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Janet Small
@janetsmall.bsky.social
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"I've spoken my peace and counted to three."
Former Twitter: @JaneyTheSmall. Opinions & snark about life, publishing, photography, hiking, genealogy, history, Christianity, marriage, science, nature, archaeology. SoCalifornia native. Tesla truth-teller.
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We voted YES on Prop 50.
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Done! We voted YES on Prop 50.
November 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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We did too!
November 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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I voted YES on Prep 50, too!
November 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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He used to style himself as a Christian apologist, but got caught cheating on his wife in a hotel room at a speaking engagement. One of his own friends caught him. He was fired from his position at King's College. He's a hypocrite of the top tier.
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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You too! My daughter and I are going to one of the #NoKings peaceful protest in Orange County, California.
June 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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In 1928, one year before the Wall Street stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression that lasted until 1939, President Calvin Coolidge claimed this...
May 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Only 2 or 3 counter-protesters holding signs at the #Teslatakedown. I don't think there were more than 6 of them.
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Across the driveway from the protesters were perhaps 5 or so counter-protestors. Three seem to be talking to one another in the parking lot. I cannot read their two signs. One wearing a red ball cap and blue jeans holds a large sign on red poster board. The text reads: "Elon saves taxpayers."
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Signs to deport Elon Musk were also popular in the 3-block long (both sides of the street) peaceful protest in Aliso Viejo, Orange County, California today. #Teslatakedown
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Man wearing gray t-shirt and ball cap holds hand-printed sign "The Only MINORITIES hurting this country are the Billionaires." Other signs can be seen behind this one are unreadable. Crowded sidewalk filled with protestors. A man in a ball cap, blue t-shirt, tan short, sunglasses and surgical mask is holding a hand-printed sign with a photo of Musk giving the Heil-style salute. Text says: "Deport Musk. Fight. Resist."
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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A lot of support for Ukraine and Zelensky at this #TeslaTakedown protest today in Aliso Viejo, CA. Many Ukrainian flags.
12/14
Standing on the public sidewalk are at least 6 individuals carrying signs and facing the road. The only readable sign has two Ukraine flags and the words "Zelensky is a HERO." The man carrying it is wearing a gray ball cap, olive long-sleeved shirt, gray gloves, and black sweat pants.
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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This sign is great. Fantastic dig at drunk Pete Hegseth and the Signal text messages with war plans. #TeslaTakedown 11/14Mean
While protesting on a public sidewalk, man in a dark gray t-shirt with gray cargo pants wears a sandwich-board style sign. The back says, "Never forget Signalgate. You never drunk texted war plans?" Standing on the public sidewalk near the freeway onramp (in the background), person in blue ball cap and pink long-sleeved shirt hold up a homemade sign in the shape of a stop sign. It says, "Stop the hate."
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Concerns about authoritarianism were the message of some signs. Here are signs against fascism today at the Tesla Takedown in Orange County, California. 10/14
Man with sunglasses, mustache, and blue jeans, along public sidewalk carrying a hand-made sign on a piece of white cardboard. Text says, "Tesla (Musk) is fascism on Wheels." Group of 6 people in the foreground of this busy intersection. More are carrying signs in the background. The closest sign to the camera says "Fascism Sucks!" It is hand-painted on neon yellow poster board, and carried by a middle aged man with mustache, beard, jeans, white long-sleeved shirt, and brown desert boots or moccasins. There is an U.S. flag also being carried by someone off-camera.
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Some signs today at the Tesla Takedown were about constitutional law. "LAW MATTERS" said one huge sign. 10/14
Blonde woman in sunglasses and floral patterned blue jeans held a giant sign saying, "We, the people" follow our U.S. Constitutional Law—NOT an un-hinged dictator. Impeach now! Save our democracy." You can see other protesters in the background waving U.S. flags.
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Many protesters want to protect our country from Elon and Trump meddling in science and public health, and stealing our personal data. Protect our privacy! 9/14
Photo shows a hand-printed sign being held up by someone standing on a sidewalk with a large road behind it. Text says: Protect Your Privacy! Musk is $tealing your info." Middle aged bearded man in gray t-shirt and blue jeans stands along sidewalk just in front of the Aliso Viejo Town Centre, a local strip mall. His sign has two parts. The left side is green and shows a flat-bottomed chemistry beaker with the phrase "We are part of the SOLUTION" (the word "solution" is below the line where the liquid is). The right side is bright orange and says, "Stand UP for SCIENCE."
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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There were hundreds of clever handmade signs at the #Teslatakedown today in Aliso Viejo, California, today near the Tesla Service Center (which is too far away from the road to be seen).
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Here is the same senior citizen with a short white beard and mustache wearing a t-shirt "Make Fascism Wrong Again." He is also carrying a sign saying "Boycott Billionaires." You can see at least 8 cars near him. Cheerful lovely middle-aged woman with a big smile, sunglasses, an ART ball cap, blue t-shirt, and black pants carrying a white sign with black and orange lettering, saying "CURRENT THREAT LEVEL: ORANGE."
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Don't make senior citizens angry, Elon Musk. Hands off our Social Security and Medicare! #Teslatakedown Aliso Viejo, California. 7/14
Attractive middle aged curly haired woman with blue U.S. Flag t-shirt and blue jeans and tennis visor carries homemade sign of the Declaration of Independence being destroyed by going into a shredder and coming out in tiny strips below. The text says, "We the People...Article 1... Hands off our Democracy. There are many people in this photo carrying signs against Elon Musk and Donald Trump. The closest one to the camera is a homemade sign with a cartoon-style image of Donald Trump and a photo of Elon Musk making a Nazi-style salute and the text reads: "NOT MY PRESIDENTS." In the mid-ground is an elderly man with a short white beard and mustache wearing a t-shirt "Make Fascism Wrong Again." He is also carrying a sign saying "Boycott Billionaires."
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Even an hour after the Tesla Takedown officially started people were pouring in to protest Elon Musk! The protest expanded down three blocks. A big thank-you to the
@OCSheriff, which had at least 4 SUVs that I saw. 6/14
Attractive senior citizen, on a public sidewalk with many other people around her, carries professionally printed sign "Billionaires vs Middle Class. Trump Sold You Out." She is wearing a printed t-shirt, light blue jeans, black athletic shoes, and sunglasses. Smiling middle-aged man in shorts, athletic shoes, sun hat, and an Impeach Trump t-shirt, carried homemade sign along busy road. The sign has 14 identical photos of Trumps head with his mouth open, and his eyes completely white, and the words "American Nightmare."
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Everyone smiling and friendly. The Orange County Sheriff was there! An hour before we saw 3 security people in front of the Tesla Service Center. No problems. A peaceful and happy crowd at today's #Teslatakedown. 5/14
Dozens of people standing on the public sidewalk facing the busy 6-land street, holding signs, and chanting things like FIRE ELON. The most prominent sign in this photo is one carried by a man in shorts, t-shirt, and hat. The homemade sign has two large orange neon cut-outs of hands at the top. The text says: Hands OFF! -Our jobs -Our bodies -Our Science -Our Parks - Free Speech -Clean Air. There's more text, but it's too small to read. Dozens of people standing on the public sidewalk facing the busy 6-lane street, holding signs, and chanting things. Some of the handmade signs say: "No Kings. No Fascists" and "F-Elon" and one printed sign "Billionaire vs. Middle Class"
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Big crowd. Aliso Viejo, Orange County, California #teslatakedown on April 5, 2025. Hundreds of people. So packed they had to move down several blocks and start lining the other side of the street. 4/14
Bright sunny day. Crowd of people line the sidewalk carrying signs and waving to honking cars passing by. One woman in a blue t-shirt, white ball cap and jeans carries sign with images of Elon Mush and the word DEPORT. She uses the E-L-O-N acronym to spell out Evil, Lying, Oligarch, Narcissist. Bright sunny day. Crowd of people line the sidewalk carrying signs and waving to honking cars passing by. One young woman with long brown hair, a dusky blue t-shirt, aqua blue ball cap, and white cargo pants carried a sign saying "Democracy NOT Oligarchy." To her right, an older man carries a sign "Hands Off" and on the back it gives a list including Medical and Social Security.
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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More clever signs from the #TeslaTakedown protest against Elon Musk in "The O.C.": Orange County, California today. 3/14
Crowd of people on sidewalk carrying signs. Woman closest to camera has long blonde hair, an aqua blue t-shirt, and a sun hat. She is holding sign using the T-R-U-M-P acronym: Terrible Racist Unqualified Muppet for Putin. Woman to her right and slightly behind is dressed up the the Handmaids Tale garb of red cloak and white hat, also holding up an anti-Trump and anti-Elon sign. Woman holding small Ukraine flag and carrying a handmade sign saying "I've seen smarter cabinets at IKEA."
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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A fun time was had by all! Telsa Takedown in Aliso Viejo today April 5, 2025! This is the Mecca of Tesla land. Known for being wealthy, white, and up until recently, a bastion of the GOP. 2/14
Person standing on sidewalk, with many other people, holding a handmade sign (we can only see their arms) that says "ELDERS AGAINST ELON." Beautiful middle aged white-haired woman in red white and blue top in a crowd of Musk and Trump protesters, holding a handmade sign "Indivisible: Hands Off Our Republic."
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Telsa Takedown!
Aliso Viejo, Orange County, California #teslatakedown on April 5, 2025. Hundreds of people. 3 blocks jammed with signs and supporters. Cars honking in approval. A fun time was had by all! 1/14
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Middle aged man in plaid shirt and baseball cap taking part in a protest by holding a sign of Elon Musk given the heil salute covered by a red circle and slash over the image. Woman in baseball cap, jeans, and white tennis shoes standing on a public sidewalk near a busy road carrying sign on a large piece of cardboard saying "Porsche=Fast; Ferrari=Faster; Tesla=Fascist"
April 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I'm on Tesla's mailing list because I've had several of them. This Cybertruck claim is far-fetched.
March 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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From the Reuters article:
March 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM