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Living the car-free life in Oakland, CA. Don't make me drive.
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If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today.
That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
Kevin M. Kruse
Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution.
There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.
Kevin M. Kruse
I value humanity, science, compassion and joy. The further left I go politically the more I find communities with these values.
Punch right and listen left has never failed me and I don't think it ever will.
If you or someone you know needs help reacquiring their bike after SFPD stole it then DM me or reach out via friends
I don't know if I can help, but I want to try
A final thought: the most important, efficacious, & sizeable faction on the left is plain old normie Dems, "wine moms," "resistance libs," whatever condescending term you prefer. They're the ones doing the actual work. But they are largely ignored by media, because they're organized & led by women.
Like I've said so many times, if you're on the right, the way to get clicks is to bash someone on the left. If you're on the left, the way to get clicks is to bash someone on the left.
There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.
