Good morning.
Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 78. Sunrise is 5:15 and sunset is 8:34, for 15 hours, 19 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 89.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1777, the Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and Stripes as the flag of the United States.
Across Wisconsin, and across all America, ‘No Kings’ protests will take place today:
In April, Quita Sheehan helped organize a “Hands Off!” protest in Eagle River, a small community of around 1,600 in Wisconsin’s Northwoods.
Organizers expected 20 people to attend. Instead, 200 people showed up to protest federal funding cuts and layoffs under President Donald Trump’s administration.
“So this time, we’re expecting 50 people. And hopefully 500 people do not show up, just because it’s a smaller space,” Sheehan joked. “But it would be nice just to have a space so that those people who are concerned about the changes going on in our government, with the current administration, don’t feel so alone.”
More than 50 protests are planned in communities across Wisconsin as part of the national No Kings movement. The events were planned before immigration raids in California led to protests last Friday that have spread to other cities.
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The No Kings demonstrations are scheduled for the same day Trump is holding a massive military parade in Washington D.C. The administration says the parade will honor the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army, but it will also coincide with Trump’s 79th birthday Saturday.
“President Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday,” the ‘No Kings’ website says. “A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else.”
See Evan Casey, ‘No Kings’ protests will be held in communities across Wisconsin Saturday (‘Millions expected to protest nationwide as part of movement’), Wisconsin Public Radio, June 12, 2025.
A locator map with protest sites and information is available online: https://www.nokings.org/#map