Rand Barthel

Trump must really be desperate if he thinks he needs to shore up the pedophile/rapist vote by backing Ramaswamy on this ghastly ad. Hasn't he done enough to earn their support already?

I just pulled the trigger and deleted my facebook profile due to Meta shutting down the NoKings Instagram profile on the day of NoKings 4. Zuck has told us which side he's on. He can shove his techno-fascism up where the sun don't shine.

Just in case, I suppose I'd better disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. Also ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah. Also the KKK, the American Nazi Party, Oathkeepers, Proud Boys, and TPUSA. Maybe publish a disavowal list and keep it up to date.

Repost if you've voted

I have started the process of extricating myself from Facebook. This kind of behavior is the last straw for me.

El-Sayed gives a master class in dissecting prejudice.

It could be that Meta's shutoff of NoKings' Instagram account was the most important outcome of today's protest.

I was driving home from church just now and briefly found myself following a car with a bumper sticker that said "Stop hatred, support Trump". I thought what on earth could this person be thinking of.

That has been true for a long time now.

I subscribed to the Inquirer for a while to get Will Bunch. I ultimately couldn't justify a whole newspaper subscription just for him, but he's great. Nobody better for calling out naked emperors.

Maybe it's a good thing he's using up all our ammo on Iran and he won't have any left for Canada.

The megalomania gets worse every week.

Je me souviens.

We are better off with open borders than with ICE thugs roaming the streets.

The next Administration should treat the Trump DOJ and DHS as crime scenes.

@massgovernor.bsky.social @masseea.bsky.social @massdot.bsky.social Put this cool option in our state's energy toolbox! www.reuters.com/business/ene...

@massgovernor.bsky.social @masseea.bsky.social @senatormikebarrett.bsky.social @jamieeldridgema.bsky.social @cindycreem.bsky.social Looks like we can build massive offshore wind after all. So we shld be able to heat Mass residents' homes with heat pumps & solar. arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Being listed among the donors to the Trump ballroom or the Arc de Trump is as shameful as being listed in the Epstein files.

The stupid just keeps letting stupider.

John Roberts cements his legacy as the Roger Taney of the 21st Century.

@indivisible.org Banner (3x5) for pre-event advertising and Saturday's action in Massachusetts. #NoKings

@jeff-roy.bsky.social Massachusetts doesn't need more gas pipelines. Say NO to Amendment #37. @acadiacenter.bsky.social says no pipelines. drive.google.com/file/d/1Mo-r...

@jeff-roy.bsky.social @acadiacenter.bsky.social says: The legislation states that mid-term modification to the Mass Save budget shall focus on mktg, advertising & admin budgets. However, there simply isn't anywhere near $1B going to those areas. It wld essentially mean shutting it down.

@jeff-roy.bsky.social More @acadiacenter.bsky.social: Without the energy efficiency programs in place, the Commonwealth’s electric demand would be around 27.7% higher, resulting in billions of additional costs for supply and infrastructure. Mass Save saves $! acadiacenter.org/acadia-cente...

@jeff-roy.bsky.social @acadiacenter.bsky.social: While they don’t clearly show up as savings on customer bills, Mass Save energy efficiency investmts have prevented customers from having to pay many billions of dollars in more expensive fuel & infrastructure costs. acadiacenter.org/acadia-cente...

@jeff-roy.bsky.social @acadiacenter.bsky.social: This $1 billion reduction [to Mass Save] would therefore mean deep cuts to energy efficiency incentives & slashed customer access, effectively shutting down many parts of the program. Do you want that on your watch? acadiacenter.org/acadia-cente...

@jeff-roy.bsky.social @acadiacenter.bsky.social: Mass Save has a resoundingly positive return on investment for the Commonwealth, earning $2.91 in benefits for the economy for every $1 in program budget spent. Mass Save saves! It wld be WORSE w/o it! acadiacenter.org/acadia-cente...

I think I may start ending each social media post with "We are better off with the immigrants." Kind of like Roman senator Cato ended every speech with "Carthage must be destroyed." Another option, which I used to do years ago, is Voltaire's "Ecrasez l'infame".

Truth to tell, we've been the bad guys before. But now we have placed a man in power who has no trace of goodness in him, and he has surrounded himself with people like him. They have invited us into their moral cave, and about a third of us have accepted the invitation.

Weiss' quashing of this report proves that she is unfit to lead a news organization. Nothing produced by CBS News during her tenure should be believed.

We know they're lying. They know we know they're lying. We know they know we know they're lying. " - Solzhenitsyn

The next step is to make sure Trump and his creatures actually release all of the Epstein files. They will surely release a carefully chosen subset of the least incriminating, and then falsely claim that they have handed everything over. Just like Trump did with the Mar-a-Lago files.

It is not too early for Stephen Miller to start exploring the real estate market in Argentina.

I think Congressional Dems should use the months of enforced idleness to conduct a People's House of Representatives on the Capitol steps. They should invite any Republicans who have reached their limit with their party's BS to join them. Hold hearings, pass legislation.

My wife and I just canceled our Amazon Prime membership. We try to vote with our money in favor of the kind of future we want, and what we want is fewer oligarchs, less late-stage capitalism, and less power of the few over the many.

The most poignant sign I saw today.

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

I counted 261 No Kings democracy defenders at the One Traffic Light in the Little Town of Mendon, MA this morning!

“Have you ever notice how you can drive by the same trees or signs until you stop noticing them, until one disappears?”

If every person who reads & SHARES this post were to SIGN UP & ATTEND an Oct 18 #NoKings2 Day event, we'd have our numbers for serious action! Don't just post on social media, SHOW UP AND BE COUNTED Oct 18! We need the resistance numbers for future action! Register nokings.org @indivisible.org

This fits right in with the new theory that Epstein and Maxwell were running a kompromat shop: luring wealthy people into compromising positions, then selling the evidence to third parties interested in blackmailing those wealthy people. Epstein and Maxwell were getting paid at both ends.