Notices by Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 (danwentzel@urbanists.social), page 2

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.

The masks are back on #MetroLosAngeles.

Good idea! The air is foul.

Kern County is a MAGA stronghold in California that former Speaker Kevin McCarthy represented. They did the fu-ing around. Here comes the finding out part.

"Acres of grape fields sat unpicked in Kern County this week as word of Border Patrol raids circulated through Messenger chats and images of federal agents detaining laborers spread on local Facebook groups."
#FAFO
https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/

Take note of all the Neville Chamberlain‘s and all of the Winston Churchill‘s at this moment in US history.

If you want to know what you and others would have done in 1938 Germany, you are about to find out.

Wherever Merrick Garland is, I hope he is having a miserable day.

@Npars01 I do not own a car by choice but maintain a driver's license. The insistence that someone needed to have their own car before applying for a stationary job never made sense nor seemed fair.

My whole life I have seen advertisements for desk jobs that required people to have driver's licenses, use of a vehicle, and insurance, even when there was no driving involved in the job at all.

Requiring a driver's license for employment is now prohibited in California if driving is not reasonably expected to be part of the job duties. This is a huge victory for people who use transit and cycling for their mobility.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/12/28/new-in-2025-protecting-more-workers/

We don’t have to pretend and act like Donald Trump didn’t attempt a coup, wasn’t found liable for fraud and sexual assault, and wasn’t convicted of 34 felonies just because of his job title.

No election erases or changes that or who he is. I will never trust ANY decision he ever makes is office.

I just don‘t buy that 49.9% of Americans voters who picked the Presidential candidate who had attempted a coup and had been adjudicated for sexual assault because they were concerned about “prices”.

The reasons for voting for authoritarianism were darker and more nefarious than “the economy”.

Don’t be surprised if this coming Musk vs. Trump battle doesn’t end with a 25th Amendment attempt against Trump to install Vance as part of a Project 2025 coup — just as we warned before the election.

Things are just coming to a head sooner than I expected.