Hands 🚫ff!
Fighting Dick Taters + Fascism
“Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on, and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the streets nationwide to fight back with a clear message: Hands Off!”
handsoff2025.com
As economies and markets continued melting down yesterday, bleeding trillions of dollars in the process, the “world leader” responsible for the meltdown was busy melting like a stinky candle in the Florida sun, hosting a Saudi Arabia-backed golf tournament at one of his fucking resorts.
And posting utter nonsense on his “Truth Social” of course.
The audacity of this motherfucker and his latest comrade/casualty F. Elon Musk.
And I’m sure MAGA cultists are still buying this bullshit…like it’s another meme coin.
If only the cult’s thirst for Flavor Aid and/or Kool-Aid affected just them.
Such willfully-ignorant dinosaurs. Such loud death rattles. Ugh.
So…while I want to take to the streets and fuck some shit up, I’m not quite up to it yet. But I may pop up at a smaller Hands Off! protest or two today.
I hope you’ll consider doing the same. In-person and/or online.
Best wishes for peace and prosperity…to everyone who’s not a faux fascist asshat!
Clint 🌈✌️
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
Massive Anti-Trump Protests Expected… (The Guardian)
Zuckerberg, Bezos And Musk Each Lose More Than $23 Billion After Trump Tariffs Spark Market Meltdown (CNBC)
Maya Angelou memoir, Holocaust book are among those pulled from Naval Academy library in DEI purge (WTOP)
ON THIS DAY = APRIL 5
BIRTHDAYS
1811 = Jules Dupré = French artist
1856 = Booker T. Washington = American educator, essayist, and historian
1883 = Walter Huston = Canadian-American actor and singer
1900 = Herbert Bayer = Austrian-American graphic designer and photographer
1900 = Spencer Tracy = American actor 🌈
1908 = Bette Davis = American actor
1908 = Kurt Neumann = German director
1909 = Albert R. Broccoli = American film producer
1916 = Gregory Peck = American actor, political activist, and producer
1922 = Gale Storm = American actor and singer
1926 = Roger Corman = American actor and filmmaker
1928 = Tony Williams = American singer
1929 = Nigel Hawthorne = British actor 🌈
1930 = Mary Costa = American singer and actor
1937 = Colin Powell = American general and politician
1939 = David Winters = English-American actor, choreographer, and producer
1940 = Tommy Cash = American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 = Peter Greenaway = Welsh director and screenwriter
1943 = Max Gail = American actor and director
1973 = Pharrell Williams = American singer-songwriter
1974 = Lukas Ridgeston = Slovak actor and director 🌈
1976 = Sterling K. Brown = American actor
1982 = Thomas Hitzlsperger = German soccer player 🌈
EVENTS
1722 = Jacob Roggeveen is the first European to discover Easter Island.
1792 = POTUS George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the US.
1922 = The American Birth Control League, the forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
1974 = Carrie, the first novel by American author Stephen King, is published for the first time with a print run of 30,000 copies.
1980 = R.E.M. play their first show in Athens, Georgia.
1987 = Married…With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show premiere on Fox.
HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES
PORTRAIT + QUOTES OF THE DAY
“Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?”
Gregory Peck
“I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian.
I simply take part in activities that I believe in.”
Gregory Peck
Poor April 5, when Cubby Broccoli's birthday is a highlight.