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Other estimates put it at ~5.2 million. The 3 million estimates appear to be excluding the west coast

That's around 1.6% of the US population which is pretty large for a protest. This isn't the first nationwide protest nor will it be the last. Next date planned for 50501 is April 19th

https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lm5nnz5ook2q

This wasn't the first nationwide protest of his second term nor will it be the last. This was the 4th nationwide 50501 protest. Plus other movement like Tesla Takedown had large nationwide protests prior too. It's just that now it's gotten large enough that the media can no longer ignore it. It took time to get here. Each protest keeps getting larger than the last

Millions of people have just been put in touch with the various local groups organizing these protests. Usually at these protests they'll be people going around giving info, sigining people up for mailing lists, etc. That's a good part of how each protest gets bigger

Besides just protests, that will enable much more action and more rapid action in the future. For instance Indivisible does tons of work on directed pressure of congress and local leaders. 50501 organized smaller boycotts in the past when the crowds were smaller. Now they can organize boycotts more with more effect

This also wasn't even the only protest in Ohio! Nationwide there were over 1,400 locations protesting with a total turnout estimated in the millions

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If you want to help in Canada, there are also Tesla Takedown protests growing there. That and make sure to vote in your upcoming elections to avoid having the same senario play out in Canada that happened in the US

https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown

Edit: and to clarify, the Tesla Takedown protests are global, not limited to the US and Canada. It's growing in Europe and elsewhere too

If you stick to the edges, you'll usually be able to get out without much issue

For larger protests, organizers will usually try to put things like porta-poty around too

These protests were planned in advance well before the tarrifs

Other sources give crowd size estimates that match with this photo

In photos: "Hands Off!" protesters rally against Trump across the U.S (Axios - though not with any high up photos in NYC in particular)

"DC and NYC are well over 100,000 attendees, each."

The total attendance estimate far surpasses the 500,000 RSVPs organizers counted as of Friday night.

By the numbers: More than 1,100 rallies, visibility events and meetings were scheduled in all 50 states as of Wednesday.

Dems actually did introduce a bill to do essentially that in the Senate for tarrifs on Canada. It passed 51-48 with only 4 republicans breaking rank. Notably in this case, Ted Cruz voted against that bill

I should note it's unlikely Mike Johnson will ever put it up for a vote in the house. If he did and it passed, it will likely get vetoed. Without more republicans breaking rank it's not going to be able to get to the 2/3 of congress needed to veto override

Need to see more republicans with spines for this bill to get through

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00160.htm

Schimel already conceded and said that they had to respect election results. (To a booing crowd of supporters)

Kind of something that what used to be 100% standard by all is now suprising

Plenty of states are directly rubuking Trump right now and actively going against what he's telling them to do. We don't have to imagine them enforcing things that they don't want. Many are already doing just as much

Statewide dem parties have been better at standing up than much of the national dems have

NY still has the congestion prices going despite his demand they pull it

Maine's governor is not bowing to Trump's demands on trans rights even after direct in person confrontation

And so on

State courts can carry out arrests and penalties themselves without federal government involvement

Primarily in the context of Musk that's going to matter with his active cases in the WI court

Other states governments can extradite him too even if he never steps foot in Wisconsin. He'd have to basically never go anywhere other than federal territories or deep red state to avoid that. That's assuming they'd block his extradition in the first place which is quite rare to begin with