Waging Nonviolence:
“Our ongoing research on protests in the United States reveals that within the first two weeks of the second Trump administration, protest activity surpassed that of 2017. By the end of March 2025, there had been three times as many protests as had taken place in 2017. ...
... Protest has been surging since, with large boosts coming from major, multi-location actions in April and May.”
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/american-spring-nonviolent-protest-accelerating/
Rolling Stone:
Approximately 5 million turned out against Trump at the "No Kings" protests; turnout for Trump's military parade appeared to be in the thousands.
Story:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-parade-turnout-protest-no-kings-millions-1235365602/
Has Tom Nichols got a mouse in his pocket? Or is he like Trump, and only certain people matter? Only certain voices should be listened to, the rest are just background noise?
it feels sortakinda weird to defend Nichols but he said on his bluesky that he thought No Kings was a great idea and if he hadn't had family commitments he would have attended one.
ReplyDeleteI think what he meant by "everyone" is the usual suspects- the editors of the NY Times and Washington Post, Jake Tapper, et al
as someone we probably both remember from Eschaton used to say, 'in the corporate state the corporate media are the state media"
Yeah, I’m just tired of giving the corporate media all the agency, and the people none of their own. “No Kings” organized online, not in the NYT Op-Ed page, and got more attention Sunday from regional papers than from the “newspaper of record.” Which is, and always has been, a legend in its own mind. Media is not setting the terms of the national discussion, and never really did. It was after the Voting Rights Act passed (LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act as an homage to Kennedy, who had championed it), that WaPo decided MLK was a “notable figure.” And then they broke with him after his anti-war sermon at Riverside Church. The country eventually followed King’s lead, and I expect more of the country was with King at the time, than was with WaPo.
ReplyDeleteI don’t want media to run in front of the parade. We don’t need them there. YMMV, of course. Just MHO.
I agree the media shouldn't be in front of the parade. I do kinda think they ought to be making their readers aware the parade exists
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