💪🏼 We need to do this more often
Via Alt US Customs:
According to 50501, the organizers behind #NoKings, & @altnps.bsky.social, over 11 million people showed up in over 2,000 locations yesterday. These are the numbers we need to start getting through to the people we need to hear us.
@GottaLaff That's about 3.2% of the population. I wonder if we can hit 3.5 by the end of the summer.
EDIT: It looks like the real number is probably far lower, somewhere in the 4-6 million range. That's still very good, the biggest mass protest in US history, but AltNPS is not a reliable source.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
@GottaLaff I've looked into this a little bit more and it looks like the real number is probably in the 4 to 6 million range. AltNPS appears to be an unreliable source, as does nokingsmovement.com (the real No Kings website is nokings.org).
~5 million is still an incredible, record-setting turnout.
Analysis by G Elliott Morris:
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-day-protests-turn-out-millions
Press release by No Kings organizers:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wr0b0dmnfBQ6js-QvZzHJFVChPgpCPad4lbvuHAxXx0/
More on Alt National Parks via Rebecca Watson:
https://skepchick.org/2025/06/the-alt-national-park-resistance-account-is-so-obviously-fake/
... That wasn't the first protest, literally there have been other massive protests every month since February.
What about the target Boycotts, the Tesla takedowns, The Economic Shutdown, etc? and that's just the stuff we know about (a lot of stuff is happening under the public eye).
So we have been in public protest and we will continue to do so, we haven't "Just started" give me a break.
That's the kind of gatekeeping that keeps hurting us leftists, it's always "starting" until it's done, or too late. We have been protesting and we will continue to do so.
@manvsxerox @fulanigirl Speaking for myself, and I'm guessing fulangirl... referring to HUGE protests like NoKings.
I've been covering all the daily ones, constantly. I'm more than aware, and have been posting about Maddow's segments on the daily/every state protests as often as she reports on them. + others.
So yes, we're very aware and grateful for those. But the immense ones get the press and have more of an obvious effect on Trump/his thugs. That was the point.
I expect Strength In Numbers 4-6 million estimate is much closer to reality.
The Alt National Park Service people give no information on how they've come up with their numbers, Strength In Numbers very much does.
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-day-protests-turn-out-millions
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