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On March 28 Let’s Say “No Kings” and “No Nukes”

Image by Mohamed Nohassi.

This March 28, 2026, millions of pro-democracy “No Kings” marchers should also demand “No Nukes” in the wake of March 28, 1979’s meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.

While a cluster of Democratic governors push restarts of deadly old nuclear power plants like TMI and Michigan’s Palisades, King Donald also wants to restart nuclear weapons testing.

The “No Kings” challenge to Trump’s oligarchic threat to democracy, joined with the “No Nukes” demand for a Solartopian Earth—totally green-powered, no nuclear plants, no atomic weapons—will create an epic moment for the human future.

Trump is the first U.S. president to fire a chairman of the five-member Nuclear Regulatory Commission.  The NRC was originally entrusted to oversee the 94 U.S. commercial nukes.  Now Trump reigns supreme over atomic reactor safety.  It’s a terrifying reality.

Meanwhile, his Royal Crime Family has become directly involved financially in the latest “nuclear renaissance,” with merger of the Trump Media & Technology group, in a $6 billion deal, with the California-based fusion energy company TAE Technologies.

Amidst this royal conflict of interest, the Trump White House has issued a stream of executive orders decimating the “regulation” of nuclear power plants, fission and fusion, small and large, present and future.

Along with California’s self-proclaimed “green” Governor Gavin Newsom, Trump is also attacking renewable energy, including solar and wind, batteries and geothermal.

Trump further demands a massive build-up of nuclear weaponry recklessly trashing the fragile global network of agreements meant to shrink our suicidal atomic arsenals.

To better serve his billionaire reactor backers, Trump has unleashed a barrage of “revised” safety regulations that shred already lax health protections. His fiats multiply the “peaceful atoms” pouring into the bodies of downwind neighbors and on-site workers.

Elon Musk’s DOGE has long since purged the NRC’s already thin technical safety staff.

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