From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Sat Aug 22 10:12:44 2026 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:12:44 -0700 Subject: [Davis Democrats Community List] No King Day and National Parks protest day against Trump Message-ID: <0211f650-9fd8-4c25-acf7-42e3ed536efd@virtual-markets.net> Take Action against the Trump Regime.? Two key actions happening the last week of August. August 25th is the day designated for nationwide protests against Trump's national parks agenda. The agenda is to sell off public lands and defund park support. Trump closed all three US Forestry facilities in Davis.??He is closing US Forestry Service facilities across the country and moving what is left to Ogden, Utah.? Trump signed an executive order to defund vast US Forestry Service activities.? The US Forestry Service is basically defunded. For your tool kits to support this day of protest during National Parks week visit: https://www.npca.org/campaigns/take-action-toolkit If you believe in the Forestry Service, please watch the new TV Show Anna Pigeon.? It is on cable TV on the USA Network.? As our parks are under attack, this new show tries to show our public funding monies in action.? Anna Pigeon does what Ranger Corey Stuart did in the 60s, but does not have Lassie as a support dog. --------------- Help with formulating the next NO KINGS DAY. It will be in October.? Decisions will be made next week, the last week of August. To give your input and help organize the next NO KINGS DAY in October visit: https://www.nokings.org/ --------------- Get your free Smokey the Bear #RESIST pins and bumper stickers at any PBE meeting held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month.? If you promise to wear the pin or display the sticker they are free and will be made available as long as demand is there. Vote Blue. #RESIST ?? ?? November 3rd End the Tyranny The time to act is NOW. -- G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc.http://www.vme.net/ http://vme.net/bcards/bio.html Phone: 530-VIV-VMEI or 530-848-8634 G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Advisory Board, Communications Director on the Board of the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of Directors - Davis Progressive Business Exchange. For public service to the Progressive Business Exchange of Davis, Recipient of the 2015 Service Award. For public service to the citizens of Yolo County, Recipient of the 2013 Yolo County Concilio Board of Directors Award For public service to the Democratic Party of Yolo County, Recipient of the 2007 Weir-Willamson Award ========================= The Virtual Markets ========================== Davis Virtual Market -http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno -http://vme.net/fvm/ Reedley -http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento -http://vme.net/svm/ Vacaville -http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland -http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue -http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, SVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, WBL, DPBE, or IOOF. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Sat Aug 29 07:49:43 2026 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:49:43 -0700 Subject: [Davis Democrats Community List] Social Media Report for August 29, 2026 Message-ID: <89286ce4-4ef6-4ce6-831e-4abe53510303@virtual-markets.net> There were complaints that the social media news post took up too much of the DDC calendar announcements. So, the social media posts will move here to the DDC's community activist e-mail list.? This list was created for community activism and calls for action.? The social media news posts are a call for people to participate and to like and repost the DDC posts.? Every like and repost drives up the visibility of social media posts and aids in our getting our message out.? #RESIST We are committed to helping the following campaigns on social media and the names are followed by the amount of money the DDC has sent to these campaign.? Please support the DDC on Social Media to help these people with likes, comments and reposts.? We need your help on social media with likes and reposts.? Contact us if you are posting, so we can help make you more visible in your support. For The House -- Congress: McGuire CD 1, $3,000 Ami Bera CD 3, $2000 Mike Thompson CD 1, $1000 -- DDC integrated with campaign on social media Pan CD 6, $2,000 Mai Vang CD 7 $1000 Adam Gray CD 13, $1000 -- DDC integrated with campaign on social media Randy Villegas CD 22, $2,000 -- DDC integrated with campaign on social media Derek Tran CD 45, $2,000 Dave Min CD 47, $1000 -- DDC integrated with campaign on social media von Wilpert CD 48? $2,000 For US Senate -- Congress Mary Peltola, $3,000 For Governor Xavier Becerra $2000 For Yolo County Supervisor Mayra Vegas $1000? -- DDC integrated with campaign on social media We need help in promoting Mai Vang for CD 7 on social media, because some of us are supporting her opponent Doris Matsui.? This is a Blue on Blue Democrat election, but the board wanted to support this younger candidate in a 9 aye to 3 nay votes. Mai Vang has reached out on social media and thanked the DDC for its $1000 contribution to her campaign.? The other campaigns that have thanked us on social media for the DDC contributions are: Randy Villegas, Dave Min, Derek Tran, and Myra Vega.? ?We are trying to help more on social media with her campaign.? The Yolo Business PAC is supporting her opponent with money.? We will go further with help on social media. We are now fully supporting Mary Peltola on Facebook, interacting with her campaign.? We are taking her Facebook content and posting and promoting her with original DDC posts on Bluesky and X/Twitter. We are fully involved with the Randy Villegas campaign on social media, posting and reposting for the campaign.? We were already in full campaign support mode for Mike Thompson and Dave Min.? Dave Min is the only Congressman that continued to post weekly after the 2024 election and like Mike Thompson follows us on X/Twitter. Because of this, the DDC has been fully supporting Min and Thompson on social media from day 1 of the 119th Congress.? We are trying to reintegrate with the Adam Grey campaign and to integrate with the other campaigns that were given money. Our attention though is on Mike Thompson and Dave Min.? Mike Thompson, the DDC account is involved with posting and reposting original investigative reporting on his opponent Eric Jones.? The Jones campaign has from even before the primary a strategy of election manipulation.? Much has been published about this strategy and much has been discussed off line.? The Eric Jones campaign is working closely with Republicans and the strategy now is to court and secure the 22% that voted for Raymond Riehle.? His platform has taken on a conservative? flavor to secure these votes.? What is clear is that Eric Jones has no allegiance to anyone and wants just to get elected.? His agenda is pass a uniform AI federal bill that will regulate AI across the country. Because he is a partner is a venture capitalist AI firm named Dragoneer, this is all suspect.? If you wish to learn more, please read Roberta Millstein's articles about Eric Jones.? She posts on Bluesky and Nextdoor.? You can read her articles about Jones on Davisite. The Dave Min support by the DDC is more direct.? Dave Min's seat is being targeted the Republican Party.? His opponent is a MAGA woman that ran for governor of California.? They are pouring money into the campaign and they have supporters on X.? What is happening is that the DDC account with an ally is posting responses to the MAGA accounts harassing Dave Min on X.? What we do is lead block MAGA blue check account campaigns against the blue check accounts that post replies on Min's X account.? They do not like these campaigns one bit.? For the remaining people, we post true facts about Donald Trump and his administration.? Since these are MAGA accounts they do not see this material that comes across the main feed from the Blue accounts.? Like I continually write, the DDC gets its best material from the Blue X posts to post on Bluesky. For those looking for the club Twitter (now X) account: https://x.com/DavisDemocratic We now are at 6,871 Followers.? We are now 71 followers above our midterm goal of 6800.? We are 1000 followers above the 5800 follower limit.? If our number of followers drop below that number, we will close the X/Twitter account so as to not pay any money or contribute numbers to Elon Musk and his platform success.? The BIG difference to date is that we are actively interfacing with the 10 campaigning congress people on X and informing them of the $22,000 that the DDC has donated to their campaigns plus the Governor's race and the Yolo County Supervisor Race.? We are too small for them to ban us and we continue to post and magnify anti-Trump posts.? We continue to work to flip the House and Senate Blue.? We continue to #RESIST ?I cannot post it enough, I get most of our hardest hitting material from Blue posts on X to post on Bluesky. We currently have 38,390 Bluesky followers.? Bluesky continues to purge and block accounts that are bogus accounts.? These are fake accounts that use fake websites to collect money for real campaigns.? Even though we are losing 20 to 40 accounts a week, we are increasing our numbers with quality followers that work with us.? Please join us on Bluesky.??The Davis Democratic Club on Bluesky is: https://bsky.app/profile/davisdemocraticclub.org What makes the work easier on social media is the help of Eileen Samitz with supporting posting material.? Luba Schmid contributes both photos an movies and helps with likes and comments.? We have lost Rosie Mauhr after the Bondii Beach massacre in Australia. She is alive, but some of her relatives were killed and hence she is keeping a low profile.? In social media, one needs original material to keep posting to attract followers.? Luba Schmid and I produce local material.? Pytor Alexievich, an American in Kyiv, provides material from Ukraine and is a good friend to the DDC. We get additional valuable follower recruitment support from Judith Bolyard, an American in Thailand.? We get additional editorial cartoons? and follower recruitment support from a person that goes by the handle?ACW1234.? Of course we would not be part of the #RESIST movement is not for all the unemployed National Park workers at Alt National Parks.? I purchase the Smokey the Bear #RESIST pins and bumper stickers from them that we give away to any who want them at the PBE meetings.? We get all our news about what Trump is doing -- everywhere.? When we started following them that had over 140,000 followers.? They have grown to a massive 894,600+ Followers.? They took the DDC #RESIST and made it their own.? And, I appreciate it, because they turned it into merch I can give away to #RESIST Trump! For those looking for the club Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/DavisDemocrats We continue to have over 1600 followers. ?Again, please help the DDC on social media by logging in and follow, like, and repost DDC account and posts.? To find our accounts please use the links above. Thank you for reading this report. -- G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc.http://www.vme.net/ http://vme.net/bcards/bio.html Phone: 530-VIV-VMEI or 530-848-8634 G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Advisory Board, Communications Director on the Board of the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of Directors - Davis Progressive Business Exchange. For public service to the Progressive Business Exchange of Davis, Recipient of the 2015 Service Award. For public service to the citizens of Yolo County, Recipient of the 2013 Yolo County Concilio Board of Directors Award For public service to the Democratic Party of Yolo County, Recipient of the 2007 Weir-Willamson Award ========================= The Virtual Markets ========================== Davis Virtual Market -http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno -http://vme.net/fvm/ Reedley -http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento -http://vme.net/svm/ Vacaville -http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland -http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue -http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, SVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, WBL, DPBE, or IOOF. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com From yamagata at virtual-markets.net Mon Aug 31 06:36:47 2026 From: yamagata at virtual-markets.net (G Richard Yamagata) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:36:47 -0700 Subject: [Davis Democrats Community List] More about DDC original social media content. Message-ID: <557b52a3-5163-4850-af84-2dcceed377e2@virtual-markets.net> Greetings Everyone, I forgot to mention an important part of the DDC original content on Bluesky, X/Twitter and on Facebook. Before I start on that, I want to report on our followers.? On Bluesky with all of the help of our significant followers, we blew past 38,400 on Saturday!? We at this moment have 38,457 Followers.? On X/Twitter we have 6,888 Followers.? The big topic on social media is the insanity with the Lake Ontario renaming by Trump.? Canada said they were going to retaliate by renaming the Canadian Geese to Donald Ducks. Trump at 1AM EST in the morning on Saturday could not sleep and created a video that was entitled Donald Ducks Defend Lake America!? It had ranks of Goose Stepping Donald Ducks sporting his blonde toupees carrying AR rifles and firing them in the air to the music of Hawaii Five-O.? He posted it on Truth Social. Mapquest said that it would not change the name of Lake Ontario, but Google Maps has.? So there is a cry going out for all Blue people to boycott and un-install Google Maps.? This is where we are at... The reason for this e-mail is to tell you about Dr Frank Maurer of Quail Ridge Wilderness Conservancy.? He writes prose poetry about his life experiences and topics that interest him.? His web site of poems and thoughts can be found at www.quailridgelt.org/poems.htm He currently has 889 poems at the site and adds another 20+ per month. To attract followers, you need to create interesting and captivating posts.? Dr Frank Maurer has aided me by writing new poems and making his vast library of poems available to me.? We started out with a simple post with Marjorie Taylor Greene.? People on social media were commenting that she looked like the specimen in the Neanderthal exhibit at the German Museum of Natural History, so I ran Marjorie's picture with the Neanderthal model in the exhibit.? I post the poems with illustrations or photos on Facebook, Bluesky and X/Twitter.? On Facebook I have 6000 friends and followers because I was working with a podcast music program in the Adirondack Mountains.? The post garnered 290 views and so posting poems became a regular thing. Then everything changed with the ICE murder of Renee Good.? I posted Dr Maurer's poem about the Demise of Mother-Poet and Facebook took Dr Maurer's poem down.? I tried to find out why and Facebook told me that they took the poem down because they were afraid for my life.? I told Facebook that I would take all responsibility for whatever happened to me and asked them to open up the post for people to see.? I went in and saw that the poem had struck a chord with my audience of country-western music fans.? They hated the poem and sentiment was running 5 to 1 that it was a justified shoot and that Renee Good had tried to run the officer down.? The views were 26,000 then 30,000 and then 52,000 views with 1600 emoji reactions and 2400 comments.? We had a hit on our hands.? The poem was equally successful on Bluesky and X/Twitter.? So, we thought that this was like lightening, the odds of this happening again were slim to none. Alex Pretti was killed and a poem about him garnered over 9000 views.? So we were chugging along and suddenly, again, Facebook took Dr Maurer's poem down about the Pink Back Pack campaign by the World Cup Iranian Soccer Team. The soccer team would bring in 168 pink back packs at each game they played, holding them up to bring attention to the 168 girls who were killed by a misled US missile that hit the girls school in Iran.? I once again told Facebook I would take full responsibility for whatever come what may and we were at 126,000 views, then 158,000 views with 9800 emoji reactions, 1000 shares, 1100 reposting of the poem on Facebook pages. Lightening had struck twice.? Eventually we reached 168,000 views.? The popularity of this poem was significant on Bluesky and X/Twitter.? Whenever I logged into Bluesky, I would see the poem reposted by another account.? We were in the stream of consciousness on Bluesky. So, lightening had struck twice and I had become jaded as Dr Maurer's poems were getting 10,000 views per poem post.? We even figured out what was the right time of the night to post the poems to reach the largest audience.? Our next big hit was The Ubiquitous Tick.? Dr Maurer wrote about dealing with Ticks while hiking in the outdoors, but I ran the poem with a picture of a tick with a Trump face.? We eventually received 78,000 views with 4600 emoji reactions, 300 comments and 884 shares on other Facebook pages.? I posted the poem on Nextdoor and it was removed because it was deemed too political.? But, on Bluesky and X/Twitter it was quite popular. So, we are now in a cold spell in August where the poems are getting 200 to 300 views on Facebook, which before the Renee Good poem, we were extremely happy about receiving. Surprising on Nextdoor, Dr Maurer's non-political poems are getting over 2000 views each in August.? I post over there that you can purchase Dr Maurer's books of Poems and Thoughts at the Avid Reader Book Store on Second Street in Davis.? There are now 16 volumes of Poem and Thoughts. If you want to see other 10,000 view poems, you can search for Frank Maurer on Bluesky or X/Twitter or you can log into my Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/koi.yamagata.7?and scroll through the posts.? You can view and find other original material posts of videos, some provided by Luba Schmid and music videos from other sources.? You can see the newest Dr Frank Maurer poem that should reach 10,000 views, a poem about our dictators comment on if 250 days at sea is too long for sailors.? His cold. unfeeling reply, "Not nearly long enough." My thanks to all that help the DDC social media in its quest for fresh new material to post so people will want to follow us and see our posts.? I greatly appreciate the help.? Of course any DDC member can help by logging on Facebook, Bluesky or X/Twitter and viewing the DDC posts and hitting the like/emoji button and reposting the post or commenting.? Every little bit helps the algorithm. -- G Richard Yamagata PhD CEO/President VME Inc.http://www.vme.net/ http://vme.net/bcards/bio.html Phone: 530-VIV-VMEI or 530-848-8634 G Richard Yamagata is a member of the Davis Community Network Advisory Board, Communications Director on the Board of the Davis Democratic Club, President of the board of Virtual Market Enterprises, Inc, Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of Directors - Davis Progressive Business Exchange. For public service to the Progressive Business Exchange of Davis, Recipient of the 2015 Service Award. For public service to the citizens of Yolo County, Recipient of the 2013 Yolo County Concilio Board of Directors Award For public service to the Democratic Party of Yolo County, Recipient of the 2007 Weir-Willamson Award ========================= The Virtual Markets ========================== Davis Virtual Market -http://virtual-markets.net/vme/ Fresno -http://vme.net/fvm/ Reedley -http://vme.net/rvm/ Sacramento -http://vme.net/svm/ Vacaville -http://vme.net/vvm/ Woodland -http://vme.net/wvm/ "Pet, Vets, You, and Dr.Sue -http://vme.net/dvm/DrSue/ The thoughts expressed are my own and do not reflect the policies or opinions of DVM, FVM, GVM, RVM, SVM, WVM, VVM, VME Inc, DCN, DDC, WBL, DPBE, or IOOF. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com