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elfin

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5. It is a strategy to destabilize our republic via Putineers

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Fri Mar 3, 2017, 11:59 PM

Mar 2017

Textbook ala authoritarian wannabes.

If we become overwhelmed and disoriented by the crush of "news", just maybe we will turn it off and let them go about their business unhindered by organized and knowlegeable protest.

Our beleaguered press is working as hard as it can to give us the info we need. Up to us what to do with it.

I am trying to prioritize just a few issues out of so many to communicate with my Congress critters in some depth. Mine are Russia, Women, and Science. Others have a different list, and I trust they are going in depth and communicating as well.

So many more - Labor, Finance, Environment (also Science) etc. - I can't cover them, except briefly, all all the time. I rely on DU and MSM ala WaPo, NYT, NEW Yorker, Guardian for info that guides my missives to those in power.

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Am I the only one having a hard time keeping up with all the news? [View all] AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 OP

Understood... Wounded Bear Mar 2017 #1

It is overwhelming for all of us. Yet we know how to spell "hereby." Imagine how it is rzemanfl Mar 2017 #2

Bravo Saboburns Mar 2017 #41

Thank you. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2017 #43

It is so overwhelming it numbs. pandr32 Mar 2017 #3

Yes. Everything is so over the top, it makes me want to poke my eyes out. AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 #12

Too exhausting to be normalized BadgerMom Mar 2017 #25

I don't think you have to worry. one good thing I have noticed (at least in my little world) AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 #26

We're busy here in Ventura County, California, too! BadgerMom Mar 2017 #35

I agree. Numb. I think it helps to step away regularly. ginnyinWI Mar 2017 #23

I'm thinking I need a big wall to post articles and pictures and tie string to show csziggy Mar 2017 #4

You already have too many people from this administration involved with russia, AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 #13

It is a strategy to destabilize our republic via Putineers elfin Mar 2017 #5

check out what they've accomplished in Sweden and France, and Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #11

Europeans are not as stupid as Americans. I have read that AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 #15

check it: Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #16

That doesnt surprise me at all. I hope Sweden is taking the necessary safeguard AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 #17

your last sentence sums up what somebody said on tv the other Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #18

and if you need a break from reality....try a look into the near future Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #19

I love the suggestions! Thank you! I will see if I can find that book, pattern recognition AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 #28

my favorite was virtual light.....san francisco dystopia... Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #29

No. I did not know that they hired 5000 hackers. Good god. AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 #21

I don't know if that was just conjecture, but they do have a huge number Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #24

I think it is clear that they have a big head start on us. AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 #30

pretty sure it was N Korea that did sony, because of that sadly Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #31

You're right. My bad. It was the N. Koreans that hacked into Sony. I can't remember what the Chinese AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 #34

The Republicans have found a cure for that. They stopped listening. Baitball Blogger Mar 2017 #6

even to their constituents bdamomma Mar 2017 #9

They're daily variations of a theme dalton99a Mar 2017 #7

Yes. Exactly! LOL AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 #36

I was just saying that very thing to my husband. Can't keep up and keep it all straight. manicraven Mar 2017 #8

Rachel Maddow is very good at explaining the intricacies. ariadne0614 Mar 2017 #45

here you go....this could turn out to be the single most important Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #10

Werent there 5 from his cabinet tied to mother russia? flynn, sessions, tillerson, AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 #14

dunno about cabinet, but there's carter page, j.d. gordon, and one Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #20

michael cohen.....god, he's at least as loathsome as stephen miller Gabi Hayes Mar 2017 #22

I know, right? lillypaddle Mar 2017 #27

I should be asleep. I Don't get enough. But who can sleep with stuff cracking open every Grammy23 Mar 2017 #32

I feel like lillypaddle Mar 2017 #33

Yes! It seems like all our conversations start with, "omg, did you hear?" AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 #37

Yes! I need cliff notes! Where can we find daily (live blog style) bullet points? ecstatic Mar 2017 #38

Got out of the shower the other day canetoad Mar 2017 #39

God, no, and I'm not keeping up. Hortensis Mar 2017 #40

I gave up on trying to make sense of all of it. butdiduvote Mar 2017 #42

Looking back at this time, the GDP charts will show a collective productivity dip Pluvious Mar 2017 #44

Sage advice from Robert Reich ariadne0614 Mar 2017 #46

!!!! AgadorSparticus Mar 2017 #47