On Start Making Sense: Leah Greenberg, cofounder of Indivisble, talks about preparing for Saturday’s protests, and John Powers comments on Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film.
A protester in a Trump mask gestures in front of soldiers during a No Kings demonstration in Los Angeles, California on June 14, 2025. (Lauren Puente / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)
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Saturday is the second No Kings Day – it should be the biggest single day of protest in American history, with more than 2,500 events planned. Leah Greenberg will explain the preparations – she’s co-founder of Indivisible, the group that called the first No Kings day, June 14 – five million people participated in that one, held the same day as Trump’s birthday parade – the one no one came to.
Also: there’s “a forthrightly antifascist film” that critics call “wild and thrilling” — of course, that’s “One Battle After Another,” the Paul Thomas Anderson movie starring Leonardo di Caprio as a burnt out left wing bomber, targeted by an ICE captain played by Sean Penn. John Powers will comment—he’s critic at large on Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
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Saturday is the second No Kings Day—it should be the biggest single day of protest in American history, with more than 2,000 events planned. Leah Greenberg will explain the preparations—she’s cofounder of Indivisible, the group that called the first No Kings day, June 14. Five million people participated in that one, held the same day as Trump’s birthday parade—the one no one came to.
Also: There’s “a forthrightly antifascist film” that critics call “wild and thrilling”—of course, that’s One Battle After Another, the Paul Thomas Anderson movie starring Leonardo di Caprio as a burnt-out left-wing bomber, targeted by an ICE captain played by Sean Penn. John Powers will comment—he’s critic at large on Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
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It’s been only a couple of weeks since the No Kings 3 protests, but we can see now how protest and resistance are changing in America: that one it wasn't just bigger than the previous No Kings. It was different: Deeper and more connected. Rebecca Solnit argues that to understand resistance and change today, we need a much longer perspective than a couple of years. Her new book is The Beginning Comes After the End.
Also: Minneapolis made history with its mobilization against ICE. But what about the rest of the state, where the immigrant population has been growing for a couple of decades? What kind of resistance has developed there? Emma Janssen went to small town Minnesota to find out. She’s a writing fellow at The American Prospect.
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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.