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Disabled people are being arrested in DC today as they're protesting Medicaid cuts. Source of this photo, ADAPT www.facebook.com/theRealNatio...

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

submitted 14 hours ago • 2348 comments

See that spike? That's the hundreds of people who saw Zohran win and said "huh, maybe I can run for office too." runforwhat.net

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Escape the Heat, Find Some Shade We know that shade can help reduce urban heat, but by how much. How valuable is the urban tree canopy? This story at Our Trees shows some temperature measurements in urban conditions on a 90F day. The results are pretty amazing! Read the story, and please subscribe.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

New from me: Why the most important #NoKings demos were in small towns; news of an Iranian-Israeli dialogue group's ceasefire petition; and more on updating the Dems dusty old playbook. open.substack.com/pub/theconne...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Lander is being release now from DHS/ICE custody now.

submitted 8 days ago • 184 comments

Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.

submitted 8 days ago • 864 comments

Corollary: Publishers don't pay to create the index for a nonfiction book, the author pays out of their advance.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of folks asking about the #s at the nationwide June 14 No Kings actions. My team won't have our own estimate for a few weeks; we validate every record to the fullest extent possible. Our current data are updated through the end of May; see the piece below for our report on trends prior to 6/14.

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

THIS: "sexual harassment tells you everything about someone's relationship with power" Thank you for this concise and on-the-mark framing, @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 41 comments

You can always count on The New York Times to minimize the scale and impact of protest. Yesterday's 2000+ No Kings actions smashed records for the most demonstrations in a single day. So the Times decided to publish a horseshit map of just a handful of "confirmed locations." We're not fooled.

submitted 10 days ago • 85 comments

My latest: With one possible exception, there have never been this many coordinated protests on a single day in the U.S. before. I explore why the omnipresence of these peaceful demonstrations matters so deeply, in the face of authoritarian overreach: lakauffman.substack.com/p/when-peace...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Our unofficial crowdsourced estimate of yesterday’s protest turnout is rising to 4.2-7 million as we gather more data. At this point potentially the second-largest single day of protest in U.S. history! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

"With the possible exception of the early days of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, there have never been THIS MANY COORDINATED PROTESTS on a single day in the United States before. The ubiquity of these protests is historic." (emphasis mine) Dear The @nytimes.com

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

No Kings, except this one

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Having spent a good chunk of yesterday participating in a crowdsourced effort to count these...this is wrong. I found many more local news outlets reporting on their town's protest just by Googling than those listed here. Phoning it in, NYT?

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“Trump's flood-the-zone strategy hit us all like a tsunami – violent, destructive, shocking. But note how our response has been like a rising tide: steady and inexorable in its spread.”

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Why #NoKings matters & how protests work.

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My latest: With one possible exception, there have never been this many coordinated protests on a single day in the U.S. before. I explore why the omnipresence of these peaceful demonstrations matters so deeply, in the face of authoritarian overreach: lakauffman.substack.com/p/when-peace...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

submitted 10 days ago • 278 comments

This is a reference to the iconic, Pulitzer-winning image of a Vietnam War protester. He later moved to SF, renamed himself Hibiscus and formed a drag troupe called the Cockettes. Happy Pride!

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

There were people protesting in my cousin’s ~5600 population town in middle of nowhere Colorado, that NYT map is wildly underselling this

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Political violence in the United States comes overwhelmingly from the right. Here is an essential guide to how organizers can make that violence backfire: www.endpoliticalviolence.org/guide

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

You can always count on The New York Times to minimize the scale and impact of protest. Yesterday's 2000+ No Kings actions smashed records for the most demonstrations in a single day. So the Times decided to publish a horseshit map of just a handful of "confirmed locations." We're not fooled.

submitted 10 days ago • 85 comments

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

submitted 11 days ago • 64 comments

I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it. And today showed us that beautifully. No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.

submitted 11 days ago • 114 comments

Honestly there were more people at the protest on my town in Provo UT than there are in this photo.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Some people questioned the strategy of telling people not to show up in DC and I was not one of those people because the images of the sparsely attended birthday military bullshit parade is exquisite.

submitted 11 days ago • 44 comments

Here is a very useful and timely guide to ensuring that political violence backfires on those who threaten, encourage, and use it: www.endpoliticalviolence.org

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments