Having covered protests for the last quarter century or so I can tell you that this #handsoff happening extraordinary, and likely to build. (Oh, and that the big newspapers are acting typically clueless)
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I hope we come up with some better regulations on media because we need it. We shouldn’t be allowing these dime store college graduates to run this nation into the ground. Some should be prosecuted under FARA laws honestly or something similar b/c -start with Murdoch
You mean the trained seals with phones attached to their flippers aren't covering a seismic shift in the country? Sounds about right. But they are so grateful that they now have such an accessible president who answers their questions.
The headlines are all "big crowds" and "ten thousand people." My high school football stadium sat 10,000. I know what 10,000 looks like. These marches were bigger than 10,000.
Our local newspaper originally reported this as "hundreds" 🙃 we're guessing they must have received a flood of complaints, because the article has since been significantly updated since.
So, with no negativity but with the desire to understand, if there are so many people pissed and willing to protest, in an extraordinary way, as you say….where the hell were all these people, 6 months ago?!?
When you are seeing hundreds of people in deep red areas of deep red states in the street protesting Trump and DOGE, you know that MAGAs days are numbered and 2026 will be the end of the Republican Party.
I was also there and so frustrated with the UT yesterday. By the evening, there finally was a story and today it’s front page, above the fold. So proud of SD! What an inspiring group. So many people! It had to have been more than 12k the SDPD stated
Crowd demographics are not sexy enough for major msm newspapers
Need more hippies and young Flower Children
Hey Hey DJT "You 're a fucking asshole"
He doesn't deserve a rhyme
and I think pointing it out works too, here's what I see on the landing page now - (but something this size, this monumental should be the whole damn page)
Something’s happening, and the oligarchs know it. Be prepared for retaliation, they will try to incite violence against peaceful protesters. We have historical precedent, that non-violence doesn’t prevent violence, it only invites it.
And we’ll be there anyway. Fascists always resort to violence to oppress the masses, but our best chance is mass, decentralized, peaceful mobilization.
I was there on the ground and felt the size & energy. Got home to see all MSM delivering their scripted blah blah programming with little coverage of what just went on around the country. Worse than clueless – Trump complicit.
From sea to shining sea, this is what democracy looks like! There are more of us together then there are of the vile MAGGOTS! We need to stay together and vote, if we are not prevented from doing so by the fascist Trump. And should THAT happen, let all hell break loose!
Forget legacy media. All these people at HandsOff rallies across the world found this information and showed up despite traditional media. We got this! We need to harness this momentum, organize as one, and create the blue tsunami.
Sad to say most newspapers are owned by the same few people nowadays.
They no longer prioritize covering the news. They cover whatever their owners and sponsors want instead of the news.i used to be an avid reader of newspapers. Now I find my news from a variety of independent sources.
What do you think explains the lack of coverage? Are they intentionally suppressing evidence of resistance? Are editors bored by protests if there’s insufficient “drama” (e.g. violence and disorder)?
That’s only true if you consider feminism unthreatening. I don’t think it is! But the way journalism responds to Trump opposition has definitely changed.
Oh, feminism is very threatening to the status quo. But *white* feminism isn't. Not anymore, anyway. And that parade was very white. Nothing ultimately came of it, as we can see.
My pussy hat is ready to go! Unfortunately it’s already 90 degrees here if FL so I’m going to have to work on a sleeveless Uterus Shirt or something for warm weather.
There were an estimated 3.5 million Americans who turned out to protest, today. There were also protests around the world, today. There were more than 1400 protest venues across America and >50 in our state of MI. We attended the protest in our capitol of Lansing today.
It was such a welcome relief from the Trump/Musk/Johnson/MAGA shit show. Also, it did my heart good to see so many pumped up people peacefully assemble for common decency, truth, law and justice, freedom, science, and the values expressed in our American Creed.
Massive turnout yesterday all across the nation massive next Saturday AOC and Bernie Sanders are going to be in downtown Los Angeles and I expect that number to be upwards of 70,000 people
It is remarkable what a good, effective protest will do for one's mental health. I've felt so down lately but came away today feeling absolutely revitalized! Let's have one every week!
I hope so much we can have giant protests every week. Other countries show up constantly against authoritarian nightmares. In 2017/2018 Trump era, I felt like the protests were too occasional (a few a year)
Same for me, too. I was feeling burnt out with bad news for our country day after day. Attending the protest gave me hope and the motivation to keep going.
I hate Trump, but the protests today, with their moronic chanting and speeches, don’t change minds. They just reinforce Trump cultists that the left is nuts.
I hate Jim Crow but the protests today with their moronic chanting and speeches don't change minds. They just reinforce segregationists that the left is nuts.
You obviously weren't with us. Were you stuck in traffic as thousands of us marched through downtown? Sorry, not sorry. I've never been to a Trump rally--do MAGAts stand silently in their bedazzled flag clothing? Are others quiet on their flag-draped scooters? Never mind, I don't care.
At this point we're not trying to change the minds of MAGAts. What protests like yesterday's can do is to pressure lawmakers (looking at all of you GOP cowards) to do their jobs and take back their constitutional power to rein in the orange monster. That's why we protest.
Did anyone notice when trying to post videos of the various protest marches to FB that they seemed to get downgraded, not posted in your newsfeed right away. Do you think this was why Zuckerberg was summoned to the king trump/musk court?
Same crap was happening during the 2024 election on Facebook and Threads. I don’t use either, but hoo boy there were A LOT of angry skeets about it over here.
In Salt Lake the local ksl news helicopter showed up at 2:00, the crowd had started to disperse so it didn’t appear as large as it actually was. It was bigger than the picture they took. I’ve gone to 4 protests at the capitol and this one I swear was 10 times bigger than the last.
They, and the news broadcasts, are afraid of the blow back. One actually said they wouldn’t make crowd size estimates to avoid political fallout. ( paraphrased )
it does say 10s of thousands but it also says they were expecting 20k in DC yesterday and "5 times" were estimated to show up today. so 100k in DC alone
The tv coverage didn’t really lie about the turnout, but the pressure of editors at The Washington Post to downplay what happened must have been tremendous.
I agree it’s an important story, I’m critiquing the editorial decision not to highlight protests while millions are marching. Their editorial decisions, along with others in traditional media are what got us into this disaster in the first place.
I think they're beginning to realize they'd better cover it. The local outlets are out there; here in RI both @bostonglobe.com and @providencejournal.bsky.social plus TV have been covering.
Now you mention it, I didn’t see any news crews covering us marching, unless they tried to get there by car and couldn’t. There were so many marching traffic was stand still for blocks around 5th Ave. And no NYPD stopped us. 😉
We noticed a number of people with professional cameras taking pictures. There was a setup atop the library shooting into the crowd on 40th and at least one drone
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Ok big papers are clueless. We get it. Story over
I am in my 20s and my entire peer group could care less about the New York Times, and Washington Post
https://bsky.app/profile/anamariecox.bsky.social/post/3lm5n4bdw2s2z
So unlike J6.
Maybe the U-T will have something tomorrow.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/05/nearly-12000-hands-off-protesters-jam-downtown-san-diego-marching-against-trump-and-musk/
From my not-very-good viewpoint in Civic Center Plaza around 11:45 (15 minutes before scheduled start):
@abcnewslive.bsky.social
when thousands of people rally on your doorstep and you ignore it, the fourth estate has officially become a fifth column.
The NYT looked at Trump and cried 'again!'.
#democracyisdying but we WILL bring it back!
WE can draw the line for real journalism/news and FACTS
or stop paying their pay-walls...
Need more hippies and young Flower Children
Hey Hey DJT "You 're a fucking asshole"
He doesn't deserve a rhyme
RESIST! For as long as it takes.
"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in"
>Rosa Parks
https://5calls.org
https://usa.gov/elected-officials
https://indivisible.org
We shall overcome.
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/nation-world/2025/04/05/thousands-protest-trump-musk-in-wpb-gardens-boca/82958147007/
I’m betting some / a lot of those people voted Trump
Behind is thier new normal.
but this would have allowed the democratic power structure to fully bypass white male control
couldn’t have that
I blame Murdoch
Well done USA you really showed up.
- MSM ignored it or…
- MSM play down Numbers
- This was really spread out across smaller cities
- White crowd
- Lots of middle aged and older
And where are the police? I didn’t see any barriers or police in these photos.
They no longer prioritize covering the news. They cover whatever their owners and sponsors want instead of the news.i used to be an avid reader of newspapers. Now I find my news from a variety of independent sources.
This has the potential for actual consequences for the rich, what with the active tanking of Tesla stocks and whatnot, so they have to suppress it.
The real journalism now is coming from smaller independent outlets!
And they are kicking big MSM’s azzz!
https://bsky.app/profile/emilynussbaum.bsky.social/post/3lm3ujj7bes22
Such cowards
I dunno how this is gonna play out, because I am an ignoramus. But this is different than anything I have seen in this country.
Am I a goofball to think maybe bringing the next round to their doorsteps would do it? 😅
but they're still calling that 10s of thousands 🙄