Eliza Orlins

And then they're resisting.

So it's like this fits into a broader authoritarian infrastructure.

You know, listen, I think that protecting yourself and your neighbors means, you know, just if you do bring your phone because you decide you want to, listen, I'll have my phone with me, but don't post pictures of other people's faces because, you know, you don't want to endanger anyone else.

I would say...

Be aware that they want to do anything they can to undermine these protests, and they want to paint us as violent rioters, radicals, the radical—capital R, capital L—radical left.

And so—

don't engage if people are trying to agitate because I think that inevitably there will be agitators who try to infiltrate and the first no kings was incredibly peaceful I mean we had millions of people out on the streets of New York City and I don't even think a single arrest was I mean it really was so peaceful and so I would just say like don't engage with agitators um

you know, I know that a bunch of us are planning on like wearing inflatables because like they're trying to paint us as that.

And I think that like combating it with humor, the folks who are going to show up in like their inflatable frog costumes and their inflatable aliens and chickens and everything else, it's really like, it's showing like we, you can't, you can't psychologically intimidate us out of showing up and supporting our communities and showing how we are not okay with this.

Definitely, because I think that it would be very – I mean, listen, I can't really picture that happening here.

I don't – you know, I can't speak for other cities, but I know in New York, the NYPD –

who largely come in and police a city in which they don't live, who come in from Nassau County, Suffolk County, and Staten Island, you know, are themselves very pro-Trump.

And so it would be hard to imagine them standing up on behalf of protesters against if he brought in, say, you know, Federal Forces, National Guard, or whatever.

But I do think it is...

Very interesting to see how Chicago has reacted.

You know, I've been wildly impressed by J.B.

Pritzker and, you know, all the folks in Chicago, in Illinois, who have really stood up and said, nope, not in our city, not in our state.

You know, I think that the big issue that we see and, like, the fact that so many people say, oh, but this thing, this thing is against the law.

He can't do that.

He can't do that.