I’ve got the ‘flu EVEN THOUGH I LET THEM TALK ME INTO A GODSDAMNED FLU SHOT, and the pictures and stories here are the only things that have taken me out of the misery, however briefly.
First, a note from Claudia:
Hi, just wanted to let you know that the March in Chicago was cancelled after a larger than expected crowd showed up. According to organizers the route was flooded with people and they couldn’t march so they turned it into a rally in Grant Park. The organizers expected about 50k, they’re estimating about 150k showed up. It’s now just a rally. Here’s a link to the Chicago Tribune coverage: “Thousands fill Loop after Women’s March rally in Chicago draws 250,000”
That’s as many people as showed up for the President-Asterisk’s inaugural yesterday — and the Women’s March didn’t have to pay seat-fillers!
Judy Little sends shots from the Boston March. Two-sided signs:
And a threat to chill the hardest spirit:
From O. Felix Culpa,
Howdy! Here are pictures from the Santa Fe march. We had at least 10,000 (I’ve seen estimates as high as 14,000), which is darn good for a small city in a state of only 2 million. There were also marches in Albuquerque, Las Cruces, and Farmington, and a bunch of New Mexicans bused it to D.C.
Photos are:
1. Me
2. A mother/daughter pair in matching pussyhats
3. Santa Fe crowd scene
Joey Maloney
Hey, Ian G. asked in the earlier thread what my sign meant, I figure there’s a better chance he’ll see the answer if I put it here. It says, “Trump [go] to Russia”, but Trump’s name also puns with the Hebrew for “hitchhike”.
The more you know!
randy khan
Repeating from the last thread:
I have a somewhat wild-goose-chase kind of bleg for people who were in DC today. Did you or someone you know happen to take a picture of people with old-style big round NOW signs? (“Vintage” was the kind description from some people.) My wife, our friend, and I were carrying them, and a fair number of people took pictures, but we forgot to get one of ourselves. We’d love to get a photo from someone who took one.
aimai
Were you at the Boston march, Anne Laurie? We saw the pissed off grandma sign!
zhena gogolia
Thank you to everyone who marched!
Omnes Omnibus
@Joey Maloney: My Hebrew speaker* saw it as “Trump, Go to Russia.”
*FTR, I do not have a tame Hebrew speaker on staff. I know someone who speaks the language. Who would randomly have a Hebrew speaker on staff? One generally sends out for linguistic assistance.
Suzanne
The Phoenix march was fabulous. Full of fabulous signs and I have a picture of some lovely people who made female genitalia hats out of balloons. So full of subversive crafty win.
My little Spawn is coming down with a fever. I hope she didn’t get sick at the march. Tomorrow will be a snuggle-up-at-home day.
amk
bbc fp – trump attacks media over crowd photos.
maga it is.
amk
BruceFromOhio
The Cleveland march was almost surreal – blue sky, sunshine, 60 degrees. In January.
Police estimates 15,000 in attendance. What’s really great about all the stories is the total lack of problems that require police action – CPD for all its warts put on a good show, pointing folks the way on the route, keeping the traffic directed elsewhere, and maintaining a visible but friendly and low-key presence.
Resistance is fertile.
humboldtblue
Everyone has photos!
kdaug
This is bigger than just Trump. All day I’ve been seeing photos of marches – not just the usual suspects like Barcelona, Paris, Athens, London, Melbourne, but places like Nairobi, Kenya; Pristina, Kosovo; Accra, Ghana; Belgrade, Serbia, etc.
Something’s happening here…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
watching the Bill Maher show on my DVR and they just showed Jackie Speier wearing her pussy hat at the inauguration. She’s fantastic. It must be nice to have cool representation in congress.
Major Major Major Major
@kdaug: feels different, yeah. Like if Occupy had known what the hell they were doing.
amk
whoever timed this march is a genius.
a day earlier would have resulted in ugly clashes with the wingnutz.
a day later would have lost the crowd contrast and hence the media coverage.
hitting them the very next day is perfect.
MobiusKlein
SF was wet, wet, wet, and we represented beyond my imagination.
Mnemosyne
We warned the Trumpsters not to piss off the knitters and crocheters. We made the IOC back down, what makes you think we’re scared of you tiny weenies?
Major Major Major Major
@MobiusKlein: when/where do we get numbers on SF? I heard 100k in Oakland.
Mnemosyne
@kdaug:
White men thought they could punch all women in the face with no consequences.
They thought wrong.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: I think that that Occupy put some issues on the table. And I give them credit for trying. A young woman who went my alma mater got convicted of a felony because she elbowed a cop in the face when he grabbed her from behind the night the cops shut it down.
MobiusKlein
@Major Major Major Major: My wife went to the anti-war rally in 2003, and she says it dwarfed that turnout.
50K-100K would not surprise me at all.
amk
@efgoldman:
and yet they marched. that’s the point here.
aimai
@efgoldman: My daughter and I burst into tears when the Boston rally played “Roar”–it was painful to hear something we associated with Hillary’s victory played under these circumstances.
MobiusKlein
@Major Major Major Major: For what it’s worth, my office is on Market St. also. I see lots of protests, and this one outsized any others I have seen by 100x or more. The inauguration one, and various others were specks.
Omnes Omnibus
@aimai: It is horrible that such an terrible song has such an effect. //
Smiling Mortician
@aimai: Hillary was a complete class act at the inauguration, and again on Twitter today. Dunno if this has been discussed elsewhere — I haven’t been here too much lately.
trollhattan
Speaking of photos; the short-fingered vulgarian now has control of the whitehouse Flickr account (which has been amazing to follow the last 8 years–all hail Pete Souza) but fear not, you can still access it here:https://www.flickr.com/photos/obamawhitehouse
“Unfollow” the old account unless you want to see pics of…you know.
MomSense
Be of good cheer, juicers. We had a lot of fun today. The whole world joined in our fun. The press secretary destroyed his credibility on day one and the Marigold Menace further insulted the CIA and acted like a dim witted dictator who is oddly obsessed with size. Hmmm, wonder why.
Day one.
I’m dreaming of pink hat voter registration drives, pink hat petition signing for voting rights referenda, and pink hat call our congress critter parties. Let’s have some fun!
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: I give Occupy credit for getting issues out there and i criticize them strongly for refusing to channel it into any action whatsoever because of their insistence on leaderless hippie bullshit.
Anyway, go women’s march! I’ve seen a number of orgs dedicated to helping women run for office spring up and people are talking about it this time around in a way that makes me think they mean it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: Valid criticism.
JCJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
Did you see the crowds in Madison? I stood near the base of Bascom Hill. The crowd stretched all the way to the capitol. I heard an estimate on the news tonight of 75,000. I can believe it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
in my best Alec Baldwin voice:
Good God, America
Major Major Major Major
@MobiusKlein: biggest I can recall participating in in SF.
Omnes Omnibus
Jesus fucking Christ, this might not be the best night to do updates to the site.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: Alain is getting rid of the Spanish version of balloon juice.
Omnes Omnibus
@JCJ: Work kept me away. I wore a pink shirt though.
? Martin
California has your back, y’all.
LA: 750,000
San Francisco: 100,000
Oakland: 60,000
San Diego: 30,000
San Jose: 30,000
Sacramento: 20,000
Santa Cruz: 18,000
Santa Ana: 15,000
SLO: 8,000
More cities had rallies but those are all the attendance numbers I could find. CA alone put up at least a million people today – not counting who went to DC. And our newest Senator did us proud
Gravenstone
@Omnes Omnibus: Was just about to ask if I missed a site update notice. Work in progress, as usual. Hopefully not complete because at this moment there are no post numbers and all the reply edit buttons are MIA (not that they’ve been working in FF of late anyway).
amk
Is this Alain’s way of saying fu, bj’ers?
trollhattan
Read the SF Bay Area had six rallies, which is pretty remarkable. Dunno if Napa really counts as Bay Area but anyhoo, there’s energy here to be harvested and directed by a group of accomplished cat herders.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: Christ, we are twitchy people. A format update this close to the Friday shitshow?
ETA: Bad idea.
amk
or the hamsters’ way of saying ‘fu, bj’ers, we are tired of doing your stuff fer free’ ?
trollhattan
@? Martin:
Three-quarter million in LA? Holy moly.
mainmata
My entire family went to the DC march since we live just outside the District and it was enormous. Far bigger than any demonstration I went to during Vietnam. And it was sprawling and over a really long time. We got there before 10 am and we left exhausted at 3pm and people were still arriving. So I figure somewhere between 500K and 750K but hard to know. But besides a huge number of “pussy hats” on women, men and kids, the people were all friendly and there was a recognition that we were all facing a real challenge. Also, all ages and sexes present. Really hopeful. But, obviously, this needs to be persistent and in the ballot box.
amk
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
fiiinally, his own brownshirts.
dr. bloor
@? Martin: It’s a shame California isn’t a part of Real America.
O. Felix Culpa
Santa Fe update: the count is now at 17,000. It was uplifting to feel connected to so many marchers in the U.S. and around the world, who participated in marches big and small. There’s a lot of work ahead of us and this was an inspiring, energizing launch.
MomSense
@Mnemosyne:
I may have to knit a wee (and I’m thinking weally wee) willie warmer in gold for the tiny handed tin pot.
? Martin
@trollhattan: Safe to say we are already done with this presidency and are ready to move on. Heaven help us the day they go after immigration. The latino community organized a half million in 2006. We may put a million liberals out in a single event yet.
amk
@efgoldman:
maintain peace in Russia’s streets. pogroms.
it’s all semantics/msm.
trollhattan
Presidentin’ is hard. For example, constant interruptions.
trollhattan
@efgoldman:
I recall right before the Sochi Olympics, Pu$$y Riot had a protest broken up by thugs who literally whipped them in public. Said thugs were described as “Cossacks.” Horrid to watch, much less experience and I remember checking the calendar to make sure I was in the right century.
amk
@trollhattan: now if only the kenyan had offered to ‘work with the opposition’.
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
So having a stroke turned you into an average woman? Because that’s pretty much me 24/7, and I think I cry a lot less than the average woman to start with.
Mnemosyne
@? Martin:
I know there was a separate one in Pasdena, but I don’t know what the estimated headcount is. I think there were lots of small ones in small cities all around the Southland.
? Martin
@dr. bloor: We are going to make it known what real America looks like.
But today was a good day. A better day than yesterday was bad. Trump is on tilt – we got to him, and he’s showing that he cannot restrain his worst instincts. He pissed off the CIA. He pissed off the press. He can’t keep his mouth shut and all he’s managed to do is show that despite holding the most powerful office on earth, he’s still a very small and insecure man. He’s going to seek vengeance – do more things to piss us off. We need to come back stronger and louder. Eventually even the GOP will cast him loose.
Major Major Major Major
@? Martin:
Probably scheduled for Tuesday…
bemused senior
@Mnemosyne: There was one in Redwood City, 3500. But it was timed to allow taking the train to SF if you wanted, so probably not fair to count it independently.
MisterForkbeard
@Smiling Mortician: I keep telling people that this is Hillary’s job now, NOT to be out there raising hell. That would let Republicans and the media pretend the whole thing is “sour grapes” and discredit it.
But most people don’t seem to think of that. Personally, I think she’s doing an amazing job.
? Martin
@Mnemosyne: I think there was nearly 100 in California. I know there were ones in Compton, Laguna, San Clemente, Long Beach, Riverside, Hemet. I imagine most people ran up to LA, though. But even if each one was just a few thousand people, that adds up.
MisterForkbeard
@? Martin: I’m really wanting to see how Harris conducts herself over the next 4 years. She’s pretty fantastic on paper and in speeches, but we’ll have to see how she actually does in substance.
I know there’s some folks here who don’t like her very much.
Suzanne
Something wacked out on this page on my iPad. Column width decreased and text size increased. Me no like.
Suzanne
Also lost post numbers and the button to go down to the bottom of the comments. WTF.
MobiusKlein
@bemused senior: the SF march started later than the rest because of a Pro-Life rally that had been previously scheduled.
tisalaska
Little Palmer Alaska right down the road from wacky Wasilla home of the name of which we don’t speak had 1000 people marching in 10 degree weather and even made a mention on MSNBC tonight.
catclub
this was nice and harsh – amazing.
and this on photos not lying, but Spicer lying.
trollhattan
@Suzanne:
It’s from Ikea. You need an Allan wrench.
trollhattan
@MobiusKlein:
A pro-life rally in SF…that must draw tens of people at the very least!
Major Major Major Major
@MobiusKlein: ahh, I was wondering.
MisterForkbeard
@Suzanne: Yep. Alain must have posted a new site version. We see the same thing on desktop.
Honestly, I like it all except for the lack of post numbers. Those need to come back.
mdblanche
I have some photos from the rally in Providence, but the email contact for front-pagers doesn’t seem to allow attachments. How are people sending them in?
Steeplejack (tablet)
Goddamn it, has Alain fucked up the site again?! Serenity now.
Suzanne
@MisterForkbeard: On my tablet, the decreased column width and larger text size means that only 4-5 words fit on a line. Looks fucking ludicrous.
MisterForkbeard
@Suzanne: Eww. Okay, I’m going to stay away from comments on my phone until that’s fixed. Given that the kiddo is up until 8pm, that means I’m only reading things here after 8pm PST for awhile.
Expect my already mostly-lurking presence to go down. :)
Timurid
Shut up about the crowds, unless you want a blowgun dart in the eye.
MobiusKlein
@trollhattan: There is a yearly pro-life rally around the country, marking the anniversary of Roe-v-Wade. Other years, it has made Market St. clogged, or otherwise mangled traffic.
Today, it’s a rounding error compared to the Woman’s rally.
amk
cole: house rebuild. that went swimmingly well. now, to redo the fucking site.
Larkspur
I’m not having any problems with the site. Maybe my reality has gotten really fungible. I think that is a word. But how can I be sure in this post reality world?
O. Felix Culpa
Some great signs from various marches: https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/best-womens-march-signs?utm_term=.elMJPxzxL8#.opJ2rPePmz.
One favorite: “I’ve seen smarter cabinets at IKEA”
Larkspur
@O. Felix Culpa: I love the red embroidered sign!
MomSense
@Timurid:
Here’s another good one. trump crowds
Calouste
So two former CIA directors reacted to the Unimpeached Traitor’s speech there with something like “Shut the fuck up Donnie”. We’ll probably see some more leaks soon.
amk
@MomSense: lol. that would explain all the ‘whiteness’.
MomSense
@O. Felix Culpa:
So good!
Dog Dawg Damn
I wish Adam would post about the CIA speech, in more detail.
What was going on?
Reading between the lines–Trump is embattled, against the intelligence community. He wanted to get his CIA director appointed *immediately*. That didn’t happen. He complained about it today, to the CIA, but also flattered the crowd. Also dismissed the idea that he was at war with them. Turned it into a media narrative. Seemed almost like a power play to me. Offering them an out, but also a threat.
Also, I feel really conflicted that the prevailing narrative isn’t about Trump being delusional, and maybe mentally ill.
@PropaneJane on twitter has been absolutely relentless about pushing this narrative, but I feel like it’s the single most important thing about him. Focusing on the myriad other issues seems rather trite in view of that. We literally had a President tell us that it wasn’t raining, when it was in fact raining. Ditto the crowd sizes. This is truly unprecedented, and I don’t know that people are reckoning with what it means, due to a failure of imagination.
KlareCole
@MomSense: Great pink hat ideas.
Millard Filmore
here is a photo of the NHL jumbotron in Dallas, claiming 1.5 million in attendance. Trump gets no respect.
twitter(dot)com/unlikelyfanatic/status/823008705369276418
Dog Dawg Damn
@Dog Dawg Damn: Following up on this — going to the CIA and lying to their faces about verifiable fact is itself a form of authoritarian oppression. He is daring them to defy his version of reality. This is what authoritarianism is. Or else he is mentally ill.
Timurid
@Dog Dawg Damn:
Whatever super secret plan he has for establishing an authoritarian regime is going to get sped up, bigly.
He knows he’s being hunted now, and the only way out for him is deeper down the rabbit hole…
Things are going to move fast these next few months.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@O. Felix Culpa: I love the last one: “Damn right we’re snowflakes. And winter is coming”
Dog Dawg Damn
@Timurid: I just don’t see this horror show continuing for 4 years. Something will have to give.
Major Major Major Major
@Dog Dawg Damn: in a situation like this, ‘crazy’ would be a blessing. We should assume malice and act accordingly.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Suzanne:
Inorite. This shall not stand!
Timurid
@Dog Dawg Damn:
Yeah, this is likely resolved by the end of the year… with the foundations of a Republican one party state in place or with a Viking funeral for the Donald.
Morzer
@Dog Dawg Damn:
I think it’s clear that Trump is both mentally ill and an authoritarian.
Bear in mind that his only strategy for dealing with his abundant failures has been to run away screaming loudly and hoping that this will discourage the debt-collectors. Well, now he owes the entire nation a very painful explanation and apology. How can he possibly handle that? Very public failure to stage a competent inauguration has clearly enraged and frightened him and his cronies. What happens when the big issues come up and he fucks those up publicly as well?
Calouste
@Timurid: Yep, that’s my idea as well. Things are going to escalate to breaking point in months, if not weeks.
KlareCole
@Major Major Major Major: Crazy & malice. Bad combo. Kim Jong-un with bad dye job.
amk
too early to post miss him yet? pics of obama across the red murkkka?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Suzanne: I like the increased text size, but I’m old.
Dog Dawg Damn
@KlareCole: The line between delusion and authoritarianism has always been murky, I suppose.
I have to say — today, for the first time, I felt like we had been successful. We, the people, pushed him into showing how deranged he is. We were in control. He wasn’t. I wish we could have a march every weekend until he had a meltdown so epic the 25th amendment would be invoked.
Ruckus
@? Martin:
And don’t forget that what I’d bet was many thousands, couldn’t get to the march in LA because of too many people.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
Lady I was talking to was checking on her phone and said it was already over, so we didn’t walk over there. The count she had was 1100.
Westyny
@Major Major Major Major: This. Anyway, great day.
Eljai
A couple of political scientists are collecting estimates on the number of people marching today — between 3.6 and 4.5 million! You can find your city on this chart.
SectionH
There’s a UConn prof who’s got a spreadsheet listing as many Marches today he’s gotten a report of, with low and high estimates of attendance. Current total low is 3.7 million, high 4.5 million.
@? Martin: You can add San Marcos to the list. Pressman’s estimate is 1000, but people who were there are saying easily 5000. In deepest red North County San Diego, even 1000 is pretty great.
eta – link is to slightly older version. Scroll up on his page for latest numbers.
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
I think so as well. I recognize this as one we sort of voted no for. I’d bet it’s a server kerfluf.
Morzer
@Eljai:
So roughly 20 Trumpgurations…..
No wonder Donnie Putinobitch lost what few marbles he has today.
Westyny
@efgoldman: I first read it as Alien wrench. Tired. At least I didn’t read it as Alien wench . . .
Westyny
@O. Felix Culpa: Throwing love at Santa Fe. Was just out there this fall. Lived there in 78 and up the Old Chama Highway in 88. I think I need mesas for several months out of the year.
O. Felix Culpa
@Larkspur: As a sometime needleworker, me too!
TEL
I wanted to send a giant THANK YOU to Mnemosyne from me and my mom. We wore your wonderfully knitted pussyhats to the San Francisco march today. It was raining, but there were so many of us marching that we hardly noticed. We’ll both be making donations to Planned Parenthood in your nym;-)
EBT
@Omnes Omnibus: This is what makes me wish slow horrible boiling oil death on people. Fuck that cop.
Major Major Major Major
@Eljai: @SectionH: impressive work.
SectionH
@Major Major Major Major: Ha, I didn’t see Eljai’s while I was wrestling with an edit (tried to update the url, but ran out of time). Their link is the more recent one I wanted.
Yoda Dog
I’d like to have a FP’er talk more about Spicer too and what in the living hell that was.. The PRESS secretary that’s just going to dictate prepared lies, bully and scold the press and then not take a single question?
My wife has been overly sanguine about all this since the election but she saw this speech and wanted to go fetal..
And what happened to numbering the posts? That was useful… :(
reality-based (the original, not the troll)
Hey, I have a modest proposal. The Headlines on WaPo says “Over a million march”. When itshould read, – if you just count DC, NYC, Boston, LA, Chicago – over TWO Million march. And if you count EVERY CITY – I bet the final total will be close to 4or 5 Million. So do you think – if we did the work FOR them – that our feckless media will stop talking about Sean Spicer hurting their fee-fees and report the actual numbers?
We’d need to build a simple excel spreadsheet. Define state, location, estimated crowd size, source of estimate, and add a link to supporting media documentation. We’d need 50 volunteers – one for each state. I have no idea how to do this as a web collaboration, but I’m sure others do. Then publish data and send to every network and major daily?
Is this a silly idea/ Can we count on the major newspapers – who have PAID STAFF – to do this?
O. Felix Culpa
@MomSense: @Westyny: @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’m impressed with how clever those signs were. And thanks for the Santa Fe love! Signing off now to catch some z’s after an exciting day.
Major Major Major Major
@Eljai: 200,000 in Denver! That’s nuts!
Yoda Dog
Im not sure if this one was already shared but it made me laugh out loud… I am a child of the eighties.
Anne Laurie
@mdblanche: Send me the jpgs at annelaurie dot verizon dot net.
reality-based (the original, not the troll)
re previous comment – never mind, I just saw elja’s post, we must have been typing simultaneously
SoupCatcher
@reality-based (the original, not the troll):
Jeremy Pressman (UCONN) and Erica Chenoweth (U of Denver) are on it:
Google document
Anne Laurie
@aimai:
Not with this ‘flu, no — there are some things not meant to be shared.
On the other hand, if I’d had the chance to French-kiss Trump earlier this week… it would’ve been really hard to steel myself, but for the good of the nation and the world…
hilts
h/t http://thespun.com/more/dallas-stars-trump-jumbotron-joke
fuckwit
This is the first thing that has given me any hope since October.
But it has to be a beginning, not an end. Organization needs to happen. Phone calling. Voter registration. Canvassing. And voting. Over a period of a generation. All of the stuff people did *not* do in significant quantities in 2016.
Maybe we’ve hit bottom and this is the beginning of the trend back upward. If it is, we’ll make it– as a country and as a species.
Emerald
@Dog Dawg Damn:
Both can be true at the same time.
(Bring the comment numbers back! They are needed!)
Major Major Major Major
@Emerald:
SERIOUSLY.
Morzer
@Major Major Major Major:
Perhaps John is experimenting with Trumpnumbers… we’ve had at least 2.5 million comments on this one thread so far!
Quinerly
@O. Felix Culpa:
Love the pictures from Santa Fe! Hope to catch you when I’m in Cerrillos 2/9-2/12. Dinner at The Hollar in Madrid with friends 2/10. Join us!
O. Felix Culpa
@Quinerly: I might be able to do it! I’ll make note of the date in my calendar.
bluegirlfromwyo
Even the least populated, reddest state in the Union got in on it:
Cheyenne WY: 1500-2000 (pop. 60,000)
Cody WY: 400 (pop. 9500)
Lander WY: 250 (pop. 7500)
When you aim at mama bear, you better not miss!