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It’s way better than the White House’s way! There wasn’t anywhere near a REAL COUNT (“250,000”! Laughable!!)

At the one I attended people were coming and going over the course of the event. Which indicates the total who attended was higher by some margin than the max crowd size at any given point.

I think your figure for Boston is a large overestimate. The source is a unattributed number in a news article with no sources; that's not reliable!

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I have to tell you I took an additional 6 unregistered attendees-and no one had to be paid to go.

Now what? Americans need to go on strike. The general strike US

Hi, organizer in New York here. Your New York numbers are way off. It was about 200k. Corrections should be going out. We filled over a mile of the city with dense crowd for 3 hours. That whole time the march route was refilling with new people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Estimates from April 5 was 5+ million. There were definitely more yesterday. Many small towns are being ignored in this data. My town had about 700 protesters and has a population of 11k. Each town next my town also had a protest.

The "crowd-sourced" sheet I've seen estimated 5,000 for Denver, which is absurd -- that's what was estimated for Boulder, and half of what was estimated for the smaller city of Fort Collins, CO. The local news made an estimate from a drone or plane *after the No Kings event ended.* So frustrating.

Thanks for your work on this!

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I don't see any methods described by that account? Do you have a link?

Of course, everybody shouting random numbers at you didn't help. ("23057, 23058.... FUCK. *One,* *two,* ....")

I probably asked two or 300 people at the event I attended and none of them had pre-registered through indivisible or no Kings day. The walk up crowd was massive. They just didn’t want an official record of them being there.

I think you are way under. Chat GPT did a sample survey across the protests in the news and created a conservative average of 16,000 each. 2,100 protests would be 33 million protestors. Look at how many were in the big cities. Boston had 1 million alone.

Probably should have said "computer vision"; MLshit fuckwits have poisoned the well with LLM nonsense. :/

You need to leave AI out.

It was more like 22 million

I saw 11 million ?

They are doing stuff like this consistently and it’s infuriating. They’ve become more of an opinion source rather than a news source. The entire community I’m involved with (including myself) have all unsubscribed. @nytimes.com

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They are completely insane with their performances and lies 🙄 like none of us have been here since the birth of their Patriarchy!! NO MORE greedy, privileged colonizers that are absolutely NOT morally superior and absolutely LOVE 🤑🤑🤑 and violence! #MMEIP #NoKings

That's great! But we need 3.4 million according to historical statistics to effect change. Let's all get out there soon again!

Recount the election

keep it up. another 1-2% and America is past the historic threshold of successful resistance to Authoritarianism.

“Based on crowd-sourced records”. Morris’s estimate is example of garbage in-garbage out.

Bullshit. There were over one million protesters in Boston alone.

Perhaps there is a way to extrapolate the numbers of people driving or passing by who honked, cheered, waved or gave the V for victory sign. That should add to those 4 - 5 million people.

FYI.

I expect we'll get a final count today at some juncture. The reporting seems very varied to say the least.

Don’t forget that the inbound suburban Metra trains were packed.

Yep, it wasn’t close to a million. Organizers said 20k…when we got down there it looked like at least triple that, so 75k is about right

Not likely when those populous suburbs (e.g., Evanston) were holding protests of their own.

They're a cosplaying account. I would not trust them for accuracy. Specifically, notice how they rarely cite sources.

May all those who are suddenly engaged & impassioned, especially those who decided NOT to vote, begin to listen to the most marginalized group of people who’ve been sounding the alarms (92%). We can & should always work together, but we must remember to lift those voices & not discredit them.

I want to believe as much as anyone that we hit the 3.5% threshold, but regardless of if that happened, it’s undeniable that the movement is strong and gaining momentum.

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The No Kings protests demonstrate the power of coordinated, grassroots activism in opposing authoritarianism and defending democratic values.

Likely much much higher.

According to the US Census the population of the US on June 14, 2025 was: 341,940,856. 2% of that is 6,838,817 people. That's a lot of people. How many people were in Washington for the insecure felon's parade?

I’ve been reading ELEVEN MILLION!!

More like 11 million

this is severely underestimated -- Sonora was listed as 200 when we had 1500-2000. It's now corrected for Sonora but keep that discrepancy in mind for the other locations.

That’s great 💙💙💙💙

There will definitely be assholes who try to sell that crap story. Right wingers surely don’t want to believe that opposition to Trump is strong in Idaho. But tough on them, they’re just hiding from the truth.

We were camped in a rural area of ND with no protests nearby to join but fully supported all those who did.

Crowd size was impacted by the weather to some degree in the highly populated mid Atlantic and northeast.

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check Alt National Park Service, they handed out "attendance tickets", and for just the ones collected it was 12.1 million

Our town of 10,000 had 2,000 show up!

This is about half the size of the organizer’s estimates. Can you account for such a large discrepancy?

The V for victory sign, waving, cheering, and honking - the ultimate measures of civic engagement! Can we also count the number of people who silently mouthed "Thank you, Susan" in solidarity?

And that motherfucker “won” by a mere 1.5%. (San Francisco protest)

This is both hopeful news (people are mad and mobilized) and depressing (the media is basically ignoring this, making deeper mobilization harder).

Don’t forget the entire flotilla of federal civil servants who may feel the same way but were uncomfortable at the idea of marching with you all. I’m just saying they may exist in large numbers. 🤷

Yes it is. Just fantastic that so many people took to the streets to express their displeasure.

I said somewhere (not necessarily here) that we were on track to hit the 3.5% 'magic number' by fall. Now I think we'lll hit it my August 1st. Trump's days are numbered.

Waaaaaaah, nobody came my parade.

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@aoc.bsky.social ‘28

I thought this data looked interesting and possibly a little more accurate than the other reports we are seeing.

so close yet so far. nearly very movement that mobilizes at least 3.5% of the population in sustained nonviolent protest succeeded in achieving its regime change goals

I think that's a low estimate! There were 2 million at the April 5th Hands Off protests and yesterday was WAY bigger!

Why this, grrr...

Powr to the ppl

Now. If we double that? Historical analysis from a Harvard Professor shows it’ll lead to regime change. We gotta keep it up & build.

Where's their bubba safari to deep red town diners now??

Organizers claim it was closer to 11 million people.

@altnps.bsky.social is estimating 12 million

I guess 3.5 makes it seem more attainable, but from a stats analysis viewpoint it doesn't vibe with me. I do stats for work, and reporting proportions among a base that includes people outside the group relevant to the narrative is somewhat misleading. But I won't lose sleep over it 😏

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I couldn’t agree MORE. 👍🏼

Be still my heart! I have hope for us!

Sounds low to me 🤷‍♂️

Boston pulled 1 million alone. I find it hard to believe your figures - even if you have a “method”.

That account is not the National Park Service, and they gave no methodology for that number.

I don't know how many times this will have to be pointed out before it sinks in.

they're still taking roll, it'll be a few minutes

I donated to ACLU!!

I was hoping for 5 million. Next time, 50% more than that will turn out. And the time after that, we’ll get 10 million marching. That will put America into the 3.5% territory needed to toss the GOP fascist gang out of office and out of power.

And we need to do it again next week. And the week after that. We need big and consistent criticism that cannot be ignored. It’s frightening that it took us until June to show up. Just one day is easy to ignore. Let’s do it often enough that nyt & WP headline writings can’t explain euphemistically.

That’s how it was discussed on NBC this morning — heck, there were “thousands” just at the one I attended in Ft Lauderdale. Disappointing but not surprising.

Yeah, and they’ll argue it’s still factual because you know, they didn’t quantify how many thousands there were. After all, a few thousand thousands is a couple of million. Pathetic “reporting”.

We were joking yesterday at the protest how the press would report “dozens and dozens” while we could see (as compared to other recently attended venues) that thousands were in attendance in Albuquerque.

This is a genuine question. I only start with that because it’s hard to distinguish if something is sarcasm in a post. I respectfully want to be educated as to why 3.5% was the target and what makes that number significant. Can someone please explain it to me?

Still only one paper against an entire human history that explicitly disagrees

Gfy, troll

American expats even demonstrated in Copenhagen, Denmark! #NoKings 🤴

I was in Rehoboth Beach, DE-we estimated somewhere between 1500-2000 people on both sides of Rt 1

Yeah my little red town of 4k people had 1200 show up.

Alt Nat reporting over 11 million

Didn't break the 3.5% threshold sadly

It was much more than that. Many smaller towns had great turnouts.

I don't know what your methodology is, but this strikes me as an extremely conservative estimate. I'm guesstimating that at least 2,500 showed up in my moderate sized, midwestern town, yesterday.

Plus millions more witnessed the events. I counted 100 cars per minute able to view the 3-hour sign-wave I attended.

Not sure what their method was but I think @altnps.bsky.social estimates were closer to 11 million. I agree people came and went and came and went. But Boston and San Francisco each had a million alone, so I’m accepting the 11 million number.

Everyone who is laser focused on this 3.5% "rule" need to learn about Goodhart's Law. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhar...

I feel that amount was NYC, LA and Chicago alone.

I read it was about 11 million.

And guessing it doesn’t include all the people in cars/trucks blowing horns in support, giving 👍✌️✊👏signs, or other activities like people riding bikes with signs attached, or like this person. bsky.app/profile/lore...