Sunday Comments open, 7/19
July 19, 2026
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Daily Dose of Perspective
The image above is the Trifid Nebula, a stellar nursery roughly 5,000 light-years from Earth. The nebula’s signature colors come from three distinct processes happening in the same cloud: the red glow is hydrogen gas ionized by the ultraviolet radiation of young, massive stars, causing it to emit its own light; the blue-teal haze is a reflection nebula, starlight simply scattering off fine dust grains the way our own sky scatters sunlight into blue; and the dark lanes threading through the red region are dense, cold dust so thick that no light escapes it at all — the “trifid,” or three-part, dust lanes that give the nebula its name.
Pro-democracy protest photos
Victory! And Onward!
Yesterday, July 17, Citizens Bank issued a statement that it plans to “exit the credit facilities” for CoreCivic and GEO. Despite all they say in their statement about “business decisions,” we know the truth. This policy shift would not have happened without the determined and organized pressure of this amazing Coalition. Activism matters. We let them, and other corporations, know that people will not stand idly by when their business harms our communities.
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Here are some photos of our Stand Out in Watertown, MA for Good Trouble Lives on and Ice Out. We held a vigil at the end for Lorenzo Slagado Araujo and Johan Sabastian Duran Guerrereo.
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Our Indivisible group staged our message at the entrance to Monte Rio, the tiny town in Sonoma County, Ca. where the Bohemian Grove encampment has met for 130 years. The encampment is where the “Elite Meet To Cheat.”
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Florence Indivisible hosted a good-sized Good Trouble Lives On Rally on July 18 in coastal Oregon. Count us in to stay proudly engaged in protecting elections and pledging to vote in the midterms!!
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Boston Massachusetts Anti-ICE Demonstration.
About a 150 people gathered in the rain, mostly younger people including speakers who were teachers and community leaders and included an advocate whose parents were Haitian immigrants, a MoveOn field operative and Joe Tache, candidate for U.S. Senate from the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
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Vancouver, WA Friday Bannering
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Key Biscayne, FL
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I’m a member of the Beacon for Democracy and we hold weekly 30 minute vigils every Thursday. (part of a nationwide network of peaceful protests
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The following day, Friday 7/17, we held a rally to De-ICE Citizens Bank at their Great Neck, LI branch. Organized by Singing Resistance Great Neck, it was attended by members of The Beacon, Bend the Arc LI, NE Queens Indivisible, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, and the Great Neck Democratic Club. See photo below. This was part of a national coordinated effort by https://www.de-ICECitizensBank.org
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Two shadows of our banners...American flags proudly wave...the love/heart handheld is top notch for encouraging drivers...our captain is being gently misted by her most recent innovation.
Proud moment when we got Primed (resistance comes from many, including their drivers).
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Citizens Bank Campaign Victory in Queensbury NY
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Citizens Bank, July 18, Bronx (Riverdale), NY
As we arrived to protest we learned that the bank has given in - now we must watch and verify!
Citizens Bank, July 18, Bronx (Riverdale), NY
As we arrived to protest we learned that the bank has given in - now we must watch and verify!
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Photos from the Rally for Democracy, July 18, 2026. Folks can join the rally every Saturday from 1-2 in front of the Mount Kisco Town Hall. The YT channel is https://www.youtube.com/@RallyforDemocracy
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New London, NH. This is our small every Friday demo on Main Street from 2:00-4:00. Sometimes we are five people sometimes twelve. Few of us knew each other until this little vigil began back in October. We were here all through the winter standing on the snow. We have become a close little resistance community.
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Los Angeles, CA: Tropical Meme Society was out in force today!
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Kansas City, MO Mill Creek Park. July 18, 2026. Rescue Democracy every Saturday 12-2
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In honor of your hopeful message about voting by wide margins!
Good Trouble Rally, Indivisible Clackamas - Happy Valley, OR
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This weekly standout, from 12noon until 2pm, is in front of the Pride gas station in Hadley, MA. It was started over a year ago and gathers an average of 25 devoted protestors; not one week has been missed, even through rain, snow, sleet or heat. Free constitutions are handed out to cars stopped at the light.
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Petaluma, CA Petaluma Indivisible downtown action Saturday 7/18
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Lyons, CO July 18, 2026
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Here are pics from Novato, CA, We the People Novato Saturday 7/18
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If we got the largest ever crowd, on a threatening rainy day, does that mean there’s more to protest than ever before, or we’re getting our message out successfully, or both? It was the group’s consensus to stage a photo in front of the conveniently located “Urgent Care” facility’s signage, as we all agree on the urgent need for the healing of our country’s condition!
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Nevada County Indivisible Protest, Grass Valley, CA, July 18, 2026
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Brea, CA Good Trouble Lives On 7/17/2026
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These are from Concord MA where we celebrated today that Citizens Bank has said they will stop financing companies running ICE detention centers.
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Our group meets every Saturday morning from 10 - 11 in East Longmeadow, Ma., a small dot of red in a sea of Massachusetts Blue
We started this in May of 2025 and we line both sides of the street - anywhere from a dozen to almost 50 people.
These days, it’s a lot more honks and waves than middle fingers.
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From Daytona Beach on Sat July 17th!
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Some residents of Kendal at Hanover, NH, a CCRC (Continuing Care Retirement Community) have been protesting for more than a year every Saturday morning for an hour at 10:30 am. The youngest of this group is in her 70s; the oldest is 91. We come on foot, on walkers, wheelchairs, and occasionally accompanied by our children and grandchildren. We’re seeing more waves and thumbs up, and hearing more beeps than when we started. Extended third fingers have diminished.
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Indivisible Northampton, MA, stands out to sign people up for election rapid response. We need to be ready!
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American Tobacco Trail pedestrian bridge over I-40, Durham NC
We were one of 14 bridges across the Triangle. Today’s bridges were a part of Good Trouble Lives On weekend.
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We’re here every Saturday in Westbrook and now our focus is on defeating Collins. Many more waves, thumbs up and honks than middle fingers. Many say thanks for standing up, so I know we give courage to others - onwards!
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Greenville, SC. This group, Tell them Tuesdays, has been protesting for 10 years!
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From Vienna, VA
The pictures are always heartening and impressive. So many groups. So many citizens. So much joy in protest of so much evil.
The pictures of stars far, far away remind us of our inconsequence to the galaxy at large.
Thank-you Robert
Thank you for your message on Saturday regarding the constant drumbeat of misinformation, incomplete information and fear mongering coming from the mainstream press in particular. As one who grew up listening to Walter Cronkite and trusting in a free press, it is difficult to grasp the demise of so many institutions.
This is indeed psychological warfare. It is meant to overwhelm even the most reasonable, logical and consistent resistor. It is exhausting and it is important to assert that this is not reality.
The reminder that you gave is needed and must be repeated continually. It is too easy to fall victim to the lies created deliberately and punctuated by a daily stream of violence and threats. I have named it, “The Daily Sh-t Show.”