cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38146161
[features eyewitness reports from various cities by participants]
from World-Outlook Oct. 20, 2025
More than 7 million people turned out for the No Kings protests in about 2,700 cities and towns in all 50 U.S. states on October 18, 2025. These numbers are based on reports from the organizers and media across the country.
The main sponsors included the liberal group Indivisible, the American Civil Liberties Union, and hundreds of other national and local organizations.
Some of the largest actions took place in Chicago (250,000), Washington, D.C. (200,000), New York City (where estimates ranged between 100,000 and more than 300,000), and Boston (125,000). Thousands marched in many cities in the South, including Dallas and Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; and Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina.
Nice recap. Must be time to RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!
I cannot now remember who said it, but it perfectly captured the problem with Trump:
“With Donald Trump, there are many questions, but no mysteries.”
We dont need the epstein files, and we certainly are not going to get them; not unaltered at least. Regardless, we know what is in there. Not everything, but everything we need to know with respect to Trump. At this point, his supporters do not care about the facts as far as Trump is concerned. We have to stop hoping that something is going to rescue us from Trump’s grip on our reality. Nothing will. All that is left is for us to act.
~2% of the US population - getting closer to the famed 3.5%
Needs to hit almost 12 million to be 3.5%.
So, not really close, but better than before. TBH when Trumps reaction was an AI video of him crapping on protests, 12 million isn’t going to matter any more than 7 million.
Yeah 12 million people going out for a parade is not the sustained organized campaign that is required to topple dictators peacefully. Maybe if it was 12 million protesting every day, but one day of protest isn’t going to do it, even if it shatters attendance records.
Make it 35% to have a real impact! Or best of all 55-70%
Forgot all about how that happened and then nothing happened… again
If you forgot about something from less than two weeks ago this quickly, you probably have more dementia than the president.
Delusional is thinking casual protests will work post 2025
Good thing it’s not post-2025.
The patient is not oriented and alert.
How many times did you vote for Trump?
I think I voted for him in some celebrity phone-in contest in the early 90s. Does that count?
No, but that actually does explain a lot
I’m entertained. What does it explain?
I really wish Americans would wake up and realize having a sign party once every few months won’t stop Trump’s fascist takeover.
They are spending EVERY DAY tearing down democracy. You have to fight back with the same level of energy to defend it.
Most Americans who would go protest like the French would lose their jobs, miss a rent payment, and then become homeless.
We’re a country of domesticated slaves being held hostage.
Lawyers, city councilmen, police officers, bankers, judges, manufacturers, shippers and movers, producers, and millions of all manner of people think they don’t have a dog in this fight, that this is all normalcy and basic political divide. But when hundreds of thousands of people walk down mainstreet, they realize two things: 1. this is not normal 2. they need to reassess their own position.
Correct. I’m not saying it’s not helping.
I’m saying if you can’t do more than 2 single-day protests 126 days apart to demonstrate that, you deserve to lose.
They are destroying your democracy, kidnapping your neighbours, removing your rights, and crippling your economy every single day of every single month. Two protests, regardless of how big they are, is not going to stop them.
Wake. Up.
I wish this too.
I’m a bit confused on how quickly you expect political change to happen…do you think the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of No Kings can be assessed a week on? Imagine you were in Birmingham during the bus boycott - after a week you’d be out there saying “look! We did this and nothing happened!”
I don’t love everything about no kings, the tactics, and the messaging. But give it a second, dude!
do you think the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of No Kings can be assessed a week on?
Yes I do. Other countries are capable of change. Look at South Korea and Nepal. It’s fair to judge by those standards.
Ok, unlike the other commenter, you are engaging and this is a fair point. I don’t know enough about the Nepal and South Korea case to assess how fast it took: Yes, it looked like a week to international observers who aren’t reading the Nepal Daily or whatever, but I’d want to here from people on the ground about how much or how little lead up and organization there was leading up to the tipping points.
But that’s not disagreeing with you - just saying I genuinely don’t know if you’re right or not, but I do appreciate the comparisons.
This has been the second. How many more “seconds“ do you want me to wait?
Lots of people tell me to stop complaining, so I ask you: give me the exact date in which you would be OK with me complaining, or kindly shut the fuck up.
Yeah dude no worries I’ll just go grab a gun and head out to the Capitol, they won’t send ICE to dissapear my family while I get my corpse paraded around and my name smeared across all news media as they continue to fearfully proclaim there is no war in Ba Sing Se
EU commenters love to play couch macho for their smug superiority dopamine while forgetting they’ve deployed the most well funded army and most technologically advanced monitoring in the world. Even the cops carry guns here dude, and all that bacon has been frying until crisp; they’re fucking ITCHING to kill their countrymen because they basically grew up being told there were basically literal zombies, people who don’t believe in this country and are evil, no good, others. These guys were programmed since childhood to be super predators. They are under a spell of false patriotism and blind nationalism. If you don’t agree with them, you’re a fucking NPC and you’re ripe for the picking, the rotten, ungodly fruit, decaying the beautiful homeland our ancestors fought and died for.
we’re gonna do all the right things in the right order before we risk ending our own lives and our children’s lives and getting nothing for it. You have no idea what we are up against so shut the fuck up.
Probably the main reason why US is in such dissaray is that Americans immediately default to thinking about guns no matter the problem, and are staying on that topic forever.
When presented with the obvious uselessness of your inaction, your first and only though was about a gun, and then you remembered that your gun isn’t the biggest gun, and your though process stopped.
When you stop being angry at me for pointing it out, I really want you to reflect on it.Date please
7/12/2178
So that no one alive will have to deal with your bullshit.
Haha okay magat
Now you’re violating the deal, I gave you a date, save your complaints until then. I look forward to hearing from you again in 153 years,
You’ll have a leg to stand on when the protests start decreasing in number rather than increasing. This was the largest protest in US history and seems like it’s just a start.
What do you think it actually does? You had the biggest protest before, did it achieve anything? Before that one there was another one, did something happened as a result of it? If the next one will be bigger, what will change?
Do you maybe think there is an indication that some other forms of political action could bring some different result?Date please
ahh yeah. the sitting and waiting admintadely does nothing. carry on.
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