Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

This is a big f—–g deal.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Nevertheless, she persisted.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

If the shit really does go down, cole will be fine.

This is how realignments happen…

We have all the best words.

It might be fine, or it might be a clusterfuck.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

I did not have this on my fuck 2020 bingo card.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Reality always wins in the end.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

It’s not even safe to go out and pick up 2 days worth of poop anymore.

These guys can go mcfuck themselves.

Call the National Guard if your insurrection lasts more than four hours.

I’m going back to the respite thread.

No one could have predicted…

The revolution will be supervised.

The math demands it!

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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My inbox had photos in it when I got up this morning. I’m bummed, my whole crew turned up sick by week’s end, so I’m watching from home. But that means I can post photos during the day.

Here are some from Randy Kahn.

Outside Huntington Metro station and crowd leaving Archives Metro station.

And from Valerie:

On the bus, on the way.

I’m keeping up with the Denver march here.

And yes, I know I’m stepping on John, I’m sure he won’t mind, I just wanted to get the live feeds up. Keep those photos coming!!

ETA: Denver just now:

You can see the DC crowds here (won’t embed) from the National Mall Cam

 

 

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  1. 1.

    Trentrunner

    MSNBC w/Joy was covering the march, but now we’re in church with Donald and Melania pretending to pretend to be Christian. Badly: LOL, Donald doesn’t know to bow his head for prayers, etc. Also, Melania exfoliated in the baptismal font because “Is good for pores, no?”

  2. 2.

    BGinCHI

    Mrs. BG reports that they had to walk all the way down from Woodley Park, as the Metro was so crowded.

    Good sign of huge numbers! Several women from Toronto with them as well. Amazing solidarity.

  4. 4.

    OGLiberal

    Anybody have aerial crowd shots? Outside of supporting the effort I want to show my Trump loving FB fans how much they are not in the majority.

  6. 6.

    jnfr

    From the Denver march, a few minutes ago.

    Civic Center is beyond full.

    I think we’re not even going to go in. The lines for the light rail are backed up for blocks and I’m here listening to the D.C. march on C-SPAN. So cool though. Wish I was a lot younger and more spry; we would have to have left hours ago to even get close.

  7. 7.

    Trentrunner

    CNN reporting now that more people on DC Mall today for march than yesterday for Trump inaugural.

    Women get stuff done!

  12. 12.

    zhena gogolia

    Did anyone notice that Paul Krugman referred casually to the “Trump-Putin administration” in his column yesterday?

  16. 16.

    CaseyL

    Getting ready in about 15 to head out for the march here; wish me luck, solidarity…. and, oh yeah, a parking space :)

  19. 19.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    @Skepticat: The Rally and March are on Independence Ave., not the Mall. So the Earthlink doesn’t give an accurate image. Independence Ave. is packed from about 3rd Street to 12th Street from what I can see. Then the overflow onto the Mall proper. Here’s a view from WaPo.

  22. 22.

    debbie

    @zhena gogolia:

    I was just in Target. I’m standing in line to get their version of a Starbucks latte. Two older men in front of me started speaking Russian (or a very Russian-like language). My whole core tightened in anger.

  23. 23.

    Morfydd

    Coming home from the Hamburg, Germany, march now. Overheard an organizer tell a frazzled looking policewoman that 100 people had signed up. The policewoman said she counted over 500. :)

  28. 28.

    zhena gogolia

    @Larkspur:

    Whether in exile or not, they left the dystopian nightmare that is Putin’s Russia. We need to make sure it doesn’t happen here. That said, they probably voted for Trump.

  29. 29.

    Gin & Tonic

    @debbie: I’m sorry, but that’s as rational as the people who freak out on airplanes when they hear somebody speaking what they think is Arabic.

  33. 33.

    Larkspur

    Ashley Judd has just very politely stepped in to interrupt Michael Moore. “I am a nasty woman.”

  35. 35.

    Gin & Tonic

    @zhena gogolia: Now you’re stereotyping too? Come on, she didn’t even know what the language was. How many people not conversant in a Slavic language could even tell any of them apart?

  44. 44.

    Larkspur

    @zhena gogolia: Maybe, maybe not. But here’s a semi-related question: if I ever run into the remarkable Masha Gessen, what’s something cool and progressive I could say to her in Russian? All I know is (don’t know the Cyrillic): Shto Dyelit*.

    * That’s supposed to be “What is to be done?”

  45. 45.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @BGinCHI:

    I’ve watched it at least a dozen times. Happily, I’m not a pacifist, and enjoy seeing Nazis get hurt.

    Right now on twitter, there is a raging intersectionality being argued. On one hand are the white privilege snowflakes who advocate constant nonviolent engagement and respectful tolerance in all situations, and on the other hand, people who say “fuck that, Nazis want to erase people”, and that people who live in fascist regimes uniformly say that the fascists need to be crushed in the infancy of their movement, lest their ideas take hold.

    I’m in the latter group.

  53. 53.

    debbie

    @Gin & Tonic:

    What I felt was no different from what I feel when I hear Trump’s voice. My genealogy includes Latvia; maybe it was my DNA reacting. Whatever, it reminded me of Putin’s meddling and that’s not a happy memory.

  54. 54.

    Larkspur

    @jnfr: Have you ever read her memoir, All That Is Bitter & Sweet? It’s pretty good. She is very smart. I think I just fell in love with her again.

  56. 56.

    Yoda Dog

    @debbie:

    @Yoda Dog: Get over your fucking self.

    Ok I’ll work on that for you, but if you keeping coming here with comments like that then you’re probably going to continue to get called out for xenophobia.

  57. 57.

    Gin & Tonic

    @debbie: So then people *are* justified in freaking out when they hear somebody speaking what they think might be Arabic on an airplane. Good to know.

  61. 61.

    Larkspur

    I have a friend who flew to DC with her young adult daughter. They are wearing home-made pus$yhats. I have a feeling I’m not going to be able to spot them in the crowd. Have fun E. and C.!!!

  63. 63.

    Yoda Dog

    Oh, goddamn, it has been such a long and brutal year+, this rally is making me very happy. Almost forgot what that felt like..

  65. 65.

    CarolDuhart2

    @BGinCHI: Amen. As a minority-I agree. Smash them in the cradle. NO Fascism. Opinion is one thing, but these guys want to do more than just talk.

  66. 66.

    Timurid

    Protip: Most of the Russians you’ll find living here came here to get away from dicks like Putin…

  67. 67.

    JEFF BRADLEY

    On the subway, Heading to the D.C. march. I will tweet @jeffbradley and maybe post here too.

  68. 68.

    Schlemazel

    i would guess ar least 100k here in st. paul, mn. all roads in are blocked wit more arriving. pix to follow

    rainy crappy weather not a hindrance!

  69. 69.

    Larkspur

    @Gin & Tonic: If debbie had called Homeland Security and had them ejected from the café, then I’d have a real problem with her. But she didn’t. She related being triggered by the language, which is not fair, but it kind of encapsulates where we’re at right now, and it’s something we have to be alert to in ourselves so that we don’t act badly on it.

    That’s all from me. Nothing’s gonna harsh my buzz.

  72. 72.

    Mary G

    About to leave the house. Not going to Santa Ana because some of my friends who were going with me are sick, some are pretending to be sick, some admitted to me that they are scared of the homeless people camped there, and some who don’t admit it are scared of being around a large crowd of Hispanics. Per Facebook there is a local march !! here in the home of the former western White House and I am going alone to that, since it’s about a mile from my house and I can ride my scooter. Bail bonds number written in Sharpie on my leg, but I assume that in a wealthy 80%-white area the police will be deferent, if they come at all.

    Will protest by myself if necessary, but I hope to meet some braver friends.

  77. 77.

    md S Oregon

    S Oregon checking in….I’m heading to Ashland in a few. This 71 year-old can’t wait to participate!

  81. 81.

    Corner Stone

    @Timurid:

    Protip: Most of the Russians you’ll find living here came here to get away from dicks like Putin

    That’s bullshit. After a multi-year in depth study of Russians currently living in the US, it is quite clear they all came here to participate in Organized Crime of one variety or other. Murder, extortion, prostitution, trafficking, money laundering – you name it. Repeated viewings of Law & Order episodes through the years never steer you wrong.

  82. 82.

    Ian G.

    @Comrade Scrutinizer:

    And then there was Sophie Scholl, who ended up beaheaded by people like Spencer.

    I dunno. I’m not a pacifist. Violence is sometimes justified, and I think people like Spencer need to be resisted by any means necessary. I’m thinking of how northern liberals and abolitionists weren’t willing to push back, even against violent thugs like Preston Brooks and Laurence Keitt, and then John Brown came along….

  83. 83.

    NeenerNeener

    I wonder how Trump feels about the whole world protesting his election, and the crowds for the protests being larger than for his actual inauguration. For somebody who seems to desperately need the adulation of others this has to sting.

  85. 85.

    Jose

    I live across the street from the Vienna Metro station in Fairfax County VA. For the Inauguration, the station was a ghost town. Empty parking lot with lots of open spaces, no crowds at all. This morning for the march, huge crowds, parking lots packed, nonstop streams of buses, and many people walking to the station. They had cops directing traffic for two hours from 8:00am to 10:00am, near gridlock around the station.

  86. 86.

    Gin & Tonic

    @debbie: It’s not a purity pony. You, by your own admission, weren’t even sure what language it was. Could it have been Bulgarian? Ukrainian? Even if it was Russian, you are presumably aware that some Russians have given their lives to oppose Putin and Putinism. Yet you made a point of commenting to someone you know is fluent in Russian that your “core tightened in anger” when you heard what you assumed was the language. You tried to deflect it as snark, but it clearly wasn’t, and I’m struggling to comprehend what your objective was in making that comment. People whose personal history and politics you don’t know were speaking a language you don’t know and it got you angry. I do not find that admirable.

  88. 88.

    Ian G.

    @NeenerNeener:

    I think this is going to be his undoing. He can’t do his job without feeling the heat from people who hate his guts. It’s going to be very different than his experience running his “businesses”, where he could hire loyal hacks to tell him what a genius businessman he is. I wouldn’t put it past him to have a mental breakdown when it becomes clear just how many people loathe him.

  89. 89.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Comrade Scrutinizer:

    Gandhi succeeded mainly due to overwhelming numbers. MLK succeeded (I’d argue marginally) because the alternative was Eldridge, Malcolm and Stokely). To me, the more enduring change came about in South Africa because of the mix making a CLEAR choice. ANC was focused and effective.

  90. 90.

    trollhattan

    @Corner Stone:
    We have a big Slavic community here–Russian and Ukrainian mostly–and I was startled to learn they are thrilled with Trump, support Putin and believe Ukraine is now ruled by despots who illegally overthrew the former leader. In short: they’re all BiP. Also comments about “not getting our money’s worth” from the Obama Administration (i.e., down with moochers, which is hilarious given how many receive housing and other government subsidies).

    Not what I expected.

  92. 92.

    Adria McDowell (formerly LurkerExtraordinaire)

    Nazi punching is an American tradition. Just ask Captain America.

    Don’t start none, and there won’t be none. Spencer has openly called for an answer to the “Black Question.” (His answer is to eliminate all black people from the earth. Fuck his couch.)

  94. 94.

    Kay

    Michael Flynn Jr ?? Retweeted CBS News
    What victory? Women already have equal rights, and YES equal pay in this country. What MORE do you want? Free mani/pedis?

    I love the MORE and I also love how none of these manly men have the self control necessary to stop saying stupid things for even 5 minutes. No impulse control. They lack discipline. Blah, blah, blah.

  95. 95.

    sigaba

    @Corner Stone: I don’t know, many Russian people I know in LA came in the 90s when the country was falling apart and they have real soft spot for Pootie Poot. Not soft enough to make them go back though :)

    I’ve had enough conversations to make no assumptions from mere possession of the language.

  97. 97.

    NoraLenderbee

    Getting ready to go to downtown San Jose. I’m sure it’ll be small and tame compared to Oakland and San Fran, but that’s OK. Middle-aged suburbanites represent!

  98. 98.

    Kay

    BREAKING: @CNN reports more people on National Mall for #WomensMarch than yesterday at this time for inauguration.

    This was obvious just from the photos but I’m glad they’re admitting it. Also, Trump loves CNN and he clearly watches it constantly, to the point where one wonders when he works.

  100. 100.

    Percysowner

    Any pictures from Cincinnati? Or Cleveland? I wanted to go to the Cincy march, but I’ve been sick and decided not to risk it.

  102. 102.

    schrodingers_cat

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Gandhi succeeded not just due to large numbers, but also dogged persistence. He built on the work of the Swadeshi movement of boycott of British made goods by Indian National Congress, he increased their reach.
    British authorities in India were pretty brutal in their crowd control tactics. They would beat people up and imprison them. Peaceful protesters were shot at too, at times. See the famous Jallianwalla Bagh massacre. This after thousands of Indians died in WWI on both the western front and in the Middle East fighting for the British.

  103. 103.

    Teddy's Person

    @Ian G.: Last weekend, I watched the film, Alone in Berlin. The film is based on a novel that is based on the lives of Otto and Elise Hampel. The Hampels were a working-class German couple who were beheaded for leaving hand-written anti-nazis postcards in public places around Berlin. The wrote close to 300 postcards and all but about 20 were turned in to the police.

  106. 106.

    Wapiti

    I just got back from downtown Seattle, there’s a good number of people down there today. My wife called me from the bus stop after two full buses went past, so I got her to work and we wedged in 3 protesters for the trip as well.

  107. 107.

    CarolDuhart2

    Twitter fighting with trolls who are doing whataboutery about Saudi Women. Why aren’t American women marching in Saudi Arabia.? My hashtag: #muslimsplaining. Or they say a variant about “what about aborted babies?” Or “we have rights already”. Okay, is it okay to protest the possibility of losing some?

    I’ve never spent a lot of time on Twitter. But I have in the last 2 days. Trump effect I guess. Like I now curse. Used to talk like a lady, and usually do. But the ineptitude and sheer granite-like thinking of Trumpians is enough for a few F-bombs.

  111. 111.

    Mary G

    Not working out well. Got ten feet away from my driveway and the scooter died. Battery not charged, though I had it plugged in all night. I did meet three young women, one in a “nasty woman” t-shirt who were on their way there and stopped and took a picture with me. Represent!

    Now I am going to try to get a ride with my wheelchair.

  122. 122.

    Ruckus

    @debbie:
    They could be friends of mine. If it’s them they are they are just normal people who happened to be born and grew up in St Petersburg, Mother Russia. Very nice chaps, Russian is their first language. They might just feel pretty much the same way about V that you do. OTOH if you are not familiar with how Russian sounds they could be from any number of countries, and also may have the same views as you.

  123. 123.

    Steeplejack

    Bro’ Man just texted me a picture from the D.C. event. He is attending with his husband (and maybe daughter). Marcher’s sign has a picture of Rick Astley:

    Dear Human Rights,
    Never gonna give you up
    Never gonna let you down

    The march has been rickrolled!

    ETA: Mutual friend just texted back: “Are you in the ’80s section?”

    Another sign:

    You’re so vain
    you probably think
    this march is about you

  124. 124.

    CarolDuhart2

    @trollhattan: And that would be the locals. Foreign women are supposed to go to Saudi and protest there? As I said before, Saudis have to do it for themselves and consistent with their own culture. The American women’s movement started here. The freaking American Revolution started as a local movement.

    But they don’t care about Muslim women, or they wouldn’t be grabbing hijabs and threatening American Muslim women who have all the rights any other American woman has. It’s about islamophobia and xenophobia and racism, nothing more.

  125. 125.

    SFBayAreaGal

    Helen Reddy flashback and relevant today:

    I am woman, hear me roar
    In numbers too big to ignore
    And I know too much to go back an’ pretend
    ‘Cause I’ve heard it all before
    And I’ve been down there on the floor
    No one’s ever gonna keep me down again
    Oh yes, I am wise
    But it’s wisdom born of pain
    Yes, I’ve paid the price
    But look how much I gained
    If I have to, I can do anything
    I am strong
    (Strong)
    I am invincible
    (Invincible)
    I am woman
    You can bend but never break me
    ‘Cause it only serves to make me
    More determined to achieve my final goal
    And I come back even stronger
    Not a novice any longer
    ‘Cause you’ve deepened the conviction in my soul
    Oh yes, I am wise
    But it’s wisdom born of pain
    Yes, I’ve paid the price
    But look how much I gained
    If I have to, I can do anything
    I am strong
    (Strong)
    I am invincible
    (Invincible)
    I am woman
    I am woman watch me grow
    See me standing toe to toe
    As I spread my lovin’ arms across the land
    But I’m still an embryo
    With a long, long way to go
    Until I make my brother understand
    Oh yes, I am wise
    But it’s wisdom born of pain
    Yes, I’ve paid the price
    But look how much I gained
    If I have to, I can face anything
    I am strong
    (Strong)
    I am invincible
    (Invincible)
    I am woman
    I am woman
    I am invincible
    I am strong
    I am woman
    I am invincible
    I am strong
    I am woman

  129. 129.

    Corner Stone

    @Steeplejack:

    Bro’ Man just texted me a picture from the D.C. event. He is attending with his husband (and maybe daughter).

    I feel to have missed the something?

  130. 130.

    narya

    @OGLiberal: CNN has copter shots from Chicago. March part of the march/rally cancelled because already >150k people there (were originally expecting 22k) and they can’t actually march.

  131. 131.

    Chat Noir

    The St.Louis march this morning was great! Tons of people and lots of excellent signs. Senator Claire McCaskill was right in the mix with us (got my picture with her).

  133. 133.

    Dog Mom

    Beautiful Sunny day here in Seneca Falls, New York – Birthplace of Women’s Right! I’m too short to take pics in this crowd. Lyrics just heard “I am not going down fighting, because I am not going down!”

  134. 134.

    debbie

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Okay. I said this:

    Leave your snark somewhere?

    in response to Gin & Tonic’s post:

    @zhena gogolia: Now you’re stereotyping too? Come on, she didn’t even know what the language was. How many people not conversant in a Slavic language could even tell any of them apart?

    which was responding to zhena gogolia’s:

    Whether in exile or not, they left the dystopian nightmare that is Putin’s Russia. We need to make sure it doesn’t happen here. That said, they probably voted for Trump.

    Gin & Tonic’s problem with me is something separate.

    (Sorry for taking so long. Scrolling up and down is a bitch on the mobile version.)

  135. 135.

    max

    @Ian G.: I dunno. I’m not a pacifist. Violence is sometimes justified, and I think people like Spencer need to be resisted by any means necessary. I’m thinking of how northern liberals and abolitionists weren’t willing to push back, even against violent thugs like Preston Brooks and Laurence Keitt, and then John Brown came along….

    I’m not, but you should only get violent in a just cause and if it is advantageous to do so. I do not think it’s going to help the cause today if the ladies at the march started rampaging up and down the mall smashing things and fighting with the cops. If they get attacked on the other hand…

    I really wish I could’ve have gone. But I guess I’m going outside and going back to work on the car, just like yesterday.

    max
    [‘Trump couldn’t fucking stay inside today? Sheesh.’]

  137. 137.

    Kay

    This is off topic but “people” really are talking about this guy:

    That’s part of the appeal of Pete Buttigieg, the 35-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana (pop. 101,000), who was a late entry this month in the campaign to chair the Democratic National Committee. A gay Afghanistan veteran, Harvard graduate, and Rhodes Scholar, he says he’ll turn around his party like he’s turning around his Rust Belt city—promoting progressivism in places where it’s in short supply.

    He was at an Ohio political event and a lot of people mentioned that they were impressed.

  138. 138.

    raven

    Apparently the most important thing about all this action is that anti-abortion women were not invited.

  143. 143.

    Corner Stone

    @Steeplejack: I somewhere missed the adopted daughter part, I guess. So the “maybe” his daughter part was confusing for me. Was it your gay brother’s daughter? Was it his husband’s daughter from a previous relationship? Was it a question that the girl may or may not be one of their daughter’s? Or are we just not sure the daughter will also be attending?
    There were a lot of ways to go there as I did not recall the adoption part for some reason.

  146. 146.

    Steeplejack

    @schrodingers_cat:

    That brother, the squire of Sighthound Hall, was never a staunch Republican. I might have said that in an alternate universe where he wasn’t gay he probably could be a Republican—rich middle-aged doctor, investor, etc.

    My other brother, the RWNJ in Las Vegas, is the staunch Republican. He is currently riding a motorcycle through the wilds of southern Chile.

  147. 147.

    CarolDuhart2

    @max: Message and context are important too. The ladies want things that can be gotten nonviolently: solidarity, reform, compassionate care. They aren’t threatening people with violence of any kind.

    Nazis, on the other hand are prepared to deal violence to those who want to live in peace. It’s their core message, and that hasn’t changed in about a century. Like the Klan and other associated groups, they want ethnic cleaning. Fuck that message.
    He’s being non-violent now because he’s not in power, and because he doesn’t have enough members yet to insulate him from the consequences.

  150. 150.

    Percysowner

    @CarolDuhart2: Thanks. Oh, and it looks like the Chicago march got cancelled because too many people showed p and the police didn’t think they could handle the crowd.
    @raven:

    Apparently the most important thing about all this action is that anti-abortion women were not invited.

    That and Jonathan Chait not getting an engraved invitation.

    I’ve been forced to turn off the volume on MSNBC since we keep getting people whining about how awful the liberal wing is.

  151. 151.

    zhena gogolia

    @Larkspur:

    haha, if you said that she’d probably laugh, since you’re quoting Chernyshevsky. There would be worse things to say.

  156. 156.

    zhena gogolia

    @zhena gogolia:

    I shouldn’t have said they probably voted for Trump. Unfortunately, I’m thinking that about every white person I see these days, so I’m not in a terribly rational frame of mind.

  159. 159.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    We had a good long rain here in Las Vegas yesterday. Sort of a prolonged hard drizzle, which is good, because it reduces the chance of flash flooding and allows the ground to absorb more water. I love the high desert, and the rain calms me. Which was good, because I spent four hours at my mother’s house with Fox News in the background.

  162. 162.

    SectionH

    @Mary G: How frustrating for you! It’s one thing to know in advance you can’t go, another to be thwarted at the last minute. Hope you can/did work something out – though if so, you probably won’t see this comment. ;->

    My husband ran into our neighbors down the hall in the lobby of our building earlier this am – they were heading to the march downtown (SD) with several friends.

  163. 163.

    humboldtblue

    My sister, two nieces and a gaggle of her friends who go back to my time as a little boy are representing Mom and women in DC, it’s packed, her husband’s phone is dying from sending pics and the report on the energy is that it is powerful.

  166. 166.

    No One You Know

    Trains going into Portland are jammed. Tri-Met is running as frequently lt as possible. One of the local community colleges is represented by an entire department. Pink anything goes, since there aren’t enough hats. Hair was a popular choice.

  167. 167.

    Steeplejack

    Gimme a break. Fox is ignoring the marches! Had some talking heads bloviating about Trump and the intelligence community, then regular commercials, now a panel is talking about “President Trump calls for unity.”

    Even the crawl at the bottom is ignoring the marches.

    Back to MSNBC.

  168. 168.

    SFBayAreaGal

    @zhena gogolia: This white gal voted for Clinton and has always voted Democratic Party since I could vote. If Obama wanted to and could have ran for President a 3rd term, he would have had my vote.

  169. 169.

    Steeplejack

    @Steeplejack:

    Wolf Blitzer is covering the marches on CNN. Headline News is running one of its bullshit weekend crime shows. The “broadcast” networks are running their usual sportsball games.

    ETA: Christ, I checked back on Fox to make sure I wasn’t maligning them, and they’re now showing Uday’s (Donald Jr.) phone-camera video of some of the Trumps bowling on the White House lanes.

  171. 171.

    Ruckus

    @zhena gogolia:
    You would have been amazed at the crowd that I was in at the train station. Mostly white but still lots of shades of color as well, all ages, including many that looked as old or older than this old white dude, who. as the British say, is a pensioner. Now I do live in the workers paradise of CA so that may have something to do with it. And I just got off of FB, I had to check if I needed to unfriend anyone else. I did. Not all that surprising, a few of my not friends on FB do not like living in the workers paradise of CA. I’m very close to asking them why don’t they move to say Alabama, or Mississippi if they think taxes are too high or life is too good here.

  174. 174.

    donnah

    The TV coverage by C-SPAN in DC has been great. I didn’t watch a minute of trump’s inauguration, but I’ve been watching this coverage all day. Very uplifting and encouraging. Much strength, much power in the crowd and in the speaking guests.

  175. 175.

    PaulW

    @Steeplejack:

    OF COURSE FOX WILL IGNORE THE MARCHES.

    Anything that does not fit the Right Wing Narrative will never appear on their channel, except as a defamatory, photoshopped mockery.

  177. 177.

    Raven Onthill

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: We actually had a clash in Seattle last night, outside a Milo Yiannopoulis speech. Someone, probably a protester, has been shot and is reportedly in critical condition. A suspect has been taken into custody.

    Yiannopoulis tells men who feel that their masculinity is threatened to arm themselves with lethal force. This is likely to lead to deaths. Now, for all I know, the shooter was in fact acting in self-defense; the Black Bloc turned out ready to rumble and there are reports of violence. And, damn, someone might have been hurt if there had been no firearms involved, but chances are no-one would have been in critical condition. Thanks, Milo.

    Coverage in the local press: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/violence-punctuates-uw-talk-by-breitbart-editor-milo-yiannopoulos/.

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    Humdog

    @Mary G: Mary, you are truly heroic! Whether you get to the march or not your fighting spirit is clearly evident. Thank you and take care

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    Chip Daniels

    Just got back from the LA march, still going on.
    I have never seen a crowd like this; the entire downtown area is gridlocked with people. The spirit is amazing here.

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    Sam

    Just got back from the D.C. March. I have never seen so many people downtown. I’m sure there have been bigger protests but this was much larger than I think anyone expected. I didn’t stay for the formal march but went down PA Ave with John Kerry. There were so many people that it made sense to spread out and send a message, wherever you were. Just made me proud to be American, and I needed that after yesterday!

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    Feebog

    Local ABC feed from L.A. says over 100K and building. Also got clips from friends attending, People marching, but the streets are so full they are making little progress.

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    Annamal

    I didn’t plan it but wound up attending the last bit of the Wellington march (one of a number of a marches around New Zealand) yesterday. There were a lot of people and a lot of cool signs

    (ignore the slightly pompous stuff headline and the comments, the actual content is cool). We have an election later this year so it was a good and timely reminder to get involved.
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/88642615/new-zealand-leads-global-marches-in-defence-of-womens-rights

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    bemused

    I’m laughing my head off. Madonna on msnbc. She got two FU’s off that didn’t get bleeped.
    The signs I’m seeing and reading about are awesome. Liberals are smart, creative and hilarious. Umpteenth reason I’m not a rightwinger. I’d die from just from the boredom.

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    Steeplejack (tablet)

    @PaulW:

    MSNBC’s coverage has been wall to wall and very good. Now Fox is grudgingly doing occasional short reports on the marches in between their other bullshit. (Their theme today is “The Inauguration of Donald J. Trump.”)

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    Larkspur

    Wonkette has some good signs in their live-blogging. Some are funny. “SO BAD, EVEN INTROVERTS ARE HERE” and “MY ARMS ARE TIRED FROM HOLDING THIS SIGN SINCE THE 1960s”

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    mai naem mobile

    Switched to FOX for a second. Lumpy is going to speak at Langley. I bet they’re trying to get the news networks to move from the marches. Hilarious.

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    Steeplejack (tablet)

    Two more signs my brother saw:

    My crazy needs coverage!

    Too worried to be witty

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    No One You Know

    Those signs are here in Portland. Pussy umbrellas and pissy signs are popular, although many took the high road “Standing on the side of love” and “love trumps hate.”

    Deafening roar as the band hits the stage.

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Ian G.:

    and then John Brown came along….

    and that road lead to Antietam and war with 785,000–1,000,000+ dead, that’s 2% of the total population.

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    glory b

    Who is in charge at cspan? No coverage of the payer
    , no coverage of Trump’s CIA speech and they ended coverage playing Beyonce’s “Formation” and went straight to comments!!

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