A Hopeful Message (+No Kings!)
There is much (rightly) to be concerned about, but let’s look ahead for some hopeful signs – and taking pride in rejecting kings since 1776!
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Immigration and California
The nation has been embroiled with Trump administration action against immigrants, both those currently in the country and those seeking to enter the country to attend college. [1]
Immigration has always been a hot American issue, and while the broad actions against immigrants might be new for the nation, they are not new for California – we’ve been here before in a backlash against “illegal immigration” 30 years ago.
In 1994, California voters passed Proposition 187, a ballot initiative proposed by anti-immigrant organizations, which restricted undocumented immigrants from the state’s public services, including access to public education and healthcare. The initiative also directed teachers and healthcare professionals to report any individuals suspected of being undocumented to the Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) or the California Attorney General. [2]
From the Library of Congress resource on Proposition 187: [3]
Screenshot from PBS documentary 187: The Rise of the Latino Vote [4]
https://www.pbs.org/video/187-the-rise-of-the-latino-vote-vaybey/
Proposition 187 was approved during a turbulent period of economic recession in California, urging many citizens to view undocumented immigrants as scapegoats. Upon the proposition’s passage, Governor Pete Wilson advocated for the referendum’s immediate implementation, ordering healthcare facilities and school districts to deny services to undocumented individuals. Several organizations promptly challenged the proposition, including the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), who argued that the proposition violated Plyler v. Doe (1982) and that immigration is a federal rather than a state issue.
Proposition 187 passed with an 18-point margin – 59% to 41%. An injunction was imposed against Proposition 187 within weeks of the initiative’s passage; ultimately, the initiative was ruled unconstitutional as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. [5]
The initiative was supported by Republican Governor Pete Wilson, and this era was the start of the rise of the GOP as a majority party nationally. Republicans won the House for the first time in four decades, and Newt Gingrich was elected Speaker. [6] Within California, Republicans won a 41-39 Assembly majority in the 1994 elections, and amazingly, Democrat Willie Brown kept the Speaker role through legendary use of power politics and parliamentary rulings. [7]
From “Demographic Trends in California: 1970-2040,” California Department of Social Services, Research and Development Division, July 11, 2000 [8]
My hopeful statement is this: California has already demonstrated how to move into the future, toward an America that furthers its journey as a multicultural, diverse society, working together through peaceful yet vigorous disagreement to build a better nation.
In 1994, when Proposition 187 was considered by California voters, white Americans comprised about 55% of the population. Three decades later, California is now what’s referred to as a “majority minority” state, and we continue to thrive. [8]
California has been here already in handling a demographic shift: [9]
1 of every 8 Americans live in California
No race or ethnic group constitutes a majority of the state population:
40% of Californians are Latino
34% are white
16% are Asian American or Pacific Islander
6% are Black
3% are multiracial
Fewer than 1% are Native American or Alaska Natives
Over 10 million Californians are immigrants
California’s Proposition 187 was a backward reaction to this foreseeable demographic shift, and America is going through the same demographic transition with an unfortunately similar reaction.
From “Our Changing Population: United States,” USAFacts [10]
As of 2022, white Americans made up about 59% of the population, and this percentage has been decreasing, while Hispanic residents make up an increasingly larger proportion. [10]
All in all, I think California is great, and we’ve already been through this. And like always, throughout American history, California has led the way forward. California entered the Union as a free state. We led the nation on establishing environmental protections. The state has grown to be the fourth largest economy in the world, driving the American economy itself.
And we’ve also led the way as a state gaining the fullest contributions from and embracing every corner of our multicultural society.
To some readers who might first think of things that should be fixed (and then list their favorite five things they don’t like about California), you bet – we should focus on making things better together, but scapegoating groups of people or destroying institutions based on misguided beliefs won’t fix anything.
That doesn’t mean we won’t have to deal with and fight back against some very negative and arguably un-American actions in the near term.
Newsom v Trump
When people protested the ICE raids that started around the Los Angeles area last week, including where agents chased people in Ventura County agricultural fields, [11] President Trump federalized the California National Guard, over the objection of Governor Newsom, sending thousands of National Guard troops and 700 Marines into Los Angeles. [12]
This week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem held a press conference in the Los Angeles Federal building, and the United States Senator from California Alex Padilla, after being escorted to the press conference by FBI and National Guard members, was later forcibly removed and handcuffed by federal agents. [13][14]
Video shows a Secret Service agent on Noem’s security detail grabbing the California senator by his jacket and shoving him from the room as he tried to speak up during the DHS secretary’s event. Padilla interrupted the news conference after Noem delivered a particularly pointed line, saying federal authorities were not going away but planned to stay and increase operations to “liberate” the city from its “socialist” leadership.
From NBC reporting: [15]
Before Padilla began questioning Noem, she spoke to reporters about the administration's actions, the subject of her appearance in Los Angeles. Noem said the Department of Homeland Security and its agencies, as well as the military, "will continue to sustain and increase our operations in this city."
"We are not going away," she said. "We are staying here to liberate this city from the socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country," she said, referring to California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, both Democrats.
[Regarding the manhandling of Senator Padilla] Noem offered a different account in an interview on Fox News in which she falsely said Padilla did not identify himself before he was forced out.
Commenting on Secretary Noem’s statements to “liberate” Los Angeles from its duly-elected leadership, legal scholar and Harvard Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe described the Trump administration actions in Los Angeles as “the very definition of a coup”: [16]
On 6/12, DHS Sec’y Kristi Noem said “We are staying here to liberate [LA] from the socialists and the burdensome leadership this governor and mayor have placed on this country and this city.” This use of military force to displace a democratically elected is the very definition of a coup.
The State of California sued the Trump administration, claiming that the President exceeded his authority to federalize the California National Guard without working through the Governor. [17][18] California won a federal court victory on Thursday evening, where Judge Charles Breyer ruled that the administration had unlawfully federalized the National Guard and sent them onto the streets of Los Angeles. [19] Judge Breyer wrote: [20]
“His actions were illegal—both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.”
Judge Breyer called out the Trump administration behavior that “strains credibility,” stating that when the statute requires that the administration work “through the Governor,” it doesn’t permit “the President to federalize a state’s National Guard by typing the phrase “Through the Governor of [insert state here]” at the top of a document that the President never sends to the governor” (emphasis in original) [20]
“Politically Motivated Assassination”
The specter of ICE agents increasing their operations more broadly, some of them masked, “raise concerns about lack of accountability.” [21] It also creates an environment where people can engage is unlawful behavior by impersonating law enforcement. This is happening around the country - for example, arrests have taken place in Philadelphia, Charleston, and Raleigh. [22]
From a recent and different incident in Philadelphia: [23]
"Any criminal can now put on a mask, say he is from ICE, and conduct any crime," one group warned.
"This is what people have feared."
That was how American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick responded on social media Monday to reporting that a man impersonating a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent zip-tied a woman working as a cashier at a cash-only auto repair shop in Philadelphia and stole around $1,000 on Sunday afternoon.
And also in Chicago: [24]
Charges are pending against a person accused of impersonating a police officer in the Loop on Thursday evening as demonstrators protesting ICE raids marched nearby.
Officers said it all unfolded around 5 p.m. in the 200 block of South Michigan Avenue as nearby protestors continued their calls for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to leave the state.
According to police, the arrest came after officers spotted the male suspect allegedly wearing “police identifiers” in the area.
Officers then determined the identifiers were allegedly not legitimate and placed the suspect into custody. Following his arrest, officers said they recovered a weapon.
This went to a new level Saturday, when we learned that a Minnesota legislator and her husband were shot and killed in their home. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called it an “act of targeted political violence” and “appear[s] to be a politically motivated assassination.” [25][26]
House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, 55, a Democrat, and her husband were killed in Brooklyn Park, a city near Minneapolis.
State Senator John Hoffman, 60, also a Democrat, and his wife were targeted in their home in nearby Champlin in a related shooting.
They were shot multiple times and are out of surgery, Walz said, adding he was "cautiously optimistic" they would survive.
A manhunt is underway for a suspect who was impersonating a police officer.
Note: The suspect was impersonating a police officer. Elected officials are now being killed resulting from an increasingly militarized environment - escalated violent rhetoric, recent aggressive tactics of law enforcement including wearing masks and unmarked vehicles - creating fear among our communities and making things less safe for everyone.
The Whole Truth
An observation by columnist Charlie Warzel from The Atlantic highlights that people are seeing very different realities of the Los Angeles protests against Trump admiminstration actions – it’s a worthwhile read and a gift link to the article can be found here: [27]
Consumed in aggregate, [the constellation of different still images and video clips] might provide an accurate representation of the proceedings: a tense, potentially dangerous, but still contained response by a community to a brutal federal immigration crackdown.
…
To follow [Fox News] reports is to believe that people are not protesting but rioting throughout the city. In this alternate reality, the whole of Los Angeles is a bona fide war zone. (It is not, despite President Donald Trump’s wildly disproportionate response, which includes deploying hundreds of U.S. Marines to the area and federalizing thousands of National Guard members.)
…
Even though such reality-fracturing has become a load-bearing feature of our information environment, the result is disturbing: Some percentage of Americans believes that one of the country’s largest cities is now a hellscape, when, in fact, almost all residents of Los Angeles are going about their normal lives.
The American Story
This is a time where we are relearning our American story and engaging in what it means to be American, making these stories our own.
For me, I love my own American story, since it connects me deeply with the history of our country.
I can trace a part of my family that came to America from England in the 1600s. Family members fought for the Continental Army to fight for independence against the British monarchy. They supported the Union in the Civil War. My grandfather served in World War II. My father served in Vietnam.
I was born at the United States Air Force Academy. The husband of my first cousin five-times removed is John C. Frémont - the first military governor of California and one of its first two U.S. Senators after California joined the Union. My great-great grandfather, Uriah Mann, was a personal acquaintance from Illinois of Abraham Lincoln, serving together in the Black Hawk War.
But also, as a critical element of what makes America, America, I value equally the story of a young couple from another country (pick your favorite – Mexico, India, Vietnam, China, the Philippines, Ukraine), finding their way to America to make a better life for themselves and their families. Protected by our Constitution, their children born here become U.S. citizens – they learn about the world through our schools, grow their families, and pursue their dreams within the full environment of constitutionally protected American freedoms.
And this starts their American story for future generations to take pride in and continue to invest their time and energy in our country.
Ronald Reagan’s last speech as President has been described as “a love letter to immigrants.” [28] You should read the speech, as it describes how precious the American way of life truly is, what gives us our true greatness, and how those from around the world may very well value it more than we do, since they don’t take it for granted. Here are a few key excerpts: [29]
And since this is the last speech that I will give as President, I think it's fitting to leave one final thought, an observation about a country which I love. It was stated best in a letter I received not long ago. A man wrote me and said: ``You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.''
Yes, the torch of Lady Liberty symbolizes our freedom and represents our heritage, the compact with our parents, our grandparents, and our ancestors. It is that lady who gives us our great and special place in the world. For it's the great life force of each generation of new Americans that guarantees that America's triumph shall continue unsurpassed into the next century and beyond. Other countries may seek to compete with us; but in one vital area, as a beacon of freedom and opportunity that draws the people of the world, no country on Earth comes close.
This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness. We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people -- our strength -- from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation. While other countries cling to the stale past, here in America we breathe life into dreams. We create the future, and the world follows us into tomorrow. Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we're a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier. This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.
A number of years ago, an American student traveling in Europe took an East German ship across the Baltic Sea. One of the ship's crewmembers from East Germany, a man in his sixties, struck up a conversation with the American student. After a while the student asked the man how he had learned such good English. And the man explained that he had once lived in America. He said that for over a year he had worked as a farmer in Oklahoma and California, that he had planted tomatoes and picked ripe melons. It was, the man said, the happiest time of his life. Well, the student, who had seen the awful conditions behind the Iron Curtain, blurted out the question, ``Well, why did you ever leave?'' ``I had to,'' he said, ``the war ended.'' The man had been in America as a German prisoner of war.
Now, I don't tell this story to make the case for former POW's. Instead, I tell this story just to remind you of the magical, intoxicating power of America. We may sometimes forget it, but others do not. Even a man from a country at war with the United States, while held here as a prisoner, could fall in love with us. Those who become American citizens love this country even more. And that's why the Statue of Liberty lifts her lamp to welcome them to the golden door.
No Kings!
For fun, here’s a flashback to the Schoolhouse Rock! episode from nearly 50 years ago, appropriate for the June 14 No Kings! protests: [30]
These protests aren’t new – we’ve been involved in an ebbing and flowing, yet continuing protest for 250 years of rejecting kings as our model for self-governance. It’s just our turn to keep it going.
Some of the estimates of protest size across the country from the upwards of 2,100 rallies with over 5,000,000 participants include: [31][32]
Boston: 1,000,000 [33]
Los Angeles: 200,000 [34]
San Diego: 60,000 [35]
San Jose: 10,000 [36]
New York City: 50,000 [37]
Seattle: 70,000 [38]
Dallas-Fort Worth: 11,000 [39]
Thousand Oaks: 10,000
“Hillcrest and Lynn Road in TO are going off. Crowd pushing 10,000 and building with multiple city blocks occupied.” [40]
Stephanie and I attended – one of the largest rallies I’ve ever seen at the Hillcrest and Lynn intersection in Thousand Oaks. Very glad to have been there!
Lastly, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow posted [41] a link to a Washington Post article on the No Kings! demonstrations. [42] I thought one of the quotes was pretty apt:
Couples came, families came, individuals who said they’d never before protested came. They carried hand-lettered signs focused on democracy, the rule of law and human rights. The scenes were a stark contrast to the one planned hours later in the nation’s capital, where Trump would preside over a grandiose display of military tanks and soldiers as part of a celebration of the Army’s 250th birthday – on a day that also happened to be his 79th birthday.
“No Kings” participants compared the parade in Washington to something more commonly seen in autocratic countries such as Russia and North Korea. Stephanie Henderson, who traveled to the Philadelphia rally from Smyrna, Delaware, carried a sign there with picture of three men: England’s monarch during the U.S. Revolutionary War, Adolf Hitler, and Trump.
“We fought a king in 1775. We fought a dictator in 1945,” the sign read. “We will fight whatever the hell this is in 2025.”
A Little History
Marking the Semiquincentennial of American Independence 250 years ago
The Battle of Bunker Hill
June 17, 1775, marked the Battle of Bunker Hill. The overview comes from the American Battlefield Trust, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that preserves America’s hallowed battlegrounds and educates the public about what happened there and why it matters - the organization has saved more than 58,000 acres of battlefield land in 25 states to date: [43]
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill, a portrait by John Trumbull depicting the battle
The American patriots were defeated at the Battle of Bunker Hill, but they proved they could hold their own against the superior British Army. The fierce fight confirmed that any reconciliation between England and her American colonies was no longer possible.
How it ended
British victory. The battle was a tactical victory for the British, but it was a sobering experience. The British sustained twice as many casualties as the Americans and lost many officers. After the engagement, the patriots retreated and returned to their lines outside the perimeter of Boston.
In context
By early 1775 tensions between Britain and her colonies had escalated. The colonists began to mobilize for war, while the British Army secured gunpowder and cannon in anticipation of an uprising. On April 19, it all came to a head in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. After that historic engagement, the British retreated to their camp in Boston, and local militias prepared for future British attacks. Militiamen marched to defend Boston, some from as far away as Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and what is now the state of Vermont.
British Commander-in-Chief General Sir Thomas Gage was under pressure to quash the colonial rebellion. By June, he had reinforcements and was ready to implement a new strategy. The British Army planned to launch an attack against the Americans on the heights north and south of Boston. Details of the attack were leaked, however, and a detachment of 1,000 Massachusetts and Connecticut soldiers—more of an armed mob than a military unit—gathered to defend a hill in Charlestown. Among the defenders were several enslaved and free African Americans as well. The violent clash of these forces on what is mistakenly known as “Bunker Hill” signaled that the colonial revolt would not be easily extinguished.
With the attack and murder of Minnesota legislators this week, a book worth highlighting is one from Yale history professor Joanne B. Freeman about the violence among and against legislators surrounding the buildup to the Civil War. [44]
"One of the best history books I've read in the last few years." ―Chris Hayes
The Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
ONE OF SMITHSONIAN'S BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Historian Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery.
These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities―the feel, sense, and sound of it―as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.
GIF Game
No Kings!
Notes and Sources
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[2] “1994: California's Proposition 187,” A Latinx Resource Guide: Civil Rights Cases and Events in the United States, Library of Congress, retrieved June 14, 2025, https://guides.loc.gov/latinx-civil-rights/california-proposition-187
[3] Ibid.
[4] 187: The Rise of the Latino Vote, PBS, October 6, 2020, https://www.pbs.org/video/187-the-rise-of-the-latino-vote-vaybey/
[5] “1994: California’s Proposition 187,” Library of Congress.
[6] “The Republican Revolution,” History.com, February 09, 2010, retrieved June 14, 2025, https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/november-8/the-republican-revolution
[7] Dan Morain and Jerry Gillam, “Brown Regains Speaker Role, Shares Power,” Los Angeles Times, January 25, 1995, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-25-mn-24204-story.html
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[11] Sid Garcia, “ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during raid in Southern California,” ABC7 News, June 12, 2025, https://abc7news.com/post/ice-agents-chase-farmworkers-flee-fields-during-latest-raid-ventura-county-california/16723838/
[12] Karma Dickerson, “Timeline: How a week of protests over ICE raids unfolded in Los Angeles,” NBC4 Los Angeles, https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-ice-raids-protests-timeline/3724222/
[13] Krysta Fauria, Michael R. Blood, and Lisa Mascaro, “Sen. Padilla is forcefully removed from Noem’s news conference on immigration raids and handcuffed,” Associated Press, June 12, 2025, https://apnews.com/article/alex-padilla-noem-immigration-protest-california-f67d220a0254473c53c16aa96f554239
[14] “Video shows Sen. Alex Padilla being handcuffed at Kristi Noem’s press conference,” Associated Press, June 12, 2025, https://apnews.com/video/cellphone-footage-shows-california-sen-alex-padillas-removal-from-noems-la-press-conference-8a99118de8a74eb6a569f72cd970698d?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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[16] Laurence H. Tribe [@tribelaw.bksy.social], Bluesky, June 13, 2025, https://bsky.app/profile/tribelaw.bsky.social/post/3lrib7pdf322f
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[18] Governor Gavin Newsom, “President Trump agrees he’s breaking the law in California. Here’s the evidence.” June 11, 2025, https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/11/president-trump-agrees-hes-breaking-the-law-in-california-heres-the-evidence/
[19] Joyce Vance, “Judge Breyer's Decision About Trump & The National Guard,” Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance, June 13, 2025, https://joycevance.substack.com/p/judge-breyers-decision-about-trump
[20] Newsom v. Trump, 3:25-cv-04870, (N.D. Cal.), Document 64, June 12, 2025, https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.450934/gov.uscourts.cand.450934.64.0_1.pdf
[21] Ted Hesson, Tim Reid, and Mike Scarcella, “Los Angeles ICE raids fuel controversy over masked agents,” Reuters, June 9, 2025, https://www.reuters.com/world/us/los-angeles-ice-raids-fuel-controversy-over-masked-agents-2025-06-09/
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[27] Charlie Warzel, “I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is (Again),” the Atlantic, June 13, 2025, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/06/los-angeles-protests-distortion-effect/683185/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3ypA43WXEPA8fSQ8xHwXFWQ
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[31] Austin Turner and Matthew Rodriquez, “L.A. police use tear gas, flash-bangs on "No Kings" protesters in downtown,” CBS News, June 14, 2025, https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/no-kings-downtown-los-angeles-protest/
[32] April Rubin and Rebecca Falconer, “"No Kings" anti-Trump protests attract millions, organizers say,” Axios, June 14, 2025, https://www.axios.com/2025/06/14/no-kings-protests-usa-june-14-trump-military-parade
[33] Ted Wayman, “‘More than 1 million descend on Boston Common for Pride and No Kings rallies,” WCVB5 Boston, June 14, 2025, https://www.wcvb.com/article/more-than-1-million-descend-on-boston-common-for-pride-and-no-kings-rallies/65065335
[34] Missael Soto, “‘No Kings' organizer release statement on downtown LA protest,” NBC4 Los Angeles, June 14, 2025, https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/live-updates-ice-raids-la-protests-no-kings-june-14/3724151/?cardId=1:9:3724527
[35] Jacob Aere, “60,000+ march through downtown for 'No Kings' Day protest, other rallies planned throughout the county,” KPBS, June 14, 2025, https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2025/06/14/thousands-march-through-downtown-for-no-kings-day-protest
[36] Jose Fabian, “"No Kings" protests draw tens of thousands across the Bay Area,” CBS News Bay Area, June 14, 2025, https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/no-kings-protests-bay-area-underway/
[37] Jay Kuo [https://www.facebook.com/nycjayjay], Facebook, June 14, 2025, https://www.facebook.com/reel/2156414844805998
[38] Nicholas Deshais, Greg Kim, Caitlyn Freeman, Alex Halverson, Mike Carter, and Daniel Beekman, “Over 70K in Seattle denounce Trump at massive ‘No Kings’ rally,” Seattle Times, June 14, 2025, https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/at-no-kings-rallies-tens-of-thousands-in-seattle-denounce-trump/
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