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  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    Suzanne, what was the last word on the sign that says “Please add the Constitution to the…”?

  6. 6.

    Spanky

    Ooooh! I like the CLAWS one. And held by a gray haired white guy who’s not me

    Eta I see I’m not alone.

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    geg6

    PA!  Between Philly, the ‘Burgh and all the little towns like mine that showed up, I’m proud that we still remember where the Declaration was signed and act accordingly.

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    Eural Joiner

    Just saw a clip of the “parade” in D.C. as the troops are marching along to…”Fortunate Son” ?!?!?

    Next up: “Born in the USA” – ha ha, just kidding, but maybe!

  14. 14.

    different-church-lady

    Right now Dumbfuck Hitler’s big military spectacle is fourth on the landing pages of both the NYTs and the WaPo. Sad.

  16. 16.

    Suzanne

    @geg6: There were multiple protests in the Burgh! I was Downtown (marched from City-County Building to the Federal Courthouse), but there was also a gathering at Freedom Corner (Hill District), Shadyside, multiple burbs, and then lots of small towns. I wonder how many people there were out today, all told.

    The weather held out!

  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    @Eural Joiner: I know!

    Some folks are born made to wave the flag
    Hoo, they’re red, white and blue
    And when the band plays “Hail to the chief”
    Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord

    It ain’t me, it ain’t me
    I ain’t no senator’s son, son
    It ain’t me, it ain’t me
    I ain’t no fortunate one, no

    Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
    Lord, don’t they help themselves, Lord?
    But when the taxman come to the door
    Lord, the house lookin’ like a rummage sale, yeah

    It ain’t me, it ain’t me
    I ain’t no millionaire’s son, no, no
    It ain’t me, it ain’t me
    I ain’t no fortunate one, no

    Yeah-yeah, some folks inherit star-spangled eyes
    Hoo, they send you down to war, Lord
    And when you ask ’em, “How much should we give?”
    Hoo, they only answer, “More, more, more, more”

    It ain’t me, it ain’t me
    I ain’t no military son, son, Lord
    It ain’t me, it ain’t me
    I ain’t no fortunate one, one

    It ain’t me, it ain’t me
    I ain’t no fortunate one, no, no, no
    It ain’t me, it ain’t me
    I ain’t no fortunate son, no, no, no
    It ain’t me, it ain’t me…

  19. 19.

    Suzanne

    CLAWS was the best sign of the day, hands down.

    ETA: The person holding that sign was wearing a Bauhaus T-shirt and I felt very much among my people.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    @Eural Joiner:

    “Fortunate Son” represents what you might call a great, big grumble from below—a perfect anthem for the ever-growing share of Americans in the late 1960s who were coming to see the war in Vietnam as a terrible mistake. Creedence Clearwater Revival, even more than other antiwar musicians of the era, were able to give voice especially to the class-based grievances let loose by the Vietnam War.

    “Fortunate Son” was an anti-Vietnam War protest song, sure. But it was also a Springsteenesque working-class anthem—just one that happened to be written well before Bruce Springsteen himself broke onto the scene.

    And “Fortunate Son” was every bit as poignant a protest song as anything written by Bob Dylan—only this song, unlike most of Dylan’s stuff, is a tune you can rock out and dance to.

    Even decades after its release, “Fortunate Son” remains a song that makes you want to pump your fist. This is punk rock before punk rock was even invented as a musical genre. (Now that’s pretty punk rock.)

    Like Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.,” Creedence’s “Fortunate Son” has often been misheard as a simple, un-ironic, patriotic anthem.

    Just as many fans hear Springsteen’s spar-spangled chorus and totally miss the bitterness of the words in “Born in the U.S.A.,” here many tune out after the opening lines:

    Link

    They are STUPID and EVIL.

  22. 22.

    Spanky

    Top story on the DC Fox news website:

    Man drives into crowd of protesters at ‘No Kings’ rally in Virginia

    With a picture of the most punchable pale punk you can imagine.

    So Shithead isn’t even capturing his favorite news org. Sad!

  23. 23.

    geg6

    @Suzanne:

    There were at least several hundred here in Beaver when I left (looked larger than the Hands Off one, which was about 600) anticipating rain.  By the time I got to my car, the skies opened up and it poured like hell.  So I went to Aldi.  :-)

  25. 25.

    Hob

    San Francisco march was good… & big, I’m never any good at estimating, but to my eye it seemed like the biggest demonstration I’ve seen here since 2003, and the numbers in the press have ranged from 30,000 to 50,000.

    There was a hit-and-run about half a block from the route, early on – initial report made it sound like an attack that hit multiple people, but the latest is that 1 person was hit and it may have been an accident. No other trouble as far as I know. I encountered only one guy who was against us, and he was a rando on the bus who just kind of half-heartedly complained that “there’s nothing to protest about!” and “this is just because of Trump’s parade – I bet you hate the troops.”

  33. 33.

    Jay

    ‪Alt National Park Service‬
    ‪@altnps.bsky.social‬
    · 1h
    We’re closing in on the 3.5% rule! 8.6 million and counting! We’re in awe. Lots of events still happening make sure to be counted. Big towns, small towns you showed up.

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    Martin

    LAPD once again demonstrating their belief that an unfired rubber bullet or tear-gas canister is an affront to god.

    Have no idea how they would estimate this crowd size – as usual for LA protests it’s really spread out. My sense most of this week is that protesters were mostly focused on wasting the cops time – being enough of a nuisance that they couldn’t go home and creating situations where 200 cops are there to protect city hall from like 15 people.

    The LAPD giving the Prop 65 warning in English and Spanish for teargas side-effects before firing in volume is like peak California. We’re willing to shoot you in the head, but be aware there’s a 1% chance this will cause neurological disorders in your unborn child.

  37. 37.

    Mike in Pasadena

    Pasadena CA protest had 4 to 5 thousand attendees. Most with excellent signs, lots of US flags, no flags of Mexico or Venezuela but many signs supported migrants, covered an area of about six blocks. One blowhorn that lasted only a short time trying to organize chants without much result. I was astonished at the idiots in sandals and flip flops, toddlers and the infirm, and most people unaware of the dangers of big crowds. A panic caused by gunshot or screams from a car murder can turn a happy crowd into a murderous stampede. Lots of police attended by land and by air (choppers). Correction: saw a Mexican flag flown from a car window.

  38. 38.

    CliosFanboy

    Our house is right under today’s flight path. Pretty noisy for awhile with helicopters and such

  39. 39.

    Steve LaBonne

    @Martin: They’re admirers of Mayor Daley. “The police aren’t here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder”.

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    Sister Golden Bear

    @prostratedragon: Speaking of band directors, my junior high school band director would’ve stroked out if we marched in the sorry-ass way the troops did together.

    Plus they didn’t even do basic shit like organizing the ranks by height so that soldiers in each rank were a consistent size. Pretty clear none of them gave a fuck about being there.

  43. 43.

    JanieM

    The Boston area was my home for ten years and the home base of my work for 30+ years after that. I haven’t been back since covid followed quickly after my retirement, but a friend sent me this and it sure made me wish I had been there today.

  48. 48.

    espierce

    @WaterGirl:

    John Fogerty was a disillusioned Vietnam war veteran so he had the inside track when he wrote that song.

    Great anti-war song from 1969!

  49. 49.

    Martin

    @Steve LaBonne: Pretty much. If you look at still images or clips, they look very dramatic. But if you watch a livestream, you realize that 2 seconds is very carefully cherry-picked from an hour of people just standing around waving flags, sometimes singing, and you can’t avoid the folks walking by just going to work, the media folks casually discussing their favorite camera lenses and so on. The sense of danger and urgency really doesn’t exist in the manner that the still image or clip would suggest. It’s very dissonant in the sense that in this 100 square meter area there’s something dramatic happening, and outside of that folks are so nonplussed by the whole thing that they often don’t even bother looking up to see what’s happening.

    At my university when the cops rolled into to arrest all the students at the end of the Gaza protests, I couldn’t take my eyes off a couple of students sitting in the quad clearly studying for a midterm that week while cops in riot gear are throwing students down like 20′ away from them. Any assertion of ‘protecting public safety’ or whatever was complete bullshit – students were so unthreatened that they couldn’t even be bothered to move where they were sitting. So much of the LA protests have that energy.

  50. 50.

    prostratedragon

    Wack- fa-la-de-ra!

    [Sat. PM] This is the road to Mar-a-Lago.

    The people of Palm Beach are waving US distress flags and going to right to Trump’s front door to give the middle finger to fascism 👏

    Heavy police presence.

    #NoKings #50501Movement

    (🎥 Brian Allen)

  54. 54.

    Jay

    ‪Aaron Rupar‬
    ‪@atrupar.com‬
    · 1h
    i’m surprised by how low energy and farcical that whole military parade situation was. I was expecting Moscow 1945 and we got Spirit Halloween instead.

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  55. 55.

    Martin

    @Steve LaBonne: The worst part is that our locally elected leaders took offense to the national guard being sent in and reassured everyone they didn’t need the feds to treat everyone like shit.

    I do like that in the last 4 days the fraction of California flags being waved went from approximately zero to about half. Newsom and Bass have a limited window to enjoy the support before it wears thin.

  56. 56.

    Jay

    ‪Aaron Rupar‬
    ‪@atrupar.com‬
    · 2h
    KARE 11 TV in the Twin Cities reports that Vance Boelter’s best friend says Boelter voted for Trump and is “a strong supporter”

    Shooting suspect’s roommate says he was a Trump voter
    YouTube video by KARE 11
    youtu.be

  57. 57.

    MisterForkbeard

    I just wanted to add this in – my 75 year old mother went to a No Kings march today! She remembers being a TA/Doctoral student at Berkeley when the riots and national guard were out there. She has a story about walking home between lines of soldiers with guns, late at night.

    She says we’re worse off now and we all need to pitch in. I love my mom.

  58. 58.

    Bill Arnold

    @Jay:
    Well past the 3.5% of the population rule now (over 11M), at least according to organizer reports.

  59. 59.

    Marcopolo

    Dunno if anyone has reported in from StL.  There were several in the area.  A friend at an early one in StL County reported a couple thousand at that location.  I was downtown with a group of friends & once folks started marching it became apparent there were a hella lot more participants than I initially thought.  I’d put the numbers similar to the Wonen’s March in 2017 so maybe between 10-20K.  Very high energy, very peaceful, good workout—we walked maybe 3 or so miles from downtown west to city hall then north a half mile then turned back down town to where we started.  And despite a brief downpour just before the 2 pm start, the rest of the afternoon was quite lovely.

  61. 61.

    WaterGirl

    @Another Scott: Thanks!  I added that to the post that will have your photos in it.

    It’s getting close to 10pm, so I think I should probably put up the rest of the posts tomorrow.

  63. 63.

    Jay

    ‪Karin Wulf‬
    ‪@kawulf.bsky.social‬
    · 1h
    The protest stories from my parents’ retirement communities are amazing. Budgets for sign making committee, transportation sign ups, walker brigade v mobility carts fracas. Fired up seniors are something to behold.

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  64. 64.

    Another Scott

    @Martin:

    Relatedly, …

    Hard Drive
    ‪@hard-drive.net‬

    LAPD Starts YouTube Channel for Rubber Bullet Trickshots

    LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department has created a YouTube channel devoted to cataloging all of the sick rubber bullet shots their officers…

    hard-drive.net

    June 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM

    ;-)

    Grr…

    Best wishes,
    Scott.

  67. 67.

    SuzieC

    Huge protests in Columbus today.  Pride parade drew 700K people and most along the parade route were waving No Kings or protest signs.  Also robust protests in Columbus neighborhoods and suburbs.  I was out in Clintonville with about 1000.

  69. 69.

    WaterGirl

    I have 5 more posts from the protests today, and I imagine there may be more by morning.

    If you sent me pics by email, they have been combined in one post.

    If you sent pics using the On the Road form, you’ll see it listed below.

    This should be confirmation that I have received what you all sent, let me know if you submitted with the form and don’t see yourself in the screen cap.

    Suzanne - No King! Downtown Pittsburgh 2

  70. 70.

    Shana

    Just dropping in at the end of the day to report that we here in Fairfax County VA had Occupy Intersections protests all over at major intersections. I was at Rte 50 and Jermantown Rd. right by the H Mart if you know the area. We had about 50-60 folks at our height and were out from 12-4. People dropped off cases of water, clementines and a box of snack size chips. Totally unforced. We had a few anti folk drive by and make their opinions known but they were outnumbered by supporters by an incredible amount. At least 100 supporters to every anti person.  There were at least 30 other intersections around the country where they had similar groups. Pretty good showing.

  71. 71.

    Craig

    @WaterGirl: it’s a rippin song! I’d mainly only heard Up Around The Bend, and Born on The Bayou on AOR Radio in the 80s. My friend’s punk rock band played a cover of Fortunate Son and I was… Holy Shit this song is amazing. Went and bought the record next day.

  74. 74.

    Lyrebird

    @prostratedragon:

    WOw again!

    If anyone wants to see some photos from around Greater Albany NY, click away.  Number 18/25 shows “the only throne he’s fit to sit on” with the TP roll.

    Where I was most portions of sidewalk were 2-3 people deep.  Not like a big downtown march, but this was two miles, both sides of a 4-lane road, so much honking… there were like two heckling vehicles that came by occasionally, but we had so many peace signs, others holding up little letter-sized signs out their windows as they went past

  75. 75.

    Lyrebird

    @Jay: Is that gilded viewing platform photoshopped or for real? (no need to answer)

    Yikes.

    Aren’t they supposed to salute him but not vice versa?

  78. 78.

    Omnes Omnibus

    What you saw today from the US Army was textbook malicious compliance.  “You want a parade for your birthday when the rest of the army is getting a three day weekend to celebrate the  250th anniversary of the service and it’s on Fathers Day weekend.  Okay, fine.  There’s your parade.  Happy now?”

  79. 79.

    Kristine

    More than 4500 at the Gurnee IL rally this morning according to the Trib.

    I carried a largish flag instead of a poster—there was a handful of us scattered about. A few folks flew them upside down.

    My favorite sign was pretty simple, but effective. “We the people,” in classic calligraphy, followed by “are pissed off” in regular print.

  82. 82.

    Seanly

    I thought I posted some photos from Boise, ID, but not seeing them. It was a very good turn out. Great energy in the crowd. A wide range of people – vets, young people, old people, people with kids. Wonderful to see so many Idahoans opposed to Trump

    Also, a lot of flags – small, regular porch sized ones – a few of which were unside down.

  84. 84.

    Redshift

    @geg6:

    By the way, any word on parade crowd size in DC? I hope hardly anyone showed up.

    From the reports I saw from people who went down there, it was embarrassingly small. Live coverage on the local news showing the sidewalk crowd on the parade route about five or six people deep in peak areas. Locals comparing the number of people on the sidewalk to lunch hour on a workday.

  85. 85.

    Jackie

    @Seanly: I saw them earlier. Check back through the earlier posts. Maybe before the posts were labeled as dedicated protest threads?

    eta unless someone else sent in Boise protest photos?

  87. 87.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Jackie: He’s thinkin’ “this is no fun!  I could be back in the White House having that Leavitt woman steam my trousers!  What am I even DOING here?”

  88. 88.

    JiveTurkin

    Headline:

    Democrat John Fetterman Lauds Trump Military Parade as ‘Appropriate to Celebrate… Regardless of Your Politics

    Maybe the Democrats shouldn’t wait for him to join the Republicans, just pre-emptively ask him to leave

  92. 92.

    KrackenJack

    Palo Alto organizers said 7k marched to the park and 8k at the park (including the marchers). We had Joan Baez singing, two US Representatives and a retired CA Supreme Court Justice talking. Had a Golden Retriever with a “No Tarifffs on Treats” sign.

  93. 93.

    jonas

    @Lyrebird: For a long time POTUS’s did not salute men or women in uniform, like the WH Marine guards, but I think it was Reagan or GHW Bush who started doing it at some point and then it kind of became a thing. I’ve always thought it was inappropriate.

    To see that draft-dodging, vet-smearing sack of shit stand there desultorily saluting troops on a dias that looks like it was left over from the set of some dystopian sci-fi B-movie about space fascists, is so sickening I can’t eat as much as I want to throw up.

  95. 95.

    Lyrebird

    @Jackie: I think a commenter linked Boise photos near the top of another thread, maybe Baud or one of the Chicago-area commenters.  @prostratedragon: was it you?

    @Martin:Yeah, for a guy whose parents sent him off to military school, you’d think he’d have learned at least that.

    Excellent point!  He apparently retained lots about uniforms.  Not much else.  And I want to thank you for sharing that health warning bit, a very Californian irony for sure.

    @Chetan Murthy: re: saluting NorK general, yeah there really is no bottom with this *resident, is there.

  96. 96.

    Jay

    ‪Charles Johnson‬
    ‪@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com‬
    · 1h
    Video: In Which Donald Trump Nods Off During His Own Pathetic Military Birthday Parade

    littlegreenfootballs.com/article/5468…

    Video: In Which Donald Trump Nods Off During His Pathetic Military Birthday Parade
    That icy stare.
    littlegreenfootballs.com

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    prostratedragon

    @Jackie:  I meant Melania. Since he so obviously looks miserable. Nauta over his shoulder looks pretty concerned, as if watching for his cue to do something.

  100. 100.

    Jay

    ‪Charles Johnson‬
    ‪@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com‬
    · 4h
    Media doesn’t want to talk about the fact that the alleged Minnesota assassin is a Christian nationalist fanatic who believes he’s killing demons.

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    ‪Rick Perlstein‬
    ‪@rickperlstein.bsky.social‬
    · 5h
    1. Let’s put this together. The assassin appears to be the follower of the New Apolostolic Reformation, which holds that American society is literally under demonic possessions. (And you, dear reader, are one of the demon.) http://www.wired.com/story/shooti...

    Suspect in Minnesota Shooting Linked to Security Company, Evangelical Ministry
    The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry’s website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn’t the answer.”
    http://www.wired.com

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  101. 101.

    RaflW

    Might be my last item for this evening before I try and get some sleep:

    Having watched the video of the tank rolling past the 60% empty stands, no music, no crowd engagement, nothing but =squeak squeak squeak= I thought: Can you IMAGINE if the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade audience was was so small & quiet you could hear the float wheels squeak?!

    He’s presiding over a failure. Yes, one that will roll on and wreck countless lives. He still has very dangerous power because he has the office. But he – and his team – will face a worm that turned today.

  102. 102.

    Scout211

    There may have been some TikTok ticket hijinks for the big birthday parade.

    In the middle  of Donald Trump’s birthday military parade on Saturday evening, an activist posted a video on the Meta platform, Threads, announcing that they had received more than a million views on a TikTok video advertising how to reserve tickets to the Trump parade event.

    The activist had no intention of attending the Trump rally, nor did many of the people that saw their video. But they were one of dozens of social media users across platforms who began circulating instructions in recent days for how to reserve tickets to the rally, even if you had no intention of attending it.

    On Saturday evening, amidst rain and a threat of thunderstorms, the crowds for Trump’s parade appeared to be modest. (It is notoriously difficult to accurately assess crowd size, especially during the middle of an event.) On social media, though, users were gleeful, taking credit — as they did in a similar incident in 2020 — for impacting the rally’s attendance. “We’re preparing for an enormous turnout — hundreds of thousands of attendees,” Matt McCool, the special agent-in-charge for the U.S. Secret Service’s Washington, D.C., field office, said at a security briefing on Monday.

    “I got 10 tickets here in Australia. Whoops, my bad, won’t be there,” wrote one. Said another, “We Europeans couldn’t use our tickets here. Solidarity from Scotland!”

    I’m not sure it made a big impact, but one can hope.  The news media is giving the rain credit for the “much fewer than the expected 200,000” attendees.  But if TikTok users had an impact, good for them.

  103. 103.

    Matt McIrvin

    I think the lousy weather put a damper on the protest here, otherwise it likely would have been bigger than April, rather than a bit smaller… but we still got hundreds of people turning out and an overwhelmingly supportive audience of folks driving by.

    (Yesterday was gorgeous, and we took the day off to coincide with our daughter’s day off, since she’s working weekends. But this morning it was pouring rain, and many people probably figured that would continue.)

  104. 104.

    Jay

    ‪Charles Johnson‬
    ‪@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com‬
    · 3h
    Cops are getting aggressive again in downtown LA. Advancing on protesters now.

    A line of police, some on horseback, preparing to advance on protesters in downtown LA.
    ALT

    A line of police, some on horseback, preparing to advance on protesters in downtown LA.
    ALT

    A line of police, some on horseback, preparing to advance on protesters in downtown LA.
    ALT

    A line of police, some on horseback, advancing on protesters in downtown LA.
    ALT

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    ‪Charles Johnson‬
    ‪@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com‬
    · 4h
    Things are getting tense at the Federal Building in downtown LA. Marines are confronting protesters and pushing them off the steps at the front.

    Blatantly illegal use of the military against protesters on US soil.

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  105. 105.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Jay: I’m so old (really old) I can remember when LGF was the bad guys.  That was a long time ago.  A. Long. Time. Ago.

  106. 106.

    Lyrebird

    @jonas:To see that draft-dodging, vet-smearing sack of shit stand there desultorily saluting troops on a dias that looks like it was left over from the set of some dystopian sci-fi B-movie about space fascists, is so sickening I can’t eat as much as I want to throw up.

    Perfect description!

    And yeah I think it was Reagan, speaking of B movies, and people who actually admired him thought it was jaunty or something.

    I hope that the protest numbers help settle your stomach.  Not at all bc you’re wrong to be nauseated, quite the opposite.  Don’t want anyone on the side of truth to be undernourished!

  107. 107.

    Canadian Shield

    @espierce: I believe he served in the reserves for a minimum hitch of 6 months so not a Vietnam vet. The song and sentiment are great though (just being a pedant)

  109. 109.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Jay: I heard some warnings that the LAPD was looking for a fight earlier in the evening. This part sounds more like summer 2020 in Portland, but we’ll see if they want nightly pitched battles. I imagine the military encroaching on their turf complicates the issue.

  110. 110.

    Jay

    ‪Governor Tim Walz‬
    ‪@governorwalz.mn.gov‬
    · 5h
    Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman.

    She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.

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    JaySinWa

    I fell asleep, so I got to my local protest in the last half hour. A suburb north of Seattle. Lined up 2-3 deep on one side of the Highway 99 for 5 city blocks. A few clusters on the other side of Highway. Hundreds at least.  Pop ~ 58,000 but easy access to Seattle, and one of my neighbors was headed up north to a PBS tour guide personality protest, so other areas drawing from our locale, and this event had limited publicity.

  112. 112.

    George

    Apparently there has been a shooting at the No Kings march in Salt Lake City, in case this info has not already been noted upthread.

  113. 113.

    Jackie

    @Chetan Murthy:

    Jay: I’m so old (really old) I can remember when LGF was the bad guys.  That was a long time ago.  A. Long. Time. Ago.

    Sadly, I’m old enough to remember those days. It was when I was searching blogs to see why the right was so gung-ho for the Iraq war. I eventually got fed up and stopped following them, and then one day I checked them out for some reason… and had to double check that I’d pulled up the right blog. And I still couldn’t believe Charles Johnson had done a 180.

    ETA: It was during that time I discovered Balloon Juice.

  116. 116.

    prostratedragon

    Seeing some ridiculous crowd size estimates for some of the marches. Gauging the more spread out marches can be hard, but when looking at the massed demonstrations in larger cities, consider that MLB ball parks hold 40–50,000. A Wrigley crowd lined up more than 8 across would not stretch near a mile, or even half-mile, but in NYC, Chicago, Philly, San Diego, and other cities we see half-mile and more marches.

  118. 118.

    Chetan Murthy

    @prostratedragon: i certainly don’t know how it’s done, but gosh it would seem like estimating crowd size should be straightforward.  You get a drone high enough up take a whole bunch of photos in Rapid Fire sequence, stitch them together to make one very large panoramic, And then put a computer to work counting bodies.  It doesn’t seem like the most complicated task.  Maybe I’m missing something.

  119. 119.

    Jay

    ‪Alt National Park Service‬
    ‪@altnps.bsky.social‬
    · 18m
    One last post tonight: 34 arrests were made today involving MAGA individuals. Thank you to everyone who helped keep watch.

    17

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    ‪Alt National Park Service‬
    ‪@altnps.bsky.social‬
    · 16m
    We are still actively reviewing online threats and reports. There are currently over 50 ongoing investigations. We’ll share an updated number as soon as we have it.

    1

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    ‪Alt National Park Service‬
    ‪@altnps.bsky.social‬
    · 21m
    One person was shot at the protest in Salt Lake City and is currently in critical condition. One individual is in custody. Please keep the victim in your prayers.

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    dnfree

    Best sign I saw in the Chicago suburbs, on Golf Road near the roundabout:

    NO FAUX-KING WAY!

    We were at a grandchild’s college graduation (DePaul) and a fair number of graduates carried Palestinian flags or “Divest now” or “Free Gaza” signs they whipped out as they crossed the stage.

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    Chetan Murthy

    @dnfree: I don’t think people my age appreciate the change in the way Israel is perceived by the young.  My generation still sees Israel as the scrappy country that could, in the face of massive opposition.  But the young know better.

  123. 123.

    Jay

    ‪Jake Broe‬
    ‪@realjakebroe.bsky.social‬
    · 2h
    Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.

    0:21

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    prostratedragon

    @Chetan Murthy:  One would think something like that would be the method. Aerial shots have been possible for a while, and you could get a crude estimate by calculating some sample densities or something. But official crowd size estimates have been regarded as jokes since the Civil Rights era. Indivisible have made their own estimates from available photos, and even those look likely to be conservative (eg. 75,000 in Chicago and 200,000 in NYC), though one can see why.

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    Geoduck

    @dnfree: The “Faux-King” thing was on several signs at the Olympia WA rally. I wonder if one person came up with it and spread it, or if it was thought up separately.

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    Jay

    ‪Justin Satzman‬
    ‪@jsatz.bsky.social‬
    · 2h
    @msnbc.com
    reporter at the 1:15 mark.

    “The chaos you’re seeing is not the result of peaceful protestors, it’s the result of actions of law enforcement, specifically the Los Angeles sheriff’s department.” #nokings
    News report of the escalation by LASD on peaceful protestors
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    Jay

    ‪Puff the Magic Hater‬
    ‪@mskellymhayes.bsky.social‬
    · 3h
    “A man who was arrested for impersonating an officer during the Chicago ICE protests in the Loop Thursday afternoon had a loaded weapon when he was taken into custody, according to police sources.”

    Man arrested for impersonating officer while carrying loaded weapon at Chicago ICE protest, police sources say
    A man arrested for impersonating a police officer during an anti-ICE protest in Chicago had a loaded semi-automatic weapon, badges and fake documents, police sources said.
    http://www.cbsnews.com

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    JoeyJoeJoe

    @Chetan Murthy: A related article listed all of the protests in Utah.  Apparently there was one in Kanab.  That part of Utah is one of the most conservative parts of the country.  Surprised there would be one there.

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    brantl

    “make Fascism history again”; we’re trying to do it by burying it, and Stumpy’s trying to do it by revivifying it!

  138. 138.

    Ruckus

    @Baud:

    He looks like he’s crying. And the guy a row behind him and on his left is looking like “What the hell (or fuck!) is going on”.

  140. 140.

    Ruckus

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    When I was in the USN and had to march, THANKFULLY not very often, it was all by squad or company. No one marched in lines arranged by height. Squad is a few and a company was 70-90 people. Of course that was boot camp, once out of that we would not spend a lot of time marching around. Now at boot camp, next door to a Marine corp boot camp (8 ft high chain link fence, one on the USN side and one on the Marine side, with 18-24 in barbed wire arms on each side. (No one was climbing over either way) We’d get up in the morning and walk out the back door, facing the Marines, full packs, Springfield rifles at the ready, double timing in formation, and no one marched in lines arranged by height. From their barracks about a mile away, while we squids were just getting up and getting ready to go to chow. Good times….

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    SteverinoCT

    @Ruckus: The only time I marched for reals in the USN was boot camp, and we fell in in height order, about 50 of us, and then went into three files to march. By day two we had pretty much established our place; by day five we learned to squat or stretch a bit to maximize our chances of being towards the front when marching to chow. Because we were done eating five minutes after the last man sat. After that, in schools, we would be given a break, and told to fall in at the next location. The brass got wise to that, and the classes after us had to do the marching. Not something that was very useful at sea.

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