resistance sisterhood

we had to buy two of these - one for me and one for she - cuz i'm bad at sharing...

princess spy rebel diplomat senator general 

they are our protest glasses ... after showing up and exercising our First Amendment rights, these are filled with ice cold Dr. Pepper Cream Soda pop and raised in a toast to Freedom, Democracy, Justice and Truth...

 it's a sweet reward, lemmetellya...

may the Force be with you 

mistaken identity

Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero

when this picture showed up on my phone, my first thought was that NoJo had shaved his beard and cut his hair...

brown eyes ... dark brown hair ... tattoos ... little  daughter ... mid twenties... 

yes, at first glance

i mistook this young man for my grandson...

he is not NoJo 

 he is Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero

and he is dead 

he was a documented, legal immigrant from Columbia, a taxpaying father and husband who had not committed anydamncrime other than driving while brown ... and he was murdered in cold blood by United States government agents because of the color of his skin - shot through the window of his car - his limp, bullet-riddled body dragged out of the car, thrown face down and handcuffed...

an eye witness said that his last words were, "I tried to stop."

his blood is still staining the pavement where he died.

he isn't the man they were looking for ... a case of mistaken identity ... public safety ... if you comply you will not die ... a full investigation will be conducted ... worst of the worst ... blah blah blah ... lie lie lie ... if you believe anydamnthing the current regime says, knowing that they are lying liars who lie, then you are a moron.

his wife and his little daughter are grieving and i grieve with them

he could be my grandson...

little rebel

 on or about july 4, my country's independence declaration will be 250 years old 

there are a LOT of new cross stitch charts commemorating the semiquincentennial - i chose this one...

to celebrate the WOMEN rebels

who never seem to receive recognition for our struggle for freedom and for equal rights

dunno when there will be a start on this one - hopefully before the Constitution's semiquincentennial

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

deflecting pool

found a brand new recipe for a brand new drink invented to commemorate the recent "renovation" of the water mirror between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial...

bright green sludge and blue rubbery chunks - sounds like a concept of a plan

 let's have a party...

and, suddenly, no one is talking about Thing One's Epstein Fury (aka the war with Iran) surrender or his Kennedy Center vandalism or his destruction of the East Wing or his pardons for insurrectionists and his slush fund to pay them off or the affordability crisis or ICE's atrocities and murders or the genocides in the Middle East and Eastern Europe or the illegal bombings of small boats that may or may not be drug-running in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific or the Epstein files or the hundreds of thousands of people who have died from starvation or preventable diseases due to the current regime's destruction of USAID or the attacks on voting rights and due process or his blatant corruption or...

the deflecting is something to reflect on, innit?!?

new signs from june 14, 2026

misbehavin' on a sunny sunday...

dip$hitiot...

flippety dippity

in the meantime - this is what's left of the White House... elect a clown ... expect a circus

seems the birthday boy wanted a circus/mixed martial arts themed party this year for his big day ... guess the squeaky little tank from last year's birthday parade wasn't enough for bitty-baby-boy's ego

and this is how he's reacted to being forced by the courts to remove his name from the Kennedy Center...proof positive he is in fact, a drape-ist

unbefreakinglievable...

 Somewhere, Caligula is looking up from Hell and muttering, “That’s a little much, fat boy.” 

  Rick Wilson

the math ain't mathing

 we were hunting and gathering today and drove past the gas station on our way to drive through tacos/burritos/chalupas... 

this picture was taken exactly seven minutes later...

in seven freaking minutes the price of a gallon of gas went up 24 cents 

this station is located at the same corner where we stand with our resistance signs on sundays 

as cultists drive by

rolling coal and flipping the bird

whilst shouting 

Thing One! Thing One! Thing One! 

and 

You're Stupid Effing Idiot Libtards! 

out their windows...

just sayin'

signs from may 10, 2026

quack quack quack

 looks like a duck

waddles like like a duck

quacks like a duck

 has a frog on its little yellow duck head?

 must be a RESISTANCE duck

  getting its ducks in a row 

 for tomorrow's message to the Trump/Putin/Epstein/Musk/Bezos/Ellison/Thiel/Zuckerberg/Billionaires class of democracy killers

May Day Strong

https://maydaystrong.org/

cuz we still have a voice

 and

 we're louder together

just sayin'

signs from april 19, 2026

 

(post-friday's market manipulation)

signs from april 12, 2026

impeach convict remove

he's gotta point...

the World dodged a bullet at the last minute last night ... again

Thing One and his Sickophants love watching us squirm - like the evil little bully who holds a magnifying glass over an ant, finding glee in seeing it burn - whilst making billions manipulating the market and playing at being gawds with human lives

impeach, convict, remove

just sayin' 

25 47

the 25th Amendment and/or impeachment and/or divine intervention can stop his insanity - here's hoping for any or all of the three

signs from april 5, 2026

  *warning*

unredacted expletives follow

signs from march 28 and 29, 2026

and a lone piper playing America the Beautiful 

signs from march 22, 2026

GTFO

the algorithm in YouTube showed me click bait that formed an idea in my head for the other side of the sign...

follow this link GTFO to a YouTube sing-a-long

can't say that i like Big Brother knowing so much about me and my thoughts, but it is what it is and what it is is the start of the other side...

THAT block of ice is twice the size of the little one and took half as long to sew - i might actually finish this in time for No Kings 3 

(yes, you can follow that link to a location near you)

words

i dunno why this has been so difficult...

my new sign for No Kings 3 needs to look like lava  and i don't know how to do that with poster board or pizza boxes, so i found some fabric that might pass for lava 

then i had to draft paper-pieced letters cuz i am allergic to the A word

 (the A word is applique and it makes me break out in itches just to type it)

and then i had to redraft the letters cuz i forgot that paper-piecing is reversed...

anywho, the letters were FINALLY done and ready to lay out...

Melissa said that this way is confusing cuz onen and cdrg aren't words

 i said what the heck are you talking about?!? 

oh. so, do you ALWAYS read left to right and NEVER top to bottom?

 huh ... well ... alrighty then

and that this way makes more sense

and i said oh ... okay ... i see it if i squint but LAVA doesn't shout like it needs to

so she moved the little letters

 and we both agreed that it was better but maybe not great 

so i sewed the little letters together cuz they were no fun to move and move and move and messed with them some more

and it stopped being fun - time to commit

 

yeah, i think this is gonna be okay

anywho... 

for some perspective, that NO ice block is 6" by 6" and even knowing  what i know i find it hard to believe that it took an entire week in the magick shoppe to get this far...

now, for the other side...