Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Republicans in disarray!

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

… among the most cringeworthy communications in the history of the alphabet!

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

I was promised a recession.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

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We may have to turn America upside down to turn it right-side up

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That’s a quote from John Lewis.

Here are some tweets from around the country. How are things where you are?

 

Update: Send photos to me at Cheryl (at) nucleardiner (dot) com and I’ll do another post tonight or tomorrow morning, depending on how they roll in.

 

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  2. 2.

    JanieM

    From the Kennebec Journal

    In Augusta [Maine], Saturday’s event drew an estimated 500 people who carried signs and chanted, lining both sides of State Street in front of the Maine Statehouse.

    I have pics from Augusta. What’s the process for submitting them?

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    Dorothy Winsor

    The crowd in Cedar Falls, IA today was smaller than the one after the Muslim ban. Somewhere between 100 to 150 people maybe. But it was brutally hot, which I think kept people home. Passing cars honked their support, and drivers yelled things like “thank you for being out there.” There were no counter protesters.

  5. 5.

    Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ

    I sent photos via the form from the Phoenix rally today. I haven’t seen any estimates on crowd size but we got there at 7:30 and left around 10:30 and people were still arriving.

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    Dev Null

    About 200 at the rally the Spousal Unit and I attended, one of 3 or 4 w/i 10 miles of home. I chalk it up as “a good turnout”… larger than the Save ObamaCare rally a year ago in the same town. Lots of honking-if-you-love-immigrants by passing cars, only two vocal hecklers.

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    A Ghost To Most

    “We may have to turn America upside down to turn it right-side up”

    – John Lewis

    “Be careful what you wish for”

    – Murphy

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    Elizabelle

    Cheryl, may I send my photos to you? Richmond VA event was a couple hundred, but inspired and great signs.

  9. 9.

    Duane

    We could start with all the measures taken after 9/11 to keep us “safe.” Looking square at you ICE.

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    Cheryl Rofer

    Send photos to me via the contact form at the top of the page and I’ll do another post tonight or tomorrow morning, depending on how they roll in. I’ll also update the top post to note this.

  12. 12.

    Westyny

    There were 150-200 at peak in Rhinebeck, NY. Lots of cheers and complimentary sign brandishing from passing cars. No confrontations.

  14. 14.

    JanieM

    Edited to ask: I’ve never submitted pictures. The front-pager contact form doesn’t seem to have an “attach pictures” feature. What am I missing?

    I can attach pics somewhere, or I can upload them to Flickr and get embed links, which is what I just tried to do, an experiment that failed. Probably a feature only available to the cool kids…. ;-)

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    MobiusKlein

    San Francisco March was very well attended, but too many speakers made the rally part dwindle.

    30 k people?

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    HumboldtBlue

    I don’t see a way I can attach files by using the quick link email thing-a–ma-bob. Am I that dense?

    Just saw Cheryl’s resopnse

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    Belafon

    @A Ghost To Most: We’re way beyond thinking things will just be back to normal just because we get rid of Trump. It’s going to take more than an election or two.

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    A Librarian

    Longtime lurker, just chiming in to say that the number 30,000 was tossed around at the Brooklyn Bridge march / rally earlier. One of the NYC regulars might be able to give a better accounting, though.

    Of course, while we were out there, this came up at Vox, not to mention a few other sources. That’s not what we meant by family reunification, dammit!

  30. 30.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Just back from the Madison rally. Hydrating. It was blazing hot. I am no good at estimating crowd size but it was a pretty good turn out. We had a couple of Congress-critters talk and a couple of Dreamer-types. Mark Pocan flat out called Trump a narcissist among other things.

  31. 31.

    LAO

    @HumboldtBlue: thanks!

    Cheryl also emailed me. Thanks Cheryl. This blog is a well oiled machine today. (Well, not really but the humans are responsive)

  32. 32.

    Mnemosyne

    Post-march lunch with Ruckus, VFX Lurker, and VFX’s friend in Little Tokyo. The March kind of started before all of the speakers were done, so Team Gimpy, Grumpy & Slow went as far as we could before stopping for sustenance.

  33. 33.

    Yarrow

    From the CNN feed, this is awesome:

    MacKenzie Banks, 19, of Lubbock, Texas, had a question for the administration: “If these children lived in my uterus, would y’all start caring.”

    Click through for photo.

  37. 37.

    A Ghost To Most

    @Belafon: And that is if/when the fascists are defeated. Likely, but not a given.

    We live in “interesting times”.

  38. 38.

    Elizabelle

    @Cheryl Rofer: I appreciate that the protestor’s sign is readable; she wrote clearly enough and largely enough. Well done with the legal cite.

    Thinking right now of the Capital Gazette writers/staff who would have loved to go out and cover whatever protesting Annapolis is having this afternoon. And you know they are doing something …

  39. 39.

    Yarrow

    I did not go to the march in my area today because I had a previous commitment during the march time. I did go to a volunteer kickoff event for the congressional candidate I’ll be volunteering for this election. I wrote some postcards and then had to head out for another event. Busy day today.

    The volunteer event was packed. People of all ages. I met a 17 year old who was super excited to be involved and she’ll turn 18 in time to be able to vote in November. Go young people! I also met two older white women (65+) who had volunteered during the primary and said they had tons of fun. They were happily telling the young woman how great volunteering is. One of the women said she was a “Bush Republican” (whatever that is) but there is no way she was going to vote for a Republican now. She doesn’t recognize the Republican party. I said it was like a cult at this point and she agreed. Found that exchange very interesting. We need people like her if we’re going to flip red-to-blue districts.

  40. 40.

    Mike in DC

    @Belafon:
    We have to win, rough estimate, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024, 2026 (hold congress), and 2028 (3rd term of Dems), bare minimum. Maximum, maybe hold the presidency 20 years and Congress for 22. Long enough for elites in the GOP, and the rank and file, to discard the white nationalism card.

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    Gelfling 545

    @Gelfling 545: Buffalo News now says maybe up to 2500.
    And the edit function isn’t loading or I’d have added it to my ofiginal comment.

  44. 44.

    B.B.A.

    Relatively small turnout at Trump Tower this afternoon. Apparently there was a much larger march across the Brooklyn Bridge this morning, but I wanted to bring the message to the fucktard’s door.

    95 degrees and humid isn’t protest weather. I need a shower.

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    Dev Null

    wrt to 200 attendees at my local small-town (~100K population) rally, pretty sure that’s more people than attended Трамп’s inauguration.

    And hey, 1.5 cops, no arrests.

    Ya gotta wonder what DC was up to in January 2016.

  46. 46.

    BC in Illinois

    St Louis had a rally in the sun. News reports say a thousand people. The final speech was by Mark Osmack, my candidate for the congressional seat now held by Ann Wagner (R – safe Republican vote). Here’s what he had to say:

    This nation does not have an immigration problem.
    This nation has an institutional problem.
    This nation does not have an immigration problem.
    This nation has a presidential problem.
    . . .
    We can make a difference by remembering that we are ALL immigrants–all of us. We can make a difference by voting. We can make a difference by remembering that this nation, this state, this city of St Louis, is bigger, better, and more beautiful with immigration

    I saw someone’s remark that it was remarkable to hear speeches in favor of immigration and of immigrants.

    BC in Illinois (now in Missouri)
    Grandson of immigrants from (a German-speaking part of) Hungary

  52. 52.

    Yarrow

    @Dev Null: Interesting article. Thanks for linking it. I’d missed that news. Kind of can’t believe that organization still exists.

  53. 53.

    Kelly

    I’m guessing at least 500 at Salem, Oregon Based on counting the main crowd at 50 people deep. People were
    scattered around in the shade the trees. Very positive group. Good local speakers including a very solid candidate for Marion County Commissioner. Two US born teenage children of undocumented parents. County Commision has been wholly owned by Republicans for a very long time. My only interaction with the couple dozen police was to ask a State Trooper where I could find a public restroom. He very politely directed me to a public park a couple blocks away.
    A Trumpista engaged with me as I walked back to my car. Obama did the same thing, Trump has to It’s the Law, Well language is vague and Trump’s is a valid interpretation. etc,etc Lies or evil were most of my replies. Even tho he was full of bunkum he was polite.

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    opiejeanne

    @Yarrow: I think her calling herself a Bush Republican, I’d ask which one but probably W, means she just hasn’t paid a lot of attention until now and probably voted Republican reflexively because her parents did. She’s awake now, though and I hope many others are as well. I just found out that my sister didn’t vote for Trump. I was afraid she had but her daughter told me a few days ago that she did not vote for Trump. I’m flabbergasted but so relieved even though she probably didn’t vote for Hillary, but she’s in California so she didn’t affect the EC.

  57. 57.

    opiejeanne

    @B.B.A.: Watching the Orioles game on tv and the Angels have been changing pitchers like mad because of the heat/humidity. Pitchers who were doing fine and had relatively low pitch counts are being yanked and they may use 8 pitchers by the time this ends.

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    TheFlipPsyD

    Long time lurker. Went to the West Chester PA demonstration with the family. Our first protest but I have a feeling it won’t be the last. My 9 year old son got quoted in the local paper. So proud of him. The local newspaper said about 600 people attended.

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    Gretchen

    I went to the Kansas City rally. It was 95 degrees and humid, and we had to leave early because my friend was overcome by the heat. The first speaker was a minister who had been asked by a parishioner to come to the hospital while she gave birth. He said this nation is about to give birth – it’s painful and you have to push. From my memory of giving birth, sometimes you push a long time and nothing seems to be happening, but the baby finally squirts out. That made me feel a little better. A lot of people are pushing, and it feels like nothing is happening, but maybe it is. My district has 7 Democrats running in the primary to challenge our congressman. In the past I don’t think we always got one.

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    Yarrow

    @opiejeanne: I tend to agree. I didn’t want to ask what “Bush Republican” was at a happy gathering of volunteers for a Dem candidate so I didn’t.

  64. 64.

    opiejeanne

    @Yarrow: Wise, I think. If we can let them come to us and not yell at them about what took them so long, they’ll turn up and vote with us because these are people in the habit of voting every single time and they are mad now.

    It’s really hard not to yell at them, though.

  65. 65.

    Lyrebird

    Dear Commentariat,

    Thank you for doing what you’re doing!

    Just logging in my small action, threw some coppers in at the ActBlue omnibus donation page.

  66. 66.

    satby

    South Bend had a good turn out of a couple hundred in spite of the best and humidity. I don’t have pictures because I left my phone at the market for my assistant to use for charge purchases, but it was a good showing. Chicago had a huge march and rally, so proud of my hometown too!

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    Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ

    @Suzanne:. When we got there it was 82 and by the time we left it was 92. If they post my pics here you will see my miserable sweaty face. Lol.

    It was a good rally and I hope all the other ones were just as positive and uplifting.

  69. 69.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    About a thousand at the one in Tacoma, we had one cowardly heckler, yelling “They Broke The Law” of course the Ball-less Freeper yelled while we were all were cheering, and was only heard by a few of us around, no one cared and he walked away, probably bragging at (Not So)Free Republic writing how he “Bravely took on a bunch of Libtard Commies”)

  70. 70.

    Yarrow

    @opiejeanne: Yes, I’m certainly not going to yell at people about what took them so long when they’re spending their Saturday volunteering for a Dem candidate! They’re here now. Let’s go with that.

  71. 71.

    Mary G

    I pretty much screwed up our marching. First I had a horrible coughing fit, which made me have to change clothes even though I had just gone to the bathroom, so we left late. I also left my phone and camera on my desk, but I was sure I remembered where to go. I was wrong, so my co-pilot had to navigate us there, missing the last turn. I turned left into a closed-off area where a cop car was sitting, freaking the teens out. I said I would use my ditsy old lady voice and gave my best quavering “Good afternoon, officer, did I miss the turn for the protest?”

    In my younger days, I would have seen a nice young man, but now I see an Aryan youth on steroids. He wasn’t very nice, either, but told me that yes, I had missed the turn and there would be no parking, since lots and lots more people had shown up than expected. I thanked him nicely and said at least we could wave our signs out the window in support, which we did. There were mobs of white people wearing white, with their dogs, coming in from far-flung parking lots, even though the rally had started a half hour earlier. We got lots of cheers and waves back, so I’m happy.

    ETA: changed time

  72. 72.

    The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion

    The spousal unit & I joined the small protest here in Cape Girardeau. I was stunned that there were enough people in Cape to create a protest, given the deeply conservative nature of the area. I was even more shocked by the love and support we got from passers-by, and at the diversity of the people supporting us. There was a voter registration booth, and I signed up to register others and to phone bank.

  74. 74.

    Dev Null

    @Cheryl Rofer: At circa 3pm EDT those articles had not been posted.

    Or I am senile, which (as The Spousal Unit will tell you) is not to be ruled out.

    That said, I checked twice to be sure that I wasn’t posting misinformation.

    But perhaps I’m senile. (I report, you decide.)

    PS: incidentally, the Spousal Unit also reported relevant articles at the Vichy Times … a few minutes ago.

  77. 77.

    chopper

    decent turnout at the seattle one. don’t have
    much by way of pics as i had kiddos to keep an eye on.

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    Lizzy L

    I went to a demonstration at the West County Detention Center in Richmond CA. It’s only a few miles from where I live. Noisy, but peaceful. Great mix of people: young, old, brown, black, white, lots of signs. About 750 – 1000 people over two hours. There were larger demonstrations in Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco.

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