The revolution will not be televised, but it might have webbed feet and bulging eyes.
It also might have a unicorn's horn or a chicken's feathers.
As protests against the Trump administration continue in US cities, demonstrators are adopting the energy of a community costume parade or block party. They've taught salsa lessons, handed out snacks, and ridden unicycles, as armed law enforcement look on.
Mixing humour and politics - a tactic social scientists call "tactical frivolity" - is not new. But it has become a defining feature of American protest in the Trump era, embraced by both left and right.
And one symbol has emerged as particularly salient - the frog. It began when video footage of a confrontation between a man in a frog suit and immigration enforcement agents in Portland, Oregon, went viral. And it has since spread to protests across the country.







