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dutch777's JournalReport from No King march in Philly
Just had back surgery so not marching today but my room has ringside seat to the march from Love Park to the Franklin Institute along Benjamin Franklin Parkway. No experience estimating crowd sizes but if this isn't a gathering of 10,000 or more, I will be very surprised. Way to stand up America!
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Wonder if we Dems could do more than simply say "Trump bad!' and propose our own economic solution?
I am deeply disheartened that we have all the ammo the House budget plan gives us and yet do not make a solid logical counter proposal NOW that 1) shifts taxes to the rich and corporations; 2) lowers taxes on the poor and middle class; 3) has baked in national debt reduction and 4) fully funds critical programs like Medicaid, FAA, TSA, etc. Carville's strategy of just let them keep digging seems off.
Lead line: "If Trump really wanted to slow the decline in the nation's fertility rates, he would resign". NYT....
4/27/25 article by Michelle Goldman, p4 of Sunday Opinion section. Great lead in line! So true! Just like investors and business want stability and some degree of economic certainty, anyone thinking responsibly about bringing forth a new life wants the same.
Really disappointed...just looked at our local primary ballot in PA...many positions w no Dem candidate!
We live in the boonie burbs 50 miles NW of Philadelphia and election is May 20th. And while statewide positions have Dem candidates, half the local county positions have no Dems. (PA is one of the backward primary states where you have to be a declared Dem or Repug and can only vote for folks in your party and positions that do not have a party affiliation. which are few). No Dems running for Sheriff, Coroner, Prothonotary on and on and the one that really gets me-- Director of Elections!!! I know it is hard to win in these times, but really hard to win when you don't field a team!!! Gonna be making calls because this has got to stop.
Anyone else lamenting the headlines focusing on Trump vs. the whole GOP?
I realize saying and pointing fingers of blame and shame at Trump is easy one stop shopping, but I worry that our target for tar and feathers and the 2026 midterms has to be the whole GOP. They enable all of the evil by sitting on their hands or actively aiding and abetting. While an outsize influence, Trump will never be on the ballot again. I have no problem seeing his brand hurt but when we focus on him, it gives some amount of cover for the GOP Congressional caucuses and statewide GOP interests. It is the latter we have to beat in 2026 and I hope our Dem voices focus on painting them with the issues this administration is causing.
Protest today at 1PM Wyomissing, PA. Hands Off!
The corner of Park Road and Lancaster Avenue near the Wawa! (So there will be coffee!
Note for all about the Signal messaging app. While the level of stupid for someone to have a secret level government...
...text exchange on any application not vetted and approved by the NSA is staggering, and including in a journalist by accident is beyond comprehension (unless you have clown car members for a Cabinet), we all should be aware that the Signal app is not perfect. It's end to end encryption is considered top notch at least for a non-governmental system, but it can be breached. Cracking the encryption by non governmental hackers is unlikely but the true level of capability of Russia, China, the US and others is not really known. Knowing NSA and knowing bad actors probably like Signal, I would suspect a lot of focus and supercomputer time has worked on breaking the encryption. Further, Signal has no defense if the device taking in a Signal message has been compromised and others can simply read what is on the screen remotely. The message in transit may be safe but not so much possibly if being entered or received on a hacked device. I know progressive political entities like Signal so we ALL should be aware nothing is 100% safe from prying eyes.
Fun fact: Denaturalizing citizenship back just three generations would make Trump a non citizen.
Trump's grandfather was an immigrant, his father Fred the first born in the US.
Has anyone seen anything from the new head of the DNC on Schumer's move on the CR vote?
I keep looking for some new and different approach on the DNC website and have been rather disappointed. If I read it right, until the next Dem presidential nominating convention, the platform we lost on is the one we are living with as Dems. I assume Dem candidates for House and Senate etc. in 2026 can emphasize the points they will run on rather than follow the platform slavishly but it really makes me wonder if we are working and thinking enough in real time?
Given Schumers move, I gotta invest elsewhere. Anyone else looking at the Indivisible Project?
I will not die on knees.
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