One by one, Rice students — numbering about 30 — filed through the shaded shrubbery and into the sunlight in front of Houston City Hall, joining the 13,500 to 15,000 No Kings protesters. Then, in the sweltering heat, and all at once, they raised their cardboard signs.
“This is what democracy looks like,” they chanted Saturday. The crowd was diverse — populated with frog suits, Statues of Liberty and hot dog vendors, — but had a shared purpose: protesting President Donald Trump and his administration.
They rallied behind signs such as “dump your fascist boyfriend,” “immigrants make America great,” and “elect a clown, expect a circus.”…