For the Oct 18 protest?
I could have added a lot more adjectives – grifter, vindictive etc – but I think these capture the dude.
For the Oct 18 protest?
I could have added a lot more adjectives – grifter, vindictive etc – but I think these capture the dude.
Julia Gordon-Bramer is a professional Tarot card reader, Sylvia Plath scholar, award-winning writer and poet, and former professor for the Graduate Writing Program at Lindenwood University. She has written extensively on the life of the poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, and her new book is called: Tarot Life Lessons – Living Wisdom from the Major Arcana. Tarot Life Lessons is a collection of real-life stories lifted from the journals of a professional tarot card reader.
Within each story is explored the living meaning of one of the 22 major arcana cards of the tarot, based on the author’s more than 44 years of experience as a tarot card. The book peeks into client readings to show how each card tells a story and how it only takes a small amount of familiarity to decipher a world full of meaning in the cards. Finally, it shows how to use the tarot to grow your strengths, identify weaknesses, conquer problems and move on from painful situations.
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The next big protest is NO KINGS October 18. My sense is that it will be larger than the No Kings protest on June 14 – remember that date? Trump’s 79th birthday, tanks in the streets of D.C. to celebrate, photo ops?.Gross.
This one is well publicized, planned, and more than 4 months later. & look where we are! ICE in blue cities, masked SS agents breaking into apartments buildings in Chicago in the middle of the night, government shutdown because the republicans want millions of Americans to lose their health care.
Got a parent or sibling or other loved one on dialysis? Oops, so sorry. No longer covered by anyone. It’s that kind of annihilation of health care that spells, well, death.
So, once we were supposedly the greatest country on the planet and now we’re basically a laughing stock of bullshit spewed from a white house that is destroying democracy. But for right now – this second, this breath – we have the 1st amendment right to speak our truth. To protest!
So find the NO KINGS days protest closest to where you live and get out there on October 18!

This may be trump’s craziest thing yet: the med bed that cures everything. If you lost a limb, this bed restores it. If you have cancer, the med bed cures it. This miraculous med bed also reverses aging. Even wikipedia has an entry.
It sounds like a wish bed for a 79-year-old man clearly en route to losing his mind completely.
How come the media doesn’t talk about trump’s obvious dementia?

We’re now in – what? trump’s 9th month? It already feels like decades, and it seems to become more dire and more illegal by the hour.
The other day, a headline popped up on my computer, posed as a question. Did trump intend to declare war against Venezuela? Huh? For what? Why?
I’ve often thought that trump’s edicts and proclamations and executive orders are stuff he thinks of at 3 a.m., as he’s sitting in front of his ridiculous truth social, pondering what he should write. And what should he write in CAPS? Yeah, that most of all. He wants everyone to know that the messages that are capitalized are the only ones you need to remember. To discuss with other people.
It’s tragic that none of these capitalized messages address what he actually is doing for the American people. So far, he hasn’t done shit. Prices are rising – for coffee, home repairs and appliances, for insurance, for food, for essentials. Inflation is rising. People are being stripped of their health care, kids are being denied school meals, and trump and his family are enriching themselves continually. & thanks to trump, Kimmel is taken off the air – and then brought back after viewers and advertisers boycotted.
Meanwhile, Epstein’s ghost lurks in the background, chuckling to himself, Ha-ha, donnie boy, I’m gonna get even while you’re trying to indict your enemies. Foolish, boy. You’re as corrupt as I was…
Meanwhile, the supreme court – the 5 conservatives – usually sides with the orange man. Alito and Thomas are the worst. They haven’t just bent their knees for this guy. They’ve embraced him, blessed him and his illegal and corrupt soul, silently declaring that power is all that matters.
So what can you do? And you and you? Make your voices heard. Protest. Boycott companies that are in league with trump or are colluding with him or giving into him in the hopes of gaining…well, something. Don’t shut up just to be polite. If you’re with a group of people and someone brings up politics, don’t hesitate to speak up.
Small acts are often powerful, especially when they grow and swell. The protests against Vietnam started small. And then they grew and grew until the majority of people in this country denounced it. That wart spanned the years from 1969 to March 29, 1973, when the last of the U.S. military left the country. Good ole corrupt Richard Nixon was president then.
So don’t think none of this impacts you. Don’t dismiss it as “just politics.” Trump has turned the country into an autocracy, a dictatorship. & he really does seem to think he’s king, above all law. So don’t shut up.

Remember James Comey? The former director of the FBI came out days before the 2016 election and said he was reopening the probe into Clinton’s email. And oops, now he’s being investigated by the trump admin for…well, the charge doesn’t matter because this is all about trump’s personal vendettas from his first stint in the white house.
I dislike Comey for doing what he did in 2016 and handing trump the presidency. But it’s one more piece of evidence that trump is following the authoritarian playbook.
Karma?
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My new novel, to be published soon, the 7th in the Mira Morales series.
As a climate catastrophe swallows south Florida and the Keys, psychic Mira Morales watches the obliteration of her past on live TV. She is losing her former bookstore and home where she lived for decades. Tango Key itself disappears as she witnesses the catastrophe in stunned disbelief. But when she’s recruited by the FBI to go undercover at a government-controlled animal rescue facility, she’s drawn into an even darker storm.
She discovers the facility actually weaponizes animals. Dogs, cats, even wild animals are enhanced in ways that defy science. Their intelligence has been heightened and they can communicate – through Scrabble tiles. What begins as an investigation becomes a mission of survival for Mira, her family, her community and the extraordinary animals she helps to escape the facility.
Political corruption deepens and government surveillance closes in. When violence escalates, Mira must decide how much she’s willing to risk. Will exposing the truth cost her the lives of her husband and daughter? Can she save these animals she has grown to love?

I knew that Charlie Kirk had said some heinous things in his short life, but wanted a list so I googled it. This excerpt is from The Nation:
“Kirk had every right to his views and to the way that he expressed them, even if he did not support that right for other people. He founded the Professor Watchlist, committed to singling out academics he believed discriminated against conservative views, scholarship, and students, leading to threats against some of the instructors named. He regularly attacked the LGBTQ community, saying, “God’s perfect law…[says gay people] shall be stoned to death.” He claimed the Civil Rights Act was “a huge mistake,” and called the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “an awful person.” He mocked the 2023 political assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, and even suggested someone should bail his assailant out of jail. Kirk even attempted to link Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to the assassination of Walz’s close friend and ally, State Senator Melissa Hortman.”
& that’s just for starters.
No one should die by assassination & not while exercising their first amendment to free speech. However, before the 22-year-old assassin was even caught, trump was declaring that the “radical left” had created this divisive atmosphere in the country that led to Kirk’s assassination. Yet, trump himself is the one who sows more division daily through all the obvious ways he’s seeking to topple democracy.
Why is it that the U.S. has a convicted felon for president, who also tried to overturn the 2020 election that he lost? Yet, Brazil’s ex president, Jair Bolsanaro, who lost his election in 2022 , was convicted of attempting to plot a coup and sentenced to 27 years in prison?But criminal justice system failed miserably and here we are.
In fact, when you read about Bolsanaro’s crimes it sounds like trump was following his sick playbook.
Charlie Kirk was just one more casualty in trump’s authoritarian takeover. He was not a hero.