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city anxiously anticipates the first large-scale protest since Austin’s anti-ICE demonstration Monday, which resulted in 13 arrests, organizers have asserted the Saturday protest will be safe, peaceful, and focused on “fun,” embracing a circus theme.

The “No Kings” protest in Austin — set to begin at the Texas Capitol at 5 p.m. Saturday — is one of more than 1,800 planned across the country, aimed at garnering significant crowds to oppose President Donald Trump’s authoritarian-like rule

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The rebranding of Fort Cavazos has begun. The post is getting a new-old name — Fort Hood — and to get around the prohibition on honoring Confederates, the Trump administration says it is renaming the post after a different Hood, not the post's original namesake, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood.

What to know today

• President Donald Trump is hosting a lavish military parade in Washington to celebrate the Army's 250th anniversary. Today is also the president's 79th birthday.
• The parade is expected to kick off at 6:30 p.m. ET. The day's festivities include a festival starting at 11 a.m., and fireworks and a concert at the conclusion of the parade. The president will also deliver remarks.
• Activists are planning to protest in all 50 states and in Washington, D.C. A number of progressive organizations have combined to host "No Kings" protests, which follow days of nationwide protests against the administration's immigration policies. Trump warned earlier this week that protesters at the military parade would be met with "heavy force."
• Trump and military officials have said that the parade will continue rain or shine, even as the National Weather Service has forecast possible rain on Saturday night. 

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attendance at Trump’s parade was dwarfed by the millions who showed up at roughly 2,000 anti-Trump “No Kings” protests in cities and towns all over the country...

Meanwhile, more than 2,000 "No Kings Day" protests were held across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the Trump administration and to counterprogram the military parade in Washington, D.C., organizers said. More than 5 million people participated, according to organizers.

The demonstrations remained peaceful in almost all cities, but as the evening grew in Los Angeles, tensions escalated between police and protesters.

At least 12 million people ( 3.7% of US pop) took a stand against the Trump regime and fascism on Saturday.

Democracy is inevitable. #3E #NoKings 

The annual Bilderberg Meeting is underway in Sweden, providing a private forum for discussion at a time when President Donald Trump has upended security and economic ties between the US and Europe.

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Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived

Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state
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