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Burning River Brigade, Cleveland, OH (2026)

08/28/2026

We're living in upside down world, when even Marjorie Taylor Greene is speaking some truth!

She found her name on the speakers list for the Republican midterm convention in Dallas. Nobody invited her first, and she had no idea.

Her response was to ask what any Republican would even campaign on right now. No more foreign wars, except he dragged us into a war with Iran. Affordability, except housing and groceries and gas haven't improved under full Republican control. She said the convention would just be setting donors' money on fire.

Her own list of what's left to run on: 50-year mortgages, the Iran war driving inflation, $4.50 gas, $5 to $6 diesel.

The National Association of Home Builders estimates the tariffs on softwood lumber and wood products add as much as $10,900 to the cost of building a new home. No wonder Trump is calling "affordability" a Democratic hoax. He can't, or won't, deliver it to the American people.

Nobody here is handing her a medal. For years she contributed to the lies and hype regarding this joke of a president, and she's still wrong about plenty. When one of his loudest defenders says out loud that there's nothing to campaign on, it's worth a listen, and she's NOT doing it to help Democrats. She's actually arguing an America First policy, even though we think it's not the right America First policy in most cases.

Republicans own this economy, this war, and the Epstein files that they still won't release. The convention is September 9th and 10th. Reporting says they've reached out to Republicans in competitive districts and can't find anyone willing to show up.

What a joke.

Make a plan for November. Vote! Tell your friends, your family. This is an all hands on deck moment.

08/28/2026

Dolly Parton died on Tuesday. On Wednesday Trump went on Glenn Beck and said she "really liked" him, and suggested she kept quiet about it because she was scared of losing fans. Today he posted this.

There's no real photograph because there was no friendship. She turned down a Presidential Medal of Freedom from him twice during his first term.

She said Black lives matter in 2020, supported same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights for decades, and pulled "Dixie" off the name of one of her own attractions the moment she understood it hurt people.

He's been on the other side of that his entire adult life. In 1973 the Justice Department sued him, his father and Trump Management under the Fair Housing Act over 39 buildings in New York. Employees testified that applications from Black renters were marked with a "C" for colored. It settled in 1975 with a consent decree and no admission of guilt. He was 27.

Her sister Stella never bothered with the neutrality. On the 20th of August, 5 days before Dolly died, she wrote that there's a pimple in the White House and called him an illegitimate president.

He couldn't get a picture with her while she was alive. He generated one 2 days after she died.

Her family asked for donations to the Imagination Library instead of flowers. Link in the comments.

08/27/2026

Lake Ontario just heard the news...

(Idea from someone on a local news site)

08/27/2026

As children we were taught the mnemonic for remembering the names of the Great Lakes, HOMES. I guess now we can teach them SHAME, at least until he's dead or deposed. As always, after a tyrant is gone, all the stains are removed.

Italy, 1943. Fasces chiseled off buildings across the country. The scars are still visible in the stone 80 years later.

USSR, 1956. Stalingrad renamed, statues pulled down across the bloc, his body moved out of the mausoleum in 1961.

Spain, 1975. The last Franco statue came down in Santander in 2008. His remains were exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen in 2019.

Philippines, 1986. The 100 foot Marcos bust carved into a Benguet hillside was demolished with explosives. The palace opened to the public and the shoes became a museum exhibit.

Romania, 1989. Ceausescu's portraits torn out of schools and offices. People cut the party seal out of the flag and carried it through the streets with a hole in the middle.

East Germany, 1989. Party slogans and portraits stripped off public buildings. The Lenin monument in East Berlin came down in 1991.

Albania, 1991. Students pulled the Hoxha statue out of Tirana's main square.

Ethiopia, 1991. The Lenin statue in Addis Ababa came down the day the regime collapsed.

Indonesia, 1998. Suharto's portraits torn down during the May riots while students occupied the parliament building.

Serbia, 2000. Milosevic's portraits burned outside the parliament during the October uprising.

Iraq, 2003. The Firdos Square statue pulled down. Murals and portraits defaced nationwide within days.

Egypt, 2011. Mubarak's name stripped from metro stations, schools and public squares by court order.

Libya, 2011. The Green Book monument destroyed and Gaddafi's fist crushing a jet hauled off from Bab al-Azizia.

Ukraine, 2013. Leninopad, the falling of the Lenins. Around 1,300 statues came down before it became national law.

Syria, 2011 and 2024. Assad statues toppled in Daraa when it started, then across Damascus and Latakia when it ended.

Not one of those was organized from the top. Every one of them started with ordinary people doing small things in public.

08/27/2026

Today Trump signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America" - This is what a malignant narcisistic pe*****le who can't contain his bowlels looks like.

He knows he doesn't have much time left, so he's trying to stain as much as he can before he's gone forever.

As with most authoritarians, the stains are quickly cleaned up after they are gone.

Saddam Hussein, Iraq, 2003. Firdos Square statue pulled down. Murals and portraits defaced nationwide within days.

Stalin, USSR, 1956 onward. De-Stalinization stripped his name off Stalingrad, removed statues across the bloc, and moved his body out of Lenin's mausoleum in 1961.

Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romania, 1989. Portraits torn from schools and offices during the revolution. The Communist Party seal was cut out of the flag, leaving a hole people carried through the streets.

Muammar Gaddafi, Libya, 2011. The Green Book monument in Tripoli destroyed. His fist-crushing-a-jet sculpture at Bab al-Azizia was hauled off.

Enver Hoxha, Albania, 1991. Statue in Tirana's main square pulled down by students.

Hosni Mubarak, Egypt, 2011. Name stripped from metro stations, schools, and public squares by court order.

Lenin, Ukraine, 2013 to 2017. "Leninopad," the falling of the Lenins. Around 1,300 statues came down, then decommunization laws made it national policy.

pasted that part.

Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines, 1986. The 100-foot concrete bust carved into a Benguet hillside was demolished by explosives in 2002. Malacañang Palace opened to the public and the shoes became a museum exhibit.

Francisco Franco, Spain, 1975 onward. The last standing statue removed from Santander in 2008. His remains were exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen in 2019 and reburied in a family plot.

Suharto, Indonesia, 1998. Portraits torn down during the May riots. Students occupied the parliament building.

Erich Honecker, East Germany, 1989. Party slogans and portraits stripped from public buildings. The Lenin monument in East Berlin came down in 1991.

Hafez and Bashar al-Assad, Syria, 2011 and 2024. Statues toppled in Daraa at the start of the uprising, then across Damascus and Latakia when the regime fell in December 2024. This is the recent one, and people remember watching it.

Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ethiopia, 1991. The Lenin statue in Addis Ababa came down the day the regime collapsed.

Slobodan Milošević, Serbia, 2000. Portraits burned outside the parliament during the October uprising.

Mussolini, Italy, 1943 to 1945. Fasces chiseled off buildings across the country. The removal was so widespread you can still see the scars on the stone.

Time to go Donny. The entire planet hates you!

08/27/2026

Up over the last 12 months, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

👕 Apparel +3.9%
🥬 Fresh vegetables +6.3%
🥗 Lettuce +7.5%
🛒 Groceries +2.7%
🛋️ Household furnishings +2.2%

Up in the single month of July, all tariff-exposed goods:

💻 Computers +3.5%
📺 Televisions +1.7%
📱 Smartphones +1.1%
🧺 Appliances +0.8%
🧸 Toys +0.8%

The tariffs themselves, currently in effect:

🪵 Softwood lumber 10%
🇨🇦 Canadian lumber, roughly 45% all in
🚪 Kitchen cabinets and vanities 50%
🛏️ Upholstered wood furniture 30%
🚗 Canadian cars and auto parts, levies double in January

The National Association of Home Builders estimates the wood tariffs alone add as much as $10,900 to the cost of a new home.

Overall inflation ran 3.4% for the 12 months ending in July. Apparel ran 3.9%.

Canada isn't paying these tariffs. We are. Stop the madness!

08/27/2026

His office has given the public no way to prove this wrong. Ten weeks of silence with two still photos and a couple of printed statements is not terribly convincing.

He last voted on the 11th of June.

He was hospitalized on the 14th of June after a fall at his home. Emergency services were called to his Washington address that day over a report of an unconscious person. He hasn't appeared in public since.

TMZ DC published a time-lapse of McConnell on the Senate floor on the 4th of June, 10 days before the hospitalization. He sits nearly motionless for 18 hours while everyone around him moves.

Between the 15th of June and the 8th of August he missed 60 of 60 roll call votes. GovTrack has the record. 100 percent.

His office says he's fine and still engaged in Senate business. Several Republicans say they've spoken with him by phone. Governor Andy Beshear wrote asking about his status and hasn't gotten a response.

Nobody is asking for his medical file. A 30 second video would end this, or a phone call with a news organization, or with someone from the other side of the aisle.

Kentucky has two Senate seats and one working senator. Ten weeks is a long time to ask 4 million people to take it on faith. Is he getting paid for this?

Show us the senator.

08/26/2026

Epstein on tape with Michael Wolff in 2017: "I was Donald's closest friend for 10 years."

It's what he refuses to answer under oath that you should pay attention to.

"Have you socialized with him?"

"Yes, sir."

"Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?"

"Though I'd like to answer that question, at least today, I'm going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights, sir."

Thirty seconds apart. Same deposition. Same lawyer. He answers the first one without blinking.

Why would a man refuse to answer the second question if the truthful answer was no?

Hundreds of women have told their stories, under oath and in public, at real cost to themselves. Many were children when it happened. They have been asking for the full files for years, and they are still waiting.

They did their part. The people holding the documents haven't.

08/26/2026

He started a trade war with our biggest customer, then threatened to rename Lake Ontario to "Lake America" because he's a malignant narcissistic toddler.

Every ocean ship entering the Great Lakes goes through the Welland Canal. Eight locks, twenty-seven miles, all of it in Ontario. There is no other route. $26.3 billion of American trade depends on gates we don't own. The biggest beneficiaries are Ohio, Michigan and Indiana.

50% tariffs hit Saturday. Canada's answer starts September 8th.

"The United States has the clear leverage," the White House posted yesterday.

Somebody get this idiot a map.

08/26/2026

"What kind of person would treat their daughter this way? This guy is clearly a degenerate sociopath. Max should step aside and seek help. Staying in this race makes it far more likely we lose this seat and hand Democrats a majority to impeach President Trump."

That's Sen. Tim Sheehy, Republican of Montana, on August 6th.

Sen. Jon Husted: "Anyone who commits domestic violence is not fit to serve in Congress." He said Max Miller should resign.

Sen. Bernie Moreno, Miller's former father-in-law and the child's grandfather: "He is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter."

Saturday in Columbus, a voter thanked Vivek Ramaswamy for standing by Max Miller. After six weeks of saying nothing, he answered.

"I'm supporting everyone up and down the ticket." Asked if he'd campaign with Miller, he changed the subject to where the voter grew up, then came back to it: "this is the most important election for preserving Republican control of the House, the Senate, and also protecting the Republican control of the state. If we compromise that, we're done."

Emily Moreno told police Miller held a gun to her head, threw hot water from a skillet at her, and pushed her against a wall. CNN obtained the recording of that February interview through a public records request. Their 2-year-old daughter turned up with a fractured collarbone; a child protection specialist described bruising near it as resembling a handprint. Two other women have accused Miller of physical violence.

On August 2nd, during a livestream defending himself, Miller posted a link to a public folder his own attorney assembled. It contained an unredacted n**e photograph of his 2-year-old daughter and her name, unredacted, more than 70 times. Over 204,000 views by the next afternoon. His attorney apologized and called it unintentional.

Bernie Moreno: "To say oops is grotesque."

"Everyone up and down the ticket" also means Rodney Creech, who won his primary 58-42 and is the Republican nominee in House District 40. His own daughter told state investigators he climbed into bed with her while erect and wearing only his underwear. He admitted getting into bed with her in his underwear and denies the rest. No charges were filed, but the special prosecutor called his behavior "concerning and suspicious."

Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign scrubbed Creech from its endorsement page within two days of that being reported. Gary Click came off in the same edit and was back within two hours.

So either the scrub meant something, and "everyone up and down the ticket" isn't true. Or it's true, and the scrub was housekeeping.

Either way, the page can be edited in under a business day. They've proven it twice. Miller's name is still on it, three weeks into an ethics review, a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a toddler, and two of Ramaswamy's own endorsing senators telling the man to quit.

And the super PAC backing Ramaswamy has twice run television ads about Amy Acton being sexually abused as a child. She disclosed it on a 1994 medical licensing form. Ohio later removed that question because it discouraged people from getting help.

So an abuse survivor running for governor is fair game for the airwaves, and a congressman accused by three women keeps his spot on the endorsement list. That's insane.

Ohio, we can do better than this.

Check your registration. Make a plan. Bring somebody with you.

WE'LL REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER.

Reporting by Bonnie Lucas, TiffinOhio.net. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19MFJb4Jku/

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