DL Open Thread Sunday Magazine: October 19, 2025

El Somnambulo

5 months ago

I’ve shifted to this Sunday Magazine format to give us at least one day a week where the Trump nightmare doesn’t override everything else.

Yesterday’s protests had the same effect. So today I’m sharing the best of what I found from yesterday. Because we at least have hope that we can help stop the Trump nightmare:

Protester dressed in a Statue of Liberty costume enters the subway station after a “No Kings” protest on Oct. 18, 2025, in New York City.Olga Fedorova / AP

This aerial picture taken on Saturday shows protesters forming a human banner during the No Kings national day of protest on Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Laure Andrillon / AFP / Getty Images

Chicago resident Yabira.NBC News

NYPD NEWS

The majority of the No Kings protests have dispersed at this time and all traffic closures have been lifted. We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests.

Jennifer Engle of Bethesda, Md.Alexandra Marquez / NBC News

Timothy A. Clary / Getty Images

Perhaps my fave:

u/meggiemomo / Via reddit.com

@MikeNellis / Via x.com

Protesters in Washington DC. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

Downtown Chicago. Photograph: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA

ROME, ITALY – OCTOBER 18: Democrats Abroad, the global arm of the American Democratic Party, protest against Donald Trump’s policies and his administration’s disregard for the Constitution of the United States of America and the alarming threats to our civil rights in democratic elections as citizens residing abroad, during a “No Kings” protest against U.S. President Donald Trump at Piazza Santi Apostoli, on October 18, 2025 in Rome, Italy. The protest follows similar “No Kings” events in the United States. (Photo by Simona Granati – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Aaaah, I feel so much better now. Hope your spirits have been lifted as well.

What’s that? It’s a football Sunday? Time to lift some spirits…