Monday, October 13, 2025

✊ The Big List of Protests

 https://theblop.org/

✊ The Big List of Protests

Monday, October 13, 2025

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Olympia Visibility Brigade Overpass Bannering

Tumwater, WA

Join us for overpass bannering with the Olympia Visibility Brigade. Bring high-visibility protest signs, flags, and a good mood to make good trouble.

🗓️
Monday, October 13, 2025
️🕒
4:30 PM
📝
Pedestrian Bridge / I-5
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We Can Win the Fight for Union Rights at GHC

Madison, WI

Our attendance at this meeting will help end GHC's anti-union policies and win GHC workers their union!

🗓️
Monday, October 13, 2025
️🕒
5:30 PM
📝
Alliant Energy Center, Mendota Rooms 5-7

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

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Corner Protest

Fort Collins, CO

We invite you to join us for the Corner Protest at the SW Corner of Drake and College in Fort Collins. Engage positively to protect democracy and express your thoughts.

🗓️
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
️🕒
4:15 PM
📝
SW Corner of Drake and College
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Corner Protest

Fort Collins, CO

Join us in positive engagement to protect democracy at the SW Corner of Drake and College in Fort Collins.

🗓️
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
️🕒
4:15 PM
📝
SW Corner of Drake and College

Saturday, October 18, 2025

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No Kings 2.0

Centralia, WA

The event promotes the constitutional principle that no individual should be above the law and discourages monarchy or privileges based on birth or title. Organized by LD #20 Democrats, Centralia.Mobilize, and Rural Lewis Indivisible.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
1:00 PM
📝
George Washington Park Sidewalk
👥
LD #20 Democrats, Centralia.Mobilize, Rural Lewis Indivisible
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No Kings Rally

Portland, OR

Join us for the "No Kings" rally at the Battleship Oregon Memorial to engage in a public demonstration.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
1:00 PM
📝
Battleship Oregon Memorial
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Rhode Island Says No Kings March and Rally

Providence, RI

Join us for a march and rally advocating unity, joy, and empowerment. Bus tickets to the State House are available.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
1:00 PM
📝
State House
👥
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Join the Movement - No Kings

Logan, UT

We invite you to join us at the Historic Cache Courthouse to revive democracy through fairness, freedom, equal rights, justice, and environmental restoration. Participants are expected to practice nonviolence.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
1:00 PM
📝
Historic Cache Courthouse
👥
We the People Cache Valley
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No Kings!

St. George, UT

Join us for an event emphasizing freedom of speech, featuring a quote by George Washington. Supported by Together Works, Indivisible, and the Washington County Democratic Party.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
1:00 PM
📝
Vernon Worthen Park
👥
Together Works Southern Utah, Indivisible, Washington County Democratic Party
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NO KINGS

Logan, UT

Join us for a rally, march, a food drive, voter registration and information, and tell your stories. We focus on nonviolent action and de-escalation.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
1:00 PM
📝
Historic Cache Courthouse
👥
NO KINGS
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NO KINGS

North Kingstown, RI

We are organizing a public gathering to express that power belongs to the people, with a focus on community engagement.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
10:00 AM
📝
Public Sidewalk
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NO KINGS 2

Ogden, UT

Join us for a peaceful protest to unite against undesired power structures.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
10:00 AM
📝
Municipal Building
👥
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No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

Greeley, CO

The event emphasizes a theme of rejecting traditional power symbols. It takes place on October 18.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
10:00 AM
📝
800 10th Ave, Greeley, CO 80631
👥
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We Say No Dictators

[Various Locations in Hawaii], HI

We are organizing an anti-dictatorship rally across islands on October 18, 2025, to stand against dictatorship.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
10:00 AM
📝
Multiple details per island
👥
Indivisible Hawai‘i Statewide Network
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Down With The King & The Billionaire Regime

Joplin, MO

Join us in Joplin for a rally against the alleged ruling class and their influence.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
👥
501 Joplin, No Kings, Free States
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Down with the King & the Billionaire Regime

Joplin, MO

Join us to protest against the King and the Billionaire Regime on October 18th at 7th & Rangeline in Joplin, MO.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
👥
501 Joplin, No Kings, Free States
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No Kings in Northern NV

Reno, NV

Join us at the Bruce Thompson Courthouse & Federal Building in Reno to assert the message 'No Thrones, No Crowns'. An event standing against monarchy and celebrating independence since 1776.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
📝
Bruce Thompson Courthouse & Federal Building
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No Kings

Buffalo, NY

Join us at Niagara Square for the "No Kings" event featuring activities and perspectives from various organizations.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
📝
Niagara Square
👥
WNYCOSH, 501, Power to the People New York, Clean Air Coalition, WNY Environmental Alliance, Standing Our Ground, Buffalo Prenatal Perinatal Network, 1199 SEIU, Elbows Up!, Rainbow Collective
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NO KINGS

Windsor, CO

Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. In America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Grow our movement and join us. A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
📝
7th Street & Main Street
👥
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Manifestación por la Paz

Bartow, FL

We are organizing a demonstration demanding our government use resources for peace, not war. Freedom for all; costumes, instruments, and children are welcome. Free parking in downtown Bartow.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
👥
Defund Oligarchy Blessed by Liberty
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No Kings

Bartow, FL

Join us for a rally advocating for peace against war crimes and genocide. We demand our government use funds for peace and not war. Costumes, instruments, and kids are welcome.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
📝
N Broadway Ave & Van Fleet Dr
👥
Defund Oligarchy, Blessed by Liberty, Indivisible
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No Kings 2

Las Vegas, NV

We are organizing a protest at the Federal Courthouse in Las Vegas to demonstrate our unity and opposition to perceived unjust authority. We rise to make our voices heard.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
📝
Federal Courthouse - Las Vegas
👥
INDIVISIBLE LAS VEGAS
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No Kings

Greensburg, PA

We are organizing a nationwide protest at the Westmoreland County Courthouse to pressure Congress, stand up for righteousness, and advocate for the impeachment and removal of those in power if necessary. Join us to uphold justice and affirm that there are no kings in America.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Westmoreland County Courthouse
👥
WTF
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No Kings Loveland

Loveland, CO

Join us for a volunteer-organized visibility event for No Kings, focused on empowering people and activism.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Dwayne Webster Veterans Park
👥
No Kings
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NO KINGS 2.0

Centralia, WA

Join us in promoting the principle that no individual is above the law, and discouraging any system granting special privileges based on birth or title.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
👥
LD #20 Democrats, Centralia.Mobilize, Rural Lewis Indivisible
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NO KINGS

Westerly, RI

We're lining the sidewalks on Franklin Street to show that America has no kings. Bring a friend, a young person, or an instrument to join the event.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Franklin Plaza or Mill Pond Plaza
👥
South County Rising
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NO KINGS 2.0

Clarkston, WA

Join us in opposing monarchy and supporting democracy. This public gathering aims to unify participants in the fight against fascism.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
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No Kings 2.0

Omaha, NE

Join us to stand against tyranny, rally for our rights, and demand a democracy by the people, for the people. Activities include local activism, mutual aid, civic engagement, and volunteering opportunities, with featured speakers, live music, food, and games.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Turner Park
👥
OMAHA 50501 OMAHA, INDIVISIBLE NEBRASKA, WOMEN'S MARCH NEBRASKA, LIKE MINDED FRIENDS, MOVE ON, OMAHA METRO VISIBILITY BRIGADE
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No Kings 2: Peaceful Mass Protest

Olympia, WA

Join us for a peaceful mass protest at the Washington State Capitol. Experience live music from Stella Jay and Next Stop: Cosmos, hear powerful speeches, and participate in action opportunities with community groups. Bring your decorated rain gear!

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
👥
Olympia Indivisible, Evergreen Resistance
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We Say No Kings

Yelm, WA

Join us on October 18, 2025, to voice our stance against oppression and promote freedom. Gather at the corner of 1st and E Yelm Ave to stand united in Yelm, WA.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
👥
Yelm Rising
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No Kings 2.0

Bend, OR

This is a PEACEFUL protest dedicated to positive change through nonviolent action. Join us for activities including a gathering at Drake Park, a Sidewalk March, and a congregation at Peace Corner.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
2:00 PM
📝
Drake Park
👥
Indivisible Bend
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Power Belongs to the People

Bloomington, IN

Join the movement to gather donations for another billboard and the MCCSC school lunch debt fund.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
2:00 PM
👥
MCCSC
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Down with the King

Mobile, AL

Join us for a Halloween-themed protest. Wear a costume or dress in all black to participate!

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
4:00 PM
📝
Government Plaza
👥
Indivisible Mobile
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NO KINGS Rally

San Antonio, TX

Join us at Travis Park to stand against monarchical power. The rally advocates for power belonging to the people, with activities including a march expressing resistance to monarchy.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
4:00 PM
📝
Travis Park
👥
BEXAR DEMOCRATS, 50501, PSL San Antonio, SATX Indivisible
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Fighting Dictatorship Together

Forest Grove, OR

We are organizing a protest against the administration's actions, including court defiance, deportations, and service cuts. This movement is for those who think the government has gone too far.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
4:30 PM
👥
Indivisible Oregon
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Frogs Say No Kings

Portland, OR

A demonstration or gathering themed 'Frogs Say No Kings' is taking place. The focus or purpose isn't explicitly stated but may imply opposition or protest.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
5:30 PM
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NO KINGS 2.0

Reno, NV

Join us on October 18 to ensure our voices are heard loudly and clearly. Organized by Indivisible Northern Nevada.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
See Flyer
👥
Indivisible Northern Nevada
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NO KINGS

This event, titled "NO KINGS", is set to take place at Waterfront Park.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
See Flyer
📝
Waterfront Park
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NO KINGS

Join us to emphasize that America has no kings and that power belongs to the people.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
See Flyer
👥
Indivisible NWA
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No Kings 2 Mass Protest

We are organizing a mass protest to stand against military occupation of cities, secret police operations, kidnapping of citizens, protection of sex traffickers, and election interference. Join millions defending the Constitution, rights, and lives.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
See Flyer

Monday, October 20, 2025

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Olympia Visibility Brigade: Overpass Bannering

Lacey, WA

Join us in a high-visibility protest against attacks on democracy. Bring signs and flags to the bridge on Chehalis Western Trail / I-5 in Lacey to make good trouble.

🗓️
Monday, October 20, 2025
️🕒
4:30 PM
📝
On the bridge at Chehalis Western Trail / I-5
👥
OVB

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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Planting Hope: Honoring Utah Lives Lost to Gun Violence

West Valley City, UT

Join us in a vigil and daffodil planting to honor the 450 lives lost to gun violence in the past year.

🗓️
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
️🕒
5:00 PM
📝
Family Fitness Center
👥
Gun Violence Prevention Center

Saturday, October 25, 2025

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Olympia Visibility Brigade: Overpass Bannering

Tumwater, WA

Join us with your high-visibility protest signs, flags, and a good mood on the pedestrian bridge over I-5 in Tumwater to make good trouble and take a stand.

🗓️
Saturday, October 25, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Pedestrian Bridge / I-5
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The Truth Behind Domestic Violence

Salt Lake City, UT

An event highlighting the untold stories and truths of domestic violence, encouraging attendees to wear purple and black to show support.

🗓️
Saturday, October 25, 2025
️🕒
4:00 PM
📝
Utah State Capitol
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The Truth Behind Domestic Violence

Salt Lake City, UT

Join us to hear the untold stories behind domestic violence at the Utah State Capitol. Show your support by wearing purple and black.

🗓️
Saturday, October 25, 2025
️🕒
4:00 PM
📝
Utah State Capitol
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Halloween Ball

Springfield, IL

Join us for an unforgettable evening of dance and Halloween spirit with a costume contest offering a $500 prize.

🗓️
Saturday, October 25, 2025
️🕒
7:00 PM
📝
Grand Ballroom

Monday, October 27, 2025

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Overpass Bannering

Olympia, WA

Join the Olympia Visibility Brigade by bringing high-visibility protest signs, flags, and a good mood for an activism event intended to promote civic engagement and visible dissent.

🗓️
Monday, October 27, 2025
️🕒
4:30 PM
📝
Boulevard Rd SE / I-5
👥
Olympia Visibility Brigade

Sunday, November 2, 2025

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Skills for Disagreeing Better Workshop

Ames, IA

A free Braver Angels in-person event focused on developing communication skills to improve understanding across political divides.

🗓️
Sunday, November 2, 2025
️🕒
2:00 PM
📝
Ames Public Library
👥
Ames Public Library, Indivisible Ames, The League of Women Voters Ames & Story County, Democracy Every Day, Ames Area Religious Leaders Association (AARLA)

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

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Veterans Day Overpass Bannering

Olympia, WA

Join us for an overpass bannering event on Veterans Day to stand with veterans in defending our constitution, streets, and oaths. The event involves displaying banners reading 'No Oath to Trump' on various overpasses in the Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater area.

🗓️
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
️🕒
10:00 AM
📝
Various overpasses along I-5
👥
Indivisible, Backbone Campaign, Visibility Brigade

Saturday, December 13, 2025

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Shine with Pride

Salt Lake City, UT

Join us as we speak out against conversion camps. This event aims to raise awareness and support for change. Organized by People for Change Utah.

🗓️
Saturday, December 13, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
👥
People for Change Utah
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Shine with Pride

Salt Lake City, UT

We are hosting an event to speak out against conversion camps.

🗓️
Saturday, December 13, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Utah Capitol
👥
People for Change Utah
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Shine with Pride

Salt Lake City, UT

Join us to speak out against conversion camps. Stand with others at the Utah Capitol to make your voice heard.

🗓️
Saturday, December 13, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Utah Capitol
👥
People for Change Utah

Monday, December 15, 2025

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Christmas Wonderland Market

Springfield

Join us for a festive day of holiday shopping, food, and fun.

🗓️
Monday, December 15, 2025
️🕒
10:00 AM
📝
Riverside Park
👥
Springfield Community Center

 

dadadrumpf - got the d.t.'s?

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dadadrumpf - got the d.t.'s?

 

 you wanted the punk with the d.a. (duck's ass) hair you got the d.t.'s (dumpty trumptys) instead

Sunday, October 12, 2025

the 40 days of trumpmas - a surreal serial poem

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Remember, remember! The fifth of trumpvember

 the 40 days of trumpmas - a serial poem

 

for 40 days the trumpeter reigns,

his lies and hate on whom he disdains,

but election day will come so soon,

we'll no longer hear the orange baboon;

 

in 39 days full of world wide problems.

we could elect him to get rid of the muslims,

but as he'll rant on trivialities of his presidential life,

what could be worse? - you could be his wife;

 

in 38 days just what will you do?

the donald has said he likes lgbtq,

but as he bullies his women and all his men too,

if youre questioning, what stops him from bullying you?

 

in just 37 days, some people are saying,

(or pleading or hoping or some even praying)

the duke of prunes will dye his forelock purple my friend,

and thus make america grape again,

 

our days are down to just 36,

before our problems the don will fix,

he will on day one do what hes said - true,

he'll wall out our enemies - and fat women too!

 

on the 35th day of trumpmas

yes just seven weeks remain!

will the polls and tallies deliver us

donald with his golden mane?

 

34 days and the vice-pipers have piped,

though pence didnt say why donalds suit shouldnt be striped,

he wouldnt defend his master's string pulling,

to make america great? - who do they think they're fooling?

 

just 33 days till the macho tornado,

unless its blown away by hurricane machado,

with women and voters he has so much to loose.

keep your mouth shut donald (unless youre changing your shoes)

 

32 days and we’ve been hit by the big blowhard,

donald spoke here in fla (oh, we had a hurricane too)

this administration gives us playing the race card, a weak economy, and unemployment

but if you want a job you could be donald’s campaign manager (unless youre a jew)

 

31 days, just a month, remains;

will the donald say hes sorry, and his baser impulses restrain?

or keep blaming bill clinton for our moral demise;

when trump speaks to us, our NO votes must be our replies!

 

election comes this time (in 30 days) each 4 years,

time for praise and tears and fears;

as polls will open in many states,

vote early, please dont vote late!

 

down to 29, just a leap february,

and theres still the donald quite

contrary;

donald donald, how does your garden grow?

quoth the master debater, "with pretty maids groped in a row"

 

just 28 days - later or soon,

and the zombies will rise, led by the big goon;

unless everyone gets a reality inoculation,

i might have to move to canada for a well deserved vacation; 

 

now just 27, less than 4 weeks,

no time for you to say 'yikes!' or 'eeeks!'

obama wants to go to mars and colonize it for man,

lets send trump tomorrow! and colonize it for orangutan!

 

26 days are all that remain,

will our democracy and economy go down the drain?

if we all keep listening to the blustering oaf,

will he give jobs and prosperity? - or just half a loaf

 

25 days - will more women speak?,

of the antics of donald who the presidency seeks,

dating 14 year old girls or groping their mothers,

how did the gop pick him over the others?,

 

24 days - were down to two dozen,

the next woman who speaks just might be your cousin,

or mother or sister, aunt, niece, even daughter,

describing the circumstance in which donald caught her,

 

23 days left and trump doesnt yet have as many accusers,

as cosby, but he assures us that they are all really losers,

sent by bankers or hillary with secret agendas,

to disrupt our election of him - our defender!,

 

22 days and we know charity begins at home,

but donalds attention is so prone to roam,

his gift that disappeared to 911 survivors from his foundation?,

oops! maybe donald spent it on a vacation,

 

21 days and trump says the election may be rig-ly,

if hes not the winner and his total's not big-ly,

tremendously higher than hillary gets,

he warns his supporters may all lose their wits,

 

20 days left and while george zimmerman still walks free,

the man who shot at HIM got 20 years - while trayvon got eternity,

trump wants us to support our cops and maintain law and order,

he'll put all the inner city dwellers in jail, and send the immigrant criminals far across the border,

 

19 days left till we all go to pretend,

to elect someone to lead us, as if on it our lives depend,

but wise man, donald trump, already really knows,

who we really voted for - a wolf in president's clothes?,

 

18 days and we bad hombres demand a rebate,

on the ill feelings left since the comments of one candidate,

the debaters have met in their final grudge match,

but only donald can say from whose hands victory will be snatched,

 

17 days and our government is corrupt with quid pro quo,

did you take latin at wharton? is that how you know?,

donald wants us to fire at them all - the bureaucrats lined up in rows,

and believe me, corruption is a subject. that donald really knows,

 

16 days - lets set term limits on all our office holders,

and put all our women in binders - or maybe in folders,

donalds endless complaints are becoming a sour whine,

have a little cheese with that, from wisconsin, where 

hillary's doing fine,

 

15 days and on stocking covered thighs did linger,

two miniature hands with two thumbs and eight tiny fingers,

they belonged to the donald who believed that he owned,

any thing that he wanted - or anyone he got alone,

 

14 days yes only two weeks,

till the duke of orange assends to the throne he seeks?,

to rule all americans, the strong and the weak?,

and dominate the globe with power that's peak?,

 

the 13th day to go - does that seem unlucky?,

not for donald whos lately been appearing quite plucky,

claiming media, polls, and parties are against him,

and rallying his multitudes with wit waxing dim,

 

on the 12th day of trumpmas donald awoke with a jerk,

promptly fired his latest campaign manager (who considered that a perk),

if youre "AAAfroAAAmurikan" and unemployed i can put you to work,

barked donald the businessman from behind his sly smirk,

 

it's the 11th and engineer casey trump is in the caboose,

i hear some of you saying oh no! what's the use,

our campaign will probably just go off the tracks,

but donald says its ok - cause he's got "the blacks",

 

just ten days left yes only one-zero,

til donald is hoping that he'll be your hero,

as new hillary emails come under investigation,

donald hopes to rename camp david to camp donald for

his vacations,

 

like a cat has nine lives we're left with only 9 days,

till we're subject to donald? and his old wicked ways,

on foreign affairs he says he'll save us from isis,

but his domestic affairs are misogyny and crisis,

 

our days are numbered - yes only eight,

till once again we make america great,

by getting rid of candidates who have nothing to add,

goodbye donald you wont make america sad,

 

just one week to go - its day minus seven,

till america's lifted above - to trumpty dump heaven?,

where for rich folks like donald opportunity abounds,

and we keep the working poor with a wall that surrounds,

 

how the time it does fly its already day 6,

till americans problems the donald will fix,

his solutions begin on trumpday number one,

dont you like them? they'll come at the barrel of a gun,

 

Five days to go, baby, One in five,

No one here gets out alive, now,

david dukes not opposed to all jews,

he backs trump - who are you going to choose?,

 

only 4 days left till the armaged-don,

he'll seize power by the horns once he has won,

and donnie will be what he longs for - a winner,

using the FBI to wreak havoc on hillary the sinner,

 

only three left, just a triad of days,

and the donald his supporters continues to amaze,

with hoopla and folderoll made up in his head,

his winning temperament will leave us all dead,

 

just a pair of days - 2 - till trump paradise,

since these words you're reading please heed my advice,

the creatures that surround us are beginning to bite,

'blacks for trump' fear the Illuminati so lets turn out their light,

 

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The Situation: Contracting Detention to a Lawless State

Benjamin Wittes
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 3:55 PM 
 

What law lets the Trump administration store Venezuelans in Salvadoran prisons?

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The Situation on Friday surfaced 20 questions posed by the quickly proliferating El Salvador deportation cases.

Today, I want to focus on a single question that the courts haven’t yet confronted squarely but that lies underneath the lawlessness of this entire enterprise: By what legal authority can the United States send Venezuelans to El Salvador for indefinite detention? 

The question has been bugging me since the story of the March 15 El Salvador flights first broke. But it has been understandably sublimated beneath the horror at the specific prison to which people have been sent, the procedural derangement of the Trump administration’s conduct, the erroneous inclusion of Kilmar Abrego Garcia among the transferees, and the administration’s defiance of court orders in multiple cases connected to the flights.

So let’s zero in on this question specifically. 

The Trump administration has undoubted authority to deport people who are illegally in this country, though the specific manner in which it did so here seems very likely to violate the law.

It also has undoubted authority to extradite to El Salvador Venezuelan citizens who are wanted in El Salvador for specified crimes.

And I don’t doubt either that the Trump administration normally has the power to deport Venezuelans to El Salvador—assuming that El Salvador is willing to take them and the detainee has no expectation of torture there—and that El Salvador then has its own sovereign power to prosecute those people or to just lock them up summarily if it chooses to do so.

But the current arrangements do not reflect any of these processes. The people the administration has deported from the United States do not appear to be the subject of any Salvadoran criminal process or other detention authority. Their deportations—from everything I can discern—appear to have been specifically for the purpose of their detention by Salvadoran authorities. Indeed, critically, the Trump administration is actively paying the government of El Salvador to keep them locked up.

All of which raises the question: By what authority can the U.S. government pay a foreign government to lock up for the long term people who were detained in the United States on the basis of no allegation of criminal misconduct?

On the surface, this question seems to harken back to war on terrorism cases. But the differences here are ultimately more important than the similarities. During the war on terror, the U.S. military transferred large numbers of detainees to the custody of foreign governments. Mostly, these transfers involved transfers to the detainees’ home countries and involved ultimately freeing them—turning over Afghans to Afghanistan’s government or Iraqis to the Iraqi government. But particularly with detainees at Guantanamo Bay, it sometimes also involved third-party countries and the continued detention of those transferred from U.S. custody. Most relevant for present purposes are the transfers from Guantanamo Bay of Yemeni detainees to a Saudi detention and rehabilitation program. This is the closest analog I can think of to transferring Venezuelan detainees to Salvadoran custody. The stated rationale, that the home country state is too dysfunctional to meaningfully take responsibility for the detainees, is superficially similar, at least. 

There are also the cases of CIA detainees “rendered” to partner governments, often for strategic interrogation—which in practical terms meant torture—and long-term detention. Again, mostly this involved sending detainees to the tender mercies of their home countries, but there are at least several cases that involved third-party countries. 

Hence, the Trump administration might argue that in sending Venezuelans to a Salvadoran dungeon, it is not doing anything that prior administrations didn’t also do—which is to say sending detainees to third-party countries with farcical judicial systems for long-term storage.

But as I say, the similarities turn out to be superficial, while the differences are profound—and consequential.

Let’s start with the fact that the war on terror was conducted under a clear congressional mandate, which—at least for the military detainees—the courts held authorized detentions. As the Supreme Court wrote in 2003: “We conclude that detention of individuals falling into the limited category we are considering, for the duration of the particular conflict in which they were captured, is so fundamental and accepted an incident to war as to be an exercise of the ‘necessary and appropriate force’ Congress has authorized the President to use.”

Remember that these were all detainees captured overseas, and they thus did not have constitutional rights. The transfer of an enemy belligerent to a partner government where the underlying detention itself is authorized by law and the detainee does not have the protection of the Constitution is one thing. It is a very different matter to capture people domestically who do have constitutional rights and whom the United States has no authority to hold (except pursuant to their expected deportations) and then contract their long-term detention to a foreign government pursuant to no known law.

The renditions arguably pose a closer analog. The government conducted these not pursuant to congressional authorization but under parallel presidential findings. They were often brutal. And whether any part of the rendition program can be justified either legally or morally is a matter of legitimate debate—one I will not venture to address here.

But whatever one thinks of the CIA’s renditions, there were important differences between the CIA’s conduct during the war on terror and what Trump is doing now. For one thing, the CIA program took place during a genuine emergency. It was also small. We don’t know how many people passed through the CIA program over the several years of its life, but I would be surprised if it were more than were rendered to El Salvador on March 15 alone. And only a very small number of these people, all of whom were captured abroad, were rendered to third-party governments.

In other words, whatever one thinks of the CIA program and its rendition component, it was not domestic, it involved people the agency genuinely believed (sometimes wrongly, as it turned out) to be important al-Qaeda figures during a period of genuine emergency, and, critically, it did not scale. Picking up suspected terrorists and rendering them to third countries was a piecemeal exercise. It was not an exercise in identifying a large class of people based on broad characteristics—say, being Venezuelan and male and having tattoos—and loading them onto planes. In other words, it could never be the basis of wide-scale detention of people in the United States outside of the bounds of law.

By contrast, what the Trump administration proposes here really could be the basis of a large-scale domestic round-up. Under what appears to be the administration’s legal theory—the parameters of which the administration has never spelled out—any Venezuelan or Salvadoran who is deportable is potentially subject to indefinite detention contracted by the United States from its Salvadoran proxy. This is many hundreds of thousands of people. And it’s not obvious to me that it stops there. Why not deport people from other countries to El Salvador too?

In other words, once one accepts that the administration can pack a planeload of Venezuelans and fly them off for indefinite detention in El Salvador with no clear legal framework under either U.S. or Salvadoran law, one is accepting a mass detention proposition that really does scale. 

Fortunately, I suspect this is a question the courts are actually in a decent position to address. Because the Supreme Court has required that proposed deportees under the Alien Enemies Act get reasonable notice of their designations and pending deportations and deportees under normal immigration authorities get other opportunities to contest their deportability, it is only a matter of time before the courts confront the question of what being on one of those flights really means.

Is it really a deportation the government is proposing to effectuate? Or is it a rendition to a lawless foreign state for purposes of detention not authorized by law but secretly contracted by the Trump administration?

While the Supreme Court might feel hamstrung in interfering with U.S. foreign policy once detainees have actually been handed over to Salvadoran custody, the matter is squarely within their jurisdiction before a plane has left. I would hope there are not five justices who will vote for the proposition that the United States government can knowingly and intentionally deport a person to face such lawless imprisonment. 

The Situation continues tomorrow.


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In a small but noticeable update to Pentagon amenities, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered modest renovations to the green room adjacent to the Pentagon press briefing area, transforming it into a makeup prep studio for television appearances, according to reporting by CBS News.

The project, which reportedly cost several thousand dollars, included the installation of a director-style chair and a large mirror outfitted with professional makeup lighting. The room, which previously featured only sparse furnishings, now provides a functional space for officials preparing to go live on television.

The upgrade has raised some eyebrows given the traditionally austere tone of Pentagon operations, but a spokesperson emphasized the frugal nature of the project. “For this upgrade we were deliberately conservative and opted for several less expensive, on-hand materiel solutions,” the spokesperson said. Nonetheless, the studio was paid for by your taxpayer dollars.

Sources told CBS News that Hegseth, who has made appearances on Fox News from the Pentagon briefing room, is personally handling his own makeup and has not enlisted the services of a professional makeup artist. The defense official underscored that no taxpayer dollars were used for luxury services.

The decision has sparked some commentary on social media and beyond, touching on everything from Pentagon optics to the blending of defense policy and media strategy. Critics have questioned the necessity of such an upgrade, while others point out that modern communication—especially in the age of 24/7 news—requires a polished presence, even in government settings.

This small transformation reflects a broader shift in how public officials, including those in the highest levels of defense, are adapting to the evolving demands of media engagement—where presentation, like policy, plays a crucial role in shaping public perception.