, hearts getting bolder
Cartoon bright, but the message is older
Power to the people, getting louder, not colder
We donât bow, we donât break
We donât yield to fear or fake
We the ones who elevate
Every voice, every state
[Pre-Chorus]
March the miles, lift the signs
Write the truth between the lines
This ainât rage, itâs redesigned
Loveâs the root of the spine
[Chorus]
NO KINGS!
No crowns crushing peopleâs dream
Stand tall, stay loud, stay free
We remember what that means
NO KINGS!
No thrones, no puppet strings
We the people, living things
And weâll never bow to kings
[Bridge â Chant]
We rise (We rise!)
We the line (We the line!)
We the hands that built this time
Not yours to claim, not yours to sign
We the air, and weâre divine
(Pump it up!) â (Fill it out!) â (RELEASE â THE files! )
[Final Chorus]
NO KINGS!
No crowns crushing peopleâs dream
Stand tall, stay loud, stay free
We remember what that means
NO KINGS!
No masters, no divide
Just a million side by side
And a flag that still believes
[Outro Chant]
No kings! (Hey!)
No kings! (We rise!)
No kings! (We shine!)
We the people â every time.
Happy No Kings!
Folks are protesting in solidarity worldwide, but they wonât show you that on the evening news.
With a phone call, Putin appears to change Trumpâs mind on Ukraine. Again.
It was the latest swing in Trumpâs position on the war that often shifts following contact with Putin, who has shown skill in persuading the U.S. president.
Russian President Vladimir Putin put his relationship with President Donald Trump back on track with a phone call just ahead of Trumpâs crucial Friday meeting with Ukraineâs President Volodymyr Zelensky, that was meant to include discussions of providing Ukraine with powerful new long range weapons.
Up until the Thursday phone call, Trump had seemed ready to boost Ukraineâs arsenal and negotiating position with Tomahawk cruise missiles. But in its wake and after the subsequent meeting with Zelensky, Trump played down all talk of the missiles and instead focused on yet another summit with Putin.
âZelenskyâs tour summed up in one sentence: Putin outmaneuvered everyone again,â posted Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russiaâs sovereign wealth fund, who has been one of the main points of contact with the Trump administration.
It was the latest swing in Trumpâs back and forth positions on the Russia-Ukraine war that often change following contact with Putin, who has shown a great deal of skill in persuading the U.S. president to his view of the conflict.
So far, Russia has succeeded in deterring Trump from imposing further sanctions â or sending more powerful weapons to Ukraine â by continually dangling hopes of a peace deal, while it ramps up attacks.
âHopefully weâll be able to get the war over with without thinking about Tomahawks. I think weâre fairly close to that,â Trump said to journalists as he began his meeting with Zelensky. âWe donât want to be giving away things that we need to protect our country.â
Instead of new support for Ukraine or sanctions on Russia, Trump announced a new summit with Putin â a bonus for the Russian leader â âto see if we can bring this âingloriousâ War, between Russia and Ukraine, to an end.â There was no talk of Russia curtailing its ongoing bombardment of Ukraineâs energy infrastructure ahead of winter.
In a similar fashion, after the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska in August, Trump abandoned pressure on Russia to agree to a ceasefire and Moscow intensified its attacks even as Putin ignored U.S. urgings to meet Zelensky.
Trump shrugged off concerns Friday that Putin was again trying to buy more time. He was concerned about it, âbut you know, Iâve been played all my life by the best of them, and I came out really well,â he said, adding it was âall rightâ if it took a little time. âBut I think that Iâm pretty good at this stuff.â
More at link
The revolution was also well branded â âNo Kingsâ is todayâs anthem.
2 minutes of defiance, then straight to the streets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/politics/trump-prosecutor-fired-letitia-james.html
A federal prosecutor who resisted President Trumpâs demands to bring charges against Letitia James, the New York state attorney general, was fired along with her deputy on Friday evening, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The dismissal of the prosecutor, Elizabeth Yusi, was the latest fallout from attempts by career Justice Department officials to pump the brakes on Mr. Trumpâs wide-ranging efforts to seek retribution against his perceived political opponents.
Ms. Yusi, who oversaw major criminal cases in the Norfolk office of the U.S. attorneyâs office for the Eastern District of Virginia, had pushed back against Mr. Trumpâs public calls for Ms. James to be indicted, telling colleagues that she had not found probable cause to file charges, the people familiar with the matter said. It was not immediately clear why her deputy, Kristin G. Bird, had also been fired.
I know Zelensky is just playing the game, but didnât like that he had to congratulate Adolf on the ceasefire that wasnât a ceasefire.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/14/wang-jian-china-journalist-reports-united-states-donald-trump-xi-jinping
âAmericans are democracyâs equivalent of second-generation wealthâ: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump
âWhen Trump holds a cabinet meeting, he sits there and the people next to him start to flatter him. And I think, isnât this the same as Mao Zedong? Trump sells the same thing: a little bit of populism, plus a little bit of small-town shrewdness, plus a little bit of âI have money.ââ
He places the US on an arc of history we have long pretended to transcend. âAmericans are democracyâs equivalent of second-generation wealth,â he told me. They were born into democracy and have no appreciation of what life is like without it. Chinese people, on the other hand, âhave been bullied by rulers for thousands of years. Weâre very familiar with these situations.â
There are many American reporters, Wang said, who report competently on China. But when I asked how the US media was doing covering the US, he burst into laughter. âIf I were the New York Times, I would be putting curse words on the front page every day,â he told me. âF-word, F-word, F-word.â
âYour strengths arenât your people,â he told me later, expanding on his theme. âI could find a bank teller in Hong Kong, bring them here, and they could do the job of 10 Americans.â What the US has got, according to Wang, is allies and a reliable currency. (âAnd now youâre threatening to annex Canada?â)
âYou think Trump has thought it through?â he asks. âI donât think so. Trump is really simple. He doesnât think very deeply.â Trumpâs brain, Wang told me, is a âqian dao huâ â a lake with 1,000 islands, none of them connected.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/prince-andrew-virginia-giuffre-abuse-epstein-maxwell
Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the kingâs brother
*Trigger warning. I couldnât finish reading it, but this is book is being released on Tuesday & tRUMPâs Guardians of Pedophiles will feel more pressure from MAGAtLand and beyond to release the EPSTEIN files.
Remember, Elon, Bannon, Thiel and tRUMP are implicated.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-scores-major-points-with-marjorie-taylor-greene-by-pardoning-george-santos/
Trump Scores Points With MTG by Pardoning Bestie George Santos
The move comes hours after the Georgia congresswoman, a vocal Santos ally who previously asked for his sentence to be commuted, went scorched earth on her own party, telling Axios in an interview that the GOP was not putting America first.
*If mTg goes quiet on EPSTEIN & ACA, we know why.
The language used by the president mirrors wording in a letter Greene sent in August asking for Santosâ sentence to be commuted.
Greene, formerly a reliable Trump ally in Congress, has grown increasingly critical of her own party in recent weeks, finding herself embroiled in a MAGA civil war over the handling of the Epstein files, lashing out at Speaker Mike Johnsonâs âhypocrisyâ and criticizing the Trump administrationâs $40 billion bailout for Argentina.
In her Friday interview with Axios, MTG stressed that she still supported the presidentânoting that heâs done âa great job in a lot of placesââbut that his administrationâs focus on global conflicts has irritated her.
Despite this tension, Greene celebrated the news on Friday, writing on X, âTHANK YOU President Trump for releasing George Santos!! He was unfairly treated and put in solitary confinement, which is torture!!â
I thought Marjorie might have something to do with Santos. She has been preaching his cause in all of these recent media appearances, But making the solid point that he gets solitary while Maxwell gets a cozy sauna.
Smerconish poll today is interesting:
https://www.smerconish.com/daily-poll/?utm_source=aweber&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=voteherebuttonfullsize
My Dodgers are going to the World Series. Waiting on the Mariners
If we get a West Coast series, I’ll be wearing Dodger blue and getting berated by the neighbors.
Was Santos Greeneâs payoff to shut up? How did he get a ride-or-die friend like her? Santos would have let her rot without another thought.
Pick-a-nick
today’s meme…
meme #2…
meme #3…
First round of our coverage done, my neighborhood gathering now headed downtown for the main event about Noon. I’ll open up a chat for that coverage later.
The Andrew Formerly known as Prince.
Show the Files
The Epstein Files
The ones they been tryinâ
To hide away.
Ha!
Charles sent his reprobate brother packing. Iâd trade a dictator like Dodo for a king like Charles.
Since the first Charles lost his head on the block, most English kings have bowed to the will of the people. Even ours let us go.
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/pete-hegseth-tie-zelensky-meeting-36089498
Pete Hegseth’s Russian flag tie at Trump-Zelensky summit causes stir
The necktie Hegseth selected displayed white, blue, and red hues, with stripes positioned in identical sequence to those on Russia’s national banner.
Live from the NO KINGS Rally â the people are literally carrying the Constitution down 14th Street. đşđ¸
There ainât no kings in the USA.
Whatâs Next? Nov 5 in DC:
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Chatroom open again, watching the National Mall speakers, No Kings
https://streamyard.com/jp2mwysyxk
Bernie is wowing the crowd. He’s still got it. He gave us the bill of particulars showing Trump’s assault on Democracy. That was lacking with other speakers.
If Dems were smart, they wouldâve adopted Bernieâs ultra-rich v regular Americans long ago. Dems are so afraid of being called Democratic Socialists; they need to educate folks, not shy away from labels. Mamdani is the way forward.
A little pet-like theory regardiing the Andrew formerly known as Prince. (AFKAP)
While in England Stump gave Charles a âknowingâ wink of some sort as in âI know all about your brotherâyou need to support me in this âEpstein Hoax.â
This crude wink was probably so typically clumsy that The King knew he had to take evasive action.
Also a really strong shot across stumpâs bow.
Whadda chump.
It will be ~interesting~ to see how much coverage the big, three broadcasters give to the protests & their slant on it tonight.
Astute observation, Sturg. I figured it was just the book coming out next week, but it makes perfect sense that the royals are in damage control after a visit from the mob boss.
https://en.as.com/latest_news/no-kings-protests-all-over-the-world-list-of-countries-standing-in-solidarity-with-the-us-on-oct-18-f202510-n/
According to the No Kings website, these are the countries with rallies planned:
Austria
Canada
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Mexico
Panama
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
However, in countries that still have a monarchy, the motto âNo Tyrantsâ or âNo dictatorsâ has been adopted.
The news in other countries may document todayâs events, at home and abroad, better than our media.
When Bernie, or anyone, uses the word oligarch it really doesnât resonate in a dangerous way with most Americans.
Someone referred to Bezosâ new wife as a âgreedbotâ and thatâs what all of the billionaires should be called: Greedbots
Small fact. The King couldn’t take away the “Prince” title since he was born with it as a “prince of the blood” in direct line of succession. What he did was actually worse. Every other title was awarded by the reigning monarch, in his case his mother and he has been stripped of all honor. Losing the “Duke of York” means his wife is no longer the Duchess of York, but his daughters keep their titles of “princess”.
Give CNN credit for ample coverage. They just did the first 15 minutes of their 3pm hour on it, interviewing many articulate participants at multiple sites.
https://kdvr.com/news/local/no-snap-benefits-to-be-issued-in-november-as-government-shutdown-stretches-on/
Local governments are warning citizens that because the federal government has been shut down for weeks with no end in sight, November SNAP benefits may not be issued.
The Adams County Government shared on its social media pages that new and ongoing cases will not receive November benefits.
*Happy Thanksgiving?
Here is Bernie’s speech. He put a lot of meat on the bones about why we fear the monster.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/18/vermont-republican-resigns-racist-antisemitic-chat
A Vermont state lawmaker has resigned over racist and antisemitic chat messages that circulated within the Young Republican political group, another substantial consequence in a scandal that on Friday saw the New York state Young Republicansâ charter revoked.
State senator Samuel Douglass, the only elected official known to have taken part in the leaked group chat exposed by Politico, resigned Friday over his participation.
In a statement posted online, the 26-year-old Douglass said he was âdeeply sorry for the offenseâ caused by his comments. He added that his decision to step down, effective Monday, âwill upset many, and delight others, but in this political climate I must keep my family safeâ.
His statement also said that he and his wife, who have recently welcomed their first child, had received âsome of the most horrific hate one could imagineâ, including threats of violence.
*Prove it.
*And âsome of the most horrific hate one could imagineâ didnât have to be imagined; it was in the group chat.
In one exchange, Douglass replied to a message about a âvery obese Indian womanâ by saying: âShe just didnât bathe often.â In another, Douglass was said to have described how a Jewish person may have made a procedural error. His wife, Brianna Douglass, also on the chat, responded with an antisemitic remark, Politico reported.
Other messages in the chat reflected factional infighting in the Young Republicans that included calling Minnesotan members a slur for gay men and other LGBTQ+ people, Nebraskans âinbred cow fuckersâ and members from Rhode Island âtraitorous cuntsâ. There was a reference to a âfat stinky Jewâ along with comments and jokes about gas chambers, torture and rape, according to Politico.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/18/california-highway-closure-military-celebration
Major highway in California to shut down as US marines fire live artillery over it
Earlier in the week, California governor Gavin Newsom had decried the plans to fire live rounds over Interstate 5, calling it an âabsurd show of forceâ and âtotally uncalled for â.
On Saturday morning, Newsom was concerned that the stunt could put Californians in harmâs way. âFlying live rounds over a busy highway without coordination between state, federal, and local partners isnât just wrong â itâs dangerous,â Newsom posted on social media.
This show of force coincides with No Kings rallies and marches being held across the US, including several locations in California, aligning behind a message that the nationâs slide into authoritarian rule under Trump needs to stop.
Newsom cautioned those participating in the rallies: âI urge our nation to use this weekendâs No Kings marches as a declaration of independence against the tyranny and lawlessness currently running this country. Use your voice. ACT PEACEFULLY. Protect yourself and your community. THERE ARE NO KINGS IN THE UNITED STATES.â
In a statement to the New York Times, a spokesperson for Vance, William Martin, said Newsom was misleading the public about the safety risk for the event on Saturday. He said it was routine training.
*Routine training with live missiles over US civilians? FDT & FJD
I rate this second best speech at National Mall today, after Bernie. I watched them all..
He prolly couldnât stop hisself from making a wisecrack about a tampon. Charles is ready to off his head.
The York title was revered by the late Queen because it was once her fatherâs. She was born Princess Elizabeth of York, just like Andrewâs daughters. The girls have escaped their fatherâs taint.
Charles is not the first King to attaint his brother. The Wars of the Roses was a family feud.
âNo Kings.â Just your neighbors.
Not radicals. Not Antifa. Just people who still think no one in America wears a crown.
âThe Wars of the Roses was a family feud.â
As was WW1.
The Trump crowd seems genuinely confused by our peaceful No Kings Day. Last time they marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, 140 cops got injured.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/18/shorn-of-title-status-and-dignity-its-the-new-prince-andrew-a-life-he-was-born-to-replaced-by-a-life-he-will-hate
It is the loss of titles that will certainly hurt him most. Andrew has not formally lost them â removal of his dukedom requires an act of parliament, which neither government nor Buckingham Palace will want, taking up as it would embarrassingly public lengths of time â and he canât shed his princely tag since he indubitably is the son of a monarch.
But he wonât be able to use them publicly or privately and that will be a terrible blow to his sense of entitlement and status. As one of his former dates told Andrew Lownie for his recent book Entitled, he always introduced himself to her friends as the Duke of York, saying: âIt struck me how impressed he was with who he is, or how impressed he wanted others to be. Every joke always ended with: âbecause Iâm the Duke of Yorkâ.
Friday nightâs statement represented the last shred of dignity in that he was allowed to pretend that he was relinquishing the use of his titles and the knighthood of the garter voluntarily, out of a belated sense of duty. He wasnât. After at least 10 years of private wrangling among the family and personal anguish on the part of the king about what to do about the Andrew problem, and with his mother no longer around to protect him and pay his debts, there was no alternative but to cut him loose. Evidently Prince William was prepared to be more ruthless than his father.
He still has the Royal Lodge, where he lives with his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, (what does he need a place that big for? Itâs not as if he has that many friends) and apparently spends his days watching golf on the television and taking solitary rides in Windsor Great Park.
What will he do for money? No longer a working royal, he hasnât qualified for public funds for the last six years. There are residual savings from the sale of various properties, he still has a navy pension and presumably there will have to be private subventions from the king. Famously profligate, he and his ex-wife lacked the means to keep up with the Arab and American billionaires with whom they liked to mingle. This must have been one of the reasons he was attracted to Epstein, though the sex â which he still denies â was probably another. What he offered them pathetically in return was status and access to flummery and palaces.
He was an idiot, and worse: a powerful man who brought pain to others: a dark stain tarnishing the family escutcheon and rocking the institution itself.
We carried flags today for patriotism, not for attacking police officers.
The J6ers carried tRUMP flags. Now, they wear masks and kidnap folks, but they are getting paychecks so their identities an be traced.
Christmas is cancelled thanks to the Guardians Of Pedophiles, Tacoâs illegal tariffs, and corporate greed.
No food stamps in November means no Thanksgiving for many, either.
The US bread lines will be long and tRUMP and his enablers will answer for it.
Craig – You get another chance to protest on November 5th, but we need a rolling strike. I feel like the House is on strike, so maybe the people should just stay home, too. Not everyone can, but start using those sick days & that PTO all at once, theyâd notice.
this might be the winning sign of the day
NEW THREAD by our Trail friend Jack