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As many of you are aware, the Trump administration has taken a number of actions that affect federal sector employees and agencies that support other industries, like the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the National Labor Relations Board. I am not going to use this newsletter to delve into
Yesterday I wrote a Blueprint for Saving Democracy, and today, I am going to try to organize my posts to illustrate the components of my blueprint. This is a work-in-progress, so I appreciate all feedback. "Democrats" are elected officials, government agencies, labor unions, and non-profits. "Grassroots"
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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
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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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,
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
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
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.
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
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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