No Kings! Protests in Shoreline, Washington 2025

When people came together in peaceful protest against Tyranny in a small city in a remote corner of America

Two longtime friends protesting at the corner of N. 185th Street and Aurora Avenue/99 N. on the edge of Shoreline’s Town Center and Sculpture Park on the Interurban Trail. Edan’s on the left, his sign made from a pre-cut foam sheet he found in a neighbor’s garbage. Edan paraphrased from Patrick Henry’s famous 1775 speech in Virginia. On picture right is me, the author. A happy stranger took our foto with my iPhone. Instead of saying, “Cheese!” or “Smile!,” she said, “OK, say, ‘Fuck Trump!'” Saturday afternoon, 18 October 2025.

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