I’m guessing 30-60k, based on the density of participants and their initial estimates on crowd size. They expected 200k and most seats were empty as they grew more distant. Why would you prepare for 5-10x your projected crowd? No, they just had a poor showing between the weather and the approval rating.

The magic number to reach the 3.5% "Tipping Point" is about 12 million. We didn't hit that on No Kings day, but we did pretty well. With protests scattered around the country, it's hard to have an accurate count, but the massive crowds in large cities across America have to be intimidating to the MAGA Nazis.

It's important to understand that while they want to have 12 million VISIBLE protesters, there are MANY more resistors at home who would never attend a protest for various reasons. Those people are still resistors in their own way, even if it's just staying free of conservative propaganda and voting Democrat. Then there are people like me, who are unlikely to go to a demonstration, but actively oppose the MAGA Nazis online, in forums like Lemmy.

Add the keyboard warriors to the physical protesters, and that 3.5%/ 12 million Tipping Point looks a lot closer.

G. Elliot Morris on Bluesky did a breakdown of the numbers and his very conservative, low-end number was 4mil. Top end was 6mil.

Source? Everything I read said 4-5 iirc

Just the multiplier alone - take any individual protest and multiply it by over 2,000 … gets big fast.

I actually had five very convenient choices

• should I go into Boston for the big one, to really showcase our strength?
• should I goto Lexington for the historical context, the commemorating the start of the revolutionary war, throwing off the yoke of the king?
• should I goto my ex’s town, if she had the kids?
• should I goto the nearby town threats a collection of malls, make a day of it and get shopping done?
• no, I’ll goto to MY town, stand up with MY town. We had a couple thousand very enthusiastic protesters in MY town and it was awesome

come to think of it, we’d be better off if he had an actual jester. I totally get the point of them now.

Maybe that's what Elon was for. Unfortunately he sucked at his job.

It's on the wrong side of the bay. I'm not going all that way for a fucking parade.

Long drives and Rhode Island are mutually exclusive.

Yeah compared to a grassroots risky protest against a militant wannabe dictator with the morning starting off with political murders by the opponent.

I saw all kinds of people protesting in the least likely areas. One image burned into my brain from Saturday was a solemn older couple, walking alone, she hunched over with a walker, him walking beside her, with a no kings sign and a billowing American flag in the sunlight. I was afraid to protest and almost started crying when I drove by.

I will NEVER forget that sight.

Personal cloaking devices.

Bots have a hard time with in person events it seems

When Trump says something important and really lays it on, that's how you can tell the opposite is true.

Shame they didn't show up in November last year.

How many were there who weren't either paid or coerced to attend?

Like that even matters to rapists.

Or for free, I’m sure many of them will be crying when Trump doesn’t pay the thousand bucks

8647

Sadly proper estimates seem to be lacking, but looking at crowd images, it can't be more than a few thousand. Maybe 10k-20k if you're being really generous. As one commenter put it, "It's not a big crowd if you've got room to throw a football without annoying anyone."

Weird interpretation of “over 5 million”

Edit: elsewhere in the Wikipedia article it says “4-6”. Not seeing anything like 13