If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and are interested in going for a ride on a small boat. Come check out sail a small boat day on April 5th. I hope to be there, if you drop by, come say hi, you can’t miss me, bright yellow boat, large bumblebee on the sail!
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Wherein Ralph Nader rips into Bush, the Clintons, Obama, Kamala Harris, the fired heads of important agencies, newspaper editorial boards, etc. for remaining eerily silent as Trump and Musk systematically destroy democracy and the institutions it relies on.
Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump’s Tyranny https://nader.org/2025/03/14/stay-silent-and-stay-powerless-against-trumps-tyranny/
...This phenomenon of going dark is widespread. Regulators and prosecutors who were either fired or quit in advance have not risen to defend their own agencies and departments, if only to elevate the morale of those civil servants remaining behind and under siege.
Don’t self-censoring people know that they are helping the Trumpian dread, threat and fear machine get worse? Study Germany and Italy in the nineteen thirties.
The Trump/Musk lawless, cruel, arrogant, dictatorial regime is in our White House. Their police state infrastructure is in place. Silence is complicity!
@ascentale Follow-up bike rack questions:
For this week
Now that we have discussed bike racks to carry things on your bike, what about bike racks for carrying your bike? e.g., car top, trailer hitch, behind a bike, or? (The less plastic, the better, and options for a single bike.)
And for next week
Now that we have bike racks for carrying things on your bike, and bike racks for carrying your bike. What kinds of bike racks for locking your bike work the best? What should be avoided? What should we be advocating for? (Pictures or links could be helpful here.)
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