Iron Snowflake

On the 8th of November, protesters gathered at Tampa City Hall demanding that Isra-Hell free 16 year old Mohammed Ibrahim. Note that there are considerable business links between the Tampa city government and Mayor, and Isra-Hell.

Marchers took the streets, which is not something that is done all that often in Florida due to risks mostly from drivers.

Mohammed Ibrahim was taken hostage by the IOF in February and turned 16 in enemy hands away from his family. He is reported to be in bad shape physically from abuse and neglect and has lost 25% of his body weight. He is in one of Isra-Hell’s worst dungeons, and protesters are demanding he be returned home to his family in FL.

There are a lot of Israeli-backed businesses in Tampa that can be punished if this demand is ignored.

On the 2nd of November, one of the National Disappeared in America/Disappeared in (state the protest held in) protests was held in Tampa, FL. The chosen site was right in front of Tampa Police Department’s headquarters.

Speakers called out Tampa’s Mayor Jane Castor as a Trump collaborator for funding 287(g) while SNAP is cut off and people face starvation-and for terror tactics against people of color as a whole.

Organizations providing speakers included TBISN (Tampa Bay Immigrant Solidarity Network), TIRC (Tampa Immigrant Rights Committee),and TampaSDS.

A silent video shot either from a high pole, a high building, or a drone
has emerged showing DC young people charging the National Guard,
pushing them back, and continuing to advance on them.

Reports have emerged that the National Guard chose to move in on and harass people to force this fight, possibly at DC Mayor Bowser’s orders to cover her no doubt already decided extension of the occupation youth curfew. She is a treacherous collaborator and quisling worth of France’s Vichy head of state Marshall Petain himself

On the 25th of October, protesters showed up on the roadside near Lakeland-Linder International Airport. They were protesting Avelo Airlines, which gets a deep subsidy from Polk County taxpayers-and is flying deportation flights for ICE.

Two counterprotester showed up with the usual Trump crap. One of them was Oath Keeper Benjamin David Schreffler, who has a prior felony conviction yet was open carrying a pistol.

Theme of the entire event was “We the People” no doubt a reference to the menacing political situation in the US for the LGBTQ community.
The lead contingent was in Statue of Liberty drag, presumably symbolizing this. One person carried a sign reading “No Kings only Queens.”

Earlier this year, DeSantis no doubt with the approval of Trump declared war on Orlando’s LGBTQ community with the crusade against rainbow crosswalks and the confrontation over them at Pulse

Corporate contingents were present but not as thick as in prior years, no doubt because Trump punishes corporations for doing anything “DEI” or “woke.” It is not known to me whether the expulsions of kuffiyeh wearing pro-Palestine participants in the Festival were the work of Pride organizers or of the management of Lake Eola. The latter has a known and vicious beef with Palestine protesters.

Riding by No Kings Lakeland as protesters line the street. This is the traffic eye view of the protest

There are quite a few LGBTQ folks in Orlando who support Palestine’s right of self-defense, as all people have the right to defend themselves from aggression, domination, and genocide. We ourselves are facing calls for genocide here from scumbags like FL Governor “DeathSantis,” Texas Governor Abbot, and some of the Christian nationalists pushing Project 2025 and backing Trump.

The Oct 18 Orlando Pride festival unlike the parade was in a closed-off, checkpoint-controlled Lake Eola Park.

At least one person in a kuffiyeh was expelled from the festival by police and others were denied entry. No idea if this is the work of Pride organizers, or the work of Lake Eola’s management. The latter has a known and vicious beef against any and all pro-Palestine activists

Big crowd at Tampa’s No ICE in the Bay/No Kings event

Washington DC—They came by the 10,000s dressed as frogs, unicorns, squirrels, cats, and ordinary citizens. Many wore yellow as a sign of unity and joy while some wore pussy-hats, a throwback to the historic Women’s March held on January 21, 2017. On that day nearly a million stood strong together against Donald Trump’s closed-society agenda, far eclipsing his meekly attended inauguration the day before.

And now in 2025, 8 years later, people power rose to oppose the Trump threat to democracy. The people handily rejected his authoritarian agenda and his chipping and chopping away the republic’s foundations. Institutions had unexpectedly buckled one after another, falling like dominos to his compliance demands issued over the first 9 months of his Project 2025 road map. Law firms, universities, corporations, the press, and the congressional party members of Trump himself had ceded their power and capitulated to the unitary leader. And it was this stunning collective betrayal by nearly every venerable institution that should have remained intact that wakened the people to take action, making them realize that they were the last column standing in the republic

The people arrived by foot walking across bridges, by metro trains, and buses, asserting their right to demonstrate as provided in the First Amendment. They came by the thousands, then ten-thousands, and then more kept arriving. And despite a barrage of earlier labels from MAGA party leaders, they thronged through DC in resolved defiance to assert their power.

And on Saturday October 18, the last column of resistance stood loyally and firmly in place. One could hear and feel the building crescendo of the people as they marched and as their chants and their drum beats echoed from the glass and concrete high rise buildings as they passed. The opposition was led by lines of people carrying “No Kings” and Abolish-ICE banners. Many people dressed in animal costumes to mock a president and his cabinet who had governed like a king with courtiers: the people had their say and they were keenly awake and they had risen to reject his authoritarianism.

And it was a scene repeated in major metropolitan cities across the country—and while a final number of those rallying and marching will not ever be accurately counted, it was estimated to be in the millions. New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, all saw massive protests. Many smaller cities also held rallies. Rallies were also reported worldwide in sympathy for Americans patriotically standing in for the remnants of their republic.

more at

https://dcmediagroup.us/2025/10/18/the-people-rise-at-no-kings-rallies-soundly-reject-trump-road-map/