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Mombeka's avatar

Saw Rick Wilson in Talahassee and as for me, I was actually on one of our local news broadcasts carrying my American flag upside down. ✊🏼

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Ron Balazs's avatar

3000 plus in Kirkland, WA. Great vibes. Several speakers including the mayor of Kirkland.

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Diana Carey's avatar

We had a big turnout in Tacoma, WA. Several hundred gathered to listen to speeches and music. Cars driving by were honking in support and some had signs attached to the tops of their cars.

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Carolyn Reynolds's avatar

10,000 in Santa Cruz city...another 2000 or so in smaller protests around the county. Very good turnout considering this was graduation weekend for UCSC and the students were not there in force.

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Dorothy Mayeda's avatar

Hundreds or more here in Murphys, CA

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Tracey Ledbetter's avatar

Alameda, CA was 3000 people strong, not bad for a tiny Coast Guard Island! One of the biggest here ever. Peaceful, but defiant

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Christa Slaton's avatar

Our protest in Las Cruces, NM was joyful. It wasn't just the people at the protest, but a majority of people driving by honked and waved to us. Several cars had passengers who showed us their signs as they drove by. It was uplifting. About 10 trucks drove by with people who gave us the finger, It was less than 1% of the responses we got. I wore my Lincoln Square shirt and carried my sign that I made with my years old Lincoln Project poster of Donald Trump "Nope"--based on the Obama "Hope" poster.

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P. J. Schuster's avatar

Hi Christa 👋 I’m in Ruidoso, NM & we had a great time too!! We had at least 100 people & for a small rural town that’s pretty Republican, that was good. We also had many thumbs up & honks. There was a young man from Spain who kept driving by & he’d honk & waved the flag of Spain 🇪🇸

There were a handful of the middle fingers & 3-4 of the black exhaust pickups, but over all mostly a very positive day. 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

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Christa Slaton's avatar

Super! What the media is missing in some of these protests is the massive amount of support that the people driving by demonstrated. I was so heartened.

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Eve Furchgott's avatar

Well if only a few thou turned up for the official birthday parade... the protest even in little Hilo, HI matched that!

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Bob Franza's avatar

Per BBC "Organisers had expected up to 200,000 people, but so far only a few thousand have turned up .... " HAHAHAHAHA ....

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Bob Franza's avatar

That's in reference to Donald's military parade ...

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Douglas's avatar

The military parade was also a MARKETING device to lure disaffected young men to join the MAGA warriors. on NEWSMAX the amount of machismo bravado by the guest commentators (former military) was jarring. We're glad few showed but the television production by right wing media fuels the goal of the Army being an arm of a dictator TruMpf or MAGA as a political force. It wasn't just about D and his ego. There is danger ahead.

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Mark McPeek's avatar

And Berlin, Germany! 500 at American embassy.

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

CELEBRATE THE GOOD TIMES

Let's treat all future "protests' as celebrations of democracy July 4th coming up can be just that....a big time celebration showing Orange Cheeto and his Nazi sycophants what Americans really appreciate Bring music snacks kids friends neighbors with a light and happy heart That's how you face threats of fascism here's a great musical video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaOY1YXJPUo that William Vasu shared on this thread Just excellent thanks

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Catherine Hendricks's avatar

Yup. The “official” estimate just removed that zero. 70k in Seattle. But the whole damn city did turn out.

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Joni Bosh's avatar

Seattle is actually 70,000 per Seattle Times

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R Anderson's avatar

Des Moines, Iowa represented mightily!! 🇺🇸!!

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Michael Kalm's avatar

Right on, except "We the People" is first line of the Constitution, not the Declaration of Independence! but you're forgiven!

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Nivea Castro's avatar

All right!!!! All right!! Let's keep on keeping on with protest, loud and clear and lawsuits. Resist the felon, Adulterer, conman liar TACO DonOLD and his minions. They all must be held to account. Remember Nuremberg!

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