Indivisible tried to cancel. They sent out a cancellation notice. Their Marshalls were at the protests and were instructed to redirect people home. But the momentum was too strong. The marshals stayed & we protested. People there knew the folks who were shot & their families. A priest in full regalia came out & gave a sidewalk sermon. Our numbers were lower. Many people did stay home. But tens of thousands of us protested together. Even some trump voters came out.
Estimated number of Americans in 1780, four years after the U.S. Declaration of Independence: 2,780,369
Estimated number of participants in yesterday's nationwide "No Kings!" rallies in about 2,000 American cities, 249 years after the U.S. Declaration of Independence: 5,000,000
So there's that! 😎✌🇺🇸
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/15/nx-s1-5433765/3-takeaways-from-the-military-parade-and-no-kings-protests-on-trumps-birthday
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-ushistory2os2xmaster/chapter/united-states-population-chart/
#NoKings #NoMonarchs #NoDespots #WannabeKing #WannabeTyrant #Trump #TrumpRegime #UnseatTheTrumpRegime #EnemiesOfTheConstitution #EnemiesOfTheLaw #EnemiesOfDemocracy #EnemiesOfTheState #DefraudingAmerica #BetrayingAmerica #ObstructionOfUSGovernment #ObstructionOfJustice #AbuseOfPower #LootingAmerica #OrganizedCrime #Racketeering #RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity #StrongerTogether #WeThePeople #WeCare
If you want to keep up with what’s going on with elections and election law, I’d suggest Democracy Docket and Marc Elias over some random unsourced YouTube or Substack or some social media rumor.
It’s too bad he got driven off here but you can still read and subscribe to it.
If there’s something going on with election law or voter suppression, he’ll have it.
How Trump Upended Biden’s Successful Push For Federal Agencies to Register Voters - Democracy Docket
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how-trump-upended-bidens-successful-push-for-federal-agencies-to-register-voters/
I mean, just for clarification, I was thrown out of the Canadian Forces in an anti-queer purge 39 years ago. I have not drilled in all that time.
But I just checked. I can still do all the basic manoeuvres, and some of the more complex ones, right off the bat. Give me two minutes with an instructor, I'd have it all back. I remember the full procedure for dressing the line (a complex move where you make the line both straight and evenly spaced).
This is not something you just...forget. It's not something you have to focus on doing. It becomes automatic. That they're not doing it, while walking in formation, is a deliberate choice.
For the US Army's 250th birthday, US Marines in LA detain an Army veteran for (being black and crossing caution tape while) trying to walk to the Department of Veteran Affairs
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-marines-carry-out-first-known-detention-civilian-los-angeles-video-shows-2025-06-13/
Great rallies and I certainly don't want to criticize the #NoKings rallies that Indivisible and Democrats helped to organize.
What I want to point out is that I think we focus too much on just Trump rather than on his political party like the GOP does to Dems.
By making the Dem brand so despised as the GOP have done has worked a lot better than have our efforts that seem to just focus so much just on Trump
If every time you can replace Trump's name with GOP it would help get them out of power
L.A. Taco scored a scoop for the history books: editor Javier Cabral recognized Arturo Obrego at Union Station after the elderly Army vet's assault by the LAPD mounted phalanx went viral and got his story. Pure courage. The horse troops have to go. https://www.instagram.com/p/DK6LWNBOpTC/
@GottaLaff
If Trump could read, he should read this. But he can't so he won't.
Stephen Miller is deliberately choosing to focus more resources on non-criminals—and thus away from dangerous criminals. Law enforcement insiders have leaked word of their anger over exactly this. https://trib.al/p9PRMU8
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