#no surrender

[aaronstveit]

And hear your sister's voice calling us home Across the open yards Well, maybe we'll cut someplace of our own With these drums and these guitars...

NO SURRENDER TORONTO, 1984

[b0nniesguitar]

quick baby pietro doodle based on that one no surrender panel. i think he would've kept the kitten, big fan of animal lover pietro.

[spiritundaunted]

Just Bertie, handsoming up the place...

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

No Kings Day 3.0

March 28, 2026

No Kings Day 3.0

March 28, 2026

Robert B. Hubbell

I will not host a livestream on Saturday due to No Kings Day 3.0.

Instead, I have attached a video below with my thoughts on where we stand in our defense of democracy as of March 28, 2026.

House Republicans revolt, will not bring Senate TSA compromise to floor for vote

Republicans are in disarray. Senate Republicans agreed to a Democratic proposal to fund TSA (but not ICE or CBP). After Republicans approved the compromise on a “unanimous consent” motion, GOP Senators fled Washington for a two-week recess.

Furious House Republicans refused to bring the Senate bill to the floor for a vote, and substituted a “continuing resolution” for all DHS funding—a bill that Chuck Schumer said was “DOA” in the Senate.

Given that Senate Republicans have departed D.C., it looks like there will be no legislative solution to the DHS shutdown for several weeks, at least.

Republicans are the governing party. Their inability to fund the Department of Homeland Security during an illegal war against Iran is problematic.

But there is no problem that Trump cannot solve by violating the Constitution. On Friday, he issued a “Presidential Memorandum” that instructed DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to pay TSA agents by using funds with “a reasonable and logical nexus to TSA operations.” That test is a legal fiction for which Trump offers no authority.

The only legal authority cited in the memo, 31 USC 1301(a), prohibits the use of funds for purposes not included in the appropriations legislation. Section 1301(a) provides, in part, “Appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made.”

Neither § 1301 nor caselaw articulates a “reasonable and logical nexus” test cited in Trump’s memorandum as justification for diverting DHS operating funds to TSA salaries. The Antideficiency Act, 31 U.S.C. § 1341(a)(1), says no person may “make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding an amount available in an appropriation or fund for the expenditure or obligation.” It is a felony to willfully spend money not appropriated by Congress. 31 USC 1350.

What does this mean? It probably means that Trump will illegally pay TSA salaries with DHS operating funds. Doing so sets a dangerous precedent. Trump could apply the same rationale to fund ICE and CBP, while circumventing demands by congressional Democrats for reforms at both agencies.

The illegality of Trump’s move to pay TSA agents is receiving almost no commentary in the mainstream press because it is unlikely that anyone will sue or, if they do, that they will have standing to enforce the Antideficiency Act. But the fact that a statute is difficult to enforce does not mean that we should ignore Trump’s unlawful actions. Doing so encourages him to engage in unlawful behavior in the future.

Marco Rubio seems to concede that Iran will control the Strait of Hormuz indefinitely

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo highlighted the fact that Secretary of State Marco Rubio told G7 members that Iran is likely to control the Strait of Hormuz indefinitely. See Talking Points Memo, Rubio: Iran May Own The Strait Now, And That’s a Huge Bummer.

If it is true that the result of Trump’s illegal war against Iran is to install Iran as the de facto landlord and toll collector, Trump’s war would be an unmitigated disaster. As Marshall wrote, “There’s really no way to describe this other than conceding that Iran will emerge from the war massively strengthened.”

Per TPM, Rubio said,

I did describe to our allies, however, that immediately after this thing ends, and we’re done with our objectives, the immediate challenge we’re going to face is an Iran that may decide that they want to set up a tolling system in the Strait of Hormuz. Not only is this illegal, it’s unacceptable, it’s dangerous for the world. And it’s important that the world have a plan to confront it.

Uh, say what? “[T]hat the world have a plan to confront” Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz? It sounds like Rubio is assuming the US will end its war against Iran without reestablishing the Strait of Hormuz as an international waterway. That would be bad. Very bad.

Concluding Thoughts

As you protest tomorrow, you are following in the footsteps of civil rights marchers, suffragettes, LGBTQ activists, anti-war protestors of the 1960s, American colonists, union workers, farmers, factory workers, and moms and dads who exemplified courage and persistence.

Our nation is calling us in its time of need. We must respond to that call, we must reclaim democracy by making it our own, as every generation before us has done and every generation following us must do. Democracy is the act of transmitting justice, liberty, and equality from one generation to the next. Ours must not be the generation that falters.

The tens of millions of Americans who will protest on No Kings Day 3.0 fill me with confidence, hope, and anticipation about the necess

We are winning. We are on the right path. Ultimate victory will not be easy, and things may get worse before they get better, but they will get better—so long as we do not quit!

It is an honor to be by your side in this struggle to preserve democracy.

Be safe and stay strong, everyone. I will talk to you tomorrow!

[alephskoteinos]

I now have a quandary. On the one hand I want to eventually leave the UK and live somewhere else, and doing that means I need a lot more money than I have. On the other hand, I feel like I've got to escape the world of work at some point. I'm not about to be fired. But me breaking the manager has had some effect. I had talks with other people and decided in advance not to bullshit them, and just tell them I like being insubordinate and that I don't want that lost in the good life. But that also means people tell me to watch out.

People don't like to employ people willing to assert themselves too much, maybe to the point that they occasionally bite the hand that feeds them, and don't fart perfume and glitter on command. But that makes me wonder what's gonna happen if I don't find a way to not need to be paid by assholes. I don't want to get to a point where I repress for the rest of my life. To me that's defeat, and I'll say it, a dishonourable kind of defeat. I don't ever want to get to a point where I've struggled and done the grind only to end up exactly like the kind of people I hate. It's been my point back before college and it's still my point now even if it's more difficult when you're an employed adult. The only way for me is to keep fighting until I find another way, a permanent exit strategy from labour.

I must live sword in hand.

[soisaidfine]

Bruce Springsteen live in Canada: No surrender. F*ck you Donald Trump ☠️

'With a wide open country in my eyes And these romantic dreams in my head 'Cause once we made a promise we swore we'd always remember No retreat, baby, no surrender'

Bruce Springsteen: No Surrender - Live at CNE Grandstand, Toronto, ON, Canada (07/26/1984)

Ethel Cain to Donald Trump Voters: ‘I Hope That Peace Never Finds You. You have to live the rest of your life with the knowledge and guilt of who you are."

[itsmythang]

NY AG Letitia James: "I'm a proud woman of faith, and I know that faith and fear cannot share the same space. And so today I'm not fearful... ...I'm fearless."

Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops, Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you? Don’t you take it awful hard ‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I’ve got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise