William Lindsey 
A gathering of pictures from the largest nationwide protest in history.
https://www.badchoices.us/p/no-kings-pictures-from-the-largest
"There were only a couple of thousand people at Trump's sad little Nazi parade.
Meanwhile there were millions of people at the over 2000 anti-Trump protests! š"
~ Oliver Markus Molloy
https://www.badchoices.us/p/trumps-nazi-parade-was-an-embarrassing
Trump's Nazi parade was an embarrassing failure with a tiny crowd.
So sad. We all know how important crowd sizes are for small-dick Orange Hitler.
More photos of yesterday's No Kings protests with the cities in the photos named.
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/millions-protest-peacefully-against
And yet more photos of yesterday's No Kings protests, with cities labeled.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/gallery/photos-no-kings-day-protests
"This is not a still, itās a video. He really had that expression the entire time.
The toddIer is pouting about his faiIure of a parade."
"Protesters at 'No Kings' events in Culpeper, Virginia, and San Francisco, California, have been struck by motorists, according to local news reports."
~ Cy Neff
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/no-kings-protests-vehicles-struck-injuries
"Los Angeles police moved aggressively to disperse the last of the crowds at Saturdayās otherwise peaceful anti-Trump protest downtown, using officers on horseback to clear an area around a federal building with batons and wooden sticks. They fired tear canisters and foam rubber bullets when some of the demonstrators started to regroup."
~ Andrew Gumbel
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/los-angeles-trump-protest
āJust to put it in perspective: Trumpās birthday parade drew about 8,600 people. Meanwhile, Connecticut held 30 rallies, and over 10,000 showed up in Hartford alone. Donald Trump got ratioed by Hartford, Connecticut. On his birthday.ā
~ Karly Kingsley
Roman Vilgut"Today's attendance:
tRump's Parade: 20,000
Pope Leo in Chicago: 30,000
No Kings: 11 million
Good job USA!!!!"
~ Mimi
"As tanks and soldiers paraded through the streets of Washington on Saturday, several million people around the country turned out to protest against the excesses of Donald Trumpās administration.
The protests, dubbed 'No Kings', took place at about 2,100 sites nationwide, from big cities to small towns."
~ Rachel Leingang, Andrew Gumbel, and Melissa Hellmann
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/no-kings-protests-trump-military-parade
Seth Abramson offers yet another photo essay with pictures from yesterday's anti-Trump protest ā a global collection of photos, some of which he shares only with paid subscribers. He writes,
"The photos below arenāt just from America but all over the globe. Itās hard to articulate what a historic moment No Kings Day was, but saying that it was a global celebration is probably a good start."
https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/over-250-photos-from-around-the-nation
Over 250 Photos From Around the Nation and the World From the Historic āNo Kings Dayā Protests
Almost no one showed up to Donald Trumpās surprisingly timid, depressing, and generally lackluster birthday party in Washington, but protests against him were bursting at the seams across the globe.
"Compiling these photographs turned out to be a massive undertaking. For all that Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post hilariously claimed that only 'thousands' showed up to the thousands of No Kings protests, it was, of course, millions. And that means that there were in fact so many protests that trying to find photographic evidence of them all is an impossibility."
"So my goal here was to at least find hundreds of protests that in total would at a minimum show hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump protesters. ...
Even as his fans crowed online that the claimed attendance (apparently a White House-provided figure) was 200,000āif past is precedent, the White House was simply using a jazzed-up version of the number of meaningless digital RSVPs as an attendance quoteā"
"(And if this is to be believed, which is a mystery as yet unsolved, some of those in attendance may have been paid as seat-fillers; certainly, Donald Trump loves to secretly do what he has long accused his political opponents of doing, and he continues to falsely say that Democrats pay protesters when in fact heās the only U.S. politician who has been caught doing so in recent years.)"
"He promised 250,000 people would show up to DC. Less than 10,000 people attended his low-energy, bizarre parade.
Meanwhile, between 5ā10 million Americans participated in the No Kings Protests to stand up against the Trump regime.
Trump was miserable yesterday. He was sitting there inconsolable on the stage like he was about to cry.
Meanwhile, the joy that was shared at the peaceful No Kings Protests was contagious."
~ Ben Meiselas
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/we-humiliated-trump-and-ruined-his
"It will take the media until Monday to gain the first inkling of what happened on Saturday. A video shared on Substack by Medha Murtagh shows the massive demonstrations in major cities across the US and deserves to be watched! It will not only inspire you, but it will also help you understand that (so far) the media is grossly underreporting the scale and size of the protests."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
"If your hope for US democracy bucket is feeling a little low, top it up with this."
~ Medha Murtagh
https://substack.com/@greatthings/note/c-125973367?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2xjx0
"Donald Trump's less than subtle commandeering of the Army's 250th anniversary celebration was an obnoxious, high security spectacle of absurd self-gratification."
~ Dominic Gwinn
https://www.wonkette.com/p/trumps-single-finger-salute-to-america
"Instead of allowing citizens to get educated about the role the armed services played in the founding of the country, and its current function, the National Mall was covered in the same high fencing used to secure the Capitol after the January 6th insurrection so helicopters and APCs and various small arms could be staged for photo ops."
"Thereās even a photo of Trump watching the parade, where you can see long stretches of unfilled space across the street. The energy was low. It was extremely boring. And it was so quiet at times, you could hear the squeaks from the tanks as they rolled down the street. ...
Meanwhile, there was an event celebrating Pope Leo XIV in his hometown of Chicago, with a sold-out crowd of more than 30,000 people."
~ Scott Dworkin
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/thousands-of-anti-trump-protests
More gatherings of photos from yesterday:
Jay Kuo:
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progressive-wins-june-15
Simon Rosenberg:
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/celebrating-no-kings-day-across-america
Joyce Vance:
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/how-we-keep-our-democracy
Ron Filipkowski:
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/top-signs-from-no-kings-protests
David Pepper:
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/june-14-2025-the-sound-of-marching
Dean Obeidallah, noting that in Boston alone, a million people turned out:
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/millions-of-americans-from-all-50
"They've got the tanks. We've got the power. ā¦
What the birthday boy and all his sycophants and toadies and accomplices and normalizers and enablers are doing to show their strength actually reveals extraordinary weakness.:
~ A.R. Moxon
https://www.the-reframe.com/shows-of-weakness/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter
Wulfy
Indieterminacy@wdlindsy I found the second half of the article more powerful, investigating "who is an immigrant", rather than "what is an immigrant".
Hopefully the author returns to this theme again more concertedly.
Johan Diederik@wdlindsy tRump had offered to become the new pope. He might have been more successful in that job š¤”
dave@wdlindsy They have #LAPD to teach them Civics. here, closeup video. evidence of police brutality for future lawsuit https://kafeneio.social/@indyradio/114688034010959723
indyradio (@indyradio@kafeneio.social)
Attached: 1 video Mounted Police Teach You How To Say "Fuck The Pigs" In L.A. #LosAngeles #Video #NoKings #LAPD first 20 seconds...
Timo
Cookiefiend
Mark Stoneman@wdlindsy I feel bad for all the citizen soldiers who got roped into this nonsense.
MostlyTato@wdlindsy
Been watching UK news today. Whilst there are serious things going on in the news agenda, I'd have expected the parade and the protests to at least get a mention. I think I saw the parade on the news tickertape but nothing about the millions attending the protests. Maybe I just missed it š¤
Been watching UK news today. Whilst there are serious things going on in the news agenda, I'd have expected the parade and the protests to at least get a mention. I think I saw the parade on the news tickertape but nothing about the millions attending the protests. Maybe I just missed it š¤
Johan ZijlstraBrood en spelen?
Het was niet eens #onderhoudend.
SufferForMe šThe most recent highest estimate I've seen is 11 million, and i suspect that number is too low, judging by the size of crowds and number of locations with gatherings, including so many well beyond the obvious larger cities.
cognitively accessible math@sufferforme @wdlindsy Right. The hundreds who filled our courthouse and the spaces around it -- some say a thousand... happened in thousands of smaller towns.
MylesRydenI think it is the low energy part that is most important. I almost wish many more people had turned out for this flaccid attempt at a military wank-a-thon.
Let's face it, every small town in America had a more organized, more compelling parade this past Memorial Day.
Whatever effect this parade was supposed to have on America's enemies (whoever they might be at this point, I am no longer sure) the overwhelming actual response must have been laughter.
EtherAndRhum@wdlindsy most glee Iāve seen out of melania in quite some time.
@wdlindsy Yes, once more -- how many times is this??? -- well, at least it was just "ruined." Usually I'm told he has been DESTROYED!!! I'm afraid that today he'll find a way to be extra cruel to more people and of course, never actual consequences.
I do hold out some hope.
I do hold out some hope.
Arthur van der Harg
6G@ArtHarg @geonz @wdlindsy
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#Trump will find a wasy to be more cruel (after his failed #army250th parade)
OMG and "On my King" OMK
āļøTrying to shape the perception of reality
Sunday June 15 2025....
If they can't predict the rain yesterday (his 250th (Army) #birthdayparade) then how can they predict 100 or 50 years of climate.... (#ClimateChange denier in Chief)
And the California #NationalGuard, with the threat of showing up, will cause the event to be non-violent (paraphrased)
Veronica
Disco3000
Jenkins. Tom Jenkins. š¤®š¤¢š¤®
Bebadefabo@wdlindsy every tantrum is an admission guilt
tlariv
Erik Ellestad@wdlindsy 20,000 at the Drumpf parade? Where did that number come from, I thought it was more like 9,000?