Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/20/2026 🎉 Trump has caused such chaos here & across the world it's hard to prioritize what & how to resist. He has frightened Congress into submission. Do they represent us, the majority? NO. Are they representative of us? God I hope not. Stand up & speak out!

Let's be sure today in some small way to point out the contrast between a King who deserves our respect and the current wannabe King who deserves the best psychiatric care our exalted prison system can provide.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/19/2026 🎉 I'm hoping that today reminds us that one of the parts of America under assault is the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who died in the service of a country he knew could be better. We can and must be better. Find your voice. Take action.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/18/2026 🎉 Greenland. Venezuela. Minnesota. The White House. The Nobel & other peace prizes. Epstein. Meantime my gas costs more than it did on election day, I can't afford red meat, eggs are down but milk is up. Had enough? Demand a functional government.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/17/2026 🎉 Trump & his Cabinet of Misfit Toys continue to tank in the polls. Turns out the great majority of Americans don't want wealth for the handful & chaos for the rest of us. Let's maximize the power of peaceful solidarity. Stand up. Speak out. Document.

Jimmy Kimmel offers to let Trump have one of his trophies if he will pull ICE out of Minneapolis.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/16/2026 🎉 From the Preamble to our Constitution: Establish Justice Insure domestic Tranquility Promote the general Welfare Secure the Blessings of Liberty We the majority still believe in the country our founders envisioned. Stand up. Push back harder.

Now is the winter of our discontent ... across the country & around the world the Trump damage is weighing heavily. I found this weird blog posted every Wednesday which describes life in MAGA US as though it makes sense. A breath of sanity that makes me smile. This week: elonica.net/domestic-tra...

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/15/2026 🎉 Remember that feeling of chaos from Trump's first term? It's way worse. Clearly Congress doesn't want to govern & SCOTUS's "Unitary Executive" is just a king. It's on us. Time to pull friends & family from the sidelines before there's nothing left.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/14/2026 🎉 I am in awe of the passion Minnesotans are bringing to the fight against tyranny. We are better than the masked, armed, violent thugs unleashed by President Miller and his mouthpiece Trump. AND WE ARE THE MAJORITY. Stand up loudly, passionately, now.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/13/2026 🎉 As those around a diminished tanking Trump manipulate his weakness to get what they want, those of us who love & miss America must remind ourselves daily: We are the majority. We can take our country back. We are the majority. Take our country back.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/12/2026 🎉 It turns out that Trump did not eliminate fraud, waste, & abuse - he created an administration in which personifying one or more of these is required. Hegseth. Kennedy. Noem. Miller. They can't govern. Let's take America back before it's too late.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/11/2026 🎉 250 years ago we fought to create a country not limited by the morality or mind of its king. Here we are again. Our flaccid frightened Congress & engineered Supreme Court will not help us. It's up to us. Protest. Film everything. Stand up louder now!

"Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin. " -- Amanda Gorman poem in memory of Renee Good #ICEOutForGood Join us this weekend to grieve, to howl, to begin. (Link in comments)

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/10/2026 Find an ICE Out Now protest this weekend. Indivisible.org is publishing a growing national list. Congress is showing tiny signs of life, but we can't count on them or our engineered Supreme Court to stop Trump's trainwreck. It's on us. Stand up now!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/09/2026 Are people waking up to the realities of Trump's reign of terror? Had enough of the egomaniac in the gilded office? The lies flowing from his mouthpieces? Congress's weak signs of life aren't enough. We are the growing majority. Let's take America back!

Excellent, damning analysis of the video of the killing of Ms Good, from the NYT, including a quick debunking of the “evidence” the President showed other Times reporters last night. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

We're in Venezuela for the long term, getting ready to occupy also whatever country Stephen Miller or Rubio or Putin think necessary. ICE killed another citizen then lied about it. Health care is out of reach for many. Each of us must find something to do TODAY to fight this insanity. #StandUpLouder

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/07/2026 🎉 Found a pop up protest happening this evening & am eager to get back out there and DO SOMETHING. Stephen Miller the screaming maladjusted bully & Rubio head sycophant-du-jour do not speak for the majority. We deserve better. Let's act. #StandUpLouder

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/06/2026 🎉 It's thrilling in a horror movie way to watch Miller, Rubio, & Vance jockey for power that a diminished Trump is unfit to handle. Larry, Curly & Moe. We, the majority, don't want to be the schoolyard bully of the world. Let's take our country back.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/05/2026 🎉 Since Nov 2024 I've felt all the emotions -astonishment grief loss etc. After watching Trump bully the world while Rubio & Hegseth celebrate unchecked ambition I'm settling in on anger. Look for me up my enabler GOP rep's backside. Time to end this.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/04/2026 🎉 After yesterday's attack on Venezuela Trump looked and sounded like the tired, frail, failing man he is. Time to expose the reality that others are using him to get what they want. He is not strong enough to represent us. Let's take our country back.

They gave away tariffs. How we spend our tax money. Now war. I'm over this collection of flaccid milquetoast "representatives" watching America circle the bowl.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/03/2026 🎉 Woke up to the news that we have attacked Venezuela. Congress has joyfully given up its authority in tariffs, how our money is spent, and now war. They are responsible for this. All of them. We MUST hold them accountable for not doing their jobs.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/02/2026 🎉 Trump and his friends & family are getting richer. This drives every decision he makes. It's our job to make sure that more people see this, reject it, & join the cause of bringing America back to sanity. Stay alert. Document. Share. Stand up louder.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 01/01/2026 🎉 Sloppily sanitized Epstein files & Jack Smith's testimony are not nearly as damning as the daily grift, crudity, cruelty, and sheer incompetence of this admin. We deserve better. Let's make 2026 the year we take our country back. #StandUpLouder

Happy New Year! Wouldn't it be grand to celebrate our 250th anniversary in 2026 by rejecting another tyrant? Our "Unitary Executive" is a corrupt, broken man whose Cabinet of Misfit Toys is helping him to destroy the country that we love. The Founders gave us the tools. Let's use them.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/31/2025 🎉 As we turn the corner into 2026, I resolve to pester my feckless MAGA Rep much more regularly, to challenge my GOP friends gently but firmly whenever they spout fiction, and to find more and better ways to share my voice. We must take America back.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/30/2025 🎉 The Trump admin's incompetence at home is even more evident on the world stage. They have established that they will bully the weak and bow to the perceived strong. Let's remind our neighbors what America is meant to be. Let's stand up for justice.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/29/2025 🎉 It's been 419 days since we elected Trump and 344 since his coronation as our Unitary Executive. Plenty long enough to prove that he, his Island of Misfit Toys cabinet & his lily-livered friends in Congress are betraying America. Stand up louder. Now.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/28/2025 🎉 We are a democracy, not a Musk-Trump venture capital start-up. We the people can do so much more to reclaim America if we elect a non-bootlicker Congress as part of standing strong. About 300 days to elections. Get out there. Speak up. #UseYourVoice

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/27/2025 🎉 Biden was old when elected. Trump was older. Biden grew frail. Trump sleeps through meetings. Biden's DOJ did not release the Epstein files. Trump is the star of the Epstein files. We traded down. We deserve better. Let's Make America America Again.

IT'S TIME! 25th Amendment Sect 4 Involuntary Transfer of Power: 1. VP & majority of Cabinet declare president unfit; VP assumes role. 2. If Prez contests in writing, he resumes role. If Cabinet persists, Congress votes. If ⅔ agree Prez is unfit, VP remains Acting Prez. 3. Whole process <30 days.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/26/2025 🎉 Trump's Christmas & Nigeria Truth Social messages yesterday are not the communications of a sane man (with the nuclear codes.) Neither his Cabinet of Misfit Toys nor Congress will intercede on our behalf. We must stand up louder. Write. Speak. Today!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/25/2025 🎉 Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, let's make today a day of love, peace, and commitment to our better selves as individuals, as a people, and as a nation.

Every Wednesday I read Elonica, a strange little blog that describes life in America under our purchased president. This week: elonica.net/twas-the-nig... Favorite couplet: “Kash Patel, double dipping as Elf-on-the-Shelf, Makes Trump laugh when he sees him in spite of himself.” Fun!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/24/2025 🎉 OMG the Supreme Court said no to Trump's Troops! Meantime there's Epstein Venezuela Greenland the 2-pencil, 2-doll Christmas & his naming-shit-after-himself obsession. Have we reached the give-a-thief-enough-rope phase just in time for Christmas? 🙏🙏🙏

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/23/2025 🎉 Most of the people I know, Dem & GOP, are decent people trying to make a life for themselves. They react to the info that reaches them whether true or logical or simply convenient. This gives us power. Stay in it. Capture & share truth. Communicate!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/22/2025 🎉 Trump's wealthy handlers think if they censor what the media shares with us we will not know what they're doing. We must stay in the game - pay attention, document, publish, push back. Truth is vital now AND after we've taken our country back.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/21/2025 🎉 Authoritarians win when they make the trains run on time & tap into people's sense of greatness restored. Trump's hand-picked incompetents running amok are accomplishing neither. We deserve better. Stand up. Speak out. Time to take our country back.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/20/2025 🎉 A stunner - Trump hardly appears in the Epstein files released by his engineered DOJ! MAGA diehards will be distracted briefly by the Clinton chum in the water, but will soon have to face their Trump 2-doll, 2-pencil Christmas. We can/must do better.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/19/2025 🎉 In my MAGA corner of the universe, the tiny Democratic party has stepped up visibly to support food banks, Toys for Tots, & other groups serving the growing poor. My GOP friends are noticing & respecting. Let's let our deeds match our words. #America

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/18/2025 🎉 There's nothing quite like a flailing president spewing "alternative facts" loudly & angrily a week before our 2-doll, 2-pencil Christmas. Ready now to stand up louder to Trump and his Island of Misfit Toys admin? Let's Make America America Again.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/17/2025 Trump learned a new scary word. Armada. We let him decimate the People's House & render the FBI incapable of doing its job. His Cabinet of Misfit Toys steals our money & our reputation around the world. Time to stand up louder? Hell yes. Get out there!

Golden Age for whom? BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT RATE Election Day Nov 2024: 5.7% Coronation of Unitary Executive Jan 2025: 6.1% Today's Report: 8.3% Rates for other races have stayed fairly static. I think this takes us back to 2015.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/16/2025 🎉 As Trump continues to show us who he is - and who he isn't - many hoodwinked by his hype are waking up. Our majority grows stronger. Expand the fight. Challenge incompetence & cruelty. Expect more. Let's take our country back today. #StandUpLouder

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/15/2025 🎉 Many folk fooled into voting for Trump are about to experience a 2-doll, 2-pencil Christmas before they lose their health insurance. Let's welcome them to reality and show them how they can work with us to Make America America Again. #StandUpLouder

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 12/14/2025 🎉 The problem with having a made-for-TV-and-social-media presidency is that we live in a real world. Trump and his moronocracy are not up to the task. They prove this daily. Demand more. Let those who are failing know that we see them. #StandUpLouder