We remember when Melania (r) became a protest meme.
28 Thursday Aug 2025
Posted in media criticism, Resist
28 Thursday Aug 2025
Posted in media criticism, Resist
16 Saturday Aug 2025
02 Saturday Aug 2025
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Today, starting at 11:00 a.m., a group of eight demonstrators opposed to the administration and policies of Donald Trump (r) set up in the right-of-way near the intersection of U.S. Highway 65 and U.S. Highway 50 in Sedalia, Missouri. There is a lot of passing traffic at this intersection.
There were a few passing Trump (r) loyalists. They were upset by the demonstration. Most of them used language you’d expect.
Those showing support far outnumbered those expressing disapproval.
31 Thursday Jul 2025
Posted in Healthcare, Resist, social media
Tags
abortion, Amendment 3, Andrew Bailey, anti-choice, Attorney General, Fascist pig, Mifepristone, missouri, Planned Parenthood, right wingnut, social media
Election Results [pdf]
Official Election Returns
State of Missouri – General Election, November 05, 2024, Tuesday, November 5, 2024
As announced by the Board of State Canvassers on Thursday, December 5, 2024Constitutional Amendment 3 (3572 of 3572 Precincts Reported)
Constitutional Amendment 3
Yes Votes 1,538,659 51.6%
No Votes 1,443,022 48.4%
Total Votes 2,981,681
Amendment 3, approved by Missouri voters, placed abortion rights in the Missouri Constitution.
Section 36. Right to reproductive freedom initiative—fundamental right, limitations on restrictions—regulation permitted, when—no penalty, adverse actions or discrimination, when—severability clause—definitions.
l. This Section shall be known as “The Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative”.
2. The Government shall not deny or infringe upon a person’s fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which is the right to make and carry out decisions about all matters relating to reproductive health care, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, abortion care, miscarriage care, and respectful birthing conditions.
[….]
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (r) has been a busy little anti-choice bee.
Attorney General Andrew Bailey
[July 25, 2025]
I will not allow a death factory to lie to Missourians in pursuit of cutting costs and boosting revenue.
[The Washington Times – “Missouri AG sues Planned Parenthood for ‘disinformation’ about risks of abortion pil”]
Some of the responses:
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Your body, your choice. Wait! You can’t have children? Sorry, but you should have NO say in what women do with their bodies! Missourians agree. We voted for Amendment3. We believe in a woman’s right to determine her future and her family.
so youre good to murder babies?
You think a blastocyst is a baby? Do you do much babysitting for embryos? I know, to you an egg is a pre-born chicken and an acorn is a pre-born tree. You like to count your chickens before they hatch. If you believe this, then don’t get an abortion! It’s that simple. Otherwise, mind your own business!
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STFU Mo. is Pro Life Moron !
wrong MAGA Missouri is pro-birth. Once the kid is born, you could give a fuck about it. Missouri ranks 30th in infant mortality, 24th in education.
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Any gun distribution locations receiving the same treatment
You don’t have the evidence.
Mifepristone is a medication that is used for various applications. Some potential uses include:
Managing early pregnancy loss
Inducing labor
Treating endometriosis and fibroids
Managing hyperglycemia associated with Cushing’s syndrome
As an emergency contraceptive
interesting, Missourians voted for amendment 3, but that seems to be ignored. Support what voters voted for. Now
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You need a CT scan.
You need an appointment with God… Did you know that Ozzy accepted Jesus as his Savior before he died? Turn to God not the Demon-rat party.
Fuck off.
Jesus wouldn’t talk to people like that. He didn’t call names because someone was more moral than he.
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That’s rich, coming from Andrew “Disinformation Bailey”!
Are you a medical doctor and a lawyer? If so, Brad Bradshaw would like to speak with you.
Is that why Mo has the death penalty?
Safer than Viagra, but you won’t talk about that.
So you’re resigning? FINALLY
You are a money wasting factory!
He’s upholding the legacies of Josh Hawley (r) and Eric Schmitt (r).
Your willful ignorance is astounding
You’re a turd factory.
Sir, Planned Parenthood literally provides life-saving treatment. To call it a death factory is a disservice to the women you represent.
A. Bailey is the one maliciously spreading lies that are threatening the lives of women and girls. Those being threatened are our sisters, aunts, daughters, granddaughters, nieces, neighbors, friends… anyone having a miscarriage.
How about the illegal gerrymandering?
You are the opposite of prolife
Planned Parenthood is women’s healthcare. MO GOP policies kills women.
Give it up douchebag
Bailey is a lying sack of vomit. He thinks A.G. stands for “Almost Governor”.
Heh.
You are wasting our tax dollars. You should be investigated.
You’re a fucking moron.
The people of Missouri voted. Take your fascists bullshit elsewhere
What percent of Mifepristone users in Missouri died as a result of that use? What is our statewide Maternal Mortality rating? If you do not have these statistics statewide or even country wide, you have no case except hate and prejudice. Any woman currently who wishes to use abortion pills has a good case to sue you for denying them that right under Amendment 3. Which of those two scenarios frightens you most?
I will not allow an organization to set women free from the tyranny of males who would keep them barefoot and pregnant.
Fixed it.
MAGA hates your kids and shields pedophiles.
The death factory is the GOP. Healthcare cuts. USAID cuts. All resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands so far thanks to this administration.
Just made a big donation to Planned Parenthood in your name. You’re exactly like the Taliban and a danger to all Women.
Meanwhile, Bailey lies to Missourians and attacks women’s rights. You are a disgrace.
The disinformation is originating from your office.
Please keep wasting our tax dollars fighting a medication with less adverse effects than birth control or viagra. If this was a true consumer protection issue you’d be suing the manufacturer.
17 Thursday Jul 2025
Posted in Resist
Today at noon over seventy-five individuals gathered on the Johnson County Courthouse lawn in Warrensburg, Missouri to commemorate the birthday of John Lewis (D) and to resist the continuing excesses of the Trump (r) Administration.
There were chants. There is a joy in the battle. There was a cowbell.
There were honking horns. There was a shout – “Socialists” – from a passing car in the public street. Think about that for just a brief second. There were a few revved motors – you guessed it – from pickup trucks.
There were mostly honking horns.
Later, a passerby stopped to “ask” about the flag. What did it mean? It turns out that the passerby was disturbed about this particular display. The holder explained what it meant, and added, “I am a veteran.”
A benediction:
There was a reporter from a national publication interviewing demonstrators.
The resistance will continue.
Previously:
March and Rally – Warrensburg, Missouri – March 29, 2025 (March 29, 2025)
#HandsOff – Warrensburg, Missouri – April 5, 2025 (April 5, 2025)
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/05/30/march-and-rally-warrensburg-missouri-may-30-2025/ (April 19, 2025)
March and Rally – Warrensburg, Missouri – May 30, 2025 (May 30, 2025)
Warrensburg, Missouri – No Kings – June 14, 2025 (June 14, 2025)
Good Trouble – Henry County Courthouse – Clinton, Missouri – July 17, 2025 – 10:00 a.m. (July 17, 2025)
17 Thursday Jul 2025
Posted in Resist
Tags
#resist, Clinton, dissent, Good Trouble, Henry County, missouri, protest
It was raining. It had rained heavily overnight.
This morning at 10:00 a.m. over thirty individuals gathered at the Henry County courthouse square in Clinton, Missouri to celebrate John Lewis (D) and hear a few words about continuing to protest and the right wingnut assault on public education in Missouri.
A week day morning. There were signs. There were passersby.
The organizers and participants are a persistent bunch. They plan to continue these demonstrations.
Previously:
March – Clinton, Missouri – April 26, 2025 (April 27, 2025)
Clinton, Missouri – No Kings – June 14, 2025 (June 15, 2025)
09 Wednesday Jul 2025
Posted in Resist, social media
Tags
#resist, America, Donald Trump, Fascism, ice, immigration, San Francisco
“…Do not diminish those who are raising alarm bells by scolding them that they are hurting the cause—do not believe that if only they dialed it back, then the troubling behavior they are describing will somehow go away. History shows that the opposite is true…” – Eric Larson – 10 Lessons from a Dark Past [David Pepper]
“…All we really have in the end is massive resistance. That is where we are heading–acquiescence or resistance. You and I will all need to make our choices about whether we will stand up against oppression in ways that a lot of our ancestors did not stand up…” – Erik Loomis
“…in the face of the impulse to normalize, it is essential to maintain one’s capacity for shock. This will lead people to call you unreasonable and hysterical, and to accuse you of overreacting. It is no fun to be the only hysterical person in the room. Prepare yourself…”
“…Don’t make compromises. [….] In an autocracy, politics as the art of the possible is in fact utterly amoral…” – Masha Gessen – Autocracy: Rules for Survival
“…Write down what you value; what standards you hold for yourself and for others. Write about your dreams for the future and your hopes for your children. Write about the struggle of your ancestors and how the hardship they overcame shaped the person you are today.
Write your biography, write down your memories. Because if you do not do it now, you may forget.
Write a list of things you would never do. Because it is possible that in the next year, you will do them.
Write a list of things you would never believe. Because it is possible that in the next year, you will either believe them or be forced to say you believe them…” – Sarah Kendzior – We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump
Our time:
San Francisco, yesterday.
Michael Bersin @michaelbersin.bsky.social
“….People can’t get to [xxxxxxxx] work and be a normal person, that’s what I’m upset about…” – San Francisco man, upset about ICE protest/confrontation blocking traffic.
We’re doomed.
If you’ve ever wondered what you would have done had you lived in Germany in the 1930s, you’re doing it now.
04 Friday Jul 2025
Posted in Resist
The sights and sounds of freedom on our national holiday.
This afternoon around twenty individuals with signs gathered along the right-of-way near the intersection of U.S. Highway 50 and U.S. Highway 65 in Sedalia, Missouri. On summer holidays and weekends there’s a considerable amount of traffic passing through the city at this location.
An hour into the demonstration two Sedalia Police vehicles appeared. Apparently a Karen in an establishment next to the empty lot complained that a few protesters’ vehicles were blocking access to a few of the angled parking spots to the side of her building. The police asked that those vehicles be moved – they were. In one conversation one of the officers asked, “Did you get a permit?” [Hint: There was no march, the demonstration was on the right of way on public property. There is no requirement nor need for a “permit”.] The police officer stated that he would be contacting the owner of the empty lot where the demonstrators parked their cars. Like non-existent customers ostensibly blocked from parking in a few spaces in a more substantial parking lot, good luck finding or contacting anyone at 2:00 p.m. on a national holiday.
A reporter for the Sedalia newspaper interviewing one of the protesters:
There were a few shouts and other signs from angry people in pick-up trucks, some who made multiple passes, which by appearances one would assume the owner was underwater on their loan.
ICE and Donald Trump’s (r) DOJ keep telling us that tattoos are a primary indicator of something, something, right?
A few upset passersby shouted unintelligible phrases, one individual made multiple passes in an over accessorized pick-up truck using a sound system to call out other unintelligible phrases. One self-righteous individual pulled up in a white pick-up and tried to start an argument with a veteran holding an upside down American flag. He drove off after a minute or so.
There was a constant and substantial number of supportive honking horns from passing traffic throughout the demonstration:
A Vietnam veteran:
It doesn’t get more American than that.
02 Wednesday Jul 2025
Posted in Resist, social media

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check. Conviction. Check.
The delusional autocrat is up early this morning:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
As President of the United States, I’m not going to let this Communist Lunatic destroy New York. Rest assured, I hold all the levers, and have all the cards. I’ll save New York City, and make it “Hot” and “Great” again, just like I did with the Good Ol’ USA!
4.05k ReTruths 20.1k Likes Jul 02, 2025, 7:38 AM
“…Rest assured, I hold all the levers, and have all the cards…”
Fascist pig.
Resist:
01 Tuesday Jul 2025
Posted in Resist

German Nazi Swastika Flag, National Museum of American History. Catalog number 1977.0788.03, 29 in x 49 in; 73.66 cm x 124.46 cm.
What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.
Now in Florida:
[….]President Trump visited Florida on Tuesday to tour what’s been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” a controversial migrant detention center in the Everglades that officials say is poised to start filling its bed in a matter of hours.
The president was joined by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state emergency management officials as he toured the makeshift facility, which the state put together within days of receiving federal approval last week.
“I thought this was so professional, so well done,” Trump said after touring the center, which features rows of fenced-in bunk beds and a razor-wire perimeter. “It’s really government working together.”
The facility is situated within the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, an isolated, 39-square mile airstrip located within the wetlands of the Big Cypress National Preserve, next to Everglades National Park.[….]
“I thought this was so professional, so well done,” Trump said after touring the center, which features rows of fenced-in bunk beds and a razor-wire perimeter. “It’s really government working together.”
If you’ve ever wondered what you would have done had you lived in Germany in the 1930s, you’re doing it now.