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12/29/2025

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10/20/2025

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QOTD: Jason Bateman is right. It's time to start calling out his voters, not him. "Trump voters just increased the deficit by 5trillion dollars."
'Trump voters just deported a kid with cancer."
"Trump voters just approved kicking 13 million people off health insurance."
"Trump voters are excited about selling off our public lands."
They don't get to hide behind their votes. They knew what they were voting for and they are responsible for the consequences.

10/20/2025

BREAKING: HOLY SH*T! Governor Gavin Newsom shreds Vice President J.D. Vance after his "reckless" military event results in a LIVE EXPLOSIVE detonating early and raining dangerous shrapnel down on a California highway.

All of this insanity just to counter the No Kings protests...

"This is the type of explosive that detonated prematurely," Newsom wrote on X, attaching the photo of the artillery shell included in our graphic. "The best Fox News can come up with is 'CONCERNING.' This could have killed someone."

Newsom quote-tweeted a report from Fox News in which they wrote "'CONCERNING': A piece of metal shrapnel hit a California Highway Patrol car, CHP officials said, after an 'explosive ordnance' detonated prematurely during a Marine Corps 250th anniversary event. No injuries were reported."

"We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects," Newsom wrote in another post.

According to The Guardian, a "live artillery shell exploded prematurely" while U.S. Marines were conducting a "live-fire demonstration" launching projectiles over Interstate 5, a normally busy freeway in California.

While the waste of taxpayer dollars was supposedly intended to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps, it was widely interpreted by many commentators as a "counter-protest" to the No Kings protests that swept the nation over the weekend in opposition to the Trump administration.

Shrapnel from the shell rained down on a California Highway Patrol vehicle and a motorcycle that were part of J.D. Vance's detail. Newsom is absolutely correct in his analysis. Someone could have easily been killed and it all would have been so that J.D. Vance could play-act as a general.

Thankfully, Newsom previously ordered the freeway closed after learning that, shockingly, military officials were not planning to do so themselves. If it weren't for the governor's leadership, innocent Americans might be lying dead right now, sacrificed to Vance's vanity. Newsom called the display an “absurd show of force” that was “totally uncalled for."

After the shell exploded, the exercise was canceled and the area was swept for fragments, although none were discovered. It was an embarrassing end to a childish event.

It's quite frankly a miracle that nobody was harmed and you can be absolutely certain that if this had happened on the orders of a Democratic vice president, Fox News would be running wall to wall coverage calling it the most irresponsible action in American history.

Please retweet and ❤️ to demand that Vance issue a formal apology to the people of California!

10/20/2025

Thanks, Julie Thaler, for the photo of me at the No Kings Rally in Palatka! We had a great showing - over 200 people - in our red county! I felt the energy of the nation-wide protesters. Thanks Cathy Aliff Samples Moon, for organizing the Rally!

10/18/2025

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10/18/2025

This week, the White House characterized peaceful protesters as a "Hate America" rally along with other disparaging remarks. Today, the Governor of Texas sent the state National Guard to Austin's NoKings protest. The attacks against NoKings reminds me of the famous quote, often misattributed to Gandhi.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win".

The quote was first spoken by trade unionist Nicholas Klein in 1918 who delivered a rousing speech about the future of the labor movement. Klein's words remind us that we are not alone. That all of us workers are part of a legacy. We are reminded that unions of working people have been fighting against concentrated power for centuries. We beat the Robber Barrons, and we will put the Oligarchs in their place too.

As we've seen in recent weeks, masked goons from ICE and Dept of Homeland Security are targeting parents and children outside schools, landscapers, construction workers, restaurant workers, convenience store clerks, people walking down the street minding their own business. The pattern is stark and clear: ICE is targeting the workers who contribute so much and actually make our country great.

As horrific as ICE has been, it has been equally uplifting to witness the power of the people. Viral videos of people confronting ICE, non-violently and effectively. There's the food delivery worker who became a symbol of resistance when he escaped from dozens of heavily armed agents on his bike. We have seen the community response in LA and Chicago outside ICE facilities and in communities, mutual aid networks and alert systems. The Portland Frog. We have read stories of random strangers hiding undocumented families in their apartments, chillingly reminiscent of the story of Anne Frank.

NoKings has captured national attention and Trump's ire. Tomorrow millions of Americans across the nation — and indeed around the world—will hit the streets in a peaceful demonstration of our power. It will be beyond clear to everyone watching around the world that we do not hate America. We're expressing our right to protest because we love our rights, we love our neighbors, and we love our country.

We got our signs, we got our costumes. We're going to dance. We're gonna have fun.

We are going to win. 🐸✊

10/17/2025

A thought: For Saturday, it’s important to appear visually and ridiculously non-violent in photos so there are no opportunities for Fox to fake violent protesters. Halloween scary style costumes won’t cut it and wearing red white and blue doesn’t necessarily either because of the similarity to Jan. 6 where they wore red white and blue to attack the capital. We need to wear costumes that if they shove you on the ground and hog tie you, or show a wall of protesters facing police, the photo looks insane.

Pajama onesies
Cute fuzzy animal costumes
Blow up costumes
Kings and queens
Colonial dress
Suits and formal dresses
Beloved characters: Elmo, Curious George, the Cat in the Hat.
Cotton Candy or giant candy
Unicorns
Bananas or other fruit
Fairies
Cupcake or other baked goods
Anything with sequins, pastels, rainbows, hearts, or other visual indications of childlike innocence

Just wanted to give some ideas that make fake photos of “violent protesters” impossible.