My bold.
Ahhhhhhh! 
(light bulb moment)
A necessary step accomplished!
I just went on Amazon and bought that shirt. Dammit, I can’t let these people cower me. I want to remain proud to be an American. It’s getting harder every day.
Photo from the rally at the statehouse in Topeka. I don’t think it was a whole lot bigger than the one back in June, maybe about 6 or 7 thousand. But there have been more and more “young” people (i.e. under 40) showing up than at the first couple of rallies, which were mostly older vets and retirees.
There was another rally scheduled in Lawrence later in the afternoon. We didn’t go since we had a grandkid’s birthday party to go to in the afternoon after we got back to town, and were too worn out for another rally after that. But the reports this morning put the attendance at 8 or 9 thousand.
Also… the GOP supermajority is attempting to call a special session to redraw congressional maps to try to oust popular Democratic congresswoman Sharice Davids from her KC area seat. (Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is refusing to call the session and they are attempting to override her.) Protests are planned at and in the capitol if the special session happens. We’ll be there!
I have read that Chicago had 100,000+ people in attendance. My pic below of the crowd is not great because I am not very tall and the whole park was filled (and Grant Park is big). So there are some pic from news media that show the size better (I am in there somewhere…probably).
Everything was very well organized. Chicago police presence was heavy but all the police were very polite and just let things roll with no fuss. They had the march route completely cutoff to traffic. ICE was nowhere to be seen (not surprised, they could not possibly face a crowd like that). An hour of speeches (including mayor Johnson and Illinois governor Pritzker).
ETA: Out of pure chance I found myself walking next to actor Bob Odenkirk. That was pretty cool (I did not bother him for a pic).
Courtesy of NBC Chicago
Courtesy of NBC Chicago
Provided by Ken Circo/Circo Architects
Courtesy Whack-a-Mole
Courtesy Whack-a-Mole
How about his intellectual impairment? Is that fair game, or is that over the line too?
Well said. I like the idea of a city wide strike that would make COVID look like a walk in the park.
We must be careful though.
“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster”- Friedrich Nietzsche
Ordinarily I would agree but Trump portrays himself as a healthy, virile man and MAGA puts out pics like this of him:
He deserves to be mocked for it.
I see you! I see you! 
Not at all, because that directly affects the way he does fucks up his job.
Besides, Pritzger, the guy I want to run, is fat, too. But smart.
If it’s done in a fashion that lumps him in with everyone else with such impairment, then no, it isn’t.
His willful ignorance is certainly fair game, for both mockery and other forms of criticism. Pointing out his likely state of health, likely dementia included, is fair game for political speech but not in the form of mockery.
Trump keeping it classy: 
After spending the day golfing while his allies downplayed and mocked millions of Americans marching against his administration, Donald Trump fired off a Truth Social post with an AI-created video showing himself wearing a crown, flying a “KING TRUMP” fighter jet, and bombing a crowd of No Kings protesters with brown liquid.
I’m terrible at estimating crowd size, but here at the Washington State capitol, I’d ay there were maybe 4,000 people. The speakers were excellent, the crowd enthusiastic. We recognized the many veterans in our ranks and sang The Star Spangled Banner. I choked up and couldn’t sing. I kept thinking about those who lost their lives and those who devoted their lives for this country. This is not the America they sacrificed for.
Those who recall my post saying my elderly neighbor and dog were joining me will be relieved to know that neither did. Honestly, it would’ve been fine if they did, but her hip was bothering her, so I went alone.
Probably my favorite sign read, “We’re all the couch now.” Below is a (not so great) photo of my sign. My mom worked at Sears HQ in Chicago, then put in a full shift at a war plane factory to help the war effort. She was a riveter. Her name was Rose.
nm…I had the wrong “No Kings Day” estimate. In Olympia, the one in June had 5,000+ people. I would think this one was bigger but that’s the ballpark for Olympia it seems so 4,000 estimate seems close.
Oh, you mean those “losers”?? 
Wow! Go, Mom! 
Hey high five! My mom was in charge of a department at Montgomery Wards in Chicago because all the men were in the army. When they came back she got married and started pumping out babies. I didn’t realize until much later what a comedown that must have been in her life. She was a smart, capable woman. I wish I had been a less self-absorbed child and had gotten to know her better – you know, as a person in her own right, not as my “mom.”
It is completely understandable if your neighbor could not make it. For any reason really but health reasons are easy to understand. It can be arduous when older to do something like this. Some did though. In Chicago:
Marilyn Ricken, 80, was in the crowd, having arrived with three friends, two of whom relied on walkers to move around.
Ms. Ricken, a retired insurance agent, had been at the No Kings rally in June but said Saturday’s event came with a deeper sense of urgency. “This is how change happens,” she said as nearby protesters signed their names at the bottom of a large replica of the U.S. Constitution. - SOURCE
Note: The above is NOT meant to shame your neighbor but rather to celebrate the effort it takes some to attend. It is not easy for everyone (and completely understandable if it is just too much for some).
FWIW: I did not see any dogs at the Chicago rally. There probably were some but rare. I think most people understood it just was not a good environment for a dog. If someone was in a smaller city and the rally was a few hundred it might be fine to bring your dog. Not for something as big as the big cities get though.
Just thought you might get a kick out of this.
Over at Breitbart they’re portraying it as a giant Furries Festival. In the comments section people are getting quite the reaction from the MAGAs from lines like
“No Kings: 7 million people, no violence and virtually no arrests. J6: A few thousand people, five dead, 1500 arrested”
and
“No Kings: People dress like animals and everyone has fun. J6: People act like animals and fling feces like monkeys”
It’s not that the burns are sick, it’s that they’re really landing.
I have lower confidence in my ability to estimate the local protest’s size because it didn’t take the form of most crowd sizes, i.e. it wasn’t a solid 2-d block of people. It was all 4 corners of a major intersection, with each of the 8 sidewalks having a line of people for several hundred feet, but it rarely had multiple people standing directly behind each other.
So if it took up 1500 feet of frontage, there were fewer than 1500 people in there because while there were people behind the main line, there were also some gaps, probably in equal proportions, and people don’t take up 1 foot of space anyway. So probably 500 people. But it wasn’t the only gathering in the county.
One thing I did notice at the Chicago rally was there were very, very few black people. It was largely white and Latino.
I dunno why. If we could get the black community engaged in this it would only get better and more powerful. I’d think they’d care about this too. They are certainly being affected, in a bad way, by Trump’s policies.
If it switches to inconveniencing swing voters, that will backfire. But so far, so good.
Just remember that there is no way to stop MAGA except elections.
Here is the model for successful protest in the current U.S. era:
Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement
Answer is yes — big tea party protests helped get us in this mess. Large numbers of legal no kings protesters can help us get out of it.
True of Ferndale as well, though that might be representative of the population demographics there. We had a lot of Black people drive by honking, though, so I’d like to think they were on their way to the Detroit protests.
I’m still in a good mood from yesterday. A lot of my fear has receded. I felt like a coward when I was just doing nothing. When I became a social worker, I signed up for this fight, but I didn’t know the fight would ever be so risky, or the government would be so hostile to my work. But now I’m doing what I can, and it just feels better. I’m going to keep working at it. Chipping away at my own fear and paralysis one action at a time.