I’m thinking of going to a Hands Off demonstration this coming weekend — there are several in the metro area. But I need some ideas for a sign. Bottom line: I want it to be mean, because fuck those guys. So far I’ve got:
HEY ELON
YOUR SON
is NOT a
HUMAN SHIELD
Too obscure?
Or
ELON MUSK:
GENEROUS WITH HIS SEMEN
STINGY WITH YOUR MONEY
Too wordy.
Or
VANCE & TRUMP:
FATMAN & ROBIN
This only works if you know the Burt Ward Robin.
Something along those lines. If you have any brainstorms, drop ’em in the comments.
An amusing story in the WashPost today (gift link) about the disappearance of the Oval Office ivy.:
The ivy sat atop the fireplace mantel for most of the past 50 years, providing a backdrop for meetings with countless leaders and foreign dignitaries at the White House. It has filtered the air breathed by Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II, Margaret Thatcher and Whitney Houston.
Cuttings were given to exiting staff members, to propagate their own plants. “Countless” people have Oval Office ivy descendants in their own offices and homes now. A sharp-eyed trustee of his own ivy plant noticed something different on the mantel now:
In its place, conspicuously, are seven gleaming decorative objects, seemingly made of gold. A Maryland writer named Jamie Kirkpatrick noticed them earlier this month, around the time of the contentious Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, when the mantel was visible in nearly every photograph of Trump and Vice President JD Vance arguing with Zelensky.
What were those? Kirkpatrick wondered. Golf trophies?
No. And they’re not trash, but they are golden objects for a president who loves golden objects:
They’re artifacts from the White House’s own collection. The central gilded bronze basket, called a compotier, was made in France around 1815 and gifted to the Nixon administration in 1973. To its left and right are a pair of urns from the Monroe Plateau, a set of gilded tableware acquired by President James Monroe in 1817, shortly after the British burned the White House. The outer two sets are from a collection acquired during the Eisenhower administration that are usually displayed in the Vermeil Room, which is named after its contents. (Vermeil is gilded silver.)
Click through for some shots of the ivy before and after the gold-plated president sent it back to the greenhouse. God, what a jerk.
Another gift link, to a story in the NYT, about a woman who rode her “medical freedom” to an early grave:
In 2007, more than 1,440,000 Americans were diagnosed with cancer. Dawn Kali was one of them. Then in her mid-30s and raising three kids, Ms. Kali’s natural warmth and openness made her a popular waitress at the raw-food restaurant where she worked in San Francisco. When her doctor told her she had Stage 1 breast cancer, the fact that survival rates for her cancer type were in excess of 90 percent (and rising) did little to soften the emotional blow. Ms. Kali knew what cancer entailed: a barrage of medical treatments that seemed to sap people of their quality of life. And then they’d die anyway. “That’s not going to be me,” she swore.
Nope! Instead, Kali fell in with a quack:
She discovered “The pH Miracle,” a 2002 book written by a charming self-proclaimed naturopath named Robert Oldham Young. Mr. Young asserted that deacidifying the body through diet, exercise and his pH Miracle-branded pills and creams could cure virtually any sickness. Cancer, Mr. Young taught, was merely a symptom of an acidic internal environment. His credibility was bolstered by his appearances on national talk shows that featured him as a diet guru.
Ms. Kali adopted Young’s “alkalarian” program: an all-liquid, low-acid diet of vegetable smoothies supplemented by Mr. Young’s proprietary pHour Salts, purified water drops and green powders. Soon she was drinking a gallon of juice each day. Now, she controlled her treatment. The prescribed combination of a strict diet, meditation and exercise left her feeling empowered.
It also left her cancer free to spread. You can guess how her story ends. I will say that Kali did finally wise up, but too late. The story is about much more than Dawn Kali, and I’ll bet you can guess whose name pops up.
OK, then. A nice weekend. Kate closed on her house! She moves soon.
We celebrated with champagne, and took some of it at the kitschy basement bar, likely to be a rehearsal space:
I did my friend Jimmy’s fun-fiction class again. The class is in Hamtramck. Followed this deep thinker through a few stop signs:
Sigh. As my friend Deb texted me last week, just once I want to wake up, look at my phone and not say, “Jesus Fucking Christ.” Let’s all have a good week, eh?
Jeff Borden said on March 30, 2025 at 6:21 pm
NO KINGS IN AMERICA is always an excellent choice, but it lacks the meanness this so-called “administration ” and Elmo so richly deserve.
A man in San Antonio made a poster of Elmo doing his Nazi salute flanked by two swastikas with the international NO symbol over them. It looked good.
Elmo is up in Green Bay tonight, giving away a million each to two lucky assholes who promise to vote for the QOP Neanderthal running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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nancy said on March 30, 2025 at 6:50 pm
Not mean enough. I want to hit below the belt. Something about hair plugs, etc.
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Jeff Gill said on March 30, 2025 at 8:33 pm
“Stupid is as stupid does” comes to mind.
or…
“Trump takes mulligans on tap-ins”?
Sherri, I’d add Andy Weir & Steve Barnes to your excellent list.
basset, I promise to come back to your question… later! Storms comin’.
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David C said on March 30, 2025 at 8:47 pm
Please don’t let anyone around you do “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Elon Musk has got to go”. That piece of shit chant should have been retired decades ago.
I spent the weekend looking for houses in the Grand Rapids/Holland area. It was a nightmare. First off, I forgot about the fucking Headley Amendment. So I’ll end up paying property taxes up the ass so someone else can pay practically nothing. My real estate agent tells me that it’s really limiting the supply of houses going on the market. Why would anyone downsize when they would have to pay three times the property tax on the new place? They’re also using the Kari Lake lens to photograph the houses. Just about every place that looked decent in photos looked like shit when I saw it in person. I wish people with no DIY talent would stop trying to DIY and fuck “luxury” vinyl plank. It looks like shit and is always poorly installed.
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nancy said on March 30, 2025 at 8:51 pm
That’s one reason we stay. It was a tax policy that was written for an era when real estate went up at 3 percent a year. Not so much now.
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EDMUND TOBIN said on March 30, 2025 at 9:30 pm
Photo 1 — cool-looking house from the outside, which Kate will never have to paint.
Photo 2 — from a 90s basement bar to a 20s rehearsal space, still a gathering place.
Both photos — a beaming first-time homeowner. Congrats to all three of you.
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Jeff Gill said on March 30, 2025 at 9:32 pm
That basement looks like we need to crowdfund a pinball machine for Kate. Or slide bowling, I suppose…
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Ann said on March 30, 2025 at 9:40 pm
Foosball, maybe. Great house. Good for Kate.
I had the annual “medicare wellness” exam this week. It includes an anxiety screening. How often am I “feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge?” How about how “Feeling afraid as if something awful might happen?” I laughed, sighed, and lied.
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Sherri said on March 30, 2025 at 9:44 pm
The meanest I can come up with is
“Elon will never have enough money to make his kids love him”
But it’s too wordy.
“Elon’s Just Evil Without Genius”
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Peter said on March 30, 2025 at 9:45 pm
Talk about burying the lede – what a cute house! And is that mini tower the entrance vestibule? Mighty cool!
I am very sorry that I don’t have a good idea for a sign. I’ll keep thinking and let you know if I come up with one.
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nancy said on March 31, 2025 at 8:55 am
That is, indeed, the entrance vestibule. Those little windows illuminate the guest closet. One step up into the living room, with a door.
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Peter said on March 30, 2025 at 9:47 pm
Ooh ooh – how about a “Dumb and Dumber Too” with Trump and Elon’s picture….
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Colleen Condron said on March 30, 2025 at 9:54 pm
Cute house! I remember how exciting it was when I bought my first place in the Fort.
Being in the oncology data field, I’ve seen several charts of patients like Kali, certain that vitamins, whole foods, or Jesus, will cure their cancer. Spoiler: they won’t.
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Mark P said on March 30, 2025 at 10:13 pm
I thought if I won the lottery, I would pay for a billboard with Trump and Musk as stupid-looking marionettes with strings leading up to a Putin figure looking over them.
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Jeff Borden said on March 30, 2025 at 11:08 pm
The most savage depictions of world leaders I’ve seen are found in the parades in Germany, where political satire is expressed on parade floats. They are vicious, too. Putin. Xi. Kim. tRump. They’re caricatured in the most grotesque fashion. Way too provocative for ‘Murica.
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very old soil said on March 30, 2025 at 11:23 pm
A picture of Donald and Elon behind bars or burning in hell with caption “The DEI we need”.
The “I” is for incarceration or incineration.
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Dorothy said on March 31, 2025 at 7:03 am
I am just SO delighted for Kate! What a great looking house she has now – you and Alan must be so proud.
Dave maybe DIY flooring looks like shit, but we got vinyl plank when we built three years ago. We love it. This neighborhood is under five years old; our son lives here too. I’ve been to a few parties, and now book club, so I’ve been inside at least 10 houses here. All the floors look really great. My niece’s husband has a flooring company in Venice FL – I consulted with him first before we chose our flooring and it’s what he recommended. Maybe the difference is having it installed by a company rather than DIY.
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Jeff Gill said on March 31, 2025 at 7:56 am
Here ya go: https://x.com/PatBQc/status/1906368825630621805/photo/1
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Pam H said on March 31, 2025 at 8:01 am
Maybe, a simple sign “Deport the Afrikaner Asshole!” Yeah, I like that one.
The Oval Office mantle now looks garish. It’s just like him to do it though. He has particularly bad taste.
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DavidC said on March 31, 2025 at 8:15 am
It probably is DIY, Dorothy. They see Chimp and Joanna do it on the TV and it looks easy. So they do it and it looks like it was measured with their arms, marked with chalk, and cut with an axe. It’s the same with everything they touch.
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alex said on March 31, 2025 at 8:34 am
If finding the right words for a protest sign is too daunting, you might consider images instead. For some inspiration, just scroll through the BANKSY ART Gallery !! Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1099362884629114
Kate is just beaming in those pictures and she’s a lucky gal. Not a lot of Gen Z homeowners in this economy, and the way things are going there may never be.
So, in addition to deep-sixing the ivy on the mantel, Tubby is also ordering the removal of a 200-year-old magnolia from the White House lawn. And announcing that he’s going to serve a third term.
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diane said on March 31, 2025 at 9:06 am
Wonderful house! Reminds me of my first house in Baltimore. Congratulations to Kate!
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SusanG said on March 31, 2025 at 9:37 am
Kate’s house is fab. The bar reminds me of my grandparents. They had a frig from the early 50’s, an old cash register and a slot machine.
Sorry I don’t have any suggestions for the demonstration this weekend. I did see a sweatshirt with a caterpillar and the slogan “Eat the Rich.” My sister and BIL are visiting Quebec this summer. I told them they need t-shirts (or baseball caps) that signal Trump’s effort to make Canada a state is insane.
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David C said on March 31, 2025 at 10:17 am
I’ve seen Canadians wearing MAGA, Make America Go Away, caps.
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Dexter Friend said on March 31, 2025 at 12:00 pm
We lived in a brick house , built in 1884, when I was a small boy, for 4 years. It was a country farm house, and I have always loved brick homes, and I love the “guardhouse” look up front. I also became an expert brick-repair man as a high school kid working summers in construction. I would be way up there on scaffolding with a grinder and grinder blades. I would grind out worn and weak mortar and the “mud crew” re-mortared the grooves I had ground away. I was 16 and commanding a whopping $1.75 per hour, plus overtime at $2.67. The company owner was also my baseball coach, and he did me a solid. Flush with cash…me.
Congratulations on this new house purchase to the bassist. Yeah.
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alex said on March 31, 2025 at 12:39 pm
Looking back at Today in NN.C history, it’s remarkable to think that ten years ago Mike Pence made himself a national laughingstock and had to walk back his Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which he signed into law as governor for the purpose of permitting discrimination on religious grounds. It would have been impossible to imagine at that time that this state could elect anyone worse, but here we are with Governor Mike “Two Sexes” Braun, who doesn’t even bother to hide behind religion as a justification for bigotry. Instead he hides behind Trump.
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Jeff Borden said on March 31, 2025 at 1:09 pm
Hoosiers,
Rep. Victoria Spartz, the Ukrainian immigrant who backs Putin’s invasion of her former homeland, was roundly booed and catcalled during a town meeting. She and the county QOP HQ said, of course, they were radical leftists and paid protesters. There are a number of videos floating around. She did not handle it well.
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Jakash said on March 31, 2025 at 2:42 pm
Ann’s comment from 9:40 last night seems like a thread-winner to me.
“How often am I ‘feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge?’ … I laughed, sighed, and lied.”
As pithy sign phrases go, I like Sherri’s “Elon’s Just Evil Without Genius.”
Jeff G.’s visual representation @ #17 of Peter’s “Dumb and Dumber” suggestion is pretty good.
Congrats to Kate! Looks like a nice place.
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jim h said on March 31, 2025 at 3:06 pm
Three things.
I like the Elon is evil…
Heinlein hasn’t aged well re sexism, similar to almost any books from the day. In his defense he often had strong women as leads, it was just that much of his character interactions never outgrew his books written for YA readers, and the characters in his later works are all hyper sexual.
BTW, I’ve never stopped reading new writers. Holding off on the “Three body Problem” until the second season on Netflix.
FDChief, I knew the Farnham’s Freehold reference you meant. I’m just saying the incest theme was made real incest in “Number of the Beast” (1980 or so) between Lazarus Long and his mother, and Jacob Burroughs and Deety, his daughter. It was a very odd obsession on RAH’s part.
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alex said on March 31, 2025 at 3:08 pm
Victoria Spartz, and my former rep and now senator Jim Banks, always dismiss any pushback as coming from paid protestors and radical leftists. Banks stopped holding town halls during Trump’s first term when he discovered that the people showing up wanted serious answers and weren’t buying his bullshit. He’s the emptiest suit ever elected in this state other than Mike Braun, who left the senate to become governor, and he’s smug while Braun is simply gruff, but both are about as one-dimensional as it gets in politics.
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Jeff Gill said on March 31, 2025 at 3:11 pm
I can’t either explain or defend RAH’s odd repeated excursions into incest, but I would note that in the summer of 1948 when the Southern Democrats started to threaten to leave the party (as they finally did in 1964) if Truman continued to support desegregation & civil rights, and Harry told them . . . well, from a Heinlein letter of that July:
“What I do like is the fact that Truman stood up to the southern ‘gentlemen’ white racists and told them to go pee up a rope, and most especially the fact that the convention backed him up on it. If the convention had pussyfooted on civil rights I would have been strongly tempted to vote the vegetarian ticket. But it didn’t … this was a time to stand up and be counted, and the count came out on the side of human decency, which made me happy and proud.”
Spartz is on tape shouting repeatedly “if you break the law, you don’t get due process” which is simply not how this works. Sadly she got as many cheers as boos for that line.
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SusanG said on March 31, 2025 at 3:36 pm
Here we go, folks. The must have t-shirt. Foxtrot Delta Tango stands for “Fuck Donald Trump.” Along with being inspirational, it’s an attractive top.
https://teeworksusa.com/product/when-injustice-becomes-law-resistance-becomes-duty-shirt-2/
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jcburns said on March 31, 2025 at 4:00 pm
I think Kate needs an Elvis head statue thing to make the basement complete.
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Icarus said on March 31, 2025 at 4:00 pm
Elon didn’t found Tesla or invent electric cars. He was a Series-A investor who bought in and pushed out Mark Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard. At least that’s what the internet memes tell me.
So maybe a sign that says something like Elon is no Tony Stark
That picture of the bar makes me homesick for the home we gave up in Chicago to come to Mississippi-Stan. It was a big mistake, but I had no real say.
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Mark P said on March 31, 2025 at 4:26 pm
I have seen a woman who sells suggestive bird-related t shirts (tits, honkers …). She has one with (I think) a finch, a duck, and a tit. Pretty nice shirt.
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Sherri said on March 31, 2025 at 4:42 pm
I did some reflection on which current SF writers I’ve read who were likely to be MAGA, and yep, I guessed right: Orson Scott Card is a full-on Trumper.
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Mark P said on March 31, 2025 at 4:52 pm
I think Larry Niven would be a Trump supporter. He is pretty conservative, and a booster of Reagan’s Star Wars (Strategic Defense Initiative, SDI) His sometimes collaborator Jerry Pournelle, also a SDI booster, would probably have been a Trump supporter. There’s another writer whose name I can’t recall who wrote a book supporting SDI. He tried to pad his credentials but as I understand was basically a PR person for some area of SDI.
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jim h said on March 31, 2025 at 5:23 pm
Card is certainly a Trumper now; I think Covid sent him over the edge. He wasn’t in 2016 for sure the following is from rationalwiki.org:
Stopped Clock Moment
In March 3, 2016 in Orson Scott Reviews Everything, Card refers to Trump as Drumpf in an article explaining why Trump is winning. He writes: “I am one of those who expected Trump’s appeal to fade once people got sick of his lies and stupidity, his childish petulance and nastiness.” and says that Trump is truly a friend of liberals, and is more like Carter except with a “vindictive temper and without a spark of genuine Christian belief.” He criticized Trump’s religious litmus test, and felt ashamed many of his faith had voted for him in the Nevada primary. While he says most Republicans do not fit this mode, “if Trump is nominated by the Republicans, he locks the party into his own image — a party that celebrates stupidity, rudeness, cruelty, unfairness, and hate.” He then criticizes the courts for judicial activism by doing such things as ruling on marriage contrary to the wishes of most people in the USA, and briefly refers to the fact that states can call a constitutional convention if they really want to change things. He claims conservatives want him to act as a tyrant and bring about conservative initiatives. Card said it would not happen because Congress and the courts will block him. He claims Trump, even if he did gain power, would not help the people, because he has contempt for the people. He predicts he will not nominate anyone of the quality of Scalia to the Supreme Court, he will be a friend to the rich like himself, and he should be feared by Republicans like German workers should have feared Hitler since it will bring about the destruction of anything good the Republican Party ever stood for.
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Jeff Borden said on March 31, 2025 at 6:49 pm
‘Murica in the age of tRump…
China has sent 118 search and rescue experts including cadaver sniffing dogs along with $13 million in aid (so far) to Thailand and Myanmar after the 7.7 earthquake. Hong Kong sent a 51-person team of rescuers. Russia has flown 120 emergency medical personnel and equipment. Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam are sending scores of medical personnel and equipment.
And the good, ol’ USA? We’re sending a team of three. They arrive Wednesday. This is how a nation loses its influence and cedes its reputation to dictatorships. This is all courtesy of tRump and Elmo. Stir in the end of the Voice of America, which gives Russia and China free rein to broadcast their propaganda, and you’re looking at a world power declining at light speed. This is MAGA. It’s always been MAGA. Fuck you. I got mine. You lose.
Except we’re all losing.
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John Harrison said on March 31, 2025 at 6:51 pm
Evil
Leech
Orc
Narcissist
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Deborah said on March 31, 2025 at 7:02 pm
Congratulations to Kate on the house, it looks adorable and so does she.
Lots of interesting comments in this thread.
Will we have more tariffs or will he back down again? Who knows. This is all like a really, really bad movie.
Regarding signs for protests, my rule of thumb is as few words as possible and a simple image of some kind. I’m going to redo my Musk rat sign and have it enlarged at Kinkos or whatever it’s called now. I’m going to the Hands Off protest at Daly Plaza on Saturday but I sure haven’t heard much about it. Maybe it’s all over Facebook which I’m not anymore, I hope it’s all over everywhere so there’s a huge showing of resistance otherwise it doesn’t help much. You need to get 3% of the population out to make a difference I’ve heard is the magic number. The population of the US is about 340 million, so 10 million plus need to get out and protest on Saturday. Can we do it? The US is so big it’s hard to get a lot of people in one place like DC, but then the NE blue states are close enough to get a bunch together.
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Sherri said on March 31, 2025 at 7:07 pm
According to this, Card was opposed to Trump in the 2016 primaries, but he voted for Trump because “Hillary’s corruption and criminality were unbearable to me.”
https://www.rhinotimes.com/news/opinion-who-are-the-good-guys/
I agree that Niven and Pournelle would be Trumpers, but they’re definitely last century. I haven’t tried to re-read any Niven, because I’m dubious that it holds up well. I can’t re-read Card, either.
Baen is the publisher to look for if you’re searching for right-wing sci-fi, and I’ve never read much from Baen. I never read any of the Sad Puppies, either.
Neal Stephenson strikes me as libertarian, but not Trumpish, but maybe not immune from the idea that a few smart billionaires could solve everything.
I know someone who knows Stephenson, and once offered to introduce me, but I passed.
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alex said on March 31, 2025 at 8:16 pm
Well, Hubs and I got Costco memberships again because we support Costco for not backing down to Trump over DEI. What I don’t support, however, is the group called DemTurnout that keeps blowing up my phone asking me to sign a petition in support of Costco while hitting me up for money. WTF’s up with that shit?
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basset said on March 31, 2025 at 10:15 pm
Stephenson is one author I’m never gonna even try reading again. Loved “Snow Crash,” but when I picked up one of his later ones, think it was “Cryptonomicon,” I got just a few pages in and there was a frighteningly (for me) large mathematical formula right in the middle of the page. Can’t understand it, can’t fully appreciate the story if I don’t, too much, I’m outa there.
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Sherri said on March 31, 2025 at 10:34 pm
Loved Snow Crash, loved Cryptonomicon, started the first book of the Baroque Trilogy and gave up on it after too many graphic descriptions of vivisection. Reamde was okay, maybe someday I’ll read Anathem.
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Jenny said on April 1, 2025 at 8:01 am
I say that EVERY f-ing time I watch the news, though the initial H. is part of the phrase most days.
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alex said on April 1, 2025 at 10:38 am
Listening live to Cory Booker, who has now held the Senate floor for more than 15 hours and is still as sharp and lively and compelling as he was when he began. What a passionate speaker. I nominate him to be our next president.
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basset said on April 1, 2025 at 11:16 am
Say more about the house. How old is it? What’s its history?
Meanwhile, this:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/03/25/its-over-america-has-ceased-to-be-leader-of-the-free-world/
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Deborah said on April 1, 2025 at 12:23 pm
Pam Bondi, who is on TV every day with her stupid stern face says they’re asking for the death penalty for Luigi. Will they actually find a jury that will convict him?
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Jakash said on April 1, 2025 at 1:21 pm
Poor little Elon, like his orange mentor and most all-hat-and-no-cattle bullies, can dish it out but he can’t take it.
“I mean, you have Tim Walz, who’s a huge jerk, running on stage when the Tesla stock price has gone in half, and he was overjoyed. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. … Like, who derives joy from that?”
Well, in answer to the question — a whole lot of regular folks, in addtion to Tim Walz, myself included.
But, here’s a billionaire who’s gleefully running around firing untold numbers of people for no fucking reason, upending their lives and adversely affecting huge numbers of people who are benefitted by their work. What might be his attiutude toward that? Oh right, he laughs about it while scampering around a stage like a Bond villain, laughing and brandishing a chainsaw.
Do these MAGA bastards have absolutely no self-awareness at all? Uh, his calling somebody ELSE evil and a creepy jerk answers that question.
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Dexter Friend said on April 1, 2025 at 1:22 pm
Alex, if you like Booker, you will love Wes Moore, Maryland Governor.
My dream ticket, Josh Shapiro and Pete Buttigieg , alternatively, Mayor Pete and Wes Moore, or Moore in the top slot.
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susan said on April 1, 2025 at 2:25 pm
The last protest I went to I left my sign at home and just carried a pitchfork. Simple. Effective. Don’t need no words for that. And I got LOTS of great reactions. Although quite a few wondered what the significance of that was. ?? I did some explaining. When I got home and duckducked more about the French Revolution, I learned about the 1789 Women’s March on Versailles. Even better. I had not known about THAT! Or I had forgotten about it.
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Deborah said on April 1, 2025 at 4:36 pm
A pitchfork, great idea, but did any cops talk to you about that?
Who is this Curtis Yarvin character? I know he’s spouting off on the internet but why are people paying attention to him? What expertise does he have, if any?
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Julie Robinson said on April 1, 2025 at 5:03 pm
Kate’s house is very cute and no doubt Alan will be in his element teaching her to carefully align the screws on the outlet covers.
We put SIL on a plane this morning, after yesterday’s flight was canceled. Her next best alternative was flying to Dallas for a layover that would put her back in Indy after midnight, with another hour or so to Bloomington. With her extra day she pulled Dennis into the kitchen and hours later they emerged with two of Mama Robinson’s delectable lasagnas. What a treat.
Hooray for Cory Booker.
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Deborah said on April 1, 2025 at 5:36 pm
Here’s a shout out to Dorothy’s niece’s book shop, I ordered a book through them, but when it came to them from the publisher it was damaged. Avid contacted me about the damaged book asking if I still wanted it and get a discount on the next one I order or did I want them to send an undamaged replacement, they even included a photo of the damage, which was minimal to the bottom part of the book that sits flush with the book shelf, so won’t even be visible on my book case and I don’t purchase books with the thought of reselling them. I told them no problem, send the book anyway. Now that’s good service, good for them. Rare these days.
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susan said on April 1, 2025 at 5:40 pm
Deborah @52 – Saw no cops at that protest. But anyway, Warshington State has open-carry without permits. I was openly carrying the pitchfork.
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Dorothy said on April 1, 2025 at 6:32 pm
Thanks for that news, Deborah! I’m delighted, although not surprised because they run a classy store. They are (is it called crowd funding?) raising $$ to help finance their move into a new building. An author who wants to stay anonymous offered to donate up to $10,000, so anyone who donates to their Go Fund Me will help them to reach that goal. So far (before the author made the offer) they had raised $24,000 and change. I think they’ll probably meet the goal.
Just in case anyone else wants to order from them:
https://www.avidbookshop.com/
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alex said on April 1, 2025 at 7:12 pm
More than 24 fucking hours! And he’s still orating powerfully. I’m breaking for dinner.
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Carter Cleland said on April 1, 2025 at 8:46 pm
I’ve been making signs for our local rally for the last 6 weeks, and slowly breaking people of the habit of bringing 8.5″ x11″ sheets of paper with Sharpie witticisms on them. GO BIG, people, so cars driving by can read your handiwork! I’d recommend getting yourself over to your local Dollar Tree, and buying a 3-pak of (knockoff) Marks-A-Lots, and a sheet, or two, of white foam core. Forget mounting them on sticks, unless you want to do both sides, and have the flexibility to rotate your sign. Signage I’ve concocted include: Elon in a circle with the red slash through his name and a nice red + black swastika below his name, Waste, Fraud and Abuse across from Elon, Trump and JD VANCE, Slavi Ukraini in bright blue and yellow, I heart emoji DEI and Being WOKE, STOP Bobby Brainworm!, Free Kahlil (the Tufts grad student and some of the many others “disappeared” could be added), (the ever-popular) Think Education is Expensive, Try Ignorance!, (the also ever-popular) There is NO Planet B, and here’s one I just made up Nancy, use it if you like: If Trump is YOUR God, I’d recommend DEI-cide!
For North suburbs of Chicago folks, we’re doing our 11:00 – 12:00 rally in Wilmette, and then joining the Indivisible Evanston HANDS OFF rally at Fountain Square for 12:00/noon – 1:00 rally. (I think Daniel Biss will be speaking).
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Dorothy said on April 1, 2025 at 8:57 pm
Maybe a sign that says
NEXT ELECTION: D. E. I. DON’T ELECT IDIOTS
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Suzanne said on April 1, 2025 at 9:00 pm
I watched this Timothy Snyder lecture live tonight. It’s over an hour long, but I thought it was worth watching.
https://www.youtube.com/live/TMyHbgUYk78?si=QGr_-UKLEHEDO4GM
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alex said on April 1, 2025 at 11:50 pm
And the Wisconsin Supreme Court race showed that Musk’s moolah doesn’t count for jack shit at the moment. Have fun launching your tariffs tomorrow, Lumpy. Throw your lard-ass weight around while the world laughs about it.
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courtney said on April 2, 2025 at 7:51 am
My sign is gonna say “here to make #goodtrouble” inspired by senator booker. Or maybe “this country needs more love.” One of the two.
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Jeff Gill said on April 2, 2025 at 8:09 am
Carrying a concealed pitchfork could be hazardous in so many ways, mostly to the wearer.
Mencius Moldbug, aka Curtis Yarvin, has a misguided and misinformed idea that since CEO operate like monarchs — which they don’t, even Logan Roy didn’t — the country would be best served by a monarch for efficiency and even as a means for improving justice for all, and lacking a king, a strong unitary executive is a step in the right direction.
Again, he’s woefully ignorant about how boards and stock prices and unions etc. constrain even a Jack Welch. And while our retirement will not enjoy this, I think Yarvin’s beau ideal in the Oval Office will get a reminder of these guardrails which even Russell Vought can’t take down about 9:30 am tomorrow . . . and there’s got to be some dim awareness of that, since the “Liberation Day” tariffmania press conference was moved to 4:00 pm, just as the markets close today. Tomorrow’s stock market open is going to be an interesting test . . . as was the Wisconsin court vote.
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