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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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.