My New Political Signs for September 27th Protest.

Putting eugenicists like RFK, Jr. in charge means that Republicans are abandoning motherhood as a positive. Time to poach that issue. The eugenicists already have a dim opinion about apple pie, so time to poach that too.

New Mexico Politicians and Their Obsessions

@maddie.block Wtf does Netanyahu have to do with any local issues in New Mexico? Additional points of clarification: My dad is JAY Block, not John Block. Also, r*cist and/or antis*mitic comments will not be tolerated on my videos! #republican #newmexico #democrat #politics #politicstiktok ♬ original sound - Maddie Block

Let's Say, No...

Day in the Life of a Roswell Visitor

I like this series - it hits just about every Southwestern city or gas station.

 

@citiesbydiana Day in the Life of a Roswell Visitor 👽☀️🛣️💔 Game: American Truck Simulator #satire #brainrotcore😘🐺 #americantrucksimulator #roswell #aliens ♬ original sound - 𝘿𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙖

Off To a Better Place

Seventh Anniversary of Jasper's “Gotcha” Day!

Lately, Jasper has been moody. He sits on the back porch and howls like a wolf. I think the trouble is that there’s a female dog living several blocks away, and so my company is now less-than-stellar in comparison.

Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues

I found this film charming (see on September 26th). Not as hilarious as Spinal Tap Uno, but charming enough.  I appreciated Paul McCartney's and Elton John's involvement.

 

Last Week At The School

Last week, I was a substitute teaching assistant at all three levels in the Montessori school: upper elementary, lower elementary, and kindergarten. 

I was moved around fairly often, but I spent most of a day in kindergarten class, so it was kind of grueling. (In my day, kindergartners napped.  None of these kids napped.)

The day started with handwashing, which struck me as strange, but it was probably related to the unexpected rainfall that morning. Some of the girls had boots with mercury switches that lit colorful lights in their heels, when they weren't shorted out by jumping around in puddles. 

Several of the kindergartners recognized me from supervising recess over the last several months, particularly that day when they threw wood chips at me in a kind of near-riot on the playground. One of the kids said that he didn't recognize me. His friend turned to him, and said, "Oh, you don't recognize Mr. Marc? He's very popular! As popular as Minnie Mouse!" Best testimonial ever! 

Sometime in the morning, class was disrupted by the discovery of a black widow spider in the classroom. I wasn't directly involved, but was surprised when one of the boys expressed skepticism that the insecticide deployed against the spider would work. My mind went back to an old Phoenix, Arizona memory, and how a household cleaner (Formula 409) deployed against black widow spiders didn't work at all as an insecticide. The spiders just shook off the household cleaner. I told the boy, "Of course the insecticide will work." 

Not surprisingly, spiders were on everybody's minds. Walking around, I overheard three little girls talking about the Daddy Long-Legs spiders in their own houses. The girls were keeping track of how many spiders there were and where they lived. 

One kindergarten girl told me that her mother was going to have a birthday the next day. "Oh, that's nice," I replied. "Are you going to get her a card?" The girl said no. I asked, "Are you going to get her a present?" The girl replied, "No. She already has a present. Me!" 

I thought it curious some of the kindergarten girls were adopting vocal fry as a speaking style. I thought maybe that might be a teenage thing, but no. It starts earlier.

Since the playground was all wet, the kindergarten recess was held inside the classroom. The teacher put on a curious exercise video, which imagined everyone had shrunk to a tiny size and were wandering around the front lawn avoiding ants, beetles, and, of course, spiders. 

At one point, I tried sitting on a tiny kindergarten chair and fell over on my back. I was embarrassed, but hardly anyone noticed. Kids fall down in kindergarten class all the time. Just another kid falling down. 

Lunch presents challenges of its own. The students are fairly quiet at first, but they get noisier as they finish their lunch. The kindergarten students are the best-behaved, needing help only with opening difficult plastic packages. In contrast, several of the lower elementary students realized that the little cups of salsa they include with chips make perfect hockey pucks when kicked around the linoleum floor of the cafeteria. 

Elementary school recess has its own challenges. Just as recess was ending, and the students were assembling in lines, a girl kicked a soccer ball right in my crotch. She winced; I tried hard to maintain my composure. I figured I should turn this incident into a teachable moment. I said, "This is what happens when you are S-L-O-W!" I hope that lesson stuck. 

I took a little girl to a hip-hop after-school activity and discovered I already knew the dance teacher. One of my ballet classmates. The collision of worlds really threw me off. 

I asked a lower elementary student why she wasn't doing her work. She smiled and said it was because she couldn't get this song out of her head (called "Catchy Song," or "This Song’s Gonna Get Stuck Inside Your Head," from "The LEGO Movie 2").

 

Back in the School Again

For the past two weeks I've been moving from class to class, mostly among upper elementary students, but among some lower elementary students too. It's a strange experience. Sometimes I lose track which line of students I'm supposed to be escorting to and from their classes. The students have to help the old guy figure it out. 

Two little girls in first grade came up to me and sweetly said, "We pooped our pants!" I looked at them, smiled, and said, "I'm sorry, but I don't think so. You would be acting much differently if you did." One of the girls explained that she once did poop her pants and she got to go home. Ah, this clarifies the situation. "Sorry. girls, you need to stay at school!" 

Due to being close to the American River, geese appear on the playground in the morning. I've noticed than everyone refers to the geese as dinosaurs. Advanced dinosaurs, maybe. A lot of dinosaurs on the mind at this school. For example, a laughing girl ran past me, and, apropos of nothing said, "I do NOT run like T-Rex!" 

In class, one of the students, who is clearly amused by having an old guy in the class, came up to talk. This is the same guy who showed me a clever handshake two weeks ago, which he and his friends call 'dabbing' (which is exactly the same clever handshake we used in the early Seventies). 

He said, "The teacher, she is older than the hills, but you! You are much, much older! You remember the end of the Cretaceous Era; the end of the dinosaurs! You had to wrestle creatures like this," showing me a pencil drawing of a Plesiosaur that he had just made. "What was it like back then?" he asked. "Well, times were really hard," I explained. "The asteroid impact was terrible." "How did you survive?" he asked. "Well, I was underground," I explained. "You must have been pretty deep!" he said. "28,000 feet deep!" I explained. 

At one point, I was assisting a first grade student in answering a badly-worded question, and I helped him choose the wrong answer. It's sad to think that I can't do first grade work. I'll probably have to start my education again, from the beginning. 

Recess. It's strange to be in a place where everyone runs to get where they want to go. Except for that one guy, standing stock still, and staring blankly at a wall. I don't know what that's all about. 

The kids like to make the old guy do unfamiliar things. "Put your fingers together like this," one girl indicated - thumb to middle finger = "and say 'Clock It!'" I warily complied, worried that I might be mimicking some disagreeable anime character, but apparently it's just current Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha slang. There are videos on YouTube and TikTok about 'Clock It!'. Another girl came up and deployed imaginary lasers and overwhelming electricity against my force field. I swung my water bottle against her cascade of energy but she had thrown up shields of infinite resistance. I noticed that another student, the one I dubbed Anxiety Girl several weeks ago, seems to be coming more out of her shell. She was even doing a little bit of hopscotch at lunchtime. Hopscotch by herself, of course, but Progress nonetheless! 

During after-school Club M, one of the teaching assistants put "Kpop Demon Hunters" on an underpowered Chromebook to occupy the students. With just a few exceptions, everyone stopped what they were doing in order to sing in unison with their heroes. Remarkable!

Leaving Club M, one of the girls dropped this drawing on the sidewalk. I picked it up. First Halloween drawing of the year. Sort of "Hello Kitty" with scars.

I Was The Only One Who Witnessed This Event, So My Tale is Crucial

For some reason embed doesn't work, so here's a link.

A Better Video of "Disco Snails"

My favorite song of 2025, so far.

 

"Mary Poppins" - Roseville Theatre Arts Academy (RTAA)

Since Rachel was in this show, as Miss Andrew, I ended up watching this show several times - Act 2 at least three times. I got very interested in the show when I realized there were multiple connections to "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" - a major inspiration to Vince Gilligan!

Sept. 20th Protest, Plus Other Stuff

Regarding Charlie Kirk a FB friend posts:

“Did you ever watch the Wizard of Oz? You know when the Munchkins are dancing around singing Ding Dong the Witch is dead even though none of them caused Dorothy's house to fall on the Witch, right? They didn't conspire to drop a house on the Witch. No one blames the Munchkins or claims they are a violent... this is kinda like that.”

I used my FB friend's post as inspiration for a new sign.

Americans of my youth were fed on stories of Prince Valiant’s honor and energy. Let’s bring him back!

A Protest Video

A summary of what we do, where I'm featured.

@obriengoespotatoes LIVE at Howe & Arden every Saturday in Sacramento, CA from 12 to 2. ICE Go Home. #protest #immigration #deportesentiktok #musicfestival #deportation ♬ Dune - Shanghai Doom

Untimely Death on Mt. Shasta

Stories of untimely deaths on Cascade-like volcanoes creep me out. It's so easy to get into trouble. When I was 17, I nearly-summitted Mt. Shasta (we only failed because we left our wind jackets on the glacier below) and DID summit Mt. Hood (but nearly got killed glissading down afterwards):

A climber from Argentina died in a 2,000-foot fall on a California mountain after regaining consciousness from a crash into a large boulder, deputies say.

...The 45-year-old man, later identified as Matias Augusto Travizano, was part of a climbing group with two others, deputies said.

Earlier in the day, deputies said, the group summited Mount Shasta. 

However, on the trek back down, Travizano and one of the other climbers wandered from the trail, leaving them “stranded on an ice sheet at the northern tip of Wintun Glacier around 13,500 feet,” the sheriff’s office said.

"Honey Don't"

Link to map

Originally posted September 15, 2025. Updated: May 7, 2026


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I saw this film, I think on September 5, 2025 at the Tower Theater in Sacramento, CA. I was curious about it, because it was mostly filmed in Albuquerque and the Los Lunas/Belen area, representing Bakersfield, California. This is a smart, detective-style movie rewritten with a lesbian plot. The movie is reasonably entertaining, but it suffers a little. Surprisingly, it needs more of a femme fatale. It has some other femmes - notably Chere - but not that special, unique character of the femme fatale. (Maybe Chere is that character in a sequel?)

Various Locations

Car crash site - ?

Creek - Kern River - Not sure about exact location of swimming hole, but propose this possibility (35.579365°, -118.536500°)

Mountain road - Kern County Road near Bodfish, CA.  Last view appears to be (35.576859°, -118.536405°)

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Bakersfield Opening-Credits Montage

I love this montage!  Kudos to Bakersfield!

Mural - ?

Mission - 1822 M St.

Bakersfield Hotel - 1202 19th St.

Building view and M St. view - ?

La Paloma Market, 811 E. 3rd St.

Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 825 California Ave.

Globe Motel, 1701 S. Union Ave.

Railroad overpass, 2349 Union Ave.

Ignacio's Appliance, 699 E. Brundage Lane

1530 17th St.

Bakersfield Police Dept., 1601 Truxton Ave.

Bakersfield Californian Building, 1707 Eye St.

Intersection

Building

El Dorado Bakery (can't locate proper address)

New Testament Christian Church, 299 Stine Road

Railroad

Pump Jacks

Church

Bus Stop

Cinema 19, 1224 19th St.

Water Tank

Nile Theater, 1721 19th St.

Intersection

Frosty Queen Express, 2055 Flower St. #4147 (Flower at Mt. Vernon Ave.)

Bus Stop

Stop and Shop Market, 1007 E. Brundage Lane

Dog in Yard

Los Compas Auto Glass Warehouse, 2595 S. Union Ave.

Building

Bus Stops 1 &2

ACW Mufflers, 2129 Edison Highway

Car lot

Fenced Area - New and Used Tire Repairs

Club Cabana, 276 Union Ave.

Exit 222A - ?

Fox Theater, 2001 H St.

Padre Hotel, 1702 18th St.

City Smog, 1705 California Ave.

Striped Building

Street Scene

Signs

Day and Night Market, 355 Chester Ave. (Chester at 4th St.)

Wood-Dale Market, 250 Stine Road

Pump Jacks

Bus Stop and Building

Another Bus Stop

Car Crash Scene

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More Locations

Bedroom

Car Crash site

General Yums Coffee Shop - Helen's Bakery, 1014 San Pedro Dr. NE.

Honey O'Donahue Investigations, Behind Sisters Salon, 1024 San Pedro Dr. NE.

Office

Driving - ? (the mountain isn't quite recognizable)

Trailer Park - Ulibarri and Sons, about 620 N. 7th St., Belen, NM

Trailer - includes view out back of trailer as Corinne gets picked up

Four Way Temple (back of church)

Dead Joey - ?

Bar where Elle plays - Looks like The German-American Club

The German-American Club, Edelweiss am Rio Grande, 4821 Menaul Blvd. NE, Albuquerque (February 15, 2017).

The German-American Club, Edelweiss am Rio Grande, 4821 Menaul Blvd. NE

Looks like they moved that shield with swords from the wall towards the door.

Swimming Pool. Downtown Inn, with the swimming pool, 1213 Central Ave. NW, 12th St. & Central Ave., Albuquerque (Photo taken September 1, 2022.)

Police Station

Old Bernalillo County Courthouse, also called the Annex.

Bernalillo County Courthouse Annex, located at the corner of 5th St. and Tijeras Ave. NW.  For MG's scene it looks like they are in the basement. This picture is ground floor, I think.

Bar (Casa Escencia? Rancher's Club?)

Parking lot near Crowne Plaza.  Hector's Car Parked (35.107093°, -106.625456°)  Hector exits parking lot here (which is actually still in parking lot; 35.107189°, -106.625733°).

Near the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1901 University Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, NM. Photo taken February 27, 2026.

Desert Road - Shooting Range Rd. (also a Better Call Saul location) (35.125125°, -106.824100°)

Houses - it looks the Kirtland Addition neighborhood.

Mom's House - Kitchen and bedroom

Church and Back of church

Hector's Abuela's house - Looks like Dalies, west of Los Lunas, but where? 

Potential Abuela's House (34.808780°, -106.823086°)

Honey's office

Bar - Wild Pony? (4555 NM-314, Los Lunas)  Don't know, but kind of looks like it.

Honey's place

Honey's office

Back of church

Wiener Heaven - ?

Church office

Wiener Heaven

Bedroom

Walking on street

Bus stop

Honey's office

Trailer park - What trailer park is this? Ah, it's the same trailer park!

Honey's house

ABQ Street - search - this should be easy, with the tower visible near San Mateo and Central, but for some reason I don't see it.

Restaurant - Trina, perhaps?

Brief glimpse of rail yards building off Second St. SW?

Laundry

Bakersfield Hotel again

Nail Salon

Street scene

All American Barber Shoppe - Downtown, 1833 F St., Bakersfield, CA.

In front of Taco Sal Restaurant, 9621 Menaul Blvd. NE, Albuquerque.

More search scenes

Honey gets in car, with building in background - about 116 Madeira Dr. NE, Albuquerque.

Stunt bus stop next to Fox Executive Offices on Madeira Dr. NE (use red brick as background)

Honey's office

Police office

Back of church

Four-Way Temple exterior, 3020 Princeton Dr. NE, near Princeton & Candelaria NE. Photo taken March 1, 2026.

Four-Way Temple exterior near Princeton & Candelaria NE. Photo taken March 1, 2026.

Courthouse basement

Driving - bus stop

Huning Highlands neighborhood.  Honey parks at intersection of Silver Ave. and Edith Blvd. SE.

MG's house - 301 Edith Blvd. SE

Stretcher

White-tiled hallway

Police office

Driving downtown ABQ, at Gold Ave. - View of Honey, Westbound (!) on Gold Ave. SW at 6th St. View of intersection, northbound on 6th St. at Gold Ave.

A Visit To Merari's Wall

This is the location where Qiryat Merari Ceyeli-Gomez, or Rari for short, someone I barely knew from Zumba class, died in a car wreck on July 3, 2017. It's located on Sunrise Blvd. at a curve a short distance south of Douglas Blvd. in Roseville. I wasn't able to visit this place until December 1, 2017. At midnight on the following night, on December 1-2, 2017, I was in a high-speed car accident on Highway 50 in West Sacramento, from which I escaped injury almost completely. I figured the only reason I survived essentially uninjured was because I visited Rari's wall first, and she protected me in some spiritual way. So, this place is sacrosanct to me. I don't visit often. But I did visit on Sept. 14, 2025.

"Accomplice" - Chautauqua Playhouse - August 29, 2025

"Accomplice" is a delightful show.  It is directed by friend John Ewing and features Katie Smith-Induni, with whom I was in "Bye, Bye Birdie" with in 2018.  The show was written by Rupert Holmes, the Englishman who sings the Piña Colada song. The show has a unique premise, which makes it special, and about which I'm not supposed to say anything.  Go see it!  One more weekend!

Halloween's Coming!

It's Coming! The skeleton pictures I took on August 17th and 19th, making them the earliest Halloween decorations I've ever seen, by far. The masks are currently at Broadway Costumes, on Franklin Blvd.

A Variety of Signs Seen About Sacramento

The Experience of a Regular Protest

In the Sixties, demonstrations tended to be paroxysmal and associated with distinct political events.  The demonstrations of Trump II are different; a marathon, not a sprint.  I've reoriented my Saturdays to focus on protest, particularly the anti-ICE protests at Howe about Arden, 12-2 p.m.

The experience of protesting involves getting good feedback and dealing with bad feedback.  Fortunately these sorts of anti-Trump demonstrations are popular with most Sacramentans.  Lots of people honk their car horns while waiting for the light to change at the intersection, and more honk when they start moving again.  Still, there are people who disagree with us.  I see people fumbling with their rusty hands and relearning how to throw the middle finger.  

I see my role as being to walk up and down the sidewalk, making eye contact with people waiting in the left-turn lane, bidding hello to people, having brief conversations, acknowledging horn honks with a "we're not worthy" dip of my protest signs, and basically functioning like the human Facebook equivalent of a "Like" symbol to their expressions of support. I like the engagement with people.  It's much harder to get that kind of interaction at other kinds of protests, like banner drops, where the protesters are not at street level.

This last Saturday (Sept. 13th) I had some fun interactions.

One of the protesters likes to speak through a megaphone at drivers while they wait at the light.  She reads good educational material from a prepared text on the screen of her phone.  Looking at her phone, she had just pivoted on the sidewalk and started walking north again, when I saw a woman in a car in the right turn lane decide to ambush her.  

The car had an open sunroof.  The woman picked up a large cup from her center console and hurled what appeared to be fruit punch through the sunroof at the protester.  Trouble was, the edge of the cup struck the edge of the sunroof.  Fruit punch sprayed all over the interior of the woman's car, across the top of the car, onto the pavement outside, and basically absolutely everywhere except on its intended target.

Some of the protesters were a little unnerved when a fellow drove his convertible into the parking lot and started staring at us.  The fellow was wearing a red cap with white lettering spelling out "Whiteboy." With his Popeye looks he appeared to be a caricature from backwoods Appalachia.  I exchanged a few words with him when he first arrived and I didn't think he posed a threat (but you never know).

There isn't much time to get messages across.  Sometimes you think of better comebacks only long after the interactions.  A fellow drove up and asked in wondrous but defeatist tones: "Do you think that any of what you are doing accomplishes anything?" I replied, "Yes, I can't think of a better way to use my time right now."  He replied "Oh!"  Later, I realized I should have explained further that the protest also has expression on social media - TikTok, Facebook, and the like - and thus a larger reach than was available for Sixties protesters.

Walking up and down the sidewalk I say hello to folks, but then I saw a balding white man at the wheel of a pickup truck muttering to himself.  His eyes were blinking fast.  It looked like he was about to stroke out from unwillingly viewing political opponents on his day off.  So, I pressed in, walking into the stationary traffic with my signs, making certain he could clearly see them.  The man refused to interact, but I looked over to another vehicle with two black women inside, who were watching the scene unfold.  They had big grins on their faces.

Another balding man driving his pickup truck out of the parking lot didn't roll down his window, but he did take off his red cap to show me the "Make America Great Again" lettering.  Wow, the pickup truck's paint job was on a MAGA theme.  I vigorously shook my head. We didn't exchange any words.

I decided to get aggressive with my new protest signs for this Saturday.  Since leftists are completely cleared in Charlie Kirk’s killing, it’s time to celebrate by pitting fascist factions against each other.  Did Nick Fuentes or Laura Loomer order Kirk’s execution? Or did someone else? Was it actually Tyler Robinson’s idea to shoot Kirk? Or maybe he did it just for the 4chan lolz? If so, we are deeper down the rabbit hole than I thought.  From the limited-information available on Friday, September 12th, when I made the sign, I decided to go with the conservative Mafia gang war angle - the angle that is most-useful for liberals right now.

A driver waiting for the light to change called me over.  "Do you support the killing of Charlie Kirk?" he asked.  I knew immediately where he wanted to lead this conversation, and I didn't want to go there.  "Well, that's an interesting question," I answered.  I stalled with evasions and prevarications, but time was running out.  The light was about to change.  He cut to the chase. "That's the trouble with you nutjob liberals!" he exploded in rage.  I shouted back at him too.  I stepped out of moving traffic back into the stationary right-turn lane, where I was immediately startled by loud, enthusiastic cheers from four teenage girls leaning out the windows of their sedan, who had witnessed the entire confrontation.

Charlie Kirk came up again.  A woman bravely shouted from a pickup truck in the left turn lane, "Thank you for reminding me what a great man Charlie Kirk was!"  I replied, "Charlie Kirk was a BAD MAN.  A very BAD MAN!"

Elsewhere - I couldn't identify the vehicle - I heard a sincere, plaintive wail: "Charlie Kirk was a FATHER!" I shouted back that Charlie Kirk was a BAD MAN.  I probably should have gone further about all the murdered school kids in America and how they have fathers too, but there just wasn't time.

The role of a protester isn't to be nice, it's to be truthful.  It's time to start getting rough with conservatives and their sickening excuses for murder. This is especially the case now, when people are being fired from their jobs just for expressing their opinions.

I'm looking forward to next Saturday.

My Protest Signs This Weekend

My protest signs for this Saturday’s protest at Howe about Arden, in Sacramento. Since leftists are completely cleared in Charlie Kirk’s killing, it’s time to celebrate by pitting fascist factions against each other.

[UPDATE (9/15/25):  I see Google corporate office in India is checking out these pictures.  The Censored hammer may come down on these soon!]

 

Part of the Groyper Wars

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the idea that the shooting of Charlie Kirk is part of the Groyper Wars. There may be a conspiracy here yet. I’m wondering, did Nick Fuentes or Laura Loomer order Kirk’s execution? Or did someone else? Was it Tyler Robinson’s idea to shoot Kirk? 

Too many questions. But no leftists anywhere!

Kirk was a hateful troll helping feed young men into the far-right echo chamber via Turning Point USA. 

The Groyper Army, under Nick Fuentes, are an even more hate filled alt-right online group of agitators. They and their leader Fuentes had a war going against Charlie Kirk for being too soft. 

In 2019, Fuentes & his trolls began their Groyper War of systematically showing up to harass Charlie Kirk when he appeared speaking at public events. Groypers are terminally online, think their endless memes are clever and spread their poison transnationally. 

For the record, Laura Loomer was a Groyper.

Charlie Kirk's Poisonous Legacy

I hate this guy so much:

Journalist and college professor Stacey Patton goes viral by penning a stunningly powerful statement about how she was on Charlie Kirk’s “digital hit list” and recounting the horror that he inflicted on her.

We cannot allow this tragic assassination to whitewash Kirk’s legacy…

“I am on Charlie Kirk’s hit list,” Patton wrote to her 215,000 followers on Facebook. “His so-called ‘Professor Watchlist,’ run under the umbrella of Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. I landed there in 2024 after writing commentary that inflamed the MAGA faithful. And once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life.”

“For weeks my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: ‘bitch,’ ‘c*nt,’ ‘n****r.’ They threatened all manner of violence,” she continued.

“They overwhelmed the university’s PR lines and the president’s office with calls demanding that I be fired,” Patton wrote. “The flood was so relentless that the head of campus security reached out to offer me an escort, because they feared one of these keyboard soldiers might step out of his basement and come do me harm.”

“And I am not unique,” she added.

“Kirk’s Watchlist has terrorized legions of professors across this country. Women, Black faculty, queer scholars, basically anyone who challenged white supremacy, gun culture, or Christian nationalism suddenly found themselves targets of coordinated abuse,” Patton wrote.

“Some received death threats. Some had their jobs threatened. Some left academia entirely. Kirk sent the loud message to us: speak the truth and we will unleash the mob!” she continued.

“That is the culture of violence Charlie Kirk built. He normalized violence. He curated it, monetized it, and sicced it on anyone who dared to puncture his movement’s lies,” she wrote.

“And now, in the wake of his shooting, there’s all this national outpouring of mourning, moments of silence, yellow prayer hands, and tributes painting him as a civil debater,” Patton continued. “But the truth is that Kirk and his foot soldiers spent years terrorizing educators, trying to silence us with harassment and fear!”

“And now the same violence he unleashed on others has come full circle.”

“But what i find especially jarring is the dissonance in public mourning for a smug white man whose life work was actively hostile to certain groups,” she continued. “Kirk spent years demonizing LGBTQ people, mocking gun survivors, spewing racism about Black folks, and pushing policies that literally shorten lives.”

“It is so revolting to watch a bipartisan wave of grief sweep over this hateful racist as if he was a neutral community servant,” she concluded.

This is pure unvarnished truth from Patton. Charlie Kirk did not deserve what happened to him, but nor did his victims deserve the hell that he unleashed on them. If Americans are going to build a more peaceful future for ourselves we must condemn political violence while also condemning the hateful, bigoted rhetoric that made Kirk a multimillionaire.

Charlie Kirk's Assassination

We need to strike a posthumous medal to Charlie Kirk for lack of self-awareness. Darwinian rules apply equally to everyone. That's why it's important not to celebrate political violence.

 

And speaking about the assassination, here is video summary:

 

I'm sorry, but this is Karma at work.  No better justice has ever been served.

Mamdani Says Keep Your Money

Zohran Mamdani says stop sending money. He has enough. Spend time instead. That is a superior political message!

 

These Are The Best Folks

@obriengoespotatoes Every Saturday 12 - 2 on the corner of Howe and Arden in Sacramento. #immigration #ICE #deportation #protest Thank you @Yuliana Villaseñor @ortizdan.96🇲🇽 @Art-Ricardolira ♬ original sound - O’Brien Goes Potatoes

Fire Zamboni

Pay wall on this thing from SoCal, but it looks interesting:

“BurnBot is a huge, Zamboni-like vehicle that executes precisely controlled burns of flammable grass alongside buildings and roadways. It’s designed to create fire breaks — lines of charred land — that keep flames from spreading. When plants do grow back, instead of invasive, combustible grasses, it’s typically native, more fire-resistant vegetation.”