More than 3,000 marches and rallies took place yesterday in cities and towns across America during the third “No Kings” event, where millions protested against the policies and actions of President Trump and his administration.

More than 3,000 marches and rallies took place yesterday in cities and towns across America during the third “No Kings” event, where millions protested against the policies and actions of President Trump and his administration.

  • AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    24·
    18 hours ago

    I live in a small rural red area and the first NK protest had like…4? It was a joke.

    The second had 11. Woo-ee. I actually considered that pretty good considering the area.

    This last one probably had 100. I was genuinely in awe.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    211·
    1 day ago

    Good to see such big demonstrations. Maybe there is hope yet for USA?
    I wonder what the justification for arresting people who demonstrate peacefully is. AFAIK these demonstrations are legally planned events.

    • null@lemmy.orgEnglish
      111·
      24 hours ago

      I’m not so sure. If you watch the news you might see a small blurb about it.

        • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
          5·
          9 hours ago

          They updated the title to say “large crowds” now. Still underselling it, but at least 8 mil is at the top of the article.

      • Mose13@lemmy.world
        5·
        23 hours ago

        Probably Fox News: professional Antifa protestors were seen in cities around the US in violent anti American riots. They were hired by Joe Biden, who hates American

  • expatriado@lemmy.world
    433·
    1 day ago

    Some of my pics from yesterday, on the last one (crowd picture), you can see a lady (on the right with pink shorts and black blouse) pointing at me with her lumix as i am taking a photo with my lumix, didn’t notice until i arrived home

  • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    23 hours ago

    I was unable to access the page, it came up with an error about site maintenance, likely because I have a lot of things blocked, so I saved it in the wayback machine. If you want to update your post with the link, please feel free to do so.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20260329214854/https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/2026/03/photos-from-the-third-nationwide-no-kings-protest/686609/?gift=NBdGSmKfDQzLc1B6N1F-gW8bItPGCyS-ElpMA69zojo

  • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3316·
    1 day ago

    IDK about your local protest. I hope it went well, but mine felt like a joke. Watching the government be torn apart over the last few months and their message was ‘vote in local elections.’ it feels like we’re fighting fire with paper.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
      428·
      1 day ago

      The No Kings protests are… I have a lot of issues with how much they feel like controlled opposition and pageantry. Also, weirdly, an excuse for camera nerds to flex (good luck taking that giant DLSR to a “real” protest where you will get tear gassed and people will panic and shove while trying to get away). And I forget if we ever came down on whether the national organizers were shady as hell or not?

      But understand that the main point of “protests” like this are to get that list of names and to get people used to actually getting outside (which is also a complaint where it is a twice a year parade on a Saturday morning…). Those names equate to funding and getting more bodies for other protests.

      And… the official line is going to be what people can do. And that is very much getting involved in local politics. We can’t fix this hellscape through voting but we CAN do harm minimization at home. And understand that voting in local elections is how the christofacists got so much power. When everyone else ignores the school board, they are stuffing it so they can kill LGBTQ+ folk. When everyone else was laughing at not knowing what a comptroller even is, they were getting their people into a position where they can actively kill budgets and social programs. And so forth.

      But also understand that a huge part of these kinds of protests is networking. Get to know the community organizers and spend enough time talking with them that they don’t think you are a cop. At which point they obviously tell you to vote locally and nothing else.

      • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        131·
        1 day ago

        Maybe I’m just expecting too much, but I was hoping for some kind of reaction to the events since the last no kings protest. Instead I found dwindling attendance and the same very long winded low energy speakers. It’s probably just the best deep red Mississippi can muster, but it’s disheartening.

        • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
          132·
          1 day ago

          I would very much argue that the anti-ice protests were the reaction and escalation. And what “No Kings” should have been in the first place.

          There was a problem. We had very specific demands. Folk got out. They stood in the face of violence. They showed they were willing to protect their fellow humans. Hell, they even showed they were willing to engage in a (limited) general strike.

          And guess what happened? Ice bitched out and ran away from Minneapolis and Chicago and so forth. Yeah, they are still there to a lesser degree. But the occupation ended and we are back to just a moderate hellscape rather than constant terror of being outside while brown.

          Contrast that with No Kings where… there is no actionable anything or even unified message. It is just people standing around dancing and putting on costumes.

          Its a cliche but “What do we want? X. When do we want it? Now, but really within N days is fine” is such an effective chant. Because it provides a clear deescalation path that gives the protestors what they want.

          • backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
            3·
            1 day ago

            “ICE Out!” varies state to state. Minnesota and Portland are targeted with an increased presence because the regime wants to control the kickback. In my state there’s no mass presence even though the arrests are still occurring. They’re less visible, harder to track, don’t build castles that can be sieged, and the vast majority of the work is being done by local/state police officers because state leadership are boot-lickers. ICE creates bonfires for attention but a lot of the work is being carried out dimly and discretely. It’s a lot harder to take action, organize counter-protests, make local chats, and follow them with whistles when it’s one or two unmarked cops trolling vs a squad of them going door to door.

          • its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            73·
            1 day ago

            It reminded me more of a Mardi gras parade than an actual protest. Meanwhile we’re in active shooting warfare with Iran, we’ve invaded Venezuela while threatening Greenland and Cuba. All while we’re trying to sell out Ukraine. It feels like we’ve gone beyond threatening to send a gold spray painted boot to our state senator, or calling Trump names.

            • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
              53·
              1 day ago

              Many of those problems are the kinds of things that will just never get critical mass amongst a domestic population. Because… it genuinely doesn’t impact them. Like, let’s take the Genocide in Palestine? If you were to believe online lefties? It is the greatest sin ever and THE most important topic on the planet. But most of them never even knew it was a thing until the attack a few years back. And they STILL mostly just know it because their favorite celebrities started talking about it (which is why they still actively ignore all the other genocides…).

              But the “good” news is that things are RAPIDLY boiling over due to oil prices. But that will likely manifest more as protesting “the price at the pump” rather than whether we do or don’t send the marines to die in Iran.

              But yeah. I strongly encourage going to local protests and talking to the organizers. No Kings… I mostly checked in on a few buddies and dipped. Because there are plenty of people who are thinking beyond filming a tiktok of singing a Hamilton song. They just aren’t really advertising on social media.

    • trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf
      51·
      1 day ago

      Agreed. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against being vocal and holding rallies but it’s frustrating knowing that the real change against what’s happening now doesn’t come from political theatre. Societal rules no longer exist and attempting to follow them in the face of oppression will get you killed.

  • lumpenproletariat@quokk.auEnglish
    648·
    1 day ago

    Can’t take these seriously or respectfully when people are smiling and having fun as their government murdered hundreds of children and puts people into concentration camps.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      482·
      1 day ago

      It’s called weaponized joy.

      The fascists want your soul. Don’t give it to them.

      There’s a time for laughter, and a time for tears.

      If you want it to be all tears all the time, you won’t get very far. And this is a marathon, not a sprint.

      • lumpenproletariat@quokk.auEnglish
        518·
        1 day ago

        There’s also a time for anger and rage, It’s when people are being murdered. The time for tears is when the killing has been stopped.

        These no kings protests are a pressure release valve for the regime.

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
          82·
          22 hours ago

          Well if you blow a gasket then you can’t hold any pressure, so it’s good that it’s being channeled somewhere.

          A “time” doesn’t have to refer to extensive periods of months or years at a time. You can rage monday morning, cry in the afternoon, laugh in the evening, then do it all over again on tuesday.

          So stop trying to squeeze everything into absolutes.

          You can go to a protest and network with like-minded people. But if you choose to do nothing but complain about it online, waiting for some magical revolution to materialize out of thin air and solve everyone’s problems without any planning or coordination, then quite frankly I can’t be bothered to try convincing you otherwise. But I’m personally not upset that millions of people are choosing to channel their anger more productively…

            • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
              2·
              17 hours ago

              Good thing we don’t have to let the media determine what we do or focus on. I mean yeah it’s shitty that they gloss over it. Most of the big name media companies are owned by right-wingers by now. But that’s no reason to stop demonstrating. If anything, it’s more reason to demonstrate…

              • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                11 hours ago

                it’s more reason why only protesting was never going to work. they were your leverage, and they were dismantled. now more direct methods need to be done. such as a general strike.

                • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
                  3·
                  9 hours ago

                  You mean like the one that the No Kings organizers are planning for May Day?

                  You can keep coming up with reasons why it’s never enough, or you can show up, be a part of it, boost for visibility, collect names and numbers/emails for your org, network with other orgs in your area, and contribute to the collective effort and momentum that’s underway.

                  But if you prefer to be a naysayer and always move the goalposts, then, well quite frankly I don’t have the time or energy to try convincing you otherwise…