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A Blueprint for Saving Democracy
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A Blueprint for Saving Democracy
For weeks, I’ve wanted to write an essay pulling together all my thoughts and ideas about what “the Democrats” need to do to fight Trump and save democracy in this country. Every time I sit down to write it, though, another prominent Democratic party leader does something terrible. Gavin
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Today is a really short one because I am working on a much longer piece about how we will win this fight against authoritarianism. Meantime, noted leftist propaganda outlet military dot com is now covering veteran protests and wrote the first article in the Government section. The topics are in
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Adventures of A Snail
Dear Friends: I appreciate all the helpful feedback I got on last week’s post about my insane projects list. One reader shared this essay about being a snail and I found it very helpful. Last Sunday, I decided to be a snail. I read the actual newspaper, watched Casablanca,
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Rather than lead off with a winding narrative, I've embedded one in the updates below! This is a short one otherwise because we have old friends in town and I'd rather have in real life happiness than slogging through the internet for rebellious news of any
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The news is so relentless, isn't it? That's why it's time for us to start thinking about how we want to shape the future after we win. Maybe it's time to expand the courts, pass the Employee Free Choice Act and the
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Nobody remembers March 11, 2020. Well, maybe somebody does. Probably someone at the CDC does. Maybe even a former employee of the CDC, who was recently fired because of the greedy, petulant insanity of our president and his first mate. But most of us don't remember that day.
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I started this newsletter because I needed a way to balance my news junkie tendencies with my desire to bury my head in the sand for the next four to ♾️ years. A lot of people don't follow the news at all! Can you imagine? Anyway, this is just
Pushback Women's Day
Thirty years ago, on a cold and overcast day in Chicago, I convinced my then-roommate, now-husband, to head downtown for the International Women's Day march and rally. He was promptly assigned to pull a wagon with a speaker on it at the end of the march crowd, behind
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Spreading Myself Around
Maybe Too Much?
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The story today is how sad and disappointed Dem leadership is that certain members spoke out against Trump during his not-the-state-of-the-union speech. Ten Democrats even voted with the Republicans to censure Rep. Al Green, who was among the most vocal critics of Trump. This wouldn't be a story,
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