The media is actively misleading about US protest and their frequency and size. Coverage has been extemely minimal and downplaying how many are protesting. There have been protests larger than this in the US. Copying my comment from elsewhere on a related thread

Here's one from yesterday with 1000 people in Boise, Idaho

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Here's a super incomplete timeline with just a handful of the nationwide protests. I'm missing a lot, I'm just showing your the photos I had from recent memory

8 days ago there were national protest for science funding cuts. Here's the main one in DC

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11 days ago there were nationwide protests in all 50 US state capitols + DC + Many cities within those states. This was part of the 50501 movement

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Portland, Oregon

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Monroe, Wisconsin

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San Fransisco, California

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Albany, New York

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Raleigh, North Carolina

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Richmond, Virginia

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Austin, Texas

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Protests Outside Fox News in New York City

16 days ago there were large protest in the Iowa Statehouse

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19 days ago, a protest in Cherry Hill, New Jersy outside Tesla Showroom as part of a nationwide movement protesting Telsas. There have been tons more than just this one and these happen basically every day

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21 days ago, large protests in DC for Ukraine aid

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And so on. There's a lot more going on than just this

[–] Silk@lemm.ee 9 points 19 hours ago

Oh wow, ty