The Indignants

11/24/2025

11/22/2025

It's okay guy, I am a fascist.. South Park

11/20/2025

Robert Morris, the founder of Gateway Church and a former spiritual adviser to Donald Trump, recently pleaded guilty to five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child and was sentenced to prison.

11/06/2025

LETS GOOOOO!!!!

10/28/2025

Penny auction at foreclosed Michigan farm (1936).

At penny auctions farmers would conspire to offer low bids, resulting in a low return to the creditor. The final buyer would then return the property to the destitute farmer. Hangman nooses served as a warning to squirrelly bidders.

This haunting photograph from 1936 captures a penny auction at a foreclosed farm in Michigan, one of the most defiant and ingenious acts of resistance to emerge during the Great Depression. When banks repossessed farms after families could no longer meet their mortgage payments, local communities often took matters into their own hands.

Farmers would gather in large groups and agree beforehand to bid only pennies on each item — from livestock to land — driving the auction prices down to virtually nothing. The final “buyer,” usually a trusted neighbor, would then return the property to the original owner, ensuring the family could remain on their land.

The nooses seen hanging in the background weren’t decorative; they served as chilling warnings to outsiders who might attempt to outbid the crowd. These were not empty threats — solidarity and survival left little room for betrayal.

The penny auctions became powerful symbols of rural unity and defiance. They weren’t just about saving one farm, but about preserving a way of life, one desperate bid at a time.

Added Fact: By 1933, more than 200,000 farms were foreclosed across the Midwest, sparking organized movements like the Farmer’s Holiday Association, which fought to halt foreclosures entirely.

10/28/2025

“The Trickle-down theory”. An anti-Reagan poster from 1984.

This provocative image from 1984 served as a biting piece of political satire aimed at President Ronald Reagan’s economic policies. The “trickle-down theory”, officially known as supply-side economics, argued that reducing taxes on corporations and the wealthy would stimulate investment, ultimately benefiting all levels of society. Critics, however, saw it differently: that the benefits never truly “trickled down” to the working class or poor.

The poster’s stark imagery — a man in a fine suit standing beside a luxury car, facing a homeless person on the street — visualized what many felt was the human cost of Reaganomics. During the 1980s, homelessness in major American cities surged as federal social spending was cut, while Wall Street and corporate profits soared.

The piece captures the era’s deep class divide and remains one of the most recognizable symbols of protest art from the Reagan years — a photograph turned into political weaponry.

Added Fact: By 1988, the wealthiest 1% of Americans controlled nearly 40% of the nation’s wealth, up sharply from the start of Reagan’s presidency.