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Kasparov’s warning: All signs indicate Trump will not give up power voluntarily
MSNBC· 2025-10-19 18:26
Joining me now is Gary Kasparov. He's a Russian chess grandmaster. He's a political activist. He's a writer.Kasparov is the founder and chairman of the Renew Democracy Initiative, a nonpartisan and nonprofit group dedicated to preserving democracy in the United States and around the world. He's a contributing editor at the Wall Street Journal. Uh Gary, welcome to the show.You know, all of what I speak, everything I'm warning of people about, you have lived through in Russia. You know what the the banners wi ...
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado speaks out against Maduro regime
NBC News· 2025-10-19 16:32
I spoke with Venezuela's main opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, who just received a Nobel Peace Prize about those military operations and Venezuela's future. What is your reaction to the Trump administration's policy of striking vessels reportedly leaving Venezuela instead of intercepting them. Well, I am not going to get involved into an operation and a decision of the president of the United States uh to defend their their own national security.What I we have said and we have demanded for years is ...
Illinois Gov. Pritzker calls for courage at Chicago 'No Kings' rally
NBC News· 2025-10-18 23:15
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. And tyranny depends on good people doing nothing.It requires us to accept the unacceptable, to rationalize the irrational, to normalize the abnormal. But tyranny also fails when ordinary people refuse to cooperate. when they say no kings and they mean it.>> So, Donald Trump, stay the hell out of Chicago. ...
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Mike Benz· 2025-10-18 21:17
Clean Fucking Sweep. Anytime an NPC tries to pipe up with “no kings” just say “Clean Fucking Sweep.”Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber):They lost the House, the Senate, the Presidency, the Electoral College and the popular vote. They never got a king — they got the exact democracy they ordered. ...
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Mike Benz· 2025-10-18 21:14
They lost the House, the Senate, the Presidency, the Electoral College and the popular vote. They never got a king — they got the exact democracy they ordered. ...
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Mike Benz· 2025-10-18 21:00
his home country literally has a king but he’s over here in America where we democratically voted for our head of state in a landslide election doing these CIA psychobabble talking points about a monarch system of government we don’t even remotely have https://t.co/vcoyE8qufB ...
‘They want violence’: Fmr. GOP Rep. blasts Republicans calling ‘No Kings’ protests ‘hate rallies’
MSNBC· 2025-10-18 15:18
As Hunter Dunn, one of our next guests, points out, Trump quote, wants to stifle speech. The best way to prevent your speech from being stifled is having so many people exercising their First Amendment rights together that he can't possibly arrest all of them. And that's how you weaken him.Joining us now is Hunter Dunn, national press coordinator for the 5051 movement, which is part of the No Kings Day Coalition. Hunter is helping organize the downtown Los Angeles demonstration today. Also joining us, forme ...
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mert | helius.dev· 2025-10-18 00:51
RT mert | helius.dev (@0xMert_)vitalik makes the [great] case that democracy could not function without privacyI'd go further and say that markets can not function without privacymarkets, like democracies, need secret ballots — private intent, public outcomeas an example, consider the idea of copytradingif one person with size (or authority) makes a trade to express their view of the market, others copy the trade (with varying size)so the market ends up representing not the aggregated view of individuals bu ...
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mert | helius.dev· 2025-10-17 18:18
vitalik makes the [great] case that democracy could not function without privacyI'd go further and say that markets can not function without privacymarkets, like democracies, need secret ballots — private intent, public outcomeas an example, consider the idea of copytradingif one person with size (or authority) makes a trade to express their view of the market, others copy the trade (with varying size)so the market ends up representing not the aggregated view of individuals but the authority of fewer source ...
Trump's actions are 'most serious challenge' to democracy since Civil War: Dem Sen.
MSNBC· 2025-10-16 21:40
Joining us now, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Um, Senator, thank you so much for joining us. Uh, first, let me ask you what um, Senator Thun was talking about there.He says he's in implying that there was a standalone bill that the Democrats could consider on expanding those Medicaid expansions, extending them out. Um, did that happen. Why did it not happen.Well, I don't know anything about what Senator Dun is talking about. I I've heard some uh rumors that he may be willing to have a vote ...