For workers of all kinds, International Workers' Day has long been a day of marching and megaphones. Since at least 1886, when US workers demanded eight-hour work days, May 1st has carried a powerful double meaning: hope and protest.
Today, on May Day 2025, that spirit roars back with fire. From coast to coast, it’s not just a holiday—it’s a no-holds-barred, full-throttle rebellion aimed straight at the orange-tinted dick-tator cosplaying as POTUS and Commander-in-Chief.
Mango Mussolini—and his little minions too—need to go. Now.
Party over, oops, out of time.
While ConOld Chump throws tantrums on “Truth Social” and glares at teleprompters like they’re deep-state traitors, Americans are hitting the streets—our streets—with chants, drums, rage, and signs. So many signs. Funny and furious signs.
And no, this isn’t just the so-called “usual suspects” protesting. This isn’t a fringe uprising—it’s a mainstream reckoning. Teachers. Nurses. Union organizers. Artists. Small business owners. Students. Parents. Veterans. People from every walk of life are fed up and fired up.
With his approval ratings in the toilet and his legal troubles piling up like Quarter Pounder wrappers on the Resolute Desk, it’s time to flush this motherfucker down the drain. And while we’re at it, let’s send his sycophantic sidekicks swirling after him. The air in D.C. might just become breathable again.
So if you’re able, show up. Join the protests. Hold the line. Make some noise. Carry the torch of May Day forward and fight the dick-tators and powers that be.
History isn’t made by those on the sidelines.
History is made by those who show up.
Keep calm and yell loudly!
Clint 🌈✌️
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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
May 1st: May Day Strong (National Day of Action)
Cities Hosting 50501 Protests Against Trump On May 1 (Newsweek)
100 Days: Tariffs, Egg Prices, Ice Arrests And Approval Rating (The Guardian)
ON THIS DAY = MAY 1
BIRTHDAYS
1852 = Calamity Jane = American frontierswoman and scout 🌈
1855 = Cecilia Beaux = American painter and academic
1857 = Theo van Gogh = Dutch art dealer
1874 = Romaine Brooks = American-French painter and illustrator 🌈
1881 = Mary MacLane = Canadian-American writer 🌈
1915 = Michael Dillon = British physician and author 🌈
1916 = Glenn Ford = Canadian-American actor and producer
1918 = Jack Paar = American comedian, author and talk show host
1924 = Terry Southern = American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter
1934 = Shirley Horn = American singer
1939 = Judy Collins = American singer-songwriter
1939 = Max Robinson = American journalist
1945 = Rita Coolidge = American singer-songwriter
1946 = Joanna Lumley = English actor, voice-over artist, author, and activist
1951 = Sally Mann = American photographer
1954 = Ray Parker Jr. = American singer-songwriter
1960 = Andy Thayer = American Gay Liberation Network co-founder 🌈
1963 = Enoé Uranga = Mexican politician 🌈
1967 = Tim McGraw = American singer-songwriter and actor
1969 = Wes Anderson = American filmmaker
1982 = Jamie Dornan = Irish actor, model, and musician
1982 = Katya Zamolodchikova = American drag queen, actor, author, recording artist, podcaster, and comedian 🌈
EVENTS
1786 = Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro premieres.
1807 = The Slave Trade Act 1807 takes effect, abolishing the slave trade within the British Empire.
1840 = The Penny Black, the first official adhesive postage stamp, is issued.
1851 = Queen Victoria opens The Great Exhibition at The Crystal Palace.
1886 = Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
1931 = The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
1941 = Citizen Kane premieres at the Palace Theatre in NYC.
1956 = The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.
2009 = Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES
PORTRAITS + QUOTES OF THE DAY
“I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.”
Katya Zamolodchikova
“Drag is a chicken suit, and you're very emboldened. Whatever you do or say or fail at or succeed at is attributed to your costume and not you as a person. So there's a lot of freedom.”
Katya Zamolodchikova
You can't say enough bad things about our dictator in chief as far as I'm concerned. I simply hope that we will get enough guts to kick his ass out before it's too late, if it is not already too late.
Thanks Clint. In case of calamity, be sure to call for Jane. Jane Jane where are you Jane Canary?
My father and uncle worked for much of their lives across the street from Haymarket Square.
May 1 is also called Bealtaine in Ireland.