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The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.

Hell yes, Pittsburgh. Love Yinz. No Kings.

Here's what was actually happening in Los Angeles an hour before the downtown No Kings march, if you want to support Indigenous activists instead of supporting lying bluesky accounts.

No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

100 years old. First protest. No kings.

Saw two No Kings protestors in their 90s today plus this centenarian!

A young boy holds a sign that simply states in plain handwriting: Trump hit on my girlfriend

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

It’s so funny that for the past week republicans have all been like “the only people out there are gonna be Hamas.” Everyone in this crowd is signed up for Kohl’s rewards points.

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

anyway

Amazing how all the serious and professional organizers I follow are overjoyed and energized by today, and the armchair edgy revolution types are demanding to know what if even accomplished to mobilize 7 million people and produce hours of morale-boosting footage of NORMIES saying "fuck you, man"

Visiting my son in College Station, so I didn't expect much. But in the heart of conservatism, people showed up. #NoKings #collegestation

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

This is Idaho 💙

I wasn’t exaggerating it rules so hard

the crowd sizes are obviously the highlight here but the fact that *this* is the public statement of the NYPD does not bode well for the regime. or, put another way:

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Area filled up even more by the time the speakers started. The crowd covered the entire farmer's market, so about 200ft by 200ft. Some areas dense, some loose, so I guess super-rough-guess maybe 4,000-6,000 people (6-10sq ft per person, ish?).

That'd be around 2.5-4% of the county.

Yes, part of the implication of No Kings, especially repeating it, is to communicate both to wavering elites and to MAGA that the will and numbers exist to color revolution the administration if elections are subverted or cancelled.

Game devs, always remember two things:

1) If you need a publisher, you'll know. Don't let a silver tongue convince you otherwise.

2) If you do have a publisher, they work for you. You don't work for them.

If they think this is bad wait until the tribunals for crimes against humanity.

If my job led me to being one of the three armed police officers that it took to hold down an inflatable penis protesting fascism, I’d start questioning my life choices.

Nobody is coming to save us.

But I look at us. We are enough.

Honestly this may be one of my favourite movie endings of all time 😁👌🏾

Perfect wrap-up and set-up for the next film. The way the music builds up to his reveal. The ensemble cast equally stunned he's back. The line delivery. The callback with the apple and Jack's cheeky lil smile 🥹💖🏴‍☠️

Note that Vance is also a giant coward, so he puts this on bluesky to do some juvenile trolling that is also a betrayal of his oath but doesn't dare put it on Twitter, where it might make some of his supporters do the 'are we the baddies' routine.

The fuse may be long, but it burns hot.

Do you know what a group of frogs is called?

AN ARMY

Flavor Flav holding a King Swiftie Shirt

No King but King Swiftie