So encouraged to know there are so many free-thinking, great authors of hard hitting signs (some with great humor--'cause otherwise we would balling our eyes!)
My sister in Seattle pasted a photo of Trump on a fairway following through on a shot, the photo taken from behind him. The text was "Does this ass make my country look small?"
From Canada 🇨🇦, we watched the protests from around the world and here in Canada as well, and from all over your country on MSNBC the station who cares about America and tells the truth, I gotta tell you, we were in AWE of you, your determination, courage, commitment and dedication was outstanding! America keep up the great work and may you all have peace soon! We do miss you! 🥰
You think MSNBC tells it viewers the truth. Maybe every once in a while. But the biggest crime perpetrated on the viewers is what they are not telling you. They won’t show you any story that does not fit the lefts narrative. You folks always cry “ That’s a lie” or “That’s misinformation”. But never bright enough to know when you’re being kept in the dark. Maybe you should seek information from all sources and use your own critical thinking skills to determine what YOU think is the truth. But that won’t happen, the left’s useful idiots are more than happy to parrot talking points from the puppet masters on high. Almost for a year all we heard was Free Palestine. From the river to the sea. I’d bet $1000 anyone carrying that sign couldn’t tell you what river or what sea. And then the “Gays for Palestine” signs. This is ignorance at its highest level. You know what they do to gays in the Islamic world?
Anyone who uses "the left" to disparage what's going on in the U.S. has drunk too much right-wing Kool-Aid. The right, backed by big business and the very wealthy, has always been the big threat to democracy in this country. What do you think the Civil War was about?
The civil war was about preserving the GREAT idea that is America. And bringing to truth that all men were created equally. And in this Civil war America righted one of her greatest wrongs.
No, it wasn't. It was about money. The Northern merchants thought the Southern merchants were charging too much for commodities (since the South had what the North called "free labor"). The North wanted to take away the "free labor" in retaliation. The South began to spread propaganda stating that the North wanted to take away the South's way of life. Yes, there were a few abolitionists with humane purpose, but the war was about money. And just like then, the poorly educated masses of today believe the propaganda.
To be fair, it was also about ending slavery. Many, many at the time wanted to see an end to that practice. The difficult part was that slave owners, and prospective slave owners, saw the absolute economic benefit (to them) of slavery. So yes it was about money, but more about moral failure in deciding what path one could take to wealth.
OK, now riddle me this: Why were so many non-wealthy white Southerners willing to fight for "the South's way of life"? Maybe, just maybe, it had something to do with the fact that even for the poorest, most tangential whites, there were always people who were even further down the ladder than they were.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
That was the founding problem: all MEN were created equal -- and white men at that. It's taken two and a half centuries of continual struggle to change that, and the backlash in the last several decades has been ferocious. It's taking the country down if we don't stop it.
And all because the Torah's words were mistranslated. According to the original Hebrew, Eve was taken from Adam's SIDE, not a rib. Eve WAS ALWAYS equal to Adam.
Please do not preach to me about trustworthiness in the media, are you a fox listener? Perhaps you should seek information from other sources and use your critical thinking skills! I have eyes and ears and have listened to this evil dictator cozy up to Russian, incite an insurrection, receive a 34 felon sentence ETC! and now he is taking his revenge out all over the world! The useful left idiots you say…lol !!!!!! You are clearly here to argue with me or others, and I am not into it, you supporters of this evil fascist disgusting regime are full of hate and cant stand others that dont look and sound like you, you condone child rape… that alone should be a no brainer for you but clearly you are not bothered by it, a little reading material for you! Davids DAD!!!!!!!!!
All I hear is this word racist and fascism. Where was your outrage when Jewish students were being terrorized and attacked on our American college campuses. That Gwen is fascism. If there was fascism in America do you honestly think you would be seeing any of these “No Kings Protests”. No you would NOT! And the people gathered would likely just disappear, never to be seen. It’s clear all you folks who are crying about fascism have absolutely no idea what it is. You didn’t even recognize it when it appeared on our American campuses. In fact you supported it and glorified it as free speech and freedom. So your whining about fascism is merely grandstanding. You want to learn about fascism talk to a holocaust survivor. You want to learn about freedom, go talk to a Cuban exile from the Castro days. But you won’t. You’ll just take it as gospel from your socialist “progressive” professor feeding our youth a plate full of failed ideologies and generally crap information. Fascism is alive and in America! But it’s not coming from the government. If it was you wouldn’t be posting your opinions.
Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy….its clear you have no idea what fascism is, racism in America is rampant and evil people who think that people should be judged by the color of their skin deserve to be treated as so,,,don’t go there with me about Jewish students being terrorized or is this what your argument is all about???? I don’t believe in anyone being terrorized or attacked. Look at the human race as one race and close your eyes to colour and origin!!!! Now leave me alone, not into your one sided opinions,
Go. GWEN. The fascists are pulling a coup. Right in front of our eyes. People who don't see that ,are our biggest problem right now. We will not have much more time to stop it.
Once it fully takes hold, we will never be able to.
Again with the blanket accusations, judgment and arrogance. You attribute reactions to Gwen that you cannot know are accurate.
America is headed toward, but has nor arrived at, full on fascist dictatorship. Hence the rise of fascism in government, but also the rise of protests.
That said the country is well down that dreary road and your comments illustrate the deft ability of the present regime to divide the public and set folks against each other over quibbles, distracting them, as you do, from the real threat.
I wasn't going to weigh into your attempt to disregard Harry Truman's sage advice, "Never kick a wet cow paddy on a hot day," but I must respond to this outrageous comment.
You have lumped me together with your false stereotypes of Democrats and all the beautiful, patriotic, democracy loving No Kings protesters by parroting lying Mike Johnson's dishonest characterization of us as "socialists, Marxists, and people who hate America."
We LOVE America. We LOVE democracy. We LOVE our Constitution, written in defiance of an abusive king and wisely constructed to prevent future abuses of power through checks and balances between three co-equal branches of government (which our MAGA 6 "justices" have now destroyed by granting the president the powers of a king).
Yet I, like you, was horrified to see the disruptive protests immediately following the horrific Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. I thought the protests should have been against HAMAS—not their victims—and got into many arguments with others who instantly turned against Israel. Why? That viewpoint was being amplified on TikTok, where the majority of these students now get their news and "culture." Several college administrators said that viewpoint had become the "cool" opinion on campus. You are right that many of them had no real understanding of a very complex and intractable conflict.
But who controls TikTok algorithms and supports Hamas? China. And who has now upended Biden's ban on TikTok unless it was *wholly* owned by an American company? DJT, who initially wanted to ban TikTok—until he saw he was getting a lot of positive attention on the platform. Only then did he illegally violate the ban deadline—until he could arrange a deal for his billionaire supporters to buy it, while continuing to allow China to control the algorithms and access our data.
And who has vowed to protect Qatar—the same country that has given over $1.8 BILLION to Hamas—as if it were a NATO ally? And who will allow them to build their own facility in Mountain Home, ID as well as train them on F-15 fighter jets? DJT.
I suggest you read a very short, but unforgettable book by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, "Night." You will learn how, even when his fellow Jews had been rounded up by the Nazis, required to wear yellow stars of David, and imprisoned in a ghetto, they did not believe a former religious scholar from that very same ghetto after he had escaped a mass murder by the Nazis of deported Jews and came back to warn his community.
THEY DID NOT BELIEVE HIM. Why? Because it was too horrible to contemplate! I think that's where you are now. No, we're not under complete control of this authoritarian regime yet, but until you comprehend the fact we're heading there faster than a skateboard running down a steep hill, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM, just as the Germans who remained silent were before and during WWII. The entire MAGA Congress and our president are now implementing the very same tactics Hitler used to acquire power: dehumanizing anyone who disagrees with them, calling them vermin who are "poisoning the blood of America," labeling them Marxists and communists simply for marching for democracy.
You think we're stupid? You appear to me to be militantly ignorant of what we are losing every day, and of what historians who have studied how democracies fail are telling us: DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE. So I ask you one question: Do you support the MAGA agenda? If so, you and Israel are in for a rude awakening. Israel needs to dump Netanyahu and we need to dump Trump and MAGA.
This is not a football game with two teams; it is a fight between those who understand the bounties of freedom of speech and thought, which have allowed innovators and economic prosperity to flourish, and those who are so afraid of people they neither know nor understand that they can't even sit down and have a civil, open-minded conversation with them.
Did you see the signs and the people from yesterday's marches? I'm pretty sure you didn't because if you had, you would have seen all kinds and colors of folks, including Jews, Republicans, scientists, and veterans, full of love and compassion for their fellow man. Check yourself. You say "all I hear is this word racist and fascism." Open your ears.
I'll end with a quote from a protest sign: "May the frog be with you." And I am NOT referring to Pepe the Frog; I'm channeling the Portland PEACEFULLY protesting frog.
You are clearly much brighter than the average daily person posting. You have an incredible ability to convey your opinion. Maybe just a little bit more of historical truthfulness and not just labeling us as Fascist and racist. Those words are only used to instill hate and fear. Which we already have enough of. Also it dilutes the real meaning of those words. We should really save them for when the next Stalin, Hitler or Pol Pot is unleashed on humanity.
It already has been unleashed on humanity! Have you not been paying attention to people being disappeared and ripped out of their homes and sent to God knows where? Have you not seen the person in the administration that has a swastika on the wall in his office? Did you not read the vile tweets that came out of the Young Republicans chat thread? Do you not see how this administration is in one of the biggest coverups in history by not releasing the Epstein Files? What about the fact that the Republicans won’t even begin to negotiate with the Democrats about reopening the government because they don’t want to continue the subsidies for the ACA so millions will either lose healthcare or it will be outrageously expensive! But we can send money to Argentina and bail them out. Really I honestly don’t get how anyone can think that what is going on in this administration is good. So David’s Dad, please tell me what you like about the status of this country right now? What has Trump and the administration done for you?
He has stopped your socialist agenda. You think the government should take care of everything for everybody. It’s not the government’s job to provide healthcare to everyone. But they try. The only thing good government should provide is a safe environment for its citizens to persue their own path to happiness. And as far as the Epstein files are concerned. I don’t understand why you folks with TDS haven’t figured this one out yet. The files will NEVER be released. I’ll bet they no longer even exist. Why you ask. Like it or not…… the Democrats and Republicans are all politicians. Politicians don’t really like putting other politicians in jail. I think Scooter Libby was one of the last. There are too many people from both sides of the aisle who travelled on Epsteins planes. Not to mention doctors, lawyers, judges, men held in high esteem with the public. Those files are never going to be seen again . Why do you think Epstein is dead? Wake up!! I bet his sidekick Giselle is not long for this earth. She knows the peoples names that are on that list.
Wow. Yes, I think the government should provide health care for everybody. You don't? You must be so rich you can afford to not have health insurance.
And if you can't believe everyone needs health care because you don't care about others, then think about how it will affect you too: spreading of TB, the next pandemic, measles, resurgence of polio, getting hepatitis B from eating in a restaurant served by people without health care access or sick leave. Do you seriously think people will be provided "a safe environment for its citizens to persue their own path to happiness" without access to health care and equal civil rights?
I want the Epstein files released and I don't care who is implicated or what political party they belong to. I want justice for those young girls!!! I want sick predators held accountable!!! Every single Democrat in Congress wants the files released, so don't lump them in with the MAGA and DJT toadies who are goldbricking on our tax dollars because they refuse to sign in a duly elected member of Congress.
Do you seriously support the man who intends to pardon Maxwell? Do you seriously hold these sick predators in "high esteem"? If so, you will have yourself to blame if the Nazis and fascists win this fight. Why not take a trip to Russia to get an idea what it will be like for you? Putin is Trump's idol; he is clearly trying to destroy NATO and help Putin seize all of Ukraine. If that happens, the rest of Europe is next.
Don't take the bait from assholes. Not worth the effort. Now, more than ever, we should be uniting because there's power in numbers and we're trying to work towards a common goal for all of us, get America back and get rid of Trump.. Some people deliberately troll and comment to rile people up. I opt not to engage (they're always going to try to prove themselves right, regardless of the topic or contrary evidence). I just cut Davids Dads power.
Poor David. Perhaps you would be more successful making your points by dropping the arrogance and insults.
I agree that even MSNBC is parsing current events, just much less than others and of course Fox "News" just lies constantly. As a Canadian, I am also disappointed that CBC is being overly polite in reporting the appalling events in the USA.
As for signage, I do not see why you would think gays should not advocate for a free Palestine. They of all people know what persecution feels like. Perhaps there is a lesson there.
Would they advocate for them if their brother, sister or any loved one was murdered just for being gay? Compassion is one of humans greatest qualities. But it doesn’t need to be wasted on others who only want to eliminate you for a lifestyle. Myself, I would reserve my compassion for more worthy brothers and sisters! Evil is alive and well…….. better learn how to recognize it.
You conflate judgment against homosexuals with the right of a nation to be free and free of bombing and deliberate persecution. And not so long ago, homosexuality was outlawed in Western nations as well...and continues to be persecuted by Christians, even in North America.
I am sure that in Palestine, as everywhere else, persecution of homosexuals is not universal amongst the citizenry. So your black and white approach is unfair and contradicts the clarity of thought you recommend to others.
Finally, evil is alive and well, and flourishes when good people choose to do nothing. Recognition is generally universal. Action is not, alas.
Compassion is one of our greatest capacities...but I disagree that it is ever "wasted" on those who persecute others. It is easy to hate others for their actions, but the real test of your compassion is to condemn the action, while understanding the drivers and motivations. Only then can you seek remediations. Note that ICE and the appalling actions of this administration are dependent on that remorseless judgment that every perceived transgression deserves ultimate punishment and in addition, sans due process.
I would posit that the mess the USA finds itself in is directly attributable to a series of failures to understand the drivers and motivations of voters who consistently vote against their better interests.
You’re as human as the rest of us. Your emotions are the same as the rest of us. Your compassion would come to a screeching end if you witnessed your family being murdered or raped before your own eyes. Easy to be compassionate when you don’t have to deal with the actual results of evil. You would seek revenge from the bottom of your heart. Fear drives hatred. Personally I detest humans. Not much good can be said about us. And I’m sure you’re correct about the average Palestinian citizen. Probably doesn’t bother them . But when you have the leaders of Palestine instructing its masses to hate gays. Then it doesn’t really matter what the average citizen thinks. In Palestine they actually teach their children to hate from almost infancy. Go watch a Palestinian children’s cartoon. You want to be shocked and disgusted. At least in America we wait until our children are at least 6 or 7 before we teach them to hate. Children ages 1 to 5 are completely incapable of hating. They don’t see skin color until we teach them. Why do you think other nations say NO when it comes to Palestinian refugees. They don’t want that poison of thought coming to their country. I know 90% of you think I’m full of it. Check it out for yourself. Find a Palestinian children’s cartoon. They’re out there for the viewing.
I am sad to hear you say all that. In particular your stunning assumption that others have not suffered these kinds of griefs, and/or are incapable of the empathy to truly understand these griefs.
Your narrow scope on this decades old conflict (where hateful acts have been perpetrated by all sides), your hatred and hopelessness are clouding your judgment, which is not helpful, damages you, and makes any forward progress difficult if not impossible.
If nothing else, we are all here, and must find a way forward and together. That asks a lot of all of us, and we must rise to that request.
Ah, the feeling of self-righteousness. Funny that there’s a split politically between college educated and not. My husband has lovely, smart gop relatives who didn’t go to college, but you’re referencing ignorance. And yes we do know what happens to gays in the Islamic world. And yes we do support Israel as a nation, but Netanyahu is NOT ISRAEL.
Theres this whole wide SPECTRUM of thought called the MIDDLE. That's what The Fuhrer-wanna-be hasn't told YOU. Deal.With.It. And get the speculum out of your orifices.
....Canadians are doing what we need to do up here..........European trips are now my priority though.......I don't want to be kidnapped off the streets by ICE....when the Canadians being held are released...MAYBE I might consider a trip south.
I live in the U.K. but happened to being LA for the first protests about Trump and saw some wonderful signs but had not a camera to record them. Thank you for putting these up. With family in America who despair of the situation we now communicate verbally as they don’t want comments on their phones/tablets. I worry that if the SupremeCourt changes the Voting Rights Act America will be doomed for a long time. Internationally it is losing its status and the condescension to Putin is appalling. I wonder what the families of those who lost their lives in WW11 think of the fascism in the present government.sorry about the long comment but as an observer I feel I needed to say something but I DO LOVE THE HUMOUR IN THESE PLACARDS. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
Why the No Kings Protests Matter (Fascists Fight Back) The Intercept, October 18, 2025 tinyurl.com/tvsvmf4m
[Erica] Chenoweth notes that globally nonviolent movements are meeting less success than in decades past, as regimes coordinate with each other and devise new strategies to curtail their impact, such as controlling the flow of information and working to outright criminalize protest. … The Trump administration is keenly aware of the potential for mass nonviolent protest to shape public sentiment, which is why it is moving quickly to undermine and dismantle all infrastructure for opposition and organized dissent.
[Stephen] Miller has made abundantly clear that he intends to dismantle his political opposition by forcing the narrative that any opposition to his agenda should be tamped down using the full power of the state. He recently seized his opportunity to create a new designation of domestic terrorism to justify the investigation, dismantling, and defunding of oppositional civil society.
MAGA’s first targets are organizations that have the strongest track records of nonviolently mobilizing the American public at scale and facilitating media-friendly protests that can move public opinion. Getting rid of organizations that empower Americans to participate in legible nonviolent mobilization is a great way of ensuring that the conceptions of the opposition that reach the public are those that feed the MAGA narrative of a deranged left. [Mass] public opposition is so vital now, before this crackdown fully takes hold. This is a crossroads moment for our country, and the media should give these protests the coverage and consideration they deserve.
If I had the power I’d fund every available media in red markets. Starting now. I like weekly local papers…freebies. Read about hyper local stuff. Movie time at local theater. Or church. Whatever. No hard hitting. Common sense. Start a dialogue of policy discussion w no reference to party. Common beliefs and values. Pay a local editor and reporter.
My husband just read that they're infiltrating Bluesky to turn it into another cesspool like x. The bullies can never be satisfied and have to bully on every progressive page or outlet. I can't wait until we take back at least the house and can start the investigations, prosecutions and jail sentencing of all these trump people who violated the Constitution and other laws.
Love the signs. I wish we could put them all together and send them to Trump in a birthday book like he sent his card to Epstein for the birthday book.
#1 Amazon. Go ahead and use the site to find what you need. Then go directly to the website of the company that actually makes the product and buy it from them. This is what I do all of the time.
Regarding book purchases, try Portland's best, Powell's Books
#2 Universities. Alumni have power. They are major donors. Contact tour university and let them know what you think. Another approach is to contact the university's major donors and let them know what you think.
For example, in Oregon a major contributor to Univ of Oregon is Phil Knight of Nike fame; major contributors to Oregon State University are Patricia Reser of Reser's Fine Foods and NVidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori Huang (Yes Nvidia is the company that in August 2025, agreed to a deal with the U.S. government to pay 15% of its revenue from certain AI chip sales in China.)
#3 We DO have people power. We learned that with the Jimmy Kimmel/Disney debacle. And we KNOW that we have the numbers -No Kings #2) and the momentum.
Thank you for all the signs! They were great. Unfortunately for the guy that's first in this article, Congress voted that mentally ill people should have all the guns they want. Steve Scalise recovered from an attempted assassination by a mentally ill person, and went back to work, to ensure people like the perpetrator, had enough guns.
Note how they blamed Scalise's shooting on "the left." The Republicans would happily take guns away from anyone who votes or might vote Democratic, but so far they haven't figured out how to tell who's who.
And then he was diagnosed with cancer. Good grief! You’d think the bullet he got and the cancer diagnosis would have softened him up but NO! He’s still an SOB!
I love these. I love the Schrodinger Immigrants shirt.
But where were all the matching signs I was told about? 😆 Most of the signs I saw were original and hand made. I thought someone was droning on and on about a mass production of matching signs. Weird.
On union picket lines you'll often see matching signs -- produced, need I say, by a union print shop. <g> In a strike, solidarity matters: "the union makes us strong." Yesterday, and at all mass demonstrations and rallies, our diversity is a big part of the message. So we're united by our diversity!
One of my favorites. “C’mon cholesterol, do your work already!”
Perfect lead in with what Charlie posted in the #31-40:
-In Syracuse: “Can’t wait for the Big Beautiful Obituary!”
CLOTS and PRAYERS
Too perfect!
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In Tucson it was "C'mom Blood Clot!" ha ha ha
LMAO!!!! 🤣 I would have loved seeing that one!
DIE , the devil wants his toupee back!
We saw one that said “McDonald’s, do your job!” 🤣🤣🤣
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So encouraged to know there are so many free-thinking, great authors of hard hitting signs (some with great humor--'cause otherwise we would balling our eyes!)
My sister in Seattle pasted a photo of Trump on a fairway following through on a shot, the photo taken from behind him. The text was "Does this ass make my country look small?"
So true
From Canada 🇨🇦, we watched the protests from around the world and here in Canada as well, and from all over your country on MSNBC the station who cares about America and tells the truth, I gotta tell you, we were in AWE of you, your determination, courage, commitment and dedication was outstanding! America keep up the great work and may you all have peace soon! We do miss you! 🥰
We miss you, too. Sending love from Oregon!
Washington too! Love your🇨🇦.
Every year for 30+ years to Vancouver Island! 👍🇨🇦🇺🇸
CA too!!
Thank you for being with us in our time of need. We know who our true friends are.
Thank you for that encouragement and thank you for all your magnificent support! We love our Canadian neighbors!!
Canadians are very cool people. Thank you ☮️
Gwen,
You think MSNBC tells it viewers the truth. Maybe every once in a while. But the biggest crime perpetrated on the viewers is what they are not telling you. They won’t show you any story that does not fit the lefts narrative. You folks always cry “ That’s a lie” or “That’s misinformation”. But never bright enough to know when you’re being kept in the dark. Maybe you should seek information from all sources and use your own critical thinking skills to determine what YOU think is the truth. But that won’t happen, the left’s useful idiots are more than happy to parrot talking points from the puppet masters on high. Almost for a year all we heard was Free Palestine. From the river to the sea. I’d bet $1000 anyone carrying that sign couldn’t tell you what river or what sea. And then the “Gays for Palestine” signs. This is ignorance at its highest level. You know what they do to gays in the Islamic world?
Anyone who uses "the left" to disparage what's going on in the U.S. has drunk too much right-wing Kool-Aid. The right, backed by big business and the very wealthy, has always been the big threat to democracy in this country. What do you think the Civil War was about?
The civil war was about preserving the GREAT idea that is America. And bringing to truth that all men were created equally. And in this Civil war America righted one of her greatest wrongs.
No, it wasn't. It was about money. The Northern merchants thought the Southern merchants were charging too much for commodities (since the South had what the North called "free labor"). The North wanted to take away the "free labor" in retaliation. The South began to spread propaganda stating that the North wanted to take away the South's way of life. Yes, there were a few abolitionists with humane purpose, but the war was about money. And just like then, the poorly educated masses of today believe the propaganda.
This sadly makes more sense. Wars are always about money, power & greed or “My God is better than your God”.
To be fair, it was also about ending slavery. Many, many at the time wanted to see an end to that practice. The difficult part was that slave owners, and prospective slave owners, saw the absolute economic benefit (to them) of slavery. So yes it was about money, but more about moral failure in deciding what path one could take to wealth.
OK, now riddle me this: Why were so many non-wealthy white Southerners willing to fight for "the South's way of life"? Maybe, just maybe, it had something to do with the fact that even for the poorest, most tangential whites, there were always people who were even further down the ladder than they were.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
add 'immigrant' to list
Still true for some...
That was the founding problem: all MEN were created equal -- and white men at that. It's taken two and a half centuries of continual struggle to change that, and the backlash in the last several decades has been ferocious. It's taking the country down if we don't stop it.
And all because the Torah's words were mistranslated. According to the original Hebrew, Eve was taken from Adam's SIDE, not a rib. Eve WAS ALWAYS equal to Adam.
It was about all of that!!!!
Please do not preach to me about trustworthiness in the media, are you a fox listener? Perhaps you should seek information from other sources and use your critical thinking skills! I have eyes and ears and have listened to this evil dictator cozy up to Russian, incite an insurrection, receive a 34 felon sentence ETC! and now he is taking his revenge out all over the world! The useful left idiots you say…lol !!!!!! You are clearly here to argue with me or others, and I am not into it, you supporters of this evil fascist disgusting regime are full of hate and cant stand others that dont look and sound like you, you condone child rape… that alone should be a no brainer for you but clearly you are not bothered by it, a little reading material for you! Davids DAD!!!!!!!!!
All I hear is this word racist and fascism. Where was your outrage when Jewish students were being terrorized and attacked on our American college campuses. That Gwen is fascism. If there was fascism in America do you honestly think you would be seeing any of these “No Kings Protests”. No you would NOT! And the people gathered would likely just disappear, never to be seen. It’s clear all you folks who are crying about fascism have absolutely no idea what it is. You didn’t even recognize it when it appeared on our American campuses. In fact you supported it and glorified it as free speech and freedom. So your whining about fascism is merely grandstanding. You want to learn about fascism talk to a holocaust survivor. You want to learn about freedom, go talk to a Cuban exile from the Castro days. But you won’t. You’ll just take it as gospel from your socialist “progressive” professor feeding our youth a plate full of failed ideologies and generally crap information. Fascism is alive and in America! But it’s not coming from the government. If it was you wouldn’t be posting your opinions.
Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy….its clear you have no idea what fascism is, racism in America is rampant and evil people who think that people should be judged by the color of their skin deserve to be treated as so,,,don’t go there with me about Jewish students being terrorized or is this what your argument is all about???? I don’t believe in anyone being terrorized or attacked. Look at the human race as one race and close your eyes to colour and origin!!!! Now leave me alone, not into your one sided opinions,
Go. GWEN. The fascists are pulling a coup. Right in front of our eyes. People who don't see that ,are our biggest problem right now. We will not have much more time to stop it.
Once it fully takes hold, we will never be able to.
Amen.
Again with the blanket accusations, judgment and arrogance. You attribute reactions to Gwen that you cannot know are accurate.
America is headed toward, but has nor arrived at, full on fascist dictatorship. Hence the rise of fascism in government, but also the rise of protests.
That said the country is well down that dreary road and your comments illustrate the deft ability of the present regime to divide the public and set folks against each other over quibbles, distracting them, as you do, from the real threat.
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I wasn't going to weigh into your attempt to disregard Harry Truman's sage advice, "Never kick a wet cow paddy on a hot day," but I must respond to this outrageous comment.
You have lumped me together with your false stereotypes of Democrats and all the beautiful, patriotic, democracy loving No Kings protesters by parroting lying Mike Johnson's dishonest characterization of us as "socialists, Marxists, and people who hate America."
We LOVE America. We LOVE democracy. We LOVE our Constitution, written in defiance of an abusive king and wisely constructed to prevent future abuses of power through checks and balances between three co-equal branches of government (which our MAGA 6 "justices" have now destroyed by granting the president the powers of a king).
Yet I, like you, was horrified to see the disruptive protests immediately following the horrific Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. I thought the protests should have been against HAMAS—not their victims—and got into many arguments with others who instantly turned against Israel. Why? That viewpoint was being amplified on TikTok, where the majority of these students now get their news and "culture." Several college administrators said that viewpoint had become the "cool" opinion on campus. You are right that many of them had no real understanding of a very complex and intractable conflict.
But who controls TikTok algorithms and supports Hamas? China. And who has now upended Biden's ban on TikTok unless it was *wholly* owned by an American company? DJT, who initially wanted to ban TikTok—until he saw he was getting a lot of positive attention on the platform. Only then did he illegally violate the ban deadline—until he could arrange a deal for his billionaire supporters to buy it, while continuing to allow China to control the algorithms and access our data.
And who has vowed to protect Qatar—the same country that has given over $1.8 BILLION to Hamas—as if it were a NATO ally? And who will allow them to build their own facility in Mountain Home, ID as well as train them on F-15 fighter jets? DJT.
I suggest you read a very short, but unforgettable book by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, "Night." You will learn how, even when his fellow Jews had been rounded up by the Nazis, required to wear yellow stars of David, and imprisoned in a ghetto, they did not believe a former religious scholar from that very same ghetto after he had escaped a mass murder by the Nazis of deported Jews and came back to warn his community.
THEY DID NOT BELIEVE HIM. Why? Because it was too horrible to contemplate! I think that's where you are now. No, we're not under complete control of this authoritarian regime yet, but until you comprehend the fact we're heading there faster than a skateboard running down a steep hill, YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM, just as the Germans who remained silent were before and during WWII. The entire MAGA Congress and our president are now implementing the very same tactics Hitler used to acquire power: dehumanizing anyone who disagrees with them, calling them vermin who are "poisoning the blood of America," labeling them Marxists and communists simply for marching for democracy.
You think we're stupid? You appear to me to be militantly ignorant of what we are losing every day, and of what historians who have studied how democracies fail are telling us: DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE. So I ask you one question: Do you support the MAGA agenda? If so, you and Israel are in for a rude awakening. Israel needs to dump Netanyahu and we need to dump Trump and MAGA.
This is not a football game with two teams; it is a fight between those who understand the bounties of freedom of speech and thought, which have allowed innovators and economic prosperity to flourish, and those who are so afraid of people they neither know nor understand that they can't even sit down and have a civil, open-minded conversation with them.
Did you see the signs and the people from yesterday's marches? I'm pretty sure you didn't because if you had, you would have seen all kinds and colors of folks, including Jews, Republicans, scientists, and veterans, full of love and compassion for their fellow man. Check yourself. You say "all I hear is this word racist and fascism." Open your ears.
I'll end with a quote from a protest sign: "May the frog be with you." And I am NOT referring to Pepe the Frog; I'm channeling the Portland PEACEFULLY protesting frog.
You are clearly much brighter than the average daily person posting. You have an incredible ability to convey your opinion. Maybe just a little bit more of historical truthfulness and not just labeling us as Fascist and racist. Those words are only used to instill hate and fear. Which we already have enough of. Also it dilutes the real meaning of those words. We should really save them for when the next Stalin, Hitler or Pol Pot is unleashed on humanity.
It already has been unleashed on humanity! Have you not been paying attention to people being disappeared and ripped out of their homes and sent to God knows where? Have you not seen the person in the administration that has a swastika on the wall in his office? Did you not read the vile tweets that came out of the Young Republicans chat thread? Do you not see how this administration is in one of the biggest coverups in history by not releasing the Epstein Files? What about the fact that the Republicans won’t even begin to negotiate with the Democrats about reopening the government because they don’t want to continue the subsidies for the ACA so millions will either lose healthcare or it will be outrageously expensive! But we can send money to Argentina and bail them out. Really I honestly don’t get how anyone can think that what is going on in this administration is good. So David’s Dad, please tell me what you like about the status of this country right now? What has Trump and the administration done for you?
Thank you. Yes.
He has stopped your socialist agenda. You think the government should take care of everything for everybody. It’s not the government’s job to provide healthcare to everyone. But they try. The only thing good government should provide is a safe environment for its citizens to persue their own path to happiness. And as far as the Epstein files are concerned. I don’t understand why you folks with TDS haven’t figured this one out yet. The files will NEVER be released. I’ll bet they no longer even exist. Why you ask. Like it or not…… the Democrats and Republicans are all politicians. Politicians don’t really like putting other politicians in jail. I think Scooter Libby was one of the last. There are too many people from both sides of the aisle who travelled on Epsteins planes. Not to mention doctors, lawyers, judges, men held in high esteem with the public. Those files are never going to be seen again . Why do you think Epstein is dead? Wake up!! I bet his sidekick Giselle is not long for this earth. She knows the peoples names that are on that list.
OMG. You know nothing about democratic socialism. You lost all credibility with "the left" and "your socialist agenda".
Wow. Yes, I think the government should provide health care for everybody. You don't? You must be so rich you can afford to not have health insurance.
And if you can't believe everyone needs health care because you don't care about others, then think about how it will affect you too: spreading of TB, the next pandemic, measles, resurgence of polio, getting hepatitis B from eating in a restaurant served by people without health care access or sick leave. Do you seriously think people will be provided "a safe environment for its citizens to persue their own path to happiness" without access to health care and equal civil rights?
I want the Epstein files released and I don't care who is implicated or what political party they belong to. I want justice for those young girls!!! I want sick predators held accountable!!! Every single Democrat in Congress wants the files released, so don't lump them in with the MAGA and DJT toadies who are goldbricking on our tax dollars because they refuse to sign in a duly elected member of Congress.
Do you seriously support the man who intends to pardon Maxwell? Do you seriously hold these sick predators in "high esteem"? If so, you will have yourself to blame if the Nazis and fascists win this fight. Why not take a trip to Russia to get an idea what it will be like for you? Putin is Trump's idol; he is clearly trying to destroy NATO and help Putin seize all of Ukraine. If that happens, the rest of Europe is next.
Don't take the bait from assholes. Not worth the effort. Now, more than ever, we should be uniting because there's power in numbers and we're trying to work towards a common goal for all of us, get America back and get rid of Trump.. Some people deliberately troll and comment to rile people up. I opt not to engage (they're always going to try to prove themselves right, regardless of the topic or contrary evidence). I just cut Davids Dads power.
Poor David. Perhaps you would be more successful making your points by dropping the arrogance and insults.
I agree that even MSNBC is parsing current events, just much less than others and of course Fox "News" just lies constantly. As a Canadian, I am also disappointed that CBC is being overly polite in reporting the appalling events in the USA.
As for signage, I do not see why you would think gays should not advocate for a free Palestine. They of all people know what persecution feels like. Perhaps there is a lesson there.
Would they advocate for them if their brother, sister or any loved one was murdered just for being gay? Compassion is one of humans greatest qualities. But it doesn’t need to be wasted on others who only want to eliminate you for a lifestyle. Myself, I would reserve my compassion for more worthy brothers and sisters! Evil is alive and well…….. better learn how to recognize it.
You conflate judgment against homosexuals with the right of a nation to be free and free of bombing and deliberate persecution. And not so long ago, homosexuality was outlawed in Western nations as well...and continues to be persecuted by Christians, even in North America.
I am sure that in Palestine, as everywhere else, persecution of homosexuals is not universal amongst the citizenry. So your black and white approach is unfair and contradicts the clarity of thought you recommend to others.
Finally, evil is alive and well, and flourishes when good people choose to do nothing. Recognition is generally universal. Action is not, alas.
Compassion is one of our greatest capacities...but I disagree that it is ever "wasted" on those who persecute others. It is easy to hate others for their actions, but the real test of your compassion is to condemn the action, while understanding the drivers and motivations. Only then can you seek remediations. Note that ICE and the appalling actions of this administration are dependent on that remorseless judgment that every perceived transgression deserves ultimate punishment and in addition, sans due process.
I would posit that the mess the USA finds itself in is directly attributable to a series of failures to understand the drivers and motivations of voters who consistently vote against their better interests.
You’re as human as the rest of us. Your emotions are the same as the rest of us. Your compassion would come to a screeching end if you witnessed your family being murdered or raped before your own eyes. Easy to be compassionate when you don’t have to deal with the actual results of evil. You would seek revenge from the bottom of your heart. Fear drives hatred. Personally I detest humans. Not much good can be said about us. And I’m sure you’re correct about the average Palestinian citizen. Probably doesn’t bother them . But when you have the leaders of Palestine instructing its masses to hate gays. Then it doesn’t really matter what the average citizen thinks. In Palestine they actually teach their children to hate from almost infancy. Go watch a Palestinian children’s cartoon. You want to be shocked and disgusted. At least in America we wait until our children are at least 6 or 7 before we teach them to hate. Children ages 1 to 5 are completely incapable of hating. They don’t see skin color until we teach them. Why do you think other nations say NO when it comes to Palestinian refugees. They don’t want that poison of thought coming to their country. I know 90% of you think I’m full of it. Check it out for yourself. Find a Palestinian children’s cartoon. They’re out there for the viewing.
I am sad to hear you say all that. In particular your stunning assumption that others have not suffered these kinds of griefs, and/or are incapable of the empathy to truly understand these griefs.
Your narrow scope on this decades old conflict (where hateful acts have been perpetrated by all sides), your hatred and hopelessness are clouding your judgment, which is not helpful, damages you, and makes any forward progress difficult if not impossible.
If nothing else, we are all here, and must find a way forward and together. That asks a lot of all of us, and we must rise to that request.
On that note, I wish you luck, and peace.
Ah, the feeling of self-righteousness. Funny that there’s a split politically between college educated and not. My husband has lovely, smart gop relatives who didn’t go to college, but you’re referencing ignorance. And yes we do know what happens to gays in the Islamic world. And yes we do support Israel as a nation, but Netanyahu is NOT ISRAEL.
That's why I follow Robert Reich, Meidas Touch, Aaron Parnas, Dean Blundel, Dan Rather etc - here on substack.
Hmmm…. Faux news is owned by that lying immigrant scumbag murdoch. Where’s your truth?!
You are spreading miss informed (gee) about gays in Muslim countries. Been there, seen that.
Pull your head out of tramps ass.
What a ray of sunshine you are.
Theres this whole wide SPECTRUM of thought called the MIDDLE. That's what The Fuhrer-wanna-be hasn't told YOU. Deal.With.It. And get the speculum out of your orifices.
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Give David my condolences.
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I was in a march in Michigan yesterday. I was thankful to meet 3 Canadians from Windsor, who were marching with us! Thank you Canada!
Canadian support helps fuel our protest! Thank you to our northern neighbors!
And we are so grateful for Canada-elbows up! Yay Charlie Angus!
We miss you too in New Hampshire 🇺🇸💙Elbows Up!!! 🇨🇦
Elbows Up, Gwen! This too shall pass & we'll be together again!🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦
Sending big thank you’s from Los Angeles!
Thank you Canada, we miss you too🥰🥰
....Canadians are doing what we need to do up here..........European trips are now my priority though.......I don't want to be kidnapped off the streets by ICE....when the Canadians being held are released...MAYBE I might consider a trip south.
One of my favs …
“Alexa, change Presidents.”
SIRI, DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION
So glad to see some sign makers had a great sense of humor
My favourite lol.
So may great ones! I saw one where pom poms were arranged on their sign that read "Free balls for those in Congress who have lost theirs"
Perfect!
Saw that one too! One of the best!
My favorite sign from our town’s protest was a person dressed as a big green alien holding, “ DO NOT take me to your leader!”
Hilarious!!! Best one yet!
HA!
My favorite was a woman dressed as a brown paper bag with $100 bills sticking out and titled: “where’s the $50K” and “to err is Homan “
Ohhh…that’s a good one!!
America is sure full of great people with imagination!
I live in the U.K. but happened to being LA for the first protests about Trump and saw some wonderful signs but had not a camera to record them. Thank you for putting these up. With family in America who despair of the situation we now communicate verbally as they don’t want comments on their phones/tablets. I worry that if the SupremeCourt changes the Voting Rights Act America will be doomed for a long time. Internationally it is losing its status and the condescension to Putin is appalling. I wonder what the families of those who lost their lives in WW11 think of the fascism in the present government.sorry about the long comment but as an observer I feel I needed to say something but I DO LOVE THE HUMOUR IN THESE PLACARDS. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
Thank you!
Why the No Kings Protests Matter (Fascists Fight Back) The Intercept, October 18, 2025 tinyurl.com/tvsvmf4m
[Erica] Chenoweth notes that globally nonviolent movements are meeting less success than in decades past, as regimes coordinate with each other and devise new strategies to curtail their impact, such as controlling the flow of information and working to outright criminalize protest. … The Trump administration is keenly aware of the potential for mass nonviolent protest to shape public sentiment, which is why it is moving quickly to undermine and dismantle all infrastructure for opposition and organized dissent.
[Stephen] Miller has made abundantly clear that he intends to dismantle his political opposition by forcing the narrative that any opposition to his agenda should be tamped down using the full power of the state. He recently seized his opportunity to create a new designation of domestic terrorism to justify the investigation, dismantling, and defunding of oppositional civil society.
MAGA’s first targets are organizations that have the strongest track records of nonviolently mobilizing the American public at scale and facilitating media-friendly protests that can move public opinion. Getting rid of organizations that empower Americans to participate in legible nonviolent mobilization is a great way of ensuring that the conceptions of the opposition that reach the public are those that feed the MAGA narrative of a deranged left. [Mass] public opposition is so vital now, before this crackdown fully takes hold. This is a crossroads moment for our country, and the media should give these protests the coverage and consideration they deserve.
If I had the power I’d fund every available media in red markets. Starting now. I like weekly local papers…freebies. Read about hyper local stuff. Movie time at local theater. Or church. Whatever. No hard hitting. Common sense. Start a dialogue of policy discussion w no reference to party. Common beliefs and values. Pay a local editor and reporter.
A far better use of wealth than that demonstrated by Musk and Bezos...
My husband just read that they're infiltrating Bluesky to turn it into another cesspool like x. The bullies can never be satisfied and have to bully on every progressive page or outlet. I can't wait until we take back at least the house and can start the investigations, prosecutions and jail sentencing of all these trump people who violated the Constitution and other laws.
Bluesky people know false posts & boys when they see it & we just IGNORE!!
Love the signs. I wish we could put them all together and send them to Trump in a birthday book like he sent his card to Epstein for the birthday book.
Ooh great idea, Judy! 🤣🤣
i agree it is a great idea. But they arent flattering so I doubt his ego would allow him to read them .
He might when no one is watching! Be trumps speed
Good point.. poor liddle donOLD. 🤣🤣
😂🤣😂What a great idea! Unfortunately, your hard work would fall on deaf & dumber ear!
Let's make a list.
#1 Amazon. Go ahead and use the site to find what you need. Then go directly to the website of the company that actually makes the product and buy it from them. This is what I do all of the time.
Regarding book purchases, try Portland's best, Powell's Books
#2 Universities. Alumni have power. They are major donors. Contact tour university and let them know what you think. Another approach is to contact the university's major donors and let them know what you think.
For example, in Oregon a major contributor to Univ of Oregon is Phil Knight of Nike fame; major contributors to Oregon State University are Patricia Reser of Reser's Fine Foods and NVidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori Huang (Yes Nvidia is the company that in August 2025, agreed to a deal with the U.S. government to pay 15% of its revenue from certain AI chip sales in China.)
#3 We DO have people power. We learned that with the Jimmy Kimmel/Disney debacle. And we KNOW that we have the numbers -No Kings #2) and the momentum.
Let's do it.
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And unsubscribe from cable TV
Agreed!
Thank you for all the signs! They were great. Unfortunately for the guy that's first in this article, Congress voted that mentally ill people should have all the guns they want. Steve Scalise recovered from an attempted assassination by a mentally ill person, and went back to work, to ensure people like the perpetrator, had enough guns.
Silly me, I thought for sure when Congress was shot at, they would change things…
Note how they blamed Scalise's shooting on "the left." The Republicans would happily take guns away from anyone who votes or might vote Democratic, but so far they haven't figured out how to tell who's who.
That will change soon since they demanded our voting personal info from each state.
Wouldn't you think??
And then he was diagnosed with cancer. Good grief! You’d think the bullet he got and the cancer diagnosis would have softened him up but NO! He’s still an SOB!
Wow, these are great!! I love the cell mate Big Beautiful bill!
I love these. I love the Schrodinger Immigrants shirt.
But where were all the matching signs I was told about? 😆 Most of the signs I saw were original and hand made. I thought someone was droning on and on about a mass production of matching signs. Weird.
On union picket lines you'll often see matching signs -- produced, need I say, by a union print shop. <g> In a strike, solidarity matters: "the union makes us strong." Yesterday, and at all mass demonstrations and rallies, our diversity is a big part of the message. So we're united by our diversity!
Absolutely!
Yeah, funny isn't it? They all turned out different & unique, clever & thoughtful! No sign producing machine would know anything about originality!
Hoping big beautiful BILL is Venezuelan!