Anticipating a galvanised national groundswell, epochal demonstrations are poised to erupt nationwide against President Donald Trump, spearheaded by a pivotal "No Kings" convocation in Philadelphia, coinciding with the President's attendance at a sesquibicentennial military parade in Washington; these burgeoning protests, substantially inflamed by draconian federal immigration enforcement actions and the controversial deployment of National Guard contingents and Marine detachments to Los Angeles—a city now convulsed by protest-related violence—have elicited a forceful response from authorities, deploying curfews, riot control agents, kinetic impact projectiles, and concussive ordnance, whilst National Guard activation is underway in numerous states to augment law enforcement capabilities, transmitting an unequivocal message of absolute intolerance towards violence or any form of civil infraction; masterminded by the 50501 Movement as a defiant riposte against what they perceive as the Trump administration's inexorable slide towards authoritarianism, the No Kings Day of Defiance is projected to constitute the most extensive single-day mobilisation witnessed since the President's reinstatement, encompassing events scheduled at almost two thousand distinct loci across the national landscape.