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Master List: Authoritarian and Anti-Constitutional Actions by Donald Trump (2025)
The last update to this was on May 24, 2025. Let me know if I forget to add to it. This post is a rolling chronicle of executive orders, proclamations, federal memoranda, and allied state-level initiatives that legal scholars, journalists, and watchdog groups have flagged as authoritarian, unconstitutional, or corrosive to democratic norms since President
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A New Tools Show Video: The Tools Show – What’s Your New Year’s Resolution
We, The Tools, just put up a new video. Check it out:
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This Is A Video From The Trash Pandas: Epic snow vlog gone wrong!
This is a video channel Indy and I do together. Here is the latest video:
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My Tweets From Yesterday:
These are all the tweets I made yesterday These are all the tweets I made yesterday: Nothing to do in Akron? University of Akron senior creates video showing 7 fave activities https://t.co/GZ5BuwQwrx
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From Sage and Friends Podcast: #23 – How To Be Successful
I just put up this podcast. Check it out: #23 – How To Be Successful
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From SageRock Startups: What It’s Really Like Being An Entrepreneur
I just wrote this piece on the SageRoc Startups Website. Check it out: What It’s Really Like Being An Entrepreneur
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From SageRock VR: Get Ready for Viveportâ„¢ Arcade, a location-based entertainment platform for virtual reality
I just wrote this piece on the SageRock VR Website. Check it out: Get Ready for Viveportâ„¢ Arcade, a location-based entertainment platform for virtual reality
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From The SageRock Blog: My Content Marketing Strategy For 2017
I just wrote this piece on SageRock Blog. Check it out: My Content Marketing Strategy For 2017
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From Rubber City Auctions: Check This Out: Rubber City Auctions – Akron
I just wrote this article on the Rubber City Auctions Website. Check it out: Check This Out: Rubber City Auctions – Akron
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From The Homeless Charity: I LOVE the tiny home idea!
I just wrote this piece on The Homeless Charity Website. Check it out: I LOVE the tiny home idea!
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Journal Entry – Sunday, January 8 2017 7:43am
I’m not a great journal keeper. I have sometimes written thoughts in Evernote. But it’s very erratic. That said, I really believe in its usefulness. Your mind is a terrible place to sort out thoughts. My constant, ongoing thought is on business. It’s a game that I’m always looking to win. I question the longevity
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From SageRock Blog: Online Marketing: A Declining Industry
Being in this industry since 1999 has let me see it in a unique way. Basically, I think it has jumped the shark. Online Marketing: A Declining Industry This fact is easy to defend in the SEO industry. Everybody and their brother says they do SEO. This has over-saturated the market. And over-saturated it with
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Clayde Lewis Obituary
Clayde Lewis passed away at age 79, in her home in Akron, Ohio, the morning of October 5, 2016. Clayde was born and raised in Bedford, Ohio, and was the daughter of Mildred and Louis Kuster, sister to Eileen and Verna. Clayde was an intelligent, fiercely independent woman with a sharp wit. She was also
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Dementia Overseer
“Congratulations! You are the proud new overseer of a healthy, old, mentally decaying parent.” Dementia is everything backwards. But it’s not just backwards. It’s sideways. Inside out. Reverse. Forward. Stop. Go. It blurs dreams, this world, other worlds, decades ago, today. Dementia is a fucked up cut form of LSD that you’d ask your drug
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A Call For Podcast Guests for Sage and Friends
I’ve been committed to creating a podcast. I am at a place in my life where I feel more like an artist than a business person. It’s actually a message I’m trying to instill in other business people. Coke gets it. I want you to get it too. When you are passionate and in love
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Sage Lewis – Chosen to Chair Project RISE Auxiliary Committee
I’m not the kind of person other people typically entrust to important jobs. “Loose canon” is a common phrase I’ve heard to describe me. But for some reason, Debra Manteghi, the Program Manager of Project RISE, the only group in Akron solely dedicated to homeless children, has appointed me to the position of Chair for their Auxiliary
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Homeless Kids Can’t Get Housing Help if they go to college
So let me break this down for you: Let’s say you are a homeless kid. Good news! There are programs to help you get a place to live. Let’s say you are a homeless kid that wants to go to college. No more housing help for you! The IRS says you are no longer eligible
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Ohio Auctioneers Sample Contract in Word and Google Doc Format
The Ohio Department of Agriculture Auction Program offers an example contract for auctioneers here: http://www.agri.ohio.gov/public_docs/auctioneer/Auct_Sample%20auction%20contract.pdf The problem with it is that it has a big “SAMPLE” watermark all over it. And it is also in PDF format. So you can’t edit it easily. We’ve reworked that contract and put it in Microsoft Word. That way
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My Friend Is Doing A LinkedIn Event In Cleveland
My friend, Harry Lader, Ph.D., is doing a LinkedIn event on using LinkedIn more effectively. He’s a super smart guy and really nice too. His day job is that he’s a trainer for Excel. But he has applied that Excel knowledge to using LinkedIn. The extra cool thing about the event is that it’s a
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Why I Want You To Go Camping
We started camping as a family when Indy, our kid, was 2. It rained. The tent leaked. The fire wouldn’t start. And you know… We had a 2 year old. This seems to be a very common story. Many people seem to have rough first camping experiences. Our saving grace was we went with a
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It’s official: I’M AN AUCTIONEER!!!
80 hours of classes in Kentucky. Finding a sponsor, which is incredibly difficult. Or maybe I was meant to be with Chuck Kreiner and we just had to find each other. He is amazing! Get a background check. Get a $25,000 bond. Notarize all paperwork. Send paperwork not earlier than 4 weeks before the next
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Learn About Adoption Meetup
I friend of mine, Jackie Smigel, runs a non-profit adoption agency. She has just announced a meeting she is having in Kent Ohio on Wednesday, April 27 from 10:30am-11:30am. here: Fred Fuller ParkOld Jail497 Middlebury Rd; Kent OH 44240. This meetup is for anyone who has ever had a question about adoption. When I think of
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Why I Don’t Speak In Person Much Any More
I used to speak anywhere and everywhere. I once did an SEO speech at a Golden Corral Buffet. My van broke down on the highway on the way to a speech. Both to and from the speech, actually. I’ve driven in more white out blizzards than I can count rushing to get to a speech.
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Ep. 3 Picking a Product. Making an Entrepreneur
I think people get really hung up on what product or service to sell in a business. I know I do. I’m always trying to come up with something totally new and innovative. The big problem with this approach is that no one has any idea what it is you’re trying to sell. You end
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Homeless GoFundMe Accounting
I have another campaign coming up so I wanted to get my finances together. (I’ll tell you more about it soon.) But I wanted to post where we are with our money. In a nutshell: The Shoes for Homeless Kids program has raised $1310. We’ve spent $1068.82. We have $241.18 available. The Socks for Homeless
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Ep. 2 The Other Side. Making an Entrepreneur
I’m a little unsure about this post. The world is filled with pie in the sky visions of what “taking control of your future” looks like as an entrepreneur. Fancy trips. Working 4 hours a week. Fancy cars. Big houses. That end result, if it happens, is the product of all the things I talked
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Ep 1. Why I like abusing myself. Making an Entrepreneur
When we first started SageRock I told everybody how great owning your own company was. “You should start your own company,” I’d say like some kid who just discovered gummy worms. I don’t say that any more. In fact, while I don’t tell people not to start their own company, I rarely encourage them if
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Making an Entreprenuer – Intro
Sure. I stole that title from “Making a Murderer.” There’s a reason for my plagiarism. But that’s a story for another time. This is my written documentary of (hopefully) making a successful company. My plan is to outline how it’s going, how much money I’m making, how much money I’m spending and what I come
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Here’s the biggest thing you can do for homeless kids right now…
How much money do you think the national government spends on helping homeless kids? Before you guess, let me give you some budgets the government does spend money on: Printing Costs ($930,000,000) Maintaining Vacant Buildings ($175,000,000) 118 Medical Clinics that never existed ($35,000,000) European Legislators ($2,600,000) I get it. America is a big place. It’s
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Unadopted Akron Family Needs Your Help This Christmas
I got an email last night from Debra Manteghi, the Program Manager for Project RISE: the only group in Akron that solely focuses on homeless kids in the Akron area. They organize an “adoption” of families for Christmas. The idea is that a family “adopts” another family and gets them presents for Christmas. Debra emailed me
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Um… Wait. What????
Yesterday, a large, but simple box came to our office from Paris Hatters in San Antonio Texas. That was strange because almost all boxes we get come from Amazon, or recently from Wal-Mart for the shoes we bought for the homeless kids of Akron. I would have remembered buying something from a hat shop in
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