This & That

Who was Wink Martindale and why would anyone choose Wink as their first name? 

Okay, I just googled him. He was a game show host. Game show hosts are what you get when you take a slimy, slick, hyped up door-to-door window replacement salesman and put him on a soundstage under hot spotlights. He's told he has to get Joe and Jane Nobody from Buck Snort, Arkansas (yes, that town actually exists) hysterically excited about winning a new Kenmore washing machine. All Mr. and Mrs. Nobody have to do is successfully name three things in Egypt, succinctly explain quantum theory AND identify three U.S. presidents who were treated for STIs.

So, Winston "Wink" Martindale? A person whose only talent was being oily. According to his Wikipedia page he was a born again christian (AKA a complete hypocrite) and a Republican (AKA the Guardians of Pedophiles Party).

He had a catchy name though, eh?
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With the latest Civil War iteration spreading across the country, it makes ridiculous amounts of sense to be prepared, right? ICEholes have made it clear they have NO problem tossing tear gas canisters, shooting Oleoresin Capsicum/pepper spray, tossing hexachloroethane smoke and flash-bang grenades at resisters. So, if you’re going to be out in the streets, get a gas mask.

They’re not all big and ungainly. The 3M Half Face Respirator uses disposable P100 filters so you can keep reusing the “shell.” 

Remember to pair the half face respirators with secure sealing goggles though. Protect your eyes!

Pew Pew Tactical has a post up – 8 Best Gas Masks, Face Masks, Respirators, & Filters. Check it out.

An additional reason to have gas masks and welding gloves for protests? 

I’ve read that Minnesotans are throwing tear gas canisters back at the ICEhole brigades. (those canisters are HOT – you need welding gloves!) A Threader remarked that this is why we had to play dodgeball in gym class. It was prep.

I’ve also heard the ICEholes are being pelted with dildos. Seems like a waste of a good sex toy. //shrugs//

I may have mentioned this before BUT the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, written by the Office of Strategic Services (direct predecessor of the CIA) in 1944, should be updated and widely distributed. Who better to rewrite it than the good folks at ground zero in Minnesota?

More on being prepared – make a kit, keep it near your front door. Put in a copy of your ID, passport, and birth certificate. Include an emergency contact and the contact information for an attorney (if you don’t have one, check out your state’s ACLU’s legal assistance page). Make a code word that can quickly be texted to friends/family to tell them to come get Fluffy, Spike, Godzilla, and other pets or children should things look dire.
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A sculptor I’ve just come across – Max Leiva.

…a contemporary Guatemalan artist known for his expressive figurative sculptures. His style is informed by his travels around the world, from Switzerland to Bangkok, where he studied for two years. His artistic path materializes in the figurative or the abstract, claiming not only his roots from the Mayan culture of Central America, but also his experiences traveling the world. (source) 

He works in bronze, resin, iron, clay, and aluminum. Damn, I’m blown away.
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Words for today:

Contumacious
     adjective 
: stubbornly disobedient : rebellious

Obstreperous 
     adjective 
1 : marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness : clamorous 
2 : stubbornly resistant to control : unruly

The resisters contumacious actions and obstreperous rallies raised morale immeasurably.

Good News

Police in Texas, of all places, arrested an actual bad guy despite the fact that he’s a white, right wing asshole. I KNOW, I’m shocked too! 

The Buda Police Department arrested Chad Michael Watts, 45, of Kyle, Texas, after an incident that occurred during a student walkout protest at Moe and Gene Johnson High School. (source) 

The students were having a demonstration against ICE when this grown ass, fecal brained, rotted rutabaga pulls up in his pickup truck, blocks traffic, gets out, walks over to the students and starts yelling at one of the girls. This “adult” is 45 and he’s yelling at, bullying a teenage girl who is exercising her First Amendment rights. THEN he assaults her. Big fucking loser bastard starts beating on her. It does NOT turn out well for the mini-dicked wonder.

All the rest of the ICEhole protesting teen girls (mostly girls) defended their friend and gave old Chad a fine beat down. (a satisfying but kind of confusing vid of the battle here) 

Anyway, I wonder how Chad Michael Watts feels, at his big, old age of 45. Ya know, he's now known around the world as a giant, pathetic loser. I mean, the vid's ALL over the internet! He’s gonna need to move, change his name, maybe get some plastic surgery if he ever wants to shake this massive humiliation.

GOOD!

In other karmic beat downs…Europe is doing to Elon Epstein MusKKK what the U.S should have done eons ago.

Seems his social media sites have been, unsurprisingly, spreading antisemitic bullshit and have also been involved in creating and distributing child pornography, sexual images of people without their consent, and the glorification of crimes against humanity.

“The investigations are based on the non-compliance with French legislation by Grok for generating and disseminating child pornography, sexual deepfakes or antisemitic contents,” the Paris prosecutor’s office said. (source) 

Gee, color me shocked! A man of SUCH upstanding character, who’s only been mentioned in the Trump/Epstein files 1,116 times. Mind, only about half of the Trump/Epstein files have been released so who knows how many total appearances Leon makes.

Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office have also opened up an investigation into potential data breaches by X saying, “We have taken this step following reports that Grok has been used to generate non‑consensual sexual imagery of individuals, including children.”

The investigation is also about fraudulent data extraction and tampering with automated data-processing systems. You know, the shit Trump so smugly hinted about:

“And he knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide. So it was pretty good, pretty good. So thank you to Elon.”
~ Trump at a pre-inauguration rally in January ’25 

If France’s raid on Musk were to reveal any tidbits about election fraud in the U.S., this would be the SECOND time France has bailed our asses out.

In response to the raid MusKKK whined on X, calling it a ”political attack." The French government shot back, "Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn't fly in France.” He's gonna need more than aloe to treat that burn.

Spain is making a change in their social media laws:

The proposed measures include a ban on social media for children under 16 and a new legal framework to hold tech executives criminally liable for illegal content. Sanchez also confirmed that the government would work with the public prosecutor to investigate alleged legal infringements by platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, and Musk’s own AI chatbot, Grok. (source) 

Naturally, MusKKK is having a shit-fit. Poor little child abusing, refried desiccated weasel shit, billionaire really doesn't care for being exposed as the lying, self-serving, ruthless, obscenely cruel, racist twat that he is.

Sucks to be a bad guy this week, eh? Can karma go after Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, Vance, Thiel, Miller, Noem, etc. next? 

Thoughts and Advice

Us sentient humans who are paying attention to what's happening in the world around us are STRESSED right now. We're near the limit of our ability to withstand the insanity and pressure. Amirite or amirite? You know I am. The storm's only gonna get more intense so we all need to find ways to lower our tension levels so's we can continue to fight and make it to the other side.

How? A few ideas.

Somatic Exercises
'the fuck is that? Slow movements focusing on bodily sensations to release tension, improve awareness, and connect mind and body. Examples include yoga, Tai Chi, Pilates, gentle stretching, and conscious breathing.

Check out the Somatic Self Care page at Johns Hopkins Medicine. There are Somatic shorts, which are five minute sessions, as well as full practice sessions which are ~15 minutes per exercise.

Water
For some of us (*cough* ME!) water is healing and calming. Swim in it – do laps at the Y or just float in a corner of the pool. Walk along the seawall, stroll down the riverwalk, follow the path by the stream. Listen to the waves lap the shore. 

Tetris                                                                               
I’ve seen a lot of people recommending Tetris as a stress reliever. It’s apparently a video game.

…differently shaped blocks drop at varying speeds, and, as the blocks descend, the player must rotate and arrange them to create an uninterrupted horizontal row on the screen. When the player forms one or more solid rows, the completed rows disappear. The goal of the game is to prevent the blocks from stacking up to the top of the screen for as long as possible. (source) 

I’m not a video game person but, hey, do what distracts and chills you out.

Bird Feeders
You don’t need to be Christian Cooper  to enjoy watching our modern-day dino friends. Just set up a bird feeder, stock it and try to keep the squirrels at bay.

Smoke a bone.

Keep a diary where you’re as silly, as angry, as childish, as condescending as you wanna be. Doodle dicks and boobs and cats faces. No one’s gonna see it but you. Indulge yourself. Get out your frustrations and anger. Be as immature as you wanna be. If you think it'll be incriminating, burn or bury it when you're done.

Cry, grieve, and get back up again. 

See a therapist. 
Not all of them are wicked expensive. Some, like lawyers, have sliding scale fees. Don’t want to ask your friends or your PCP for help in finding a therapist? Don’t know where to start? Maybe try Betterhelp.com.

Take a long, hot, steamy bath bubble bath. 
Keep adding in more hot water. Don’t get out until you’re completely raisined. If you have hearing, put soothing music on—Eno’s Another Green World, David Byrne’s The Forest, Ravel’s Bolero, Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Go full metal Enya.
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I found some great info on dealing with tear gas from Stephanie Snow, a nurse practitioner posting on Threads:

1) Get out of the area 
• Move upwind if possible
• Get to open air, higher ground 
Avoid the canisters and enclosed space

2) Don’t touch your face 
• Rubbing spreads the irritant 
• Makes eye and skin symptoms worse

3) Flush your eyes ASAP 
• Use copious amounts of cool water or saline 
• Blink repeatedly while flushing 
• Continue for 15–20 minutes 
Use more water than you think you need. The goal is dilution.

4) Breathe slow and stay upright 
• Lean slightly forward 
• Slow, controlled breath

5) Contacts out 
• Remove immediately 
• Do not reuse

6) Skip the “fixes” 
❌ Milk 
❌ Oils 
❌ Vinegar 
❌ Baby wipes 
❌ Soap in the eyes
There is no magic solution. Time + flushing works. 

7) Get medical help NOW if: 
• Wheezing, chest tightness, or trouble breathing 
• History of asthma, COPD, or heart disease 
• Severe eye pain or vision changes 
• Symptoms worsen after leaving the area

8) After you’re safe: 
• Remove outer clothing if possible 
• Shower with mild soap 
• Let water run over you, don’t scrub 
• Wash clothes separately

9) If you’re asthmatic, a well-fitted respirator or gas mask can significantly reduce lung irritation but make sure it’s something you can breathe through comfortably. Pair it with eye protection and always have your inhaler handy. 

10) Treat tear gas like a chemical exposure, not a minor inconvenience. Save this info so you don’t have to remember it when you're exhausted, in pain, and covered in gross gunk.

Be prepared. Take care of yourselves. We're in for nasty weather. 

Don't Be A Zombie

Desensitization
A decrease in emotional responsiveness to a negative or aversive stimulus, such as reduced empathy for victims of violence and other forms of abuse, due to repeated exposure.

He’s throwing SO MUCH shit at us constantly in the hope that we become numb, so that we stop caring and/or are so desensitized that we’re no longer able to respond. 

This is a tactic. If they overwhelm us, we’ll be unable to fight back or resist in any meaningful way.

This administration and its backers, like Musk, Thiel, and The Heritage Foundation, to name a few, want us to be compliant zombies.

Briefly and just off the top of my head he’s:

• Threatened world war because Denmark wouldn’t give him Greenland with a nice pink bow. Lied, saying The U.S. needs Greenland for defense reasons when it was all about wanting their inaccessible rare minerals.

• Bombed more than 36 Venezuelan fishing boats, killing more than 126 people, lied that they were drug boats headed for the U.S. Then invaded the country, kidnapped their president (and his wife), saying he was a narco-terrorist. Meanwhile, the whole charade, all the deaths, all the U.S. taxpayer buckos spent on military actions were because Pedo wanted to get his mitts on Venezuela’s oil that, oopsie, the big oil company’s aren’t actually interested in. Oh and all the money from the sale of Venezuela’s oil? Yeah, that goes into a special bank account in Qatar. Sounds legit, right? This was never about drugs.

• How about the Soviet style $45 million birthday parade that Stinky threw for himself and slept through?  

• The pants shitting maniac had the East Wing of the White House demolished without he required congressional authorization or full approval from federal planning commissions. Why? He wanted a giant-ass ugly ballroom – 90,000-square-feet of gold painted filigree and crap. For comparison’s sake, an American football field is 57,600-square-feet. The Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC measures 35,000-square-feet and holds 2,000 people.

• He had a personal private army formed. It’s made up of the January 6th insurrectionists, white nationalists, pardoned criminals, people too stupid, violent, and out of control to become cops, join the military or become security guards at their local mall. Their job? Domestic terrorism – ethnic and political cleansing. With them Prez Pedo wages war on Blue cities and states like Los Angeles, Chicago, Minnesota, Portland, Maine, and more.

• MINNEAPOLIS and all the Trump sanctioned murders!

• And, of course, the Epstein/Trump files. Though 3.5 million new, horrifying pages (including more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images) were released on Friday, apparently that’s not all of it. Prez Pedo’s personal AG, Bleach Bondi, is withholding roughly 50% of the files while claiming to have fully complied with the law. 

• Pedo wants to build a big, beautiful memorial arch to himself. 

How next will Pedo, his private army, and faithful henchman – the Republican Party, take a sledge hammer to democracy, liberty, the Constitution, our rights as citizens and humans on this fucking planet?  

If we are to survive, if we are going to get to the other side of this mondo shitstorm, we canNOT become desensitized. How is that possible though?

Pick causes to focus your energy on. Don’t spread yourself across the whole board. If you do, you’ll become overwhelmed, overloaded and crash. Probably. Unless you’re Superhuman. I’m sure as fuck not.

Actively manage your news consumption by setting a strict time limit (e.g., 60 minutes per day). Stop when the time’s up and focus on other shit like reading a book, watching a movie, baking, crafting, painting, making music, going for a walk, photography, bowling, playing with your cat, whatever. I'm bad at this – it's a goal I'm after though.

Feeling emotionally numb? Stop. Rest. Pet a cat. Volunteer and/or donate. Go work at a shelter (people and/or animal). Spend time with folks in nursing homes. Don’t like people? You’re socially awkward (like me)? Volunteer to run errands or clean.  

Look for positive stories too. It’s not all doom out there.

Really.

Though still severely endangered, researchers have spotted 21 North Atlantic right whale calves off the Southeast U.S. coast and this encouraging.  

Electric vehicles (EVs) are outselling gas cars in Europe for the first time. Yeah, it’ll be a LOT longer before that happens over here but, it WILL happen. 

Three big U.S. offshore wind farm projects are back under construction after Prez Asshole ordered them stopped. Federal judges cockblocked his little mushroom.

SEE? There IS some good news.

I Need an Attack Grizzly Bear

I know the comparison has been made before but, Bezos’ new wife looks like some untalented waxworks tech tried to create a female version of Stephen Tyler but got blind drunk on Mad Dog 2020 first. The wax “artist” ended up with a twisted anime/Aerosmith porn mashup. OOPS!

By the by, Tyler is 77 and, for all his sins, still looks good. Sanchez is 55. They appear to be close to the same age. I don't think her Mar-a-Lago look is gonna age well. Call it a hunch.

I may be thinking about this too much. I blame the weather. I’ve been stuck inside for too long. Plus, I need to raid Trader Joe’s snack aisle. Seriously. I’m way overdue for a Trader Joe’s run.
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“Border Czar” and 50 grand bribe taker Tom Homan, AKA Ham Face Homan, says Border Patrol agents are “living in fear.”

Good. They should be.

Oh, I was I supposed to feel some level of sympathy for sadistic, savage, raging fuckos who get their jollies by executing fellow humans for NO fucking reason? I guess I missed that memo. 

This dumb fuck who looks like Fred Flintstone and Homer Simpson’s love child is all hotand bothered to play big, tough WAR GUY in charge. That act was laughable on that teacup, cosplay nazi Bovino and it’s equally so on Ham Face. I’m sure Teacup and Noem can recommend tailors so Ham can get just the right outfit for his, assuredly, brief stage time.
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The Guardian has a brilliant review up of Bezos’s gift to Prez Pedo. Here’s a snippet: 

No doubt there is a great documentary to be made about Melania Knauss, the ambitious model from out of Slovenia who married a New York real-estate mogul and then found herself cast in the role of a latter-day Eva Braun, but the horrific Melania emphatically isn’t it. It’s one of those rare, unicorn films that doesn’t have a single redeeming quality. I’m not even sure it qualifies as a documentary, exactly, so much as an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy, horribly overpriced and ice-cold to the touch and proffered like a medieval tribute to placate the greedy king on his throne.

The reviewer starts out trying to be generously kind but it's unsustainable. Of course. Really, you MUST read the whole piece. There’s no paywall and the writer is a Michelangelo of takedown.

Someone on threads gave a short movie review:
…like the Real Housewives without the depth or wit. 

Having seen neither, I’m unequipped to judge. Oh well.

Another person said that they can’t believe Trump had to release the Epstein files to cover up the bomb of Melania. OOF!

The, now wholly inaptly named, Justice Department released a total of 3 million pages of files on Epstein and Trump’s horrifically sick, vile acts of sadistic depravity on the movie’s American opening day. 

Honestly, the files are far worse than what I’d anticipated and I’ve only seen bits and pieces so far. I mean, this is sick, serial killer level shit. The only difference is that Epstein, Trump, and the rest of these barbarians are wealthy – obscenely so. 

Walt Handelsman

A brief thought on one bit:

The part about Epstein, on stage in front of an audience, checking the captive, trafficked children’s vaginal tightness with his fingers? Then Trump auctioned off the 13-year-old children to men in the audience? Elon Musk was in attendance. Beavis, Butthead, and Ivanka Trump were there too.

Christ almighty. These people, all of them, deserve to be not-at-all-carefully disassembled by a hacksaw wielding 13-year-old who’s feeling just a wee bit cranky. No, there will be no anesthesia or sedatives for these most disgusting, evil pervs. Maybe the early adolescent with the very sharp, spiky hand tool will have a nice eight foot tall, 700 pound, growly grizzly bear behind them. You know, just in case any of the malefactors have an urge to bolt.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. 
~ Albert Einstein

Definitely the evildoers will make and have made a big-ass dent in humanity's demise. It's up to us to stop them. Do something. Resist and fight in whatever way you're able. FIGHT!

National Shutdown January 30th

Alex Pretti, Renee Good, Silverio Villegas González, and Keith Porter Jr.  have all been murdered by the Trump/Miller/Noem/Homan Goon Squads. They’re not the only ones – just the most most recent – the ones getting the most press. Why all the press? Probably because we have obvious, irrefutable video of Renee Good and Alex Pretti being murdered. All of the administration’s lies can’t change what we’ve seen with our own eyes. 

What is a general strike? It's a mass coordinated work stoppage. ALL possible economic activity comes to a halt.  Schools, shops, theaters, museums, manufacturing, etc. are shut down. Labor is withheld.

What should stay open/remain operational during a national shutdown? Critical, life-sustaining services like hospitals, emergency medical services, basic water and electricity maintenance.

The purpose of the shutdown is to exert max pressure on Prez Pedo to cut the shit with his and VP Stephen Miller’s out of control, rabid, private army. You know, the ones tasked with the ethnic and political cleansing of America. The strike is also a call to Congress to wake the fuck up and cut the funding that supports ICE. 

Will a one day general strike/national shutdown make everything all better here in the U.S.? No but I bet it’ll achieve at least SOME of the goals. Which are:

• Immediate Withdrawal of ICE/CBP from Minnesota
• Accountability for Murders and Deaths (both outside and in the concentration camps) 
• National Action – Defunding of ICE/CBP
• Economic Disruption (demonstrating the collective power of workers and consumers to force changes in the political and economic order)

I want Jonathan Ross charged with the murder of Renee Good. I want his fellow ICEholes who stood there letting this happen and keeping a medic from attending to her, on trial as accomplices to first degree murder. I want their names.

I want the names of the maniacal fucks who fired into Alex Pretti’s body as he lay subdued on the ground. I want the names of the ICEholes who did nothing to stop the murder. They should all be suffering in the most disgusting prison for the rest of their lives.

I want ICE completely abolished.

Social strikes have been used effectively in other, smaller countries like the Philippines, Chile, South Korea, Serbia, Madagascar, Nepal, Poland, Haiti, South Africa. One key factor is that the strikes made it impossible for the regimes to function.

While strikes for specifically political purposes like deposing political leaders or affecting legislation are common in other countries — as illustrated by many of the non-U.S. examples mentioned above — they are a rarity in the U.S. An exception was the 23-day strike by 42,000 West Virginia coal miners in 1969 that forced the state legislature to pass a law providing compensation for victims of black lung disease. (source) 

The only national general strike in our country’s history was organized by the labor movement to support a decades-long campaign for the eight-hour workday. This was May 1, 1886. A third of a million workers walked off their jobs – considering the U.S. population at the time was around 55 million, that’s a LOT. The biggest demonstrations were in Chicago – they went on for days.

The family resemblance is striking, no?

But a rally protesting police murders of strikers was interrupted by a bomb, followed by brutal repression. Assaults by the authorities on civil liberties, especially harsh for immigrant workers, included death by hanging of several labor leaders in a transparent miscarriage of justice, an episode now known as the Haymarket affair. This “red scare” set back the eight-hour movement for decades, but also resulted in May 1 being declared International Workers’ Day by the Socialist International to honor the eight-hour martyrs. (source) 

Is the U.S. just too big, too ideologically diverse, pigheaded, and economically fucked up for a sustained (multi day/month) general strike to work? I think the fact that many of us are living paycheck to paycheck and healthcare being so obscenely expensive (to the point of often making it unaffordable to remain alive in America) makes extended strikes impossible for many.

What to do? Boycott, vote, stay informed on local, state, and national issues, be a nagging pain in the ass to your elected officials, if you still have MAGAt friends and family – confront them with reality, the truth. Don't be a bystander. Don’t give up.

Today and Yesterday

I only mention it but it’s currently 7º here in Valhalla with the wind making it feel like -17. Yeah, it’s beautiful BUT we’re sure as fuck not going out there. Hell, I wouldn’t brave that wind and freeze even with your lovely, intact balance nerves.

7º is a fuckton warmer than the temps for Minnesota’s General Strike yesterday. The high was, reportedly around -8º. NEGATIVE 8! That’s Fahrenheit, not Celsius, by the by.

I saw pics of those righteous, glorious resisters in Minnesota yesterday. In that massive crowd was 80 year-old Justice Alan Page, a former Minnesota Viking and NFL Hall of Famer. He completed law school while playing pro ball and then went on to be elected to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1992. Gee, overachieve much? In 2018 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 80 years old and he was out there!

 Coppers arrested somewhere around 100 clergy members who were protesting ICE actions at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. Why protest there?

Delta relies on MSP as a major hub, and Signature Aviation provides logistical support for ICE operations. The MSP Airport serves tens of millions of travelers each year and is now used as the key site in DHS’s operations to abduct and rush out Minnesotans to detention centers.

An estimated 2,000 people have been deported through MSP, and many people who work at MSP have been abducted by ICE while at work or commuting to and from the airport. (source) 

Minnesota Mascara

THIS is what religious types should be doing! Protesting against the wicked and protecting the oppressed, the persecuted, those who have truly struggled against ferocious odds. Fuck those fucking blasphemous “prosperity gospel” charlatans all the way to their vision of Hell!

Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!” 
~ Deuteronomy 27:19

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.
~ Matthew 25:35

When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 

The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God. 
~ Leviticus 19:33-34

This is what the LORD Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.

 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.
~ Zechariah 7:9-10

Solidarity actions, if not full on general strikes, spread to at least 215 other cities. 6th Avenue in New York was shut down by 3,000+ protesters. There were marches and gatherings in Boston, Chicago, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, Philadelphia, Savannah, Georgia, Portland, Oregon, and more. This is just going to get bigger and bigger. We’re mad as hell and we’re not gonna take it anymore. 

Maybe, just fucking maybe, America isn’t so doomed after all.  

Meanwhile, the kleptocratic wannabe autocrats keep trying to make us believe their lies and fairy tales instead of the reality we’ve all seen with our damn eyes. May the universe bless the creators of cellphone cameras!

Krazy Kash, the most ridiculously incompetent and corrupt FBI director ever, can fire all the agents investigating Renee Good’s murder but it’ll never make Jonathan Ross and all of ICE innocent.  

Language Matters

Protest is what I do when something isn't okay with me. I march and otherwise register my objections. Resistance is when I try to make it so that what isn't okay doesn't happen any more.

Protest
     noun
The act of objecting or a gesture of disapproval. 

Resistance
     noun
1: an act or instance of resisting : opposition
2: an opposing or impeding force 
3: a secret organization resisting authority, especially in an occupied country.

Definitely protest – also RESIST!

For those under siege by ICE, a few random thoughts and ideas found on the interwebzzz:

•  Cleaning vinegar in which a ghost pepper has soaked. Pour it into the smallest balloon you can find so they pop on contact. Use gloves when putting these cuties together. Make them in the garage to save your sinuses. For good measure, these’ll fit in a dog tennis ball launcher, giving you a 25-40 foot distance. A mini-trebuchet would be wicked cool but prolly harder to come by. These will cause ICEholes to strip off their clothes. It's January. *snicker, snicker*

 •  Leaf blowers were blowing back tear gas and fumes during the Portland, Oregon protests in Trump’s first horrific reign. They could/should be used again against the new army of rabid, wilding, outhouse thugs. These violent rat bastards aren’t just tossing simple tear gas canisters at resisters – they’ve also been tossing out hexachloroethane (HC) smoke grenades. These produce highly toxic gaseous zinc chloride. It’s considered such a serious health hazard that the U.S. military phased it out decades ago because of its extreme toxicity. Even our military won’t use it but Trump’s team of ruthless, brutalizers have no such fucking qualms.

Anyway, normally I TOTALLY would NOT suggest shopping at Walmart BUT you can get a cute cordless leaf blower there for the low, low price of $39.90. 

•  Take videos of ICEholes and post them online. The mainstream media is not covering this horror show sufficiently. They are complicit. 

•. Offer sanctuary to people facing or fearing deportation. Don’t have a basement or an attic to hide them in? Maybe you have safe friends or acquaintances who do. Find out.

Drew Sheneman

•. It’s winter babies. Take a lesson from Minnesotans and coat those sidewalks with water. We’re due for a big storm here in New England starting on Sunday. We might get a foot or so of the white stuff. DON’T shovel. Let those sneaker-clad ICEholes freeze and fall on their asses.

The price of apathy in public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
~ Plato

Another person was murdered at an ICE concentration camp. Geraldo Lunas Campos, a Cuban immigrant, died January 3rd. The guards said “father of four was attempting suicide and the staff tried to save him.” Sure Jan. In reality though...

…a witness told The Associated Press last week that Lunas Campos was handcuffed as at least five guards held him down and one put an arm around his neck and squeezed until he was unconscious. (source) 

So far this year, six people have died in ICE camps. 2026 is only three weeks old. This murder count doesn’t include those killed on the streets – Renee Good and Keith Porter Jr., to name just two. 

Investigative journalist Lila Hassan uncovered evidence that ICE are told that  

they are allowed to react with force to the threat of violence and not just violence itself.

The lesson describes the following as a myth: “Deadly force can only be used as a last resort.” Establishing that policy and law are not the same, the lesson goes on to say, “The law requires officers to use objectively reasonable force, not the minimal force.”

Giving a warning or using minimal force or all other forms of force before shooting, the training said, could “create an unnecessary risk for the officer”. (source) 

What this says to me is that they’re taught to shoot to kill (or otherwise use violence to kill) if they’re at all afraid.

Were Brian Palacios and Jonathan Ross afraid when the murdered, respectively, Keith Porter Jr. and Renee Good? Oh PLEASE. Like hell they were but I’m sure, like Crybaby Kyle, they’ll put up one hell of a show if they’re ever charged and brought to trial.  

Fighting Fire with Fire

Governor Gavin Newsom has his flaws. I won’t debate anyone on that. You know what else he has? He’s got stainless steel cojones. He’s been setting loose his stellar comms team with all their snarkariffic, scalpel sharp wit.

He’s mocking the fuck outta the evil, odorous, third-rate grifting ass, pedophile rapist. Stinky probably can’t even see it. Some of his ride-and-die faithful MAGAt zombie cultists MIGHT catch that the joke’s on them (the joke IS them – every last one of ‘em) but I doubt it. Most likely, the ones who notice, have their panties in a twist because the “Demoncrats” aren’t laying laying down and taking it like good little victims. Nope, Newsom’s fighting Stinky’s moronic, junior high braggadocio and taunts with a sharply focused flamethrower of mockery.

It’s sure been sweet as fuck to see someone else besides Jasmine Crockett stand up with bold weapons grade wit. About damn time.

California's Democratic governor has unveiled a high-stakes plan to redraw voting lines in America's most populous state, in order to counter similar efforts by Republicans in Texas.

Gavin Newsom called for a special election to be held in November, in which voters would be asked to approve lawmakers redrawing congressional districts before national midterms in 2026. 

He billed the move as an emergency measure in response to a Donald Trump-backed plan in Texas, which could see the Republicans pick up five more seats in the finely-balanced House. (source) 

Newsom’s also not about to play the only nice, calm, mature adult in the room while Texas elected authoritarian assholes gargle Nazi balls and continue to rip apart what this country is supposed to stand for. 

He’s bringing a rocket launcher to the gun fight the GOP (Guardians of Pedophiles) started.

In bocca al lupo.
Crepi il lupo! 

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Meanwhile, more on the Hoagie Hero, Sean Dunn:

He’s been released on his own recognizance and the absolutely ridiculous felony charges were dropped. He is due back in court next week to face an enhanced version of an assault charge that requires bodily injury and carries up to eight years in federal prison. 

Video posted to Instagram shows the incident Sunday night near 14th and U Street NW. Court documents allege Dunn verbally confronted federal officers before tossing his sandwich at one officer from close range.

Police say Dunn admitted to the act, telling officers, “I did it. I threw the sandwich.” (source) 

This charge is some serious bullshit. There’s no way the “officer” (i.e., ICE goon) suffered anything more than possibly a mayo stain on his Amazon purchased camo vest. The absolute most Dunn should have been charged with is littering. Maybe wasting food but I don’t think that’s an actual crime.

There was a post up on Threads about a punk bar (that serves food) in D.C. that’s thinking about making a sub sandwich in honor of the hero and donating 10% of all sales to resistance funds. Yes – DO IT!

Bill Amend

First though, help hoagie wielding Sean Dunn, a USAF veteran who was fired from the Department of Justice for his act of defiance. I mean, he’s facing EIGHT YEARS for throwing a sandwich at one of the President Pedophile’s thugs? Insanity.

Commenters on the thread also suggested a pay-it-forward option where sandwiches could be made and distributed to shelters and other unhoused folk. I like this A LOT.

I’m old – I don’t know how these things work. Is there a way to make the donation checkable? That is, I’m in Boston and buy a hoagie to be made and given to a shelter in D.C. How can I check to make sure that actually happened?

Now I want a Caprese sandwich – fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, basil. Maybe a bit of pesto and balsamic glaze too? Put it on warm focaccia or ciabatta and I’m in heaven. Mmmmmmmm.