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Diane's avatar

Great photos! Great story! Hope is making a comeback.

Light Warder's avatar

Hope-Amine to the rescue!

Portland needs some joyous comedy to flood its collective cranium.

Rico's avatar

Thanks for sharing Tim. Great story!

Sharon Herrick's avatar

This is brilliant! So inspiring. So creative. Thank you and thank all the people who protested. We're just getting started.

PeMi+7's avatar

The best of America!

Steve 218's avatar

What a great spirit was displayed in that rally! The people figured out that fighting with a sense of humor works well. Their efforts show that America does not need to be made great - it and its people already are!

Linda Silfven's avatar

Wow! Watching all that creativity and energy makes me wish I lived in Portland.

mary thiel's avatar

I moved to Portland from SoCal ten years and was gobsmacked at the kindness and friendliness of Portlanders, esp. in comparison to what I’d left behind.

ROSE B RINDER's avatar

Thank you, Tim. I especially loved the short videos. They help us to be there, in Portland, at the protest. Lovely to see. I was at the flagship rally in St. Paul, MN, and I was jealous that those in Portland had room to move around and see things. We were squashed in like sardines in St. Paul, but happy to have summoned the huge crowd of support, nonetheless.

Teresa Pierce's avatar

Brilliant photos! TY Tim!

Kathy Sowers's avatar

So proud of Portland! So proud of Minneapolis! And so proud of I'm sure it was 8M+ who knew it was important to step out, no matter where, no matter for how long, just do it!!! I noticed the maga naysayers making disparaging remarks about the protesters on some of the YouTube video reports, have no idea what they were looking at or if they were looking at anything at all. But all they have are sneers and jeers. Kinda like their small sad leader. We have joy, compassion, heart, hope, togetherness, brother-and-sisterhood, faith and moral clarity. Plus ingenuity, perseverance and a sense of humor! Wonderful article, Tim - and I love the videos, they make me smile!

Louise's avatar

I attended an event in a tiny Virginia village about five miles from my own even tinier village. There were between 2 and 3 hundred people, friendly, kind and somehow even joyous with great speakers, music, lots of flags and signs and patriotism! I haven't experienced the big-city version of No Kings, yet and I'm sure that our event didn't get counted in the grand scheme of things. So...add another three hundred to that 8 million, please!

Susan Wladaver-Morgan's avatar

Thank you for including the demonstration at the Convention Center, which was billed as Labor and Neighbors. Most media outlets ignored it, as well as the ongoing weekly “corner protests.” By downplaying and lowballing the big demonstrations too, it’s almost as if the legacy media is trying to shut down resistance to the regime. We won’t let them!

Kate Comings's avatar

So happy to see this post about my city! I was at one of the corner protests in my Contrarian T-shirt, along with well over 1000 people. And yeah, no one from any of the local media stations covered it, at least that I could see. The cars driving by were extremely enthusiastic, and some had their own signs. Hope we got counted.

David Krupp's avatar

All protest demonstration should take place in front of the local offices of Republicans. The demonstrations should call out the Republicans for supporting Trump's lies, his use of ICE as his private army and his war of choice with Iran.

mary thiel's avatar

I agree, we need to be calling out them in congress, as they are the ones who allow this to happen. Mass protests to their offices in DC

Elisa's avatar

The Chicken Man! 🥰

Susan F's avatar

Proud of my city! All over Portland we were say ENOUGH!! Thanks for this great write up and all the videos. Loving the OG Frog!

Patricia Ebert's avatar

Great reporting on the vibe in Portland, Tim🐸

mary thiel's avatar

So glad you profiled my wonderful city of Portland. I didn’t march in Portland but chose to March in a nearby, more conservative suburb, as I figured in Portland one is preaching to the choir. We had a great turnout, and the many vehicles driving by answered with their horns to our yells of shared excitement.

paulc's avatar

INSPIRING!

Thanks to Tim and to Portland.