"No Kings Day has begun this morning in London, as one poster noted a crowd of about 400 people protested outside of the United States embassy in London. Protests are expected in Ireland as well."

~ Aaron Parnas

#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights #England #Ireland
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-no-kings-day-protests-begin

"And number five, politically. Because by being at a protest, you're cooperating with others, taking a step towards more cooperation, towards finding a way out to something better." Then he adds, "It's fun and makes you feel better."

#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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No Kings protesters in France from Carolyn Cohagan.

#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights #France
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https://www.threads.com/@carolyncohagan/post/DP83IiViHay

No Kings in Times Square, New York City from Ana Navarro-Cárdenas.

#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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https://www.threads.com/@ananavarrofl/post/DP9MTV8kR95

Live coverage of No Kings demonstrations by Joy Reid.

#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCWVu1RyB9U

"No Kings Day has begun this morning in London, as one poster noted a crowd of about 400 people protested outside of the United States embassy in London. Protests are expected in Ireland as well."

~ Aaron Parnas

#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights #England #Ireland
/5

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-no-kings-day-protests-begin

Steve Beschloss from the No Kings protest in New York City.

#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/no-kings-in-nyc

"And number five, politically. Because by being at a protest, you're cooperating with others, taking a step towards more cooperation, towards finding a way out to something better." Then he adds, "It's fun and makes you feel better."

#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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Timothy Snyder on why we protest:

"Why do we protest? Number one, constitutionally. It's our right. Number two, morally. We have the right to show what we think is right. Number three, socially. By showing up, we show those around us that we don't think this is normal. Number four, practically. Nonviolent resistance, nonviolent opposition works to hold off the worst."

#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/why-we-protest

From the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial in Washington, DC.

#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights

From the Franklin Delano Roosevelt memorial in Washington, DC.

#NoKings #FreeSpeech #ReligiousFreedom #FreedomofAssembly #HumanRights

"... the U.S. Supreme Court in 2021 ... found that Minnesota courts overstepped. It said the burden was on the government to prove that the mulch basins wouldn’t work, not on the Amish to show they would. And it sent the case back to the Minnesota courts for reconsideration. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that if 'the government can achieve its interests in a manner that does not burden religion, it must do so'."

#MargeyBeck, #SteveKarnowski, 2023

https://apnews.com/article/amish-septic-tanks-court-minnesota-ad2fdc9d51a12a3292e6c9a740f57f6e

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#ReligiousFreedom

How #Maine churches are reckoning with fear of #ImmigrationRaids

by Sean Scott, August 24, 2025

Excerpt: "Selma, an asylum seeker from Angola, moved to Texas at the start of the pandemic and then to Maine in January 2022. She fears persecution if she returns because of a family member’s involvement in a #HumanRights group.

" 'As a Christian, I was praying, and then God just gave me direction, which was Maine,' she said.

"She joined a nondenominational Christian church in Portland right away, and she and her two children have been regular attendees ever since. After President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, her 12-year-old daughter asked if it was still safe to go to school.

"As immigration enforcement efforts have increased dramatically this year, many migrants have also reckoned with whether it’s safe to go to places of worship, whether they’re congregants or faith leaders like one Westbrook pastor detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month.

"In one of his first acts in office, Trump rescinded a policy that essentially barred #ICEAgents from making arrests at sensitive locations like #churches, #hospitals and #schools. A coalition sued the Department of Homeland Security over the policy in February, arguing it violated #ReligiousFreedom. A judge declined to block the policy, citing a lack of evidence that churches were 'singled out as special targets' for immigration enforcement.

"Faith leaders are preparing for the possibility of enforcement regardless, and several other lawsuits have been filed on similar grounds, including one in late July with a New England plaintiff.

"#MichelTshimankinda, a Westbrook man who founded a church in South Portland, has been in ICE detention in New Hampshire since Aug. 14, according to the Portland Press Herald. He wasn’t arrested on church property, but his detention has shaken his family and congregation."

Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maine-churches-reckoning-fear-immigration-100000727.html

#ICESucks#ICEKidnapping#MaineNews#DHS#Gestapo#FascismInTheUSA#Racism#Fascism#Authoritarianism#TrumpIsARacist

How #Maine churches are reckoning with fear of #ImmigrationRaids

by Sean Scott, August 24, 2025

Excerpt: "Selma, an asylum seeker from Angola, moved to Texas at the start of the pandemic and then to Maine in January 2022. She fears persecution if she returns because of a family member’s involvement in a #HumanRights group.

" 'As a Christian, I was praying, and then God just gave me direction, which was Maine,' she said.

"She joined a nondenominational Christian church in Portland right away, and she and her two children have been regular attendees ever since. After President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, her 12-year-old daughter asked if it was still safe to go to school.

"As immigration enforcement efforts have increased dramatically this year, many migrants have also reckoned with whether it’s safe to go to places of worship, whether they’re congregants or faith leaders like one Westbrook pastor detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this month.

"In one of his first acts in office, Trump rescinded a policy that essentially barred #ICEAgents from making arrests at sensitive locations like #churches, #hospitals and #schools. A coalition sued the Department of Homeland Security over the policy in February, arguing it violated #ReligiousFreedom. A judge declined to block the policy, citing a lack of evidence that churches were 'singled out as special targets' for immigration enforcement.

"Faith leaders are preparing for the possibility of enforcement regardless, and several other lawsuits have been filed on similar grounds, including one in late July with a New England plaintiff.

"#MichelTshimankinda, a Westbrook man who founded a church in South Portland, has been in ICE detention in New Hampshire since Aug. 14, according to the Portland Press Herald. He wasn’t arrested on church property, but his detention has shaken his family and congregation."

Read more:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maine-churches-reckoning-fear-immigration-100000727.html

#ICESucks#ICEKidnapping#MaineNews#DHS#Gestapo#FascismInTheUSA#Racism#Fascism#Authoritarianism#TrumpIsARacist

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and the many authoritarian (and, let's face it, racist even when they pretended to be otherwise) Catholics outside the South who were enraged when the federal government recognized reproductive rights for women.

From that history to where we are now with Trump and MAGA is a straight line. These folks have been and are the driving force of the Republican party for years now.

#Obergefell#SameSexMarriage#SupremeCourt#ReligiousFreedom#KimDavis#CivilRights
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This was the genesis of the Religious Right, with Catholic activists then seizing the opportunity to build on the rage of white segregationist Christians in the South by introducing the issue of abortion, about which evangelicals had never cared, to cement an alliance between white Southern evangelicals (continued in /7)

#Obergefell#SameSexMarriage#SupremeCourt#ReligiousFreedom#KimDavis#CivilRights
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This cabal has shown great sympathy with the argument that "Christians" are being "oppressed" when minority groups receive rights that "Christians" do not want to accept.

Though many of us want to forget this or haven't chosen to learn it in the first place, this all began with huge white evangelical hostility to civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s recognizing basic rights of African Americans.

#Obergefell#SameSexMarriage#SupremeCourt#ReligiousFreedom#KimDavis#CivilRights
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This is the core of the argument that Republicans want to drive to the Supreme Court, because they know that if the case makes it to the Supreme docket, the right-wing cabal controlling the court will likely side with them.

That cabal is made up entirely of right-wing Catholics (except Gorsuch, raised Catholic but now Episcopalian), many affiliated with the secretive theocratic Catholic cult Opus Dei.

#Obergefell#SameSexMarriage#SupremeCourt#ReligiousFreedom#KimDavis
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and the many authoritarian (and, let's face it, racist even when they pretended to be otherwise) Catholics outside the South who were enraged when the federal government recognized reproductive rights for women.

From that history to where we are now with Trump and MAGA is a straight line. These folks have been and are the driving force of the Republican party for years now.

#Obergefell#SameSexMarriage#SupremeCourt#ReligiousFreedom#KimDavis#CivilRights
/7

This was the genesis of the Religious Right, with Catholic activists then seizing the opportunity to build on the rage of white segregationist Christians in the South by introducing the issue of abortion, about which evangelicals had never cared, to cement an alliance between white Southern evangelicals (continued in /7)

#Obergefell#SameSexMarriage#SupremeCourt#ReligiousFreedom#KimDavis#CivilRights
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