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Our Red Line was Crossed :( [1]

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Date: 2025-06-21

June 9, 2025, Trump deployed the Marines to LA.

This was a line in the sand, our red line. We declared 3 back in November when he was re-elected, this was the very top of the list.

- Deploy US Military Troops (not national guard) on US soil against US persons

- Arrest 3 or more sitting Democratic Party federal level elected officials or Governors

- Arrest 1 sitting US Supreme Court justice

It was “known” for a couple weeks ahead of this date it was likely going to happen. We didn’t wait. My partner applied for an internal transfer at her employer for a job opening in Japan. On Monday, she received her new employment contract and signed it. We will be out of the country in the next few months.

This doesn’t mean we no longer believe in the US. It doesn’t mean we will stop fighting or advocating for the US. It simply means, as long-time Seattlites, we no longer feel safe in our own country. We won’t be able to attend protests anymore. I will no longer be able to be an elected Precinct Committee Officer. But even as we leave, we are trying to do some good.

Suddenly a ton of super expensive political signs (about $20 each) started to appear in Woodinville for a new candidate for our city council. Nice metal frame, 2 sections, big QR code to learn more about the candidate. Searching him online, you see he has SEO’d everything super well. Lots of websites all ranking high promoting him and his ideas. Oddly, can’t find his LinkedIn or any 3rd party comments on him. I dug deeper and found his LinkedIn and, shocker I know, despite all his “Independent” and “Supporting the People” and “Improving Housing Availability” talk, he is nothing more than a cryptobro who works for Coinbase and owns around 20 properties in the area and his ideas for “improving housing availability” are designed to make it all but impossible to actually build new housing to drive up his own property values.



So… I spent $100 and bought a bunch of signs on the cheap that I am going to place next to every single one of his super expensive signs pointing out he is a CryptoBro and has posted on LinkedIn supporting use of iris scanning tied to crypto to “prove your proof of personhood”.

We may be leaving the country, but we are not leaving the fight behind. We hope to still assist those who remain in any ways we can.

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