Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 11/10/25 🎉 Angry about senators caving for a petty deal. As Trump and his billionaire buds use our government to get richer, we need stronger Dem leaders. The people must continue to step up & do it ourselves. Protest. Write. Speak. Vote. Take our country back.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 11/09/25 🎉 The videos of a sleeping President in the Oval, of ICE driving off with toddlers or ignoring dads with seizures or tackling protestors & press are telling the story of an untethered moronocracy with no clue how to govern. Keep documenting & publishing!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 11/08/25 🎉 The contrasts are too great. Even the most loyal of Trump supporters sees Musk's $1 trillion salary & Trump's ballroom vs. Americans choosing between food & health insurance. Congress paid not to work while TSA visits food banks. Notice. Publish. Today.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 11/07/25 🎉 Pieces of our democracy remain intact. The press can still capture photos of Trump asleep in meetings and ICE abusing our cities. Judges & juries are letting sandwich hurlers walk free & reminding Miller/Vought there is a Constitution. Keep resisting!

Okay, so I did it. In honor of Sandwich Guy, on what should be the last day of his trial, I figured out the chords. And so, with apologies to the late and great Bob Marley, I banged out this quick and (very) rough rendition of "I Threw the Sandwich." 🤣

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 11/06/25 🎉 From exit polls on Tuesday: 30% support MAGA, 43% No Kings. We have always been the majority. We are awake now and eager to confront the evil, corrupt tail that we've allowed to wag the dog. Bring it on. Pedal to the medal. #MakeAmericaAmericaAgain

Every Wednesday since the 2025 election I read this weird blog. Premise is that we are transitioning from America to Elonica since Elon bought us a president. This week has some interesting data about Year 1 of our Golden Age. Good use of 10 minutes a week... elonica.net/our-golden-a...

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 11/05/25 🎉 A great morning after sweeping yesterday's elections! Trump and his incompetent court have pushed the American majority too far. We are awake and ready to take our country back. Let's keep the pressure on. Document. Write. Call. Protest. #HereWeCome

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 11/04/25 🎉 We lost the WH & Congress because people believed Trump could do better. He proves daily he can't. We are struggling to find pieces of the country we love in the mess they're making. Vote today if you can. If you can't, be heard other in other ways.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 11/03/25 🎉 Ballrooms, bathrooms, Great Gatsby parties, golf ... Private jets, crypto pardons, insider trading ... Even some of my GOP friends are questioning these strategies to make America Great Again. Time to take our country back from these usurpers. Today.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 11/02/25 🎉 The last of the Trump banners has been taken down in my red neighborhood. Fewer trucks with Rebel flags, fewer "Fuck the Libs" bumper stickers. Trump's pack of wild dogs caught the car but proves daily that it can't govern. Let's reclaim our country.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 11/01/25 🎉 The Felon Who Would Be King continues to show his unfitness for office. As evidence of ICE abuses mount and 42 million folk brace for the unlawful loss of SNAP, Trump posts pictures of his new gauche crapper. Clueless. Let's take our country back.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/31/25 🎉 Trump, Gaslighter-in-Chief, has always been an extraordinary liar. But he has surrounded himself with lesser liars. Every time they speak, they get caught in lies too easy to fact-check even by Trump's most devoted. Notice. Publish. Share truth. Today.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/30/25 🎉 Polling suggests that most people feel as I do - Agent Orange and friends cannot govern. We are the sleeping giant that is waking up to Make America America Again. I email my MAGA rep 3X daily: "Go back to work. Do your job. I matter." Quick & easy.

Just read this week's post on this little blog I found about our transition from America to Elonica. This week is sort of a visual retrospective of Trump's first year. A happy distraction if you have 5 minutes. elonica.net/the-great-re...

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/29/25 🎉 Signs of life yesterday from the Senate & the courts as our sorry "Unitary Executive" stumbled around physically and verbally for all the world to see. Trump's inability to do the job is getting harder to excuse. Notice. Document. Speak. Fight back now!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/28/25 🎉 "You can fool some of the people all of the time" is coming home. SNAP benefits. Insurance rates. Medicaid. Federal disaster aid. "Democrat" programs serving all the people. Let's see Trump spin away hunger and illness. Time to stand up & push back.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/27/25 🎉 Those running our government - Vought, Miller, billionaires - are unelected. The people we elected are hanging us out to dry. Citizens are seeing that those we trust to speak for us are instead bending to the will of a self-serving lunatic. Engage now!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/26/25 🎉 This week this quirky little blog I read elonica.net described Antifa's organizational divisions: Grantifa Womantifa Mantifa Infantifa Inflatanifa Canintifa Militantifa Urbantifa Ruraltifa Transtifa A funny reminder millions are standing up.

Best of luck @shawnforcongress.bsky.social

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/25/25 🎉 Trump is declining. He is easier to manipulate than ever and the people directing his actions - Miller, Vought, Putin, billionaires - are going too far. GOP voters are noticing the blatant grift & disregard for law. Keep documenting & publishing. #USA

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/24/25 🎉 In my rural red county, Trump banners have been part of the landscape since 2016. They stayed up through the Biden years and expanded in 2024. People are removing them. My brother reports the same pattern in a rural community in another state. Hope?

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/23/25 🎉 Desecrating the White House during a govt shut-down while Johnson & Thune await their instructions and GOP House reps continue to vacation. We're seeing what "Unitary Executive" means. Yuck. Adding calling my rep 3X a day to my other efforts.

Found a great treatment of how Antifa really works in my favorite weekly reading indulgence. Check it out -- quick and fun. elonica.net/inside-antifa/

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/22/25 🎉 Some mornings are hard. Among all that's happened, I'm struggling most with the images of our decimated White House. Having a ballroom built while you play golf and SNAP shuts down and insurance costs skyrocket is flat out wrong. Let's stand up louder.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/21/25 🎉 What might save our democracy is the utter incompetence of this president's chosen officials. Navarro's economy-tanking tariffs. What used to be the Justice Department. Hegseth. Lindsay Halligan. Failing idiot loyalists. Let's notice. Loudly. Today.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/20/25 🎉 No Kings visuals of millions rejecting this regime and daily evidence of its incompetence - live ammo on US highways, bombing fishermen in international waters, Trump's shit plane, Mike Johnson suspending Congress - empower us to stand up. Let's do it!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/19/25 🎉 7 million people assembled peacefully in big cities & small towns to remind Congress and SCOTUS that we know what a democracy is. We also know what it isn't. We demand the checks & balances that keep us a sane, kind, just, free nation. Keep standing up.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/18/25 🎉 Happy No Kings Day! I'm hitting 2 protests today. Spent last night exchanging photos of protest signs with family and friends in 4 states. 12 first time protesters! Feeling that the world will be reminded today WE ARE THE MAJORITY! See you out there.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/17/25 🎉 So our "Unitary Executive" is overplaying the hand that an engineered SCOTUS & a flaccid Congress is handing him. I know of 10 people who are protesting for the first time in their lives tomorrow. We are waking up. Time to Make America America Again.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/16/25 🎉 Abuses are piling up. Arresting "enemies." Investigating liberal organizations. ICE, untrained & unfettered, abusing brown people and those who support them with impunity. Military without oversight. What to do? Document. Speak. Write. Protest. Now.

OK so one of my weekly joys is this strange blog Elonica.net that somebody puts out every Wednesday describing all that's changing under a purchased president. This week is a stitch arguing that Trump should win ALL Nobel Prizes in 2026 after 2025 slight. Quick read elonica.net/noblesse-obl...

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/15/25 🎉 Health insurance renewal bills are scaring the hell out of folk everywhere. Some reps in Congress are beginning to wonder at last if they should represent their constituents rather than the Orange Fruitcake. No Kings - govt of, by and for the people!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/14/25 🎉 No Kings has the Trumpettes rattled! Until we all stand up, they can pretend that what they are doing is some sort of popular mandate. Nope. They are the cancerous tail wagging the dog. Find a protest. Take some friends. Speak out. #TakeAmericaBackNow

Flash of brilliance - Netanyahu is at risk in the next election in Israel. The Israelis unlike the Americans love Trump. He has expanding real estate in the area. He is as much Jewish as Christian. Let's persuade Trump to run there! He could work closely with our own President Miller and VP Vought.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/13/25 🎉 The Miller/Vought puppet presidency is moving fast. The country they want is smaller, dimmer, weaker, crueler than the one we love. Congress is filled with weaklings too eager to be told what to do. SCOTUS is broken. It's up to us. #TakeAmericaBackNow

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/12/25 🎉 President Miller & Vice President Vought assume that resistance of the many can be overcome by cruelty and passion of the few. They're banking on our fear and/or disinterest. Nope. I love my country. Let's break records in No Kings. #TakeAmericaBackNow

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/11/25 🎉 Thune & Johnson fear that No Kings on Oct 18 will illuminate just how unpopular the Miller/Vought/Trump agenda is. So now they're saying it's a "Hate America rally" orchestrated by Antifa and funded by Soros. Find a protest. #MakeAmericaAmericaAgain

Currently working their magic in Portland.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/10/25 🎉 While MAGA is mired in grievance (phone logs, weak indictments) others are finding ways to push back. A priest walking from Chicago to NY to honor migrants. Portlanders dancing in costumes to annoy ICE. Filming/sharing EVERYTHING. #TakeAmericaBackToday

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/9/25 🎉 As Trump spends more time out of the public eye, his rudderless sycophants are in the spotlight. Clearly they are committed to an agenda of power and not to our prosperity. Some of my Republican friends are seeing this. We must document, share, persuade.

Been reading a blog that comes out every Wednesday elonica.net. This week's is a hoot -- introduces Unitrump as our unitary (or plenary, as Stephen Miller would say) executive. elonica.net/uneasy-lies-...

This is a big fat fucking problem.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/8/25 🎉 Every time Trump's appointees take the stage - Kennedy, Patel, and most recently Bondi - they show themselves and this administration to be feckless, unserious, & incompetent. We are better than this. Time to make America America again. Here we come.

Insurrection Act? Everything - attacking blue cities, commandeering the guard, sending the marines, disrupting government services - has been foreplay for the real goal. No real elections again. The Insurrection Act is the big ace in the hole. Hopefully using it this soon is premature ejaculation.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/7/25 🎉 Project 2025 is diabolical but has vulnerabilities: (1) people hate it & didn't vote for it, (2) it relies on spreading misinformation, (3) it has to manifest fully before the midterms. Many points of entry for those of us defending the America we love.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/6/25 🎉 It becomes more apparent daily that Trump is an old unwell unhinged man. Vought and Miller feed him a diet of Fox news misinformation and fake polling. He doesn't know how unpopular he and his agenda are. We do. Document. Publish. Speak. Write. #Truth

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 10/5/25 🎉 Authoritarianism works when the usurper can fix perceived problems. No sign of that. Prices are up, economy is tanking, vaccines are scarce, no one is safer. One or more incompetent appointees is front and center for daily stupidity. Notice. Share. Now.

Epstein !!!