SIGNS

ALL MY OUTRAGE CAN'T FIT ON THIS SIGN

                                                                                                                ––Lawn sign Vergennes

The clip of him asking voters for another chance made the rounds in the media. When MS NOW’s Morning Joe showed it, the producers continued the clip to include his second point. He said: “And the second argument I’d make is, even if you don’t agree with us on every issue, the other party is consumed by craziness.” At that point, the panel burst out laughing. 

[Bet it was the laughter that got Trump pissed off at MCNOW, et al.  Laughter is the biggest threat to narcissistic authoritarians]

Yesterday Trump posted two videos of people being mauled by lions and tigers. Last night, just before midnight, in the style of strongmen trying to prove they are supermen, he posted an AI video of himself warning a tiger off, then chasing the tiger, tackling it, dominating it, and finally playing with the now docile animal.

                                                                                            ––Heather Cox Richardson

I am sure if we explain one more time that we are people
They will finally understand why this needs to stop
Oh! They will say, their eyes widening
Oh! How terrible!
We did not think of this happening to a person
We thought of this as one of those things that happened
We thought of it as happening in a story
In a group chat
We did not realize there were people in there!
Maybe something almost like people but not quite
Noisy frowns attached to something that we wanted
You are going to tell me that all this time
Crouched inside those statistics
Gritting their teeth behind pseudonyms
Peering out through the bars of hashtags …
Those were people? This is really awful
If this can happen to a person—
Why didn’t you say something?
Is that what you’ve been shouting all this time?
No wonder you’re so hoarse
No wonder you’re so upset
How do you ever stop screaming?

Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 10/2026

                                                                    ––Sign left over from a No Kings protest

I have never believed that Trump was somehow an agent of Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, or in his pay. It is much worse. He simply does not cherish democracy. He cherishes money. And he has no problem selling the first for the second. When he acts in his own commercial interests, that’s his personal business. When he uses the American presidency to make a buck, it is our collective shame.

                                                            ––Thomas Friedman, 10/2026

I have no words.