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alis's avatar

Hope everyone comes back here to report on their rallies. Who knows, we might see some frogs, chickens, unicorns, sharks, dinosaurs, cows, etc. there; they'll be having some fun too.

Jagger and Toshi are adorable. It's lovely when the right pets and humans find each other.

NO KINGS SINCE 1776! See you in the streets.

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alis's avatar

Well there's a good reason I do not disclose my location of 26,000 city folk, so you will have to take my word for it that this was the biggest deal that has ever hit this area.

The joyful noise was unbelievable. There was dancing, horns blaring, and a little dog named, Oliver, barking his head off---I loved that doggo. Traffic was heavy. A lady read out-loud every sign using her megaphone. That validated everyone. Our favorite sign said "Honk if you are NOT in the Epstein Files!" Music on big speakers was great; who knew we all can sign-dance? Frog, chicken, panda, chipmunk, shark, Darth Vader, two red cloaked Hand Maids, an astronaut, a TACO, and a hand-walking clown were some of the costumes.

Even The Weather Gods were with us. No pot necessary, just high on a big dose of America!

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

A White House spokesperson said, “Who cares?” when asked about Florida’s protests. Gov. Ron DeSantis has previously chided the events, telling Florida drivers ahead of June’s protests that they won’t be at fault if they hit protestors if they feel threatened under Florida’s anti-riot law.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article312553808.html#storylink=cpy

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alis's avatar

Oh they care, Daniel. They try to grind us down, but we just keep coming at them.

Ron, Trump and the cult are why we are out there time after time. Bunch of psychos.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

The only way forward is to take the House and Senate. We can do this if we work together toward those missions. The October 18, 2025 protest is d tomorrow. I made a batch of 126 free protest signs for you and your group to get printed today. Please share, restack, copy, and paste the link. Have a printing company do these for you! Subscribe for updates to the file. Here they are:

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

His vulnerable underbelly is the Epstein discharge petition. Petition every House Republican.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

News. Not in the MSM. Millions expected across all 50 US states to march in No Kings protests against Trump

Events scheduled in more than 2,700 locations, from small towns to large cities, aligning behind message that the US is sliding into authoritarianism

1. Trump is Putin's whore. With a phone call, Putin appears to change Trump’s mind on Ukraine. Again.WAPO. Ukraine Braces for New Talks Without the Leverage of New Missiles

President Trump backed off selling Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv, opting instead for talks with Russia. NYT.

2. Santos Is Released After Trump Commutes His Sentence.

George Santos’s lawyer said the disgraced former congressman was freed from a New Jersey prison around 10 p.m. on Friday. He served less than three months on his fraud conviction. NYT.

3. The Shutdown Is Stretching On. Trump Doesn’t Seem to Mind.

As the shutdown nears a fourth week, Trump has pushed his political opponents to further dig in. He has used the fiscal impasse to halt funding to Democratic jurisdictions, and is trying to lay off thousands of federal workers. NYT

3.a. Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco

Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, said he no longer believed that National Guard troops were needed in the city.

3.b. Military Plans to Fire Artillery Over California Freeway on Saturday

Rounds were fired on Friday across Interstate 5 as part of a test for Saturday’s event in Southern California. The governor said the state would shut a section of the freeway.

As a note, my aunt used to live in Oceanside, Gyreentown, CA and home of a huge Vietnamese population, mostly anti commie Republicans. If this doesn't convert them to hate Trump, nothing will.

3.c. Trump Seeks to Build a Triumphal Arch in Washington for Nation’s 250th Birthday

The arch will stand in the middle of the traffic roundabout at the end of Arlington Memorial Bridge, across from the Lincoln Memorial. Guess he missed the part where Napoleon was exiled.

3.d.Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

Public documents show the Department of Homeland Security has contracted to purchase a pair of top-of-the-line Gulfstream jets for the secretary and other top officials.

4. Vermont Legislator Resigns Over Racist Texts in Republican Group Chat

The G.O.P. officials who participated in a group text chat have faced calls to step down. State Senator Samuel Douglass was the group’s only elected member. nYT

5. White House Says Supreme Court Ruling Could Give Them Up to 20 More Seats

6. Epstein news. Alex Acosta, the former US attorney for the southern district of Florida who negotiated a plea deal in 2008 with Jeffrey Epstein, testified before the House oversight committee last month that going to trial would have been a “crapshoot” due to lack of cooperation from victims."

In a transcript of the six-hour interview released on Friday, Acosta, who later served in the first Trump administration as labor secretary, described the evidentiary hurdles a federal prosecution of Esptein would have faced, and told why his office turned the case over to Florida state prosecutors, which resulted in the disgraced financier pleading guilty to charges of soliciting sex from a minor.

Acosta noted that the Palm Beach state attorney’s office had tried to encourage at least three victims to testify to a state grand jury – but only one had shown up. Acosta said federal prosecutors were uncertain that they could successfully prosecute Epstein given inconsistencies in some victims’ accounts.

“Many victims refused to testify. Many victims had changing stories. All of us understood why they had changing stories, but they did. And defense counsel would have … cross-examination would have been withering,” he explained.

“Many of them had issues in their background. They had MySpace pages, they had priors that would’ve been used against them by defense counsel. And that was a time when, in all candor, defense could be much, much tougher on victims on the stand.”

But in making a non-prosecution deal with Epstein – one that Maxwell later tried to use as a basis for an appeal against her 2021 sex-trafficking conviction and was rejected earlier this month by the supreme court – Acosta said prosecutors anticipated Florida authorities would ensure Epstein served all his 13-month sentence in jail.

“We had an assurance that he would be in continuous confinement,” Acosta said. Later in the interview, he added: “Had we known that he was going to get work release, this would not have gone forward.”

But Acosta denied that Donald Trump, a friend of Epstein’s until a falling out over a property deal and a dispute over Epstein attempting to hire staff away from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago business, had ever been consulted about it. “He moved in circles that I did not move in,” he said.

The transcript release comes on the day that Prince Andrew agreed to give up his royal title of the Duke of York and other honors after it was revealed that he continued his friendship with Epstein after he said, in a 2019 TV interview, it had ended.

The new release also comes days ahead of a posthumously published memoir by Virginia Giuffre, who claims she was trafficked to Andrew by Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell on three occasions when she was 17.

In the interview with the oversight committee Acosta indicated that Epstein’s defense team, which included constitutional lawyer Alan Dershowitz and former independent counsel Kenneth Starr, came close to unethical.

“Everyone is entitled to an aggressive defense,” Acosta said. “I don’t think the line was crossed. I don’t think there was misconduct … but it was distasteful. It did frustrate our attorneys.”

Earlier, Robert Garcia, a Democrat on the oversight committee, released a letter to Pam Bondi, the attorney general, demanding that she end her efforts to obstruct the panel’s investigation into Epstein.

Garcia claimed that Bondi had refused to comply with a congressional subpoena to release the full Epstein files or co-operate with its investigation into “a corrupt quid-quo-pro between the DoJ and Ghislaine Maxwell”.

Garcia said the “the ongoing refusal” to provide the committee with information “demonstrates the Trump administration’s contempt for providing transparency to the American people about Epstein’s crimes”.

https://news.yahoo.com/articles/alexander-acosta-said-putting-epstein-222312831.html

7. I wanna know if Maureen Comey say the Epstein tapes when she was prosecuting Maxwell and if so, what does she say?

8. I wanna know what the Epstein victims have to say about Acosta's testimony.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

Jeffrey Epstein had multiple appointments, phone calls and dinners with Matthew Menchel — the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office chief criminal prosecutor who spearheaded Epstein’s sweetheart deal in 2007, newly released documents show. A tranche of over 8,500 pages of records from Epstein’s estate — released by the House Oversight Committee Friday — show that Epstein’s calendars and emails reflect that Menchel, who left the DOJ in 2007, had multiple meetings or dinners with Epstein in 2011, 2013 and 2017. Lawmakers also referred to a photograph of Menchel on a ski trip with Epstein sometime in the 2000s, but didn’t produce the photo.

Included a ski trip sometime in the 2000s and multiple meetings and dinners from 2011 to 2017!

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article312545792.html#storylink=cpy

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alis's avatar

Un-f-ing-believable, Daniel! Good-on The Herald---they sure got the title right: Perversion of Justice.

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docrhw Weil's avatar

That is very nice today, Thom. Every dog may think his owner is Napoleon, but cats may, if we are fortunate, accept us as equals. And that is enough.

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matt's avatar

Kinda like kids and a cardboard box

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William Farrar's avatar

The cats in the video, they are Ocicats, aren't they.

I had two, one passed four years ago, congestive heart failure.

They are a purebred breed and expensive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocicat

The video of them is at that site.

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Anne Sutherland's avatar

What beautiful cats. Thank you. We have a rescued brother and sister, 2 of 5 that were abandoned at a foxhole by the Snake River overlook in Twin Falls. The local rescue lady was able to capture and adopt the other 3 out, but was getting so burnt out by the number of ferals she was moving back to Georgia.

We were in Istanbul recently on a tour. There are hundreds of loveable stray cats around the city. We learned from a local that cats are rounded up weekly, chipped and spayed, vaccinated, and released. They get monthly health checks. There are cat food dispensers all around the city. If only. . . .

No KIngs in Redwood City!!

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Jackie's avatar

Thom, I agree 100% on that! You are right. My cat use to love any kind of box. Happy, happy, joy, joy, Thom! I get it.

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Hal Brown's avatar

As a therapist who has shared his life with many cats and dogs I can attest to how they keep us balanced during troubled times. That being said, at 81 I am not gpoing to take on a new pet, but we are lucky to have a grand-dog in our lives. On the No Kings rallies: Thom is much more qualified to write about what I Substacked today, "I'm not a historian, but I think Trump I is worse than George III," but I will share it anyway acknowledging that I have limited in-depth knowledge of history: https://halbrown.substack.com/p/im-not-a-historian-but-i-think-trump

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

After a life with horses and dogs, we took in a cat that had been in a shelter 7 years. We are now at her beck and call. She sets the schedule, enters commands. We obey.

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tim's avatar

our cat bit me in the arm 2 days ago.......i'm hoping it doesn't heal too quickly because it's the kind of look that might turn heads come halloween.......how about tattoos that look like grisly flesh wounds for that unique persona so many r seeking

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Robot Bender's avatar

My RN wife says that if you didn't seek medical care, go now! Animal bites, especially cat bites, are a legitimate medical emergency. They have a very high infection rate.

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Anne Sutherland's avatar

Agree. I was an urgent care MD and if it is a puncture wound, you need an antibiotic before an infection takes hold. Cat scratches, not so bad.

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Tim Everton's avatar

Are they Schrodinger's cats?

I DO hope that you keep them indoors because of the extreme environmental damage that they can do.

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Louise's avatar

Our cats are indoor cats. We don't want them killing birds or a coyote killing them. We built them a catio so they watch nature, smell the fresh air and maybe catch a few bugs (s)

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Tim Everton's avatar

Thank you.

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Linda Silfven's avatar

“Extreme” environmental damage? If you’re referring to catching birds, most decline in bird population is due to habitat loss and the use of pesticides.

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Tim Everton's avatar

No. It's not only birds, but also amphibians and any creatures smaller than they are. I have seen way too much of it in the outdoors where I reside. For instance: check Australia and see that they offer twenty dollars for every dead cat turned in. Don't take my word, verify it yourself.

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Robert Herreshoff's avatar

Let us not forget "Letting the cat(s) out of the bag". Thom does this on a daily basis. It's why we're here.

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