Contrast this with NYT, USA Today, or WaPo, who are downplaying it with headlines that say "thousands" or "tens of thousands" protesting.

Checking in from Ca, great turnout all around the North Bay area. Very kind and supportive people all around. We are standing and marching for a better way forward.

Edit: Drove through some small towns too on the way home and the turnout was amazing in those communities, too. Lots of civically minded and caring folks helping people stay safe and cool in the summer heat as well. Wonderful turnout across all generations.

I was there. It was nice seeing so many people out, and I personally loved hearing people chant fuck Donald Trump.

wow today was so joyous, thank you all!

I wonder what the total was and if we made it to 3.5 %

I attended the rally in Madison today. It was a large and enthusiastic crowd, estimated at over 15,000. There was a lot of anger, but it was all directed toward positive ends. The protest was peaceful and non-destructive.

I have to give credit to the State Troopers who provided security for the event. They got right everything the police in LA have gotten wrong. Our police were pleasant, helpful, and low-key.

There was a good lineup of speakers. One of was a reporter and author named John Nichols who has written several books with Bernie Sanders. He arranged for Bernie to speak to the rally by phone.

I left feeling more positive than I have for quite a while. It's easy to feel helpless, and the authoritarians are doing their best to promote that feeling. Being part of a huge crowd with a common goal makes fixing this mess seem possible.

Over 20,000 in San Diego. And the cops commended us on the way the protest was run.

NYC had good turnout despite the rain.

What is planned after this ?

I did my part. And yeah, we had tons of people

Where I'm from, hundreds showed up and only about 8 counter-protested.

They were being herded, too. The bitches.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/46739887

If all these people voted for someone else, Trump would not be our president. WAIT!

Why did they choose a picture that looks like the us is on fire? Propaganda much?

The actual parade route is super tiny, less than a mile. NYT published a parade route map, and the troops have a longer walk to the parade start point than the parade route itself. It is just going by the National Mall, and that's it. My local town Memorial Day parade (which only had the mayor, boy/girl scouts, fire department, and school marching band) was longer.

(Edited to add: I don't want to sell the town Memorial Day parade short, it also had a bunch of cool old tractors....)

What's the weather looking like in DC today? Because I know these stubborn idiot fascists won't let something like a little lightning stop their stupid little celebration of themselves, so this all could end up a really fucking stupid mass casualty event pretty easily.

What makes me think that the McD brained chief convicted rapist/felon will say oh wow look at all these people who came out for my birthday.

I don't know how many chicago had but I joked it felt like so many the edge or it was going to meet up with the edge of suburban ones. Even people not in it were waving from buildings and cars and the cars were honking but in the kind of supportive honk way. There was one guy with a bullhorn counter protesting but the crowd chanted him down with shame. shame. shame. and well it pretty much goes on like that till you moved passed him.

Puts a smile on my face seeing every headline today be about the protests/turnout and no mentions of """violence""" but not a single headline about how Trump's military parade went

I went and it gave me a bit of hope.

I don’t trust protests that are encouraging activists to not talk about the genocide in Gaza.

Not that sanctioned rape should exist in the prison system, but I hope this guy is caught and sentenced and is the last person on earth to get raped to death inside a US prison