Notices by Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 (danwentzel@urbanists.social)

Yes, I want my tax dollars feeding every kid breakfast and lunch at school in my state.

And I don’t even have kids. But I understand how much this benefits them and all of us.

https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/universal-school-meals-help-all-california-children-thrive/

The refusal to seat Adelita Grijalva now is a test run for not seating Democrats who win in 2026.

We are farther down the road to fascism than many pundits and politicos who want to pretend everything is normal dare admit.

I am going to keep asking. Where are the missing 1200 people and are they still alive?

While we obsess over the profound and horrific symbolism of the destruction of the White House, we cannot lose focus on the real people being harmed by this fascist regime.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/25/alligator_alcatraz

Project 2025 forces all of us into becoming federalists, because it will be years and at least two election cycles before the federal government is fully functioning.

This will be a shift for many on the left who look to big national programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to lift all boats.

If California can have $11 insulin, then so can yours. If New Mexico can have affordable child care, then so can yours.

Not just "states rights". Let's think "state empowerment" instead.

We don’t want a new White House ballroom. We want groceries, healthcare, and housing that we can afford.

When this is the photo that you are going to be most remembered for in your life, you need to rethink your life choices.

(I hope he heals from the injuries from his fall, but do not use the f-word or the n-word, please.)

What the fascists really hate about the No Kings rallies is that you will meet other people who love democracy too and realize that you are not alone and be less afraid of them.

Authoritarians thrive on fear and keeping people feeling scared and alone.

Let’s all have a fun and peaceful time today.

“I celebrate Columbus Day!”
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Exactly how does one do that?

Breaking into someone else’s house and claiming it as yours?

Giving someone a contagious disease-filled blanket?

Going to a supermarket and getting lost looking for spices?

President Biden is a good man who tried following Trump’s first term with unity, bipartisanship, and “norms.

That turned out to be incredibly naive and now we have fascism.

When this regime finally ends, what say we go for accountability, justice, and sending these bastards to The Hague instead?

Quick… while the government is shut down…. someone start a new one with universal health care.

One excellent way for Californians to show solidarity with Portland, Oregon, our fellow West Coast city, is to vote YES on Prop 50 as soon as our ballots arrive next week.

Bank those YES votes as early as possible before Trump does something fascistic.

Vote YES on Prop 50.

Arguing over how we got to fascism isn’t the best use of our energy. Leave that to the historians.

We are better off figuring out how to get out of it and what we want to build in its place after it.

“Winning the midterms” and putting duck tape on the old institutions simply won’t be enough.

As we have seen from Speaker Johnson this week, they are prepared to simply not seat their opponents when we win elections.

All "empires" end. The Greek, Roman, Mongal, Spanish, and British empires all ended. The Soviet Union ended. History does not stand still.

Historians will record that the American people voted to end their own empire out of racism, tantrum, and/or protest.
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'Are We Witnessing the Fall of the American Empire?'

From the Article:
Q: 'Was the fall of Rome this stupid?
A: "Stupid to whom?"

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fall-of-rome-united-states-america-decline-mike-duncan-1235430424/

The fascists want to label the pride flag as “domestic terrorism”, so here is the pride flag.

It is absolutely disgraceful that the City of West Hollywood pride flags were lowered on behalf of a racist, homophobic, and transphobic podcaster who was a threat to the well-being of gay and trans people, and people of color.

These two flags should have been kept raised in defiance of what he stood for, which is everything against the spirit of West Hollywood.

https://wehotimes.com/west-hollywood-responds-to-controversy-following-lowering-of-flags-to-half-staff-in-memory-of-charlie-kirk/

#WeHo

A map of the Roman Emprire at its height in 117 AD. I am sure its citizens at the time never thought it would eventually fall either.

"The left want to kill us. IT'S WAR!!!" - MAGA influencers
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"Uh... we are are just trying to make sure everyone has health care, food, and, good transit, and the ability to vote" - Actual liberals and progressives

All of us white people who can speak Spanish should do so just to confuse ICE.
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Todos nosotros gringos que sabemos hablar español, deberíamos hacerlo sólo para confundir a ICE.

Here is some local good news.

A new dog park is coming to Plummer Park in West Hollywood, CA.

We love our pets here.

https://wehotimes.com/west-hollywood-to-begin-construction-of-new-dog-park-at-plummer-park-sept-15/

#weho

"You can't 'soft-secede' and look after your own states and region. What about the 'union'? Aren't we all 'Americans'?

"**Red state troops and ICE go uninvited into blue states and blue cities. Supreme Court rules 4th Amendment no longer applies and gives Dictator Trump immunity.**

You're cute.