It always amuses me when Republicans talk up the “paid protesters” at left-wing or anti-Trump rallies. Have they been to one of these? I went to the #HandsOff rally at Seattle Center yesterday, one of hundreds, maybe thousands of such protests around the country, as people gave up part of their weekend to protest ... well, everything Trump is doing, but mostly the dismantling of our federal government by unelected boobs (as opposed to the Big Elected Boob), and—here's the point—I must've seen a thousand signs and no two were the same. That's us. That's the left. Nothing uniform about our sign-making. The issues were all over the spectrum. Could be about Trump dismantling the government, could be trans issues, could be immigration or tariffs or the stock market, or the unconstitutionality of almost everything he's doing, and the ignoring of the courts and the upending of the rule of law and American democracy, I mean, just so, so much that is so, so wrong with that sad, sad fuck, and it was all there on all these handmade signs held by all these people who gave up part of their weekend. We're cohesive on nothing save hating everything Trump is doing.

To be honest, I didn't think I'd go. I was about 40-60 against. But the weather was nice, I was going for a walk anyway, might as well head toward something meaningful as the world caves in. Maybe we can shore up part of it.