Trump sending troops into American cities and calling it “protecting freedom” is like an arsonist showing up to your house with a bucket of gasoline and saying he’s here to help you put the fire out.
This isn’t patriotism. It’s cosplay Caesarism. And if people don’t show up, peacefully and massively, on October 18, we’re handing them the script they’re dying to act out.
Blessed be the ones who see the empire creeping in wearing camo and still show up with signs, songs, and stubborn hope.
We are devastated in Portland, consulting one another about the best ways to peacefully push back. Oregon's governor and Portland's mayor led a peaceful protest over the weekend. Portland is the City of Roses, not the City of War!
On the news, they showed an interfaith protest at the ice facility in Portland with everyone walking slowly and holding flowers. Overwhelm them with kindness and flowers and singing and cookies and everything you can think of that is kind and sweet and beautiful. Remember, the entire country, even the world is watching. It was Martin Luther King‘s power that he kept the civil rights movement nonviolent. That is what awakened the conscience of the nation.
Also remember that it isn’t the fault of the soldiers that they are there. Many don’t want to be. So demonstrate, but demonstrate with love . Do not let the country see you triggered or angry. That will work against you, and it will work against the rest of us as well. Refuse to play their game. Show up with flowers and music and kindness and love. Bring Roses!!
Picnics and dance parties! Let's feed people and celebrate being alive. While wearing our protest t-shirts. I'm not in Portland, but what I am seeing of your protests on social media, highlighting your joy and calm is AWESOME! Keep going. Force the hilarity of their own perspective on them.
Thank you, both! Everyone in my circles is saying and doing exactly what you are describing here.
We are away on business work right now. I can't wait to get home, go to Portland -we live about 35 miles away these days - and join with other Oregonians and Washintonians, to march for peace.
I have not seen the news clips of the interfaith march, but my "spiritual" big brother posted about it.
He and his fellow quakers acted as official "peace keepers," for the event.
They posted themselves at the front and the back of the march to keep everyone safe. This is the same man who as a conscientious objector went to Nam carrying only a camera onto the battle field.
"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of (divinity)," Jesus of Nazareth.
I pray for divine intervention for the good our country.
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”
Matt Damon from Howard Zinn's speech: The Problem is Civil Obedience 5:05 min
Democrats think they can destroy cities and terrorize taxpayers while supplying drug addicts and revolutionaries.
The democrats have been playing with revolution. They are itching for war like they did in the 1800’s. Democrats should look towards history. Lincoln didn’t give a damn about their freedoms. He took over the south anyways. State rights be damned.
No one has been "attacking" ICE facilities (except in Texas, and notice Trump is not going in there). There have been peaceful protests, nothing violent in the least, and local and state police are more than able to handle any problem.
Telling truth to my readers as I understand it is a duty I take very seriously.
Saying No to Digital IDs - This is George Orwell’s 1984!
There's a better way, where you remain in healthy control.
World Council for Health - Aug 19, 2025
They Rob You Of Your Privacy
¨Digital IDs are being sold as a safer way to prove who you are. In practice, they can be used to track, log, and profile your activities across multiple domains—online and offline. Consider that:
Every time you use a digital ID, it could leave a data trail.
This information might be shared across agencies, companies, and borders, often without clear consent.
Saudi Arabia’s digital ID app ‘Absher’ has over 20 million users and offers access to a rising number of public services. The app also allows men to receive notifications if a woman under their guardianship passes through an airport. From the convenience of his phone, a man can withdraw a woman’s right to travel. Human rights organisations raised the alarm over this over six years ago, and Apple looked into it. To this day, the app has not been changed and it is still available to download on the Apple Store...¨ Read More
Coming soon to a country near you. This is very bad and dangerous. Please watch the 3 minutes video also.
Here is an advert for Digital IDs by Thales, the weapons manufacturer, from a few years ago.
Digital IDs Will Reduce Britons to a QR Code
We don't have to be "hackable animals", we have a choice. All it requires is self-control and courage.
Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD - Sep 28, 2025
¨I enjoyed speaking in Scotland last week at the Let Food Be Thy Medicine conference organised by The Good Food Project. In one of my talks, among other issues, I highlighted that Digital IDs were looming. The following day, British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, made his unwelcome announcement that digital IDs are soon to be implemented in the UK. This statement comes after the EU announced that a new biometric data system is to be introduced at European airports in October...¨
What a powerful and insightful post, Marianne. You wrote: "The Heritage Foundation - along with an array of White Supremacists, Christian Nationalists, and techno autocrats such as Peter Thiel and Elon Musk - want to replace the American Constitutional system. They find it inefficient and inconvenient to their purposes. Their plan is to establish a corporate monarch, with America run by corporate fiefdoms controlled by state surveillance."
This observation should be held up to the light of Intelligence everywhere, along with your observation that these forces are willing to destroy our sacred institutions, norms and economy as well as our social programs in order to effect their takeover of our country and allied democracies. No, Thiel, Musk et. believe democracy to be unworkable in today's high tech economy and want to replace it with a monarchical system consisting of they themselves and their most ardent true believers. Ring the bells, sound the alarms. This is the danger we are in.
¨Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle and Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer, envisions a future where artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems monitor citizens extensively through a network of cameras and drones.
Ellison shared his vision during the ‘Oracle Financial Analyst Meeting 2024’ in an investor Q&A session, highlighting the potential benefits of AI-driven supervision.
He said AI will usher in a new era of surveillance that he gleefully said will ensure “citizens will be on their best behaviour because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”
This widespread surveillance will infringe on personal freedoms, creating a surveillance state. But it’s not only citizens he wants AI to oversee. He also envisions that AI will monitor law enforcement. “We’re going to have supervision. Every police officer’s going to be supervised at all times,” he said.
Ellison’s vision highlights a growing trend among tech companies to use AI for societal influence, which could reshape public life in the coming years.¨
¨Forget the WHO. That's so old school. Enter Stargate and the Made-In-The-USA version of science-based medical dictatorship. If Larry Ellison's AI gives you an "ironclad" diagnosis of, say, CANCER and makes a special mRNA/DNA vaccine for you, the machine will roll up your sleeve and ram the needle into your arm. There will be no second opinion. There will be no appeal. There will be no exemption. Don't even think about what will happen to you if you refuse.¨
Where the soldiers are deployed, local businesses dependent upon walk-in customers suffer. People stock up and stay home, order out, to stay away from where the military are loitering. Yes, I'm calling it loitering because there is no task to perform in these cities. This is all to cater to Trump's delusions brought on by his dementia instead of facing facts and removing him as being unfit to serve in that or in any other position.
Hey Marianne, thank you for all your work. I have an idea about the 10/18 protests. Why don't we organize picnics and dance parties that day? We can wear our protest t-shirts, but then gather in joy and community connection with our neighbors. Are Trump's boogeymen really going to arrest people picnicking and dancing? If so, let him. Those are optics that will shatter something.
Thank you. Looking forward to the Sub stacks. You are doing great works👍🏻
God bless you & my gratitude to you Marianne.
Love this!!!
We all need to be out in peaceful presence on
October 18, 2025.
No Kings Protest 10/18/25💜
Trump sending troops into American cities and calling it “protecting freedom” is like an arsonist showing up to your house with a bucket of gasoline and saying he’s here to help you put the fire out.
This isn’t patriotism. It’s cosplay Caesarism. And if people don’t show up, peacefully and massively, on October 18, we’re handing them the script they’re dying to act out.
Blessed be the ones who see the empire creeping in wearing camo and still show up with signs, songs, and stubborn hope.
We are devastated in Portland, consulting one another about the best ways to peacefully push back. Oregon's governor and Portland's mayor led a peaceful protest over the weekend. Portland is the City of Roses, not the City of War!
On the news, they showed an interfaith protest at the ice facility in Portland with everyone walking slowly and holding flowers. Overwhelm them with kindness and flowers and singing and cookies and everything you can think of that is kind and sweet and beautiful. Remember, the entire country, even the world is watching. It was Martin Luther King‘s power that he kept the civil rights movement nonviolent. That is what awakened the conscience of the nation.
Also remember that it isn’t the fault of the soldiers that they are there. Many don’t want to be. So demonstrate, but demonstrate with love . Do not let the country see you triggered or angry. That will work against you, and it will work against the rest of us as well. Refuse to play their game. Show up with flowers and music and kindness and love. Bring Roses!!
Picnics and dance parties! Let's feed people and celebrate being alive. While wearing our protest t-shirts. I'm not in Portland, but what I am seeing of your protests on social media, highlighting your joy and calm is AWESOME! Keep going. Force the hilarity of their own perspective on them.
Thank you, both! Everyone in my circles is saying and doing exactly what you are describing here.
We are away on business work right now. I can't wait to get home, go to Portland -we live about 35 miles away these days - and join with other Oregonians and Washintonians, to march for peace.
I have not seen the news clips of the interfaith march, but my "spiritual" big brother posted about it.
He and his fellow quakers acted as official "peace keepers," for the event.
They posted themselves at the front and the back of the march to keep everyone safe. This is the same man who as a conscientious objector went to Nam carrying only a camera onto the battle field.
"Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of (divinity)," Jesus of Nazareth.
I pray for divine intervention for the good our country.
Yes ☮️💜☮️💜
Hope people remember that the last peaceful protest was
June 14….
Remember it’s Saturday Oct.18 2025… This Saturday.
Please remind as many friends and family that Love This Country .
Love.
Peace.
Justice.
We The People
Love the US!
We Stand Together
United
For
The United People of America!
HOWARD ZINN ON CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”
Matt Damon from Howard Zinn's speech: The Problem is Civil Obedience 5:05 min
https://youtu.be/S2li9E_94MA
Democrats think they can destroy cities and terrorize taxpayers while supplying drug addicts and revolutionaries.
The democrats have been playing with revolution. They are itching for war like they did in the 1800’s. Democrats should look towards history. Lincoln didn’t give a damn about their freedoms. He took over the south anyways. State rights be damned.
This is what needs to be said, thank you!
Attacking ICE personnel and facilities IS a crime. Daily incitements to distract and polarize your readers is beneath you. Or, I thought it was.
No one has been "attacking" ICE facilities (except in Texas, and notice Trump is not going in there). There have been peaceful protests, nothing violent in the least, and local and state police are more than able to handle any problem.
Telling truth to my readers as I understand it is a duty I take very seriously.
Well said Marianne!
Saying No to Digital IDs - This is George Orwell’s 1984!
There's a better way, where you remain in healthy control.
World Council for Health - Aug 19, 2025
They Rob You Of Your Privacy
¨Digital IDs are being sold as a safer way to prove who you are. In practice, they can be used to track, log, and profile your activities across multiple domains—online and offline. Consider that:
Every time you use a digital ID, it could leave a data trail.
This information might be shared across agencies, companies, and borders, often without clear consent.
Saudi Arabia’s digital ID app ‘Absher’ has over 20 million users and offers access to a rising number of public services. The app also allows men to receive notifications if a woman under their guardianship passes through an airport. From the convenience of his phone, a man can withdraw a woman’s right to travel. Human rights organisations raised the alarm over this over six years ago, and Apple looked into it. To this day, the app has not been changed and it is still available to download on the Apple Store...¨ Read More
https://worldcouncilforhealth.substack.com/p/saying-no-to-digital-ids
Coming soon to a country near you. This is very bad and dangerous. Please watch the 3 minutes video also.
Here is an advert for Digital IDs by Thales, the weapons manufacturer, from a few years ago.
Digital IDs Will Reduce Britons to a QR Code
We don't have to be "hackable animals", we have a choice. All it requires is self-control and courage.
Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD - Sep 28, 2025
¨I enjoyed speaking in Scotland last week at the Let Food Be Thy Medicine conference organised by The Good Food Project. In one of my talks, among other issues, I highlighted that Digital IDs were looming. The following day, British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, made his unwelcome announcement that digital IDs are soon to be implemented in the UK. This statement comes after the EU announced that a new biometric data system is to be introduced at European airports in October...¨
https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/digital-ids-will-reduce-britons-to
What a powerful and insightful post, Marianne. You wrote: "The Heritage Foundation - along with an array of White Supremacists, Christian Nationalists, and techno autocrats such as Peter Thiel and Elon Musk - want to replace the American Constitutional system. They find it inefficient and inconvenient to their purposes. Their plan is to establish a corporate monarch, with America run by corporate fiefdoms controlled by state surveillance."
This observation should be held up to the light of Intelligence everywhere, along with your observation that these forces are willing to destroy our sacred institutions, norms and economy as well as our social programs in order to effect their takeover of our country and allied democracies. No, Thiel, Musk et. believe democracy to be unworkable in today's high tech economy and want to replace it with a monarchical system consisting of they themselves and their most ardent true believers. Ring the bells, sound the alarms. This is the danger we are in.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says AI will be able to detect cancer; develop mRNA vaccine therapies 1:34 min
https://rumble.com/v6c3m6m-oracle-ceo-larry-ellison-says-ai-will-be-able-to-detect-cancer-develop-mrna.html
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¨Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle and Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer, envisions a future where artificial intelligence (“AI”) systems monitor citizens extensively through a network of cameras and drones.
Ellison shared his vision during the ‘Oracle Financial Analyst Meeting 2024’ in an investor Q&A session, highlighting the potential benefits of AI-driven supervision.
He said AI will usher in a new era of surveillance that he gleefully said will ensure “citizens will be on their best behaviour because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”
This widespread surveillance will infringe on personal freedoms, creating a surveillance state. But it’s not only citizens he wants AI to oversee. He also envisions that AI will monitor law enforcement. “We’re going to have supervision. Every police officer’s going to be supervised at all times,” he said.
Ellison’s vision highlights a growing trend among tech companies to use AI for societal influence, which could reshape public life in the coming years.¨
https://www.hopegirlblog.com/2024/09/24/oracles-larry-ellison-gleefully-says-ai-will-usher-in-a-surveillance-state/
Oracle’s Larry Ellison sees AI supervision keeping citizens on ‘best behavior’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQqQtgRdjZU
Technocracy News - Patrick Wood
The Stargate Is Open: Enter The Sand Gods
¨Forget the WHO. That's so old school. Enter Stargate and the Made-In-The-USA version of science-based medical dictatorship. If Larry Ellison's AI gives you an "ironclad" diagnosis of, say, CANCER and makes a special mRNA/DNA vaccine for you, the machine will roll up your sleeve and ram the needle into your arm. There will be no second opinion. There will be no appeal. There will be no exemption. Don't even think about what will happen to you if you refuse.¨
https://www.technocracy.news/the-stargate-is-open-enter-the-sand-gods/
this is so well articulated its breathtaking
Im like everyone reading this worried about where this country will be in 12 months
Thank you for reporting the TRUTH, Marianne, a rare commodity these days, and for your inspiration.
We shall overcome...with LOVE, however difficult that may be.
PS Seeing rants against freedom in these comments is disturbing - seems there's no safe space.
I know. To hear how some people are rooting for tyrants...quite disconcerting.
Where the soldiers are deployed, local businesses dependent upon walk-in customers suffer. People stock up and stay home, order out, to stay away from where the military are loitering. Yes, I'm calling it loitering because there is no task to perform in these cities. This is all to cater to Trump's delusions brought on by his dementia instead of facing facts and removing him as being unfit to serve in that or in any other position.
Hey Marianne, thank you for all your work. I have an idea about the 10/18 protests. Why don't we organize picnics and dance parties that day? We can wear our protest t-shirts, but then gather in joy and community connection with our neighbors. Are Trump's boogeymen really going to arrest people picnicking and dancing? If so, let him. Those are optics that will shatter something.
Any country that is use force against its own people to stay in power has lost the moral authority to lead. Trump must be removed from office now.