BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.

They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.

(🎥 AP)

In case helpful, wrote this in 2022 reviewing insights from some of those cases and laying out an assessment of US context. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Apartheid South Africa, Pinochet's Chile, and the Jim Crow South were fascist / white supremacist regimes that were deposed through mass nonviolent movements. These movements ultimately unified the opposition against autocracy--something that didn't happen in most 1930s cases in Europe.

ANCHORAGE…

Science for democracy. Much needed. Powerful @science.org editorial by @gretchentg.bsky.social & @chenoweth.bsky.social

“The ability to tell the truth, especially when it does not suit any particularly partisan aims, is an essential prerequisite for a free society”

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Privileged to write this editorial with @gretchentg.bsky.social of @ucs.org in @science.org: "Scientists’ role in defending democracy." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here is the chart showing the growth of reported protest over time, 2025 vs. 2017, referenced in the piece below.

Washington, D.C. residents’ rapid response to Trump's National Guard deployment is a masterclass in how to prepare for crises and fight authoritarianism.

Here is the chart showing the growth of reported protest over time, 2025 vs. 2017, referenced in the piece below.

And as always, if you think we’re missing a record, you can scroll down on this page and submit it here:

More from our team soon. Meanwhile, the data are available here:

Two caveats: (a) our data collection has improved over time, but we don’t think that’s explaining most of the growth across years; (b) the political conditions under which we are collecting data are not identical across years; more on the latter point here:

5. Other signs of durability & commitment during this period include historic turnout at the One Million Rising online trainings, the first of which on 7/16 had over 130,000 sign-ups. This was probably the largest nonviolence training in U.S. history.

4. Consistent with our past reporting, 2025 continues to see far more protests than were recorded at this time in 2017—a trend that continues through at least the end of July. This reinforces the sense of a growing & durable pro-democracy movement at the grassroots.

3. Over 99.5% of reported protests had no injuries or property damage, with the latter reported in only 10 locations (just under 0.5%). As we’ve reported before, this is an unprecedentedly tiny fraction for a movement of this size and geographic dispersion.

2. No Kings was comparable in scale to the Women’s March, albeit across far more locations. The Women’s March involved actions in over 650 locations, while No Kings saw events in over 2150 as many locations, with events organized in big cities, small towns and places in between.

1. No Kings was likely the 2nd-largest single day demonstration since Trump took office in 2017. We estimate that between 2m and 4.8m people participated, making its turnout comparable to that of the 2017 Women’s March (between 3.2m and 5.3m people).

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:

And as always, if you think we’re missing a record, you can scroll down on this page and submit it here: ash.harvard.edu/programs/cro...

More from our team soon. Meanwhile, the data are available here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/cr...

Two caveats: (a) our data collection has improved over time, but we don’t think that’s explaining most of the growth across years; (b) the political conditions under which we are collecting data are not identical across years; more on the latter point here: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi...).

5. Other signs of durability & commitment during this period include historic turnout at the One Million Rising online trainings, the first of which on July 16 had over 130,000 sign-ups. This was probably the largest nonviolence training in U.S. history www.nokings.org/rise.