#maewestside

I’m praying for them, you know. All of them. Not between gritted teeth but with a grace I’ve learned from spiritual allies. I pause to grace, close my eyes and send healing thoughts into the universe, praying those perpetrating crimes against humanity are relieved of their spiritual maladies. The RNC was hacked and the files are holding pols hostage. At some point, they’ll have to do what’s right. I pray it’s soon.

In the meantime, I’ve been studying how a dictator comes to power, and I’ve mapped it out in Five Easy Steps so we can all recognize the signs:

1. “LYING IS THE MESSAGE”: While reading David Frum’s brilliant and prescient essay in The Atlantic from January 30, 2017, in which he predicts what America will look like in 2021 in stunning detail if we do not resist, he quotes a Russian journalist named Masha Gessen. Gessen notes that “lying is the message,” and by that she means when a dictator lies with the ease of breathing it’s to “assert power over truth.” The first lesson I learned in 2016 from a member of the Resistance who grew up in Romania: “It starts with the silencing of truth.” Today, as each Network gave “Trumputin” facetime, we witnessed the blather of nothing. As Gessen told Deutsche Welle regarding Putin, “the former spy has remained in the Kremlin despite a declining economy, diplomatic isolation and nearly continuous allegations of corruption and human rights abuses because of his ability to ‘have words mean nothing. He just keeps talking… it’s meant to create the impression that he knows what he’s talking about. But it’s also meant to drown you in meaningless stuff.’” Hmm.

Read the David Frum “Atlantic” article here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/

2. DISINFORMATION HIGHWAY: Now that we’ve established those with authoritarian leanings have no trouble lying about everything, the next step is to ensure the lies are amplified by the Disinformation Highway. A dictator utilizes multiple fronts to amplify lies: botnets, State News agencies, paid flacks and political loyalists/opportunists/consultants. There’s a lot of money in lies: as cognitive thinkers spend hours researching and refuting the lies, those on the corruption payola keep up the “theatre craft,” the tornado that creates the fog and the fury so beautifully described by Mike Mariani in Vanity Fair. Lying is a soulless gig. The truth always prevails eventually, but havoc is wreaked in the meantime.

To learn how the Kremlin creates chaos and to see if you can spot some right here at home, check out Mike Mariani’s Vanity Fair essay:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/is-trumps-chaos-a-move-from-the-kremlins-playbook

3. POWER GRAB: As the lies, subterfuge and the hacks on State News chip away at truth, bite by bite, and the Disinformation Highway piles up with bumper-car bots, riding roughshod over facts, what is really taking place is the consolidation of power. While cognitive thinkers cry foul, unqualified, but extremely loyal henchman are being installed into power at the highest levels. Dictators rush to replace talent and integrity with toadies and sycophants, who share in common a history of shade but offer their leaders the assurance they’ll do their bidding at any cost. When one’s moral compass is already blinky, what’s another three, four acts of corruption. Pockets will be lined, and thus, the corrupted are banking on a soft landing. That is until, the dictators turn on them and then it’s flee or plea.

4. MAFIA STATE: When a government is comprised of members of organized crime that’s what’s known as “a mafia state.” In America, we haven’t been immune to corruption, but it’s always been countered by the fact that, ultimately, we are a country of law and order. But when a leader is cultivated, financed and backed by the mob, it gets sticky. As we watch Special Counsel Mueller and his team of prosecutors navigate their way carefully, indictment by indictment, guilty plea by guilty plea, to take down a global crime syndicate, we see how naïve America has been in thinking it couldn’t happen here. We are watching our allies being alienated and dictators being praised. This is what a mafia state looks like. When a leader casts shade on our top intelligence agencies, that’s the markings of a dictator, shaping a mafia state.

For more on how it’s done, read this Deutsche Welle explainer: https://www.dw.com/en/vladimir-putin-how-a-spy-rose-to-power-and-held-on-to-it/a-43030900

5. VOTER TAMPERING: Dictators need to control all outcomes and this includes the voting systems. A dictator ensures victory at the ballot box in myriad ways: intimidation, stuffing the ballot box, voter suppression, hacking voter rolls, redistricting, hacking electronic voting databases, hacking the machines, and using bot networks to blast voters with so much false information that they will either stay home or vote for the dictator who paid hackers to advertise directly to a voter’s preconceived biases. Cognitive thinkers know about the data breaches, but we still are at the early stages of understanding just how much this digital arms race, to quote digital activist Professor David Carroll, is harming Democracy everywhere. Stay vigilant, read the latest indictment from Team Mueller and know that if we show up in gigantic numbers at the polls, we may yet have a chance to salvage Democracy. 

Ohm.

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Heidi Siegmund Cuda is an investigative producer, mother and activist. Her short film, “Rigged,” debuted at the 2017 Orcas Island Film Festival: http://www.orcasfilmfest.com/rigged

I’ll never forget the day Anna Nicole Smith gave up the ghost. It was February sweeps of 2007, and for #BIGNEW$ it was manna from heaven. The lovely trainwreck that was Ms. Smith was milked 24/7, with wall to wall coverage in all her boosomy glory. She was such a dish that the syndicated boy$ and girl$ trotted out her remains all the way through the holidays.

Beautiful trainwrecks are always ratings juggernauts, and they gave her facetime day after day to ensure hefty end of year bonuse$. Any time ratings sag, they go for the low-hanging fruit: jon benet (tragically, still dead); the kkk (tragically, still there); and casting shade on Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a full-time industry of the modern #gop. Even today, there’s some obscure twerp in bumf*&k who only gets ample FaceTime on #BIGNEW$ because he continues ye ol’ black widow routine on #HRC. A gag that started in an op/ed piece titled “Blizzard of Lies,” when a Nixon speechwriter got his facts wrong in the New York Times in ‘96, and no one called him out. 

Let me be clear when I say I have no respect for the modern #gop, because my #gop mentors wouldn’t suck up to the pageant queen. They would be strategically figgering out how to stabilize the union so their wives would sleep with them again. Or husbands.

They would have walked beside John Kerry and his dog at the Women’s March on Washington.

By the by, I am making a short film on the March, because when you have love in your heart, you don’t need much else. I was able to document the Women’s March on Washington because my mentors felt there might be some value in sending a news veteran there not currently shackled by a corporation. They supported a purveyor of truth in the eye of the Love Hurricane that didn’t have a foodchain attached to it. 

Voila. 

As I was seated on the plane with all the other pink-hatted enthusiasts, I was besieged with text messages warning me about danger from across the various ponds from those still tuning into FEAR TV. I gleaned from what I was reading that some thought we were marching with the baby killers and castrators. Whatevs. I haven’t watched a moving screen with a multitude of dizzying banners willingly since I exited stage right. Seated next to me was director/activist Dave Ambrose, who slipped me a dvd copy of the Greg Palast expose, “The Best Money Democracy Can Buy.” (I promised to watch it on my mini DVD player after I finished my study of Bette Davis in 1935′s “Dangerous,” where she performs Shakespeare ‘drunk,’ thus winning her first Oscar.)

Thanks to the generous support of some badass punk rockers, reformers, artists, and activists, a girl like I was able to be on that plane and present at The Revolution on behalf of #freepress. 

I was blessed to be teamed with a Veteran of the Fourth Estate as my running mate, producer/videographer Doug Ross. With a modified rig and a gopro strapped to my chest, it was veni, vidi, vici baby. We came, we saw and we conquered corporate controlled media.

#Freepress is slicing through the pre$cripted narrative and gumming up the works with a surgical precision that could only come with decades of #BIGNEW$ expertise and the kindness of strangers who repurpose my work on twitter. 

No small feat when you consider the enormity of the money chain we’re disrupting. Each initial headline I read by #BIGNEW$ about the March confirmed that they’d missed the point entirely. A real revolution was taking place, while they were still showing reruns of the pageant guy carny. It was just as well. 

The entire world united in love to show solidarity to those marginalized by the Billionaire Boys Club that scripts the #BIGNEW$ narratives, so it would make sense they didn’t get the memo. (As people argue one station is better than another, I remind them when a half dozen multinationals own most of the media, and billionaires own the rest, whose truth are you getting? )

As I flew into DC on the second plane I’d hitched to get to the March around midnight Friday (I didn’t care to make any appearances during the day on Friday. You could catch a carny act like that any night for a five spot and a pulse), unfortunately a moving TV image caught my eye. 

Because I suffer from Post Traumatic New$ Syndrome, I can’t watch tv but as I deplaned late Friday, I was assaulted by a headline in the airport, which referred to the Slovene as our first lady. Waterworks ensued, and I went into a brief emotional tailspin, but recovered almost as quickly, as I saw a fellow marcher in a full body catsuit and platform combat boots. (As an aside, please send the Slovene light. She needs this country’s kindness right now. This mess wasn’t her idea.)

As my crew and I met up the next morning to stroll among the million women who marched, we also danced and shimmied with the men who love women, and elderly men, and babies in strollers, and women who flew in from Sweden and Australia and Ann Arbor. 

Yes, a salty 100-year-old gal from Ann Arbor offered #freepress this sage advice: Ms. Mary Parker says women have come very far (she should know, she made her appearance here on earth three years before voting was legal for women). But she admonished, we still have very far to go and the way to get there is through hard work. 

Ms. Parker herself is no longer able to walk. So she rolled.

As I enveloped my soul in that sea of unbridled love, intentionally interviewing women of a certain age for their wisdom, we spotted two little women from New York. They were standing on a wall, with a captivated crowd, singing: “When I say ‘girl,’ you say ‘power.’ Girl! Power!” I watched them go through it a few times till they’d exhausted themselves. And even though you’re not supposed to stage in the field, the spirit of Bette Davis knocked me out of the director’s seat and in her Yankee voice, I heard myself saying, “Okay girls, now once more from the diaphragm!” With the poise of two mini queens, they sucked in some air, and let it howl. Doug Ross got it on wax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfFp5xqCl5w

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Author Heidi Siegmund Cuda followed the advice of her muses and wrote her own narrative. Below, Mary Parker and her daughter, at the Washington Monument, Women’s March on Washington, January 21, 2017).

I once asked a tv reporter in a local market how she handled the sturm und drang of the nightly gore. She said, “Beats being the guy with the machete in his head.”

Point. Well. Taken.

Bleading meant leading, til that one fateful day, the sales guys who’d taken over the front office determined vapidity sold better in the 18 to 49 demo$ than even the quadruple axe murder bits, and by then, new$ had already lost its way. Truth wasn’t factored into the rating$.

LIVE. SHOTS. FIRED.

A famed erstwhile entertainment reporter said she knew there was trouble afoot when each night, she had the lead story in a local hourlong newscast. During sweeps.

As live shots at death scenes and backlots became normcore, and the procession of vapidity, with occasional interludes of gore, is what passed for news, brains suffer dry rot.

So here we are.

MEAN STREETS

While admiring the dewy mug of a very young Harvey Keitel in “Mean Streets,” his enlightened thuggy character Charlie utters these words: “You don’t f**k around with the infinite.”

Do you hear that Scamalot? That’s the thunderous gallop of karma approaching, catching up to each and every player that figgered he could game the system with impunity, while the Great Unwashed was none the wiser. Chaaa.

With the outing of each pervy anchorhack, a Very Vichy MSM, and digital CEO$ who bent over to the pick up the rubles from enemie$ both foreign and domestic while profiting off the mining of our data, things are looking clearer.

Not.

Time keeps on slipping… slipping… slipping… Kochdrip… drip… drip… drip. The Un-Mercer-ful bot and weaponized our data… Churchy Stinklair is buying more local tv new$. Our media is owned by churchy billionaire misanthrope$ and run by corporations.

REAL FAKE NEW$

But let’s make no mistake about it: when Scamalot cries “Fake”… that’s on a whole notha level.

Fringe Media still flatters the Real Fake President because it’s owned and operated by those who installed him as a pukey puppet #burpfarthurl. Fux und Blackbart profited bigly off the ascent of Dummkopf45, but alas, so did the rest of the media which is why it’s swi$hy. Sometimes excellent, but mostly shit. Money vs Truth… a conumdrum.

EACH DAY I WAKE UP DROWNIN’

Having spent the holiday weekend mining the brains of intellectuals, activists and good cooks to combat the blues of our country’s Current State of Fuckery, I’ve comprised a list of Ten Things that may help those who wake up to this shite each day and feel like they’re drowning, i.e., sensitive to the crushing enormity of the labor of Democracy as real fake new$ pounds our shores, while Really Bad Men (and a Few Ponzi Women) disrupt all that is good about our country to line their own pocket$ and the pocket$ of those who put them in power #sad pffft.

TEN THINGS TO PONDER AS YOU BATTLE THE KLEPTOCRACY IDIOCRACY:

1. BACK TO THE FUTURE How to End the Oil + War Economy Now and Clean Up Our Air in About 100 Years: Use Fossil Fuel exclusively for commercial air travel. We’ve known how crushing greenhouse gases are on our environment for decades but we’ve allowed penny loafered lobbyists paid for by Big Oil a seat at the science table. Enough.

2. ELECTRIC AVENUE In two decades, electric cars will be normcore. Start now. Working from home and/or giving up your wheels best thing you can do for the environment; monitoring your own carbon footprint, big step.

3. SEEK REAL NEWS Until the Fourth Estate is Truly Unshackled to Do Good Work Always, Rather Than Just Spotty Sometimes, learn who owns your news outlets. For example, the Guardian is an excellent source for American news (it’s run by a trust and doesn’t need to run truth past the sales dept) and follow our twitter crew at @foxycuda and @tahoesquaw1… while Tahoe curates the critical news from around the world and finds the truth within Vichym MSM, I try to explain its import in verbiage suitable for a postmod CyberRevo. (Thus the comparisons to Charles Dickens and Hunter S. Thompson, for which I am grateful, but also blame Anita Loos, Dorothy Parker and Lenny Bruce for illiciting my pen-to-jugular style.) We are at war for truth and that requires wit in the form of better catchphrases i.e. #treasonsgreetings

4. WE ARE THE SANE MAJORITY We, the Sane Majority, are constantly told our countrymen and women are devolving into apey, when in fact, the Sane Majority is kind, and da small base comprised of the greedy, the churchy, and those who haven’t gotten off their block of un-opportunity. Those numbers are shrinky dinking as truth grows from the concrete street art. But you wouldn’t know cuz it Vichy MSM is still writing puffpieces on Not-Zees and the various Thug$ of Scamalot, while terrifying us with continual closeups of dictators, including our own. Move along. Or just join the Fringe Apey and watch the reboot of “Jersey Shore” as your Democracy burns and more journos die globally whilst trying to warn us of fascism #sad pffft… a better idea: flip the House in 2018 and #nullify45.

5. MAFIA STATE OF MIND Thank you to Tahoesquaw1, who wouldn’t rest until she knew I watched all three Zembla docs on the Fuckery of Dummkopf45 (“The Dangerous Friends of Donald Trump”), and a new doc on the radiation poisoning of UK citizen Alexander Litvinenko (”Hunting the KGB Killers”), whose dying image serves as a reminder that radiation sandwiches are coming if we don’t speak truth to power collectively. I feel compelled to be among the twactivists that remind the kindly people who are being brainwashed by Fux und Blackbart und Churchy Stincklair, that dictator$ and anchorhack$ aren’t our friends. We are combatting evil in the form of well-OIL-ed infotainment amplified by Bots preprogrammed by enemies both foreign and domestic, and it’s leading to a major identity crisis of the churchy, who give pederasts a pass if it serves their tax bracket or real fake narrative. Peel it back and seek the truth. Eyes wide open. 

6. SING TOGETHER Who among you doesn’t have a brazen friend with a guitar? I joined Artivists LA and activist Samuel Curtis for some Resistance Caroling on Black Friday in Santa Monica, and the song we sang “We Shall Not Be Moved,” is still on heavy rotation in my mind, soothing me hourly as I recall revolutions of my youth sparked by peaceful music. Resistance Caroling is good for the soul. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX7OW2MJRO0&t=10s

7. BE HAPPY Although many of us haven’t felt joy due to the deranged Pageant Owner in the White House and his sub par toadie$, it’s our duty to manage self care during this time, and that means doing things that bring you some semblance of happiness. I interviewed Dr. David Reiss, one of the 27 mental health experts who authored “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” and he said it’s imperative we manage self-care during these dark days and to never lose site of truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5XGeJ5Y8UI&t=26s

8. BREATHE Please be patient with humanity and remember everybody hurts, sometimes. As battle fatigue sets in for those who can’t believe a Pageant Owner Mobster is still our Real Fake President, despite how much factual information on the corruption from within we spit daily, it takes its toll on fractured nerves. If we divide troops now, we lose. We are the Sane Majority, and we will only win if we invite everyone to the party and keep them there. Even the glory hunters. Practice humility daily and realize those who don’t get it now, will eventually.

9. MOTHER EARTH Give us the keys. Y’all fukcin shit up. Imperative, we mandate the Nosferatu Cabinet of Scamalot to wear branding patches on their sleeves: #bigoil #bigtobacco #bigprison #nra #churchyfuckery #botbymercer #botbykoch #rupertscurvy etc. We can’t allow denier creeper$ to ruin our fragile environmental protections and continue to embarrass us on an international level. We already fought for these protections. GOP becoming the official doosh party poopers of the environment ramped up recently, as billionaires bot lobbyists to run interference on truth using God’s name so they could get one last $wig off the Oil + War economies. (See number one.) Use the system to get Scott Pruitt out of our EPA where he does not belong. And further, use the system to oust all the Real Fake President’s cozyboy$, aka war mongering pals thirsting for arms deal$. Old paradigm dies hard but it’s time.

10. BE DISGUSTED I was horrified to learn by a gal whose grandfather was stiffed by Trump, that many of her peers just think the Meinshit Show is funny. Ya, it’s a “Pussy” riot. Our Real Fake President cozie$ up to his dictator pal$ who kill, incarcerate, poison, torture or have people killed because they can. Go ahead, please remain comfortably numb while waiting for the door knock. Me? I’m gonna remain disgusted so I can continue fighting. Even for those who don’t get it. Especially them.

(Below, the author in Laguna Beach Nov. 2, 2016; last photo before the election. She wants her happiness back.)

Because the things that Americans need as they sift through the debacle of Scamalot… clarity, truth… cannot easily be found in Vichy MSM, an unshackled gal like I must help clarify the narrative. When you’ve worked in corporate telly and print, you know the racket. Sometimes you’ll get some truth, and often you get the mandate from the billionare$ who sign the checks. Ergo, there’s no checks and balances on truth in reporting, so it’s difficult to find it anywhere consistently. Truth in corporate controlled media is like the rose that grows from the concrete. Cherish it.

Even the most noblest of things you see on TV are sponsored by greedcreeper$ who are cyberbombing the world with info-lie$ adjusted to ensure a winning portfolio. 

But as the rotating doors of Scamalot’s very own Stoolie$ reminds we truthseekers that THIS IS NOT NORMAL, I figgered, just as I gave you a character timeline of “Silent Bob” Mueller vs the Mob Carny, aka the “Diarrhea Tweeta,” I felt it was important for someone from #freepress to step up and count the “Fade Outs” lulz, those fired or who resigned from working with the Worst Thing That’s Ever Happened to Our Country and Certainly the Most Déclassé: the Real Fake President aka #Bot45, a full-on mental ca$e. 

So here goes, a writer who ain’t a mathemagician attempts the arithmetic of a Real Fake President who can’t control his staff lulz:

THE FADE OUTS, in order of their last appearance:

Tom Price, House and Human Services lulz… quit in di$grace

Sebastian Gorka, WH Counterterrorism Advisor lulz… re$igned

Andrew Hemming, Rapid Response Director lulz, who was tasked with peddling positive news stories to both media and #Bot45 #sad… resigned

Carl Icahn, Special Advisor… recu$ed hisself

Steve Bannon, WH Chief Strategi$t lulz… depend$ who you a$k or read, but hi$ removal put him outsky on his own tripsky, still funded by #mercercreeper and the queens of “glittering steel” lulz and getting lots of facetime on #vichymsm as loose gravel everywhere

Anthony Scarymucci, WH Communications Director… fired #burpfarthurl

Reince Priebus, WH Chief of $taffz lulz… fired lulz

Michael Short, Asst. Press Secretary… resigned

Sean $picer, WH Press Secretary… resigned lulz #burpfart

Michael Dubke, WH Communiations Director… resigned

James Comey, Director of the FBI… fired not lulz… very serious shit

Angella Reid, WH Chief Usher… “dismissed” not lulz… #trulysad

KT McFarland, Deputy National Security Advisor… reassigned lulz

Katie Walsh, Deputy Chief of Staff… dismissed? repurposed? after health care fail

Preet Bharara, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York… fired not lulz 

Craig Deare, National Security Council Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs… fired not lulz… (an example of the vainglorious #mental45 inability to not be fawned over relentlessly i.e., “kiss the ring, bitch”)

Michael Flynn, National Security Advisor lulz not lulz… #treasonweasel

Sally Yates, #shero, United States Deputy Attorney General… fired resulting in a promotion into the hearts of the American public

Patrick Kennedy, Under Secretary of State for MGMT… quit #word

Now gentle reader, this is only a fraction of reality: the night I arrived in Washington, DC, to partake in the Women’s March, I was hosted by a gent who had resigned his position in our government that evening and shook the hand of the gentleman who had hired him, President Barack Obama, on the way out the door.

My host, like many, had no intention to ever work under a Real False President, a man of such staggering inelegance whose staggering track record of failure and mobponzi-ne$$ was downplayed so profoundly by Vichy MSM which was profiting so tremendously off his rise… but I digress (stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before; and it’s not too late to sign my #cybertreason @moveon petition https://twitter.com/foxycuda/status/854824622901960704).

As we await the next resignation, firing, scandal or whatevs to oust SessionsCreeper, PruitCreeper, ConwayCreeper, the Golden Doo$h and of course the Diarrhea Tweeta hisself, we also want to remind everyone that we prolly won’t remember the names of those who bailed on #Bot45 early, but the stench of collaborator$ will last long after impeachment.

Gee, I’m guessing a few of my millionaire pals are wishing they’d listened to their only real friend in the media when I cautioned them a year ago to not take the call, the filthy lucre or the facetime.

Kliegeye is a permanent condition when the spotlight becomes an interrogation light.

#word

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Emmy award-winning investigative reporter Heidi Siegmund Cuda’s latest film, “Rigged: A Tail of Corruption,” makes it big screen debut at the Orcas Island Film Festival, which takes place the weekend of Oct. 6-9. Cuda is one of three directors who won a grant to make a short film on the San Juan Islands. You can view her film, “RIGGED,” here: http://www.orcasfilmfest.com/rigged/

Cuda believes the world is being misrepresented by vichy media, which is inflaming hate for profit, when most of this world is beautiful and people love each other and this uptick in misery we are seeing is a for-profit stew that’s now metastasizing. 

I like being the shawty of my crew: they’re six feet high and rising. 

Big brains, moxie, bravery, ne’er say ne’er spirit, and a down for whateva tude. Just when I need it the most. Reinforcements. We are bonded by our not-so-secret love of some six-feet-under goppers as well as some modern dems, flawed characters sure, but men and women who taught us much about how to survive in what is still apparently a man’s world.

But truly what we gals have in common is we allow the walls to collapse into us but just momentarily before breathing, flipping the script, cueing up James Brown, “This Is A Man’s World,” and then reminding ourselves not only of all the sisters we have on speed dial but of the men who support us. We are not alone as we soldier on, assuming the heavy load of democracy on our backs, because we knew it would not be easy, because it is never easy.

NATHIN WITHOUT A WOMAN

As we unite forces, the brainy broads with love in their hearts and warrior spirits, and the men who are bringing us not only their a-game of excellence, CEOS, PhDs, White Hats, Vets (of thee we sing), all that and a bag of gifs, all parties, but mostly the party of love. Knowledge. Kindness. More love, more knowledge, kindness, candles along clandestine alleys, Romanians, Ukrainians, Bosnians, Hungarians, invite us to follow them… as they show the horrors of the recent past so we won’t be fooled again. 

We must believe in things we cannot see.

Shit’s real, friends. 

Are we going to be Good Germans now, or are we going to be Americans, who must only look up from their televisions to see all the friends we have across the universe rooting for us to look up from our televisions. The sky is falling. It fell on your laptop, it fell on your news, it crushed the truth for filthy lucre.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

Truth seekers are standing up, getting on twitter, wearing their love and unity on their sleeves, putting past squabbles behind because nothing is more important than saving democracy right now. And one of our brainy glamazon esq’s says, “No distractions. Fraudsters will lead you down 100 rabbit holes. Only two focuses: Mueller investigation and Congressional investigation.” #word 

So please as we focus on sending light to Bob Mueller… unite, march and don’t be timid on behalf of truth. Join the Bravehearts of the Resistance, you’ll make new friends. We march globally to impeach July 2 (impeachmentmarch.org).

TERMI-NADIR

We’ve descended to the bottom. It’s no longer a reality show, you don’t vote for the guy cuz he was on tv. You turn that shit off, put your nose in books, and move on with your life. Say hello to your neighbor, and stop buying into fear to sell you meds to combat that fear. Please turn off those still suffering the visible scourge$ of #rupertscurvy and #zuckerpunches. 

Please stop #sleepingwiththetvenemy.

NOT-ZZZZS

I’ll tell you a true story. Cuppla years into W’s war, ratings were sagging and I was told to find some not-zzzzs. Being punk adjacent that ain’t no thing. I made a call and found the smartest one I could find. I believe in giving everyone their best shot. So the smartest one I could find told me, “Hey, I just want to give out scholarships to white kids. There are scholarships for other races, and I feel it’s my right.”

Hmm. 

I went back into the office and said, “So there’s a show this weekend, buncha misanthropes and brigands, yeah, ‘Punkvoter,’ buncha carnies…”

https://maewestside.tumblr.com/post/153932938156/slumlord-billionaires-and-other-tales-of

And so instead of delivering not-zzzzs, who will always be there in times of a ratings sag to inject fear and nonsense, I put the camera on something meaningful, Punkvoters who were rocking against W & the War. Thus I assisted my fellow Americans to feel safer about protesting a war of questionable merit. Score one for democracy.

ANARCHY IN THE U.S.A.

Ice T taught me we are here for each other, to work within the system to help each other get a leg up. When the system is kaput, anarchy ensues, and the crew of brainiacs I role with are really trying to save this country with a knowledge swap live on twitter cuz free press has no ownership. Among the innumerable cosmic things we have in common is a deep knowledge of #thuglife. 

Buncha dogooders.

Together we rise.

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Author Heidi Siegmund Cuda was just honored with a film grant to make a movie on her favorite island. She is humbled by the goodness and kindness of people she has met through the resistance, #bravehearts all.

A star shines #acrosstheuniverse

With light which is uniquely hers

Vast swathes of space and time traversed

Until her light meets you

Gazing happenstance a while

She meets your eyes your mind your smile

And rests there gently for a while

Her light belongs to you

For some an unknown personal meaning

Captures their hearts their mind their feelings

Which resonates sets pulses reeling

Because her light meets you

Like voices in a social force

Eviscerating those averse

To standing up against the worst

Her light will shine on truth

Receptive eyes and heart and soul

An openness to one and all

The 'power of love' choose to extoll

Her light is within you 

For those that have desire to see

From this perspective certainly

We are just one humanity

Her light resides in you

Now let us here a truth observe

This 'gentle twinkling' is converse

Great power there is in reserve

Her light shines on through you

True there is no recompen$e

No shiny thirty silver cents

For those who seek $ignificance

Her light is not for you

She therefore has no value see

To corporations GOP

And still she shines across the sea

Of ignorance and fear

That's why

A star shines #acrosstheuniverse

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Words below also from Jonathan Bucknell of the U.K., written when he signed Heidi Cuda’s “Investigate Project Alamo” petition: https://twitter.com/foxycuda/status/866706702124498944

Fighting for the rights of all Americans and the betterment of humanity is a full time job. The pay is shite, but the karma? Priceless. 

Only thing you can’t buy is Street Cred. Everything else has a price. By now, you’ve been with me as we peel it back and learn that all is not what it seems. A difficult thing if you’re still watching telly. Cuz when #BIGNEW$ #Network$ ain’t pushing product, they’re pushing $pin, and alway$ a$k your$elf, what are they $elling? And how are they $elling it? Fear! Fear! Fear! Vapidity! Vapidity! Vapidity! Bigotry! Bigotry! Bigotry! And now let’s pause while we: Con$ume! Obey! Con$ume! Obey! Now, back to misogyny, homophobia and real fake new$! 

Welcome to your 24 hour New$Cycle of Pain, which didn’t exist when I was a kid, and we were a better society because of it. Just ask the doorman of the Roxy, whose gorgeous view of the City of Angels from the Sunset Strip, is marred by the Mono-Broads who look like they’re keeping up with the ShallowCrowd. Gnarly.

The 24-hour New$Cycle of Pain (with frequent break$ for idiocracy), reflects the minority of evil that has always lurked in humanity, but it doesn’t reflect this well known fact by we ol timey members of the fourth estate: most of this world is beautiful and people love each other. We know this because y'all allowed us to bring cameras and pens everywhere, and we’ve chronicled firsthand the goodness of people for decades.

If you want a reprieve from the #BIGNEW$ mi$ery, which is meta$ticizing because children are now growing up thinking the world is dy$topian and cruel, when in fact, we traveling types who go to all parts of the world know that beauty is everywhere, particularly where people have the least (that’s generally where you find the most love). Remember, there are only two types of people: good and bad. That’s it. For reference, listen to the words of that brilliant sage, artist Isaac Cordal, who explained that to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te7T9mU8a10

Please if you take anything away from this Maewestside missive, be kinder. Know that “Cyber Treason” occurred on American soil, and it’s been muddied by tho$e who are profiting off it.

So, clear eyed with no distractions, soldier on, and please join some classy bravehearts demanding to see the microtargeted “dark” Facebook ad$ that Scamalot’s filthy lucre purcha$ed in what likely will go down in infamy as the aptly named “Project Alamo” is forced to give a Big Reveal on “spammy” “messaging” http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/investigate-project-alamo?source=c.em&r_by=18248367.

I am as frightened as the next Resistance Freedom Fighter because billionaire con$ alway$ cheat for the win, and I who have nothing but the power of my pen is openly penning these missives with other bravehearts because if not we, who? 

Every time I feel like the enormity of the work at hand is too crushing, I get a virtual olive branch by a twitter friend, who keeps me hard charging. Last week, a twitter pal named “Scarlet Begonia” began repurposing my writings. Because I wrote a book with the family of Bradley Nowell some years ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_WhjgI-RsE&t=1592s) I decided I had to play Sublime’s cover of the Grateful Dead song after I saw her supportive tweets. Well, that started me on a day of Sublime fueling my writing and investigative tendencies, when I otherwise would have been feeling weak. It’s a testament to People Power. Never doubt it. Always believe you can make a difference with nothing but heart and truth. 

Each morning, I wake up and read the collaborator journali$m being pu$hed on Americans by editors who $old their $oul to $camalot (see #maewestside “Thug Life” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_WhjgI-RsE&t=1592s for reference on how easily the media is purcha$ed by $wells i.e. #capone, and see Forbes “exclusive” cover story on golden doo$h Kushner and then hurl).

Look, we know at the top of nearly every food chain is an ar$e so that’s nothing new, but these are treasonous times. Times when our own people have been poi$oned with negative $hite so routinely they were ea$y prey for Scamalot “Project Alamo” microtargeting with Big $hady Data, courte$y of a company who$e parent company refined it$ cyber supre$$ion-enabling campaign$ in such beleaguered lands as the Ukraine and Nigeria, whose people have been badly injured by cyber mind game$. (For ref: SCL/Cambridge Analytica)

To my brilliant Lone Stars, those Texas subversives who don’t want the stank of Cyber Treason on their watch, thank you for supporting my efforts. Imagine this country if the 50 states in our union rise up together and demand truth, love, dignity and humanity trump greed once and for all.

Call me pollyanna, but dang it, I feel like we got this.

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Author Heidi Siegmund Cuda and her team of excellent producers have been hired to film a doc this week and thanks to karma points, they’re filming in paradise. #nardcore

Pennywise rages in my head.

“Tonight I will rage, against the forces of fate, the tide is turning my way, you should know better than to f*$k with me…”

These lyrics on heavy rotation as my brain denies me sleep yet another night, because I am not a good German. I do not goo$e$tep. No sleep till war is done. I feel rested. 80 signatures on petition to force Facebook and the Choir Boy$ of Project Alamo to do a Big Reveal on what the $cion of Scamalot call$ “spammy” “me$$aging.” I’m hoping for 20 more signatures by Monday, so we have one Braveheart American for every #SanAntonio100, the number of #MEINTRUMPF $ilicon-$oulle$$ #collaborator$ it took to attempt to de$troy America, which is always great and which has far too much game to allow the inelegance of Cyber Trea$on to keep her feeling low too long.

Join me in tuning out #BIGFEARTV, which is just trying to $ell you $hit, and holding hands with your neighbors.

America: you’ve been cheated, and it’s okay. It’s never happened before, and it was a perfect $torm. Rating$ were down so they rounded up the u$ual $how Ponie$, and voila! TV magic. Rating$ through the roof! But truth in $hort $upply.

Billionaire Con$ in hock to bad actor$ committed Cyber Trea$on on our $oil, $oiling our $oul with the Last Ga$p of the Dying Brand of Greed.

We are a loving country, and we do not hate.

That is why I knew back in November we were undergoing gaslighting on a mass scale. The country I grew up in would never chant inelegant things about one of its Lady Leaders en masse, nor would it be tricked into believing all this loving progress we made in uniting together as humans in recent decades could be undone overnight, by $how Pony Phonie$ out to $ell you more $hit you don’t need. I investigate ar$e$ like these for lunch, and they’re one-trick Phonie$ parading around a$ better than the next guy lol.

I learned from an ol timey #gop mentor that we must always reach out to each other with olive branches not baseball bats. And from Captain & Tennille, that Love will keep us together.

So I am offering you an olive branch of love America: millions of our own were microtargeted with lie$ masqueraded as truth and tailored for their exact sensibilities by #BIG$HADYDATA whose frankencreator, allegedly and by his own admission, is in a bunker at Stanford dodging tomatoes from pals cuz he built the New-Tron CyberBomb. In his defense, he says he just built the data aggregator; Scamalot detonated it.

Sound familiar?

In multiple “exclusive$” in billionaire-owned media, the Choir Boy$ of Scamalot explained just how they did it (dumb bunnie$) #forbes #bw.

And it’s an excellent “Lord of the Flie$” postmodern parable of whu happen$ when bro$ hang in the $lummy gutter of greed too long. Things fall apart.

Remember the Project Alamo.

https://twitter.com/foxycuda/status/854824622901960704

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Author Heidi Siegmund Cuda’s petition to demand Americans get to see the so-called “dark” ads paid for by Project Alamo, who had blank checks from billionaire con$, was just signed by bravehearts from San Antonio. According to multiple billionaire-owned San Antonio “exclu$ives, #Scamalot’s $aving the children. (Just like Capone, Noriega and Escobar. Charmed I’m sure. #thuglife https://maewestside.tumblr.com/post/152395917691/thug-life-gangsters-we-have-known-and-loved-by)

Cuda, a veteran investigative producer, has seen what happen$ to the heart$ of men when they’ve been on Doo$h I$land unchecked for too long. #dooshbaggerygonewild

Below, Cuda chats with a mentor who staked her 25 years ago to move to LA during the ‘92 Uprising so she could pursue writing a book with Ice T (“The Ice Opinion”).

https://vimeo.com/213624187