Saugatuck Douglas Area Indivisibles

06/24/2026

This Saturday, Noble Twist is celebrating their first year in business and giving back to the community! During the event, donations up to $1,000 will be matched to support the improvements of Sunset Park. Celebrate a local business with a drink and support the development of a community greenspace.

06/24/2026

GOOD NEWS, MOST AMERICANS WANT DEMOCRACY AND SEE THE ”DICTATOR TRUMP” AS A TREAT.
“Collectively, the hard data should inform Democrats as they seek to transform political consensus into electoral results. First and foremost, the cliché that we are a “divided” country is a dodge to avoid recognizing how badly MAGA is faring. In a country of more than 330M, calling us “divided” is platitudinous nonsense. The issue is whether we are irretrievably divided, i.e. paralyzed, when it comes to finding consensus on democratic values. That is not the case. Democrats turn out to be precisely aligned with a supermajority of Americans on democracy, diversity, inclusion and personal freedom.” — Jennifer Rubin

Republicans, not Dems, should be in a defensive crouch

06/24/2026

TIME TO CELEBRATE A WIN. NO MORE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. Thanks to all who protested and resisted these inhumane places.

“The Trump administration is expected to offload a Romulus warehouse it had planned as the future site of an immigrant detention center, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Thursday.

The news comes after a Thursday New York Times report detailing the US Department of Homeland Security’s planned offloading of seven warehouses across the country, including the Romulus facility — a reversal of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s aggressive plans to expand Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s national footprint.” —Bridge Magazine

06/23/2026

EVEN POPE LEO WARNS US AGAINST THE HUGE WEALTH INEQUALITY WE ARE FACING.
Robert Reis puts it this way:

Friends,

“The last time Americans faced such overwhelming evidence that the monied interests were screwing them over was the Great Crash of 1929 and ensuing Great Depression, resulting in the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, starting in 1933.

The one silver lining of the current Trump-Musk-Bezos-Ellison-Murdoch-Koch horror show is that most Americans now know beyond any reasonable doubt that they’re on the losing side of a class war, and are justifiably pi**ed,

America’s first trillionaire is a vicious white supremacist who’s stirring up hate around the world and backing Republican candidates with big bucks. American billionaires, meanwhile, are openly sucking up to America’s first dictator, spending lavishly on whatever he wants, and gobbling up media outlets so most Americans won’t know what’s going on.

Where has this gotten us? Workers’ share of the nation’s income has now dropped to the lowest it’s been since records began in 1947, while profits’ share is the highest since 1950 (showing up in a rip-roaring stock market).

This is morally wrong. “Income from capital risks replacing income from labor,” Pope Leo wrote in Magnifica Humanitas, his recent encyclical letter.

It’s also undermining our democracy. “America has a choice,” the jurist Louis Brandeis is reputed to have said. “We can have great wealth in a few hands or we can have a democracy, but we cannot have both.””

06/20/2026

Today we continue to celebrate Juneteenth. John Jackson, my good friend and professor of religion and black studies at Denison University told me the story of being a young black boy growing up in Alabama. On 4 July, he came home with the idea of celebrating. His grandmother looked at him and said, “ this is not our holiday“. It was a very early lesson that the founding of this country while based on beautiful principles, was not a reality for most Americans. On Juneteenth people have all races can celebrate moving toward a more perfect union and living into the ideals on which this country was founded. 

06/19/2026

On this important holiday, Juneteenth, please read this short essay. Then join us to celebrate tomorrow, Saturday, June 20 at Collin Park in Holland, Michigan. 

We need to hold him accountable for this, too

06/19/2026

BREAKING: “ITALY NEVER BEGS!” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni publicly tears into Trump after he causes a MAJOR international incident by falsely telling the media that she “begged” him for a photo at the G7!

He is SUCH an asshole…

Insecure and attention-hungry Donald Trump has apparently created a major rift between the United States and Italy by telling the press that the Italian Prime Minister was “begging him” for a photo and that he felt “sorry” for her.

In response, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani abruptly cancelled a planned trip to the United States this weekend, calling Trump’s claims “serious and offensive” toward Meloni and all of Italy.

Meloni herself released a video in which she addressed Trump’s lies in furious fashion.

“So, certain things deserve an immediate response,” says Meloni into the camera.

“Donald Trump's statements are completely fabricated. I am frankly appalled. I don't know why the President of the United States behaves this way towards his allies; after all, it's not the first time it's happened.”

“I can only say it's a pity that he doesn't show the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, with leaders towards whom he instead proves to be much more accommodating.”

“But he must remember one thing: Italy and I never beg.”

Trump had made the comments in an interview broadcast Friday morning on the La7 network.

Seriously, what is WRONG with him? This is the quintessentially Trumpian scandal: a national humiliation and international rift ignited by his jealousy at having to share the spotlight and his irrepressible urge to be a little see-ya-next-Tuesday towards everyone he doesn’t like.

Just a complete absence of anything resembling leadership, self-control, or basic human decency.

God, this is SO STUPID!

06/19/2026

♦️ If you missed Michelle Obama’s speech at the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center earlier today, we encourage you to listen to it.