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

“I hate populists!”
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Really?

Because the corporate-funded establishment “centrists” weren’t able to stop fascism from taking power in America.

And then when fascism came, they offered it “norms”, “bipartisanship”, and business as usual politics.

Maybe it is time to let the populists have a turn. They could hardly do any worse.

To fight fascism in America we can either:

(1) build a nationwide mass movement for democracy, social justice, and economic fairness for people who work for a living, OR

(2) rely on “norms”, “bipartisanship”, and Schumer’s treadmill buddies at the Senate gym.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-rally-democrats-rcna197296

Why can't Democrats hold rallies to save Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA in every city in America? And bring along voter registration forms.

If Bernie Sanders can hold big rallies in red states and red districts, why can't the Democratic Party leadership? Saving these programs would unite the whole party -- moderates, liberals, and progressives.

If your political strategist is telling you to play dead or worry only about “norms”, and just let Trump destroy the country, the economy, and our democracy so you can win assumed “free and fair” midterm elections in 2026, then please get a new political strategist.

President Reagan and his administration did nothing to fight HIV/AIDS because it was "killing all the right people", including so many people I loved, and they practically rooted for the virus.

I don't ever want to hear any Democrat praise Ronald Reagan in a speech again.

One of things I love about studying history is learning how often it repeats.

Plato studied 150 Ancient Greek City States and already figured out how this oligarchy will fall. This video is with a watch. Plato’s ‘Republic’ is a historical masterpiece.

https://youtu.be/UlbJtgYEM1U?si=tKS_Nh-LKWID5XYm

A brief note before the mass graves part of this techno-fascist regime begins:

“I was just following orders” wasn’t accepted as an excuse at the Nuremberg Trials and won’t be accepted when this regime is finally ousted either.

California Governor Gavin Newsom:
"We're launching a new platform to bring Californians together to engage, interact, and share ideas that will help shape government services and create policy solutions. Government works better when we build it together — which means making it easier for everyone to be involved."
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Hey fellow citizens in the Republic of California, join me in signing up at Engaged.CA.Gov

#California

Trump has signed an executive order claiming that only the president can speak for “what the law is”
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Oh? There is no U.S. Constitution anymore?

President Newsom needs to declare independence for the Republic of California.

A staged assanination attempt to boost a political campaign? Wow.

Imagine if one our candidates for President ever tried something like that.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/18/brazil-mayor-election-attack

Leave Kamala Harris alone.

She did her part. It isn’t her fault that the electorate thought that voting for criminals and fascists to preserve white male supremacy or casting a counterproductive protest vote was more important than saving democracy, Social Security; Medicare, the ACA, and NATO.

We repeatedly warned the electorate that Project 2025 was coming and now it has a trifecta. That's on the voters (and non-voters), not Kamala Harris.

What business are not bending the knee to Trump in addition to Costco?

I want to proactively support the good ones rather than keep track of the cowards.

California (and other blue states) going independent or joining with Canada or Denmark (European Union) is a preferable alternative to going down the crapper with the rest of Trump’s MAGAland.

‘Thousands of Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S.”

https://ktla.com/news/california/thousands-of-danes-sign-petition-to-buy-california-from-u-s/

Apparently ICE has shown up at Kaiser Sunset. Nothing like hitting people when they are most vulnerable.

So in the B-Movie screenplay of this timeline, the “deal” was that Musk hacks and rigs the vote tabulations for Trump, who would then allow Musk raid the treasury and its computer systems to mine its data and set up a crypto to replace the dollar as the new default currency.

Nah, not believable.

Is there a way for the Republic of California to set up independent trade policies using a state import/export bank?
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¿Existe alguna manera de que la República de California establezca políticas comerciales independientes mediante un banco de importación y exportación?

Call a camp for 30,000 detainees on Guantanamo Bay what it is:

A "Concentration Camp".

Don't let Trump, Republicans, or the "both sides" corporate news media gaslight us on this.

Well-meaning, straight white cis male friend: “It’s all smoke and mirrors to scare people while billionaires loot the treasury.”

Actually, there will be smoke because there will be actual fires where real people will get burned and even killed. The theft is real, but so is the harm and cruelty.

Trans and non-binary people exist and have always existed and will always exist.

Democrats in Congress and other leaders,

Donald Trump is a convicted felon who attempted a coup and skipped President Biden’s inauguration.

You really don’t have to go the inauguration and pretend that this is a normal transition.

Normalize not normalizing Trump, authoritarianism, and fascism.