I know folks have been litigating the value of these protests all week, and I would remind those who have been eyerolling that one VERY important part of mass dissent is making it impossible to round up all the dissenters.

They see the crowds and have to reevaluate gulag plans

#NoKings event in Fairhope, Al.
A woman was arrested for "lewd conduct" because she was dressed in penis suit with a sign that said "No dick-tator"
3 cops on a 53 yo woman.

Between saying “fuck” at a press gathering and posting an AI video of himself dumping shit on protesters, I think it’s pretty clear his brain is REALLY going, and the more the press pretends it isn’t, the worse it’ll be for everyone, including the chuds running the press

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

Times Square

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland

One old woman drove past our small-ish (few hundred) No Kings, shouting “how much are they paying you?” Lady, a lot of these people have their signs on the backs of pizza boxes, lmao

When you are geolocating at the protest based on inflatable animals

Somewhere in the United States someone who invested their life savings into an inflatable frog costume business to the dismay of everyone that knew them is having the best week of their life and handing I Told You Sos to those who doubted them.

If you think “No Kings” is not anti-imperial enough, take note. I took a Palestine sign to the first one and while I saw others, I got a lot of engagement from folks. Even if they’re organized by lib normies, these events need NOT be a ceiling. They’re a floor. Go raise the roof at them.

frog and chewbacca dance to brass solidarity band, the band formed by community members around george floyd square, at no kings minneapolis

I'm very proud of our NKs protest in a very red area. I've never seen more than 25 protesters - today we had 300+ with a half dozen inflatable animal costumes. Most joy I've felt in the last 12 months. The small protests in these areas really help folks feel they're not alone.

Hasan: The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.

Hasan: Let me say to every Republican and conservative watching. Aren't you the ones that said no more big government? No tyranny in America? If you believe that, what are you doing defending masked federal agents in unmarked cars bundling people off the streets

Got to be honest, the No Kings protests by us are featuring lots of great signs, lots of people masking, lots of white people protecting their racialized neighbors, and I love it. Seeing community care rocks. And seeing people openly condemning not just Trump, but white supremacy, makes me hopeful.

Found this video while explaining the Portland Frogs to someone. Enjoy!

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

South Korea: #NoKings! Thousands of people came to show support to the US democracy!

CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

I spoke to the Houston chronicle on the conditions that I only be referred to as frog