January 5, 2023

The FUNDAMENTAL problem is....

There has been NO accountability for these coup-plotter insurrectionists who have no business running for elected office, much less occupying seats in our House of Representatives!

EXPEL THEM NOW!!!!

November 6, 2022

PayPal and ActBlue are screwy today

I have made countless political donations with ActBlue and PayPal and never a glitch. But twice in the past 24 hrs I am getting a message that PayPal can't complete my transaction. Both times I was following a link in my Gmail to donate.

I got around it by opening the donate screen in my Firefox browser. Just wanted to share in case anyone else is having this issue.

I find it more than a bit weird, on the weekend before this major election, these tried and true apps aren't playing nice!!

October 27, 2022

Phonebanking with the Democrats!!

It's easy!! Call your nearest local Democratic Party office and volunteer to help phonebank!! You can even do it remotely!!

TIME FOR ALL HANDS ON DECK!!

August 31, 2022

Pinellas Cty, FLA: Demonstrators Display Nazi Symbols

https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/demonstrators-display-nazi-symbols-on-pinellas-county-bridge-pass-out-anti-semitic-fliers-on-st-pete-beach/

ST PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) – A viewer alerted News Channel 8 about a second neo-Nazi demonstration over the weekend in Pinellas County.

“If we just pass them and not speak up, it just tells them what they’re doing is OK and we’re gonna let it slide and that’s not the message,” Eitan Pearl said. “This isn’t the place for it.”

Pearl, a St. Pete native, called after seeing Monday evening’s reports on the demonstrators displaying swastikas and Nazi propaganda Saturday afternoon on a Pinellas County Trail bridge over US-19.

“I just reached out to you, I was like same thing just happened on St. Pete Beach,” Pearl said. “This is a little too close for comfort.”
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More at the link

DISGUSTING!!! This time it's happening in my neighborhood!

June 12, 2022

I applied to be a Pollworker

I just wanted to take a moment to encourage all of you who are able to do the same. It's critically important that people of good character and integrity--and I know there's a lot of you here!‐‐ volunteer to help navigate our country through this upcoming existential election season.

The country you save may be your own!

May 31, 2022

About Uvalde, I can't help but wonder...

How much did deep-seated racism play a role in what happened there? I don't see this being discussed much. Granted, I've turned off much of the news coverage because it's so painful to watch, but for me this is the "elephant in the room." I did see Joy Reid speak about slow police response times in black and brown communities that POC are far too familiar with. But this goes beyond that. The egregious choice by law enforcement to arrest terrified parents and stand down while kids were being slaughtered-- this reeks of not only negligence and incompetence, but also of disdain and even malice. So my question is this: Did the police officers intentionally act with malice toward the children and families of this predominantly Latino community?

I am asking this because I've been to Uvalde. It is a beautiful, quiet little west Texas town. My ex-husband's family lived there since the late 1970s, and I was there in the 1980s. At that time, most service jobs, like restaurant servers, fast food workers, lawn service, etc., are filled by Mexicans. Business owners were predominantly white. As a white person visiting that town, my impression at that time was that it was an idyllically peaceful little town where most residents had lived for many years, even generations. Everywhere we went, people knew immediately that I was from out of town and asked my family members who I was. We went for drives in the beautiful hill country, and went tubing on the peaceful Frio River.

The one thing I found shocking about Uvalde back then was the casual, derogatory way that many of the white people I met there (including members of my own family) referred to people in the Mexican community, calling them "Mess-cans," or "dirty Mess-cans." It was very uncomfortable to me as I was raised in an urban area that is culturally more diverse and, at least the way I grew up, we were taught not to treat anyone that way. There were lots of older white men in those straw cowboy hats and you could sense that they were the "rulers" of that little town. They had a definite "strut" in the way they walked... chest out, thumb tucked under their belts.

So I'm curious if anyone here at DU is from Uvalde and has more recent experience and an informed opinion of this. Is there still a strong racist undercurrent in Uvalde today? Do you think it is possible that law enforcement acted with disdain and/or malice at Robb Elementary School?

April 2, 2022

Since Republicans reliably obstruct...

Since Republicans will obstruct literally anything and EVERYTHING Democrats are FOR, why aren't we using reverse psychology and simply taking the Republican position on every single issue from the get-go?

Just a thought.

March 23, 2022

Priceless

Judge Jackson's facial expressions today when taking a very pregnant pause to contemplate her response to Ted Cruz's idiotic question about babies being racist and CRT. She looked as though she had been asked to slog hip deep in sewage, yet she brilliantly navigated that cesspool in such a way that Cruz was the one who looked ridiculous for asking.

March 3, 2022

Britain slow-walking seizure of RU yachts & properties

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1499352951961399300?t=7ykaVFju78VMrjgoiD7cZg&s=19

February 26, 2022

Breathtaking bravery of the Ukrainians

...fighting on the frontlines of the battle for democracy in the world. For themselves first, but also for all of us.

https://twitter.com/aliostad/status/1497583948842639362?t=kDcLP7lF5oIx-mII1qcFUQ&s=19