2025 Life Logs, Day 268: Head Spinning
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025
Weather: Overcast, More Rain; High Temp 71, Low 65 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
I have spent much of the last few days watching as many videos on nonviolent resistance that I could cram in between other activities to prepare for a meeting I had this morning. Then tonight I see that Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum today aimed at reining in what he calls a radical leftwing domestic “terror network.” All of this is head spinning. In watching the videos on nonviolence, I learned that authoritarians ALWAYS go after leftwing ‘deep state terror networks’ that do not exist. But they say this as part of their playbook to frighten people. They are the ones bringing the terror, but we must stand strong and not let this move sidetrack us.
Indivisible is preparing for the October 18 NO KINGS 2 protest and just tonight I attended the first of many workshops designed to make sure all NO KINGS protests are BIG, joyful, powerful, and nonviolent. We must all be trained in nonviolent resistance strategies and know how to de-escalate situations that might be the least bit confrontational. There are no terrorists here. We are people who love our country and are organizing to save our democracy. The Trump regime is doing everything possible to block this effort, but the people have the power in this situation. We just have to stay the course. If we stand together, we win. As Kamala Harris had us chanting during her 107 day campaign for the Presidency, “When we fight (nonviolently for what is right), we win.”
