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I was at the Rochester women’s march today. I’d estimate about 2500 people were there, and unlike how the press is describing things in DC (which I’m skeptical of), there was lots of diversity.

Here’s some pictures:

My sister was at the march at Seneca Falls (about 30 minutes away), which was two or three times larger.

Update. Total nationwide estimates are around 2.5 million, which is five times the size of Teahadist turnout from 2009 that establishment media jerked off to endlessly.

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  1. 1.

    Trentrunner

    Every city reporting so far is reporting more than 2x expected turnout.

    Think Progress quoted a rough turnout estimate of at least 2.5M worldwide.

    And now Trump is at the CIA to smooth shit over.

  2. 2.

    Judy Louis

    Trenton NJ march had about 8-9000. They were expecting 600. Rally had all sorts of both women and men.

  5. 5.

    Raoul

    Quite a bit of diversity at the Philly march & rally. And I though very good turnout, considering that I’m assuming quite a few folk from here traveled to D.C. today as well.

    “In Philadelphia, the number of march attendees was more than double the expected size, according to a spokeswoman for Mayor Kenney.” (via Philly.com)

  7. 7.

    Dmbeaster

    I am surprised by the lack of reaction to his horrid speech. In true Trump fashion, he basically recanted on all our commitments to allies, and said we are going alone. Imagine the reaction worldwide as our allies realize the US cannot be trusted as to honor any past commitment. Despair from our friends and glee from or enemies

  10. 10.

    sloan

    Checking in from Seattle: driving to work there were huge lines above ground all the way down to the platform for the Link. Crazy.

    It sounds like twice the expected turnout here too. Wife just told me the march is 3 miles long.

    Oh, and Milo from Breitbart was here causing shit last night. Someone got shot. So yeah, it’s gonna be a long 4 years.

    http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/violence-punctuates-uw-talk-by-breitbart-editor-milo-yiannopoulos

  11. 11.

    Raoul

    Part of my pleasure today is knowing that Trump is burning with shame over being massively bested by the crowds today. 10X as many people for a march in Denver alone, as the grand inaugural eve concert. Times so many cities and towns across the country (and world).

    Hahahahahah

  12. 12.

    Teddy's Person

    The C-SPAN coverage of the DC March was terrific, but they’ve just opened it up to callers so I’m out.

  14. 14.

    Raoul

    Also saw messaging that the Chicago march couldn’t march, because the entire route was basically filled to capacity. Not sure it’s true, but if it checks out … wow!

    And now an update via Katy Tur of NBC. She says he basically giving his stump speech at the CIA.

    I’ll add: He is indeed burning with rage that he’s been bested today. This is a pathetic attempt to grab back the news cycle. Hahahahah

  15. 15.

    SFAW

    According to the SFAW-ette, the rally/march in The Hub of the Universe was 120,000, second only to DC.

  16. 16.

    raven

    Well, I didn’t get to go with my bride and her posse to Atlanta so I’ll go down to the Athens “Sister March”. It’s been a while since I donned the old jungle fatigues for anything but fishing but this is a good time!

  17. 17.

    SFAW

    And in case no one else has said it yet: all those numbers for the marches by the LOSERS! are RIGGED! Pathetic!

    They only WISH they had as many people as the Greatest Inauguration Evah!, which had somewhere between 300 and 400 Million!!!

  18. 18.

    lollipopguild

    @Dmbeaster: Trump will have to get used to being ignored. Millions in this country and around the world will ignore him on a regular basis.

  19. 19.

    Hoodie

    Watching Trump at the CIA. Debating the size of the crowd at his inauguration. Going on and on about “dishonest media,” completely inappropriate given where he was speaking. Sounds like the crowd was planted. Putting all other things aside, the guy is a fucking nut. Wonder when people are going to start realizing that they’ve put a grandiose, unstable personality in charge of the national security apparatus. God help us.

  20. 20.

    lamh36

    Ugh…Micheal Moore spoke at one of the marches…

    ‏@JKH2
    Some of you men don’t need to be speaking today. Especially the ones who spent all year attacking Hillary. Y’all fools can choke.

  21. 21.

    Shell

    Some of the cable pundits trying to take the air out a bit with “But is this a true movement or just venting What is it t hat they want ?” Trying to link it with their attitude toward the old Occupy Wallstreet movement.
    And unbelievably, one conservative woman goes into Clinton default mode. Because liberal women weren’t and still aren’t horribly outraged over Bill C’s old philanderings , we should dismiss anything they say now. Cause hypocrisy, I guess, and stuff….

  22. 22.

    Mike in NC

    Wife’s friends emailing back and forth about the massive rallies. Several will be attending an anti-Trump party tonight. Then the Apricot Asshole will return from pissing on CIA employees to lie about the pathetic turnout for his coronation yesterday (about a quarter of what Obama drew in much colder weather both times).

  23. 23.

    Bruuuuce

    Not able to march in NYC today, but proud to have seen my 19-year-old son go. Cops estimate 75K, which probably means a more realistic number somewhere over 100K. Terrific turnouts all over my FB feed via friends attending (including especially in Indianapolis, Oakland, and Boston). Even thirty or so folks in Antarctica!

  24. 24.

    Hal

    A friend had a link to the Chicago March, and when I clicked on it, the comments were a men’s rights/anti-abortion shit fest. I love it! Trumpsters are so angry at how fucking unpopular their orange president is to the majority. Hell, even people who voted from him don’t like him.

  26. 26.

    Tenzil Kem

    Record breaking crowd at the rally in Concord NH today. Over 5,000, and an afternoon of activism workshops afterward.

  29. 29.

    MomSense

    I love seeing the pu_syhats! Never piss off knitters. We play with dangerously sharp sticks and we are taking names.

    We had three or four marches in Maine today. The one I went to had about 300 but I think the Portland and Augusta marches were much bigger.

  30. 30.

    SFAW

    @efgoldman:

    No idea where my daughter got the 120K figure.

    And anyway, it’s still smaller than yesterday’s Requiem for America. Pathetic.

  34. 34.

    James Powell

    @Shell:

    And unbelievably, one conservative woman goes into Clinton default mode. Because liberal women weren’t and still aren’t horribly outraged over Bill C’s old philanderings , we should dismiss anything they say now.

    I’d be totally dismissive of that but for the fact that it is one of the most common things I hear from not-that-political women who are explaining why they hate Hillary. I don’t get it, but I’ve heard so often that i have to believe there is something to it.

  35. 35.

    mike in dc

    Any number of domestic protesters up to, oh, around 2.9 million or so, doesn’t count. /sarc

  36. 36.

    Hal

    @Bruuuuce:

    Also, too, best speech of the day: Ashley Judd, in Washington, Maybe she should run for office; she’s an ass-kicking speaker.

    Wasn’t the Turtle worried she would run for Kentucky senator the last time he was up for reelection?

  37. 37.

    Elizabelle

    @Teddy’s Person: You’d be surprised that the C-Span callers are about 85% positive.

    It’s what sounds like a few elderly women who are decrying the disrespect shown Trump. I think one added that she didn’t vote for him either.

  39. 39.

    SFAW

    @mike in dc:

    Any number of domestic protesters up to, oh, around 2.9 million or so, doesn’t count

    As far as the MSM is concerned, it’s Billion, not Million.

  40. 40.

    glory b

    @Teddy’s Person: I’m still listening, many times more supporters calling than detractors.

    As I said below, congrats to cspan for the coverage. They didn’t switch to the prayer service or the CIA speech by Trump, and they played “Formation” after the speakers were finished.

  41. 41.

    misterpuff

    Has anybody (let alone Presidents) ever been obsessed with size and being bestest as much as Drumfster? How bigly is that inferiority complex under his bed?

    And to lie (about piffles) to the people who are supposed to ferret out the truth about other countries is ironic and weird.

    Welcome to the Trump bubble (no reality allowed).

  43. 43.

    Bruuuuce

    @Hal: I don’t specifically remember, but if she decides to run, he would be better off retiring with such grace and dignity as an asshole can manage. She would whup him otherwise.

  44. 44.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    FYWP that’s two posts gone to the bit bucket.

    *muttermutter*

  48. 48.

    Elizabelle

    Did we see Hillary’s excess popular vote (2.9 million plus) out marching? Very pleased with the larger than expected turnout.

    We can do it again. We need more hats, though.

    C-Span: here’s another tired old female person complaining. She did not like the foul language.

  50. 50.

    Mary G

    I put the link in John’s moving thread, but I am reposting my March photos here. I was bummed because the people I was originally going with flaked out, then I tried to go by myself, but my scooter’s battery had not charged, but finally I made it. My housemate Karla gave up her one day of sleeping in from working 12 hours a day Mon-Fri, and took me in the manual wheelchair. There were at least a couple of hundred people there, which shocked me. I still remember when the John Birch Society ran this town.

  51. 51.

    Jeffro

    @Raoul:

    an update via Katy Tur of NBC. She says [Trump] is basically giving his stump speech at the CIA.

    That’s excellent – keep it up, Donald! What could possibly go wrong, lecturing the CIA at their own HQ?

  53. 53.

    SFAW

    @Bruuuuce:

    I don’t specifically remember, but if she decides to run, he would be better off retiring with such grace and dignity as an asshole can manage. She would whup him otherwise

    Nobody in this place ever learns, do they?

  55. 55.

    Elizabelle

    RE C-Span: I’m loving people calling in on the Republican lines saying good things about the women’s march.

  58. 58.

    Juice Box

    On the train home now. San Diego was fun, but it seemed like everybody bailed out quickly after the march and headed for the nearby restaurant district. No social justice workshops.

  61. 61.

    mike in dc

    @Hal:

    Both Ashley Judd and George Clooney are Kentuckians. Clooney has flirted with running for office before as well.

  64. 64.

    Gelfling 545

    I’d guess about the same numbers for the Buffalo march. Also an extremely diverse crowd whether you judge by age, ethnicity or (apparent) economic status.

  66. 66.

    Suzanne

    Just got home from Phoenix. AZ DPS estimated 20K people, but I think more. The Capitol was as packed as I’d ever seen it. My mom has a hurt foot and both Spawns were spent, so we were only there for about 2.5 hours, but we did our thing.

  67. 67.

    Elizabelle

    LOL. One slow-witted sounding Southern white male calling in, about “Obamacare.”

    Host: What did you think about the march?

    Guest: long pause: …………………………….. “It was ….. all right.”

    Says some more words, but they did not track and C-Span went on to the next caller.

  68. 68.

    SFBayAreaGal

    @Doug! Love the title. Brings to mind a good old Dobbie Brothers song.

    You don’t know me but I’m your brother
    I was raised here in this living Hell
    You don’t know my kind in your world
    Fairly soon, the time will tell
    You, telling me the things you’re gonna do for me
    I ain’t blind and I don’t like what I think I see
    Takin’ it to the streets
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    Take this message to my brother
    You will find him everywhere
    Wherever people live together
    Tied in poverty’s despair
    You, telling me the things you’re gonna do for me
    I ain’t blind and I don’t like what I think I see
    Takin’ it to the streets
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  69. 69.

    glory b

    @mike in dc: Both of them should!

    also, baker Duff Goldman is suggesting that Trump’s inauguration cake was plagarized from one he baked for Obama! Saw this on Slate.com (can’t link.).

  72. 72.

    Timurid

    @Trentrunner:

    I imagine his version of ‘smoothing things out’ was holding up a briefcase full of pink slips and saying, “Don’t make me open this, motherfuckers…”

  73. 73.

    Bruuuuce

    @SFAW: I’m sorry, I do not understand. Are you suggesting that I am wrong in my assessment, or does “this place” refer to the country, or the state, or the Senate, and target The Turtle?

  74. 74.

    Bruuuuce

    @glory b: The NY Daily News has the story about the cake

    The company who made Trump’s cake, Buttercream Bakeshop, admitted to TMZ that they were asked to copy Goldman’s original design.

    “While we most love creating original designs, when we are asked to replicate someone else’s work we are thrilled when it is a masterpiece like this one,” someone from the shop told the gossip site.

  77. 77.

    glory b

    @Jeffro: She’s right he’s giving the stump speech again.

    He called Pompeo’s background check “political.” Hesays we ehould trust him, he’s a smart person and had an uncle who was a professor (I guess that’s proof).

    I expect we’ll be able to recite it by heart by the time he leaves office.

    I read somewhere th

  79. 79.

    DaddyJ

    Just got home from the Chicago march. Lots of happy protesting people, tons of great signs, lots of milling around in front of the Art Institute and on Congress circle toward the fountain. Supposedly there were speakers but we never heard them or saw a stage. There was very little crowd direction from the organizers and very little police presence; but my first march of this size so maybe lack of direction is par for the course? I got the sense the organizers and the city were overwhelmed by the size of the crowd. The initial plan was to march from Columbus to Federal Plaza but people started getting the message via Facebook that plan was called off. No way that crowd could have fit in the plaza. People marched anyway west and north in the Loop, and the cops blocked off certain streets but let folks go down others. No counter-demonstators, no wreckers, cops assured us they were there to protect us.

  83. 83.

    princess (now general) Leia

    14,000 strong – just in Santa Ana – Orange County- CA- three times the expected turnout.

  84. 84.

    DaddyJ

    Should add that the crowd size reported by the Chicago organizers (at least late in the march) was 250,000!

  85. 85.

    hovercraft

    @SFAW:
    Yes they loved it, and so many of them turned out to cheer him on that he tweeted out pictures of Obama’s crowd. He has such Obama envy it’s killing him. Saw this at TPM, totally cracked me up. If it’s any consolation he’s miserable.
    Trump’s Baker Says She Was Commissioned To Copy Obama Cake
    According to an interview with the Washington Post, MacIssac got a call from a client asking the bakery to recreate the 2013 inauguration cake. She told them that she would prefer to use it as inspiration, but she told the Post that the client insisted on replicating it.

    I thought he had the biggest and the best ideas, why does he keep having to fall back on Obama, the clueless one, who’s in way over his head? Projection.

  88. 88.

    SFAW

    @Shalimar:

    We have had experts here tell us, in no particular order, that Rick Scott was dead meat, Hillary was going to destroy whomever she ran against, that there was no way Paul LePage would win re-election, that McConnell was in big trouble (against Grimes), that Brownback and Roberts were going to get beaten handily, and so on and on.

    Ashley Judd was asked to run against the Turtle the last time he ran. I expect/suspect that she thought they were going to do her what the MSM, Rethugs, and Comey did to Hillary, and decided it wasn’t worth it. I could certainly be worng about that, and maybe she’ll decide that this time she’ll run, and if she does, I’ll contribute what I can.

    Optimism is one thing; pronouncements like “She would whup him otherwise” have not fared too well over the last N years.

  90. 90.

    NoraLenderbee

    Big turnout in San Jose.
    People seemed to have good energy. I, however, continue to be overwhelmed with feeling of futility and hopelessness.
    Someone was carrying a “Hillary” sign from the campaign. I burst into tears when I saw it.

  91. 91.

    laura

    @Mary G: I has happy to see your pics downstairs Mary. Your friends were a let down and your housemate is a hero. You rocked that hat too!

  92. 92.

    Florida Frog

    Shockingly big crowd in tiny, conservative Fernandina Beach (Amelia Island). Over 2,000 happy marchers. The city population is only about 12,000 so that is a great turnout considering our size. Lifelong residents said they had never seen a rally anywhere near that size. We were only heckled once by a tourist.

  93. 93.

    Bruuuuce

    @SFAW: Yeah, it’s a terrible thing to run Democrats who can really speak well and get the crowd psyched up. I mean, look at what happened the last time we did that for President…

  95. 95.

    SectionH

    @Mary G: Yay! Good for you, and good for your housemate too. Thanks for the pix. Way to go San Clemente! @ThomboyD on Twitter was at the San Marcos march and reported 5000+ people there – wow.

  96. 96.

    ChrisB

    @Judy Louis: Even the march in Westfield NJ, which is out in the suburbs, must have had over 1,000 and perhaps close to 2,000 people (my very rough estimate).

  98. 98.

    Feebog

    Holy catfish Batman, latest reports from L.A. now estimating as many as 750,000. Mrs. Bog just got home from the march, does not think it was that many, but watching the feeds from several local news channels, it was certainly several 100K..

  99. 99.

    sempronia

    @NoraLenderbee:
    Hey, were you in San Jose too? I could only make it in time for the afternoon rally. SJPD estimated 25K by 11 am, and I heard 60K in Oakland. The SF rally is starting at 3 (there was an annual pro-life rally scheduled for the morning) – must be packed up there!

  100. 100.

    NoraLenderbee

    @sempronia: Hey! We were there for the march but left afterward. I couldn’t even guess the crowd, because we were in narrow streets and you couldn’t see very far. Did the weather stay OK for the rally?

  101. 101.

    JoeC

    Hey Doug, I was at the Rochester one too ! Too bad I didn’t see you there (except I don’t know what you look like :-) )

  102. 102.

    Lige

    Several 1000 here in South Bend our mayor, and dark horse DNC head candidate, Pete Buttigieg gave a nice speech and marched. Nice to see that you’re not alone.

  103. 103.

    Momofsam

    Back from Boston. Beautiful, pleaceful and massive crowd. They planned for 50k but ended up with over 100! That meant that it took us about an hour and some seriously tight queuing before we hit the street. But it was worth it. Restored some of my faith in humanity. And being Boston the crowds broke into let’s go science! More than once.

  104. 104.

    SFAW

    @Bruuuuce:

    Reading comprehension is apparently a lost art.

    As I wrote, fairly clearly, the “whup” Yertle comment is, shall we say, a tad premature. I will be ecstatic if I am proved wrong about that, but recent history is not on your side.

    I have, more than once, been chastised for being a pessimistic asshole. Unfortunately, that pessimism has been borne out far too often. I’d be much happier to have been wrong.

    Of course, others would be a lot happier if I weren’t an asshole, but so it goes.

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