If you feel so moved, please call to register your objection to the insertion of the sale of federal land in the “big beautiful bill” .

This directly affects us with the sale of federal mountain land. They will ask for name and address. Use your cabin address so they know you are in his voting district.

https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5358034-proposed-sale-of-millions-of-acres-of-public-land-under-gop-budget-bill-prompts-backlash/amp/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLBEqRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiCRV64DwNy_oDCQKyUvPiV7GwLv6CN7EsjbxIzIqS5dX6aoqmar-Oac5FAi_aem_gFSI9Pdjjiq545o73yVqCw

Print and pass out!

Please note MBDC did NOT organize this event, but simply helped get the word out. Kudos to the folks that were brave enough to take action and make this protest happen. They brought bubbles, music, water and snacks. They truly made it safe, empowering and peaceful. We were honored to be a part of the movement and stand up for democracy and human rights. Thank you again to the organizers and kudos to the fabulous success! We support you, whomever you are!

Twice Monthly

PERCEPTIONS AND THOUGHTS DURING BIG BEAR’S “NO KINGS DAY” PROTEST

The paradox of No King’s Day seems both enlightening and terrifying.

Under sunny blue skies with white cumulus clouds and a friendly breeze cooling everyone off,

the crowd of about 550+ in Big Bear City is full of spirit, joy, and good will, as ”resistance

citizens” protesting Trump’s policies, police actions, and military presence, join together

holding signs, calling out chants, sharing water, camp chairs, sandwiches and conversation, while enacting our First Amendment rights to assemble and protest our grievances.

And yet..and yet…

The feelings we share of helplessness and despair, fear, and above all, anger toward the Executive wannabe dictator who has conned, grifted, and lied repeatedly to those masses of citizens who seem unknowingly, for the most part, to recognize his dishonesty and manipulations.

And those citizens, like us, stand on the precipice of fascism through this lover of authoritarianism, living in the White House, citizens now seemingly mentally hypnotized or in some form of rationalizing or denial of his cruel and sadistic thoughts and actions

The paradox, of course, is the incredible contrast within our Homo sapiens species, between

those who believe and practice the collaborative moral precept: ‘Don’t lie, cheat, or steal’, and

those presently in political power in our beautiful country, with their minions and followers who delight with contemptuous glee, as they continue to suck dry, themselves and the American populace of its fundamental rights, supported by media outlets who dissemble openly and outrageously.

Still, with not simply personal hope, but with the fire of Action and the roar of our awakened

crowd, we must continue to Resist and fight so that we may, might, and should Prevail….

And, my take, with a chagrined nod to Nietzsche:

“Trump looked into the Abyss

But the Abyss freaked out and fled;

Trump became the Abyss.

So don’t look too deeply lest you be consumed.”

SM Lovell

2025