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No Kings: protests in the eye of the storm

A parade balloon depicting Donald Trump as a baby wearing a diaper floats above a crowd of people in front of City Hall.
Demonstrators in Los Angeles marched alongside an inflatable Donald Trump baby dressed in a diaper.

As President Donald Trump kicked off a birthday military parade on the streets of Washington, DC, what's estimated as roughly 2,000 events were held across the US and beyond - protesting Trump and Elon Musk's evisceration of government services, an unprecedented crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and countless other actions from the administration in its first five months. Held under the title "No Kings" (with, as you'll see, one conspicuous exception), they're the latest in several mass protests, following April's Hands Off events and a wave of Tesla Takedown demonstrations in March.

As The Verge's Tina Nguyen went to downtown DC, we also sent reporters to No Kings demonstrations spanning the country, plus a "No Tyrants" event in the UK. How would they unfold after promises of "very heavy force" against protesters in the capital, after the deployment of thousands of military troops in a move a judge has bluntly called illegal, and after promises to "liberate" the city of Los Angeles from its "burdensome leadership" by local elected officials? What about the overnight killing of a Minnesota Democratic state representative and her husband, and the shooting of …

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https://www.theverge.com/policy/687195/no-kings-trump-parade-protests
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