This Saturday, over a thousand pro-democracy rallies are happening across the country. And in D.C.? Trump is throwing himself a $45 million birthday parade, complete with tanks, helicopters, and military fanfare. His supporters say it’s just patriotism. But parading military power through the U.S. capital at the command of a would-be strongman is nothing to celebrate. In fact, it's downright un-American. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-birthday-military-parade
Trump Wants His Big Beautiful Birthday Military Parade

The planned military spectacle lies outside our traditions and projects weakness, not strength

The Big Picture
@georgetakei I wonder if there will be TACO trucks there, even though it's not Tuesday.

@georgetakei I can't believe I had to 'splain to someone what the political significance of Taco Tuesday was. He googled it and took the link to Wikipedia as the end of it. He most assuredly was around during the first Badminstration so I wonder what pile of sand he stuck his head into.

I realize not everyone bothers with stuff that out there in the Zeitgeist. I had to explain to a contemporary what a "Karen" was. And what "ghosting" was. And he didn't know what "Get off my lawn" was from either until I sent him a pic from the movie.

[heavy sigh]