Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/06/2026 🎉 We'll never get another chance to celebrate our 250th. The East Wing & rose garden are gone from the People's House. These losses pale compared to what else we are losing as we watch MAGA usurp our democracy. Let's stand up & take our country back.

A Day Late, But Sentiments Stay The Same.......

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/05/2026 🎉 Trump's Nazi pals marched in DC yesterday. We've let them ruin the White House, our 250th anniversary, the economy, & our standing in the world. Mobilize NOW to protect the midterms. It does us no good to be the majority if we don't SHOW OUR POWER.

On America’s 250th anniversary, democracy is not a memory to celebrate, it is a fight to win. We must reject authoritarianism, defend voting rights, protect vulnerable communities, and demand leaders who serve people over power. We must meet this moment with courage, urgency, and action.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/04/2026 🎉 Happy 250th! Perhaps it's karma that we confront the Trump & Co assault on democracy in this anniversary year. How about we celebrate by remembering who we can be, building stronger communities, and demanding those we elect serve us, not themselves?

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/03/2026 🎉 4 months to midterms. Trump & his MAGA cabal have persuaded themselves they speak for the people. They do not. We are the majority. We must find ways to stand up. speak out, & take our country back. WE MUST PROTECT THE ELECTION! See you out there.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/02/2026 🎉 Trump & Co are distracting us with phantom trans kids, voter fraud, and birthright tourists as they steal us blind. A lone Air Force officer stands up to them on the steps of the capitol. Where are we? Time to push back louder everywhere.

I just found WelcometoElonica on Bluesky! My favorite dystopian blog about our transition to Elonica (after the guy who bought us a President.) Wondering if it's been here all along?

See that skyrocketing blue line? That’s the number of times that SCOTUS has been issuing unsigned, unexplained rulings.

I've read a blog every Wednesday since the election. Someone has created "Elonica" to honor the purchaser of our President who is rebooting our democracy. Shares the lunacy that's happening as though it makes perfect sense. This week is FIERCE: elonica.net/change-the-v...

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 07/01/2026 🎉 It comes down to the midterms. SCOTUS is doing all it can to benefit their GOP sugardaddies. Trump & Co are manipulating every law & procedure to limit who can vote. We must prove that the will of the people still matters. Start fighting harder TODAY.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/30/2026 🎉 SCOTUS grants more power to a grifter who starts an unnecessary war, ruins a Reflecting Pool, and plans a "national" celebration that no one attends,. The list goes on. All we have left is our voice. Speak out. VOTE & HELP OTHERS VOTE. It's go time.

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Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/29/2026 🎉 127 days until midterms. We're watching Trump & Co do everything they can to ensure that the great majority of us who disagree with where they're taking us cannot vote. Stand up now. Help with registration drives etc. It's time to be in it.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/28/2026 🎉 I'm hoping lack of interest in Trump's foolish Vanilla-Ice state fair event on the Mall means that the fever dream is breaking & folk are seeing him for the angry broken grifting ex reality TV star he is. My protest rocked! We must VOTE VOTE VOTE!

A reminder for those who need it!🇺🇸

I reject Trump's America and the Congress & SCOTUS who are nurturing it. I hope to see you out there ...

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/27/2026 🎉 The war is back on, Reflecting Pool is caged off, East Wing is in rubble, still a tarp on the Kennedy Center. Today I'm joining a protest. Next week I'm joining a get-out-the-vote canvas. I am rejecting Trump's America in all the ways I can.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/26/2026 🎉 I'm ashamed. Of SCOTUS, of Trump & his Cabinet of Misfit Toys, of a Congress full of MAGA men who talk smack but can't stand up for what their constituents want. It all comes down to We the People working now to protect elections. Get in it. Today.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/25/2026 🎉 What we see is real. An administration full of unqualified & incompetent ass kissers. A flaccid Congress & engineered SCOTUS. And a grand plan to make it all permanent thru manipulated elections. We the majority must stand up now. It's on us, friends.

I've been reading a blog called Elonica every Wednesday since the election. This week attributes problems in the Reflecting Pool to a new branch of ANTIFA - Algaentifa. Good for a chuckle: elonica.net/pool-party/

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/24/2026 🎉 Pretend deals with Iran. Pretend vandalism. Pretend election fraud. Pretend leadership. Pretend prosperity. It's time for we the majority to hold this made-for-reality TV administration accountable. Stand up. Speak out. Let's take our country back.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/23/2026 🎉 Are we reaching the "give a thief enough rope" part of the Trump made-for-reality-TV presidency? Time for us to join together to run his worthless cabinet, his spineless Congress, his grifting family & the loser himself out of town. See you out there.

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Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/18/2026 🎉 Trump & his chosen ones have shredded the Constitution, tanked the economy, lost a war, & burned through our money to enrich themselves. Had enough? Let's push back louder, harder, & more creatively. We are the majority. See you out there.

#USDemocracy #Pinks

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/17/2026 🎉 If we can build the kinds of community that enable us to defeat Trump & Trumpism, then we can build the kinds of community that prevent it rising again. Everyone, friend & foe, has an essential role in working together toward a more perfect union.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/16/2026 🎉 Trump is easy to disparage. Crude. Selfish. Thin-skinned. Dishonest. But his allies in Congress & in SCOTUS have given him his power. It's time to hold them all accountable. Speak out. Expect better. Let's take our country back. See you out there.

I just noticed that Joe Rogan with his swollen body and bad suit is no longer trending. A relief. His presence in my feed was marring a beautiful sunrise shared with a young exuberant Labrador retriever.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/15/2026 🎉 Our test, after 250 years of stumbling/fumbling toward a more perfect union, is to decide if the possibility of democracy is worth the fight. Each day MAGA shows us the alternative. It's on us. We can push back or give in. Hope I'll see you out there.

The tan suit. The beginning of the end of respect for our democracy. I sure miss this rebel. HAPPY BARACK OBAMA DAY!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/14/2026 🎉 I'm spending the day today celebrating the people in my community who work on behalf of others, finding ways to make America a country to be proud of. I'll be protesting with 300+ of them in a No Kings protest/food drive. Not bad in my wee MAGA town.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/13/2026 🎉 His name off the Kennedy Center behind his curtain of shame was a tiny victory. It feels good. I'm hoping MAGA's going to need a much bigger curtain come midterms.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/12/2026 🎉 It's exhausting living with our make-shit-up-every-day government. It's on us to build a community that reminds ourselves and others who we can be. We must find each other & stand together to take our country back. See you out there, compatriots.

It’s going to be difficult come November! They’re not going to accept anything. #Pinks #USDemocracy

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/11/2026 🎉 Remember the feeling of hopelessness & dread in the pandemic? For me, much of that was knowing that we had a president not up to the task. Now we have a whole government filled with his lackeys not up to the task. It's on us to demand better. Resist!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/10/2026 🎉 It's been a busy season of proms and graduations and weddings. Happy events for wonderful young people in my life. I worry that they will not have the opportunity as I did to grow to old age in a democracy. More incentive to get off my ass & do more.

Is it possible that after today's primaries Lindsey Graham and Nancy Mace could be history? I could make my peace with that ...

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/09/2026 🎉 Trump and his ohmygodocracy are neither respected nor beloved. We the majority see what's happening to the country we love. It's time to push back harder. Speak. Write. Gather. Protest. Do something small or large every day. See you out there.

Thank you, sweet Jim!

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/08/2026 🎉 Each day brings a new indignity. More aggression in the Iran "ceasefire", another female reporter disparaged, another environmental protection decimated. Exhausting & demoralizing. Time for us to move past shell shock to action. See you out there.

Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/07/2026 🎉 I was reminded yesterday on the anniversary of D-Day of our flawed but earnest history of being a nation that is capable of doing the right thing. Trump Inc. is not the right thing, for us or the world. Let's take our country back. See you out there.

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Daily Despair-Avoiding Affirmation 06/06/2026 🎉 I believe that the people we elected & the people they appointed are supposed to do more than enrich themselves. They work for us. Today is a great day to remind my red hat neighbors of this truth. They like me are not prospering. Let's demand better.