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2. <blockquote><center><b><i>Omar Fateh, a Democratic socialist, hopes to<br>
3. defeat incumbent mayor Jacob Frey by focusing<br>
4. on affordability, wages and public safety.</i></b></center></blockquote><br>
5. <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>– Rachel Leingang</b></span></div><br>
6. <br>
7. I share today the second half of Rachel Leingang’s recent <i>Guardian</i> <a href=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/omar-fateh-minneapolis-mayor-race>article</a> on <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Fateh>Omar Fateh</a>, the Democratic socialist who is running for mayor of Minneapolis and whom I’m supporting. In fact, I’ll be door-knocking for him later today. (<b>NOTE:</b> For the first part of Leingang’s piece, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/omar-fatehs-grassroots-campaign-for.html>click here</a>.)<br>
8. <br>
9. <center>_______________</center><br>
10. <br>
11. <blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBdLd1_UdOd4XUnw_Mp41BrdHRWgd-HtlM4vXANzY0_0fg-iX76Px-SW8g8O3FW1tGAlUn1DR0L61p_-2f04pl9wr3vssuTELXf-yTWP3gVTeVAdPk1NhReHxTMykhNTHx3-soxH_oTVmtXwAvmUhXV2hRYuaiWFBUvYTqs8EXQG8DguSUNAQ74g/s367/IMG_E8698.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBdLd1_UdOd4XUnw_Mp41BrdHRWgd-HtlM4vXANzY0_0fg-iX76Px-SW8g8O3FW1tGAlUn1DR0L61p_-2f04pl9wr3vssuTELXf-yTWP3gVTeVAdPk1NhReHxTMykhNTHx3-soxH_oTVmtXwAvmUhXV2hRYuaiWFBUvYTqs8EXQG8DguSUNAQ74g/s200/IMG_E8698.JPG"/></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>mar Fateh, like [New York mayoral candidate] <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani>Zohran Mamdani</a>, is running a campaign full of progressive promises, including raising the minimum wage to $20 an hour, a plan for rent stabilization, a public safety system that funds alternatives to police for calls like mental health crises and standing up to Trump. Six of the 13 council members have backed him, as have unions and state lawmakers.<br>
12. <br>
13. He casts [incumbent mayor] <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Frey>Jacob Frey</a>’s two terms as “broken promises and vetoes,” noting a 2017 campaign promise to end homelessness within five years and goals for public safety reform after George Floyd’s murder [in 2020].<br>
14. <br>
15. “We have a progressive city council that’s ready to do the work, that has been doing the work,” Fateh told <i>The Guardian</i>. “We just don’t have a mayor as a partner.”<br>
16. <br>
17. Fateh, born in Washington DC, moved to Minneapolis about a decade ago. In 2020, the Democratic socialist launched a challenge to an incumbent Democrat for the state senate, earning the party’s endorsement and eventually becoming the first Somali American and first Muslim in the chamber. As a senator, he pushed through a bill creating labor standards for ride-share drivers and championed a tuition-free college plan.<br>
18. <br>
19. His time in the legislature and reputation as a progressive fighter gave him a base of support in the mayoral contest, elevating him to top contender against Frey, Jacobs said.<br>
20. <br>
21. An increased national profile has brought along an increase in threats, racism and Islamophobia, Fateh <a href=https://sahanjournal.com/democracy-politics/racism-islamophobia-attacks-minnesota-election>told <i>Sahan Journal</i></a>, a local publication, this week. Earlier this month, he got a message that said: “Two bullets to the head, done.” He has had to take additional safety precautions and pay for security, he told the outlet. “Most campaigns don’t have to think about this,” his campaign manager told <i>Sahan Journal</i>.<br>
22. <br>
23. Fateh believes [his] <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-longstanding-fault-lines-within.html>revoked endorsement</a> [by the state Democratic party] is in part because of the donor class and how it would look to support a progressive candidate with a populist message, especially in suburban and rural areas where the party has lost ground.<br>
24.  <br>
25. “The Democratic party as a whole likes to always say we’re a big tent, we are a wide spectrum, we welcome everybody,” he said. “But a lot of times it seems like when it’s the more progressive wing . . . they shut [them] out.”<br>
26. <br>
27. After knocking on doors, Fateh returned to the park, where families set up bubble machines and boxes of fruit snacks and goldfish for a “play date with Omar Fateh”, himself the tired first-time father of a newborn. He is quick to show off pictures of his baby. Frey also has a newborn, his second child – the two politicians’ babies were born within 10 days of each other.<br>
28.  <br>
29. An organizer at the play date asked the crowd of a few dozen adults and kids if anyone knows who Fateh is. “I’ve seen him on the phone!” one kid yelled.<br>
30. <br>
31. Sarah Quinn, a Minneapolis voter who spoke to the crowd at the event, said she had heard from people who were ready to vote against Frey, but weren’t sure how they would rank the other candidates. People seemed excited to hear about Fateh’s vision, she said, and she was sick of hearing about vetoes of council bills and “low-grade insults back and forth” among the mayor and council.<br>
32. <br>
33. “I feel like Minneapolis has this reputation of being a really progressive city, and I’m not actually feeling that as a resident,” Quinn said. “And so just hearing his agenda has really resonated with me, and I think that he’s somebody that can actually get the shit done with the city council.”<br>
34. <br>
35. The rise of the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America>Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)</a> has served as a boogeyman of sorts for the Democratic establishment: before the Minneapolis convention, one proposal, which was later pulled back, sought to make it so a candidate couldn’t be endorsed by both the DSA and the [state Democratic party, known in Minnesota as the DFL].<br>
36. <br>
37. Fateh’s campaign has been boosted by the <a href=https://twincitiesdsa.org>Twin Cities DSA</a>. Brooke Bartholomew, the group’s co-chair, said they had seen new members sign up after Mamdani’s win in the primary.<br>
38. <br>
39. “We have the people power,” Bartholomew said. “That’s part of what DSA brings to the table for Omar Fateh’s campaign is people power – going on those doors, talking to neighbors and helping to build this really diverse coalition.”<br>
40. <br>
41. Frey, endorsed by Minnesota’s governor, Tim Walz, has the money advantage over Fateh and the other two top contenders, <a href=https://www.jazzformayor.com>Jazz Hampton</a> and <a href=https://www.dewayneforminneapolis.com>DeWayne Davis</a>. That “organizational muscle” that comes from allied groups and the business community could help get out the vote for Frey, said Jacobs, of the University of Minnesota.
42.  
43. <i>The Guardian</i> repeatedly sought an interview with Frey and asked to attend a campaign event. The campaign initially agreed, but then did not make the mayor available, instead sending a statement from a campaign spokesperson.<br>
44. <br>
45. “Over the last five years, Minneapolis was tested like never before,” the statement said. “Under Mayor Frey’s leadership, the city has been making a comeback. Violent crime is trending down, the city is creating eight times more deeply affordable housing than before Mayor Frey took office, and Minneapolis is taking the Trump administration to court to defend our neighbors. The mayor is running for one final term to improve public safety by hiring more police officers and implementing police reform, expanding affordable housing, and focusing on delivering excellent core city services. We’re optimistic that Minneapolis voters will support that vision next week.”<br>
46. <br>
47. Since Trump returned to the White House, Frey has vocally defended Minneapolis, which could become a target of Trump’s increased deportation raids or military occupations. The homeland security secretary, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristi_Noem>Kristi Noem</a>, came to town in late October, stoking speculation that the city could be next on Trump’s list. Frey, flanked by city leaders, put out a video on the day of her visit saying he had been preparing for months for a potential federal influx.<br>
48. <br>
49. “In Minneapolis, we have your back,” Frey said to the city’s immigrant communities. “You will be protected and respected by our city employees regardless of your immigration status.”<br>
50. <br>
51. Opposing Trump is an increasing part of the mayor’s purview, and one that all the contenders say is critical. Fateh wants the city to strengthen the separation ordinance that prevents city employees from aiding immigration activities.<br>
52. <br>
53. While the race is often cast as a two-person contest, Hampton and Davis see lanes for themselves to win, given ranked-choice voting, and not just to help Fateh.<br>
54. <br>
55. “I would not be running to prop up someone else’s campaign,” Hampton said. “I’m running to win, and I believe that we can and will. However, if that means door-knocking with other candidates to let everyone see us, that’s what we should be doing.”<br>
56. <br>
57. Davis, a minister and former congressional staffer, said voters were ready to move beyond “leadership by press conference and ribbon-cutting”, and the success of the three insurgent campaigns shows that.<br>
58. <br>
59. The Mamdani comparisons don’t track as much with the Minneapolis race, Davis said. Looking past the weak opposition from Cuomo in New York, Minneapolis has a “very active establishment” of business-oriented Democrats.<br>
60. <br>
61. “I think we are far more divided here,” Davis said of Minneapolis voters. “And so given the ranked choice with us, that division, it’s any guess about how that iteration of choices through ranked choice will end up happening.”</blockquote><br>
62. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>Rachel Leingang</i></b><br>
63. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “<a href=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/omar-fateh-minneapolis-mayor-race>The 'Mamdani of Minneapolis'<br>
64. Is Banking on a Gassroots Campaign<br>
65. to Unseat the Democratic Mayor</a>”<br>
66. <i>The Guardian</i><br>
67. October 30, 2025</span></div><br>
68. <br>
69. <br>
70. This past Thursday, October 30,  Omar Fateh was interviewed by Minneapolis-based <a href=https://www.youtube.com/@WaterWaveTV><i>Water Wave TV</i></a>. In this interview, Omar talks about his life before politics, Minneapolis police, ICE, and his campaign to be mayor of Minneapolis.<br>
71. <br>
72. <br>
73. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e2hvIoyQsn4?si=nO3mnewGO3pWBoZm" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
74. <br>
75. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>0:00</b> Introduction<br>
76. <b>0:30</b> – Current political climate<br>
77. <b>2:50</b> – Who is Omar Fateh?<br>
78. <b>4:20</b> – High school<br>
79. <b>6:00</b> – What got you into politics?<br>
80. <b>7:50</b> – Youth disconnect with politics<br>
81. <b>10:00</b> – Using your background to shape you as a mayor<br>
82. <b>13:00</b> – Legislation changes<br>
83. <b>16:00</b> – Mistakes you’ve made as a legislator<br>
84. <b>20:00</b> – Turning point to run for mayor<br>
85. <b>21:50</b> – What does the first 100 days in office look like for Fateh?<br>
86. <b>23:45</b> – How do you expect to get things done with people who don’t agree with you?<br>
87. <b>25:30</b> – Key indicators that what you are saying is working if you become mayor<br>
88. <b>27:00</b> – Public Safety and George Floyd<br>
89. <b>31:00</b> – Police staffing issues<br>
90. <b>33:10</b> – ICE<br>
91. <br>
92. <b>NOTE:</b> For Part 2 of this interview, <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GO6jlvMgKk>click here</a>. For Part 3, <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH93iilV1Es>click here</a>.</span><br>
93. <br>
94. <br>
95. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
96. <a href=https://sahanjournal.com/democracy-politics/racism-islamophobia-attacks-minnesota-election>Escalating Threats Towards Omar Fateh Reveal Challenges for Muslim Politicians in Minnesota</a> – Mohamed Ibrahim (<i>Sahan Journal</i>, October 27, 2025).<br>
97. <a href=https://alphanews.org/omar-fateh-wants-minneapolis-police-to-arrest-federal-agents-who-wear-masks>Omar Fateh Wants Minneapolis Police to Arrest Federal Agents Who Wear Masks</a> – Anthony Gockowski (<i>Alpha News</i>, October 27, 2025).<br>
98. <a href=https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/ilhan-omar-endorses-omar-fateh-mayor-minneapolis>Rep. Ilhan Omar Endorses Omar Fateh for Mayor of Minneapolis</a> – Esme Murphy (<i>CBS News Minnesota</i>, October 12, 2025).<br>
99. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wR4_5c8_3M>Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh on Housing, Trump, Corruption in Politics, and Crime</a> –
100. <i>KatGetsMoney</i> (October 12, 2025).<br>
101. <a href=https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/minnesota-sen-omar-fateh-says-he-wont-back-down-despite-islamophobic-threats>Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh Says He Won’t Back Down Despite Islamophobic Threats</a> – Brianna Kelly (<i>Bring Me the News</i>, September 25, 2025).<br>
102. <a href=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/09/19/minneapolis-mayor-candidates-frey-fateh-davis-hampton>Four Candidates for Minneapolis Mayor Weigh In on Major Issues Facing the City</a> – Jon Collins (<i>MPR News</i>, September 19, 2025).<br>
103. <a href=https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/omar-fateh-minnesota-minneapolis-interview>People “Are Tired of Backroom Decisions”: A Conversation with Minneapolis’s Omar Fateh</a> – Peter Lucas (<i>The Nation</i>, September 5, 2025).<br>
104. <a href=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/omar-fateh-has-all-the-right-enemies>Omar Fateh Has All the Right Enemies</a> – Alex Skopic (<i>Current Affairs</i>, September 5, 2025).<br>
105. <a href=https://southsidepride.com/2025/09/03/state-dfl-tries-to-disenfranchise-the-city-dfl>State DFL tries to disenfranchise the City DFL</a> – David Tilsen (<i>Southside Pride</i>, September 3, 2025).<br>
106. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNYDqC8jkc8>Minnesota Democrats Stab Omar Fateh in the Back</a> – <i>Concernicus</i> (August 27, 2025).<br>
107. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zDky0m2XpA>DFL Reverses Omar Fateh Endorsement</a> – <i>Left Reckoning</i> (August 26, 2025).<br>
108. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HUSmPi0Z5Y>Democrats in Minnesota Revoke the Mayoral Endorsement of Omar Fateh</a> – <i>I Am Blakeley</i> (August 23, 2025).<br>
109. <a href=https://left.mn/2025/08/the-state-dfl-spits-on-the-minneapolis-dfl>The State DFL Spits on the Minneapolis DFL</a> – Steve Timmer (<i>LeftMN</i>, August 23, 2025).<br>
110. <a href=https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/dfl-revoke-endorsement-omar-fateh-minneapolis-mayoral-race/89-ddb0b855-20e3-4217-989b-071f4f1c78fc>Minnesota DFL Revokes Endorsement for Omar Fateh in Minneapolis Mayoral Race</a> – Naasir Akailvi (<i>KARE 11 News</i>, August 21, 2025).<br>
111. <a href=https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/08/22/omar-democrats-minneapolis-mayor-race-fateh-frey>Rep. Ilhan Omar Condemns Party’s Decision to Throw Out Fateh Endorsement</a> – Torey Van Oot (<i>Axios</i>, August 21, 2025).<br>
112. <a href=https://southsidepride.com/2025/08/05/how-did-this-happen>How Did This Happen?</a> – Ed Felien (<i>Southside Pride</i>, August 5, 2025).<br>
113. <a href=https://www.allsides.com/story/politics-minnesota-dems-endorse-socialist-omar-fateh-mayor-over-incumbent-dem-jacob-frey>Minnesota Democrats Endorse Socialist Omar Fateh for Mayor Over Incumbent Democrat Jacob Frey</a> – <i>AllSides</i> (July 21, 2025).<br>
114. <a href=https://www.newsweek.com/omar-fateh-minneapolis-mayor-2099162>Who Is Omar Fateh? Mamdani of Minneapolis Faces MAGA Abuse</a> – Kate Plummer (<i>Newsweek</i>, July 15, 2025).<br>
115. <a href=https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-minnesota-condemns-anti-muslim-racist-hate-targeting-sen-omar-fateh-amid-rising-political-violence>CAIR-Minnesota Condemns Anti-Muslim, Racist Hate Targeting Sen. Omar Fateh Amid Rising Political Violence</a> – CAIR-Minnesota (July 15, 2025).<br>
116. <a href=https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/minneapolis-gets-its-own-mamdani>Minneapolis Gets Its Own Mamdani</a> – Kayla Bartsch (<i>National Review</i>, July 15, 2025).<br>
117. <a href=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/whats-wrong-with-the-shape-of-your-head-minneapolis-mayoral-candidate-omar-fateh-faces-racist-trolling-go-to-mogadishu/articleshow/122456007.cms>Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh Faces Racist Trolling: “Go to Mogadishu”</a> – <i>Times of India</i> (July 14, 2025).<br>
118. <a href=https://www.southwestvoices.news/posts/campaign-q-a-omar-fateh-will-work-across-the-aisle-if-elected-mayor>Omar Fateh Will Work Across the Aisle If Elected Mayor</a> – Melody Hoffmann (<i>Southwest Voices</i>, April 2, 2025).<br>
119. <br>
120. <br>
121. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
122. <br>
123. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-4zM7kLGAsWiom-cV5mYq7yW-tgFknWMUxXJgMZKl4Mg7iHMMPrWjt4dxWdLTMMzy32okKkNKDye5371CKjmdDzMWGW2ZaKv93AOeqD792ffBdFz-JzOs_GXa13F2goKs1hWLI0fGaIlAKOhjgDGn0Q55G7gS4kEiqVvQh_-2rtnKIG3qQAdZmQ/s1959/IMG_E4455.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="1959" data-original-width="1409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-4zM7kLGAsWiom-cV5mYq7yW-tgFknWMUxXJgMZKl4Mg7iHMMPrWjt4dxWdLTMMzy32okKkNKDye5371CKjmdDzMWGW2ZaKv93AOeqD792ffBdFz-JzOs_GXa13F2goKs1hWLI0fGaIlAKOhjgDGn0Q55G7gS4kEiqVvQh_-2rtnKIG3qQAdZmQ/s200/IMG_E4455.JPG"/></a></div><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>OMAR FATEH</b></span><br>
124. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-racist-and-factless-meltdown-over.html>A “Racist and Factless Meltdown” Over Omar Fateh</a><br>
125. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/omar-jazz-dewayne.html>Omar | Jazz | DeWayne</a><br>
126. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/in-his-efforts-to-build-city-that-works.html>In His Efforts to “Build a City That Works for All,” Omar Fateh Secures a Key Endorsement</a><br>
127. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/something-to-think-about.html>Something to Think About – July 25, 2025</a><br>
128. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-longstanding-fault-lines-within.html>The Longstanding Fault Lines Within the Democratic Party Have Surfaced Again in Minnesota</a><br>
129. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/omar-fateh-we-need-to-meet-needs-of.html>Omar Fateh: “We Need to Meet the Needs of Working People”</a><br>
130. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/hopeful-and-grounded-omar-fatehs-vision.html>“Hopeful and Grounded”: Omar Fateh’s Vision of Democratic Socialism</a><br>
131. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/omar-fateh-person-centered-leader.html>Omar Fateh: A “Person-Centered Leader”</a><br>
132. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-omar-fateh-is-right-choice-for.html>Why Omar Fateh Is the Right Choice for Mayor of Minneapolis</a><br>
133. <br>
134. <br>
135. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM</b></span><br>
136. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/01/martin-luther-king-jr-democratic.html>Martin Luther King, Jr. and Democratic Socialism</a><br>
137. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/06/quote-of-day.html>Bernie Sanders: Quote of the Day – June 12, 2019</a><br>
138. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/10/heather-cox-richardson-on-origin-of.html>Heather Cox Richardson on the Origin of the American Obsession with “Socialism”</a><br>
139. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-biblical-roots-of-from-each.html>The Biblical Roots of “From Each According to Ability; To Each According to Need”</a><br>
140. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/12/something-to-think-about_14.html>Something to Think About – December 14, 2011</a><br>
141. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/08/quote-of-day_17.html>Jonty Langley: Quote of the Day – August 17, 2011</a><br>
142. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/01/socialist-perspective-on-democratic.html>A Socialist Perspective on the “Democratic Debacle” in Massachusetts</a><br>
143. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-socialist-hardly.html>Obama a Socialist? Hardly</a><br>
144. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-ayers-s-word-and-themost.html>Obama, Ayers, the “S” Word, and the “Most Politically Backward Layers in America”</a><br>
145. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/09/socialist-response-to-financial-crisis.html>A Socialist Response to the 2008 Financial Crisis</a><br>
146. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/09/capitalism-on-trial.html>Capitalism on Trial</a><br>
147. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-hitler-and-nazis-werent-socialists.html>No, Hitler and the Nazis Weren’t Socialists</a><br>
148. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/ted-rall-on-what-it-means-to-be-leftist.html>What It Means to Be a Leftist in 2025</a><br>
149. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/ted-rall-democrats-are-not-left.html>Ted Rall: “Democrats Are Not the Left”</a></span><br>
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151. <blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><center><i>The end is not the end;<br>
152. it’s just a beginning.</i></center></span></blockquote><br>
153. <br>
154. What many consider to be the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts>Celtic</a> New Year takes place this evening. It’s a turning that has its roots in the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaels>Gaelic</a> festival of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain#cite_note-Stations363-5>Samhain</a> (pronounced <i>sow-in</i>) which marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter, the “darker half” of the year. It is held on November 1 but its celebration begins on the evening of October 31 as the Celtic day began and ended at sunset.<br>
155. <br>
156. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRPmgonGbkmWC0hXdhugr6Ja0lasSTpTUrsz5hk4EnrGq-zDt25NRFzyH_mpC8aZOOtYmwzTD869eOmK5jbT85gGY3tl8um8Ra3rAvIYsiPFi7y7tixC7sVvBdDq9ulg1Q_yVXo3ummuJzwGtPjgugpb9WEjH3z2Tjvd-gFKV7OWe-V_gPgQI/s4032/IMG_4063.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRPmgonGbkmWC0hXdhugr6Ja0lasSTpTUrsz5hk4EnrGq-zDt25NRFzyH_mpC8aZOOtYmwzTD869eOmK5jbT85gGY3tl8um8Ra3rAvIYsiPFi7y7tixC7sVvBdDq9ulg1Q_yVXo3ummuJzwGtPjgugpb9WEjH3z2Tjvd-gFKV7OWe-V_gPgQI/s200/IMG_4063.JPG"/></a></div>Samhain is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals along with <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/02/imbolc-celebrating-freshness-of-new.html>Imbolc</a>, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/05/beltane-casting-off-darkness-and.html>Beltaine</a> and <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lughnasadh>Lughnasa</a>. Historically it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. Similar festivals took place in Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany.<br>
157. <br>
158. <i>Wikipedia</i> notes that:<br>
159. <br>
160. <blockquote>Like Beltaine, Samhain was a <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality>liminal</a> or threshold festival, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld thinned, meaning the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aos_S%C3%AD><i>Aos Sí</i></a> (the “spirits” or “<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy>faeries</a>”) could more easily come into our world. Most scholars see the <i>Aos Sí</i> as remnants of pagan gods. At Samhain, they were appeased with offerings of food and drink, to ensure the people and their livestock survived the winter. The souls of dead kin were also thought to revisit their homes seeking hospitality, and a place was set at the table for them during a meal. <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers%27_play>Mumming</a> and <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick-or-treating#Guising>guising</a> were part of the festival from at least the early modern era, whereby people went door-to-door in costume reciting verses in exchange for food. The costumes may have been a way of imitating, and disguising oneself from, the <i>Aos Sí</i>. <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination>Divination</a> was also a big part of the festival and often involved nuts and apples.</blockquote><br>
161. <br>
162. As you’ve no doubt ascertained, many features of Samhain have been incorporated into the Catholic celebrations of November 1, “All Hollows Day” (or “<a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-pagan-roots-of-all-saints-day.html>All Saints Day</a>”) and November 2, “<a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/11/our-sacred-journey-continues-all-saints.html>All Souls Day</a>.” Filtered through these celebrations, elements of Samhain also emerge in the modern holiday of <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloween-thoughts.html>Halloween</a>.<br>
163. <br>
164. Hallowtide, is the name I use for the time of transformative power that all these names, origins, meanings, and dates call to mind and heart.<br>
165. <br>
166. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTvokqiedoLwDI63e6-uFBNOLP5wR_EUrfOhyNCTq4lYQaTWrwsNqKiRTiA4iKyS8NJ54_FlhyTEL92eDyLXmVFgeezKg3qYnSp8849aSZi3tgS3kkwxMadExlKPfb3CSS3ookfTQZrHb2ms4IkFMyV6HmbXuWiD4YcTXhCH6oXbzROHftSoQ/s480/KikiDee-13.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTvokqiedoLwDI63e6-uFBNOLP5wR_EUrfOhyNCTq4lYQaTWrwsNqKiRTiA4iKyS8NJ54_FlhyTEL92eDyLXmVFgeezKg3qYnSp8849aSZi3tgS3kkwxMadExlKPfb3CSS3ookfTQZrHb2ms4IkFMyV6HmbXuWiD4YcTXhCH6oXbzROHftSoQ/s200/KikiDee-13.PNG"/></a></div>A song which for me calls to mind and heart the transformative power of Hallowtide is “Pretty Tune" by <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki_Dee>Kiki Dee</a> (<b>left</b>) and <a href=https://www.kikiandcarmelo.com/carmelo-luggeri/>Carmelo Luggeri</a> (with guest artists <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandit_Dinesh>Pandit Dinesh</a> and Micky Simmons). It’s from Kiki and Carmelo’s sublime 1998 album <a href=https://www.amazon.com/Where-Rivers-Meet-Carmelo-Luggeri/dp/B001BDZHSK><i>Where Rivers Meet</i></a>, a beautiful title that evokes the <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/01/holy-encounters-where-two-worlds-meet.html>meeting of worlds</a> associated with Hallowtide.<br>
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168. <br>
169. <br>
170. <blockquote><center><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Hallowtide Blessings!</i></span></center></blockquote><br>
171. <span style="font-size: large;"><center>May this time of transformation<br>
172. bring you the endings you need and<br>
173. the beginnings you desire.</center></span><br>
174. <br>
175. <br>
176. <iframe width="425" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dtBYLn4BK4k" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
177. <br>
178. <blockquote><center><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span>ark afternoons, driving into strange cities<br>
179. And if we feel the doubt, it’s only change<br>
180. Back when the days were long we could do anything<br>
181. Bathed in the sunlight<br>
182. It’s just a different place<br>
183. <br>
184. This is my November song<br>
185. The end is not the end<br>
186. It’s just a beginning<br>
187. A year in your life<br>
188. What’s in a name?<br>
189. It’s just my pretty tune<br>
190. <br>
191. Radio views, I’ll look and I’ll listen<br>
192. But I think it maybe time not to buy these wares<br>
193. Each step moves us on<br>
194. Right now I’m going home<br>
195. I’m going home</i></center></blockquote><br>
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200. <br>
201. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br />
202. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/samhain-reaffirming-oneness-of-all.html>Samhain: Reaffirming the Oneness of All Spirits</a><br>
203. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/10/something-to-think-about.html>Something to Think About – October 31, 2022</a><br>
204. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/10/samhain-time-of-magick-and-mystery.html>Samhain: A Time of Magick and Mystery</a><br>
205. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/10/at-hallowtide-pagan-thoughts-on.html>At Hallowtide, Pagan Thoughts on Restoring Our World and Our Souls</a><br>
206. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/10/resilience-and-hope.html>Resilience and Hope</a><br>
207. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/10/hallowtide-reflections.html>Hallowtide Reflections</a><br>
208. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/10/an-all-hallows-eve-reflection.html>An All Hallows Eve Reflection</a><br>
209. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloween-thoughts.html>Halloween Thoughts</a><br>
210. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/10/hallowtide-reflection.html>A Hallowtide Reflection</a><br>
211. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-pagan-roots-of-all-saints-day.html>The Pagan Roots of All Saints Day</a><br>
212. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/10/remembering-beloved-dead.html>Remembering the Beloved Dead</a><br>
213. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/07/call-upon-those-you-love.html>“Call Upon Those You Love”</a><br>
214. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/11/our-sacred-journey-continues-all-saints.html>Our Sacred Journey Continues: An All Saints and Souls Day Reflection</a><br>
215. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/11/an-all-souls-day-reflection.html>An All Souls Day Reflection</a><br>
216. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/12/advent-christopagan-perspective.html>Advent: A “ChristoPagan” Perspective</a><br>
217. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/11/magician-among-spirits.html>Magician Among the Spirits</a><br>
218. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/01/holy-encounters-where-two-worlds-meet.html>Holy Encounters Where Two Worlds Meet</a><br>
219. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/11/balancing-fire.html>Balancing the Fire</a><br>
220. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/11/november-musings.html>November Musings</a><br>
221. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/time-to-go-inwards.html>Time to Go Inwards</a><br>
222. <br>
223. <b>Nature images:</b> Michael J. Bayly</span><br>
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244. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
245. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/james-greenberg-i-am-in-mourning-for.html>James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”</a><br>
246. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/two-years-of-indescribable-horror.html>Two Years of “Indescribable Horror”</a><br>
247. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/we-are-one.html>We Are One</a><br>
248. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/kanipawit-maskwa-land-still-remembers.html>Kanipawit Maskwa: “The Land Still Remembers”</a><br>
249. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-justice-no-peace.html>No Justice, No Peace</a><br>
250. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/an-autumn-walk-through-neighborhood.html>An Autumn Walk Through the Neighborhood</a><br>
251. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/photo-of-day.html>Photo of the Day – October 15, 2025</a><br>
252. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-omar-fateh-is-right-choice-for.html>Why Omar Fateh Is the Right Choice for Mayor of Minneapolis</a><br>
253. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/remembering-dangelo-1974-2025.html>Groove and Grace: Remembering D’Angelo</a><br>
254. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/thoughts-on-eve-of-no-kings-day-20.html>Thoughts on the Eve of “No Kings Day” 2.0</a><br>
255. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/we-intend-to-defend-our-democracy-no.html>“We Intend to Defend Our Democracy”: The “No Kings” Protests of October 18</a><br>
256. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/quote-of-day_19.html>Socialist Equality Party (U.S.): Quote of the Day – October 19, 2025</a><br>
257. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/october-sweet.html>October Sweet</a><br>
258. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/hes-gone.html>He’s Gone</a><br>
259. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/celebrating-moonlight.html>Celebrating <i>Moonlight</i></a><br>
260. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/performative-resistance-alone-wont.html>“Performative Resistance Alone Won’t Change Anything”</a><br>
261. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/secret-language-of-heart.html>Secret Language of the Heart</a><br>
262. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-dazzling-and-eternal-soul.html>A Dazzling and Eternal Soul</a><br>
263. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/omar-fatehs-grassroots-campaign-for.html>Omar Fateh’s Grassroots Campaign for Mayor of Minneapolis</a><br>
264. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/turning-60.html>Turning 60</a><br>
265. <br>
266. <b>Images:</b> Michael J. Bayly.</span><br />
267. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/7337287809179853018/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/7337287809179853018' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/7337287809179853018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/7337287809179853018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/october-vignettes.html' title='October Vignettes'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUYqXQAAWi1emSs8Mt0RFrCUMPHIvsxpZlTM_aYDhAomo2-8NYqXNsGNNo25xpahw83JjkO1yWdM7fTLMOjf0MpRkdAuDFq3Bz76rRAW6-xy4X_8B2i8hMXL6TbBZK0Q-B9GS47ibNfBZVKl4ZBspnpiDVMSnR5kMyhJlvICmfPog8CcGFjC1cRA/s72-c/IMG_6090b.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-8971175107704785943</id><published>2025-10-31T16:00:00.042-05:00</published><updated>2025-11-01T20:17:04.038-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Hallowtide"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Something to Think About"/><title type='text'>Something to Think About . . .</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8G6vg-K3W_lWT9ddDUHTKIZGagNH12DPHsyG-YpcfQc4fp5wkVOPPR4IaGjQAi1R2Z4F3fAWj3w3FM4AqNiya1AxxcFeCGTeXfNuNsQNxb78cnd3OPHEm-lEOBBhegdXIDCBgLDKyH2A4iK0a0cGChVqzfDIc426ICocQo74VCmcvNj5MlF1ww/s388/HalloweenGhostWithCat.PNG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; data-original-height=&quot;277&quot; data-original-width=&quot;388&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8G6vg-K3W_lWT9ddDUHTKIZGagNH12DPHsyG-YpcfQc4fp5wkVOPPR4IaGjQAi1R2Z4F3fAWj3w3FM4AqNiya1AxxcFeCGTeXfNuNsQNxb78cnd3OPHEm-lEOBBhegdXIDCBgLDKyH2A4iK0a0cGChVqzfDIc426ICocQo74VCmcvNj5MlF1ww/s200/HalloweenGhostWithCat.PNG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;H&lt;/span&gt;alloween: a day when we get it right.&lt;br&gt;
268. <br>
269. Strangers come to us, beautiful, ugly, odd or scary, and we accept them all without question, compliment them, treat them kindly, and give them good things.<br>
270. <br>
271. Why don’t we live like that?</blockquote><br>
272. <div style="text-align: right;">– <a href=https://unfoldinglight.net/about><i>Steve Garnass-Holmes</i></a></div><br>
273. <br>
274. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br />
275. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloween-thoughts.html>Halloween Thoughts</a><br>
276. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/10/hallowtide-reflection.html>A Hallowtide Reflection</a><br>
277. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/10/at-hallowtide-pagan-thoughts-on.html>At Hallowtide, Pagan Thoughts on Restoring Our World and Our Souls</a><br>
278. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/10/resilience-and-hope.html>Resilience and Hope</a><br>
279. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/10/an-all-hallows-eve-reflection.html>An All Hallows Eve Reflection</a><br>
280. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/10/hallowtide-reflections.html>Hallowtide Reflections</a><br>
281. <br>
282. <b>Image:</b> <a href=https://www.etsy.com/listing/4339104568/ghost-holding-black-cat-halloween-art>MelodyArtStyle</a>.</span><br>
283. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/8971175107704785943/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/8971175107704785943' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/8971175107704785943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/8971175107704785943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/something-to-think-about.html' title='Something to Think About . . .'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8G6vg-K3W_lWT9ddDUHTKIZGagNH12DPHsyG-YpcfQc4fp5wkVOPPR4IaGjQAi1R2Z4F3fAWj3w3FM4AqNiya1AxxcFeCGTeXfNuNsQNxb78cnd3OPHEm-lEOBBhegdXIDCBgLDKyH2A4iK0a0cGChVqzfDIc426ICocQo74VCmcvNj5MlF1ww/s72-c/HalloweenGhostWithCat.PNG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-6787354013227524010</id><published>2025-10-30T22:01:00.698-05:00</published><updated>2025-11-02T10:33:56.213-06:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Music"/><title type='text'>Turning 60</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGcrg3jjbLg4y7_r8MTkOnYgWlGdtfEk49K4h7gLdh5JMuwOLX8fxquuxC821AdTgWSeztvweURyZAcQtrQA9uwhfgJADaMyK1XSiTsUuXaQZ01nunoF2NZ57isdm0ZfLg_yZDwEAfMzMFc0JmVd_DAhtW4fyJ7KxNeLmV2pgRWPMt4YF_Ybt9Pw/s1334/IMG_8777.PNG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1334&quot; data-original-width=&quot;750&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGcrg3jjbLg4y7_r8MTkOnYgWlGdtfEk49K4h7gLdh5JMuwOLX8fxquuxC821AdTgWSeztvweURyZAcQtrQA9uwhfgJADaMyK1XSiTsUuXaQZ01nunoF2NZ57isdm0ZfLg_yZDwEAfMzMFc0JmVd_DAhtW4fyJ7KxNeLmV2pgRWPMt4YF_Ybt9Pw/s320/IMG_8777.PNG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-dazzling-and-eternal-soul.html&gt;Last Thursday&lt;/a&gt;, October 23, I turned 60.&lt;br&gt;
284. <br>
285. Yes, it was rather a momentous event in my personal life. <i>Sixty</i> . . . That’s the number on the door leading away from “middle age” and into the final years of one’s life. Realistically (and hopefully), I probably have 20-30 years left in this life.<br>
286. <br>
287. That’s an especially sobering thought given that I’ve now spent 32 years living in the U.S. That’s over half my life. In some ways, my <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/12/20-years-stateside.html>arrival here from Australia in 1994</a> does not seem like 30+ years ago. Will the next (and final) 30 pass as quickly? And what will they hold for me as my body (and maybe even my mind) embarks on its inevitable decline?<br>
288. <br>
289. Such thoughts and questions are only natural at milestone birthdays like 60. But I’ve made the very conscious decision to not obsess about them. Instead, I’ve chosen to enter into my 60th year and beyond in a spirit of <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/gifts-of-abundance.html>gratitude</a>. I am grateful for my health, my <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/family-time-in-guruk.html>family</a> and friends, the <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/06/from-palliativespiritual-care-bookshelf.html>meaningful work</a> I do, for my life <i>just as it is</i> – <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-season-of-listening.html>questions</a> and uncertainties included.<br>
290. <br>
291. I choose gratitude because I take to heart <a href=https://yungpueblo.com>Yung Pueblo</a>’s wise words:<br>
292. <br>
293. <blockquote>You attract what’s inside you – so fill yourself with <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/09/your-peace-is-with-me-beloved-one.html>peace</a>, gratitude, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/05/called-to-field-of-compassion.html>compassion</a>, generosity, kindness, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/07/there-must-be-balance.html>balance</a>, and emotional intelligence.</blockquote><br>
294. <i>Amen brother!</i><br>
295. <br>
296. As has been the tradition at <i>The Wild Reed</i>, I mark the occasion of my birthday by sharing a song, prayer and/or reflection that I find particularly meaningful; that speaks to where I’m at on my journey.<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>*</b></span></span><br />
297. <br />
298. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHU27ByRprsqOOfOOsItPF1i00evmRIhGUonkWz1SrKFfnkvLu2Ff7S4oc5bvwz1m3LQXjMnhpf52RZUDYJQId_WXnoE-sLBOdILG2NqgmnuHH8oDUXKroQPf20lDKlQELSLxQ2j0q5WOh21_oqE1kZ4mI-hnx7dhyphenhyphengShujEPLckBzlbCzdo4YgQ/s557/Screenshot%202025-10-31%20170851.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="473" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHU27ByRprsqOOfOOsItPF1i00evmRIhGUonkWz1SrKFfnkvLu2Ff7S4oc5bvwz1m3LQXjMnhpf52RZUDYJQId_WXnoE-sLBOdILG2NqgmnuHH8oDUXKroQPf20lDKlQELSLxQ2j0q5WOh21_oqE1kZ4mI-hnx7dhyphenhyphengShujEPLckBzlbCzdo4YgQ/s200/Screenshot%202025-10-31%20170851.jpg"/></a></div>This year I’ve decided to share “I Hope Somebody’s Loving You,” one of a number of stand-out tracks from <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Negrito>Fantastic Negrito</a>’s latest album, <a href=https://www.kaxe.org/show/new-music/2024-10-28/album-of-the-week-son-of-a-broken-man-by-fantastic-negrito><i>Son of a Broken Man</i></a> (2024).<br>
299. <br>
300. I chose this song because its lyrics mirror a reality I’ve been thinking and praying about for some time now. And this reality, this truth, is that the many terrible things we’re witnessing in the world today are, at a very basic level, caused by people not experiencing love in their lives. This lack of love could be due to their own actions or the actions of others.<br>
301. <br>
302. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgatGXdiaD6eSCunLw8mUTZQX5X-5-lViFeF5sGRjvPv6059_dY890hmNOXW2SORGC4yso3izdku-tW2d7D_pJjYEQ3SPgFwA3s8GkV2CFoOvDjHmwAd8RLmQuYCduYR7KuuAGqsqWXyn3ZUfkWlXt4TYeRFa2cAWMTCdkixrvr1PbkmoOVUVTOnw/s636/Screenshot%202025-10-31%20171416c.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="605" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgatGXdiaD6eSCunLw8mUTZQX5X-5-lViFeF5sGRjvPv6059_dY890hmNOXW2SORGC4yso3izdku-tW2d7D_pJjYEQ3SPgFwA3s8GkV2CFoOvDjHmwAd8RLmQuYCduYR7KuuAGqsqWXyn3ZUfkWlXt4TYeRFa2cAWMTCdkixrvr1PbkmoOVUVTOnw/s200/Screenshot%202025-10-31%20171416c.JPG"/></a></div>Regardless, they are starved of love. And when this happens, some choose to project the resulting hurt and pain out onto others, either consciously or unconsciously.<br>
303. <br>
304. It can even get projected and manifested in public policy, resulting in great harm and damage to people’s lives, communities, the environment, and democracy. We’re witnessing this play out in the U.S., and the figure currently presiding over this lovelessness is Donald Trump, a profoundly damaged (broken) individual, an individual who I doubt has ever known real love in his life.<br>
305. <br>
306. Of course, there are other reasons and factors, and other people, that are playing a range of roles in the terribly loveless things happening in our world. But I still maintain that a major cause of all this lovelessness is people who have never known love, or who are lacking love, choosing to respond in ways that project outward their misery and hurt.<br>
307. <br>
308. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio74qYfZPA0sNU3Sh0ykcOWayzAZwep3HpcfVCGPH6lGYknTTTZp-NO0ky4XOcYIAzVOIyRcZmUyN832Wg4RBMDP42l2kkeiXOd8HF_bXQLsMHZmG2Hx3_LF1-KV_pWNnfEVCY8uiCgXOB1FCLsDmhTM2WuDlX3yqC4di-hgMmeFFndEELNpUsww/s734/Screenshot%202025-10-31%20171141.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="734" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio74qYfZPA0sNU3Sh0ykcOWayzAZwep3HpcfVCGPH6lGYknTTTZp-NO0ky4XOcYIAzVOIyRcZmUyN832Wg4RBMDP42l2kkeiXOd8HF_bXQLsMHZmG2Hx3_LF1-KV_pWNnfEVCY8uiCgXOB1FCLsDmhTM2WuDlX3yqC4di-hgMmeFFndEELNpUsww/s200/Screenshot%202025-10-31%20171141.jpg"/></a></div>I appreciate how Fantastic Negrito longs for <i>all</i> to know love in their lives. I want this too. Indeed, it’s my birthday wish for the world!<br>
309. <br>
310. And when I encounter someone who is clearly not experiencing love in their life and thus possibly tempted to project (or actually projecting) their lovelessness and hurt out onto others, then I pause, focus on the love inside of me, and, remembering that we are all ultimately one, give that love within “all up to you,” in the words of Fantastic Negrito. This giving may take many forms – a smile, a helping hand, some money, my time and attention to simply sit and listen. It can also mean lovingly saying <i>No!</i>, and working to name, halt, and undo the harm that loveless people, including political figures, are doing in our world today.<br>
311. <br>
312. <br>
313. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0UKTANmbCbM?si=izDkHDKow7FJzqwm" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
314. <br>
315. <blockquote><center><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> hope somebody’s loving you<br>
316. In the deepest ways<br>
317. I hope somebody’s loving you<br>
318. Every night and day<br>
319. ’Cause if nobody’s loving you<br>
320. I know this may sound kinda strange<br>
321. I’d give it all up to you<br>
322. I’d give it all up to you<br>
323. <br>
324. I hope somebody’s kissing you<br>
325. In the sweetest places<br>
326. I hope somebody’s missing you<br>
327. Every time you go away<br>
328. And I hope somebody’s digging you<br>
329. And not digging your grave<br>
330. I’d give it all up to you<br>
331. I’d give it all up to you<br>
332. <br>
333. C’mon and tell me everything<br>
334. That I ever wanted to hear<br>
335. And I’d give it all up to you<br>
336. <br>
337. C’mon tell me everything<br>
338. Tell me everything<br>
339. And I’ll give it all up to you<br>
340. <br>
341. Tell me everything<br>
342. That I ever wanted to hear<br>
343. And I’ll give it all up to you<br>
344. <br>
345. I could really love you<br>
346. Yes, I could really love you<br>
347. Yeah, yeah, yeah<br>
348. <br>
349. I’d give it all up to you<br>
350. <br>
351. I hope somebody’s loving you<br>
352. In the sweetest ways<br>
353. I hope somebody’s loving you<br>
354. Every night and day</center></blockquote><br />
355. <br />
356. <center>_________________</center><br>
357. <br>
358. I’ve noted and discussed <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-prayer-of-anchoring.html>previously</a> how an important activity that centers me in an awareness of God is spending time with people I love and who love me; people who make a positive and transformative difference in my life. In celebrating my 60th birthday, I spent time with a number of such people, as you’ll see in the following images.<br>
359. <br>
360. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGrsp95KbFehnOB4LKtJehfyRhg3b3bjeHj2LSerqq_Ih1_8D4R-kSuzW7lOEuyEdY16820FQYisXtnSUS__C4uWBOQy7juUJWE96tjUwjEvP_aesp2t9qLPCqcyTL2QgrHMA0Vl8I6hVirhL2hDdn5wiCbUcOFxbdtjaUlcvKb01Xpi20oxiciQ/s1049/IMG_9343b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="1049" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGrsp95KbFehnOB4LKtJehfyRhg3b3bjeHj2LSerqq_Ih1_8D4R-kSuzW7lOEuyEdY16820FQYisXtnSUS__C4uWBOQy7juUJWE96tjUwjEvP_aesp2t9qLPCqcyTL2QgrHMA0Vl8I6hVirhL2hDdn5wiCbUcOFxbdtjaUlcvKb01Xpi20oxiciQ/s200/IMG_9343b.JPG"/></a></div><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Right</b></span>: On the eve of my birthday, I made a Facetime call to my 86-year-old mum in Australia. I did so to thank her for giving birth to me and for being the loving and wise mother she’s been to me for the last 60 years.<br>
361. <br>
362. As always, it was great to see and hear her, and I continue to thank God for her ongoing recovery from the <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/home-to-be-with-mum.html>stroke she experienced</a> back in April. I also give thanks for the ways mum is participating in this recovery through her chosen attitudes and actions. As I’ve said <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/last-days-in-australia.html>previously</a>, they are attitudes and actions of grace and gratitude, surrender and trust. I’m grateful too for those in her life who are helping facilitate mum’s healing – our family, her friends, and the staff at the assisted living home where she now resides.<br>
363. <br>
364. <br>
365. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXAH1tSk8VpydYaRh2DMYaIqGvh4rX8ILgRege89e0hrkSIHpO1q6zUmjQkEWisbxbumlvUzmEJ5Jtrb8om092_rFESLVOSyegRbQVUZCvr2E9P4DDW-Sl-7SnaF-peSr0F3nTO2BsfmiAF_iMOY147cDeGauKthm6uhKpjvn9yRWc80BlOBqsg/s879/IMG_3060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="879" data-original-width="662" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkXAH1tSk8VpydYaRh2DMYaIqGvh4rX8ILgRege89e0hrkSIHpO1q6zUmjQkEWisbxbumlvUzmEJ5Jtrb8om092_rFESLVOSyegRbQVUZCvr2E9P4DDW-Sl-7SnaF-peSr0F3nTO2BsfmiAF_iMOY147cDeGauKthm6uhKpjvn9yRWc80BlOBqsg/s200/IMG_3060.JPG"/></a></div><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Left</b></span>: My mate Deandre, who was the first person to call me on my birthday – at around 1:00 a.m. on October 23 to be exact! He called from his home in Las Vegas where he’s lived since moving there from the Twin Cities at the end of <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/08/august-vignettes.html>last summer</a>.<br>
366. <br>
367. I’m incredibly proud of Deandre and the ways he is working to build a new life for himself in Las Vegas. It hasn’t been easy – work that provides a livable wage has been hard to find, along with affordable housing. For a while Deandre was living in his car. And he had to give his beloved cat <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/out-and-about-spring-2023.html>Tyga</a> to someone else to care for on a permanent basis. But, like I said, Deandre’s been doing his best to turn things around and establish stability and consistency in his life, especially in relation to work, budgeting, and housing. So, yeah, I’m very proud of my mate Deandre, and so happy he called me on my birthday.<br>
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370. For quite a while now I’ve noticed on Thursdays when I drive from my home in the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seward,_Minneapolis>Seward</a> neighborhood of Minneapolis to the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Hospital_(Minnesota)>hospital</a> I work at in <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_Rapids,_Minnesota>Coon Rapids</a>, a group of people on a pedestrian walkway that spans Interstate 94 in the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Park%2C_Minneapolis>Prospect Park</a> neighborhood close to my home. I could tell by their signs and banners (<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>above</b></span>) that they were protest the <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/this-is-what-fascism-looks-like.html>increasingly fascist rhetoric and actions</a> of the Trump administration.<br>
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372. It’s been years since I attended a weekly morning protest, and so since my birthday this year was on a Thursday, a Thursday I was taking off from work, I decided I would join the folks on the predestrian walkway. I mean, after all, they definitely looked like they’d be my kind of people! And what better way to start my 60th year of life than by taking a stand against the fascist <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-power-grab-likes-of-which-this.html>power grab</a> of Trump and his billionaire buddies?<br>
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375. My dear friend Kate, who was in town from northern Wisconsin for my birthday, joined me in this early morning protest. You might recall that Kate and I travelled to New Hampshire in January of last year to <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/campaigning-for-marianne-williamson-in.html>campaign</a> for Democratic presidential candidate <a href=https://marianne2024.com>Marianne Williamson</a> in the Granite State’s “<a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/biden-intervention-in-democratic-primaries-is-a-show-of-weakness>First in the Nation</a>” <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_presidential_primary>presidential primary</a>.<br>
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377. In talking to those who gather every Thursday on the Prospect Park predestian walkway over I-94, we learnt that they are all from the local neighborhood and have been meeting and protesting in this way since the early days of Trump’s second term. They even hosted a “No Kings” event on the walkway on <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/we-intend-to-defend-our-democracy-no.html>October 18</a>. They were a very welcoming and inspiring group of people, and both Kate and I remarked later that our time with them was a great way to start the day.<br>
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381. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKn1vFzsg8IOnfsrtv6uOvAp_oXzPsoO1p1iYiQMR6ix0vyXnf83UMnY29QZvKjCUAjPfm2_08orfJlzNeCagYQMfsLEopD1lZ0XeLsHFTu0dE2K07kdssVl-rEkH7dgLYABo6RX5tqfJ51koxFtHFejzs5huDXAtYGM-DhYIyIwEYvVe1bcCqg/s2507/IMG_8391c.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="2507" data-original-width="2319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKn1vFzsg8IOnfsrtv6uOvAp_oXzPsoO1p1iYiQMR6ix0vyXnf83UMnY29QZvKjCUAjPfm2_08orfJlzNeCagYQMfsLEopD1lZ0XeLsHFTu0dE2K07kdssVl-rEkH7dgLYABo6RX5tqfJ51koxFtHFejzs5huDXAtYGM-DhYIyIwEYvVe1bcCqg/s200/IMG_8391c.JPG"/></a></div><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Above</b></span>: After participating in the Prospect Park protest, Kate and I had a delicious birthday breakfast at the <a href=https://www.frenchmeadowcafe.com>French Meadow Bakery</a> in Minneapolis.<br>
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383. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Right</b></span>: Later in the day, Kate gifted me with something very special: an hourlong session at <a href=https://www.sanctuaryfloatspa.com>Sanctuary Float Spa</a> in Minnetonka. Here in a private float suite complete with its own shower and dressing area, I enjoyed the benefits of “<a href=https://www.sanctuaryfloatspa.com/float-therapy/?_gl=1*qmeml4*_up*MQ..*_ga*ODMyNTYzMzUxLjE3NjE5NzQyNzY.*_ga_9YS9YB42XP*czE3NjE5NzQyNzUkbzEkZzAkdDE3NjE5NzQyNzUkajYwJGwwJGg3MTk1Njc0Nzg.>float therapy</a>.” It was an incredibly relaxing “zero-gravity” experience, and one that was also surreal as I opted to float for an hour in total darkness and with no “new age” music playing in the background.<br>
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386. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkivH2Kyx1vz4vyF54YCIOvtrRtlSzrp1MsqIt-eWpsZRIDdHIuM79ITd6dFfDLZQe9zXvgM5ML4GbIF3KLnbbqh9am7X-M2jjEzvbiG5M4l29rOLckQuZ5D-lUlYH6wBsQ98EnRiB5p2QkhndOKQULfGVO3HOkb-8esqwfWpHhaXW3SK5VkxM1w/s3088/IMG_8375c.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="3088" data-original-width="2320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkivH2Kyx1vz4vyF54YCIOvtrRtlSzrp1MsqIt-eWpsZRIDdHIuM79ITd6dFfDLZQe9zXvgM5ML4GbIF3KLnbbqh9am7X-M2jjEzvbiG5M4l29rOLckQuZ5D-lUlYH6wBsQ98EnRiB5p2QkhndOKQULfGVO3HOkb-8esqwfWpHhaXW3SK5VkxM1w/s200/IMG_8375c.JPG"/></a></div><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Above and below:</b></span> My birthday celebrations continued the next day, Friday, October 24, with my hosting of a gathering at Carondelet Village in St. Paul. Here reside a number of my friends who are either Sisters or (like me) <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/05/making-my-consociate-commitment.html>consociates</a> of the <a href=https://csjstpaul.org>Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet (St. Paul Province)</a>.<br>
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389. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Right:</b></span> For the occasion, I made a Jamaican pumpkin soup (with added vegetables) and served it with fresh bread. It was a great hit!<br>
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393. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Above and below:</b></span> Out with friends at the <a href=https://uptownvfw.org>Uptown VFW</a> – Friday, October 24, 2025.<br>
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397. <center><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Above:</b></span> A visit to the <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/09/prayer-of-week.html>Prayer Tree</a> – Saturday, October 25, 2025.</center><br>
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400. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Above:</b></span> On the evening of Saturday, October 25, I went brewery hopping with my dear friends Angie and Bryan.<br>
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404. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNUcq0ysYn3fSe4Uy2yXiuNl3h2Jh1rLK3PMmno0MKJSOrT23ayCNaV-6QGO-BbG0rZl5AI4c-6MXLzJBKq8DbUq2MPtZHKBL7JCB45mDdc32qsPIJnjL0Dlrqoqq0eUEKdHyANq6TB7iJPUF9xH_v4ReQgeWy1EQh1C2uG0DXWCtuCDBa4sEAg/s704/IMG_8808b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="704" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNUcq0ysYn3fSe4Uy2yXiuNl3h2Jh1rLK3PMmno0MKJSOrT23ayCNaV-6QGO-BbG0rZl5AI4c-6MXLzJBKq8DbUq2MPtZHKBL7JCB45mDdc32qsPIJnjL0Dlrqoqq0eUEKdHyANq6TB7iJPUF9xH_v4ReQgeWy1EQh1C2uG0DXWCtuCDBa4sEAg/s400/IMG_8808b.JPG"/></a></div><br>
405. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc0Q4tgz1h9v4KZSBbnnW_FsGF5GUVdScCPztu_c2N6U5s7yf_cjrbn_7gUZtiaS4nj3C6smC7miCfPdOzPiLpo7C8xQ2IYrXUIN5D9qQU7jtML1IIjTUaeMcRz7hEnIH1UxONwe-d5yjw87LrfYNWDkOBHesn4q-vMI5p12Cd5BvKgf3SeDeTeQ/s4032/IMG_8320c-2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc0Q4tgz1h9v4KZSBbnnW_FsGF5GUVdScCPztu_c2N6U5s7yf_cjrbn_7gUZtiaS4nj3C6smC7miCfPdOzPiLpo7C8xQ2IYrXUIN5D9qQU7jtML1IIjTUaeMcRz7hEnIH1UxONwe-d5yjw87LrfYNWDkOBHesn4q-vMI5p12Cd5BvKgf3SeDeTeQ/s200/IMG_8320c-2.JPG"/></a></div>The last four images <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>above</b></span> were taken at <a href=https://stpaulbrewing.com>St. Paul Brewing</a>, the “vibrant outdoor patio and gardens” of which are “a lush oasis filled with plants, flowers, and pops of color in each unique seating vignette.” Yes, it’s a very funky place.<br>
406. <br>
407. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Right:</b></span> With Angie and Bryan at the <a href=https://www.urbangrowlerbrewing.com/>Urban Growler Brewing Company</a> in St. Paul.<br>
408. <br>
409. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwWdVEcuZI8198lzkJ-hMKj6puPKr1I_Y0yxv8iSPfBybA7TiTkPelT9I2O9ierzAMbApBWi0HhPZ5psTPZ4ypV_mjMjipRs3czxwkkR_I_zecouje5VZ6dBqwIPkFaTrvpxan7obyauKGxvgz9QTYFUyLkKXg2aVjCbk-w4CCvPh3-BO4RgmGA/s4032/IMG_8339.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVwWdVEcuZI8198lzkJ-hMKj6puPKr1I_Y0yxv8iSPfBybA7TiTkPelT9I2O9ierzAMbApBWi0HhPZ5psTPZ4ypV_mjMjipRs3czxwkkR_I_zecouje5VZ6dBqwIPkFaTrvpxan7obyauKGxvgz9QTYFUyLkKXg2aVjCbk-w4CCvPh3-BO4RgmGA/s400/IMG_8339.JPG"/></a></div>
410. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Above:</b></span> And here we are at the <a href=https://dcbc.com>Dual Citizen Brewery Company</a> in St. Paul.<br>
411. <br>
412. We ended our evening at <a href=https://www.wafrost.com>W.A. Frost & Company</a> in the beautiful <a href=https://www.visitsaintpaul.com/things-to-do/neighborhoods/cathedral-hill>Cathedral Hill</a> neighborhood of St. Paul, where this post’s opening image of me was taken by Angie!<br>
413. <br>
414. <br>
415. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYTEDjJ-bCu9nJ8fV-pXLgDTf5lHe927Uxt8YZtXiAk6SHkrU5zYUrNVRCmYTN72uCiNehxSFaB8GJrJduy_OKcb13Mvj6JRY1haGTjhxaJ1I0KLpDo7AE5V4nazxBIpav3RKBSIvzh_neOk_XECnkOJuWOvYnzdlE8jFgeZpP8JuIg-vE7TFWA/s2907/IMG_8904b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="2372" data-original-width="2907" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLYTEDjJ-bCu9nJ8fV-pXLgDTf5lHe927Uxt8YZtXiAk6SHkrU5zYUrNVRCmYTN72uCiNehxSFaB8GJrJduy_OKcb13Mvj6JRY1haGTjhxaJ1I0KLpDo7AE5V4nazxBIpav3RKBSIvzh_neOk_XECnkOJuWOvYnzdlE8jFgeZpP8JuIg-vE7TFWA/s400/IMG_8904b.JPG"/></a></div>
416. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Above:</b></span> My last official birthday celebration took place on Wednesday, October 29 with a lovely potluck lunch with my fellow Palliative Care team members at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids. I serve as the interfaith spiritual health provider (or chaplain) on the team.<br>
417. <br>
418. From left: Nikki, Maddie, me, Jenna, Kari, Steph (whose October birthday we were also celebrating) and Kate.<br>
419. <br>
420. <center>_____________________</center><br>
421. <br>
422. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>*</b></span> As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, it’s somewhat of a tradition to mark my birthday here at <i>The Wild Reed</i> by sharing a song or prayer or reflection that I find particularly meaningful. On my 44th birthday, for instance, I shared Stephan Gately’s <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/10/no-matter-what.html">performance</a> of “No Matter What,” and when I turned 45 I shared “<a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/10/journeying-into-truth-valiantly-of.html">Where the Truth Lies</a>” by the band Exchange.<br />
423. <br />
424. In 2012, when I turned 47, I shared a <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/10/in-eye-of-storm.html">prayer for balance</a> at a very trying time, not only for myself, but for many of us here in Minnesota.<br />
425. <br />
426. Eleven years ago, on the first day of my fiftieth year, I shared a “<a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-guidepost-on-journey.html">guidepost on the journey</a>,” and then one year later on the day of my 50th birthday, I shared Buffy Sainte-Marie’s rousing “<a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/10/turning-50.html">It’s My Way</a>.”<br />
427. <br />
428. In 2017, when I turned 52, I shared a <a href="https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/10/on-this-echoing-day-of-my-birth.html">poem</a> by John O’Donohue; while on my 53rd birthday I shared “<a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/10/with-love-inside.html">Love Is</a>,” a beautiful meditation on the mystery of love by my favorite male vocalist <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Anderson_(singer)>Carl Anderson</a>.<br />
429. <br />
430. The year I turned 54 I shared “<a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/10/this-is-time.html>This Is the Time</a>,” a beautiful song by Senegalese singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Daby Touré, and when I turned 55 it was Black’s “<a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/10/moments-of-wonder.html>Wonderful Life</a>” that encapsulated much of what I found myself experiencing at that time.<br />
431. <br>
432. When I turned 56 I shared Dusty Springfield’s reflective recording “<a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/10/home-to-myself.html>Home to Myself</a>,” while on my 57th birthday I shared the song “<a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/10/deeper-understandings.html>The Long Ride Home</a>” by Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri.<br>
433. <br>
434. In 2023 when I turned 58, I shared an “<a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-prayer-of-anchoring.html>Anchoring Prayer</a>” by Joyce Rupp, while last year for my 59th birthday, I shared Loreena McKennit’s beautiful song, “<a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/birthday-musings.html>Never-ending Road (Amhrán Duit)</a>.”</span><br>
435. <br>
436. <br>
437. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieVy1SBypKd2IJ0caxgJwjb_x6H7ICTE9nrsqRgKbAra4CtSbbHuuSBO0k5kKrAlfBrjIwtJXqonUyrszyLuAFmFw0M5-W9U6SZuMjP0wdR6ru9bXnd1nOvTWwUArwiFuKBuZTYKEcWetI8x9gV4jHHbu4W1ih4lqab-yx4hlGYWSzM2SkaW419g/s1051/Screenshot%202025-10-31%20171320.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="610" data-original-width="1051" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieVy1SBypKd2IJ0caxgJwjb_x6H7ICTE9nrsqRgKbAra4CtSbbHuuSBO0k5kKrAlfBrjIwtJXqonUyrszyLuAFmFw0M5-W9U6SZuMjP0wdR6ru9bXnd1nOvTWwUArwiFuKBuZTYKEcWetI8x9gV4jHHbu4W1ih4lqab-yx4hlGYWSzM2SkaW419g/s400/Screenshot%202025-10-31%20171320.jpg"/></a></div>
438. <blockquote><center><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> hope somebody’s loving you<br>
439. In the deepest ways<br>
440. I hope somebody’s loving you<br>
441. Every night and day<br>
442. ’Cause if nobody’s loving you<br>
443. I know this may sound kinda strange<br>
444. I’d give it all up to you<br></center></blockquote><br>
445. <br>
446. <br>
447. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> birthday posts:</b><br />
448. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/birthday-musings.html>Birthday Musings (2024)</a><br>
449. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-prayer-of-anchoring.html>A Prayer of Anchoring (2023)</a><br>
450. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/10/deeper-understandings.html>Deeper Understandings (2022)</a><br>
451. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/10/home-to-myself.html>Home to Myself (2021)</a><br>
452. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/10/moments-of-wonder.html>Moments of Wonder (2020)</a><br>
453. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/10/this-is-time.html>This Is the Time (2019)</a><br>
454. • <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/10/with-love-inside.html">With Love Inside (2018)</a><br />
455. • <a href="https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/10/on-this-echoing-day-of-my-birth.html">On This “Echoing-Day” of My Birth (2017)</a><br />
456. • <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/10/turning-50.html">Turning 50 (2015)</a><br />
457. • <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-guidepost-on-journey.html">A Guidepost on the Journey (2014)</a><br />
458. • <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/10/in-eye-of-storm.html">In the Eye of the Storm, a Tree of Living Flame (2012)</a><br />
459. • <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/10/journeying-into-truth-valiantly-of.html">Journeying Into the Truth . . . Valiantly, of Course (2010)</a><br />
460. • <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/10/no-matter-what.html">No Matter What (2009)</a></span><br>
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462. <blockquote><center><b><i>Omar Fateh, a Democratic socialist, hopes to<br>
463. defeat incumbent mayor Jacob Frey by focusing<br>
464. on affordability, wages and public safety.</i></b></center></blockquote><br>
465. <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>– Rachel Leingang</b></span></div><br>
466. <br>
467. As most reading this will know, I live in Minneapolis where our city elections are less than a week away. In the mayoral race, I’m <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/hopeful-and-grounded-omar-fatehs-vision.html>supporting</a> Democratic socialist <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Fateh>Omar Fateh</a> who was featured today in an <a href=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/omar-fateh-minneapolis-mayor-race>article</a> in <i>The Guardian</i> by Rachel Leingang. I’ll share this article in two parts, the first of which is below.<br>
468. <br>
469. <center>_______________</center><br>
470. <br>
471. <blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3FT_M239mGL0FRIFLj0MivQc9UBDbGj7JRAJy7S_HC3xbxWxzutp2mdTEf-m24xo2YcJyOBRYiNRi1lcdqhHGdaLFqe7Ce3WEP18lzCjOjhyphenhyphen7UYPTlc9qHLGYME__Hi5yJ0Y6_8nRso2gxpx5zuImtLvnrQ5zUkXUj8Nj8HwOWqJXw6W6IheXMQ/s602/OmarForMayorPortrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3FT_M239mGL0FRIFLj0MivQc9UBDbGj7JRAJy7S_HC3xbxWxzutp2mdTEf-m24xo2YcJyOBRYiNRi1lcdqhHGdaLFqe7Ce3WEP18lzCjOjhyphenhyphen7UYPTlc9qHLGYME__Hi5yJ0Y6_8nRso2gxpx5zuImtLvnrQ5zUkXUj8Nj8HwOWqJXw6W6IheXMQ/s200/OmarForMayorPortrait.jpg"/></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>n a rainy October day, dozens of volunteers showed up at a Minneapolis park to grab campaign literature they would leave at voters’ doors, hoping to buoy up a Democratic socialist into the mayor’s office.<br>
472. <br>
473. A handful of door-knockers ran into an apartment building to escape the rain, joining Omar Fateh, the mayoral hopeful sometimes dubbed the “Mamdani of Minneapolis.”<br>
474. <br>
475. “We’re running on a campaign to make the city more livable, affordable and to protect all of our residents,” he told one voter, who said they hadn’t been following the race closely.<br>
476. <br>
477. Two others who answered knew Fateh’s name and lent their support. “I think I’m planning on voting for you,” one man told Fateh.<br>
478. <br>
479. Minneapolis voters will decide their next mayor on Tuesday 4 November.<br>
480. <br>
481. Fateh, a 35-year-old who became state senator by ousting an incumbent, has gained attention for comparisons to <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani>Zohran Mamdani</a>, the Democratic socialist on track to win New York City’s mayoral contest. They’re both young, both part of the insurgent left, both Muslim, both state lawmakers. Their platforms, with a focus on affordability, align. Their campaigns tap into grassroots organizers with the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Socialists_of_America>Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)</a>. Their races use ranked-choice voting, allowing for alliances against the incumbent.<br>
482. <br>
483. Instead of a primary, Minneapolis holds caucuses and a city convention. Fateh <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/in-his-efforts-to-build-city-that-works.html>earned the endorsement</a> of the Minneapolis <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Democratic%E2%80%93Farmer%E2%80%93Labor_Party>Democratic-Farmer-Labor party</a>, but it was then <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-longstanding-fault-lines-within.html>revoked by the state party</a> after the electronic voting system failed to capture all votes in the contest, the Minneapolis DFL acknowledged, leaving the race without an endorsed candidate.<br>
484. <br>
485. “One of the biggest benefits of the DFL endorsement is name recognition,” Fateh told <i>The Guardian</i>. “But that name recognition became far greater than what we ever could have gotten with the endorsement after they revoked it.”<br>
486. <br>
487. The Minneapolis mayor’s race doesn’t feature the shamelessness of the New York City race – namely, the participation of the disgraced former governor <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo>Andrew Cuomo</a> and the ethically suspect incumbent mayor, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Adams>Eric Adams</a>. Few have the charisma of Mamdani, nor the organizing and social media prowess of his campaign, one that left-leaning candidates around the country will try to emulate.<br>
488. <br>
489. Minneapolis’s incumbent mayor, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Frey>Jacob Frey</a>, running for his third term, has his critics – for his handling of the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd in the city in 2020, persistent policing problems, a homelessness crisis and contentions with the more progressive city council. Frey, 44, often serves as a moderate check on the council, which includes several Democratic socialists.<br>
490. <br>
491. There are 15 candidates running in the race, four of whom – all Democrats – are considered viable. The three top challengers, including Fateh, have created an alliance, appearing at each other’s events, though only Fateh is explicitly telling voters not to rank Frey on their ballots. Public polling of the race is minimal, complicated by the ranked-choice voting method, though Frey typically shows as the top vote-getter, albeit not cresting the necessary 50% to win in a first ballot.<br>
492. <br>
493. “The fact that Fateh and other candidates are drawing as much support as they appear to be, I think, owes to the fact that the Democratic party has lost credibility among progressive voters,” said Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota. “This is not a cross-section of America. This is an urban area in one of the most progressive kind of electorates in the country.”</blockquote><br>
494. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>Rachel Leingang</i></b><br>
495. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “<a href=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/omar-fateh-minneapolis-mayor-race>The 'Mamdani of Minneapolis'<br>
496. Is Banking on a Gassroots Campaign<br>
497. to Unseat the Democratic Mayor</a>”<br>
498. <i>The Guardian</i><br>
499. October 30, 2025</span></div><br>
500. <br>
501. <br>
502. This past Tuesday, October 28,  MPR and the <i>Minnesota Star Tribune</i> hosted the following debate featuring the four leading contenders for mayor of Minneapolis – incumbent mayor <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Frey>Jacob Frey</a>, Sen. <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Fateh>Omar Fateh</a>, Rev. <a href=https://www.dewayneforminneapolis.com>DeWayne Davis</a>, and <a href=https://www.jazzformayor.com>Jazz Hampton</a>.<br>
503. <br>
504. <br>
505. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fAr04jpNKG4?si=PS3ohsgt7jTeMrkc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
506. <br>
507. <br>
508. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
509. <a href=https://sahanjournal.com/democracy-politics/racism-islamophobia-attacks-minnesota-election>Escalating Threats Towards Omar Fateh Reveal Challenges for Muslim Politicians in Minnesota</a> – Mohamed Ibrahim (<i>Sahan Journal</i>, October 27, 2025).<br>
510. <a href=https://alphanews.org/omar-fateh-wants-minneapolis-police-to-arrest-federal-agents-who-wear-masks>Omar Fateh Wants Minneapolis Police to Arrest Federal Agents Who Wear Masks</a> – Anthony Gockowski (<i>Alpha News</i>, October 27, 2025).<br>
511. <a href=https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/ilhan-omar-endorses-omar-fateh-mayor-minneapolis>Rep. Ilhan Omar Endorses Omar Fateh for Mayor of Minneapolis</a> – Esme Murphy (<i>CBS News Minnesota</i>, October 12, 2025).<br>
512. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wR4_5c8_3M>Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh on Housing, Trump, Corruption in Politics, and Crime</a> –
513. <i>KatGetsMoney</i> (October 12, 2025).<br>
514. <a href=https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/minnesota-sen-omar-fateh-says-he-wont-back-down-despite-islamophobic-threats>Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh Says He Won’t Back Down Despite Islamophobic Threats</a> – Brianna Kelly (<i>Bring Me the News</i>, September 25, 2025).<br>
515. <a href=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/09/19/minneapolis-mayor-candidates-frey-fateh-davis-hampton>Four Candidates for Minneapolis Mayor Weigh In on Major Issues Facing the City</a> – Jon Collins (<i>MPR News</i>, September 19, 2025).<br>
516. <a href=https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/omar-fateh-minnesota-minneapolis-interview>People “Are Tired of Backroom Decisions”: A Conversation with Minneapolis’s Omar Fateh</a> – Peter Lucas (<i>The Nation</i>, September 5, 2025).<br>
517. <a href=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/omar-fateh-has-all-the-right-enemies>Omar Fateh Has All the Right Enemies</a> – Alex Skopic (<i>Current Affairs</i>, September 5, 2025).<br>
518. <a href=https://southsidepride.com/2025/09/03/state-dfl-tries-to-disenfranchise-the-city-dfl>State DFL tries to disenfranchise the City DFL</a> – David Tilsen (<i>Southside Pride</i>, September 3, 2025).<br>
519. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNYDqC8jkc8>Minnesota Democrats Stab Omar Fateh in the Back</a> – <i>Concernicus</i> (August 27, 2025).<br>
520. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zDky0m2XpA>DFL Reverses Omar Fateh Endorsement</a> – <i>Left Reckoning</i> (August 26, 2025).<br>
521. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HUSmPi0Z5Y>Democrats in Minnesota Revoke the Mayoral Endorsement of Omar Fateh</a> – <i>I Am Blakeley</i> (August 23, 2025).<br>
522. <a href=https://left.mn/2025/08/the-state-dfl-spits-on-the-minneapolis-dfl>The State DFL Spits on the Minneapolis DFL</a> – Steve Timmer (<i>LeftMN</i>, August 23, 2025).<br>
523. <a href=https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/dfl-revoke-endorsement-omar-fateh-minneapolis-mayoral-race/89-ddb0b855-20e3-4217-989b-071f4f1c78fc>Minnesota DFL Revokes Endorsement for Omar Fateh in Minneapolis Mayoral Race</a> – Naasir Akailvi (<i>KARE 11 News</i>, August 21, 2025).<br>
524. <a href=https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/08/22/omar-democrats-minneapolis-mayor-race-fateh-frey>Rep. Ilhan Omar Condemns Party’s Decision to Throw Out Fateh Endorsement</a> – Torey Van Oot (<i>Axios</i>, August 21, 2025).<br>
525. <a href=https://southsidepride.com/2025/08/05/how-did-this-happen>How Did This Happen?</a> – Ed Felien (<i>Southside Pride</i>, August 5, 2025).<br>
526. <a href=https://www.allsides.com/story/politics-minnesota-dems-endorse-socialist-omar-fateh-mayor-over-incumbent-dem-jacob-frey>Minnesota Democrats Endorse Socialist Omar Fateh for Mayor Over Incumbent Democrat Jacob Frey</a> – <i>AllSides</i> (July 21, 2025).<br>
527. <a href=https://www.newsweek.com/omar-fateh-minneapolis-mayor-2099162>Who Is Omar Fateh? Mamdani of Minneapolis Faces MAGA Abuse</a> – Kate Plummer (<i>Newsweek</i>, July 15, 2025).<br>
528. <a href=https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-minnesota-condemns-anti-muslim-racist-hate-targeting-sen-omar-fateh-amid-rising-political-violence>CAIR-Minnesota Condemns Anti-Muslim, Racist Hate Targeting Sen. Omar Fateh Amid Rising Political Violence</a> – CAIR-Minnesota (July 15, 2025).<br>
529. <a href=https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/minneapolis-gets-its-own-mamdani>Minneapolis Gets Its Own Mamdani</a> – Kayla Bartsch (<i>National Review</i>, July 15, 2025).<br>
530. <a href=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/whats-wrong-with-the-shape-of-your-head-minneapolis-mayoral-candidate-omar-fateh-faces-racist-trolling-go-to-mogadishu/articleshow/122456007.cms>Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh Faces Racist Trolling: “Go to Mogadishu”</a> – <i>Times of India</i> (July 14, 2025).<br>
531. <a href=https://www.southwestvoices.news/posts/campaign-q-a-omar-fateh-will-work-across-the-aisle-if-elected-mayor>Omar Fateh Will Work Across the Aisle If Elected Mayor</a> – Melody Hoffmann (<i>Southwest Voices</i>, April 2, 2025).<br>
532. <br>
533. <br>
534. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
535. <br>
536. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-4zM7kLGAsWiom-cV5mYq7yW-tgFknWMUxXJgMZKl4Mg7iHMMPrWjt4dxWdLTMMzy32okKkNKDye5371CKjmdDzMWGW2ZaKv93AOeqD792ffBdFz-JzOs_GXa13F2goKs1hWLI0fGaIlAKOhjgDGn0Q55G7gS4kEiqVvQh_-2rtnKIG3qQAdZmQ/s1959/IMG_E4455.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="1959" data-original-width="1409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-4zM7kLGAsWiom-cV5mYq7yW-tgFknWMUxXJgMZKl4Mg7iHMMPrWjt4dxWdLTMMzy32okKkNKDye5371CKjmdDzMWGW2ZaKv93AOeqD792ffBdFz-JzOs_GXa13F2goKs1hWLI0fGaIlAKOhjgDGn0Q55G7gS4kEiqVvQh_-2rtnKIG3qQAdZmQ/s200/IMG_E4455.JPG"/></a></div><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>OMAR FATEH</b></span><br>
537. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-racist-and-factless-meltdown-over.html>A “Racist and Factless Meltdown” Over Omar Fateh</a><br>
538. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/omar-jazz-dewayne.html>Omar | Jazz | DeWayne</a><br>
539. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/in-his-efforts-to-build-city-that-works.html>In His Efforts to “Build a City That Works for All,” Omar Fateh Secures a Key Endorsement</a><br>
540. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/something-to-think-about.html>Something to Think About – July 25, 2025</a><br>
541. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-longstanding-fault-lines-within.html>The Longstanding Fault Lines Within the Democratic Party Have Surfaced Again in Minnesota</a><br>
542. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/omar-fateh-we-need-to-meet-needs-of.html>Omar Fateh: “We Need to Meet the Needs of Working People”</a><br>
543. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/hopeful-and-grounded-omar-fatehs-vision.html>“Hopeful and Grounded”: Omar Fateh’s Vision of Democratic Socialism</a><br>
544. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/omar-fateh-person-centered-leader.html>Omar Fateh: A “Person-Centered Leader”</a><br>
545. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-omar-fateh-is-right-choice-for.html>Why Omar Fateh Is the Right Choice for Mayor of Minneapolis</a><br>
546. <br>
547. <br>
548. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM</b></span><br>
549. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/01/martin-luther-king-jr-democratic.html>Martin Luther King, Jr. and Democratic Socialism</a><br>
550. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/06/quote-of-day.html>Bernie Sanders: Quote of the Day – June 12, 2019</a><br>
551. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/10/heather-cox-richardson-on-origin-of.html>Heather Cox Richardson on the Origin of the American Obsession with “Socialism”</a><br>
552. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-biblical-roots-of-from-each.html>The Biblical Roots of “From Each According to Ability; To Each According to Need”</a><br>
553. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/12/something-to-think-about_14.html>Something to Think About – December 14, 2011</a><br>
554. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/08/quote-of-day_17.html>Jonty Langley: Quote of the Day – August 17, 2011</a><br>
555. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/01/socialist-perspective-on-democratic.html>A Socialist Perspective on the “Democratic Debacle” in Massachusetts</a><br>
556. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-socialist-hardly.html>Obama a Socialist? Hardly</a><br>
557. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-ayers-s-word-and-themost.html>Obama, Ayers, the “S” Word, and the “Most Politically Backward Layers in America”</a><br>
558. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/09/socialist-response-to-financial-crisis.html>A Socialist Response to the 2008 Financial Crisis</a><br>
559. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/09/capitalism-on-trial.html>Capitalism on Trial</a><br>
560. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-hitler-and-nazis-werent-socialists.html>No, Hitler and the Nazis Weren’t Socialists</a><br>
561. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/ted-rall-on-what-it-means-to-be-leftist.html>What It Means to Be a Leftist in 2025</a><br>
562. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/ted-rall-democrats-are-not-left.html>Ted Rall: “Democrats Are Not the Left”</a><br>
563. <br>
564. <b>Opening image:</b> State senator Omar Fateh and the incumbent mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, debate on September 26, 2025. <i>(Photo: Leila Navidi/Zuma via Shutterstock)</i></span><br>
565. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/2805142742558462748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/2805142742558462748' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/2805142742558462748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/2805142742558462748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/omar-fatehs-grassroots-campaign-for.html' title='Omar Fateh’s Grassroots Campaign for Mayor of Minneapolis'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG_kZTvzWSSaYgpUk0YpsGFlbe7cpBm1BwXzb2A9jlwWOSC9vSdxgTbBWbNQxkGF7OB1c2rE4XU3CFtLvrXF27QGotHuHHVTdAEWrEQSTJDmISXbic2f6PeLKLdKvhUfwTFYVQXoxW48KKNt7zqVo0t65LuwvgNCvyMj56LzYux-QfDj2glVb2rg/s72-c/FatehAndFrey.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-9032403234825342404</id><published>2025-10-26T22:01:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-29T11:16:26.747-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Resisting Corporatism and Fascism"/><title type='text'>“A Power Grab the Likes of Which This Country Has Never Seen”</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFf2jP0x8AfUbDSTSX86-XVfzj7lWQdCsqwcQaabXPzHwE01oQtfPDEbnixSuZTCCjcumPWl3U-QBpnFT3YNJVab1hnUKjZkkoFtspmgsW7g1WtiNQFEv1OcjiZkuAgfW5Aa1EOqoQlAsDezq0AflDk-iCGH3hqeV5vit_tcAXj5_ug9py3-RlXA/s600/IMG_3985b.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; data-original-height=&quot;530&quot; data-original-width=&quot;600&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFf2jP0x8AfUbDSTSX86-XVfzj7lWQdCsqwcQaabXPzHwE01oQtfPDEbnixSuZTCCjcumPWl3U-QBpnFT3YNJVab1hnUKjZkkoFtspmgsW7g1WtiNQFEv1OcjiZkuAgfW5Aa1EOqoQlAsDezq0AflDk-iCGH3hqeV5vit_tcAXj5_ug9py3-RlXA/s200/IMG_3985b.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Writes digital creator &lt;a href=https://www.facebook.com/jason.duchin.3&gt;Jason Duchin&lt;/a&gt; . . .&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;
566. <br>
567. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span>AGA is executing a power grab the likes of which this country has never seen. Trump isn’t renovating the ballroom for someone else to use it, he’s moving in.<br>
568. <br>
569. In an <a href=https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=saved&v=1341497687551014>interview</a> with <i>The Economist</i>, Steve Bannon <a href=https://truthout.org/articles/trump-third-term-is-being-planned-out-maga-ally-steve-bannon-says>said it plainly</a>: “Trump is going to be president in ’28, and people ought to just get accommodated with that.”<br>
570. <br>
571. Their intent isn’t governance. It’s domination. And if you think this is hyperbole, you’re out of your fucking mind.<br>
572. <br>
573. “At the appropriate time, we’ll lay out what the plan is. But there is a plan.” Bannon added that Trump was an “instrument of divine will,” echoing, as Trump himself has, the divine right of kings.<br>
574. <br>
575. This isn’t strategy. It’s scripture for a political cult. The manifesto of men preparing a theological autocracy. A declaration that compromise, dialogue, and democracy itself are obstacles to be eliminated.  If you are a straight white conservative Christian who digs the patriarchy you are entering the Golden age… however, for the rest of us.<br>
576. <br>
577. Bannon and the MAGA machine see this moment as a state of war, not against a foreign enemy, but against their fellow Americans. Against liberal America. Against anyone who believes in equality, pluralism, and law. They intend to march forward with unrelenting action, counting on the left’s apathy and disorientation, disregarding constitutional history and treating power as destiny, not responsibility.<br>
578. <br>
579. If you were facing a nuclear power that openly declared it would use its weapons against you, would you sit and negotiate or fight with everything you have to disarm them before it’s too late?<br>
580. <br>
581. That’s the moral equation before us now. We have no choice but to act simultaneously and without hesitation on two fronts:<br>
582. <br>
583. <blockquote>• <b>Resist Relentlessly</b>. We must confront this growing authoritarian movement through protest, organizing, voting, and unyielding instances of civic courage. We cannot meet divine-right zealotry with apathy. For most of us, this will be the first time in our lives we’ve been called to defend democracy. Carrying on with a “business as usual” mindset is delusion. Figure out a way to get involved. Now.<br>
584.  <br>
585. • <b>Rebuild from the Ground Up</b>. We must abandon the poisoned, performative politics of our era and return to something human. Build community-centered bridges of trust, care, and shared purpose. The more we connect locally, the less control authoritarians have over our fears. America must be rebuilt, not from Washington, but from our neighborhoods, schools, and streets. Find a way to begin that work.</blockquote><br>
586. They have money. They have power. They have a group of zealots willing to trade freedom for submission. But we have numbers. We have each other. And we have the unshakable belief that democracy is still worth fighting for.<br>
587. <br>
588. They’ve told us loudly and repeatedly what they plan to do. The question is no longer if they’ll try to end democracy. The question is whether we’ll listen and whether we’ll act before it’s too late.</blockquote><br>
589. <div style="text-align: right;"><b><i>– Jason Duchin</i></b><br>
590. <span style="font-size: 85%;">via social media<br>
591. October 26, 2025</span></div><br>
592. <br>
593. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
594. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/stop-trump>How to Stop Tyrant Trump From Destroying Our Country</a> – Ralph Nader (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 26, 2025).<br>
595. <a href=https://newrepublic.com/post/202225/steve-bannon-third-trump-term-2028>Steve Bannon Reveals There’s a Plan for a Third Trump Term in 2028</a> – Hafiz Rashid (<i>The New Republic</i>, October 24, 2025).<br>
596. <a href=https://truthout.org/articles/trump-third-term-is-being-planned-out-maga-ally-steve-bannon-says>Trump Third Term Is Being Planned Out, MAGA Ally Steve Bannon Says</a>
597. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/hello-fascism>Hello, Fascism</a> – Chris Walker (<i>Truthout</i>, October 24, 2025).<br>
598. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/bannon-trump-third-term-plan>Bannon Says Trump Will Run for an Illegal Third Term Because “He’s a Vehicle of Divine Providence”</a> – Stephen Prager (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 24, 2025).<br>
599. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-emergency-hijack-2026-election>Officials Plot to Have Trump Declare National Emergency in 2026, Raising Fears He May “Hijack” the Next Election</a> – Stephen Prager (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 23, 2025).<br>
600. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-first-american-dictator>Wake Up! Trump Is Moving Swiftly to Become the First American Dictator</a> – Thom Hartmann (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 1, 2025).<br>
601. <br>
602. <b>UPDATE:</b> <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/americans-don-t-want-king>Americans Don’t Want a King, But We May Be Getting One Anyway</a> – Tom Engelhardt (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 27, 2025).<br>
603. <br>
604. <br>
605. <b>See also the following chronologically-ordered <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br />
606. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/01/inauguration-day-thoughts.html>Inauguration Day Thoughts</a><br>
607. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/marisa-kabas-were-witnessing-coup-by.html>Marisa Kabas: “We’re Witnessing a Coup By an Unelected Billionaire Propped Up By a Felonious President”</a><br>
608. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/timothy-snyder-on-resisting-oligarchs.html>Timothy Snyder on Resisting the Oligarchs’ “Logic of Destruction”</a><br>
609. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/this-is-essentially-viktor-orbans.html>“This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”</a><br>
610. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/an-extremely-clever-ruse-by-and-for.html>“An Extremely Clever Ruse” by and for the Rich: Owen Jones on Elon Musk’s Coup</a><br>
611. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/to-be-rib-in-this-body-of-our-country.html>“To Be a Rib in This Body of Our Country”</a><br>
612. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/quote-of-day.html>Quote of the Day – February 21, 2025</a><br>
613. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/03/ralph-nader-were-heading-into-most.html>Ralph Nader: “We’re Heading Into the Most Serious Crisis in American History. There’s No Comparison”</a><br>
614. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/03/why-democratic-party-is-not-going-to.html>Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism</a><br>
615. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/this-is-how-democracy-unravels.html>“This Is How Democracy Unravels”</a><br>
616. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/jason-stanley-on-how-fascism-works.html>Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works</a><br>
617. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/james-greenberg-on-road-trump-is.html>James Greenberg on Trumpism: “The Tactics Are Unmistakable”</a><br>
618. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/tony-pentimalli-on-trumps-death-warrant.html>Tony Pentimalli on Trump’s “Death Warrant for Democracy”</a><br>
619. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/this-is-what-fascism-looks-like.html>“This Is What Fascism Looks Like”</a><br>
620. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_10.html>Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025</a><br>
621. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/protesting-is-what-patriotism-looks.html>“Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025</a><br>
622. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/no-kings-absolutely-but-also-no.html>“No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”</a><br>
623. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_20.html>Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025</a><br>
624. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_24.html>Rep. Ro Khanna: Quote of the Day – June 24, 2025</a><br>
625. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/this-is-fascism.html>“This Is Fascism”</a><br>
626. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-declaration-of-resistance.html>The Declaration of Resistance</a><br>
627. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-choice-before-us.html>The Choice Before Us</a><br>
628. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/quote-of-day.html>Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025</a><br>
629. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/how-democrats-can-start-winning-again.html>How Democrats Can Start Winning Again</a><br>
630. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/brent-molnar-on-maga-cult-and-its.html>Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions</a><br>
631. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/james-greenberg-choices-we-make-matter.html>James Greenberg: “The Choices We Make Matter”</a><br>
632. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/brent-molnar-on-cold-war-in-our-own.html>Brent Molnar on the “Cold War in Our Own House”</a><br>
633. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/he-is-enacting-authoritarian-agenda.html>Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement</a><br>
634. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/its-here-and-we-are-sleepwalking.html>Jason Duchin: “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”</a><br>
635. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/were-moving-into-totalitarianism.html>Marianne Williamson: “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”</a><br>
636. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/garrett-graff-america-tips-into-fascism.html>Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”</a><br>
637. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/bowing-to-idol.html>Bowing to an Idol</a><br>
638. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/marianne-williamson-on-need-for-radical.html>Marianne Williamson on the Need for “Radical Love” in Responding to Trump’s Dismantling of Democracy</a><br>
639. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/brent-molnar-on-the-silencing-of-jimmy.html>Brent Molnar on the the Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel: “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”</a><br>
640. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/james-greenberg-on-identity-politics-of.html>James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA</a><br>
641. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/staying-strong-in-trumps-fascist-america.html>Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America</a><br>
642. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/memes-of-times.html>Memes of the Times – September 2025</a><br>
643. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/quote-of-day.html>Jason Duchin: Quote of the Day – September 24, 2025</a><br>
644. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/derek-johnson-on-courage-to-call.html>Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”</a><br>
645. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/will-potter-on-trumps-war-on-dissent.html>Will Potter on Trump’s War on Dissent: “This Is What Fascists Do”</a><br>
646. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/marianne-williamson-we-need-expanded.html>Marianne Williamson: We Need an “Expanded Version of What it Means to Be Political”</a><br>
647. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/an-incident-that-feels-ripped-from.html>An Incident That Feels “Ripped from a Dystopian Novel”</a><br>
648. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/james-greenberg-i-am-in-mourning-for.html>James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”</a><br>
649. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/quote-of-day.html>Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – October 6, 2025</a><br>
650. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/if-praying-minister-isnt-safe-none-of.html>“If a Praying Minister Isn’t Safe, None of Us Are”</a><br>
651. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/james-greenberg-on-trumps-larger-design.html>James Greenberg on Trump’s “Larger Design” – the Construction of a Military Dictatorship</a><br>
652. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/historian-john-lestrange-on-meaning-and.html>Historian John Lestrange on the Meaning and Manifestations of Fascism, Past and Present</a><br>
653. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/mark-sandlin-of-course-trump-wants.html>Mark Sandlin: “Of Course Trump Wants Columbus Day Back”</a><br>
654. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/when-terrorism-charges-reek-of.html>When Terrorism Charges “Reek of Political Theater”</a><br>
655. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/thoughts-on-eve-of-no-kings-day-20.html>Thoughts on the Eve of “No Kings Day” 2.0</a><br>
656. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/authoritarianism-with-blue-sticker.html>Authoritarianism With a Blue Sticker</a><br>
657. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/we-intend-to-defend-our-democracy-no.html>“We Intend to Defend Our Democracy”: The “No Kings” Protests of October 18, 2025</a><br>
658. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/performative-resistance-alone-wont.html>“Performative Resistance Alone Won’t Change Anything”</a><br>
659. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/quote-of-day_19.html>Socialist Equality Party: Quote of the Day – October 19, 2025</a><br>
660. <br>
661. <b>See also:</b><br>
662. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/phil-wilson-remembers-american-fascisms.html>Phil Wilson Remembers “American Fascism’s First Casualty” and Warns That Donald Trump’s “MAGA Death Cult Is Coming for Us All”</a><br>
663. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/09/marianne-williamson-on-americas-cults.html>Marianne Williamson on America’s “Cults of Madness”</a><br>
664. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-republican-party-has-now-made-it.html>“The Republican Party Has Now Made It Official: They Are a Cult”</a><br>
665. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/12/chauncey-devega-on-ongoing-danger-of.html>Chauncey Devega on the Ongoing Danger of the Trump Cult</a><br>
666. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/jeff-sharlet-on-fascist-ideology-of.html>Jeff Sharlet on the Fascist Ideology of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene</a><br>
667. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-republican-party-in-nutshell.html>The Republican Party in a Nutshell</a><br>
668. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/quote-of-day.html>Robert Reich: Quote of the Day – April 11, 2023</a><br>
669. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/11/republicans-dont-care-about-american.html>Republicans Don’t Care About American Democracy</a></span><br>
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671. <br>
672. The fact that they called themselves the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party>National Socialist German Workers’ Party</a> was designed to fool people 80 years ago. The reason why they pretended to be socialists was because of the failures of capitalism in the previous election [which caused a majority of people] to vote for the communists and socialists. Adolf Hitler himself wrote about this, basically saying we’re pretending to be socialists.<br>
673. <br>
674. The fact that [there are people] 80 years later still falling for this propaganda and who actually think that the most fascist people in modern history we’re socialists says a lot about the lack of education in the United States of America.<br>
675. <br>
676. If you actually believe that the Nazis were socialist in practice then you have to believe that the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea>Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea</a> is actually a democracy.</blockquote><br>
677. <div style="text-align: right;">– <b><i>Stephanie Ann Diaz</i></b><br>
678. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><i>via social media</i><br>
679. October 25, 2025</span></div><br>
680. <br />
681. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
682. <a href=https://jacobin.com/2022/08/nazi-germany-national-socialism-hypercaptialism-social-darwinism-liberalism>The Nazis Weren’t Socialists – They Were Hypercapitalists: An Interview with
683. Ishay Landa</a> – Nils Schniederjann (<i>Jacobin</i>, August 26, 2022).<br>
684. <a href=https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18283879/nazism-socialism-hitler-gop-brooks-gohmert>Adolf Hitler Was Not a Socialist</a> – Jane Coaston (<i>Vox</i>, March 27, 2019).<br>
685. <a href=https://fullfact.org/online/nazis-socialists>The Nazis Were Not Socialists</a> – <i>Full Fact</i> (September 25, 2019).<br>
686. <a href=https://www.abc.net.au/religion/nazism-socialism-and-the-falsification-of-history/10214302>Nazism, Socialism and the Falsification of History</a> – Matthew Fitzpatrick and A. Dirk Moses (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, January 30, 2025).<br>
687. <a href=https://jacobin.com/2020/10/nazi-socialism-rand-paul-strasser-hitler>No, the Nazis Were Not Socialists</a> – Scott Sehon (<i>Jacobin</i>, October 9, 2020).<br>
688. <a href=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/16/puie-o16.html>Leaders of Republican Youth Movement Praise Hitler and Joke About Holocaust in Internal Discussion</a> – Jacob Crosse (<i>World Socialist Web Site</i>, October 15, 2025).<br>
689. <a href=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/21/vbmu-o21.html>Nazism, Big Business and the Working Class: Historical Experience and Political Lessons</a> – <i>World Socialist Web Site</i> (October 20, 2025).<br>
690. <a href=https://explaininghistory.org/2025/02/28/addressing-claims-that-hitler-was-a-socialist>Hitler Was Not a Socialist: Here’s the Evidence</a> – <i>Explaining History</i> (February 28, 2025).<br>
691. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m3plbOSOxA>No, The Nazis Were Not “Left Wing”</a> – <i>Flashback History</i> (August 2, 2025).<br>
692. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGWNMcodEtk>Were the Nazis Socialists? Historians Debunk and Explain</a> – Dr. Eric Kurlander, et al (<i>YouTube</i>, May 2, 2021).<br>
693. <a href=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/01/putting-the-nazis-were-socialist-nonsense-to-rest>Putting The “Nazis Were Socialist” Nonsense To Rest</a> – Nathan J. Robinson (<i>Current Affairs</i>, January 24, 2020).<br>
694. <br>
695. <br>
696. <b>See also the following chronologically-ordered <i>Wild Reed</i> posts on actual socialism:</b><br>
697. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/05/united-93-socialist-perspective.html>The Film <i>United 93</i> – A Socialist Perspective (2006)</a><br>
698. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/09/capitalism-on-trial.html>Capitalism on Trial</a><br>
699. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/09/socialist-response-to-financial-crisis.html>A Socialist Response to the Financial Crisis (2008)</a><br>
700. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-ayers-s-word-and-themost.html>Obama, Ayers, the “S” Word, and the “Most Politically Backward Layers in America” (2010)</a><br>
701. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-socialist-hardly.html>Obama, a Socialist? Hardly</a><br>
702. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/01/socialist-perspective-on-democratic.html>A Socialist Perspective on the "Democratic Debacle" in Massachusetts</a><br>
703. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/08/quote-of-day_17.html>Jonty Langley: Quote of the Day – August 17, 2011</a><br>
704. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/12/something-to-think-about_14.html>Something to Think About – December 14, 2011</a><br>
705. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/01/martin-luther-king-jr-democratic.html>Martin Luther King, Jr. and Democratic Socialism</a><br>
706. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/04/hope-history-and-bernie-sanders_18.html>Hope, History, and Bernie Sanders (2016)</a><br>
707. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/07/quote-of-day_31.html>Jesse A. Myerson: Quote of the Day – July 31, 2016</a><br>
708. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/09/quote-of-day.html>Jonah Walters: Quote of the Day – September 5, 2016</a><br>
709. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/06/quote-of-day_8.html>John Wight: Quote of the Day – June 8, 2017</a><br>
710. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/06/progressive-perspectives-on-jeremy.html>Progressive Perspectives on Jeremy Corbyn’s Achievement in the U.K. Election</a><br>
711. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-timely-reminder.html>A Timely Reminder</a><br>
712. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/06/quote-of-day.html>Bernie Sanders: Quote of the Day – June 12, 2019</a><br>
713. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/03/bernie-sanders-political-revolution-is.html>Bernie Sanders’ “Revolution” Is Ultimately One of Values – the Values of Justice, Hope, and Love</a><br>
714. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/10/heather-cox-richardson-on-origin-of.html>Heather Cox Richardson on the Origin of the American Obsession with “Socialism”</a><br>
715. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-biblical-roots-of-from-each.html>The Biblical Roots of “From Each According to Ability; To Each According to Need”</a><br>
716. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/quote-of-day_10.html>Mark Harris: Quote of the Day – August 10, 2023</a><br>
717. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/hopeful-and-grounded-omar-fatehs-vision.html>“Hopeful and Grounded”: Omar Fateh’s Vision of Democratic Socialism (2025)</a><br>
718. <br>
719. <b>Image:</b> Artist unknown.</span><br>
720. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/2472238823817200485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/2472238823817200485' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/2472238823817200485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/2472238823817200485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-hitler-and-nazis-werent-socialists.html' title='No, Hitler and the Nazis Weren’t Socialists'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXjeue7cqHi6fuxWfvtW0WRjlgasKwFRLTi-R8myboCulMPGiLP8nMwP6towDjqqnaWawdksx6mygMmL9p6_wkPxZQGMtr_iJe6bAG_UMuZH6ufcVFyPG1781EnrvytxgEDtOkbK9iBj5i1z-Kr7uOHAF90x9XUqpSx-_a3qVvpvGmYyj6JexgUQ/s72-c/IMG_9226b.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-1250153877046640729</id><published>2025-10-24T17:05:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-28T14:33:52.719-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jesus"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Marianne Williamson"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="The Idolatry of Christian Nationalism"/><title type='text'>The Gospel of Jesus Vs. Project 2025</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtIcLO6UCiEy09JrA12YvyUFTlzi3VJV0NiXDhN2_-r3PmHnxd6avsK1dYHtrgTIykxv2l_pxkcR8FTXzxywiHpHT7eJDFlkiAti2LDys47TJR8digmvm_4w8JXIeCHx7NOhZl1l3vVJLPhSD9oLZdr9d4ocoQAbYepT_cOBhjah92ITjOCnaKuQ/s200/BrianRecker.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; data-original-height=&quot;200&quot; data-original-width=&quot;200&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtIcLO6UCiEy09JrA12YvyUFTlzi3VJV0NiXDhN2_-r3PmHnxd6avsK1dYHtrgTIykxv2l_pxkcR8FTXzxywiHpHT7eJDFlkiAti2LDys47TJR8digmvm_4w8JXIeCHx7NOhZl1l3vVJLPhSD9oLZdr9d4ocoQAbYepT_cOBhjah92ITjOCnaKuQ/s200/BrianRecker.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;In the hour-long video below, &lt;a href=https://marianne.com/books&gt;author&lt;/a&gt;, social commentator, and &lt;a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Marianne%202024&gt;former&lt;/a&gt; Democratic presidential candidate &lt;a href=https://marianne.com/about&gt;Marianne Williamson&lt;/a&gt; interviews &lt;a href=https://www.brianrecker.com&gt;Brian Recker&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;b&gt;right&lt;/b&gt;), public theologian and author of &lt;a href=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hell-bent-brian-recker/1146799965&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hell Bent: How the Fear of Hell Holds Christians Back from a Spirituality of Love&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;
721. <br>
722. Recker, a former Evangelical pastor, is an influential figure in the <a href=https://www.sophiasociety.org/blog/your-guide-to-faith-deconstruction>Christian Deconstructionist Movement</a>. As Williamson notes, “[Recker] explains a journey taken by millions of Christians in America today who feel strongly that a Jesus of love, not retribution, should guide our hearts.”<br>
723. <br>
724. Continues Williamson in introducing her October 15 conversation with Recker:<br>
725. <br>
726. <blockquote>Jesus was neither oppressor nor hater nor promoter of theocracy. There are those who claim to speak for him at times, however, who are all of those things. One of the primary forces behind <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025>Project 2025</a> is a political movement called <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_nationalism_in_the_United_States>Christian Nationalism</a>. Christian Nationalism speaks not of the teachings of Jesus – feeding the hungry, helping the poor, healing the sick, and kindness to the stranger. Their vision is not about love, but power – specifically a version of power that transgresses basic American Constitutional principles (subjugation of women, primacy of Christianity over other religions, and more). Progressive Christians are rising up in response, bringing to the theological as well as political sphere a voice that is much needed at this time. Theirs is a Jesus of the Gospels, recognizing love and love alone as the salvation of the world.</blockquote>
727. <br>
728. <br>
729. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ShLZuB7hWu8?si=zqjPtKAZebbZy5bt" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
730. <br>
731. <br>
732. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br />  
733. <br>
734. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM</b></span><br>
735. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/bowing-to-idol.html>Bowing to an Idol</a><br>
736. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/james-greenberg-on-identity-politics-of.html>James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA</a><br>
737. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/memes-of-times.html>Memes of the Times – September 2025</a><br>
738. <br>
739. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>JESUS</b></span><br>
740. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/bruce-fanger-on-jesuss-theology-of-no.html>Bruce Fanger on Jesus’s Theology of No Kings</a><br>
741. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-jesus-is-my-man.html>Why Jesus Is My Man</a><br>
742. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/03/jesus-mystic-and-prophet.html>Jesus: Mystic and Prophet</a><br>
743. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-mystic-jesus-name-for-unalterable.html>The Mystic Jesus: “A Name for the Unalterable Love That All of Us Share”</a><br>
744. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-king-of-love-my-shepherd-is.html>The King of Love My Shepherd Is</a><br>
745. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/03/jesus-path-blazer-of-radical.html>Jesus: Path-Blazer of Radical Transformation</a><br>
746. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/03/jesus-and-social-revolution.html>Jesus and Social Revolution – Part 1</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/03/jesus-and-social-revolution-part-2.html>2</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/03/jesus-and-social-revolution-part-3.html>3</a><br>
747. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/09/mysticism-and-revolution.html>Mysticism and Revolution</a><br>
748. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/04/jesus-our-guide-to-mystical-love-in.html>Jesus: Our Guide to Mystical Love in Action – Part 1</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/04/jesus-our-guide-to-mystical-love-in_12.html>2</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/04/jesus-our-guide-to-mystical-love-in_14.html>3</a><br>
749. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/03/jesus-and-art-of-letting-go.html>Jesus and the Art of Letting Go</a><br>
750. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/palm-sunday-sacred-paradox.html>Palm Sunday: A Sacred Paradox</a><br>
751. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/03/jesus-upside-down-messiah.html>Jesus: The Upside-down Messiah</a><br>
752. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/time-to-grow-up.html>Time to Grow Up</a><br>
753. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-model-of-leadership-offered-by.html>The Model of Leadership Offered by Jesus: “More Like the Gardener Than the Owner of the Garden”</a><br>
754. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/11/something-to-think-about_27.html>Something to Think About – November 27, 2018</a><br>
755. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/10/prayer-of-week.html>Prayer of the Week – October 19, 2015</a><br>
756. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/02/daniel-helminiak-on-lesson-of-jesus-we.html>The Lesson of Jesus</a><br>
757. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/04/good-news-on-road-to-emmaus.html>Good News on the Road to Emmaus</a><br>
758. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/03/jesus-revelation-of-oneness.html>Jesus: The Revelation of Oneness</a><br>
759. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-part-of-jesus-invitation-to-be-not.html>What Part of Jesus’ Invitation to “Be Not Afraid” Don’t the Bishops Get?</a><br>
760. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/12/something-to-think-about_14.html>Something to Think About – December 14, 2011</a><br>
761. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/10/something-to-think-about_29.html>Something to Think About – October 29, 2011</a><br>
762. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/04/to-believe-in-jesus.html>To Believe in Jesus</a><br>
763. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/06/jesus-was-sissy.html>Jesus Was a Sissy</a><br>
764. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/05/wild-gaiety-of-jesus-moral-teaching.html>The “Moral Gaiety” of Jesus’ Teaching</a><br>
765. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/03/jesus-lives.html>Jesus Lives!</a><br>
766. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/i-like-and-respect-this-guy-atheists.html>“I Like and Respect This Guy”: An Atheist’s Take on Jesus</a></span><br>
767. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/1250153877046640729/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/1250153877046640729' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/1250153877046640729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/1250153877046640729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-gospels-vs-project-2025.html' title='The Gospel of Jesus Vs. Project 2025'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtIcLO6UCiEy09JrA12YvyUFTlzi3VJV0NiXDhN2_-r3PmHnxd6avsK1dYHtrgTIykxv2l_pxkcR8FTXzxywiHpHT7eJDFlkiAti2LDys47TJR8digmvm_4w8JXIeCHx7NOhZl1l3vVJLPhSD9oLZdr9d4ocoQAbYepT_cOBhjah92ITjOCnaKuQ/s72-c/BrianRecker.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-3222417821852265854</id><published>2025-10-23T08:00:00.058-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-29T10:47:06.398-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Beloved One"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Prayer of the Week"/><title type='text'>A Dazzling and Eternal Soul</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2x03D1d2_siDyEVZU6-hGgq5eHW-rAfnaoDaaibUdN7d6hHgb7ATo7qeCyTj7eN4Mf1fKD-_WW908AGV-b8eJwVXn2CTrcIe9NXriktpZES3Rf0TJ5GRE0qCrQSBhct3jKCamyw/s2048/20210524_073759.jpg&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1605&quot; data-original-width=&quot;2048&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2x03D1d2_siDyEVZU6-hGgq5eHW-rAfnaoDaaibUdN7d6hHgb7ATo7qeCyTj7eN4Mf1fKD-_WW908AGV-b8eJwVXn2CTrcIe9NXriktpZES3Rf0TJ5GRE0qCrQSBhct3jKCamyw/s400/20210524_073759.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;
768. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span>hange me, Divine Beloved, into One who is freed from the illusion of time.<br>
769. <br>
770. Protect me from the toxic views this culture holds about age. Help me be open to a miracle of regeneration in every way.<br>
771.  <br>
772. May I know I’m a dazzling and eternal soul, not a chronological number.</blockquote><br>
773. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <a href=https://toshasilver.com><i>Tosha Silver</i></a></b><br>
774. <span style="font-size: 85%;">in <a href=https://toshasilver.com/collections/books/products/change-me-prayers><i>Change Me Prayers:<br>
775. The Hidden Power of Spiritual Surrender</i></a><br>
776. Atrua Books, 2015</span></div><br>
777. <br />
778. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Link:</b><br>
779. <a href=https://theconversation.com/worried-about-turning-60-science-says-thats-when-many-of-us-actually-peak-267215>Worried About Turning 60? Science Says That’s When Many of Us Actually Peak</a> – Gilles E. Gignac (<i>The Conversation</i>, October 14, 2025).<br>
780. <br>
781. <b>See also the previous Wild Reed posts:</b><br>
782. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/01/surrendering-in-sacred-trust.html>Surrendering in Sacred Trust</a><br>
783. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-way-of-love-and-healing.html>The Way of Love and Healing</a><br>
784. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/12/trust-and-surrender.html>Trust and Surrender</a><br>
785. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/03/jesus-and-art-of-letting-go.html>Jesus and the Art of Letting Go</a><br>
786. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/10/you-are-my-goal-beloved-one.html>You Are My Goal, Beloved One</a><br>
787. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/08/loves-only-dance.html>Love’s the Only Dance</a><br>
788. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/sweet-surrender.html>Sweet Surrender</a><br>
789. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/05/be-just-in-my-heart.html>Be Just in My Heart</a><br>
790. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/08/i-surrender-to-you.html>I Sureender to You</a><br>
791.  • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/10/turning-50.html>Turning 50 (2015)</a><br>
792. <br>
793. <b>Image:</b> Michael J. Bayly.</span><br>
794. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/3222417821852265854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/3222417821852265854' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/3222417821852265854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/3222417821852265854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-dazzling-and-eternal-soul.html' title='A Dazzling and Eternal Soul'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2x03D1d2_siDyEVZU6-hGgq5eHW-rAfnaoDaaibUdN7d6hHgb7ATo7qeCyTj7eN4Mf1fKD-_WW908AGV-b8eJwVXn2CTrcIe9NXriktpZES3Rf0TJ5GRE0qCrQSBhct3jKCamyw/s72-c/20210524_073759.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-735426884495958675</id><published>2025-10-22T03:33:00.016-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-25T03:24:48.808-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Indigenous Wisdom"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Poetry"/><title type='text'>Secret Language of the Heart</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_IkNjsIDJ8-_-ewTYWFUrZz9tUkBfwkrXkAdCyE40HmjZkZdb52uFSBgemWR_PAHyIfAQ8P8wHit8QYopASvUkfNYRNLznEAPPgJtOMdZWrx5DtTPthq0JBGuh-E91iLW2UBN1bGnblkhMpSA02qPf780RkZ58BqyMNbVJRvkdyts7pB4iEy1A/s749/IMG_5213b.JPG&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;526&quot; data-original-width=&quot;749&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_IkNjsIDJ8-_-ewTYWFUrZz9tUkBfwkrXkAdCyE40HmjZkZdb52uFSBgemWR_PAHyIfAQ8P8wHit8QYopASvUkfNYRNLznEAPPgJtOMdZWrx5DtTPthq0JBGuh-E91iLW2UBN1bGnblkhMpSA02qPf780RkZ58BqyMNbVJRvkdyts7pB4iEy1A/s400/IMG_5213b.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;
795. <b>By Steven Charleston</b><br>
796. <br>
797. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> know the secret language of the heart<br>
798. How it speaks in whispers about the pain it has known<br>
799. <br>
800. How it talks of loves lost and dreams deferred,<br>
801. The wordless memories of a lifetime<br>
802. <br>
803. Sharing a story that cannot be contained by words<br>
804. But expressed only in the sound of rain.<br>
805. <br>
806. It is the collective sound of all those voices<br>
807. All those stories, all those moments of joy<br>
808. That I seek to raise up to the listening skies<br>
809. <br>
810. To hold up as high as I can in prayer<br>
811. That the angels of the night will hear us<br>
812. All of us with the dignity of our own story<br>
813. <br>
814. And know that we are still here, still together<br>
815. Still doing what we can to make hope have meaning.<br>
816. <br>
817. Keep speaking the poetry of the heart.<br>
818. I am listening. Many of us are listening.<br>
819. We do not need language to tell the same story.</blockquote><br>
820. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <a href=https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/author/6679/Steven-Charleston><i>Steven Charleston</i></a></b><br>
821. <span style="font-size: 85%;">in <a href=https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9781506486659/Spirit-Wheel><i>Spirit Wheel: Meditations<br>
822. from an Indigenous Elder</i></a><br>
823. Broadleaf Books, 2023</span></div><br>
824. <br />
825. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous Wild Reed posts:</b><br>
826. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/02/in-abode-of-heart.html>In the Abode of the Heart</a><br>
827. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-way-of-love-and-healing.html>The Way of Love and Healing</a><br>
828. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/05/be-just-in-my-heart.html>Be Just in My Heart</a><br>
829. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/adnan-and-winged-heart.html>Adnan and the Winged Heart</a><br>
830. <br>
831. <b>Image:</b> Artist unknown.</span><br>
832. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/735426884495958675/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/735426884495958675' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/735426884495958675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/735426884495958675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/secret-language-of-heart.html' title='Secret Language of the Heart'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_IkNjsIDJ8-_-ewTYWFUrZz9tUkBfwkrXkAdCyE40HmjZkZdb52uFSBgemWR_PAHyIfAQ8P8wHit8QYopASvUkfNYRNLznEAPPgJtOMdZWrx5DtTPthq0JBGuh-E91iLW2UBN1bGnblkhMpSA02qPf780RkZ58BqyMNbVJRvkdyts7pB4iEy1A/s72-c/IMG_5213b.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-3533596481353677964</id><published>2025-10-21T20:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-29T16:56:16.723-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Resisting Corporatism and Fascism"/><title type='text'>“Performative Resistance Alone Won’t Change Anything”</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi14Du-phJNbsDmLYcHhu_1CZjDBwM0w48pDVhBfQA7jYSxaYw4Syfwlfu72UYr0d-sp0QrDMWsjGFfc9UD81i0ceXTtvQECBMcLkbM7XPXgJOOZC6S_TU3IDzzlAbo5eWPHoQU4SiupwD__HQ3XTuvBrejK-SEUuTFfKzQTirDhfewmIwfuQCr_A/s3534/IMG_7851-2.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3534&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi14Du-phJNbsDmLYcHhu_1CZjDBwM0w48pDVhBfQA7jYSxaYw4Syfwlfu72UYr0d-sp0QrDMWsjGFfc9UD81i0ceXTtvQECBMcLkbM7XPXgJOOZC6S_TU3IDzzlAbo5eWPHoQU4SiupwD__HQ3XTuvBrejK-SEUuTFfKzQTirDhfewmIwfuQCr_A/s200/IMG_7851-2.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Over at &lt;a href=https://www.currentaffairs.org&gt;&lt;i&gt;Current Affairs&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, John Ross and Nathan J. Robinson have &lt;a href=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/no-kings-protests-are-just-not-enough&gt;published&lt;/a&gt; one of the most cogent and insightful commentaries I’ve read to date on the “No Kings” movement. Following are excerpts.&lt;br&gt;
833. <br>
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835. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span>ome activists and commentators on the left have characterized No Kings as a kind of cringey carnival of liberalism, and they aren’t totally wrong. <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Chris%20Smalls>Chris Smalls</a>, founder of the Amazon Labor Union, <a href=https://x.com/Shut_downAmazon/status/1979717985867899054>asked</a> “No Kings Day is big ass Parades when are we going to withhold our labor for idk maybe Genocide??” <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Butch%20Ware>Butch Ware</a>, Jill Stein’s former running mate and current <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/butch-ware-on-his-run-for-california.html>Green Party candidate</a> in California’s gubernatorial race, <a href=https://x.com/ButchWare/status/1979009373968941266>observed that</a> “mass mobilization without any specific demand and without any organization is actually detrimental because it wastes potential energy that could be directed into effectively organizing against systems.” <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Blumenthal>Max Blumenthal</a>, editor-in-chief of the <a href=https://thegrayzone.com><i>Grayzone</i></a>, <a href=https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1979029422918316177?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet>points out that</a> No Kings messaging “does not include opposition to U.S.-Israeli wars” despite <a href=https://www.nokings.org/?itemId=1n448qc7bgzx4xz2v5wchtarw8nsx3>officially referencing Ukraine</a>.<br>
836. <br>
837. It’s understandable why people feel cynical. <a href=https://x.com/HillaryClinton/status/1978838824294752679>Hillary Clinton</a> and Nancy Pelosi have personally endorsed No Kings, with Pelosi <a href=https://x.com/TeamPelosi/status/1979637229942403314>posting a video of herself</a> ripping up a paper crown, echoing her <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/11/quote-of-day.html>theatrical tear-up</a> of Trump’s State of the Union speech in 2020. <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/progressive-perspectives-on-cory.html>Cory Booker</a> and Adam Schiff <a href=https://x.com/CoryBooker/status/1980077797512229248>showed us what democracy looks like</a>. Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, <a href=https://x.com/DouglasEmhoff/status/1979622652890452384>unironically posted a photo of himself</a> holding a sign that reads “If Kamala had won we’d be at brunch!” Undoubtedly, many of the attendees would indeed be at brunch if Kamala had won. Notably, Emhoff currently works for a law firm <a href=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/trump-law-firm-doug-emhoff-wilkie-farr-gallagher.html>that cut a deal with the Trump administration</a>, pledging $100 million in pro bono work and agreeing to drop DEI-based hiring, to avoid a threatened executive order targeting his firm. Moreover, the “No Kings” messaging itself may backfire, because Donald Trump obviously loves that liberals think of him as a king. On the day of the rally, he even <a href=https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115398251623299921>posted an AI video</a> of himself wearing a crown while piloting a “KING TRUMP” jet, dumping shit on the protesters from above. May we suggest “No Fascists”?<br>
838. <br>
839. While No Kings protests successfully make Republicans look foolish, and provide a valuable demonstration of the scale of opposition to Trump, they are unmoored from a political program, and exemplify the worrying Democratic tendency <a href=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/democratic-campaign-ads-trump.html>to build an entire platform around opposing Trump</a>. There is seemingly no greater vision or demand underlying the protests beyond getting rid of the “man who would be king.” Other protest movements had coherent demands, such as “<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette>Votes for Women Now</a>,” “<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_to_the_Iraq_War>No Blood for Oil</a>,” or “<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war_protests>Ceasefire Now</a>.” But No Kings seemed, for many, to just be a way of blowing off steam, of expressing frustration at our inability to halt the rightward slide of American politics.<br>
840. <br>
841. . . . [Yet] for all its flaws, we on the left shouldn’t be so dismissive of those who attend events like No Kings. These rallies represent a contingent of voters who are genuinely alarmed by the political direction of the country and searching for ways to resist it. Even though the rallies were uniformly peaceful, the Trump administration has already begun treating these protesters as enemies of the state.<br>
842. <br>
843. Nor was the protest just full of centrist liberals – in New Orleans, there was a visible presence of communists, socialists, and pro-Palestine activists. There was an entire contingent of tables devoted to Palestine advocacy, including Democratic Socialists of America, Jewish Voice for Peace (which John helped organize), the Party for Socialism and Liberation, NOSHIP (a New Orleans-based organization that works to end all aid to Israel), Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and Palestinian Youth Movement among others. Just as Zohran Mamdani’s campaign used No Kings to highlight the <a href=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/andrew-cuomo-is-worse-than-you-even-know>Trumpian qualities of Andrew Cuomo</a>, the leftists used it to draw a parallel between Trump’s fascism and America’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and to the continued struggle for Palestinian liberation, especially since Israel has already violated the so-called “ceasefire” agreement <a href=https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2025/10/18/israel-ceasefire-violations>47 times as of this writing</a>. JVP handed out hundreds of flyers promoting the <a href=https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/break-the-bonds-divest>Break the Bonds campaign</a>, an initiative calling on local governments, unions, universities, and religious institutions to divest from Israel bonds, which directly fund the Israeli military and government. Organizers at the pro-Palestine tables had mostly positive experiences in their conversations with attendees, many of whom seemed like “winnable” voters for the socialist left.<br>
844. <br>
845. No Kings is not a revolutionary event, nor does it pretend to be. It lasted only a few hours, and in New Orleans, organizers explicitly asked us not to take the streets. Unless protests are ongoing, there’s no incentive for the system to care. . . . No Kings, by contrast, did not make any tangible demands, which is why the left should make an attempt to fill the vacuum.<br>
846. <br>
847. Performative resistance alone won’t change anything. Unless it is coupled with sustained organizing, events like No Kings will remain an empty spectacle that is quickly forgotten. But it’s still necessary for the left to participate in acts of performative resistance, because if we cede these spaces to Lincoln Project alumni and <a href=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-top-progressive-influencers-compromised-their-independence>“independent” liberal influencers who are secretly funded by the Democratic Party</a>, then “resistance” becomes whatever they say it is.<br>
848. <br>
849. . . . The idea that a political establishment which has enabled the very militarism, corporate power, and bipartisan corruption that paved the way for Trump can credibly oppose his authoritarianism is not only absurd, but also dangerous. When these people position themselves as the bulwark against fascism while promoting lame centrists like Pete Buttigieg or Gavin Newsom, they drain the concept of “resistance” of its meaning.<br>
850. <br>
851. But that’s precisely why the left must show up to challenge, contest, and redirect the narrative. Even flawed events can be repurposed into opportunities for real organizing. The lesson of No Kings isn’t that such protests are pointless, it’s that their potential is wasted when the left dismisses them outright instead of trying to redirect the energy toward concrete struggle. And redirect it we must, because without being channeled into organizing, the energy of the No Kings protests will be squandered, and the right will prevail.<br>
852. <br>
853. . . . The No Kings demonstrations cultivate a sense of solidarity. They embolden people. They show that there is a base of opposition to this sickening president and his sordid agenda. But at the end of the day, the right has to be <i>thrown out of power</i>. In states like Louisiana and Florida, that means working to end right-wing rule in the state government. In blue state cities, that means electing city officials who are going to effectively resist Trump’s meddling rather than <a href=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/democrats-new-abundance-platform-isnt-playing-out-well-in-san-francisco>rolling over or staying silent</a>. Around the country, it means people with progressive values need to start <a href=https://act.berniesanders.com/signup/run-for-office>running for office themselves</a>. But wherever you are, it means taking the next step beyond carrying signs, and strategizing to take back power and enact more just and humane policies.</blockquote><br>
854. <div style="text-align: right;"><b><i>– John Ross and Nathan J. Robinson</i></b><br />
855. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “<a href=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/no-kings-protests-are-just-not-enough>'No Kings’ Protests<br>
856. Are Just Not Enough</a>”<br>
857. <i>Current Affairs</i><br>
858. October 20, 2025</span></div><br />
859. <br>
860. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
861. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/need-more-resistance-trump>“No Kings” Rallies Count, But We Need Bigger and More Sustained Civil Resistance</a> – Peyton Fleming (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 21, 2025).<br>
862. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/no-kings-must-evolve>The “No Kings” Day Project Must Evolve From Protest to Civil Disobedience</a> – Phil Wilson (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 23, 2025).<br>
863. <br>
864. <br>  
865. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
866. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/we-intend-to-defend-our-democracy-no.html>“We Intend to Defend Our Democracy”: The “No Kings” Protests of October 18, 2025</a><br>
867. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/authoritarianism-with-blue-sticker.html>Authoritarianism With a Blue Sticker</a><br>
868. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/thoughts-on-eve-of-no-kings-day-20.html>Thoughts on the Eve of “No Kings Day” 2.0</a><br>
869. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/no-kings-absolutely-but-also-no.html>“No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”</a><br>
870. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/bruce-fanger-on-jesuss-theology-of-no.html>Bruce Fanger on Jesus’s Theology of No Kings</a><br>
871. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/protesting-is-what-patriotism-looks.html>“Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025</a><br>
872. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_16.html>Norman Solomon: Quote of the Day – June 16, 2025</a><br>
873. <br>
874. <br>
875. <b>Image:</b> Michael J. Bayly (<a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/we-intend-to-defend-our-democracy-no.html>“No Kings” protest in St. Paul, MN</a> – Saturday, October 20, 2025).</span><br>
876. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/3533596481353677964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/3533596481353677964' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/3533596481353677964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/3533596481353677964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/performative-resistance-alone-wont.html' title='“Performative Resistance Alone Won’t Change Anything”'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi14Du-phJNbsDmLYcHhu_1CZjDBwM0w48pDVhBfQA7jYSxaYw4Syfwlfu72UYr0d-sp0QrDMWsjGFfc9UD81i0ceXTtvQECBMcLkbM7XPXgJOOZC6S_TU3IDzzlAbo5eWPHoQU4SiupwD__HQ3XTuvBrejK-SEUuTFfKzQTirDhfewmIwfuQCr_A/s72-c/IMG_7851-2.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-5961024597253742245</id><published>2025-10-21T08:00:00.003-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-31T11:18:17.715-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="André Holland"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Film"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Queer Cinema"/><title type='text'>Celebrating Moonlight</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ5tXynj-_r6jAfKfOcNZwnHKzmvXNbHsgVdIAINa3SgNR_5JClWuUfch49l4uKirDIqkbzUmGzvxzjsoDoc0HvKqHXH9sAdCbb3of-NNS5j6YK_fAFBbJJHo6QwBxKFfrZhigD9T630MjsZ3qtpFuZnar1LUra6GaBvGyuSHN_3e1CQF6yfbUpA/s2048/IMG_8236.JPG&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;2048&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1639&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ5tXynj-_r6jAfKfOcNZwnHKzmvXNbHsgVdIAINa3SgNR_5JClWuUfch49l4uKirDIqkbzUmGzvxzjsoDoc0HvKqHXH9sAdCbb3of-NNS5j6YK_fAFBbJJHo6QwBxKFfrZhigD9T630MjsZ3qtpFuZnar1LUra6GaBvGyuSHN_3e1CQF6yfbUpA/s400/IMG_8236.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
877. Nine years ago today <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Jenkins">Barry Jenkins</a>’ 2016 film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_(2016_film)"><i>Moonlight</i></a> was released in theaters. It remains one of my all-time favorite films.<br>
878. <br>
879. To mark the occasion I share “<i>Moonlight</i>: A Deconstruction,” a 10-minute video essay by <a href=https://www.youtube.com/@KarstenRunquist>Karsten Runquist</a>. <i>Enjoy!</i><br>
880. <br />
881. <br />
882. <br>
883. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BCzpC_XSnRY?si=Nc1fS3l-IDcnDFYU" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
884. <br />
885. <br />
886. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br />
887. • <a href="https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/03/stephen-russell-on-moonlight-most.html">Stephen A. Russell on <i>Moonlight</i>, “the Most Beautiful Gift to Cinema in Countless Years”</a><br />
888. • <a href="https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/08/vulnerability-is-power.html">Vulnerability Is Power</a><br />
889. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/11/for-andre-holland-selectiveness-has.html>For André Holland, “Selectiveness Has Served Him Well”</a><br>
890. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/01/andre-holland-there-are-so-many-stories.html>André Holland: “There Are So Many Stories in Our Community That Are Yet to Be Told”</a><br>
891. <br>
892. <b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
893. <a href=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/24/moonlight-undoes-our-expectations>“Moonlight” Undoes Our Expectations</a> – Hilton Als (<i>The New Yorker</i>, October 17, 2016).<br>
894. <a href=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-unbearable-intimacy-of-moonlight>The Unbearable Intimacy of <i>Moonlight</i></a> – Richard Brody (<i>The New Yorker</i>, October 28, 2016).<br>
895. <a href=https://www.salon.com/2017/02/28/moonlight-is-the-first-lgbt-movie-to-win-best-picture-heres-why-it-matters><i>Moonlight</i> Is the First LGBT Movie to Win Best Picture. Here’s Why It Matters</a> – Nico Lang (<i>Salon</i>, February 28, 2017).<br>
896. <a href=https://www.sbs.com.au/voices/article/will-moonlight-finally-change-the-way-white-people-see-black-men/y2dkm6vqp>Will <i>Moonlight</i> Finally Change the Way White People See Black Men?</a> – Jeremy Helligar (SBS, March 22, 2017).</span><br />
897. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/5961024597253742245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/5961024597253742245' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/5961024597253742245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/5961024597253742245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/celebrating-moonlight.html' title='Celebrating &lt;i&gt;Moonlight&lt;/i&gt;'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ5tXynj-_r6jAfKfOcNZwnHKzmvXNbHsgVdIAINa3SgNR_5JClWuUfch49l4uKirDIqkbzUmGzvxzjsoDoc0HvKqHXH9sAdCbb3of-NNS5j6YK_fAFBbJJHo6QwBxKFfrZhigD9T630MjsZ3qtpFuZnar1LUra6GaBvGyuSHN_3e1CQF6yfbUpA/s72-c/IMG_8236.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-3106494669303881765</id><published>2025-10-20T16:11:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-21T22:43:46.969-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Photo of the Day"/><title type='text'>He’s Gone</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Sc-yl9zlUxkGMHNucwSvPoX0g7dFGwwG7CJn2u_-FVUcgYF8_52URh2m7ixIVQ0IteKKBktkKgeYJxY5gOrXWypSmWru0n8zfsVFmGnPDPY8ZMLlBr6FNJfc-brb42sPfhoZEV2lmjJQ8ZcAp7TTz8XhUNejXXNP-iiPecWh7evyRgoOt10zOA/s4032/IMG_8160.JPG&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;4032&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Sc-yl9zlUxkGMHNucwSvPoX0g7dFGwwG7CJn2u_-FVUcgYF8_52URh2m7ixIVQ0IteKKBktkKgeYJxY5gOrXWypSmWru0n8zfsVFmGnPDPY8ZMLlBr6FNJfc-brb42sPfhoZEV2lmjJQ8ZcAp7TTz8XhUNejXXNP-iiPecWh7evyRgoOt10zOA/s400/IMG_8160.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;
898. <center><blockquote><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>hese are the thoughts that you keep inside<br>
899. And you smile from your window<br>
900. And stand all alone<br>
901. And pour all the love that you keep inside<br>
902. Into a song<br>
903. Like “He’s Gone”<br>
904. <br>
905. And like the leaves on the trees<br>
906. Like the <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=EQ17-WDX9Tg>Carpenters’ song</a><br>
907. Like the planes and the trains<br>
908. And the lives that were young<br>
909. <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/saaxiib-qurux-badan_20.html>He’s gone</a><br>
910. And it feels like the words to a song</i></blockquote></center><br>
911. <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">– From “<a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxXSpdwBF0s&list=RDWxXSpdwBF0s&start_radio=1>He’s Gone</a>”<br>
912. by <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Anderson>Brett Anderson</a> and <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Codling>Neil Codling</a> of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suede_(band)>Suede</a><br>
913. and from the band’s 1999 album, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_Music><i>Head Music</i></a></span></div><br />
914. <br>
915. <br>
916. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
917. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/saaxiib-qurux-badan_20.html>Saaxiib Qurux Badan – October 20, 2024</a><br>
918. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/silver-lining.html>Silver Lining</a><br>
919. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/08/ghosts.html>Ghosts</a><br>
920. <br>
921. <b>Image:</b> Michael J. Bayly – Minneapolis, October 20, 2025.</span><br>
922. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/3106494669303881765/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/3106494669303881765' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/3106494669303881765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/3106494669303881765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/hes-gone.html' title='He’s Gone'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Sc-yl9zlUxkGMHNucwSvPoX0g7dFGwwG7CJn2u_-FVUcgYF8_52URh2m7ixIVQ0IteKKBktkKgeYJxY5gOrXWypSmWru0n8zfsVFmGnPDPY8ZMLlBr6FNJfc-brb42sPfhoZEV2lmjJQ8ZcAp7TTz8XhUNejXXNP-iiPecWh7evyRgoOt10zOA/s72-c/IMG_8160.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-128112288484823289</id><published>2025-10-19T20:00:00.102-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-21T13:44:35.983-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Autumn"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Poetry"/><title type='text'>October Sweet</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxPrSNF7xIjmhoJYi2ZNpETOHjRvNP7o6FfvewiNUcYMNXVw6Kubhq6YForIFOt5ZnEWFg0LLmATf8F4wpq4Q4XHtb7qzZmeAluaZF4DppKzDa1GaAcVC-8X_44Ys-rmsieB9kls2JB1PibcWPzATvoV9uHhHGzEwoBlI-X2YKErjAASxQC-knEw/s4032/IMG_7679.JPG&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;4032&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxPrSNF7xIjmhoJYi2ZNpETOHjRvNP7o6FfvewiNUcYMNXVw6Kubhq6YForIFOt5ZnEWFg0LLmATf8F4wpq4Q4XHtb7qzZmeAluaZF4DppKzDa1GaAcVC-8X_44Ys-rmsieB9kls2JB1PibcWPzATvoV9uHhHGzEwoBlI-X2YKErjAASxQC-knEw/s400/IMG_7679.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;
923. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">C</span>ome down, O love; may not our hands still meet,<br>
924. Since still we live to-day, forgetting <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/06/spring-within-and-beyond.html>June</a>,<br>
925. Forgetting <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/05/spring-within-and-beyond.html>May</a>, deeming October sweet –<br>
926. – O hearken! through the <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-afternoon.html>afternoon</a>,<br>
927. The grey tower sings a strange old tinkling tune!<br>
928. Sweet, sweet, and sad, the toiling year’s last breath,<br>
929. Too satiate of life to strive with death.<br>
930. <br>
931. And we too – will it not be <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/sweet-surrender.html>soft and kind</a>,<br>
932. That <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/09/resting-in-presence-of-beloved.html>rest</a> from life, from patience and from pain;<br>
933. That <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-sacred-pause.html>rest</a> from bliss we know not when we find;<br>
934. That <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/01/allow-everything-to-rest-right-now.html>rest</a> from Love which ne’er the end can gain? –<br>
935. – Hark, how the <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-end-is-not-end.html>tune swells</a>, that erewhile did wane!<br>
936. Look up love! – ah, cling close and never move!<br>
937. How can I have enough of life and love?</blockquote><br>
938. <div style="text-align: right;">– <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris>William Morris</a><br />
939. <span style="font-size: 85%;">From “<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Earthly_Paradise><i>The Earthly Paradise</i></a>”</span></div><br />
940. <br>
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948. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br />
949. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/photo-of-day_17.html>Photo of the Day – October 17, 2025</a><br>
950. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-vignettes.html>October Vignettes (2024)</a><br>
951. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-vignettes.html>October Vignettes (2023)</a><br>
952. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-afternoon.html>October Afternoon</a><br>
953. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/an-autumn-walk-through-neighborhood.html>An Autumn Walk Through the Neighborhood</a><br>
954. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/10/autumn-season-of-transformation-and.html>Autumn: Season of Transformation and Surrender</a><br>
955. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/11/holding-moment.html>Holding the Moment</a><br>
956. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/10/everything-is-saturated-with-sacred.html>“Everything Is Saturated With the Sacred”</a><br>
957. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/09/autumns-wordless-message.html>Autumn’s “Wordless Message”</a><br>
958. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/09/o-sacred-season-of-autumn.html>O Sacred Season of Autumn</a><br>
959. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/11/thou-hast-thy-music-too.html>“Thou Hast Thy Music Too”</a><br>
960. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/season-of-soul.html>Season of the Soul</a><br>
961. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/saaxiib-qurux-badan_20.html>Saaxiib Qurux Badan – October 20, 2024</a><br>
962. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-autumn-garden.html>The Autumn Garden (2024)</a><br>
963. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-autumn-garden.html>The Autumn Garden (2022)</a><br>
964. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/11/autumnal-thoughts-and-visions.html>Autumnal Thoughts and Visions (2022)</a><br>
965. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/11/autumn-within-and-beyond.html>Autumn – Within and Beyond (2021)</a><br>
966. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/11/autumn-within-and-beyond.html>Autumn – Within and Beyond (2018)</a><br>
967. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/11/autumn-within-and-beyond.html>Autumn – Within and Beyond (2016)</a><br>
968. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/10/autumn-beauty.html>Autumn Beauty (2015)</a><br>
969. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/11/autumnal-and-rather-pagan-thoughts-on.html>Autumnal (and Rather Pagan) Thoughts on the Making of “All Things New”</a><br>
970. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/10/an-autumn-walk-along-minnehaha-creek.html>An Autumn Walk Along Minnehaha Creek</a><br>
971. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/10/autumn-psalm.html>Autumn Psalm</a><br>
972. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/10/autumn-hues.html>Autumn Hues</a><br>
973. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/10/autumn-by-creek.html>Autumn by the Creek</a><br>
974. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/10/from-falls-to-river.html>From the River to the Falls</a><br>
975. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/10/photo-of-day_13.html>Autumn Dance</a><br>
976. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-prayer-tree-aflame.html>The Prayer Tree . . . Aflame!</a><br>
977. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/11/this-autumn-land-is-dreaming.html>“This Autumn Land Is Dreaming”</a><br>
978. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/time-to-go-inwards.html>Time to Go Inwards</a><br>
979. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/12/to-dream-to-feel-to-listen.html>To Dream, to Feel, to Listen</a><br>
980. <br />
981. <b>Images:</b> Michael J. Bayly.</span><br />
982. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/128112288484823289/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/128112288484823289' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/128112288484823289'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/128112288484823289'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/october-sweet.html' title='October Sweet'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxPrSNF7xIjmhoJYi2ZNpETOHjRvNP7o6FfvewiNUcYMNXVw6Kubhq6YForIFOt5ZnEWFg0LLmATf8F4wpq4Q4XHtb7qzZmeAluaZF4DppKzDa1GaAcVC-8X_44Ys-rmsieB9kls2JB1PibcWPzATvoV9uHhHGzEwoBlI-X2YKErjAASxQC-knEw/s72-c/IMG_7679.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-8351264356431663494</id><published>2025-10-19T16:00:00.058-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-29T11:13:40.738-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Quote of the Day"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Resisting Corporatism and Fascism"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Socialism"/><title type='text'>Quote of the Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFf2jP0x8AfUbDSTSX86-XVfzj7lWQdCsqwcQaabXPzHwE01oQtfPDEbnixSuZTCCjcumPWl3U-QBpnFT3YNJVab1hnUKjZkkoFtspmgsW7g1WtiNQFEv1OcjiZkuAgfW5Aa1EOqoQlAsDezq0AflDk-iCGH3hqeV5vit_tcAXj5_ug9py3-RlXA/s600/IMG_3985b.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; data-original-height=&quot;530&quot; data-original-width=&quot;600&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFf2jP0x8AfUbDSTSX86-XVfzj7lWQdCsqwcQaabXPzHwE01oQtfPDEbnixSuZTCCjcumPWl3U-QBpnFT3YNJVab1hnUKjZkkoFtspmgsW7g1WtiNQFEv1OcjiZkuAgfW5Aa1EOqoQlAsDezq0AflDk-iCGH3hqeV5vit_tcAXj5_ug9py3-RlXA/s200/IMG_3985b.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large;&quot;&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;he violent denunciations of the &lt;a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/we-intend-to-defend-our-democracy-no.html&gt;October 18 “No Kings” demonstrations&lt;/a&gt; by Trump and the Republican fascists, accompanied by threats of violence, express the terror of the capitalist oligarchs over the growing opposition and political radicalization of the population. They see in every manifestation of protest the specter of a socialist revolution. In their fascistic world view, even the toothless reformist appeals of the Democratic Party, the oldest capitalist party of the American ruling class, is viewed as inciting rebellion and legitimizing socialism.&lt;br&gt;
983. <br>
984. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. The Democratic Party is deeply hostile to the mass opposition on display Saturday and is working rapidly to downplay its significance. It shares to a great extent Trump’s economic and social policy aims and is opposed to any mass movement against Trump.<br>
985. <br>
986. . . . In the lead-up to the October 18 protests, top Democrats ignored that they were even happening. Only on the eve of the demonstrations, when it became clear how large they would be, did party leaders issue tepid statements of support. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer posted photos of himself marching alongside union officials in New York City, declaring blandly, “We have no dictators in America”—a statement contradicted by the fact that Trump is, with Democratic Party complicity, acting as a dictator.<br>
987. <br>
988. The intervention of the Democrats is aimed entirely at defusing opposition and channeling the immense anger of millions back behind the party’s own reactionary, pro-war and pro-capitalist agenda. This became even clearer the following day, when leading Democrats acted as if the largest protest movement in US history had never occurred.<br>
989. <br>
990. . . . The “No Kings” demonstrations represent a significant political turning point. Since the last demonstrations in <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/protesting-is-what-patriotism-looks.html>June</a>, Trump’s conspiracy to erect a dictatorship has accelerated, generating enormous opposition throughout the country. Hostility to Trump is rapidly extending to his collaborators in the Democratic Party, as NBC noted in a report from the Washington demonstration, quoting a construction worker as saying, “I don’t have a lot of faith in the Democratic Party right now.” Another worker commented, “By and large, the Democratic Party is also bought by corporate interests, and they fail to stand up for the average working people.”</blockquote><br>
991. <div style="text-align: right;">– <a href=https://www.wsws.org/en/special/pages/sep/us/home.html>Socialist Equality Party (U.S.)</a><br>
992. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “<a href=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/20/dbkj-o20.html>The October 18 “No Kings” Demonstrations<br>
993. and the Fight Against Trump’s Dictatorship</a>”<br>
994. <i>World Socialist Web Site</i><br>
995. October 19, 2025</span></div><br>
996. <br>
997. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Link:</b><br>
998. <a href=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/16/sobd-o16.html>No Kings, No Nazi Führers! Mobilize the Working Class Against Trump’s Dictatorship</a> – Socialist Equality Party (<i>World Socialist Web Site</i>, October 15, 2025).<br>
999. <br>
1000. <b>UPDATES:</b> <a href=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/21/ebcl-o21.html>After the “No Kings” Protests: What Next?</a> – Socialist Equality Party (<i>World Socialist Web Site</i>, October 20, 2025).<br>
1001. <a href=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/22/nbwt-o22.html>The “No Kings” Demonstrations and the Political Strategy to Fight Trump’s Fascist Conspiracy</a> – Joseph Kishore (<i>World Socialist Web Site</i>, October 21, 2025).<br>
1002. <br>
1003. <br>
1004. <b>See also the following chronologically-ordered <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br />
1005. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/01/inauguration-day-thoughts.html>Inauguration Day Thoughts</a><br>
1006. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/marisa-kabas-were-witnessing-coup-by.html>Marisa Kabas: “We’re Witnessing a Coup By an Unelected Billionaire Propped Up By a Felonious President”</a><br>
1007. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/timothy-snyder-on-resisting-oligarchs.html>Timothy Snyder on Resisting the Oligarchs’ “Logic of Destruction”</a><br>
1008. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/this-is-essentially-viktor-orbans.html>“This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”</a><br>
1009. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/an-extremely-clever-ruse-by-and-for.html>“An Extremely Clever Ruse” by and for the Rich: Owen Jones on Elon Musk’s Coup</a><br>
1010. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/to-be-rib-in-this-body-of-our-country.html>“To Be a Rib in This Body of Our Country”</a><br>
1011. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/quote-of-day.html>Quote of the Day – February 21, 2025</a><br>
1012. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/03/ralph-nader-were-heading-into-most.html>Ralph Nader: “We’re Heading Into the Most Serious Crisis in American History. There’s No Comparison”</a><br>
1013. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/03/why-democratic-party-is-not-going-to.html>Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism</a><br>
1014. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/this-is-how-democracy-unravels.html>“This Is How Democracy Unravels”</a><br>
1015. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/jason-stanley-on-how-fascism-works.html>Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works</a><br>
1016. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/james-greenberg-on-road-trump-is.html>James Greenberg on Trumpism: “The Tactics Are Unmistakable”</a><br>
1017. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/tony-pentimalli-on-trumps-death-warrant.html>Tony Pentimalli on Trump’s “Death Warrant for Democracy”</a><br>
1018. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/this-is-what-fascism-looks-like.html>“This Is What Fascism Looks Like”</a><br>
1019. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_10.html>Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025</a><br>
1020. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/protesting-is-what-patriotism-looks.html>“Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025</a><br>
1021. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/no-kings-absolutely-but-also-no.html>“No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”</a><br>
1022. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_20.html>Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025</a><br>
1023. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_24.html>Rep. Ro Khanna: Quote of the Day – June 24, 2025</a><br>
1024. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/this-is-fascism.html>“This Is Fascism”</a><br>
1025. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-declaration-of-resistance.html>The Declaration of Resistance</a><br>
1026. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-choice-before-us.html>The Choice Before Us</a><br>
1027. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/quote-of-day.html>Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025</a><br>
1028. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/how-democrats-can-start-winning-again.html>How Democrats Can Start Winning Again</a><br>
1029. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/brent-molnar-on-maga-cult-and-its.html>Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions</a><br>
1030. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/james-greenberg-choices-we-make-matter.html>James Greenberg: “The Choices We Make Matter”</a><br>
1031. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/brent-molnar-on-cold-war-in-our-own.html>Brent Molnar on the “Cold War in Our Own House”</a><br>
1032. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/he-is-enacting-authoritarian-agenda.html>Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement</a><br>
1033. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/its-here-and-we-are-sleepwalking.html>Jason Duchin: “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”</a><br>
1034. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/were-moving-into-totalitarianism.html>Marianne Williamson: “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”</a><br>
1035. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/garrett-graff-america-tips-into-fascism.html>Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”</a><br>
1036. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/bowing-to-idol.html>Bowing to an Idol</a><br>
1037. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/marianne-williamson-on-need-for-radical.html>Marianne Williamson on the Need for “Radical Love” in Responding to Trump’s Dismantling of Democracy</a><br>
1038. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/brent-molnar-on-the-silencing-of-jimmy.html>Brent Molnar on the the Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel: “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”</a><br>
1039. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/james-greenberg-on-identity-politics-of.html>James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA</a><br>
1040. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/staying-strong-in-trumps-fascist-america.html>Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America</a><br>
1041. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/memes-of-times.html>Memes of the Times – September 2025</a><br>
1042. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/quote-of-day.html>Jason Duchin: Quote of the Day – September 24, 2025</a><br>
1043. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/derek-johnson-on-courage-to-call.html>Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”</a><br>
1044. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/will-potter-on-trumps-war-on-dissent.html>Will Potter on Trump’s War on Dissent: “This Is What Fascists Do”</a><br>
1045. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/marianne-williamson-we-need-expanded.html>Marianne Williamson: We Need an “Expanded Version of What it Means to Be Political”</a><br>
1046. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/an-incident-that-feels-ripped-from.html>An Incident That Feels “Ripped from a Dystopian Novel”</a><br>
1047. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/james-greenberg-i-am-in-mourning-for.html>James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”</a><br>
1048. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/quote-of-day.html>Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – October 6, 2025</a><br>
1049. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/if-praying-minister-isnt-safe-none-of.html>“If a Praying Minister Isn’t Safe, None of Us Are”</a><br>
1050. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/james-greenberg-on-trumps-larger-design.html>James Greenberg on Trump’s “Larger Design” – the Construction of a Military Dictatorship</a><br>
1051. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/historian-john-lestrange-on-meaning-and.html>Historian John Lestrange on the Meaning and Manifestations of Fascism, Past and Present</a><br>
1052. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/mark-sandlin-of-course-trump-wants.html>Mark Sandlin: “Of Course Trump Wants Columbus Day Back”</a><br>
1053. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/when-terrorism-charges-reek-of.html>When Terrorism Charges “Reek of Political Theater”</a><br>
1054. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/thoughts-on-eve-of-no-kings-day-20.html>Thoughts on the Eve of “No Kings Day” 2.0</a><br>
1055. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/authoritarianism-with-blue-sticker.html>Authoritarianism With a Blue Sticker</a><br>
1056. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/we-intend-to-defend-our-democracy-no.html>“We Intend to Defend Our Democracy”: The “No Kings” Protests of October 18, 2025</a><br>
1057. <br>
1058. <b>See also:</b><br>
1059. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/phil-wilson-remembers-american-fascisms.html>Phil Wilson Remembers “American Fascism’s First Casualty” and Warns That Donald Trump’s “MAGA Death Cult Is Coming for Us All”</a><br>
1060. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/09/marianne-williamson-on-americas-cults.html>Marianne Williamson on America’s “Cults of Madness”</a><br>
1061. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-republican-party-has-now-made-it.html>“The Republican Party Has Now Made It Official: They Are a Cult”</a><br>
1062. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/12/chauncey-devega-on-ongoing-danger-of.html>Chauncey Devega on the Ongoing Danger of the Trump Cult</a><br>
1063. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/jeff-sharlet-on-fascist-ideology-of.html>Jeff Sharlet on the Fascist Ideology of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene</a><br>
1064. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-republican-party-in-nutshell.html>The Republican Party in a Nutshell</a><br>
1065. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/quote-of-day.html>Robert Reich: Quote of the Day – April 11, 2023</a><br>
1066. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/11/republicans-dont-care-about-american.html>Republicans Don’t Care About American Democracy</a></span><br>
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1068. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixduy-7Vq3_RFnSz2M1z4MwAeaI7HXaT5bJEIymp9BhOyU8CVH89mF63q5l-2GMSH33mwvKqkUyeL2ZVhFP58YsjcrwJaeak9fNe5spghoj7GB6aqT-5WMmswBYPzAjojCim0gJ5MVPDEabirp6sqd6AS6z1sHGx4UBA0r0xQh65BOcOJGjX_6og/s1125/IMG_7898b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="1125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixduy-7Vq3_RFnSz2M1z4MwAeaI7HXaT5bJEIymp9BhOyU8CVH89mF63q5l-2GMSH33mwvKqkUyeL2ZVhFP58YsjcrwJaeak9fNe5spghoj7GB6aqT-5WMmswBYPzAjojCim0gJ5MVPDEabirp6sqd6AS6z1sHGx4UBA0r0xQh65BOcOJGjX_6og/s200/IMG_7898b.JPG"/></a></div>Earlier today I participated in one of a number of the planned “No Kings” protests that took place throughout the Twin Cities metro area.<br>
1069. <br>
1070. The largest of these protests <a href=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/10/18/minneapolis-no-kings-rally-draws-out-thousands-opposed-to-trump-policies>was in downtown Minneapolis</a> (<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>right</b></span>) where an estimated 30,000 people gathered to send the message that they intend to defend democracy and the rule of law from the authoritarian rhetoric and actions of the Trump administration.<br>
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1072. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0bJLpokf3jfYOG9BFJ3Y-agWF-JGOHjPPrCbyyCYBHMChOf68fMKMP3JKptlymXmOlX4_CUZIBjrUyPvDgRja03IiCYOffUeOqJG-FmObMB7eJ5NdRkmCSsmnI5KtSKuP9zPbt7oe1QF-RVKRI3yCoznCuE0Lj-k3XcKJ8MzcEK1Wr4d5ad6Ntg/s3744/IMG_7841b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="2808" data-original-width="3744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0bJLpokf3jfYOG9BFJ3Y-agWF-JGOHjPPrCbyyCYBHMChOf68fMKMP3JKptlymXmOlX4_CUZIBjrUyPvDgRja03IiCYOffUeOqJG-FmObMB7eJ5NdRkmCSsmnI5KtSKuP9zPbt7oe1QF-RVKRI3yCoznCuE0Lj-k3XcKJ8MzcEK1Wr4d5ad6Ntg/s200/IMG_7841b.JPG"/></a></div>My friend Joseph and I attended a smaller protest of around 3,000 people in St. Paul, at the intersection of Randolph and Fairview Avenues (<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>left</b></span>).<br>
1073. <br>
1074. The message of defending democracy against Trump’s increasingly dictitorial presidency was the same here as it was in Minneapolis and at each of the 2,600 “No Kings” protests that took place across the country and in every state. Indeed, with close to 7 million people nationwide attending today’s peaceful protests, it was the largest single-day of protest against tyranny in U.S. history.<br>
1075. <br>
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1077. Following are images that I took at today’s “No Kings” protest in St. Paul. They are accompanied by a number of excerpts from articles about “No Kings Day” 2.0. (For my post about the first “No Kings Day” in June, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/protesting-is-what-patriotism-looks.html>click here</a>.)<br>
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1081. <blockquote>[<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>oday in Washington, D.C.] was awesome. We had hundreds of thousands of people on the street to protest Donald Trump’s authoritarianism. It was passionate, then it was joyful. There was a dance party on the steps of the Labor Department where people inflatable costumes. There were hysterical signs.<br>
1082. <br>
1083. But there was a really clear message that we intend to defend our democracy by exercising our democratic rights. We’re not capitulating to Donald Trump and his authoritarianism, his effort to scare us into submission.<br>
1084. <br>
1085. I think that Trump’s authoritarianism is getting worse and mobilizing more people, but I think his effort to intimidate is failing as well. And each time people turn out, each time people protest, each time people stand up, it makes it easier for the next set of people to do that. So we think that today, when all is said and done, it will have been the largest day of protest in American history.<br>
1086. <br>
1087. All to defend our democracy, oppose the ICE raids, oppose the National Guard on our streets, oppose the illegal firings of federal employees, opposing the illegal shutdown of agencies. And more people want a government that works for us, not for Donald Trump and his oligarch friends.<br>
1088. <br>
1089. . . . [P]eople are really worried about the fate of our country and understand that, in total, what Trump is trying to do is take away our democracy and replace it with authoritarian regime.<br>
1090. <br>
1091. So some people may be more motivated by the pressure on universities or by the illegal abductions of immigrants or by the deployment of the National Guard, or by the shutdown of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that’s protecting us from financial fraudsters, or by the weaponization of the Department of Justice.<br>
1092. <br>
1093. But everybody understands whatever the thing that gets them going, it’s all part of a bigger tapestry of this authoritarian agenda, and they’re ready, willing, and passionate about standing up to it.</blockquote><br>
1094. <div style="text-align: right;">– <b><i>Robert Weissman</i></b><br />
1095. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Quoted in “<a href=https://jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-no-kings-day-protests>‘We Intend to Defend Our Democracy,’<br>
1096. Says ‘No Kings’ Protest Organizer</a>”<br>
1097. <i>PBS Newshour</i><br>
1098. October 18, 2025</span></div><br />
1099. <br>
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1101. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9CC0P0Cs5tvBuZOmOFfDEVk2xVjCYvcdUsRuhluQhmwRuiicU-ZZ_ukLS0mOdP3H2t9pMHjdpWXfXLtHBEfp9OhjXoQ0ZZMcUVOcSVAa10ydifMdieh12hOhJp6ugD6L4f5mb-FmYpOCV5OZHCndJuXi7wBeyHhN-bOlyV_DGftHOiQvzH4XXlg/s3355/IMG_7884b.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="2516" data-original-width="3355" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9CC0P0Cs5tvBuZOmOFfDEVk2xVjCYvcdUsRuhluQhmwRuiicU-ZZ_ukLS0mOdP3H2t9pMHjdpWXfXLtHBEfp9OhjXoQ0ZZMcUVOcSVAa10ydifMdieh12hOhJp6ugD6L4f5mb-FmYpOCV5OZHCndJuXi7wBeyHhN-bOlyV_DGftHOiQvzH4XXlg/s400/IMG_7884b.JPG"/></a></div><br>
1102. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">A</span>uthoritarianism feeds on fear. The No Kings Day protests showed that fear can be broken. Peaceful demonstrations signal more than opposition; they reveal a widespread sense of being ignored. The No Kings Day protests make visible what millions already know: Republican representatives understand their constituents are being harmed by this administration and have chosen silence. They no longer hold town halls. They no longer answer questions. Instead, they parrot Trump, labeling the protest a “hate America” rally, and frame participants as radical leftists or terrorists. The message is unmistakable – this administration not only refuses to listen, it no longer cares what people think.<br>
1103. <br>
1104. Our government rests on majority rule, compromise, and the slow, difficult work of consensus. Dictators reject all three. Force replaces deliberation; opponents become “enemies within.” The message this regime delivers is not through debate, but through deployment—troops in the streets, mass arrests, and intimidation dressed up as law and order. Consent has been replaced by fear – the new currency of governance.
1105. I live in a community that historically votes Republican. The so-called “enemy within” are our neighbors, many of them lifelong conservatives. Like me, they have learned that when the choice is between tyranny and constitutional freedom, partisanship disappears. That is what makes the No Kings Day protests so remarkable. Their message is clear and loud: we are not afraid and we will not be intimidated.</blockquote><br>
1106. <div style="text-align: right;">– <b><i>James Greenberg</i></b><br />
1107. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “<a href=https://jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-no-kings-day-protests>The No Kings Day Protests</a>”<br>
1108. <i>James’s Substack</i><br>
1109. October 19, 2025</span></div><br />
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1113. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>oday, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an administration apparently bent on replacing that democracy with a dictatorship.<br>
1114. <br>
1115. Administration loyalists tried to claim the No Kings protests would be “hate America” rallies of “the pro-Hamas wing and Antifa people.” Texas governor Greg Abbott deployed the Texas National Guard ahead of the No Kings Day protests, warning that “[v]iolence and destruction will never be tolerated in Texas.”<br>
1116. <br>
1117. In fact, protesters turned out waving American flags and wearing frog and unicorn and banana costumes and carrying homemade signs that demanded the release of the Epstein files and defended Lady Liberty. They laughed and danced and took selfies and sang. City police departments, including those of New York City, San Diego, and Washington, D.C., said they had made no protest-related arrests.<br>
1118. <br>
1119. In Oakland, California, <i>Mother Jones</i> senior editor Michael Mechanic interviewed a man named Justin, asking him if, as a Black man, he had particular concerns about the actions of the Trump administration.<br>
1120. <br>
1121. Justin answered: “You know . . . a lot of times I have a hopeless feeling, but . . . being out here today just reminds me about the beauty of America and American protests. And, you know, the fact that they tried to . . . stomp on this, step on this, you know, say it’s non-American, because that’s what I've been reading a lot about. No, this is the point of America right here: to be able to have this opportunity to protest. . . . [This] does not look like Antifa, Hamas, none of this stuff that they’re talking about. . . . [Y]ou know, this is the beauty of America.”<br>
1122. <br>
1123. The No Kings demonstrations ran the gamut from hundreds of thousands of protesters in large, blue cities, to smaller crowds in small towns in Republican-dominated states. Together, they demonstrate that the administration’s claims to popularity are a lie. Such a high turnout means businesses and institutions that thought they must cater to the administration to appeal to a majority of Americans will be forced to recalculate.
1124. And the protests showed that Americans care fervently about democracy.</blockquote><br>
1125. <div style="text-align: right;">– <b><i>Heather Cox Richardson</i></b><br />
1126. <span style="font-size: 85%;">via social media<br>
1127. October 18, 2025</span></div><br />
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1132. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span>hat happened on October 18 was a civic thunderclap. From Los Angeles to Philadelphia, from Atlanta to Seattle, Americans poured into streets, parks, bridges, and capitol steps under a single, simple banner: No Kings. Early tallies from organizers, municipal transit data, cell-mobility snapshots, and live aerial counts point to a turnout on the scale of the largest demonstrations in modern U.S. history. In city after city, the photos tell the same story: corridors of people, handmade signs, strollers and wheelchairs, clergy and veterans, students and seniors. It looked less like a rally than a referendum.<br>
1133. <br>
1134. The most remarkable part was not the size. It was the discipline. Across hundreds of permitted marches and spontaneous gatherings, the overwhelming pattern was calm crowds, cooperative marshals, and largely routine interactions with local police. Volunteer de-escalators were everywhere. Medical tents, water stations, ADA escorts, “leave-no-trace” cleanups. In a political climate drenched in attempts to bait the public into televised chaos, millions refused the script.<br>
1135. <br>
1136. Despite relentless efforts to frame the movement as dangerous, the arrest picture cut the other way. As of the first full sweep of police incident logs and verified media reports, there were no confirmed arrests of No Kings demonstrators for violence. The confirmed arrests tied to the day’s events were counter-protesters aligned with MAGA branding. In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a woman in a Trump shirt was arrested after allegedly brandishing a firearm near marchers. In downtown Cincinnati, police took a female counter-protester into custody after she allegedly grabbed and tried to rip away an American flag from an older participant. Both cases were processed without incident. Everywhere else, the tape shows chants, speeches, and people going home.<br>
1137. <br>
1138. That outcome was not an accident. Organizers built for it. The “peace first” posture was baked into the trainings, route plans, communications, and on-the-ground logistics. Crowd briefings reminded people how to film safely, how to avoid provocations, and how to exit quickly if needed. Legal hotlines were staffed. Rally MCs repeated the same refrain: “We are here to be seen, not to be baited.” When an event refuses to supply the violence its opponents are praying for, the narrative starves.</blockquote><br>
1139. <div style="text-align: right;">– <a href=https://substack.com/@brentmolnar><i>Brent Molnar</i></a><br />
1140. <span style="font-size: 85%;">via social media<br>
1141. October 20, 2025</span></div><br />
1142. <br>
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1147. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>hey called it the “No Kings” rally for a reason.<br>
1148. Because power isn’t sacred just because someone grabs it.<br>
1149. Because democracy isn’t self-sustaining.<br>
1150. Because deep down, we all know that freedom has to be guarded, especially from those who crave control.<br>
1151. <br>
1152. Two thousand years ago, Jesus stood in the shadow of an empire that demanded loyalty to Caesar. He refused. He preached a way of love, equity, and liberation so threatening to those in charge that Rome hung him on a cross. Not because he was “too spiritual.” But because he was too political for the comfort of the powerful.<br>
1153. <br>
1154. When people filled the streets on October 18 shouting “No Kings”, they weren’t just talking about one man, they were invoking a truth as old as faith itself: no human being is meant to wield godlike power over others.<br>
1155. <br>
1156. Not Caesar.<br>
1157. Not any president.<br>
1158. Not any would-be strongman whose ego demands our submission.<br>
1159. <br>
1160. History has seen this story before. Every empire insists it’s different. Every would-be ruler says “trust me.” And every time, ordinary people have to decide whether they’ll stay quiet or if they’ll stand up.<br>
1161. <br>
1162. Authoritarianism doesn’t start with military boots and torches. It starts with fear. With apathy. With churches blessing cruelty because it’s wrapped in the flag. With leaders who treat compassion as weakness and dissent as disloyalty.<br>
1163. <br>
1164. That’s why progressive Christians are speaking up: because our faith requires it. The same love that moved Jesus to challenge empire calls us to do the same today.<br>
1165. <br>
1166. This is not about left or right. It’s about whether we still believe in “we the people.”<br>
1167. It’s about whether we’ll trade our neighbors’ freedom for the illusion of control.<br>
1168. It’s about whether we’ll let history repeat itself or write a different ending.<br>
1169.  <br>
1170. Love resists empire.<br>
1171. It’s done it before.<br>
1172. It’s doing it now.<br>
1173. And it’s not about to quit.</blockquote><br>
1174. <div style="text-align: right;">– <i><b>Rev. Dr.</b> <a href=https://progressivechristianity.org/author/rev-mark-sandlin>Mark Sandlin</a></i><br>
1175. <span style="font-size: 85%;">via social media<br>
1176. October 20, 2025</span></div><br />
1177. <br>
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1183. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Above and below:</b></span> The two-sided sign I’ve now taken to both today’s “No Kings” protest and the first one on June 14. For my thoughts on the overall message of my sign, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/thoughts-on-eve-of-no-kings-day-20.html>click here</a>.<br>
1184. <br>
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1186. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQUSkK0wVgl1ZZaf7GKDcQwSAky_fwe-n3xkUcaBiJ_eMDPPn-EPojXAzzGLdyLLq5rDqbuzAlMZh3tSd_Xyp_qtRAh7oq2BbUmvFqn9ej_B55-H2e3Sj7E8zVxGTavgpxcXNhAKKMnb7U3lx1xo0VpGD_vGi5HadOzzvYk5c7KVme4NGYmj0icw/s809/IMG_7903b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="809" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQUSkK0wVgl1ZZaf7GKDcQwSAky_fwe-n3xkUcaBiJ_eMDPPn-EPojXAzzGLdyLLq5rDqbuzAlMZh3tSd_Xyp_qtRAh7oq2BbUmvFqn9ej_B55-H2e3Sj7E8zVxGTavgpxcXNhAKKMnb7U3lx1xo0VpGD_vGi5HadOzzvYk5c7KVme4NGYmj0icw/s200/IMG_7903b.JPG"/></a></div>I wore my “<a href=https://www.fatehformayor.com>Omar Fateh for Minneapolis Mayor</a>” shirt to the “No Kings” event I attended today. The man himself took part in the march and rally in downtown Minneapolis (<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>right</b></span> and <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>below</b></span>).<br>
1187. <br>
1188. For more about Omar’s campaign, one which (clearly) I support, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/hopeful-and-grounded-omar-fatehs-vision.html>click here</a>, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/omar-fateh-we-need-to-meet-needs-of.html>here</a> and <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-omar-fateh-is-right-choice-for.html>here</a>.<br>
1189. <br>
1190. <br>
1191. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXECQGRby9Af4LUMjljgHDFA5ii1mNxqOqn3XTa21yIX8ib6xpsjiyvfJo-0qlDROQw3FPNw68-nMEbDeMPfyN9G829nMgl_PEqQ-MXn_0tj8evH6TT3ikltmivwJFo_7eq7T3hvkFTJ_E53aoCI94jgVL00h8t0Cn2yJ2m9ogA9-hrp8_5ofvNg/s1600/IMG_7904.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXECQGRby9Af4LUMjljgHDFA5ii1mNxqOqn3XTa21yIX8ib6xpsjiyvfJo-0qlDROQw3FPNw68-nMEbDeMPfyN9G829nMgl_PEqQ-MXn_0tj8evH6TT3ikltmivwJFo_7eq7T3hvkFTJ_E53aoCI94jgVL00h8t0Cn2yJ2m9ogA9-hrp8_5ofvNg/s400/IMG_7904.JPG"/></a></div><br>
1192. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1193. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-kings-october-18-2674211766>“We the People Will Rule!”: Millions Turn Out for “No Kings” Protests Against Trump Tyranny</a> – Brett Wilkins (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 18, 2025).<br>
1194. <a href=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/18/no-kings-protests-events-states>Millions Across All 50 U.S. States March in “No Kings” Protests Against Trump</a> – Rachel Leingang and Edward Helmore (<i>The Guardian</i>, October 18, 2025).<br>
1195. <a href=https://www.npr.org/2025/10/18/nx-s1-5577977/no-kings-protests-trump-marches>Protesters Decry Trump Administration Policies in “No Kings” Rallies Across the U.S.</a> – <i>NPR News</i> (October 18, 2025).<br>
1196. <a href=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/10/18/minneapolis-no-kings-rally-draws-out-thousands-opposed-to-trump-policies>Minneapolis “No Kings” Rally Draws Out Thousands Opposed to Trump Policies</a> – <i>MPR Newshour</i> (October 18, 2025).<br>
1197. <br>
1198. <b>UPDATES:</b> <a href=https://www.transformarticles.com/p/the-country-showed-up>The Country Showed Up</a> – Marianne Williamson (<i>Transform</i>, October 19, 2025).<br>
1199. <a href=https://www.thebulwark.com/p/long-live-no-kings-mass-protests-lewis-carroll-jabberwocky-frabjous-resistance>Long Live “No Kings”</a> – William Kristol, Andrew Egger, and Jim Swift (<i>The Bulwark</i>, October 20, 2025).<br>
1200. <a href=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/no-kings-protests-are-just-not-enough>“No Kings” Protests Are Just Not Enough</a> – John Ross and Nathan J. Robinson (<i>Current Affairs</i>, October 20, 2025).<br>
1201. <a href=https://inthesetimes.com/article/no-kings-march-union-organizing-trump-democrats-ice>Seven Million Turn Out for “No Kings” Protests Nationwide. Next Up, Massive Disruptions Backed by Unions?</a> – Luis Feliz Leon (<i>In These Times</i>, October 20, 2025).<br>
1202. <a href=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/20/trump-ice-national-guard-healthcare>Troops on the Streets, a Polarized Country and Climbing Prices: Welcome to Trump’s “Golden Age”</a> – Steven Greenhouse (<i>The Guardian</i>, October 20, 2025).<br>
1203. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/no-kings-must-evolve>The “No Kings” Day Project Must Evolve From Protest to Civil Disobedience</a> – Phil Wilson (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 23, 2025).<br>
1204. <a href=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/billionaires-no-kings-protests>Billionaires Support Groups Behind “No Kings,” But They Didn't Spend $300M to Fund Protests</a> – Rae Deng (<i>Snopes</i>, October 24, 2025).<br>
1205. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/no-kings-democracy-vs-authoritarianism>The “No Kings” Protests: An Affirmation of Democracy in the Face of Authoritarianism</a> – Chloe Atkinson (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 25, 2025).<br>
1206. <br>
1207. <br>
1208. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1209. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/thoughts-on-eve-of-no-kings-day-20.html>Thoughts on the Eve of “No Kings Day” 2.0</a><br>
1210. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/no-kings-absolutely-but-also-no.html>“No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”</a><br>
1211. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/bruce-fanger-on-jesuss-theology-of-no.html>Bruce Fanger on Jesus’s Theology of No Kings</a><br>
1212. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/protesting-is-what-patriotism-looks.html>“Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025</a><br>
1213. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_16.html>Norman Solomon: Quote of the Day – June 16, 2025</a><br>
1214. <br>
1215. <b>Images of the “No Kings” rally in St. Paul:</b> Michael Bayly</span><br>
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1218. Although I agree with every word of the above meme I’m still going to be part of <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/we-intend-to-defend-our-democracy-no.html>today’s “No Kings” event in St. Paul</a>, regardless of its connection to the Democratic Party.<br>
1219. <br>
1220. The <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/thoughts-on-eve-of-no-kings-day-20.html>message</a> on the sign I’ll be carrying reflects a deeper understanding of what many of us recognize needs to be protested, resisted, and ultimately transformed. Not just Trump, but the whole corporatist/oligarchic <i>system</i> that produced him, a system that <i>both</i> parties helped create and continue to maintain.<br>
1221. <br>
1222. <br>
1223. <br>
1224. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>For artictles about the DNC’s and Biden administration’s unfair manipulation of the 2024 Democratic primaries, see:</b><br>
1225. <a href=https://kucinichreport.substack.com/p/the-democratic-party-rigged-the-primary>Looking Back, the Democratic Party Rigged the Primary Process for Biden</a> – Dennis Kucinich (<i>The Kucinich Report</i>, July 23, 2024).<br>
1226. <a href=https://ellebeahlb.substack.com/p/marianne-williamson-is-making-a-plea>DNC Sabotage: The Silencing of Marianne Williamson and the Fight for a Fair Democratic Process</a> – ElleBeah LB (<i>ElleBeah’s Substack</i>, July 21, 2024).<br>
1227. <a href=https://thefulcrum.us/electoral-reforms/biden-primary>Partisan Primaries Failed to Vet President Biden</a> – Jeremy Gruber and John Opdycke (<i>The Fulcrum</i>, July 19, 2024).<br>
1228. <a href=https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4761192-biden-is-lying-about-the-sham-democratic-primaries>Biden is Lying About the Sham Democratic Primaries</a> – Jeff Alson (<i>The Hill</i>, July 9, 2024).<br>
1229. <a href=https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/3884917-williamson-accuses-dnc-of-rigging-the-primary-system-for-biden>Marianne Williamson Accuses DNC of “Rigging” the Primary System for Biden</a> – Steven Shepard (<i>The Hill</i>, March 5, 2024).<br>
1230. <a href=https://act.represent.us/sign/are-presidential-primaries-rigged>Are the Presidential Primaries Rigged?</a> – Nate Plautz (<i>Represent Us</i>, February 15, 2024).<br>
1231. <a href=https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/03/trump-biden-rematch-election-rules-00139453>Biden and Trump Both Tilted the Playing Field</a> – Steven Shepard (<i>Politico</i>, February 3, 2024).<br>
1232. <a href=https://www.salon.com/2023/02/03/biden-is-wielding-the-dncs-power-to-crush-a-potential-primary-challenge-in-2024>Biden Is Wielding the DNC’s Power to Crush a Potential Primary Challenge in 2024</a> – Norman Solomon (<i>Salon</i>, February 3, 2023).<br>
1233. <br>
1234. <br>
1235. <b>For artictles relating to Kamala Harris’s “coronation,” see:</b><br>
1236. <a href=https://jacobin.com/2024/08/harris-walz-populism-neoliberalism-vibes>Harris-Walz’s Good Vibes Aren’t Enough</a> – David Sirota (<i>Jacobin</i>, August 10, 2024).<br>
1237. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c3RuBMWHpo>Kamala Harris is an Accomplice to Gaza Genocide Says “Abandon Biden” Co-chair and Palestinian-American Farah Khan</a> – <i>Status Coup</i> via <i>YouTube</i> (August 10, 2024).<br>
1238. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHVYIls6PHY>Palestinians Won’t Vote for Kamala’s Crocodile Tears, “Can’t Get Worse Than Genocide”</a> – <i>Status Coup</i> via <i>YouTube</i> (August 11, 2024).<br>
1239. <a href=https://ellebeahlb.substack.com/p/kamala-harris-and-the-misalignment>Kamala Harris and the Misalignment with Black Voter Expectations</a> – ElleBeah LB (<i>ElleBeah’s Substack</i>, August 14, 2024).<br>
1240. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em7un1oSUP8>Journalists Defend Kamala Harris’s Lack of Interviews</a> – Glenn Greenwald (<i>System Update</i>, August 15, 2024).<br>
1241. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1REy6ZunOM>Kamala Harris Fully Supports Arming Israel, No Different Than Biden</a> – <i>The Electronic Intifada</i> via <i>YouTube</i> (August 16, 2024).<br>
1242. <a href=https://inthesetimes.com/article/democratic-national-convention-dnc-kamala-harris-tim-walz-gaza-wall-street>Democracy Despises a Coronation</a> – Hamiliton Nolan (<i>In These Times</i>, August 15, 2024).<br>
1243. <br>
1244. <br>
1245. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br />
1246. <br>
1247. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>JOE BIDEN</b></span><br>
1248. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/05/progressive-perspectives-on-joe-bidens.html>Progressive Perspectives on Joe Biden’s Presidential Run (2019)</a><br>
1249. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/05/beto-biden-and-buttigieg-empty-suits.html>Beto, Biden and Buttigieg: “Empty Suits and Poll-Tested Brands”</a><br>
1250. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/03/progressive-perspectives-on-big-tuesday.html>Progressive Perspectives on Big Tuesday and Beyond (2020)</a><br>
1251.  <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/03/something-to-think-about_23.html>Something to Think About – March 23, 2020</a><br>
1252. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/08/progressive-perspectives-on-biden.html>Progressive Perspectives on the Biden-Harris Ticket</a><br>
1253. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/08/eight-leading-progressive-voices-on-why.html>Eight Leading Progressive Voices on Why They’re Voting for Biden</a><br>
1254. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/11/we-cannot-allow-biden-win-to-mean.html>We Cannot Allow a Biden Win to Mean a Return to “Brunch Liberalism”</a><br>
1255. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/11/election-eve-thoughts.html>Election Eve Thoughts</a><br>
1256. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/11/election-day-usa-2020.html>Election Day USA, 2020</a><br>
1257. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/11/progressive-perspectives-on-2020-us.html>Progressive Perspectives on the 2020 U.S. Election Results</a><br>
1258. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/11/as-much-sounding-of-alarm-as-time-for.html>“As Much the Sounding of An Alarm As a Time for Self-Congratulations”</a><br>
1259. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/07/voters-not-dnc-should-choose-nominee.html>Voters, Not the DNC, Should Choose the Nominee (2023)</a><br>
1260. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/12/let-people-decide-marianne-williamson.html>“Let the People Decide”: Marianne Williamson on the DNC’s Efforts to Deny and Suppress the Democratic Process</a><br>
1261. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-democrats-challenging-biden.html>The Democrats Challenging Biden</a><br>
1262. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/07/yes-just-imagine.html>Yes, Just Imagine (2024)</a><br>
1263. <br>
1264. <br>
1265. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>KAMALA HARRIS</b></span><br>
1266. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/08/progressive-perspectives-on-american.html>Progressive Perspectives on an American Coronation (2024)</a><br>
1267. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/07/marianne-williamson-vote-blue-no-matter.html>Marianne Williamson: “‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’ Is Not Enough to Win in November”</a><br>
1268. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/08/quote-of-day.html>Peter Savodnik: Quote of the Day – August 22, 2024</a><br>
1269. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/08/progressive-perspectives-on.html>Progressive Perspectives on the Presidential Nomination of Kamala Harris</a><br>
1270. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/miles-kampf-lassin-on-flashing-red.html>Miles Kampf-Lassin on the “Flashing Red Warning Signs” for the Harris Campaign</a><br>
1271. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/progressive-perspectives-on-kamala.html>Progressive Perspectives on Kamala Harris’s Faltering Presidential Campaign</a><br>
1272. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/11/progressive-perspectives-on-where.html>Progressive Perspectives on Where Democrats Went Wrong in the 2024 Presidential Election</a><br>
1273. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/progressive-perspectives-on-kamala.html>Progressive Perspectives on Kamala Harris’s Book, <i>107 Days</i> (2025)</a><br>
1274. <br>
1275. <br>
1276. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>THE FAILURES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY</b></span><br>
1277. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/mike-figueredo-on-political-malpractice.html>Mike Figueredo on the “Political Malpractice” of the Democratic Party</a><br>
1278. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/ted-rall-democrats-are-not-left.html>Ted Rall: Democrats Are Not “the Left”</a><br>
1279. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/exposing-dark-money-network-secretly.html>Exposing the Dark Money Network Secretly Funding Establishment Democratic Influencers</a><br>
1280. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/03/why-democratic-party-is-not-going-to.html>Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism</a><br>
1281. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/01/howie-hawkins-democrats-are-not-answer.html>Howie Hawkins: “The Democrats Are Not the Answer to the Trump/Fascism Problem”</a><br>
1282. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-longstanding-fault-lines-within.html>The Longstanding Fault Lines Within the Democratic Party Have Surfaced Again in Minnesota</a><br>
1283. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/03/jeff-cohen-on-how-obamas-corporate.html>Jeff Cohen on How Obama’s “Corporate Liberalism” Led to the Rise of Trump</a><br>
1284. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/03/progressive-perspectives-on-bernie.html>Progressive Perspectives on Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” Tour</a><br>
1285. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/quote-of-day_14.html>Eric Fernández: Quote of the Day – May 14, 2025</a><br>
1286. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/quote-of-day.html>Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025</a><br>
1287. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/how-democrats-can-start-winning-again.html>How Democrats Can Start Winning Again</a><br>
1288. <br />
1289. <br>
1290. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>THE GREEN PARTY</b></span><br>
1291. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-moment-is-ripe-butch-ware-on.html>“The Moment Is Ripe”: Butch Ware on Building a “True Oppositional Alternative” to the Duopoly</a><br>
1292. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/it-is-our-responsibility-to-make-third.html>“It Is Our Responsibility to Make a Third Party Viable”</a><br>
1293. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/were-witnessing-liberal-meltdown-over.html>We’re Witnessing a Liberal Meltdown Over Jill Stein</a><br>
1294. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/we-give-reasons-for-people-to-come-out.html>“We Give Reasons for People to Come Out and Vote”</a><br>
1295. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/09/quote-of-day_01726365798.html>Butch Ware: “You Can Actually Vote Your Conscience”</a><br>
1296. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-green-smoothie.html>The “Green Smoothie” Option</a><br>
1297. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/09/when-democrats-undermine-democracy.html>When Democrats Undermine Democracy</a><br>
1298. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-next-step-is-green-step-progressive.html>“The Next Step Is a Green Step”: Cornel West Endorses Jill Stein (2016)</a><br>
1299. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/06/bernie-sanders-and-jill-stein-is.html>Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein: Is An “Historic Collaboration” in the Making? (2016)</a><br>
1300. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/09/demolishing-false-narrative-about-jill.html>Demolishing the False Narrative About Jill Stein and the 2016 Election</a><br>
1301. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/02/hope-over-fear.html>Hope Over Fear: Voting Green</a><br>
1302. <br>
1303. <br>
1304. <b>Image:</b> <a href=https://www.facebook.com/groups/606016936736056>Power to the People</a>.</span><br />
1305. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/7823445957163479721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/7823445957163479721' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/7823445957163479721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/7823445957163479721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/authoritarianism-with-blue-sticker.html' title='Authoritarianism With a Blue Sticker'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPBWRWf5mVVSNQsw-qvpRTSEwwLNPVx0RL7NwVjJQXiJz1N6UTDDhHlV_Iw9dCg-vAmu5ocg4aF6Y4JF4l3B67xPNQhJoMVKETxDelSnFKOC_o-GOrqZcR38j5FFBBNg3J7dgl3T87hGmGl8vuFPrN1RpJ9nFM2K3fyv4bQs43tEx004nB3AIHDA/s72-c/BlueTeamKing.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-8793449020233030519</id><published>2025-10-17T22:01:00.022-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-20T10:06:12.065-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Brent Molnar"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Marianne Williamson"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Resisting Corporatism and Fascism"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Robert Reich"/><title type='text'>Thoughts on the Eve of “No Kings Day” 2.0</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOZUisuXmp4QeU2wjLjcow4P01Rujw-mGgZl03XCOL56VSR8KXZPMmmHWgsheO6fRWZkKF_zn9VQ6M30FRL3O4xD7ydiv1diGIiUNRm9H-0DjM_agWpPjr2s6ZNrN5JPES6404hV8yWZF-H9VhXZwJ85YvO-GCnnfhexzIeXmD7gS_DxzWFY7Mvw/s160/IMG_E7685.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; data-original-height=&quot;150&quot; data-original-width=&quot;160&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOZUisuXmp4QeU2wjLjcow4P01Rujw-mGgZl03XCOL56VSR8KXZPMmmHWgsheO6fRWZkKF_zn9VQ6M30FRL3O4xD7ydiv1diGIiUNRm9H-0DjM_agWpPjr2s6ZNrN5JPES6404hV8yWZF-H9VhXZwJ85YvO-GCnnfhexzIeXmD7gS_DxzWFY7Mvw/s200/IMG_E7685.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I wholehearted agree with the following by Richard Moser.&lt;br&gt;
1306. <br>
1307. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>n choosing “No Kings” as the frame for protest, the Democratic Party leadership, as represented by <a href=https://indivisible.org>Indivisible</a> or <a href=https://www.fiftyfifty.one>50501</a>, is committing an act of mass distraction. We do not face a monarchy, we face contemporary capitalism. The corporation has merged with the state and rules us with a heavy hand.<br>
1308. <br>
1309. It’s the dictatorship of big money at home and global military supremacy abroad. These are precisely the conditions that have encouraged fascism. In fact, the “leaders” of No Kings are doing Trump a big fat favor by hiding the SYSTEM that created him. They cannot help doing so because the Democrats are a foundational part of that system.<br>
1310.  <br>
1311. We are duty-bound not to follow but to lead. Engage people as your courage and capacity permits.</blockquote><br>
1312. <br>
1313. <br>
1314. I’ll be attending with friends the Minneapolis “No Kings” march tomorrow, and one way that I’ll be engaging with my fellow attendees is via the sign that I’ll be carrying.<br>
1315. <br>
1316. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIzZcXg5-MiqhGRegLzo8q4diFA81yeq4K52g5KhpOTJnidVUxI6Vn3e3So1KcvwzlTe0ridlLx_wgDeNP9ow20hUacLdeqPqamB5Ske1ZbbZVB4GOe7ZlyRQz06ERO3ySR4eIrdNis9V3A-wd-MUPhcAHe_tUKzkE5TgPuFiMqe8rUy1sjAzn1g/s538/Sign-2.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIzZcXg5-MiqhGRegLzo8q4diFA81yeq4K52g5KhpOTJnidVUxI6Vn3e3So1KcvwzlTe0ridlLx_wgDeNP9ow20hUacLdeqPqamB5Ske1ZbbZVB4GOe7ZlyRQz06ERO3ySR4eIrdNis9V3A-wd-MUPhcAHe_tUKzkE5TgPuFiMqe8rUy1sjAzn1g/s200/Sign-2.PNG"/></a></div>It’s actually a two-sided sign and its message speaks to Moser’s observations above. I made this sign for the <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/protesting-is-what-patriotism-looks.html>June 14 “No Kings” event in St. Paul</a>, and at the time noted the following.<br>
1317. <br>
1318. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span>y message seeks to acknowledge and convey a deeper awareness of what’s being protested. Yes, Donald Trump has clear authoritarian tendencies and is taking actions that are undermining and dismantling the democratic and humanitarian institutions of the U.S. This needs to be highlighted, resisted, and stopped. For the vast majority of people, this will be their message tomorrow. I support this message. Yet at the same time, many of us don’t see Trump himself as the sole or even primary problem; we see him as a symptom – an undeniably extreme and terrible one – of a deeper reality which for decades has undermined and made a mockery of democracy in this country.<br>
1319. <br>
1320. I’m referring to the corrupting influence of corporate money, of special profit-obsessed interests. I’m talking about the corporate capture of our political system; the rise and devastating influence of a corporate aristocracy, an oligarchy to which both major parties bow.<br>
1321. <br>
1322. Although such subservience benefits these parties’ coffers, it has proven profoundly detrimental to the well-being of their constituents, the environment, and democracy.<br>
1323. <br>
1324. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX0RXe98dxHDiyg9gII0fRZRz4EXHckKS2ZDb6HuyvoU9J-z6EThGgxPVX0H7WJ78FtSGIIiqDwSO6mUhh7F5xAkRDZiNICL2lZfZmzJSBPSdZV4Kop7mg3Z1aRBczppui1vxleh85x-UL8cTwizebQTokThjddjnucvqeJqUTUVtcn_hiOL-Q0g/s632/Sign-3.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="446" data-original-width="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX0RXe98dxHDiyg9gII0fRZRz4EXHckKS2ZDb6HuyvoU9J-z6EThGgxPVX0H7WJ78FtSGIIiqDwSO6mUhh7F5xAkRDZiNICL2lZfZmzJSBPSdZV4Kop7mg3Z1aRBczppui1vxleh85x-UL8cTwizebQTokThjddjnucvqeJqUTUVtcn_hiOL-Q0g/s200/Sign-3.PNG"/></a></div>In choosing to appease their corporate donors at the expense of the needs of the people, both parties can be said to be oligarchic; both parties comprise a corporatist/oligarchic duopoly, the policies of which created the economic conditions of profound inequality that make the authoritarian populism of Trump so appealing to so many.<br>
1325. <br>
1326. The oligarchy we’re up against is every bit as anti-democratic and thus un-American as any king. Indeed, it’s sadly accurate to say that in the U.S. “money rules,” that “money is king.”<br>
1327. <br>
1328. “King” Trump could keel over tomorrow, but the kingship of the oligarchy would remain. It’s this “money is king” reality that I’ll be highlighting and protesting at the “No Kings” rally.</blockquote><br>
1329. <br>
1330. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBKidi3YRfUlvwwFsX8lAI3oXhxHcH6eA5D3GB_kpPYoYoOVG7aNuXBGDlN_w0GziWFkye8-25h4wjzVCmyFYw_oT_YEPwgWU9E14nHmuRLHLvQkCLN24TiaFJ3f9xB4ygjUKaQshm9tj3tD2DoOwq1heIjLwPAvkpt14I6afKro-dgi4h38WqRQ/s1452/IMG_E7093.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="1452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBKidi3YRfUlvwwFsX8lAI3oXhxHcH6eA5D3GB_kpPYoYoOVG7aNuXBGDlN_w0GziWFkye8-25h4wjzVCmyFYw_oT_YEPwgWU9E14nHmuRLHLvQkCLN24TiaFJ3f9xB4ygjUKaQshm9tj3tD2DoOwq1heIjLwPAvkpt14I6afKro-dgi4h38WqRQ/s400/IMG_E7093.JPG"/></a></div><br>
1331. <br>
1332. Over the last few days, much has been said and written about tomorrow's nationwide "No Kings" event. Following are some examples.<br>
1333. <br>
1334. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">O</span>n the eve of our march, let’s speak plainly: this will not sway their hearts. Trump does not hear the cries of our cities. Troops already line our streets, and he vows to send more. They do not dread our voices – they have armored themselves against them.<br>
1335. <br>
1336. So why rise?<br>
1337. <br>
1338. Because some moments demand presence over triumph. The Germans convinced themselves resistance was useless, and their silence became complicity. Russians now kneel to Putin, persuaded that rebellion is a fool’s errand. We dare not drift into that same abyss.<br>
1339. <br>
1340. We do not march for victory.<br>
1341. <br>
1342. We march to keep our spirits unbroken.<br>
1343. <br>
1344. We rise for love of country and of our true flag – not the idol they’ve drenched in venom, but the one we refuse to surrender: the banner of liberty, dissent, and the fierce right to refuse. That flag remains ours.<br>
1345. <br>
1346. Win or perish, stand or shatter – silence is no option.<br>
1347. <br>
1348. Let history etch this: we stood, unbowed.</blockquote><br>
1349. <div style="text-align: right;"><b><i>– Bruce Fanger</i></b><br />
1350. <span style="font-size: 85%;">via social media<br>
1351. October 17, 2023</span></div><br />
1352. <br>
1353. <br>
1354. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">Y</span>ou know Trump Republicans are worried when they slam a planned protest – more than a week before it occurs.<br>
1355. <br>
1356. Last Friday, Speaker Mike Johnson described this coming Saturday’s No Kings rally as the “hate-America” rally that would draw “the pro-Hamas wing” and “the antifa people.”<br>
1357. <br>
1358. I’m sure these phrases have been distributed to senior Republicans by the White House. They’re all delivering the same lines.<br>
1359. <br>
1360. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) claims Democrats are refusing to vote to fund the government “to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold ... a hate-America rally” on Saturday.<br>
1361. <br>
1362. So what is the White House worried about? Why are they trying to discredit the rally before it’s even occurred?<br>
1363. <br>
1364. Because it’s likely to be even larger than the first No Kings rally – which was the largest demonstration against Trump since his return to the Oval Office.<br>
1365. <br>
1366. And it will happen all over America, so it’s likely to generate a huge number of news clips on local television.<br>
1367. <br>
1368. Trump’s power depends on maintaining the illusion that he’s all-powerful, and that most Americans (apart from those he and his lapdogs label “pro-Hamas,” “terrorists,” and “antifa”) adore him.<br>
1369. <br>
1370. But that illusion is harder to maintain if a significant part of the population of every town and city is on the streets decrying him. The Emperor has no clothes.<br>
1371. <br>
1372. Rather than it being a “hate-America” rally, Saturday’s rally is an opportunity for all of us who love America to express our determination that our nation’s ideals not be crushed by the Trump regime.<br>
1373. <br>
1374. It’s a chance for us to publicly rededicate ourselves to democracy, the rule of law, equal protection under the law, and our rights to believe what we want, say what we want, and choose our leaders without fear of recrimination.<br>
1375. <br>
1376. I urge you to participate.</blockquote><br>
1377. <div style="text-align: right;">– <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Reich><i>Robert Reich</i></a><br />
1378. <span style="font-size: 85%;">via social media<br>
1379. October 15, 2023</span></div><br />
1380. <br>
1381. <br>
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1383. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCaUANOJnQo-s6auGebIkfpc1SNK0KAEHIoksiRV_FsrNC0LRbW0QHZODdALlgc7bv3HvUaycSck5xKzunN1Q7dqo6WqmjhYtqh7Ej1b-CH2HQLNGfdKdh2UQj1dTRxhFtM9BIrJLXqR4stjnwKg-bNcAY6Y6y9oB-UjZDGxm9S4lSs73evaCiXg/s1128/IMG_E7756.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1128" data-original-width="842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCaUANOJnQo-s6auGebIkfpc1SNK0KAEHIoksiRV_FsrNC0LRbW0QHZODdALlgc7bv3HvUaycSck5xKzunN1Q7dqo6WqmjhYtqh7Ej1b-CH2HQLNGfdKdh2UQj1dTRxhFtM9BIrJLXqR4stjnwKg-bNcAY6Y6y9oB-UjZDGxm9S4lSs73evaCiXg/s400/IMG_E7756.JPG"/></a></div><br>
1384. <br>
1385. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he more MAGA tries to demonize this protest, the more people RSVP. That alone says everything about what’s at stake. If you’re attending a No Kings rally tomorrow, stay aware, stay peaceful, and look out for each other. Document everything, travel in pairs, and keep your phones charged. Movements built on truth and courage don’t need violence . . . they just need people who refuse to be silenced. Be careful out there tomorrow.</blockquote><br>
1386. <div style="text-align: right;"><b><i>– Brent Molnar</i></b><br />
1387. <span style="font-size: 85%;">via social media<br>
1388. October 17, 2023</span></div><br />
1389. <br>
1390. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheUAXInLUjTO4nx6-HwcExO0WOVbHksD8b62ns0DHODNf1NS1DXHc9FiN_8B6Hnd4h0h83vhou9wuzNBOUrNXzPiY_4RSr0VbSLJBdVofRg5nZEhPGdaDw0Wybncpl9zkurazU6-ItNqp8ZnYChj5XuL0rAmCGNmGKi-VWwrPZ8ImKaTqDn1X8bw/s728/IMG_E7764.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="728" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheUAXInLUjTO4nx6-HwcExO0WOVbHksD8b62ns0DHODNf1NS1DXHc9FiN_8B6Hnd4h0h83vhou9wuzNBOUrNXzPiY_4RSr0VbSLJBdVofRg5nZEhPGdaDw0Wybncpl9zkurazU6-ItNqp8ZnYChj5XuL0rAmCGNmGKi-VWwrPZ8ImKaTqDn1X8bw/s400/IMG_E7764.JPG"/></a></div><br>
1391. <br>
1392. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>here are those who are saying protest is somehow disloyal. That’s backwards. The shallow version of patriotism waves a flag without asking questions. The mature version changes the oil, checks the brakes, and makes sure the bus is safe for everybody – especially those who’ve been told to give up their seats for the “more deserving,” and head to the back (or get off entirely). "No Kings" is scheduled maintenance, not malice.<br>
1393. <br>
1394. So, we bring our pride, our joy, our grief. We bring our voices and our ears. We bring our commitment to a democracy that protects the vulnerable first ... not last. Please understand, “No Kings” isn't a rejection of the nation’s promise but a recommitment to it. No idols in high office. No thrones in the living room. Just ordinary people choosing one another again.<br>
1395.  <br>
1396. That’s not hating America. That’s how you love it like a grown-up.</blockquote><br>
1397. <div style="text-align: right;"><b><i>– Derek Penwell</i></b><br />
1398. <span style="font-size: 85%;">via social media<br>
1399. October 17, 2023</span></div><br />
1400. <br>
1401. <br>
1402. And finally, here’s <a href=https://marianne.com/books>author</a> and <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Marianne%202024>former</a> Democratic presidential candidate <a href=https://marianne.com/about>Marianne Williamson</a>’s thoughts on “No Kings Day” 2.0 tomorrow.<br>
1403. <br>
1404. <br>
1405. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vkyxrnnG33E?si=PyCQFOSKQNOvKUbw" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
1406. <br>
1407. <br>
1408. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1409. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-kings-october-18-2674210118>Pro-Democracy Americans Gear Up for “No Kings” Day Nationwide</a> – Brad Reed (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 17, 2025).<br>
1410. <a href=https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/17/headlines/organizers_of_no_kings_protests_expect_millions_of_people_to_join_at_least_2_500_rallies_nationwide>Organizers of “No Kings” Protests Expect Millions of People to Join at Least 2,500 Rallies Nationwide</a> – <i>Democracy Now!</i> (October 17, 2025).<br>
1411. <a href=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/10/17/no-kings-protest-expected-to-bring-thousands-to-minneapolis>Thousands Expected at Anti-Trump “No Kings” Rally in Downtown Minneapolis</a> – Regina Medina (<i>MPR News</i>, October 17, 2025).<br>
1412. <a href=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/no-kings-rallies-mike-johnson-authoritarian-trump_n_68f04dd7e4b061265b2b707c>“No Kings” Rally Organizer: It’s “Quite Clear” Why Mike Johnson Is Attacking Our Protests</a> – Jennifer Bendery and Arthur Delaney (<i>The Huffington Post</i>, October 17, 2025).<br>
1413. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/no-kings-yes-democracy>No to Kings, Yes to Democracy</a> – Rob Okun (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 16, 2025).<br>
1414. <a href=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/no-kings-protest-organizers-trump-gop-1235448464>“No Kings” Protest Organizers Aren’t Afraid of Trump’s Court Jesters</a> – Nikki McCann Ramirez (<i>Rolling Stone</i>, October 16, 2025).<br>
1415. <a href=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/karoline-leavitt-democrats-comments-slammed_n_68f1c361e4b0ab08d319b16d>Karoline Leavitt’s “Incredibly Dangerous” Rant About Democrats Draws Instant Backlash</a> – Lee Moran (The Huffington Post, October 16, 2025).<br>
1416. <a href=https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/americans-are-fed-up-with-the-corrupt>Americans Are Fed Up with the Corrupt and Feckless Trump Administration</a> – Edwin Eisendrath (<i>Lincoln Square</i>, October 15, 2025).<br>
1417. <br>
1418. <br>
1419. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1420. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/no-kings-absolutely-but-also-no.html>“No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”</a><br>
1421. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/bruce-fanger-on-jesuss-theology-of-no.html>Bruce Fanger on Jesus’s Theology of No Kings</a><br>
1422. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/protesting-is-what-patriotism-looks.html>“Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025</a><br>
1423. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_16.html>Norman Solomon: Quote of the Day – June 16, 2025</a><br>
1424. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_10.html>Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025</a><br>
1425. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/ted-rall-on-what-it-means-to-be-leftist.html>Ted Rall on What It Means to Be a Leftist in 2025</a><br>
1426. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/butch-ware-on-his-run-for-california.html>Butch Ware on His Run for California Governor and the Wider Goal of Disrupting the Duopoly</a><br>
1427. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/quote-of-day_14.html>Eric Fernández: Quote of the Day – May 14, 2025</a><br>
1428. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/03/progressive-perspectives-on-bernie.html>Progressive Perspectives on Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” Tour</a><br>
1429. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/03/why-democratic-party-is-not-going-to.html>Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism</a><br>
1430. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/an-opportunity-to-organize-political.html>An Opportunity for Organizing Against Duopoly</a><br>
1431. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/03/building-solidarity-on-left.html>Building Solidarity on the Left</a><br>
1432. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/it-is-our-responsibility-to-make-third.html>“It Is Our Responsibility to Make a Third Party Viable”</a><br>
1433. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-moment-is-ripe-butch-ware-on.html>“The Moment Is Ripe”: Butch Ware on Building a “True Oppositional Alternative” to the Duopoly</a><br>
1434. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/01/democrat-talk-on-eve-of-trumps-return.html>Democrat Talk on the Eve of Trump’s Return</a><br>
1435. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/01/breaking-mold-why-progressives-should.html>Breaking the Mold: Why Progressives Should Push for Marianne Williamson to Lead the DNC</a><br>
1436. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/01/inauguration-day-thoughts.html>Inauguration Day Thoughts</a><br>
1437. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/11/the-green-partys-jill-stein-and-butch.html>The Green Party’s Jill Stein and Butch Ware Give Their First Post-Election Interview</a><br>
1438. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/11/progressive-perspectives-on-where.html>Progressive Perspectives on Where Democrats Went Wrong in the 2024 Election</a><br>
1439. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/11/a-new-chapter-of-democratic-party-needs.html>“A New Chapter of the Democratic Party Needs to Begin”</a><br>
1440. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/11/what-republican-party-now-stands-for.html>What the Republican Party Now Stands For</a><br>
1441. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-lamentable-legacy-of-biden.html>The Lamentable Legacy of the Biden Administration</a><br>
1442. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/we-give-reasons-for-people-to-come-out.html>Jill Stein: “We Give Reasons for People to Come Out and Vote”</a><br>
1443. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/were-witnessing-liberal-meltdown-over.html>We’re Witnessing a Liberal Meltdown Over Jill Stein</a><br>
1444. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/09/quote-of-day_01726365798.html>Butch Ware: “You Can Actually Vote Your Conscience”</a><br>
1445. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/09/peter-bloom-on-unmasking-of-democratic.html>Peter Bloom on the Unmasking of the “Democratic Charade”</a><br>
1446. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-green-smoothie.html>The “Green Smoothie” Option</a><br>
1447. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/09/green-party-vice-presidential-candidate.html>Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate Butch Ware in Minneapolis</a><br>
1448. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/09/when-democrats-undermine-democracy.html>When Democrats Undermine Democracy</a><br>
1449. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/08/elise-labott-on-how-third-parties-can.html>Elise Labott on How Third Parties Can Revitalize Democracy</a><br>
1450. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/08/something-to-think-about_0796301743.html>Something to Think About – August 15, 2024</a><br>
1451. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/liberalcentristcorporatist-democrats.html>Centrist/Corporatist Democrats Have Just Launched “Left Punching” Season</a><br>
1452. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/americans-deserve-choices-jill-stein-on.html>“Americans Deserve Choices”: Jill Stein on <i>Breaking Points</i> – 4/30/24</a><br>
1453. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/aoc-falls-in-line.html>AOC Falls in Line</a><br>
1454. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/03/marianne-williamson-cassandra-of-us.html>The Cassandra of U.S. Politics on the “True State of the Union”</a><br>
1455. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/11/will-democrats-never-learn.html>Will Democrats Never Learn?</a><br>
1456. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-next-step-is-green-step-progressive.html>“The Next Step Is a Green Step”: Cornel West Endorses Jill Stein (2016)</a><br>
1457. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/02/hope-over-fear.html>Hope Over Fear: Voting Green</a></span><br>
1458. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/8793449020233030519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/8793449020233030519' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/8793449020233030519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/8793449020233030519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/thoughts-on-eve-of-no-kings-day-20.html' title='Thoughts on the Eve of “No Kings Day” 2.0'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOZUisuXmp4QeU2wjLjcow4P01Rujw-mGgZl03XCOL56VSR8KXZPMmmHWgsheO6fRWZkKF_zn9VQ6M30FRL3O4xD7ydiv1diGIiUNRm9H-0DjM_agWpPjr2s6ZNrN5JPES6404hV8yWZF-H9VhXZwJ85YvO-GCnnfhexzIeXmD7gS_DxzWFY7Mvw/s72-c/IMG_E7685.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-206077378188355599</id><published>2025-10-17T16:48:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-18T02:11:32.033-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Autumn"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Photo of the Day"/><title type='text'>Photo of the Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6BDNhn6jcNjUVhyphenhyphenIagXohXsJryUl4ZpuKCeuLhfZp6w1tb8UjRUIe1c-LSjCIrgyadSNbTKGmkhEGqEOY6QKPy_ivfioZVwQWOJOz4vdCVKiViMhdA5jn6debQ6d5dpoaQw3mMk840EFkvx2LeyjLcjM7bYlobZTVKh9DzImayJtL6TLcWJ1Y1w/s3819/IMG_7668b.JPG&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3819&quot; data-original-width=&quot;2856&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6BDNhn6jcNjUVhyphenhyphenIagXohXsJryUl4ZpuKCeuLhfZp6w1tb8UjRUIe1c-LSjCIrgyadSNbTKGmkhEGqEOY6QKPy_ivfioZVwQWOJOz4vdCVKiViMhdA5jn6debQ6d5dpoaQw3mMk840EFkvx2LeyjLcjM7bYlobZTVKh9DzImayJtL6TLcWJ1Y1w/s400/IMG_7668b.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
1459. <br>
1460. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br />
1461. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/an-autumn-walk-through-neighborhood.html>An Autumn Walk Through the Neighborhood</a><br>
1462. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/10/autumn-season-of-transformation-and.html>Autumn: Season of Transformation and Surrender</a><br>
1463. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/11/holding-moment.html>Holding the Moment</a><br>
1464. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/10/everything-is-saturated-with-sacred.html>“Everything Is Saturated With the Sacred”</a><br>
1465. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/09/autumns-wordless-message.html>Autumn's “Wordless Message”</a><br>
1466. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/09/o-sacred-season-of-autumn.html>O Sacred Season of Autumn</a><br>
1467. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/11/thou-hast-thy-music-too.html>“Thou Hast Thy Music Too”</a><br>
1468. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/season-of-soul.html>Season of the Soul</a><br>
1469. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/saaxiib-qurux-badan_20.html>Saaxiib Qurux Badan – October 20, 2024</a><br>
1470. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-autumn-garden.html>The Autumn Garden (2024)</a><br>
1471. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-vignettes.html>October Vignettes (2024)</a><br>
1472. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-vignettes.html>October Vignettes (2023)</a><br>
1473. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-autumn-garden.html>The Autumn Garden (2022)</a><br>
1474. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/11/autumnal-thoughts-and-visions.html>Autumnal Thoughts and Visions (2022)</a><br>
1475. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/11/autumn-within-and-beyond.html>Autumn – Within and Beyond (2021)</a><br>
1476. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/11/autumn-within-and-beyond.html>Autumn – Within and Beyond (2018)</a><br>
1477. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/11/autumn-within-and-beyond.html>Autumn – Within and Beyond (2016)</a><br>
1478. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/10/autumn-beauty.html>Autumn Beauty (2015)</a><br>
1479. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/11/autumnal-and-rather-pagan-thoughts-on.html>Autumnal (and Rather Pagan) Thoughts on the Making of “All Things New”</a><br>
1480. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/10/an-autumn-walk-along-minnehaha-creek.html>An Autumn Walk Along Minnehaha Creek</a><br>
1481. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/10/autumn-psalm.html>Autumn Psalm</a><br>
1482. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/10/autumn-hues.html>Autumn Hues</a><br>
1483. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/10/autumn-by-creek.html>Autumn by the Creek</a><br>
1484. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2015/10/from-falls-to-river.html>From the River to the Falls</a><br>
1485. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/10/photo-of-day_13.html>Autumn Dance</a><br>
1486. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-prayer-tree-aflame.html>The Prayer Tree . . . Aflame!</a><br>
1487. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/11/this-autumn-land-is-dreaming.html>“This Autumn Land Is Dreaming”</a><br>
1488. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-afternoon.html>October Afternoon</a><br>
1489. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/10/time-to-go-inwards.html>Time to Go Inwards</a><br>
1490. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/12/to-dream-to-feel-to-listen.html>To Dream, to Feel, to Listen</a><br>
1491. <br />
1492. <b>Image:</b> Michael J. Bayly.</span><br />
1493. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/206077378188355599/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/206077378188355599' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/206077378188355599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/206077378188355599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/photo-of-day_17.html' title='Photo of the Day'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6BDNhn6jcNjUVhyphenhyphenIagXohXsJryUl4ZpuKCeuLhfZp6w1tb8UjRUIe1c-LSjCIrgyadSNbTKGmkhEGqEOY6QKPy_ivfioZVwQWOJOz4vdCVKiViMhdA5jn6debQ6d5dpoaQw3mMk840EFkvx2LeyjLcjM7bYlobZTVKh9DzImayJtL6TLcWJ1Y1w/s72-c/IMG_7668b.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-6578494454139331651</id><published>2025-10-16T22:01:00.035-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-20T19:02:21.383-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Music"/><title type='text'>Groove and Grace: Remembering D’Angelo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8THfHceoQ1axKvOZEMM_lmQxx2u1t3_L560V3yleM2YxRRe6OrU1jRKFQT5-whI0HehUvc0SVrPgrk1-wea4j78I0uZIz-VoihOpyTV2UkDBUZZYNGqLOi-SQfbgES6UMxngh9iR9g48msf4KhMkW9oVTg57KQQXebmPeKytqu7JFoJhrxrUBJQ/s810/D%27AngeloInConcert.jpg&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;566&quot; data-original-width=&quot;810&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8THfHceoQ1axKvOZEMM_lmQxx2u1t3_L560V3yleM2YxRRe6OrU1jRKFQT5-whI0HehUvc0SVrPgrk1-wea4j78I0uZIz-VoihOpyTV2UkDBUZZYNGqLOi-SQfbgES6UMxngh9iR9g48msf4KhMkW9oVTg57KQQXebmPeKytqu7JFoJhrxrUBJQ/s400/D%27AngeloInConcert.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
1494. I was saddened to hear earlier this week of the passing of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_music>soul</a> music legend <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Jamal>D’Angelo</a>. The musician died Tuesday, October 14 from pancreatic cancer. He was 51. (For my previous <i>Wild Reed</i> post about D’Angelo, <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/01/dangelos-voodoo-20-years-on.html>click here</a>.)<br>
1495. <br>
1496. Following is how <i>ABC News</i> reported D’Angelo’s passing.<br><br>
1497. <br>
1498. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dayAKLoYuT0?si=dyk-yHct7J60mop5" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
1499. <br>
1500. <br>
1501. In remembering and celebrating this evening the life and music of D’Angelo, I share (with added images and links) a number of excerpts from various online tributes.<br>
1502. <br>
1503. <br>
1504. <blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijSXWIg3u2UP35-l3Hn9TkZEjfzTKS5PmnxPXiOIjFqeoh5rSLLhyRUxo_H_BIP1BEfwVsYsBYkBl-WyT7DyKtn7B05a4SQJDr2wIUhpWufTFPfOLirXQ6g6kH4paQGIcQXC70F96IohsSIhHC_GPm1fQasl5BvCJQB4DadHWD-DzDISVKwKQ4pA/s1199/IMG_E7388.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="1199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijSXWIg3u2UP35-l3Hn9TkZEjfzTKS5PmnxPXiOIjFqeoh5rSLLhyRUxo_H_BIP1BEfwVsYsBYkBl-WyT7DyKtn7B05a4SQJDr2wIUhpWufTFPfOLirXQ6g6kH4paQGIcQXC70F96IohsSIhHC_GPm1fQasl5BvCJQB4DadHWD-DzDISVKwKQ4pA/s200/IMG_E7388.JPG"/></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>his week, the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_R%26B>R&B</a> singer D’Angelo died at age 51, of cancer. He was best known for deftly combining the heft and tenderness of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_music>soul music</a> with the ingenuity and nerve of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop>hip-hop</a>, and while he was acclaimed in all the usual ways – four Grammy Awards, two platinum-selling albums, a music video so sexually charged that it still feels dangerous to watch in mixed company – he was also reclusive, enigmatic, unknowable.<br>
1505.  <br>
1506. “D’Angelo was a generational talent – an unusually artful singer, and an experimental and idiosyncratic songwriter,” Amanda Petrusich <a href=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/dangelos-genius-was-pure-and-rare>writes</a>. But he largely eschewed the accoutrements of stardom, releasing just three albums in 19 years.<br>
1507. <br>
1508. D’Angelo signed a songwriting deal when he was 17; a record contract followed, two years later. He released his first album, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Sugar_(D%27Angelo_album)><i>Brown Sugar</i></a>, in 1995, when he was only 21. “<i>Brown Sugar</i> is an excellent R&B record – moody, luxurious, softly lit – but it wasn’t until the release of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_(D%27Angelo_album)><i>Voodoo</i></a>, five years later, that the depth and richness of D’Angelo’s vision became fully evident,” Petrusich writes. “<i>Voodoo</i> is, by nearly all accounts, a masterpiece. By three minutes into “<a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo3iqsOH_54&list=RDeo3iqsOH_54&start_radio=1>Playa Playa</a>,” the album’s opening track, the air has changed in the room. Or maybe the air has changed in the whole neighborhood. The music’s gravitational pull is that potent and that steady.”<br>
1509. <br>
1510. Then, in 2014, after 14 years of relative dormancy, and without much warning, D’Angelo released <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Messiah_(album)><i>Black Messiah</i></a> – probably his most divisive album, crackling with the frantic, sprawling energy of political upheaval. The message of the album felt like a suggestion of kinship: racism was everyone’s problem.<br>
1511.  <br>
1512. “These days, a lot of D’Angelo’s defining qualities as a musician – humility, subtlety, imperfection, prescience, sensuality, inventiveness – feel as though they’re in alarmingly short supply,” Petrusich notes. “D’Angelo understood his role as an artist as significant, and the responsibility as grave.”</blockquote><br>
1513. <div style="text-align: right;"><b><i>– The New Yorker</i></b><br />
1514. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Describing Amanda Petrusich’s article,<br>
1515. “<a href=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/dangelos-genius-was-pure-and-rare>D’Angelo’s Genius Was Pure, and Rare</a>”<br>
1516. October 15, 2025</span></div><br />
1517. <br>
1518. <br>
1519. <blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZSmD9q8K7QkAuFlD2nc2lCYUk_2f5sqrnXBPwG8sIVOJkmpN7DWoCL8hCTYZfi_nMS6rCcLQtk6vCWb9TvaNvd5tcVDMvikgggIjuriq12HoparaxRW-BmCeOUyIoLvpTk2gA1H9OKyfaGmBX1haLbkTsj5kCKERYAXlU8QHD-uO9dsf8aSi9Bg/s723/IMG_E7549.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" data-original-height="723" data-original-width="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZSmD9q8K7QkAuFlD2nc2lCYUk_2f5sqrnXBPwG8sIVOJkmpN7DWoCL8hCTYZfi_nMS6rCcLQtk6vCWb9TvaNvd5tcVDMvikgggIjuriq12HoparaxRW-BmCeOUyIoLvpTk2gA1H9OKyfaGmBX1haLbkTsj5kCKERYAXlU8QHD-uO9dsf8aSi9Bg/s400/IMG_E7549.JPG"/></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span>’Angelo was one of the most widely revered artists of the past 30 years. A childhood musical prodigy, he quickly asserted himself as a star with his 1995 debut, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Sugar_(D%27Angelo_album)><i>Brown Sugar</i></a>, released when he was 21. A key part of the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulquarians>Soulquarians</a>, a loose collective of musicians, singers, and producers that included <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questlove>Questlove</a>, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erykah_Badu>Erykah Badu</a>, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Dilla>J Dilla</a>, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-Tip_(musician)>Q-Tip</a>, among others – he was at the forefront of a movement that charted new paths in soul, R&B, and hip-hop while maintaining a deep admiration for the past.<br>
1520. <br>
1521. D’Angelo, and this movement, were often pegged as “<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_soul>neo-soul</a>,” but in a 2014 Red Bull Academy lecture, the singer-songwriter chafed at the description: “I think the main thing about the whole neo-soul thing, not to put it down or it was a bad thing or anything, but . . . you want to be in a position where you can grow as an artist.” He added: “I never claimed that. I never claimed I do neo-soul, you know. I used to say, when I first came out, I used to always say, ‘I do black music. I make black music.'”<br>
1522. <br>
1523. D’Angelo’s three solo albums – <i>Brown Sugar</i>, 2000’s <i>Voodoo</i>, and 2014’s <i>Black Messiah</i> – all earned critical acclaim and cracked the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 albums chart, with <i>Voodoo</i> reaching Number One. His biggest Hot 100 charter was “<a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBB8valskCQ&list=RDYBB8valskCQ&start_radio=1>Lady</a>,” but it was “<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_(How_Does_It_Feel)>Untitled (How Does it Feel)</a>,” with its memorable one-shot video of a naked D’Angelo belting the track, that arguably became his signature song.<br>
1524. <br>
1525. Nominated for 14 Grammys over the course of his career, D’Angelo won four awards, including Best R&B Album twice for <i>Voodoo</i> and <i>Black Messiah</i>. He also won Best R&B Vocal Performance for “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” [<b>below</b>] and Best R&B Song for <i>Black Messiah</i>’s “<a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVsQwJfWzoI&list=RDmVsQwJfWzoI&start_radio=1>Really Love</a>.”</blockquote><br>
1526. <div style="text-align: right;"><b><i>– Jon Blistein</i></b><br />
1527. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “<a href=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dangelo-dead-obit-obituary-1235446878>D’Angelo, Soul’s<br>
1528. Modern Visionary, Dead at 51</a>”<br>
1529. <i>Rolling Stone</i><br>
1530. October 14, 2025</span></div><br />
1531. <br>
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1533. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SxVNOnPyvIU?si=PqLun3wgXF7n_0Jn" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
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1535. <br>
1536. <br>
1537. <blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-vcp6J5mQP1A-KLG3nji1xi78UpDTgFOtLGvl5kKNnOoKecJSrRBtAIDw8wNlIGu3jsMCsgr6dRqX0E7vjJCcw1t4tfXZ0z-prhrIBn2uHN13_MeW0jukH_zLlLKFeCKDioJDxqHHwXCzU9oX1Zc37tckwD07xNZjX57b1JvCnDoaQAElg2Kcww/s779/IMG_7728.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="545" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-vcp6J5mQP1A-KLG3nji1xi78UpDTgFOtLGvl5kKNnOoKecJSrRBtAIDw8wNlIGu3jsMCsgr6dRqX0E7vjJCcw1t4tfXZ0z-prhrIBn2uHN13_MeW0jukH_zLlLKFeCKDioJDxqHHwXCzU9oX1Zc37tckwD07xNZjX57b1JvCnDoaQAElg2Kcww/s320/IMG_7728.JPG"/></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he world lost a giant.<br>
1538. <br>
1539. D’Angelo was more than a musician, he was a vessel of soul, a conjurer of feeling, a truth-teller in melody and rhythm. He bared his soul with every note and we felt it.<br>
1540. <br>
1541. And though he may be gone, his spirit remains in every harmony, in every bassline, in every heart he touched. Artists like D’Angelo don’t just make music; they make memories.<br>
1542. <br>
1543. We will miss him.</blockquote><br>
1544. <div style="text-align: right;"><i>– <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Turner>Nina Turner</a></i><br />
1545. <span style="font-size: 85%;">via social media<br>
1546. October 14, 2025</span></div><br />
1547. <br>
1548. <br>
1549. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span>’Angelo, who was born Michael Eugene Archer, in Richmond, Virginia, is often compared to Prince, and rightly so, I think – each wielded a carnal, otherworldly falsetto. But, perhaps more crucially, they shared an exquisite sense of pacing, as if they were attuned to some elegant internal rhythm. Neither could be hurried. That feeling – stately, easy, deliberate – is inherently sensual. You’ll register it, sometimes, in the slowest but most provocative gestures – a curl of smoke, a brush of hands, the right sort of glance from across a room. D’Angelo understood the ways in which restraint can be infinitely more haunting – and more alluring – than aggression.</blockquote><br>
1550. <div style="text-align: right;"><b><i>– Amanda Petrusich</i></b><br />
1551. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “<a href=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/dangelos-genius-was-pure-and-rare>D’Angelo’s Genius Was Pure, and Rare</a>”<br>
1552. <i>The New Yorker</i><br>
1553. October 15, 2025</span></div><br />
1554. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0k7yiMzQHQgXTuDYUFLwIzYgXvY9jQZxxLJVhLdt7Oz-xRS94X7ida-rCC8N5OPioK95TJVOg4GwTQW3A1Huu7u_nplYyROV-qqjselbXa-Nk_xXpHz-LFCIBIWhMxxi-Ny1N9JYq75yWtnJeKfPE7yR5IYJywgC_gjMouuCSLkwKc9IAT759ZQ/s750/IMG_E7739.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="750" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0k7yiMzQHQgXTuDYUFLwIzYgXvY9jQZxxLJVhLdt7Oz-xRS94X7ida-rCC8N5OPioK95TJVOg4GwTQW3A1Huu7u_nplYyROV-qqjselbXa-Nk_xXpHz-LFCIBIWhMxxi-Ny1N9JYq75yWtnJeKfPE7yR5IYJywgC_gjMouuCSLkwKc9IAT759ZQ/s320/IMG_E7739.JPG"/></a></div><br>
1555. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span>’Angelo’s 1995 debut <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Sugar_(D%27Angelo_album)><i>Brown Sugar</i></a> was the blueprint of the Nineties Neo Soul revival, a genre that brought some erotic energy, dirty groove, glorious musicianship and raw, human spirit back into the soul genre after years of over-produced smoothness and the synthetic plasticity of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_jack_swing>New Jack Swing</a>.<br>
1556. <br>
1557. Just 21 when it came out, the artist born Michael Eugene Archer played almost all the instruments (guitar, keyboards, bass and drums), composed and arranged all the songs and sang lead and backing vocals. His hero was <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)>Prince</a>, and he aspired to a similar degree of musical control.<br>
1558. <br>
1559. You can certainly hear some of Prince’s vocal intonations in D’Angelo’s singing as he shifts from tender murmurings to falsetto screams, but he wrapped in a whole range of other influences too, citing “gospel, blues, a lot of old soul, old <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brown>James Brown</a>, early, early <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_and_the_Family_Stone>Sly and the Family Stone</a> and a lot of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix>Jimi Hendrix</a>.” Toss a bit of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti>Fela Kuti</a>, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clinton_(funk_musician)>George Clinton</a> and <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Green>Al Green</a> into that mix. There was <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop>hip-hop</a> too, in the modern rhythmic flow, but crucially D’Angelo dialled back past the artificiality that had come to dominate American black urban sounds, forgoing the perfectionism of most contemporary Nineties soul music to bring actual singing and playing back to the fore. . . . The D’Angelo sound was elastic and tight yet slightly shambling funk, the huge bass often slightly behind the drums, with nothing played in strict time (perhaps a result of D’Angelo overdubbing himself).<br>
1560. <br>
1561. The result could be shuffling, jerky and weird, slowing down and speeding up through the song, yet all hypnotically strung together by his floating, ethereal, tender vocals. His work is moody and atmospheric rather than tautly constructed songcraft, but it has an almost supernatural energy that feels like D’Angelo is transmitting aural electricity.</blockquote><br>
1562. <div style="text-align: right;"><b><i>– Neil McCormick</i></b><br />
1563. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “<a href=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/three-albums-dangelo-changed-soul-music>He Only Made Three Albums,<br>
1564. But D’Angelo Changed Soul Music for Ever</a>”<br>
1565. <i>The Telegraph</i><br>
1566. October 15, 2025</span></div><br />
1567. <br>
1568. <br>
1569. <blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibcrYy6hyd5KGnq9il2SBOL-vaRBmc2KS_DfWxeP-BPOiEgdE3cuDPgv18QLzwBWr6dWcaW3I2SSJw2zHzvZkIcO6OLlI2FHomXioYNIqtdOpbLSgV-YeXd7GPhXqv_uln764T489-vVnnW5H5s0p73WafhwRmB93QraZ_ts7IhB_xcJFuJW4ig/s563/IMG_E7567.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibcrYy6hyd5KGnq9il2SBOL-vaRBmc2KS_DfWxeP-BPOiEgdE3cuDPgv18QLzwBWr6dWcaW3I2SSJw2zHzvZkIcO6OLlI2FHomXioYNIqtdOpbLSgV-YeXd7GPhXqv_uln764T489-vVnnW5H5s0p73WafhwRmB93QraZ_ts7IhB_xcJFuJW4ig/s200/IMG_E7567.JPG"/></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> don’t want to get too sentimental about D’Angelo. But, honestly, how could I not? His music has been the background radiation of my life, the quiet pulse underneath everything since those formative years when we were still figuring out who we were.<br>
1570. <br>
1571. So . . . thank you, D.<br>
1572. <br>
1573. This one hits different. He was the first artist who really mattered to me. The first whose music felt like it understood me before I understood myself. The first one I saw in full bloom: in his element, in his prime, showing what it means to live inside the song. (and I know that y’all feel me.)<br>
1574. <br>
1575. There was a time before <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Dilla>Dilla</a> and D’Angelo . . . Then the axis tilted. Music changed. The air changed. Even the way people walked changed. That’s what genius does: it slips into the bloodstream and suddenly everything else feels a little out of tune.<br>
1576. <br>
1577. It’s hard to reinvent the wheel in a postmodern world. They did it anyway.<br>
1578. <br>
1579. So I’m grateful. For what D’Angelo gave to me, to my friends, to all of us who believe that groove and grace can still save a day. Our hero is gone now. But the rhythm keeps going.<br>
1580. <br>
1581. Fly on, D. The world’s still dancing.</blockquote><br>
1582. <div style="text-align: right;"><i>– <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkane>Sinkane</a></i><br />
1583. <span style="font-size: 85%;">via social media<br>
1584. October 16, 2025</span></div><br />
1585. <br>
1586. <br>
1587. <blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCUm6XRpG2-gh2lAAMXh275W96rUlNhy7MlTGF1HYMXyB5cfwb-2T4z8ysC3vjJjVvn7nH8-LAazwMwiO_Yz4-Zp6anUn6yNeelIxmEg0REgsc0jDbd97521Nqv7F1QTJhfNz1Ru0qyhFbUrWcW-ddWgDrIw222gKJKCmU0xl88H5rQNxa3edqA/s834/IMG_E7376.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="728" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGCUm6XRpG2-gh2lAAMXh275W96rUlNhy7MlTGF1HYMXyB5cfwb-2T4z8ysC3vjJjVvn7nH8-LAazwMwiO_Yz4-Zp6anUn6yNeelIxmEg0REgsc0jDbd97521Nqv7F1QTJhfNz1Ru0qyhFbUrWcW-ddWgDrIw222gKJKCmU0xl88H5rQNxa3edqA/s200/IMG_E7376.JPG"/></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span>’Angelo grew up playing in a pentecostalist church in Virginia and went to New York City in search of a record deal as a teenager as part of a trio. The label said, we only want him. His debut album, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Sugar_(D%27Angelo_album)><i>Brown Sugar</i></a>, put everyone on notice: there was a new soul giant in town. His single of the same name, a cheeky back-and-forth about his love of marijuana, was among the top songs of that summer in 1995. But some felt it was a project left unfinished, as if the songs were more like sketches. Five years later, D erased all of that with his second album, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_(D%27Angelo_album)><i>Voodoo</i></a>. It was a towering achievement that made it clear that he was not only a disciple of soul legends, he was their peer as well.<br>
1588. <br>
1589. But <i>Voodoo</i> led to a problem.<br>
1590. <br>
1591. The song “<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_(How_Does_It_Feel)>Untitled (How Does It Feel)</a>” was D’Angelo’s masterwork: a swirling groove of erotic funk so hot you could get pregnant just by hearing it. His manager, Dominick Trenier, envisioned a video where D was alone on a stage with the camera giving us closeups of his incredible body — from his cornrows to just below his belly button. It would be simple, and sexual, and powerful. This would be the culmination of years of work on his body. When D dropped Brown Sugar he was overweight. In the five years after, as he worked on <i>Voodoo</i>, he changed his diet and trained obsessively. When it was time to shoot the “Untitled” video, D looked as fit as a human could possibly be. But he didn’t want to do the video. His limo pulled up outside the shoot, and he refused to get out. He was nervous. Trenier came out and sat with him until finally he felt ready.<br>
1592. <br>
1593. They went in and created one of the most iconic videos of all time. The video hit the culture like a neutron bomb and titillated everyone. Was this the best-looking man alive? Maybe. The visual alone gave D’Angelo an even bigger profile. But here comes the rub: after “Untitled,” people began to see the singer differently. At his shows, fans screamed for him to take his shirt off. That was acceptable, but he wanted to be seen as a musician.<br>
1594. <br>
1595. D had studied music like a graduate student and then spent five years working on Voodoo. He wanted it all to be about songs — to convey that he was a great musician — but they were screaming so loud for his abs that you couldn’t hear the music. He felt like he’d been demoted from genius to sex symbol. He rebelled by disappearing. We spent years missing him. His third and final album, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Messiah_(album)><i>Black Messiah</i></a>, came out in 2014, more than a decade later.</blockquote><br>
1596. <div style="text-align: right;"><a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour%C3%A9_(journalist)><i>– Touré</i></a><br />
1597. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “<a href=https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/dangelo-dead-tribute-voodoo-child-brown-sugar-untitled-85748>The Rise, Retreat, and Resurrection of D’Angelo</a>”<br>
1598. <i>Rolling Stone</i><br>
1599. October 15, 2025</span></div><br />
1600. <br>
1601. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8qOqJXTtXQyc2jm-45Dykd99rF3v3cgIRTUJglrhuFZ4z0VnrMpChBILenv66amDfJuzYG9Nj-qnYYDc_zjsz6pIhh57KGynlgIHgw7L6qb1t7dye-44FATuM4UWFGop6H9kMfrxVDiajNNx2BoWAKHUuk667UcUnCDHZQJfw7QMFatvhrORYw/s636/D%27Angelo-28.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8qOqJXTtXQyc2jm-45Dykd99rF3v3cgIRTUJglrhuFZ4z0VnrMpChBILenv66amDfJuzYG9Nj-qnYYDc_zjsz6pIhh57KGynlgIHgw7L6qb1t7dye-44FATuM4UWFGop6H9kMfrxVDiajNNx2BoWAKHUuk667UcUnCDHZQJfw7QMFatvhrORYw/s400/D%27Angelo-28.jpg"/></a></div><br>
1602. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span>n the long gap between his second and third albums, 2000’s <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_(D%27Angelo_album)><i>Voodoo</i></a>, and 2014’s <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Messiah_(album)><i>Black Messiah</i></a>, D'Angelo nearly came undone, with concerning aughts news reports of narcotics arrests and a car accident. But the 2006 loss of legendary beat-maker <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Dilla>J Dilla</a> set D’Angelo on a path to recovery.<br>
1603. <br>
1604. His return to the stage in the early 2010s was every bit as remarkable as his early classics because it saw him contending openly with a place in a pantheon of all-timers while renegotiating a relationship with his audience. D’Angelo was always grappling with the past. But in his miraculous late-career resurgence, he was not just synthesizing soul history but almost confrontationally using it to speak for him.</blockquote><br>
1605. <div style="text-align: right;"><b><i>– Craig Jenkins</i></b><br />
1606. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “<a href=https://www.vulture.com/article/dangelo-obit.html>D’Angelo Saw His Future in the Past</a>”<br>
1607. <i>Vulture</i><br>
1608. October 15, 2025</span></div><br />
1609. <br>
1610. <br>
1611. <blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Vs6tZr_hL-BXvaWbAjo6DdiqHc_-Ux-cccUbC5_6q1jDzBPwDNljcwWO8G6VGcdDLKe3MBOXTIIcT7_l0q4tBSkGFnRQhEC0zTiuI2IIysGy-PpQ3E_r_VHPNoTQTpjBAn-dG-TMovbX97PKNuCPsBllDgQNWvwtBl328Oa_FaXZOZtbsZey5w/s738/IMG_E7753.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="664" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6Vs6tZr_hL-BXvaWbAjo6DdiqHc_-Ux-cccUbC5_6q1jDzBPwDNljcwWO8G6VGcdDLKe3MBOXTIIcT7_l0q4tBSkGFnRQhEC0zTiuI2IIysGy-PpQ3E_r_VHPNoTQTpjBAn-dG-TMovbX97PKNuCPsBllDgQNWvwtBl328Oa_FaXZOZtbsZey5w/s200/IMG_E7753.JPG"/></a></div>[<span style="font-size: x-large;">D</span>’Angelo's 2014 album] <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Messiah_(album)><i>Black Messiah</i></a> didn’t disappoint. Despite its lengthy gestation, it appeared to fit perfectly with increasingly troubled times: released not long after the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Black man <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Michael_Brown>Michael Brown</a> led to unrest in Missouri, its lyrics dealt with gun violence and systemic racism.<br>
1612. <br>
1613. Its raw, dense, avant-soul sound shifted unpredictably from furious to dream-like: you could hear traces of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_and_the_Family_Stone>Sly and the Family Stone</a>’s legendary 1971 album <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_and_the_Family_Stone#There's_a_Riot_Goin'_On_(1971)><i>There’s a Riot Goin’ On</i></a>, updated for a new era. It was superb.<br>
1614. <br>
1615. It was also the last album D’Angelo was to make, although a single, “<a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0AykH20X3Q&list=RDL0AykH20X3Q&start_radio=1>Unshaken</a>,” appeared in 2019. As late as last year, when D’Angelo appeared alongside <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay-Z>Jay-Z</a> on the soundtrack to the comedy-drama film <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Clarence><i>The Book of Clarence</i></a>, there was talk of a follow-up: his long-time collaborator <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Saadiq>Raphael Saadiq</a> told journalists he was working on a new album. Whether that music will now ever appear is open to question.<br>
1616. <br>
1617. You could, if you wished, view D’Angelo’s career as frustratingly scattered: it would certainly have been nice if he had released more music than he did. But, then again, he leaves behind a perfect catalogue: only three albums in 30 years, but all of them are of an extraordinarily high quality. It was a conundrum neatly summed by <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questlove>Questlove</a>, who was asked about D’Angelo in the long, grim gap between <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_(D%27Angelo_album)><i>Voodoo</i></a> and <i>Black Messiah</i>. “I consider him a genius beyond words,” he offered. “At the same time, I say to myself: how can I scream someone’s genius if they hardly have any work to show for it? Then again, the last work he did was so powerful that it’s lasted 10 years.” The music D’Angelo did release will ultimately last far longer than that.</blockquote><br>
1618. <div style="text-align: right;"><b><i>– Alexis Petridis</i></b><br>
1619. <span style="font-size: 85%;">Excerpted from “<a href=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/14/dangelo-soul-music-legacy>Experimental, Sensual and Political,<br>
1620. D’Angelo Radically Redrew the Boundaries of Soul Music</a>”<br>
1621. <i>The Guardian</i><br>
1622. October 14, 2025</span></div><br />
1623. <br>
1624. <br>
1625. <blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgJjdGsbyLzgGutgm3OegpWqnszYAHyWoKJIqoTcSg2Y94UMVi-XWtoR_l9UlDvrKxGHuNskd0FfgYgq5tiFHSl_YmsG0heQlBTqCEdFiCVO1oW4PdV3pfAOW5-KFOrLlgsb34J3sBc39CqlEFPlBMwTnzW-4yC_SBCoQLDrpDVekJmIPnVVmsQ/s732/IMG_E7520.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" width="200" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="732" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWgJjdGsbyLzgGutgm3OegpWqnszYAHyWoKJIqoTcSg2Y94UMVi-XWtoR_l9UlDvrKxGHuNskd0FfgYgq5tiFHSl_YmsG0heQlBTqCEdFiCVO1oW4PdV3pfAOW5-KFOrLlgsb34J3sBc39CqlEFPlBMwTnzW-4yC_SBCoQLDrpDVekJmIPnVVmsQ/s200/IMG_E7520.JPG"/></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> always felt like D’Angelo wasn’t a mere mortal, he didn’t walk the same Earth as you or me. He was touched, he had magic – you could call it soul, you could call it grit, but whatever it was, it was otherworldly. To me he was the only singer of his/our generation who could go toe-to-toe with ’60s-’70s legends like <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Gaye>Marvin</a>, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Green>Al Green</a>, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_Stone>Sly</a>, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cooke>Sam Cooke</a>. I say “our” generation . . . I clearly remember when the <i>Brown Sugar</i> single came out. I’d only started buying vinyl 12”s a year or so before. When D landed in the record bins, everyone took notice. He completely reinvented <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues>R&B</a>. He made it gritty, he brought a <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip-hop>hip-hop</a> attitude . . . he was working with <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Power>Bob Power</a> and <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Shaheed_Muhammad>Ali Shaheed</a>, so if you were a Tribe fan you were immediately mystified. He made his <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_piano>Rhodes</a> sound like nothing on this planet. And that voice, those harmonies. . . . When that first album dropped, nothing was the same.<br>
1626. <br>
1627. Of course then <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_(D%27Angelo_album)><i>Voodoo</i></a> came and changed all music – everything. The tour that followed was the stuff of legends. Every player in his band was a deity in their own right.<br>
1628. <br>
1629. Over a decade passed without an album. How do you top those two? And then when no one expected it, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Messiah_(album)><i>Black Messiah</i></a> dropped and was another 10/10. Not only that but D was playing guitar now. With so much <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumbo>gumbo</a>, so much <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk>funk</a>. And he had <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Johnson_(musician)>Jesse Johnson</a> on tour with him.<br>
1630. <br>
1631. None of this is normal. We’re lucky to have been alive to have witnessed ANY of this. To have heard just ONE stack of harmonies from this man. Thank you D’Angelo. You were my favorite. Your music will stay with me, with us, forever. Send it on.</blockquote><br>
1632. <div style="text-align: right;"><i>– <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-Trak>A-Trak</a></i><br />
1633. <span style="font-size: 85%;">via social media<br>
1634. October 14, 2025</span></div><br />
1635. <br>
1636. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9b3kMSJzHXChEbfasPc-XWcQ4rg9fhHrHM6U08RIBaXlcYE6J9IN5ooM-P63lq7dsfDH6Q94hvIb9xqaI_6fK2gkoRvygUrNasLTBRmZA8jNlcIgUg_hfPR6ODbqqdVi3oqHzuQ1yq7223dlZEEfrXOicEH5PSxnDRS0Hwj_ssHB3qlqBmgYPng/s597/D%27AngeloInConcert.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="369" data-original-width="597" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9b3kMSJzHXChEbfasPc-XWcQ4rg9fhHrHM6U08RIBaXlcYE6J9IN5ooM-P63lq7dsfDH6Q94hvIb9xqaI_6fK2gkoRvygUrNasLTBRmZA8jNlcIgUg_hfPR6ODbqqdVi3oqHzuQ1yq7223dlZEEfrXOicEH5PSxnDRS0Hwj_ssHB3qlqBmgYPng/s400/D%27AngeloInConcert.PNG"/></a></div><br>
1637. <br>
1638. <blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6RRtmuWco7wjPrZRUzWm_ulodn3d76g2yBldVH7_gB76tAsywTTf8dnmhIpn_0bniq4dZeLog25ddAk0RS12FENlRrdAmz286b27_lQsAOdVtTA6FhlzGX7epFfT6632Vyfjyh5xFLJ_PYLBXwZrVkllRl57v30NNROQ8unbRv3fhVu4mdkrMYw/s741/IMG_E7338.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="741" data-original-width="644" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6RRtmuWco7wjPrZRUzWm_ulodn3d76g2yBldVH7_gB76tAsywTTf8dnmhIpn_0bniq4dZeLog25ddAk0RS12FENlRrdAmz286b27_lQsAOdVtTA6FhlzGX7epFfT6632Vyfjyh5xFLJ_PYLBXwZrVkllRl57v30NNROQ8unbRv3fhVu4mdkrMYw/s200/IMG_E7338.JPG"/></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>hank you. Thank you a million times over. To create, to shift, to shape and reshape, to push, to inspire, to fuel, to illuminate. An artist can only dream to achieve one or a few of these things. How amazing to witness him who did all of it and so masterfully.<br>
1639. <br>
1640. I rediscovered <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_(D%27Angelo_album)><i>Voodoo</i></a> in my college days. It opened up the world for me. it became a defining element of art that’s very responsible for where I started. I stack my backgrounds the way I do because of him. I feel unafraid to experiment and evolve because of him.<br>
1641. <br>
1642. I think we were all hoping to hear much more from him, but he has given us more than a lifetime of sound. Nothing but gratitude to be around in the same space and time as that sound. God Bless his family. Superbly done. Thank you, thank you, thank you.</blockquote><br>
1643. <div style="text-align: right;"><a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Isley><i>– Alex Isley</i></a><br />
1644. <span style="font-size: 85%;">via social media<br>
1645. October 14, 2025</span></div><br />
1646. <br>
1647. <br>
1648. I close this special post by sharing the following 30-minute video of D’Angelo talking about his musical inspirations and the meaning of <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk>funk</a>.<br>
1649. <br>
1650. <br>
1651. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3OEzt6Y2oRU?si=fBCYFRbvYsN6HMEV" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
1652. <br />
1653. <br>
1654. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1655. <a href=https://people.com/soul-legend-dangelo-dead-at-51-11829410>Soul Legend D’Angelo, 51, Dies After Private Battle with Pancreatic Cancer</a> – Ilana Kaplan and Janine Rubenstein (<i>People</i>, October 14, 2025).<br>
1656. <a href=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/15/dangelo-10-greatest-tracks>“The Architect of Black Gen X Sonic Feeling and Eloquence”: D’Angelo’s 10 Greatest Tracks</a> – Daphne A. Brooks (<i>The Guardian</i>, October 15, 2024).<br>
1657. <a href=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20251015-how-fans-missed-the-point-of-dangelos-infamously-steamy-video>“There Was No Conquest Mission”: Fans “Missed the Point” of D’Angelo’s Infamously Steamy Video</a> – Hillary Crosley Coker (<i>BBC News</i>, October 15, 2024).<br>
1658. <a href=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/15/dangelo-was-far-more-than-the-shirtless-sex-symbol-he-was-painted-as>D’Angelo Was Far More Than the Shirtless Sex Symbol he Was Painted As</a> – Andrew Lawrence (<i>The Guardian</i>, October 15, 2024).<br>
1659. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlHUGawIuqA><i>Voodoo</i>: How D’Angelo Created a Masterpiece</a> – <i>Digging the Greats</i> (January 24, 2025).<br>
1660. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCALQl9UYYk>The D’Angelo Song That’s 100% REAL</a> – <i>Digging the Greats</i> (October 20, 2023).<br>
1661. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUXBK1K9gGE>The Unexpected Complexity of D’Angelo</a> – <i>Digging the Greats</i> (July 12, 2022).<br>
1662. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWzzkD78ETA>The Soulquarians: The Musical Movement We Don’t Talk About Enough</a> – <i>Digging the Greats</i> (July 12, 2022).<br>
1663. <a href=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/dangelo-final-live-appearance-2022-1235447081>Watch D’Angelo Cover Sly Stone at Final Live Performance in 2022</a> – Andy Greene (<i>Rolling Stone</i>, October 14, 2025).<br>
1664. <br>
1665. <br>
1666. <b>Other featured musicians at <i>The Wild Reed</i>:</b><br />
1667. <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Dusty%20Springfield">Dusty Springfield</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/01/david-bowie-queer-messiah.html">David Bowie</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Kate%20Bush">Kate Bush</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Maxwell">Maxwell</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Buffy%20Sainte-Marie">Buffy Sainte-Marie</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/04/remembering-prince-fabulous-freak.html">Prince</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/02/ocean-trip.html">Frank Ocean</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Maria%20Callas">Maria Callas</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/12/onward-call.html">Loreena McKennitt</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2007/01/beauty-and-wisdom-of-rosanne-cash.html">Rosanne Cash</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Petula%20Clark">Petula Clark</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Wendy%20Matthews">Wendy Matthews</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Darren%20Hayes">Darren Hayes</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Jenny%20Morris">Jenny Morris</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/05/remembering-brave-and-brilliant-gil.html">Gil Scott-Heron</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Shirley%20Bassey">Shirley Bassey</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2007/07/rules-and-regulations-rufus-style.html">Rufus Wainwright</a> | <a href="http://www.thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/11/amoureuse.html">Kiki Dee</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/01/everything-will-flow.html">Suede</a> | <a href="http://www.thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/08/ever-faithfull.html">Marianne Faithfull</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/12/dionne-warwick-being-human-is-what-its.html">Dionne Warwick</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/12/state-of-grace.html">Seal</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/07/sam-sparro.html">Sam Sparro</a> | <a href="http://www.thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/09/rockin-with-wanda.html">Wanda Jackson</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2007/08/engelbert-humperdinck-not-that-easy-to.html">Engelbert Humperdinck</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/05/learning-to-fly.html">Pink Floyd</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Carl%20Anderson">Carl Anderson</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/05/aching-wires-midnight-fires-things-i.html">The Church</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/09/enrique-iglesias.html">Enrique Iglesias</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/04/ive-been-changedyes-really-changed.html">Yvonne Elliman</a> | <a 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href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/07/tous-les-memes.html">Stromae</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-shared-language.html">Damiyr Shuford</a> | <a href="https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/04/pulsating-and-mesmeric-french-afro-funk.html">Vaudou Game</a> | <a href="https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/06/celebrating-mabo-day.html">Yotha Yindi and The Treaty Project</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/07/lil-nas-x-latest-face-of-pops-gay.html">Lil Nas X</a> | <a href="https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Daby%20Tour%C3%A9">Daby Touré</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/01/sheku-kanneh-mason.html">Sheku Kanneh-Mason</a> | <a href="https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/11/ah-that-feels-better-susan-boyles_12.html">Susan Boyle</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/01/dangelos-voodoo-20-years-on.html">D’Angelo</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/05/remembering-little-richard-1932-2020.html">Little Richard</a> | <a href="http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/06/black-pumas-colors-celebration-of.html">Black Pumas</a> | <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/07/mbemba-diebate.html>Mbemba Diebaté</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/09/one-of-most-beautiful-songs-ever.html>Judie Tzuke</a> | <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/01/seckou-keita.html>Seckou Keita</a> | <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/03/rahsaan-patterson.html>Rahsaan Patterson</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/10/moments-of-wonder.html>Black</a> | <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/05/spirit-dreams.html>Ash Dargan</a> | <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-return-of-abba.html>ABBA</a> | <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/11/that-time-tammy-stood-by-jams.html>The KLF and Tammy Wynette</a> | <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/01/shining-on-into-new-year.html>Luke James and Samoht</a> | <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/06/remembering-julee-cruise-and-her.html>Julee Cruise</a> | <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/08/remembering-olivia-newton-johns-legacy.html>Olivia Newton-John</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/08/dyllon-burnside-for-me-term-queer-just.html>Dyllón Burnside</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/11/christine-mcvie-19432022.html>Christine McVie</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/01/for-rita-coolidge-love-is-everywhere.html>Rita Coolidge</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/02/taking-high-road.html>Bettye LaVette</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-favorite-burt-bacharach-song.html>Burt Bacharach</a> | <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/02/kimi-djabate.html>Kimi Djabaté</a> | <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/05/digging-deeper-with-benjamin-booker.html>Benjamin Booker</a> | <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/05/remembering-tina-turner.html>Tina Turner</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/05/remembering-evita.html>Julie Covington</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/08/i-surrender-to-you.html>Midist/Wasim</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/06/durrand-bernarr-genre-bending-talent.html>Durrand Bernarr</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/07/viva-la-vida-romanovs.html>Cold Play</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/09/keiynan-lonsdale.html>Keiynan Lonsdale</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/phil-wilson-remembers-american-fascisms.html>Sharon Jones</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/remembering-out-proud-and-vivid.html>Sylvester</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/warumpi-band.html>Warumpi Band</a><br>
1668. <br>
1669. <b>Opening image:</b> D’Angelo at Bonnaroo Festival in 2012. <i>(Photo: Mediapunch / Shutterstock)</i></span><br>
1670. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/6578494454139331651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/6578494454139331651' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/6578494454139331651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/6578494454139331651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/remembering-dangelo-1974-2025.html' title='Groove and Grace: Remembering D’Angelo'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8THfHceoQ1axKvOZEMM_lmQxx2u1t3_L560V3yleM2YxRRe6OrU1jRKFQT5-whI0HehUvc0SVrPgrk1-wea4j78I0uZIz-VoihOpyTV2UkDBUZZYNGqLOi-SQfbgES6UMxngh9iR9g48msf4KhMkW9oVTg57KQQXebmPeKytqu7JFoJhrxrUBJQ/s72-c/D%27AngeloInConcert.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-6653409047604622037</id><published>2025-10-16T16:00:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-17T02:07:04.732-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Resisting Corporatism and Fascism"/><title type='text'>When Terrorism Charges “Reek of Political Theater”</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFf2jP0x8AfUbDSTSX86-XVfzj7lWQdCsqwcQaabXPzHwE01oQtfPDEbnixSuZTCCjcumPWl3U-QBpnFT3YNJVab1hnUKjZkkoFtspmgsW7g1WtiNQFEv1OcjiZkuAgfW5Aa1EOqoQlAsDezq0AflDk-iCGH3hqeV5vit_tcAXj5_ug9py3-RlXA/s600/IMG_3985b.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; data-original-height=&quot;530&quot; data-original-width=&quot;600&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFf2jP0x8AfUbDSTSX86-XVfzj7lWQdCsqwcQaabXPzHwE01oQtfPDEbnixSuZTCCjcumPWl3U-QBpnFT3YNJVab1hnUKjZkkoFtspmgsW7g1WtiNQFEv1OcjiZkuAgfW5Aa1EOqoQlAsDezq0AflDk-iCGH3hqeV5vit_tcAXj5_ug9py3-RlXA/s200/IMG_3985b.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Memphis-based &lt;a href=https://rachelandthecity.com/about-me&gt;Rachel Hurley&lt;/a&gt; has worked in the music industry for 30 years, most notably as a  music publicist for folk, Americana, and country independent musicians. She’s also worked extensively in film and television, and is the creator of the &lt;a href=https://www.facebook.com/groups/makememphis&gt;&lt;i&gt;Make Memphis!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; website, which invites community and city leaders to “share ideas for making the city a better place to live for everyone.”&lt;br&gt;
1671. <br>
1672. On her website, <a href=https://rachelandthecity.com><i>Rachel and the City</i></a>, Rachel <a href=https://rachelandthecity.com/about-me>notes</a> that “this is not my first rodeo when it comes to fighting the power. I’ve built a lot of social capital, and I’ve chosen to spend it on speaking out about the fall of our government. And I’m about to go even harder.”<br>
1673. <br>
1674. Case in point: the following piece by Rachel which she posted earlier today on social media.<br>
1675. <br>
1676. <center>____________________</center><br>
1677. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span>elp. They did it.<br>
1678. <br>
1679. Trump’s Justice Department just filed its first terrorism charges against alleged “Antifa” members after a July 4th attack on an ICE detention center in Texas. Attorney General <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Bondi>Pam Bondi</a> is already tweeting about prosecuting the “left-wing terrorist organization” known as Antifa. Which is a problem, because as you know, <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)>Antifa</a> isn’t an organization.<br>
1680. <br>
1681. The attack itself happened and it was violent. A group in black tactical gear hit the Prairieland Detention Center near Alvarado late that night - graffiti, fireworks, a setup that lured guards outside. When police arrived, someone opened fire from the woods, hitting an officer in the neck. Another sprayed 20 or 30 rounds before their rifle jammed. The cop lived. Ten people were arrested. Two - Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts - are now charged with terrorism.<br>
1682. <br>
1683. Here’s where things start to reek of political theater. In September, Trump signed an executive order labeling Antifa a domestic terrorist organization. Except that doesn’t exist under U.S. law. “Domestic terrorist organization” is not a legal category. You can only designate foreign groups – think <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State>ISIS</a> or <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda>Al-Qaeda</a>. Even Trump’s own FBI director once said Antifa is “a movement or an ideology.” Which means there’s no Antifa HQ, no bank accounts, no membership list, no CEO of anti-fascism.<br>
1684. <br>
1685. So when the Department of Justice charges people with terrorism for being “Antifa,” what they’re really doing is stretching that label to criminalize ideology. You can’t provide “material support” to an idea, no matter how extreme.<br>
1686. <br>
1687. And the timing isn’t random. Trump signed that executive order days after conservative activist <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk>Charlie Kirk</a> was assassinated – despite no evidence connecting his shooter to Antifa. But the narrative stuck, and here we are, with the DOJ turning that fiction into precedent.<br>
1688. <br>
1689. The irony? Far-right extremists remain the country’s biggest domestic terrorism threat. Every federal report for the last decade has said the same thing. The Center for Strategic and International Studies found that 57% of domestic terror attacks since 1994 came from the right - mostly white supremacists and anti-government extremists. Left-wing extremists (ideologically “left”) account for about 25% of attacks and plots, while religious / jihadist (international Islamist) motives make up roughly 15%, and ethnonationalist motives (separatist, race/ethnic ideologies) is about 3%.<br>
1690. <br>
1691. Yet Bondi and Texas Attorney General <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paxton>Ken Paxton</a> are talking about “infiltrating leftist terror cells.”<br>
1692. <br>
1693. No one’s defending what happened in Alvarado. Shooting at cops is not protest – it’s attempted murder. Charge them for that. But terrorism? That’s a label reserved for coordinated acts meant to intimidate a population or coerce government policy – and you can’t pin that on an ideology with no structure.<br>
1694. <br>
1695. This is less about safety and more about setting precedent. Once you normalize treating ideas as terrorism, it’s open season on dissent. Today it’s “Antifa.” Tomorrow it’s environmentalists. Or labor organizers. Or journalists.<br>
1696. <br>
1697. The attack in Texas was real. The terrorism charges are performative. The administration isn’t fighting extremism – it’s just padding its authoritarian playbook.</blockquote><br>
1698. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>Rachel Hurley</i></b><br>
1699. <span style="font-size: 85%;">via social media<br>
1700. October 16, 2025</span></div><br>
1701. <br />
1702. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1703. <a href=https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-prosecutors-bring-first-antifa-terrorism-charges-texas-police-shooting-case-2025-10-16>U.S. Prosecutors Bring First Antifa Terrorism Charges in Texas Police Shooting Case</a> – Jack Queen (Reuters, October 16, 2025).<br>
1704. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/antifa-trump>House Democrats Blast Trump’s Antifa Designation and Terrorism Memo Targeting Critics</a> – Jessica Corbett (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 16, 2025).<br>
1705. <br>
1706. <br>
1707. <b>See also the following chronologically-ordered <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br />  
1708. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/marisa-kabas-were-witnessing-coup-by.html>Marisa Kabas: “We’re Witnessing a Coup By an Unelected Billionaire Propped Up By a Felonious President”</a><br>
1709. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/timothy-snyder-on-resisting-oligarchs.html>Timothy Snyder on Resisting the Oligarchs’ “Logic of Destruction”</a><br>
1710. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/this-is-essentially-viktor-orbans.html>“This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”</a><br>
1711. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/an-extremely-clever-ruse-by-and-for.html>“An Extremely Clever Ruse” by and for the Rich: Owen Jones on Elon Musk’s Coup</a><br>
1712. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/to-be-rib-in-this-body-of-our-country.html>“To Be a Rib in This Body of Our Country”</a><br>
1713. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/quote-of-day.html>Quote of the Day – February 21, 2025</a><br>
1714. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/03/ralph-nader-were-heading-into-most.html>Ralph Nader: “We’re Heading Into the Most Serious Crisis in American History. There’s No Comparison”</a><br>
1715. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/03/why-democratic-party-is-not-going-to.html>Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism</a><br>
1716. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/this-is-how-democracy-unravels.html>“This Is How Democracy Unravels”</a><br>
1717. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/jason-stanley-on-how-fascism-works.html>Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works</a><br>
1718. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/james-greenberg-on-road-trump-is.html>James Greenberg on Trumpism: “The Tactics Are Unmistakable”</a><br>
1719. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/tony-pentimalli-on-trumps-death-warrant.html>Tony Pentimalli on Trump’s “Death Warrant for Democracy”</a><br>
1720. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/this-is-what-fascism-looks-like.html>“This Is What Fascism Looks Like”</a><br>
1721. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_10.html>Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025</a><br>
1722. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/protesting-is-what-patriotism-looks.html>“Protesting Is What Patriotism Looks Like in Public”: The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025</a><br>
1723. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/no-kings-absolutely-but-also-no.html>“No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”</a><br>
1724. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_20.html>Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – June 20, 2025</a><br>
1725. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_24.html>Rep. Ro Khanna: Quote of the Day – June 24, 2025</a><br>
1726. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/this-is-fascism.html>“This Is Fascism”</a><br>
1727. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-declaration-of-resistance.html>The Declaration of Resistance</a><br>
1728. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-choice-before-us.html>The Choice Before Us</a><br>
1729. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/quote-of-day.html>Marianne Williamson: Quote of the Day – July 26, 2025</a><br>
1730. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/how-democrats-can-start-winning-again.html>How Democrats Can Start Winning Again</a><br>
1731. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/brent-molnar-on-maga-cult-and-its.html>Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions</a><br>
1732. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/james-greenberg-choices-we-make-matter.html>James Greenberg: “The Choices We Make Matter”</a><br>
1733. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/brent-molnar-on-cold-war-in-our-own.html>Brent Molnar on the “Cold War in Our Own House”</a><br>
1734. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/he-is-enacting-authoritarian-agenda.html>Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement</a><br>
1735. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/its-here-and-we-are-sleepwalking.html>Jason Duchin: “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”</a><br>
1736. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/were-moving-into-totalitarianism.html>Marianne Williamson: “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”</a><br>
1737. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/garrett-graff-america-tips-into-fascism.html>Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”</a><br>
1738. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/bowing-to-idol.html>Bowing to an Idol</a><br>
1739. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/marianne-williamson-on-need-for-radical.html>Marianne Williamson on the Need for “Radical Love” in Responding to Trump’s Dismantling of Democracy</a><br>
1740. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/brent-molnar-on-the-silencing-of-jimmy.html>Brent Molnar on the the Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel: “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”</a><br>
1741. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/james-greenberg-on-identity-politics-of.html>James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA</a><br>
1742. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/staying-strong-in-trumps-fascist-america.html>Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America</a><br>
1743. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/memes-of-times.html>Memes of the Times – September 2025</a><br>
1744. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/quote-of-day.html>Jason Duchin: Quote of the Day – September 24, 2025</a><br>
1745. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/derek-johnson-on-courage-to-call.html>Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”</a><br>
1746. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/will-potter-on-trumps-war-on-dissent.html>Will Potter on Trump’s War on Dissent: “This Is What Fascists Do”</a><br>
1747. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/marianne-williamson-we-need-expanded.html>Marianne Williamson: We Need an “Expanded Version of What it Means to Be Political”</a><br>
1748. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/an-incident-that-feels-ripped-from.html>An Incident That Feels “Ripped from a Dystopian Novel”</a><br>
1749. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/james-greenberg-i-am-in-mourning-for.html>James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”</a><br>
1750. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/quote-of-day.html>Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – October 6, 2025</a><br>
1751. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/if-praying-minister-isnt-safe-none-of.html>“If a Praying Minister Isn’t Safe, None of Us Are”</a><br>
1752. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/james-greenberg-on-trumps-larger-design.html>James Greenberg on Trump’s “Larger Design” – the Construction of a Military Dictatorship</a><br>
1753. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/historian-john-lestrange-on-meaning-and.html>Historian John Lestrange on the Meaning and Manifestations of Fascism, Past and Present</a><br>
1754. <br>
1755. <b>See also:</b><br>
1756. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/phil-wilson-remembers-american-fascisms.html>Phil Wilson Remembers “American Fascism’s First Casualty” and Warns That Donald Trump’s “MAGA Death Cult Is Coming for Us All”</a><br>
1757. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/09/marianne-williamson-on-americas-cults.html>Marianne Williamson on America’s “Cults of Madness”</a><br>
1758. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-republican-party-has-now-made-it.html>“The Republican Party Has Now Made It Official: They Are a Cult”</a><br>
1759. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/12/chauncey-devega-on-ongoing-danger-of.html>Chauncey Devega on the Ongoing Danger of the Trump Cult</a><br>
1760. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/jeff-sharlet-on-fascist-ideology-of.html>Jeff Sharlet on the Fascist Ideology of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene</a><br>
1761. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-republican-party-in-nutshell.html>The Republican Party in a Nutshell</a><br>
1762. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/04/quote-of-day.html>Robert Reich: Quote of the Day – April 11, 2023</a><br>
1763. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/11/republicans-dont-care-about-american.html>Republicans Don’t Care About American Democracy</a></span><br>
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1765. <blockquote><center><b><i>Omar Fateh has worked with determination and strategy on policies that serve working people. . . . He is the type of leader we need at City Hall. He doesn’t flinch, he doesn’t fold and he doesn’t forget who he’s working for: you.</i></b></center></blockquote><br>
1766. <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>– Patricia Torres Ray</b></span></div><br>
1767. <br>
1768. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6aJiBOaDYNi1r3dERt_KqpEuWCoKGlaNzIbjErYaHgcDrcpd2c_84Zu0xsrLHtEKF-ML4vso3GWKaQeXam2AVF931nXIO8dlbAYZO5Lil5SOgYQE8Ob0S_rU7hLpcejii29BS34IjQm6xNlu52kgnrhuVI0iX72vAjws700hwIZvbzupgltyMyw/s336/Screenshot%202025-10-15%20135057.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6aJiBOaDYNi1r3dERt_KqpEuWCoKGlaNzIbjErYaHgcDrcpd2c_84Zu0xsrLHtEKF-ML4vso3GWKaQeXam2AVF931nXIO8dlbAYZO5Lil5SOgYQE8Ob0S_rU7hLpcejii29BS34IjQm6xNlu52kgnrhuVI0iX72vAjws700hwIZvbzupgltyMyw/s200/Screenshot%202025-10-15%20135057.jpg"/></a></div><a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Torres_Ray>Patricia Torres Ray</a> (pictured with me at <b>right</b> at the 2013 <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/07/national-lgbtq-catholic-organization.html>DignityUSA National Convention</a>) is a former member of the Minnesota Senate whose district included parts of Minneapolis. Yesterday she had an op-ed published in the <i>Star Tribune</i> in which she makes the case for Minnesota State Senator <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Fateh>Omar Fateh</a> to be the next mayor of Minneapolis.<br>
1769. <br>
1770. As a <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/hopeful-and-grounded-omar-fatehs-vision.html>supporter</a> of Omar and his <a href=https://www.fatehformayor.com>mayoral campaign</a>, I was happy to see Torres Ray’s endorsement, one that I share below in its entirety.<br>
1771. <br>
1772. <center>_______________</center><br>
1773. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">M</span>inneapolis, let me tell you what I know about Omar Fateh.<br>
1774. <br>
1775. I served alongside Fateh in the Minnesota Senate. From the very first conversation we had, I saw in him a determination and tenacious leader who refused to give up in the face of hardship or setbacks. He frequently reminded us of our duty to our constituents and the obligation to work harder to fulfill our campaign promises: to work harder for all of you.<br>
1776. <br>
1777. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7EYksu2BbUbCdMSLfjZRi0JRR667Kgj6AFutkHFCFeyiaEbCP_vzdTNvxNywCG4KCHEvlbgfbA7YLyOZXXWcmw7kSQWmGPuaiF23_yeAWUnKfeRB806vApaHT5drAyDj8UhO1CiER6T9oNvacbIlG51zYbgHBD4NnJ3QQjLSHNps0d_DTfvBgug/s738/IMG_E7236.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7EYksu2BbUbCdMSLfjZRi0JRR667Kgj6AFutkHFCFeyiaEbCP_vzdTNvxNywCG4KCHEvlbgfbA7YLyOZXXWcmw7kSQWmGPuaiF23_yeAWUnKfeRB806vApaHT5drAyDj8UhO1CiER6T9oNvacbIlG51zYbgHBD4NnJ3QQjLSHNps0d_DTfvBgug/s200/IMG_E7236.JPG"/></a></div>Fateh came to the Senate determined to represent the voice of working people. He proposed to guarantee minimum wages for Uber and Lyft drivers who were getting poverty wages, to provide University of Minnesota graduate students with stronger union protections, and to make college in Minnesota not just affordable but free.<br>
1778. <br>
1779. I supported these ideas, but I didn’t believe we could convince the majority of our peers to vote for all of these proposals. Fateh worked with determination and strategy on every one of these policies, and today they are the law for all Minnesotans.<br>
1780. <br>
1781. He took on billion-dollar Silicon Valley corporations like Uber and Lyft, who were threatening to hold our state hostage, and won. Today, every driver in the state earns a living wage and has better protections.<br>
1782. <br>
1783. He secured bipartisan support to offer free college tuition for students from working-class families. That is something few leaders anywhere in the country have managed to do.<br>
1784. <br>
1785. Fateh wants to bring his political insight and tenacity to Minneapolis, and I believe our city needs his strength and political intuition to move us forward. He wants to build a safe Minneapolis where people can afford to live, raise their families, and start businesses. A place where seniors can keep their homes and age in place, and where all of us, despite ability, can access every corner of our city.<br>
1786. <br>
1787. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-MAqpUc4TVCjj6d-0vvOzJV8tMTkoi7qFIpQiMVhWXpdptvaKvJoLsAknXlwFHg9vgK9vuLt8H_hqrVYz7s78zebvJ3h86I5NOB_gJl51Bca4tQZFk89gdL1NuJjSZsvR8CaoU_RVONUwWiKU0vN2EK26bKJkpXvVUjAyrzTz-1621YY4zOezpA/s830/PortraitOfOmarFatehByTaylorDahlin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-MAqpUc4TVCjj6d-0vvOzJV8tMTkoi7qFIpQiMVhWXpdptvaKvJoLsAknXlwFHg9vgK9vuLt8H_hqrVYz7s78zebvJ3h86I5NOB_gJl51Bca4tQZFk89gdL1NuJjSZsvR8CaoU_RVONUwWiKU0vN2EK26bKJkpXvVUjAyrzTz-1621YY4zOezpA/s320/PortraitOfOmarFatehByTaylorDahlin.jpg"/></a></div>He wants to raise the minimum wage to $20 by 2028, listen to the voters and pass rent stabilization while still exempting new construction, and protect renters from eviction. These are real, tangible changes that can ensure families are not forced to choose between paying rent and putting food on the table.<br>
1788. <br>
1789. Fateh believes public safety comes from care, not crackdowns. He secured $19 million for Minneapolis for public safety, which has remained untouched by the current administration. He will put those resources to work to implement <a href=https://www.minneapolismn.gov/resident-services/public-safety/police-public-safety/investigations-settlement-agreement/consent-decree>consent decrees</a>, diversify 911 responses and clear case backlogs.<br>
1790. <br>
1791. I served with Fateh, have seen how relentless he is, and know he is the type of leader we need at City Hall. He doesn’t flinch, he doesn’t fold and he doesn’t forget who he’s working for: you.</blockquote><br>
1792. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>Patricia Torres Ray</i></b><br>
1793. <span style="font-size: 85%;">“Why Omar Fateh Is the Right Choice”<br>
1794. <i>Minnesota Star Tribune</i><br>
1795. October 14, 2025</span></div><br>
1796. <br />
1797. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy4fNBw4gQevnNLs2PFR9c5T99C48tLZtHmv-5GOfWAIETVNivn2vvuOSXLwjwyA2T9HrjPnNjC20XfrtVU-r_hAXS4yf0RdWO1Qw1W9SktTRsTFXdEwNXtmX3pV4Kp6omvTKJlz63sVdgzLi4JXFSKT-qf7L47WjesfPRvCE8B58BhTVFtld_7w/s664/IMG_E6326.JPG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="664" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy4fNBw4gQevnNLs2PFR9c5T99C48tLZtHmv-5GOfWAIETVNivn2vvuOSXLwjwyA2T9HrjPnNjC20XfrtVU-r_hAXS4yf0RdWO1Qw1W9SktTRsTFXdEwNXtmX3pV4Kp6omvTKJlz63sVdgzLi4JXFSKT-qf7L47WjesfPRvCE8B58BhTVFtld_7w/s320/IMG_E6326.JPG"/></a></div>
1798. <blockquote><b><i>When MAGA extremists attack us, and also, at times, the establishment Democrats, it’s because they’re scared. They’re scared of the multiracial, working class coalition that has been rising up in Minneapolis and in Minnesota. And they’re scared of having a city where ordinary people have real power.</i></b></blockquote><br>
1799. <div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>– Omar Fateh</b></span></div><br>
1800. <br>
1801. Also yesterday, Omar was interviewed by journalist Mehdi Hasan on his podcast, <i>Mehdi Unfiltered</i>. It’s a very informative 24-minute interview, though I wish people would stop reffering to Omar as "the Mamdani of Minneapolis." Yes, while it's true that he and New York City mayoral candidate <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani>Zohran Mamdani</a> have similar progressive platforms, Omar Fateh is very much his own man. He deserves to be recognized and respected as such.<br>
1802. <br>
1803. <br>
1804. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M3vIwuKzewI?si=vnzR-Q5uqTCwWcRI" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe><br>
1805. <br>
1806. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>CHAPTERS</b><br>
1807. <b>00:00</b> Introduction<br>
1808. <b>01:21</b> Switching roles from senator to running for mayor<br>
1809. <b>03:53</b> George Floyd<br>
1810. <b>05:42</b> Palestine and antisemitism<br>
1811. <b>08:46</b> Campaign policies<br>
1812. <b>10:09</b> Charlie Kirk, facing racism and Islamophobia<br>
1813. <b>16:06</b> What makes you qualified for mayor?<br>
1814. <b>18:07</b> Revoked endorsement<br>
1815. <b>21:28</b> Standing up to Trump</span><br>
1816. <br>
1817. <br>
1818. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1819. <a href=https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/ilhan-omar-endorses-omar-fateh-mayor-minneapolis>Rep. Ilhan Omar Endorses Omar Fateh for Mayor of Minneapolis</a> – Esme Murphy (<i>CBS News Minnesota</i>, October 12, 2025).<br>
1820. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wR4_5c8_3M>Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh on Housing, Trump, Corruption in Politics, and Crime</a> –
1821. <i>KatGetsMoney</i> (October 12, 2025).<br>
1822. <a href=https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/minnesota-sen-omar-fateh-says-he-wont-back-down-despite-islamophobic-threats>Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh Says He Won’t Back Down Despite Islamophobic Threats</a> – Brianna Kelly (<i>Bring Me the News</i>, September 25, 2025).<br>
1823. <a href=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/09/19/minneapolis-mayor-candidates-frey-fateh-davis-hampton>Four Candidates for Minneapolis Mayor Weigh In on Major Issues Facing the City</a> – Jon Collins (<i>MPR News</i>, September 19, 2025).<br>
1824. <a href=https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/omar-fateh-minnesota-minneapolis-interview>People “Are Tired of Backroom Decisions”: A Conversation with Minneapolis’s Omar Fateh</a> – Peter Lucas (<i>The Nation</i>, September 5, 2025).<br>
1825. <a href=https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/omar-fateh-has-all-the-right-enemies>Omar Fateh Has All the Right Enemies</a> – Alex Skopic (<i>Current Affairs</i>, September 5, 2025).<br>
1826. <a href=https://southsidepride.com/2025/09/03/state-dfl-tries-to-disenfranchise-the-city-dfl>State DFL tries to disenfranchise the City DFL</a> – David Tilsen (<i>Southside Pride</i>, September 3, 2025).<br>
1827. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNYDqC8jkc8>Minnesota Democrats Stab Omar Fateh in the Back</a> – <i>Concernicus</i> (August 27, 2025).<br>
1828. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zDky0m2XpA>DFL Reverses Omar Fateh Endorsement</a> – <i>Left Reckoning</i> (August 26, 2025).<br>
1829. <a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HUSmPi0Z5Y>Democrats in Minnesota Revoke the Mayoral Endorsement of Omar Fateh</a> – <i>I Am Blakeley</i> (August 23, 2025).<br>
1830. <a href=https://left.mn/2025/08/the-state-dfl-spits-on-the-minneapolis-dfl>The State DFL Spits on the Minneapolis DFL</a> – Steve Timmer (<i>LeftMN</i>, August 23, 2025).<br>
1831. <a href=https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/dfl-revoke-endorsement-omar-fateh-minneapolis-mayoral-race/89-ddb0b855-20e3-4217-989b-071f4f1c78fc>Minnesota DFL Revokes Endorsement for Omar Fateh in Minneapolis Mayoral Race</a> – Naasir Akailvi (<i>KARE 11 News</i>, August 21, 2025).<br>
1832. <a href=https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2025/08/22/omar-democrats-minneapolis-mayor-race-fateh-frey>Rep. Ilhan Omar Condemns Party’s Decision to Throw Out Fateh Endorsement</a> – Torey Van Oot (<i>Axios</i>, August 21, 2025).<br>
1833. <a href=https://southsidepride.com/2025/08/05/how-did-this-happen>How Did This Happen?</a> – Ed Felien (<i>Southside Pride</i>, August 5, 2025).<br>
1834. <a href=https://www.allsides.com/story/politics-minnesota-dems-endorse-socialist-omar-fateh-mayor-over-incumbent-dem-jacob-frey>Minnesota Democrats Endorse Socialist Omar Fateh for Mayor Over Incumbent Democrat Jacob Frey</a> – <i>AllSides</i> (July 21, 2025).<br>
1835. <a href=https://www.newsweek.com/omar-fateh-minneapolis-mayor-2099162>Who Is Omar Fateh? Mamdani of Minneapolis Faces MAGA Abuse</a> – Kate Plummer (<i>Newsweek</i>, July 15, 2025).<br>
1836. <a href=https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-minnesota-condemns-anti-muslim-racist-hate-targeting-sen-omar-fateh-amid-rising-political-violence>CAIR-Minnesota Condemns Anti-Muslim, Racist Hate Targeting Sen. Omar Fateh Amid Rising Political Violence</a> – CAIR-Minnesota (July 15, 2025).<br>
1837. <a href=https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/minneapolis-gets-its-own-mamdani>Minneapolis Gets Its Own Mamdani</a> – Kayla Bartsch (<i>National Review</i>, July 15, 2025).<br>
1838. <a href=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/whats-wrong-with-the-shape-of-your-head-minneapolis-mayoral-candidate-omar-fateh-faces-racist-trolling-go-to-mogadishu/articleshow/122456007.cms>Minneapolis Mayoral Candidate Omar Fateh Faces Racist Trolling: “Go to Mogadishu”</a> – <i>Times of India</i> (July 14, 2025).<br>
1839. <a href=https://www.southwestvoices.news/posts/campaign-q-a-omar-fateh-will-work-across-the-aisle-if-elected-mayor>Omar Fateh Will Work Across the Aisle If Elected Mayor</a> – Melody Hoffmann (<i>Southwest Voices</i>, April 2, 2025).<br>
1840. <br>
1841. <b>UPDATES:</b> <a href=https://alphanews.org/omar-fateh-wants-minneapolis-police-to-arrest-federal-agents-who-wear-masks>Omar Fateh Wants Minneapolis Police to Arrest Federal Agents Who Wear Masks</a> – Anthony Gockowski (<i>Alpha News</i>, October 27, 2025).<br>
1842. <a href=https://sahanjournal.com/democracy-politics/racism-islamophobia-attacks-minnesota-election>Escalating Threats Towards Omar Fateh Reveal Challenges for Muslim Politicians in Minnesota</a> – Mohamed Ibrahim (<i>Sahan Journal</i>, October 27, 2025).<br>
1843. <a href=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/omar-fateh-minneapolis-mayor-race>The “Mamdani of Minneapolis” Is Banking on a Grassroots Campaign to Unseat the Democratic Mayor</a> – Rachel Leingang (<i>The Guardian</i>, October 30, 2025).<br>
1844. <br>
1845. <br>
1846. <b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br>
1847. <br>
1848. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-4zM7kLGAsWiom-cV5mYq7yW-tgFknWMUxXJgMZKl4Mg7iHMMPrWjt4dxWdLTMMzy32okKkNKDye5371CKjmdDzMWGW2ZaKv93AOeqD792ffBdFz-JzOs_GXa13F2goKs1hWLI0fGaIlAKOhjgDGn0Q55G7gS4kEiqVvQh_-2rtnKIG3qQAdZmQ/s1959/IMG_E4455.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" data-original-height="1959" data-original-width="1409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-4zM7kLGAsWiom-cV5mYq7yW-tgFknWMUxXJgMZKl4Mg7iHMMPrWjt4dxWdLTMMzy32okKkNKDye5371CKjmdDzMWGW2ZaKv93AOeqD792ffBdFz-JzOs_GXa13F2goKs1hWLI0fGaIlAKOhjgDGn0Q55G7gS4kEiqVvQh_-2rtnKIG3qQAdZmQ/s200/IMG_E4455.JPG"/></a></div><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>OMAR FATEH</b></span><br>
1849. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-racist-and-factless-meltdown-over.html>A “Racist and Factless Meltdown” Over Omar Fateh</a><br>
1850. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/omar-jazz-dewayne.html>Omar | Jazz | DeWayne</a><br>
1851. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/in-his-efforts-to-build-city-that-works.html>In His Efforts to “Build a City That Works for All,” Omar Fateh Secures a Key Endorsement</a><br>
1852. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/something-to-think-about.html>Something to Think About – July 25, 2025</a><br>
1853. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-longstanding-fault-lines-within.html>The Longstanding Fault Lines Within the Democratic Party Have Surfaced Again in Minnesota</a><br>
1854. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/omar-fateh-we-need-to-meet-needs-of.html>Omar Fateh: “We Need to Meet the Needs of Working People”</a><br>
1855. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/hopeful-and-grounded-omar-fatehs-vision.html>“Hopeful and Grounded”: Omar Fateh’s Vision of Democratic Socialism</a><br>
1856. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/omar-fateh-person-centered-leader.html>Omar Fateh: A “Person-Centered Leader”</a><br>
1857. <br>
1858. <br>
1859. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM</b></span><br>
1860. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/01/martin-luther-king-jr-democratic.html>Martin Luther King, Jr. and Democratic Socialism</a><br>
1861. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2019/06/quote-of-day.html>Bernie Sanders: Quote of the Day – June 12, 2019</a><br>
1862. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/10/heather-cox-richardson-on-origin-of.html>Heather Cox Richardson on the Origin of the American Obsession with “Socialism”</a><br>
1863. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-biblical-roots-of-from-each.html>The Biblical Roots of “From Each According to Ability; To Each According to Need”</a><br>
1864. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/12/something-to-think-about_14.html>Something to Think About – December 14, 2011</a><br>
1865. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2011/08/quote-of-day_17.html>Jonty Langley: Quote of the Day – August 17, 2011</a><br>
1866. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/01/socialist-perspective-on-democratic.html>A Socialist Perspective on the “Democratic Debacle” in Massachusetts</a><br>
1867. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-socialist-hardly.html>Obama a Socialist? Hardly</a><br>
1868. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-ayers-s-word-and-themost.html>Obama, Ayers, the “S” Word, and the “Most Politically Backward Layers in America”</a><br>
1869. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2008/09/socialist-response-to-financial-crisis.html>A Socialist Response to the 2008 Financial Crisis</a><br>
1870. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/09/capitalism-on-trial.html>Capitalism on Trial</a><br>
1871. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/ted-rall-on-what-it-means-to-be-leftist.html>What It Means to Be a Leftist in 2025</a><br>
1872. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/ted-rall-democrats-are-not-left.html>Ted Rall: “Democrats Are Not the Left”</a></span><br>
1873. &lt;br&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/2605298831939427269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/2605298831939427269' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/2605298831939427269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/2605298831939427269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-omar-fateh-is-right-choice-for.html' title='Why Omar Fateh Is the Right Choice for Mayor of Minneapolis'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYh5LDLlOsU4whMkEGS9UuinZv4xyQGEeum5eYgidlrdJP47I-rHV5YSF_uOAj0_iLQBT88r7tKfn5KhUMqdmhotcmutSbJHKGvRTH0KuzeM0rDuNC7VJJUJ77jHe1j5pbo1ffqOaglx_mJebjPMlmvbwEytTi7IJrd7SZYEwR96Xh8og40XnULw/s72-c/IMG_E7349b.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-4056522380958492014</id><published>2025-10-15T20:08:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-16T01:47:39.385-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Photo of the Day"/><title type='text'>Photo of the Day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjIWjaEJyLrmt2Xhbber1lb9gwkrWX7i0ls6Rb44RmUvwcgZSIPhR-tyTVuLTU_ens5Nh8Zd2VykjZwgzQS0EzGZTn0mkkUJCH2XplFt8MC9XJeMVrJQhbx66x4RwbYqZV91KbLQ01f7UIGXF07i8NDNAsDhmQgwGkj02JJ9fhdlvIY2_7VelRIA/s3956/IMG_7446b.JPG&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; &quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3956&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjIWjaEJyLrmt2Xhbber1lb9gwkrWX7i0ls6Rb44RmUvwcgZSIPhR-tyTVuLTU_ens5Nh8Zd2VykjZwgzQS0EzGZTn0mkkUJCH2XplFt8MC9XJeMVrJQhbx66x4RwbYqZV91KbLQ01f7UIGXF07i8NDNAsDhmQgwGkj02JJ9fhdlvIY2_7VelRIA/s400/IMG_7446b.JPG&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;
1874. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>See also the previous <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br />
1875. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/10/urbanscapes.html>Urbanscapes – 10/9/24</a><br>
1876. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/07/urbanscapes.html>Urbanscapes – 7/11/24</a><br>
1877. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/04/urbanscapes.html>Urbanscapes – 4/21/24</a><br>
1878. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/urbanscapes.html>Urbanscapes – 6/28/23</a><br>
1879. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/11/urbanscapes.html>Urbanscapes – 11/20/22</a><br>
1880. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/06/smoke-plume-in-minneapolis.html>“Smoke Plume” in Minneapolis</a><br>
1881. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/07/storm-clouds-over-minneapolis.html>Storm Clouds Over Minneapolis</a><br>
1882. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2018/12/ride-to-sundown.html>Ride to Sundown</a><br>
1883. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/03/moon-over-minneapolis.html>Moon Over Minneapolis</a><br>
1884. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2021/02/high-rise-in-winter-light.html>High-Rise in Afternoon Light</a><br>
1885. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/06/photo-of-day_28.html>Photo of the Day – June 28, 2022</a><br>
1886. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2022/05/photo-of-day_20.html>Photo of the Day – May 20, 2022</a><br>
1887. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2012/08/photo-of-day_31.html>Photo of the Day – September 1, 2012</a><br>
1888. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/05/photo-of-day.html>Photo of the Day – May 8, 2010</a><br>
1889. <br />
1890. <b>Image:</b> Michael J. Bayly (Minneapolis, 10/15/25).</span><br />
1891. &lt;br /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/feeds/4056522380958492014/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/27612445/4056522380958492014' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/4056522380958492014'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27612445/posts/default/4056522380958492014'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/photo-of-day.html' title='Photo of the Day'/><author><name>Michael J. Bayly</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1K-L6JlsLn7B_KN4B7Kz7-kR72F0N2kNuW2o_JQWzyNFQ7vcYDh0Mupm4CiBCuXGcgkVTzAajPbxp-0F8ToVZg0nAOIcEZDWwhoA4SmFBPaoJ-5QYCf6zj_VbvOfH6RU/s113-r/wildreed1.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjIWjaEJyLrmt2Xhbber1lb9gwkrWX7i0ls6Rb44RmUvwcgZSIPhR-tyTVuLTU_ens5Nh8Zd2VykjZwgzQS0EzGZTn0mkkUJCH2XplFt8MC9XJeMVrJQhbx66x4RwbYqZV91KbLQ01f7UIGXF07i8NDNAsDhmQgwGkj02JJ9fhdlvIY2_7VelRIA/s72-c/IMG_7446b.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-2704568215029962543</id><published>2025-10-15T08:00:00.012-05:00</published><updated>2025-10-16T01:50:38.913-05:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Jesus"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Resisting Corporatism and Fascism"/><title type='text'>Bruce Fanger on Jesus’s Theology of No Kings</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic1u6pxCgriXpOzrsfGXCr6o1kCxxn2DPCxdxBZya64-Fj4XTkVq8BMWfeostXNvnitzHCCJe6zdnGDGRDSmTaY-i9sN_Sjlg-ojEh9OIHC6O1AVrS7VV-TSgkEg32IpmIv8JFDeIoKbkyulUtJU7v0gVjHHPp4EQFIqWNi2fUSbT2SxFPqSKDZQ/s447/BlackJesus-109.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; data-original-height=&quot;447&quot; data-original-width=&quot;356&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic1u6pxCgriXpOzrsfGXCr6o1kCxxn2DPCxdxBZya64-Fj4XTkVq8BMWfeostXNvnitzHCCJe6zdnGDGRDSmTaY-i9sN_Sjlg-ojEh9OIHC6O1AVrS7VV-TSgkEg32IpmIv8JFDeIoKbkyulUtJU7v0gVjHHPp4EQFIqWNi2fUSbT2SxFPqSKDZQ/s200/BlackJesus-109.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Michigan-based digital creator &lt;a href=https://www.facebook.com/bruce.fanger&gt;Bruce Fanger&lt;/a&gt; has written an insightful and inspiring commentary on “the rebel Christ” and the “theology of No Kings” that he espoused.&lt;br&gt;
1892. <br>
1893. I consider Bruce’s commentary to be a timely reality-check for all who claim to be followers of Jesus, myself included. <i>Thank you, Bruce!</i><br>
1894. <br>
1895. <center>_____________</center><br>
1896. <blockquote><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> do not believe Jesus was killed for being kind. Rome did not crucify gentle teachers or pious mystics. Crucifixion was reserved for one crime alone: insurrection. The sign nailed above his head didn’t say Blasphemer – it said, THIS IS JESUS, KING OF THE JEWS. That was not theology. That was treason.<br>
1897. <br>
1898. We’ve been told to picture a meek lamb, but no empire executes lambs. During Passover, Rome staged its dominance – Pilate entering Jerusalem from the west on a war horse, iron and banners clattering through the gates like thunder. Jesus answered from the east, not on a stallion, but swaying atop a borrowed donkey, dust rising behind him like laughter at Caesar’s parade. It wasn’t humility. It was mockery. A counter-procession. A rival king with no army – but a crowd.<br>
1899. <br>
1900. He wasn’t followed by philosophers or polite fishermen. One of his own was Simon the Zealot – Rome’s word for terrorist. Jesus didn’t gather a book club. He gathered men ready to die for liberation. And when he entered the Temple, he did not tidy altars – he flipped the tables. Silver exploded across stone like shrapnel. That was the financial heart of the priestly elite and Rome’s tax machine. It wasn’t a sermon. It was an act of economic sabotage.<br>
1901. <br>
1902. They tested him next with taxes: “Is it lawful to pay tribute to Caesar?” He held the coin up – Tiberius’ face glinting like a false god. “Whose image is this?” Caesar stamped himself divine on the money. Jesus stamped God divine on humanity. “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s – and unto God what is God’s.” The coin goes back to the emperor. But you – made in God’s image – belong to no throne.<br>
1903. <br>
1904. There it is: the theology of No Kings.<br>
1905. <br>
1906. Let’s be honest. Jesus was not killed for preaching love. He was killed because his kingdom threatened theirs. Because his movement cornered both Pilate and Herod – empire and corrupt religion. Pilate feared uprising. Herod feared truth. One washed his hands. The other washed his conscience. Both chose order over justice.<br>
1907. <br>
1908. “He took water and washed his hands . . .” Pilate wasn’t innocent. He was convenient. He condemned a man he knew was innocent because neutrality was safer. I see Pilate everywhere today – in judges, in pastors, in neighbors who whisper, “I don’t agree, but it’s not my fight.” Neutrality is empire’s favorite disguise.<br>
1909. <br>
1910. What passes today as Christianity is not faith – it is endorsement. A golden calf draped in a flag. An idol with a Bible pressed in its grip. They bless border cages and call it law. They quote Christ and serve Caesar. They would crucify him again and hashtag it patriotism.<br>
1911. <br>
1912. I refuse. I do not serve kings. I don’t care if they wear crowns or flags or corporate logos. “You cannot serve God and Mammon.” That is the line. If Jesus returned today, he would not be seated at their prayer breakfasts. He’d be outside the gates – with the migrant, the prisoner, the one empire has declared disposable.<br>
1913. <br>
1914.  That is why I stand with <a href=https://www.nokings.org>No Kings</a>. Because faith without resistance is decoration. And silence in the face of empire is betrayal.<br>
1915. <br>
1916. Which brings me to October 18.<br>
1917. <br>
1918. They will call it chaos. Extremism. Disorder. Let them. October 18 is not about flames – it is about witness. We come not to burn, but to remember the truth Pilate could not wash away: you cannot kill a kingdom of conscience. I will not wash my hands. I will not call injustice “complicated.” I will not stand aside while kings devour the people.<br>
1919. <br>
1920. Pilate took the towel.<br>
1921. <br>
1922. I take the cross.<br>
1923. <br>
1924. No Kings. No Idols. No Silence.</blockquote><br>
1925. <div style="text-align: right;"><b>– <i>Bruce Fanger</i></b><br>
1926. <span style="font-size: 85%;">“The Rebel Christ: Toppling Thrones Then and Now”<br>
1927. October 11, 2025</span></div><br>
1928. <br />
1929. <span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Related Off-site Links:</b><br>
1930. <a href=https://www.salon.com/2025/10/12/pope-leo-takes-aim-at-magas-false-gospel>Pope Takes Aim at MAGA’s False Gospel</a> – Sophia Tesfaye (<i>Salon</i>, October 12, 2025).<br>
1931. <a href=https://prospect.org/politics/2025-10-13-no-kings-protest-trump>Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday</a> – Whitney Curry Wimbish (<i>The American Prospect</i>, October 13, 2025).<br>
1932. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/no-kings-republicans>Republican Leaders Smear Upcoming “No Kings” Marches as “Hate America Rallies” by “Terrorists”</a> – Brad Reed (<i>Common Dreams</i>, October 10, 2025).<br>
1933. <a href=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/no-kings-republicans-hate-america-terrorists_n_68e93f7ae4b0a0b11bf2a30a>Republican Leaders Call “No Kings” Protest a “Hate America” Rally, Baselessly Suggest Terror Link</a> – Arthur Delaney (<i>The Huffington Post</i>, October 10, 2025).<br>
1934. <a href=https://robertreich.substack.com/p/theyre-calling-it-a-hate-america>They’re Calling It a “Hate America” Rally</a> – Robert Reich (<i>RobertReich.Substack</i>, October 13, 2025).<br>
1935. <a href=https://www.salon.com/2025/10/11/who-are-the-real-americans-we-are>Who Are the Real American? We Are</a> – Kirk Swearingen (<i>Salon</i>, October 11, 2025).<br>
1936. <a href=https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/were-all-antifa-donald>We’re All ANTIFA, Donald</a> – John Pavlovitz (<i>The Beautiful Mess</i>, October 9, 2025).<br>
1937. <a href=https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-no-king-protest>As Trump Escalates Attacks on Dissent, October 18 “No Kings” Protests Set to Be Even Bigger Than June</a> – Julia Conley (<i>Common Dreams</i>, September 30, 2025).<br>
1938. <br>
1939. <br>
1940. <b>See also the following <i>Wild Reed</i> posts:</b><br />
1941. <br>
1942. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>JESUS</b></span><br>
1943. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-king-of-love-my-shepherd-is.html>The King of Love My Shepherd Is</a><br>
1944. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2006/10/revisiting-groovy-jesus-and.html>Revisiting a Groovy Jesus (and a Dysfunctional Theology)</a><br>
1945. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-jesus-is-my-man.html>Why Jesus Is My Man</a><br>
1946. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/03/jesus-mystic-and-prophet.html>Jesus: Mystic and Prophet</a><br>
1947. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-mystic-jesus-name-for-unalterable.html>The Mystic Jesus: “A Name for the Unalterable Love That All of Us Share”</a><br>
1948. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2010/03/jesus-path-blazer-of-radical.html>Jesus: Path-Blazer of Radical Transformation</a><br>
1949. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/03/jesus-and-social-revolution.html>Jesus and Social Revolution – Part 1</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/03/jesus-and-social-revolution-part-2.html>2</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2016/03/jesus-and-social-revolution-part-3.html>3</a><br>
1950. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2020/09/mysticism-and-revolution.html>Mysticism and Revolution</a><br>
1951. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/04/jesus-our-guide-to-mystical-love-in.html>Jesus: Our Guide to Mystical Love in Action – Part 1</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/04/jesus-our-guide-to-mystical-love-in_12.html>2</a> | <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2017/04/jesus-our-guide-to-mystical-love-in_14.html>3</a><br>
1952. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/palm-sunday-sacred-paradox.html>Palm Sunday: A Sacred Paradox</a><br>
1953. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2009/03/incident-in-temple.html>The “Incident” in the Temple</a><br>
1954. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2013/03/jesus-upside-down-messiah.html>Jesus: The Upside-down Messiah</a><br>
1955. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/time-to-grow-up.html>Time to Grow Up</a><br>
1956. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-model-of-leadership-offered-by.html>The Model of Leadership Offered by Jesus: “More Like the Gardener Than the Owner of the Garden”</a><br>
1957. <br>
1958. <br>
1959. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM</b></span><br>
1960. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/bowing-to-idol.html>Bowing to an Idol</a><br>
1961. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/james-greenberg-on-identity-politics-of.html>James Greenberg on the Identity Politics of MAGA</a><br>
1962. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/memes-of-times.html>Memes of the Times – September 2025</a><br>
1963. <br>
1964. <br>
1965. <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>THE RISE OF FASCISM IN THE U.S.</b></span><br>
1966. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/derek-johnson-on-courage-to-call.html>Derek Johnson on the “Courage to Call Fascism by Its Name”</a><br>
1967. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/this-is-fascism.html>“This Is Fascism”</a><br>
1968. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/this-is-how-democracy-unravels.html>“This Is How Democracy Unravels”</a><br>
1969. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/jason-stanley-on-how-fascism-works.html>Jason Stanley on How Fascism Works</a><br>
1970. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/04/james-greenberg-on-road-trump-is.html>James Greenberg on Trumpism: “The Tactics Are Unmistakable”</a><br>
1971. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/05/tony-pentimalli-on-trumps-death-warrant.html>Tony Pentimalli on Trump’s “Death Warrant for Democracy”</a><br>
1972. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-creeping-fascism-of-trumps-america.html>The “Creeping Fascism of Trump’s America”: A View from Australia</a><br>
1973. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/this-is-what-fascism-looks-like.html>“This Is What Fascism Looks Like”</a><br>
1974. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/03/ralph-nader-were-heading-into-most.html>Ralph Nader: “We’re Heading Into the Most Serious Crisis in American History”</a><br>
1975. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/03/why-democratic-party-is-not-going-to.html>Why the Democratic Party Is Not Going to Save Us From Fascism</a><br>
1976. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/quote-of-day.html>Butch Ware: Quote of the Day – October 6, 2025</a><br>
1977. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/quote-of-day.html>Jason Duchin: Quote of the Day – September 24, 2025</a><br>
1978. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/quote-of-day_10.html>Peter Bloom: Quote of the Day – June 10, 2025</a><br>
1979. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/james-greenberg-i-am-in-mourning-for.html>James Greenberg: “I Am in Mourning for America”</a><br>
1980. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/an-incident-that-feels-ripped-from.html>An Incident That Feels “Ripped from a Dystopian Novel”</a><br>
1981. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/will-potter-on-trumps-war-on-dissent.html>Will Potter on Trump’s War on Dissent: “This Is What Fascists Do”</a><br>
1982. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/staying-strong-in-trumps-fascist-america.html>Staying Strong in Trump’s Fascist America</a><br>
1983. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/09/brent-molnar-on-the-silencing-of-jimmy.html>The Silencing of Jimmy Kimmel: “This Is What Fascism Looks Like in Practice”</a><br>
1984. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/garrett-graff-america-tips-into-fascism.html>Garrett Graff: “America Tips Into Fascism”</a><br>
1985. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/were-moving-into-totalitarianism.html>Marianne Williamson: “We’re Moving Into Totalitarianism”</a><br>
1986. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/its-here-and-we-are-sleepwalking.html>Jason Duchin: “It’s Here, and We Are Sleepwalking Through It”</a><br>
1987. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/he-is-enacting-authoritarian-agenda.html>Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Donald Trump’s Militarization of Law Enforcement</a><br>
1988. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/brent-molnar-on-cold-war-in-our-own.html>Brent Molnar on the “Cold War in Our Own House”</a><br>
1989. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/08/james-greenberg-choices-we-make-matter.html>James Greenberg: “The Choices We Make Matter”</a><br>
1990. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/brent-molnar-on-maga-cult-and-its.html>Brent Molnar on the MAGA Cult and Its Intentions</a><br>
1991. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-choice-before-us.html>The Choice Before Us</a><br>
1992. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/this-is-essentially-viktor-orbans.html>“This Is Essentially Viktor Orbán’s Playbook”</a><br>
1993. • <a href=http://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/10/historian-john-lestrange-on-meaning-and.html>Historian John Lestrange on the Meaning and Manifestations of Fascism, Past and Present</a><br>
1994. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/02/to-be-rib-in-this-body-of-our-country.html>“To Be a Rib in This Body of Our Country”</a><br>
1995. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-declaration-of-resistance.html>The Declaration of Resistance</a><br>
1996. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/no-kings-absolutely-but-also-no.html>“No Kings”? Absolutely. But Also “No Oligarchy”</a><br>
1997. • <a href=https://thewildreed.blogspot.com/2025/06/protesting-is-what-patriotism-looks.html>The “No Kings” Protests of June 14, 2025</a><br>
1998. <br>
1999. <b>Image:</b> Artist unknown.</span><br>
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