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Wear a costume on the 18th.
Re-enactors are well placed to dress like royalty for No Kings #2.

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

"There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing.
What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying Noem is up on the balcony staring over the "Antifa Army" and it’s eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit."

https://www.wweek.com/culture/2025/10/09/an-interview-with-the-portland-chicken/

Newspaper archives

Oct. 4th, 2025 09:55 pm
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I found out that my hometown newspaper has archives going back 200 years, and spent a lot of today searching out articles about my older relatives, which was entertaining. I discovered that my grandfather, who ended his life as a respected general manager of a very large paper mill, was a dastardly youth who had more than a few traffic tickets, such as passing a streetcar when it was unloading, for which he was fined $5 in 1933 (that's $125 in today's dollars.) Here's a pic of my grandmother.

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It's difficult to keep up with the firehose of crazy - get on the free email lists from organizations that monitor and respond to civil rights violations.
It will help you not get overwhelmed.

For example, last week, Trump told his people that any of these opinions mean someone is a potential terrorist:

anti-capitalism,
anti-Christianity,
extremism on migration, race, or gender
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.

Note that there is no definition of "extremism."

Some articles:
Trump's NSPM-7 memo casts critics of Christianity as enemies of the state
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-memo-casts-critics

ACLU Statement on the Trump Administration's Memorandum Targeting Political Opponents
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-statement-on-the-trump-administrations-memorandum-targeting-political-opponents

Trump Called for a Crackdown on the ‘Radical Left.’ But Right-Wing Extremists Are Responsible for More Political Violence
https://time.com/7317383/political-violence-america-trump-crackdown-right/

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