War Diary. Saturday, June 14th, No Kings Day; through June

by DeWitt Cheng

July 1, 2025

Hands Off Democracy/No King Ocean Beach

The tide is turning, finally. The basic numbers: over 2,000 demonstrations, 5-6 million Americans came out to peacefully air their grievances. Many revealed their elite educational background by showing they still know how to participate in a card section.

GOP Party Poopers Stayed Away in Droves

50,000 celebrants can’t be wrong; that’s way more than 5 million because he told us it is. We left him alone to play with his toys and new friends.

Tank Man Graveyard Dead

No more Mister Nice Guys, human scum! Try to rain on his parade and you will be met with overwhelming force and a cabinet that knows how to perform in choral harmony.

Heavy Force Promised for Lèse-Majesté

The emperor was so well prepared for attacks on his agents of deportation. Turns out that the claim of an revolt was an excuse to begin a military occupation of the blue city, leaving his militia free to squash nannies and strawberry pickers. You were forewarned.

Making The World Safe … for whom exactly?

It just has to be done every now and then, preferably before elections, so why now? His little buddy Bibi softened the target enough to the gladiator cosplay to waltz in and gobble up as much of the credit as possible for as little result as was produced.

DeWitt Cheng is an art writer/critic based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has written for more than twenty years for regional and national publications, in print and online, He has written dozens of catalogue essays for artists, galleries and museums, and is the author of “Inside Out: The Paintings of William Harsh.” In addition, he served as the curator at Stanford Art Spaces from 2013 to 2016, and later Peninsula Museum of Art, from 2017 to 2020.