Stephen Brewer
@percival84.bsky.social
Whistleblower and former university professor with training in police psychology and forensic threat assessment. Writing on institutional betrayal, digital accountability, and the cost of telling the truth. Never lived in Kansas City.
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Stephen Brewer
@percival84.bsky.social
· Aug 10
Drawing the Line | Stephen Brewer | Substack
Whistleblower and former university professor with training in police psychology and forensic threat assessment. Writing on institutional betrayal, digital accountability, and the cost of telling the ...
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For 20 years, I lived under a system designed to erase me—without charges, trial, or defense.
This is my public testimony: forensic, protected speech, and the record they cannot erase.
Read: percival84.substack.com/t/my-survivo...
#SurvivorTestimony #Whistleblower #TruthTelling
This is my public testimony: forensic, protected speech, and the record they cannot erase.
Read: percival84.substack.com/t/my-survivo...
#SurvivorTestimony #Whistleblower #TruthTelling
The Season One finale of The Golden State Avenger is out now.
A quiet, powerful chapter rooted in courage, conscience, and the people who hold the line when it matters.
Listen: percival84.substack.com/p/the-day-he...
A quiet, powerful chapter rooted in courage, conscience, and the people who hold the line when it matters.
Listen: percival84.substack.com/p/the-day-he...
The Day He Roared
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 17
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November 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The Season One finale of The Golden State Avenger is out now.
A quiet, powerful chapter rooted in courage, conscience, and the people who hold the line when it matters.
Listen: percival84.substack.com/p/the-day-he...
A quiet, powerful chapter rooted in courage, conscience, and the people who hold the line when it matters.
Listen: percival84.substack.com/p/the-day-he...
Weeks after the fire, Ramona works its own healing.
A story of repair by hand and under law.
Episode 16 – The Garden That Grew Back
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #RestorativeJustice
A story of repair by hand and under law.
Episode 16 – The Garden That Grew Back
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #RestorativeJustice
The Garden That Grew Back
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 16
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November 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Weeks after the fire, Ramona works its own healing.
A story of repair by hand and under law.
Episode 16 – The Garden That Grew Back
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #RestorativeJustice
A story of repair by hand and under law.
Episode 16 – The Garden That Grew Back
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #RestorativeJustice
The Beatitudes weren’t written for comfort. They were written for courage.
New episode of Between Bread and Stone: “The Company of the Excluded.”
On Bakersfield, MAGA, and the real saints of our streets.
percival84.substack.com/p/the-compan...
New episode of Between Bread and Stone: “The Company of the Excluded.”
On Bakersfield, MAGA, and the real saints of our streets.
percival84.substack.com/p/the-compan...
The Company of the Excluded
Between Bread and Stone — Episode 18
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November 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The Beatitudes weren’t written for comfort. They were written for courage.
New episode of Between Bread and Stone: “The Company of the Excluded.”
On Bakersfield, MAGA, and the real saints of our streets.
percival84.substack.com/p/the-compan...
New episode of Between Bread and Stone: “The Company of the Excluded.”
On Bakersfield, MAGA, and the real saints of our streets.
percival84.substack.com/p/the-compan...
New release: Charlie and The Grand Prize
An old-time radio performance about conscience, sweetness, and the courage to repair what we build.
Inspired in part by the research of Dr. Robert Lustig. @robertlustigmd.bsky.social
Listen → percival84.substack.com/p/charlie-an...
An old-time radio performance about conscience, sweetness, and the courage to repair what we build.
Inspired in part by the research of Dr. Robert Lustig. @robertlustigmd.bsky.social
Listen → percival84.substack.com/p/charlie-an...
Charlie and The Grand Prize
An Audio Story
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November 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
New release: Charlie and The Grand Prize
An old-time radio performance about conscience, sweetness, and the courage to repair what we build.
Inspired in part by the research of Dr. Robert Lustig. @robertlustigmd.bsky.social
Listen → percival84.substack.com/p/charlie-an...
An old-time radio performance about conscience, sweetness, and the courage to repair what we build.
Inspired in part by the research of Dr. Robert Lustig. @robertlustigmd.bsky.social
Listen → percival84.substack.com/p/charlie-an...
Halloween night at the California Capitol.
A leader confronts what power costs, and what conscience requires.
The Golden State Avenger
Episode 15: The Gallery of Dignity
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A leader confronts what power costs, and what conscience requires.
The Golden State Avenger
Episode 15: The Gallery of Dignity
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The Gallery of Dignity
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 15
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November 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Halloween night at the California Capitol.
A leader confronts what power costs, and what conscience requires.
The Golden State Avenger
Episode 15: The Gallery of Dignity
percival84.substack.com/p/the-galler...
A leader confronts what power costs, and what conscience requires.
The Golden State Avenger
Episode 15: The Gallery of Dignity
percival84.substack.com/p/the-galler...
New essay on Substack.
This essay extends my earlier reflections on humiliation, exile, and belonging—asking what happens when psychology turns social injury into a personality.
percival84.substack.com/p/stop-calling-trauma-borderline
#Trauma #Borderline #LGBTQ #RestorativeJustice
This essay extends my earlier reflections on humiliation, exile, and belonging—asking what happens when psychology turns social injury into a personality.
percival84.substack.com/p/stop-calling-trauma-borderline
#Trauma #Borderline #LGBTQ #RestorativeJustice
Stop Calling Trauma “Borderline”
A Call to Awareness and Restorative Action
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October 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
New essay on Substack.
This essay extends my earlier reflections on humiliation, exile, and belonging—asking what happens when psychology turns social injury into a personality.
percival84.substack.com/p/stop-calling-trauma-borderline
#Trauma #Borderline #LGBTQ #RestorativeJustice
This essay extends my earlier reflections on humiliation, exile, and belonging—asking what happens when psychology turns social injury into a personality.
percival84.substack.com/p/stop-calling-trauma-borderline
#Trauma #Borderline #LGBTQ #RestorativeJustice
Between Bread and Stone — Episode 17: The Prayer at the Edge
A reflection on Luke 18 and the courage to pray honestly in an age of counterfeit holiness.
When Truth kneels, illusion falls.
percival84.substack.com/p/the-prayer...
#BetweenBreadandStone #GospelOfLuke #FaithAndPolitics #AllSaintsDay
A reflection on Luke 18 and the courage to pray honestly in an age of counterfeit holiness.
When Truth kneels, illusion falls.
percival84.substack.com/p/the-prayer...
#BetweenBreadandStone #GospelOfLuke #FaithAndPolitics #AllSaintsDay
The Prayer at the Edge
Between Bread and Stone — Episode 17
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October 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Between Bread and Stone — Episode 17: The Prayer at the Edge
A reflection on Luke 18 and the courage to pray honestly in an age of counterfeit holiness.
When Truth kneels, illusion falls.
percival84.substack.com/p/the-prayer...
#BetweenBreadandStone #GospelOfLuke #FaithAndPolitics #AllSaintsDay
A reflection on Luke 18 and the courage to pray honestly in an age of counterfeit holiness.
When Truth kneels, illusion falls.
percival84.substack.com/p/the-prayer...
#BetweenBreadandStone #GospelOfLuke #FaithAndPolitics #AllSaintsDay
PUBLIC BULLETIN — MARKET STREET REPORT
Force met faith last night in San Francisco.
The Golden State Avenger deflected a high-pressure assault meant to break a peaceful march.
Instead, it forged solidarity.
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
Force met faith last night in San Francisco.
The Golden State Avenger deflected a high-pressure assault meant to break a peaceful march.
Instead, it forged solidarity.
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
October 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
PUBLIC BULLETIN — MARKET STREET REPORT
Force met faith last night in San Francisco.
The Golden State Avenger deflected a high-pressure assault meant to break a peaceful march.
Instead, it forged solidarity.
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
Force met faith last night in San Francisco.
The Golden State Avenger deflected a high-pressure assault meant to break a peaceful march.
Instead, it forged solidarity.
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
At dusk, the city stands together—order, not fury, holding the night.
The new episode of The Golden State Avenger is live:
percival84.substack.com/p/the-march-...
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
The new episode of The Golden State Avenger is live:
percival84.substack.com/p/the-march-...
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
The March of Memory
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 14
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October 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
At dusk, the city stands together—order, not fury, holding the night.
The new episode of The Golden State Avenger is live:
percival84.substack.com/p/the-march-...
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
The new episode of The Golden State Avenger is live:
percival84.substack.com/p/the-march-...
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
The widow in Luke 18 refused to disappear.
Her persistence wore down an unjust judge who cared for neither God nor people.
Faith isn’t silence. It’s the courage to keep speaking when silence feels safer.
#BetweenBreadandStone
Her persistence wore down an unjust judge who cared for neither God nor people.
Faith isn’t silence. It’s the courage to keep speaking when silence feels safer.
#BetweenBreadandStone
That She Might Not Wear Me Out
Between Bread and Stone — Episode 16
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October 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The widow in Luke 18 refused to disappear.
Her persistence wore down an unjust judge who cared for neither God nor people.
Faith isn’t silence. It’s the courage to keep speaking when silence feels safer.
#BetweenBreadandStone
Her persistence wore down an unjust judge who cared for neither God nor people.
Faith isn’t silence. It’s the courage to keep speaking when silence feels safer.
#BetweenBreadandStone
In a rain-lit hall, a movement gathers again.
What begins in noise becomes rhythm.
Listen to The Golden State Avenger
Episode 13: The Mirrors of Memory
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Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
What begins in noise becomes rhythm.
Listen to The Golden State Avenger
Episode 13: The Mirrors of Memory
percival84.substack.com/p/the-mirror...
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
The Mirrors of Memory
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 13
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October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
In a rain-lit hall, a movement gathers again.
What begins in noise becomes rhythm.
Listen to The Golden State Avenger
Episode 13: The Mirrors of Memory
percival84.substack.com/p/the-mirror...
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
What begins in noise becomes rhythm.
Listen to The Golden State Avenger
Episode 13: The Mirrors of Memory
percival84.substack.com/p/the-mirror...
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
New on Substack: What Happened to Sherry Pie?
A reflection on accountability, compassion, and the limits we’ve placed on love.
percival84.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-sherry-pie
#LGBTQ #RestorativeJustice #RuPaul #QueerCommunity
A reflection on accountability, compassion, and the limits we’ve placed on love.
percival84.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-sherry-pie
#LGBTQ #RestorativeJustice #RuPaul #QueerCommunity
What Happened to Sherry Pie?
An Open Letter to RuPaul
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October 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
New on Substack: What Happened to Sherry Pie?
A reflection on accountability, compassion, and the limits we’ve placed on love.
percival84.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-sherry-pie
#LGBTQ #RestorativeJustice #RuPaul #QueerCommunity
A reflection on accountability, compassion, and the limits we’ve placed on love.
percival84.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-sherry-pie
#LGBTQ #RestorativeJustice #RuPaul #QueerCommunity
The newest chapter of The Golden State Avenger is live.
A quiet story of compassion and courage, where listening itself becomes resistance.
Episode 12 — “The Bench of Listening”
percival84.substack.com/p/the-bench-...
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
A quiet story of compassion and courage, where listening itself becomes resistance.
Episode 12 — “The Bench of Listening”
percival84.substack.com/p/the-bench-...
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
The Bench of Listening
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 12
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October 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The newest chapter of The Golden State Avenger is live.
A quiet story of compassion and courage, where listening itself becomes resistance.
Episode 12 — “The Bench of Listening”
percival84.substack.com/p/the-bench-...
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
A quiet story of compassion and courage, where listening itself becomes resistance.
Episode 12 — “The Bench of Listening”
percival84.substack.com/p/the-bench-...
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
New: The Golden State Avenger — Episode 11: The Whisper Network.
San Francisco. A hall where memory and resolve meet. Fragile threads become bonds that endure.
Listen here: percival84.substack.com/p/the-whispe...
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender
San Francisco. A hall where memory and resolve meet. Fragile threads become bonds that endure.
Listen here: percival84.substack.com/p/the-whispe...
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender
The Whisper Network
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 11
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October 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
New: The Golden State Avenger — Episode 11: The Whisper Network.
San Francisco. A hall where memory and resolve meet. Fragile threads become bonds that endure.
Listen here: percival84.substack.com/p/the-whispe...
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender
San Francisco. A hall where memory and resolve meet. Fragile threads become bonds that endure.
Listen here: percival84.substack.com/p/the-whispe...
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender
Friday at 6pm: The Whisper Network.
In San Francisco, voices old and young gather to carry memory forward. A thread begins that will not fray.
Listen Friday at 6pm PT.
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender
In San Francisco, voices old and young gather to carry memory forward. A thread begins that will not fray.
Listen Friday at 6pm PT.
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender
September 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Friday at 6pm: The Whisper Network.
In San Francisco, voices old and young gather to carry memory forward. A thread begins that will not fray.
Listen Friday at 6pm PT.
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender
In San Francisco, voices old and young gather to carry memory forward. A thread begins that will not fray.
Listen Friday at 6pm PT.
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender
New episode of Between Bread and Stone.
Jesus’ parable of Lazarus feels alive today. ICE raids tear fathers from workplaces, and MAGA cheers it on as strength.
But the Gospel is unambiguous: wealth without mercy is blindness, cruelty is not order, and serving mammon ends in torment.
Jesus’ parable of Lazarus feels alive today. ICE raids tear fathers from workplaces, and MAGA cheers it on as strength.
But the Gospel is unambiguous: wealth without mercy is blindness, cruelty is not order, and serving mammon ends in torment.
Mercy, Memory, and the Great Chasm
Between Bread and Stone - Episode 13
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September 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
New episode of Between Bread and Stone.
Jesus’ parable of Lazarus feels alive today. ICE raids tear fathers from workplaces, and MAGA cheers it on as strength.
But the Gospel is unambiguous: wealth without mercy is blindness, cruelty is not order, and serving mammon ends in torment.
Jesus’ parable of Lazarus feels alive today. ICE raids tear fathers from workplaces, and MAGA cheers it on as strength.
But the Gospel is unambiguous: wealth without mercy is blindness, cruelty is not order, and serving mammon ends in torment.
Episode 10 of The Golden State Avenger is live. A difficult chapter, asking what it means to hold the line when rage demands retribution.
Listen here: percival84.substack.com/p/the-hospit...
#CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender #RestorativeJustice
Listen here: percival84.substack.com/p/the-hospit...
#CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender #RestorativeJustice
The Hospital Without Walls
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 10
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September 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Episode 10 of The Golden State Avenger is live. A difficult chapter, asking what it means to hold the line when rage demands retribution.
Listen here: percival84.substack.com/p/the-hospit...
#CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender #RestorativeJustice
Listen here: percival84.substack.com/p/the-hospit...
#CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender #RestorativeJustice
Friday at 6pm Pacific. The hardest chapter of The Golden State Avenger so far. Not triumph, but the cost of holding the line when anger demands retribution.
No easy answers.
No easy answers.
September 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Friday at 6pm Pacific. The hardest chapter of The Golden State Avenger so far. Not triumph, but the cost of holding the line when anger demands retribution.
No easy answers.
No easy answers.
Ramona burns, and the road to safety is blocked. Families, law, and memory hold their ground.
Episode 9 of The Golden State Avenger is now live:
percival84.substack.com/p/wildfire-e...
#GoldenStateAvenger
Episode 9 of The Golden State Avenger is now live:
percival84.substack.com/p/wildfire-e...
#GoldenStateAvenger
Wildfire Exodus
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 9
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September 20, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Ramona burns, and the road to safety is blocked. Families, law, and memory hold their ground.
Episode 9 of The Golden State Avenger is now live:
percival84.substack.com/p/wildfire-e...
#GoldenStateAvenger
Episode 9 of The Golden State Avenger is now live:
percival84.substack.com/p/wildfire-e...
#GoldenStateAvenger
The Central Valley stands heavy with fruit, but too many of the hands that built the harvest are gone — taken by ICE, leaving hunger where there should be plenty.
Episode 8: The Harvest of Dignity is live. Don’t miss the outro anthem “California We Endure.”
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Episode 8: The Harvest of Dignity is live. Don’t miss the outro anthem “California We Endure.”
percival84.substack.com/p/the-harves...
The Harvest of Dignity
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 8
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September 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The Central Valley stands heavy with fruit, but too many of the hands that built the harvest are gone — taken by ICE, leaving hunger where there should be plenty.
Episode 8: The Harvest of Dignity is live. Don’t miss the outro anthem “California We Endure.”
percival84.substack.com/p/the-harves...
Episode 8: The Harvest of Dignity is live. Don’t miss the outro anthem “California We Endure.”
percival84.substack.com/p/the-harves...
Not every clip is real. Some are staged to divide us. Pause before you share. Protect your neighbors from deception.
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
September 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Not every clip is real. Some are staged to divide us. Pause before you share. Protect your neighbors from deception.
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
A jail cell. Three men waiting for dawn. Their silence turns to witness.
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 7: The Cell of Witness is now live.
percival84.substack.com/p/the-cell-o...
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 7: The Cell of Witness is now live.
percival84.substack.com/p/the-cell-o...
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
The Cell of Witness
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 7
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September 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
A jail cell. Three men waiting for dawn. Their silence turns to witness.
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 7: The Cell of Witness is now live.
percival84.substack.com/p/the-cell-o...
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 7: The Cell of Witness is now live.
percival84.substack.com/p/the-cell-o...
California stands strong.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
New essay live.
From Obedience to Refusal: Restoring Dignity After Incarceration
This isn’t a protest call. It’s a quiet blueprint for noncooperation with a system that profits off pain.
In memory of Attica.
percival84.substack.com/p/from-obedi...
#RestorativeJustice #Satyagraha
From Obedience to Refusal: Restoring Dignity After Incarceration
This isn’t a protest call. It’s a quiet blueprint for noncooperation with a system that profits off pain.
In memory of Attica.
percival84.substack.com/p/from-obedi...
#RestorativeJustice #Satyagraha
From Obedience to Refusal
Restoring Dignity During and After Incarceration
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September 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New essay live.
From Obedience to Refusal: Restoring Dignity After Incarceration
This isn’t a protest call. It’s a quiet blueprint for noncooperation with a system that profits off pain.
In memory of Attica.
percival84.substack.com/p/from-obedi...
#RestorativeJustice #Satyagraha
From Obedience to Refusal: Restoring Dignity After Incarceration
This isn’t a protest call. It’s a quiet blueprint for noncooperation with a system that profits off pain.
In memory of Attica.
percival84.substack.com/p/from-obedi...
#RestorativeJustice #Satyagraha
New Golden State Avenger episode out now. Memory is resistance, and wisdom is sanctuary.
Listen here: percival84.substack.com/p/the-memory...
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender #CommunitySolidarity
Listen here: percival84.substack.com/p/the-memory...
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender #CommunitySolidarity
The Memory Bridge
The Golden State Avenger — Episode 6
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September 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
New Golden State Avenger episode out now. Memory is resistance, and wisdom is sanctuary.
Listen here: percival84.substack.com/p/the-memory...
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender #CommunitySolidarity
Listen here: percival84.substack.com/p/the-memory...
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender #CommunitySolidarity
Belligerents don’t come to help — they come to harm. Spot them. Contain them. Keep your protest peaceful.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender #California #RestorativeJustice #CivilRights #CommunitySolidarity
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender #California #RestorativeJustice #CivilRights #CommunitySolidarity
September 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Belligerents don’t come to help — they come to harm. Spot them. Contain them. Keep your protest peaceful.
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender #California #RestorativeJustice #CivilRights #CommunitySolidarity
Where sanctuary is sacred, the line holds!
#GoldenStateAvenger #CaliforniaValues #DemocracyDefender #California #RestorativeJustice #CivilRights #CommunitySolidarity