cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38146161
[features eyewitness reports from various cities by participants]
from World-Outlook Oct. 20, 2025
More than 7 million people turned out for the No Kings protests in about 2,700 cities and towns in all 50 U.S. states on October 18, 2025. These numbers are based on reports from the organizers and media across the country.
The main sponsors included the liberal group Indivisible, the American Civil Liberties Union, and hundreds of other national and local organizations.
Some of the largest actions took place in Chicago (250,000), Washington, D.C. (200,000), New York City (where estimates ranged between 100,000 and more than 300,000), and Boston (125,000). Thousands marched in many cities in the South, including Dallas and Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; and Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina.
Probably the main reason why US is in such dissaray is that Americans immediately default to thinking about guns no matter the problem, and are staying on that topic forever.
When presented with the obvious uselessness of your inaction, your first and only though was about a gun, and then you remembered that your gun isn’t the biggest gun, and your though process stopped.
When you stop being angry at me for pointing it out, I really want you to reflect on it.