No Kings rally

[redbird]

cattitude and I went to the No Kings rally on Boston Common. It was a large crowd, large enough that we couldn't really hear the speeches, but that's OK, we were there to be part of the crowd. I saw some good signs, including "Of course he hates veritas" and "America runs on dissent", for local flavor, and "No kings [large image of the One Ring with a slash through it] to rule them all." Almost all the signs were homemade, and different.

Happily, it was warm enough for me to unzip my hoodie and show off my Boston Dyke March T-shirt, and for other people to wear t-shirts, some of them more relevant than others. I was amused by the person in a football jersey: the local NFL team is called the New England Patriots.

There were also a bunch of inflatable animal costumes, including at least three chickens, a dinosaur, axolotls, an octopus, and a pink unicorn. The unicorn was blowing bubbles. I bought a T-shirt with a drawing of a frog and the word "resist."

The above paragraph would have made no sense a month ago, but we are living in weird as well as scary times, in which the administration apparently sees the Emergency World Naked Bike Ride as a threat.

Comments

[sabotabby]

Thank you for going.

[redbird]

You’re welcome. I’m doing what I can, and glad to be feeling well enough this week to go.

[minoanmiss]

Yay! *cheers delightedly*

[cmcmck]

There seem to have been a lot of animal outfits from the various postings I've been reading.

[redbird]

The post this morning at Universal Hub is headlined “Portland has frogs, and Boston, of course, has lobsters.” One of the commenters added “the lobsters are red, they must be steaming.”

It’s hard for armed cops to make someone walking around in one of those animal costumes look like a threat.

[bibliofile]

Glad that you were up for it. Thanks for reporting back.

[switterbeet]

Big thanks from Canada for standing up to the nightmarish regime!