Friday, October 17, 2025

No kings, no more lies, no water to drink

 


Donald Trump wouldn't like hearing that, but he needs to know and start changing course. 


A woman arrives at Immigration Court in NY City with her daughter. There is a lot of 
sympathy in the US for immigrants, even illegal immigrants, as our system allows very 
few to actually come in legally, maybe only Musk's white farmer friends from South Africa. 


As the shutdown drags on, these people will lose if health care subsidies expire https://apnews.com/article/aca-credits-health-care-subsidies-government-shutdown-7f7a3609bf78dd7e43be9a041a090220?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=share Millions of Americans with Affordable Care Act marketplace health insurance will face higher costs next year if Congress doesn't extend enhanced premium tax credits that have made the plans more affordable.

Wash. Post, Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it deploy troops in Illinois


 It is highly unsual for federal troops to be deployed domestically. 


Trump keeps name-checking the Insurrection Act. It could give him extraordinary powers

Trump wants to be able to order the US military to quell unrest aimed directly against him from inside the country, relying on an archaic 1807 law. He himself was accused of insurrection for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election which he lost to Joe Biden, but Trump was later acquitted when 2/3rds of the Senate failed to vote to convict him. Now Trump plans to play hardball against all those opposing him by accusing them of insurrection. 



At age 87 myself, I've witnessed and even participated in several anti-government protests, including even one against GW Bush, though Bush had hardly aroused the same furious ire that Donald Trump does today. While GW was not a particularly popular president, he was never quite as unpopular as Mr. Trump has now become. 
 Donald Trump is a guy who seems to revel in harming other people, not even caring if they resist or complain, since that just gives him an excuse to arrest them. He is acting like a dictator because people no longer support him. In contrast, Barack Obama was wildly popular, as I witnessed myself, 
actually once joining an enthusiastic crowd hearing him speak in front of the capitol, barely able to even breathe, packed in so tightly then with other people stepping on my toes.




Even more anti-Trump "No Kings" marches than last time are planned for Saturday.


"No Kings" rallies and marches will be held at more than 2,500 locations nationwide on Oct. 18.




Right here locally: 
 October 18 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, Morgan County Courthouse. Fairfax & Washington Streets, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.



It is now being alleged that Trump's immigration crackdown is actually harming local economies and the financial wellbeing of small businesses employing US citizens. . 



Trump says he has commuted sentence of former US Rep. George Santos in federal fraud 

case


Santos has now walked free. 


NY Times, Trinidadian Family Says U.S. Military Killed Relative in Latest Boat Attack

He was not a drug trafficker, just someone on his way home to his family.

US has seized survivors after strike on suspected drug-carrying vessel in Caribbean, 

AP sources say


Two suspected drug smugglers were detained. Two had been killed in the strike. 


Wash. Post, In the Caribbean, Trump is blowing a fishing fleet out of the water


Without a declaration of war or any congressional approval, are US forces operating legitimately 
 right now in the Caribbean? 
And what about working to reduce the demand for illicit drugs inside the US? 


The New York Times
Senators Move to Force Vote to Bar Ground Strikes in Venezuela





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This photo of his front yard was sent by a former DC neighbor.

He also told me: "Just watched national guard solders (2 men, 1 woman) walk back and forth in front of my house this afternoon. Looks like they were going from Union Station, around Lincoln Park, then back to the station."




 Swedish activist accuses Israeli guards of having 'no empathy or humanity' during her time in prison.

Thunberg says she was even denied water, with an Israeli guard holding up a bottle of water 
just to taunt her. The Israeli embassy in Sweden has chracterized Thunberg's allegations 
as "complete lies."

 In very short order, Israelis have gone from being considered sympathetic victims of a surprise 
attack to being seen as perpetrators of relentless and unwarranted assaults on Palestinian civilians, 
all largely financed by the US, courtesy of Donald J. Trump. Trump has even personslly defended 
Benjamin Netanyhau, widely regarded as a war criminal, even by some Jewish citizens of 
Israel. 

The defenses and denials offered by Israeli officials have not swayed public opinion in most of 
the world, where initial sympathy toward Israel because of the October 2023 attacks has now 
turned into opprobrium.

 
    














                                                 


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