No Kings! Protests in Shoreline, Washington 2025

When people came together in peaceful protest against Tyranny in a small city in a remote corner of America

Two longtime friends protesting at the corner of N. 185th Street and Aurora Avenue/99 N. on the edge of Shoreline’s Town Center and Sculpture Park on the Interurban Trail. Edan’s on the left, his sign made from a pre-cut foam sheet he found in a neighbor’s garbage. Edan paraphrased from Patrick Henry’s famous 1775 speech in Virginia. On picture right is me, the author. A happy stranger took our foto with my iPhone. Instead of saying, “Cheese!” or “Smile!,” she said, “OK, say, ‘Fuck Trump!'” Saturday afternoon, 18 October 2025.

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200,000 Dead Already: COVID-19 versus the Spanish Flu

Think about it, people

Conditions in the United States of America are on track to allow deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic to surpass those from the Spanish flu outbreak. The Spanish influenza pandemic is often held up as metric of comparison against the current pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Think about it, people: an estimated 400,000 Americans dead in one year from COVID-19 versus 675,000 Americans dead from the Spanish flu across four waves in three years. Continue reading