The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" was 52 years ago today. It was a shocking breach of DOJ norms, and a major turning point for public opinion on Watergate. Trump already had one of these (on a Thursday) in February, and has had at least four more since then

Before that impressive engineering project in 1900 to reverse the direction, the people would flow into Lake Michigan.

Federal agents arrested 11 rideshare drivers at O'Hare Saturday, the second time agents have targeted workers who are the "backbone" of the city's transportation network, an advocacy group said. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/19/b...

Stay woke friends

Oh wow

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Some more frames from yesterday's #NoKings rally in Chicago. Another weekend, another massive gathering of peaceful people in this great city.

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

As soon as rain started clearing, Border Patrol began terrorizing Mount Prospect and Rolling Meadows

WE THE PEOPLE. Marchers carry an enormous US Constitution past Trump Tower in Chicago #NoKings #HandsOffChicago

The average amount of SNAP received is about $173. Which means you could fund nearly a million families for a month if we just didn't buy her two private jets to fly around and do racist pressers. Which by the way, seems excessive.

George Soros : wait there were how many protestors? Aide : over 7 million sir George Soros : i am never gonna financially recover from this

Where is FEMA?

An urgent question. According to the FEMA Daily Briefing a presidential disaster declaration was requested on October 16th. To the best of my knowledge it hasn’t been granted. Any event of this size should be an easy and immediate yes.

7 million. That’s like 2% of the population. One out of every 50 Americans was physically protesting today. Amazing.

this is about 15% of the population of Gustavus

Standing athwart history yelling: this mfer sucks!

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

Dallas didn’t disappoint. #NoKings

My mom texted me with a picture of her at one of the No Kings protests. Her first protest ever. The normies have awakened.

The regime tried to scare people and failed. That's good.

I did not know it was possible for this many people to exist in one place in Evanston

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.

Listen, over 300+ people showed up for a No Kings protest in ANGOLA, INDIANA. There is a whole part of Indiana waiting to be activated. We have never been all red. So what are we going to do with that information? I wish I could say. But I have Hope.

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

From Beverly - hundreds of folks on all 4 corners of 104th & Western. At some points of the intersection the crowd stretched at least half a block.

❌🧊 The downtown rally was one of many in Chicago, in our region, and across the state of Illinois. Hundreds gathered in Chicago's La Villita - Little Village, a community that has been hard hit by ICE raids and Trump's threats.

_One_ of Chicago’s No Kings protests. Several hundred folks were in La Villita. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

The Seattle Monorail is a mile long. bsky.app/profile/angr...

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

The notion that regular people could be political agents outside of elections isn’t threatening to them, it’s incomprehensible.

For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over? lol. lmao.

Thousands of #NoKings marchers are making their way past #Trump Tower in downtown #Chicago. I grabbed this view from NBC5’s helicopter stream a few minutes ago.

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Helicopter view of Chicago #NoKings in Grant Park via @cbschicago.bsky.social

The handful of places that localize the branding still tickle me.