cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31700751
Rachel Leingang in Minneapolis, Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles and Melissa Hellmann in Philadelphia
Sat 14 Jun 2025 18.45 EDT“No Kings organizers estimated the day’s events have so far drawn millions of people, with some hundreds still under way in all 50 states and to some cities abroad. These included over 200,000 in New York and over 100,000 in Philadelphia, plus some small towns with sizable crowds for their populations, including the town of Pentwater, Michigan, which saw 400 people join the protest in their 800-person town, the No Kings coalition said.”
I attended the rally in Madison today. It was a large and enthusiastic crowd, estimated at over 15,000. There was a lot of anger, but it was all directed toward positive ends. The protest was peaceful and non-destructive.
I have to give credit to the State Troopers who provided security for the event. They got right everything the police in LA have gotten wrong. Our police were pleasant, helpful, and low-key.
There was a good lineup of speakers. One of was a reporter and author named John Nichols who has written several books with Bernie Sanders. He arranged for Bernie to speak to the rally by phone.
I left feeling more positive than I have for quite a while. It’s easy to feel helpless, and the authoritarians are doing their best to promote that feeling. Being part of a huge crowd with a common goal makes fixing this mess seem possible.
Where I’m from, hundreds showed up and only about 8 counter-protested.
They were being herded, too. The bitches.
I was there. It was nice seeing so many people out, and I personally loved hearing people chant fuck Donald Trump.
NYC had good turnout despite the rain.
I wonder what the total was and if we made it to 3.5 %
One group’s estimate is least 11 million, which is at the 3.5% figure and they are still counting! Been rising hourly by millions as they continue to count the thousands of protest locations
The 3.5% is not necessarily the full iron clad guarantee it’s touted as, but the high turnout is encouraging. Keep the pressure up!
Also, 3.5% was based on ongoing civil resistance campaigns with clear goals… so I don’t know that participation in a singular rally applies.
Get 11 million people to participate in actively disrupting ICE activities or striking then you are cooking. But it’s a start.
11 million civilians would overwhelm even the best guarded places on earth, let alone an ice raid.
Edit: to prove that point, 11 million people suddenly joining the Ukrainian army would overwhelm the entire front and could easily push them back to 2014 borders. And this is true regardless of logistics, which would become an issue later, but a surge of 11 million people would push so hard and so fast that even with a minimum loadout and just infantry, not including drones and logistics, just 11 million semi-trained people with small arms, and 7 magazines (standard us load) would so quickly overwhelm the Russians that any logistics (other than food and housing) would be mostly inconsequential. It would be THAT big and overwhelming… D-Day was ~160k.
And now I realize you might mean spread out over the country lol. 11 million people in an uproar in one city would be absolutely devastating.
Haha sure I meant across the country though, not in one place.
I’ve heard anywhere from 7 to 11 million.
Checking in from Ca, great turnout all around the North Bay area. Very kind and supportive people all around. We are standing and marching for a better way forward.
Edit: Drove through some small towns too on the way home and the turnout was amazing in those communities, too. Lots of civically minded and caring folks helping people stay safe and cool in the summer heat as well. Wonderful turnout across all generations.
Nice! I was in Palo Alto today. The sidewalk on Embarcadero was packed from El Camino all the way to Rinconada park. Great turnout. I heard there was a line of people along El Camino from the Palo Alto Telsa dealer to the Sunnyvale Tesla dealer as well but we didn’t check that out.
Contrast this with NYT, USA Today, or WaPo, who are downplaying it with headlines that say “thousands” or “tens of thousands” protesting.
There were over 2000 protest locations alone. Thousands would mean that an average of 1-5 people showed up at each location which you can find plenty, plenty, plenty of photos to prove otherwise. For instance, you can find places with hundreds turning out in deep red small towns
My town had hundreds at several intersections. People rotating in and out all day. Cars constantly blaring horns. Just a little suburb.
My town was thousands. It was very inspiring
Edit: yep, I’m seeing estimates of 2,000 for my town
No way it was only thousands. My city was easily thousands alone. Maybe tens of thousands but it was too many for me to estimate clearly.
My smallish downtown had 5 thousand confirmed.
wow today was so joyous, thank you all!
What is planned after this ?
Pray to his god we see M-1 and stic.man happen before it becomes too late.
I dunno, the M2 comp is pretty sick. If we could get that in a convertible version and shed like 400 lbs, it’d be a must-buy.
Party at the moon tower, full kegs, everybody’s gonna be there. You ought to go.
If all these people voted for someone else, Trump would not be our president. WAIT!
Some people who voted for Trump have repented and joined the movement for democracy in America.
But also, there are serious doubts about the integrity of the 2024 elections and a nontrivial possibility that Trump didn’t win the election.
Yep. Important to not assume the election was fraudulent. But there is a case filed to interrogate some anomalous results in at least some districts. It’s definitely possible that foul play was involved.
Some reasons to suspect foul play:
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the
It’s Trump. You know, the adjudicated serial rapist (Inmate #P01135809).
There was foul play.
There was objectively foul play, the real question is if it was enough to turn the election.
If it turns out to be fraudulent, I expect he will immediately step down, and everybody ruling, EO, and anything in-between that his administration has made will be immediately made null and void, and the person who actually won will assume office…oh, and then he gets to visit the inside of a prison where he belongs.
😂 good one. We’re all fucked because republicans are allowing this fascistic charade to continue to happen.
The fucking traitors know exactly what’s happening, and they hate America enough to actively ignore it.
They won’t do their jobs until forced to.
A guy can dream
I said essentially this last night and was down voted to hell lol apparently I needed the sarcasm.
I wasn’t being sarcastic, I was being hopeful.
That was sarcasm?
Y’all need to let this fantasy go. He won. It fucking sucks but he did.
I’m not so sure, but sadly our constitution doesn’t have a mechanism to rewind anyway. All we could do is impeach and remove him, and then just keep impeaching and removing successors until we get someone sane.
Personally, I’m for a constitutional amendment to fix this, but it’ll never happen.
Ok then show the homework. All I ever see is “the swings were too big.” Trump is a piece of shit unfit for the presidency but he won at the ballot box so here we are
I’m waiting for the results of the lawsuits. I said “I’m not so sure,” but that doesn’t mean I think the election was stolen, either. It means I’m not certain either way.
But it doesn’t really matter either way. Say ironclad evidence comes out that he stole the election; we have no means to walk it back.
Man name your bet - the lawsuits won’t get anywhere and nothing of the remotest interest will come from this. It’s a desperate Hail Mary. There is nothing indicating a fraudulent election. Let’s not be as pathetic as the MAGA crowd with this shit
Doubtful. It’s a lot for a protest but not for an election.
What percentage of these people do you think voted for Trump in the first place?
What does it matter what I think?
I mean, “matter”? I guess it doesn’t.
But you were saying things would have been different if they hadn’t all voted for Trump. I was just pointing out that they probably didn’t for the most part.
Yeah, but genocide and feelings and all that
