The number of days the so-called pr*sident has to serve, assuming he completes his term: 1441
Andrea Germanos at Common Dreams writes—Local 'Indivisible' branches coming together to target lawmakers and counter right-wing agenda:
From Carpinteria, Calif., to Kansas City, Mo., to Charlottesville, Va., pockets of resistance—catalyzed by the "Indivisible Guide"—to the Trump administration are popping up nationwide. [...]
The Indivisible manual was written by former congressional staffers, who, as the Los Angeles Times wrote this week, were "trying to deploy the same strategies against President Trump that made the anti-Obama tea party so successful." And now, branches of this indivisible movement—composed of many fledgling activists—are harnessing the tactics to target lawmakers in their home districts, on issues ranging from Trump's controversial immigration ban to his education secretary, Betsy DeVos.
Take Indivisible KC, where the local group on Tuesday targeted the Kansas City field office of Senator Roy Blunt and denounced the travel ban.
The building of the 3,000-strong group, said Indivisible KC organizer Allegra Dalton to local KSBH, "is just kind of happening organically." She added: "We may not have the power as progressives right now to set an agenda for a long time to come, so what we need to do is shine a light on the agenda that is being set."
In St. Charles, Ill., where about 20 people gathered last week to percolate their ideas for action for the Indivisible Illinois [Congressional] Districts 6 and 14, resident Tom Engelhardt described what drew him to return to activism after decades.
"I have not been active in a political organization since the Vietnam years," he said. "But everything is at risk, guys; everything is in play. It's now or never."
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
“It’s not about supplication, it’s about power. It’s not about asking, it’s about demanding. It’s not about convincing those who are currently in power, it’s about changing the very face of power itself.” — Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, 2012
TWEET OF THE DAY
BLAST FROM THE PAST
At Daily Kos on this date in 2014—It's odd how managing the menfolk's sexytimes never turns into a movement:
You never seem to hear the conservative all-our-religion-is-belong-to-you outrage machine on this stuff.
The federal Department of Health and Human Services dispatched its Office of Inspector General to review Medicare payments for vacuum erection systems, less formally known as penis pumps.
Certainly, there may certainly be individual wags out there who are miffed that their tax dollars are going for medical treatments to allow older people to have sex. There may be cranky folks who do not think that anyone should be getting Viagra for any reason, because if God wanted them to have an erection God would have taken care of that already.
But it's not a movement. You don't see a dozen conservative women all lined up in a row to testify to Congress that allowing men past childbearing age to have sex is an abomination unto their Lord, or nationwide hobby supply shops demanding that the entire national health care system be restructured to allow them to personally decide which of their male employees ought not to be receiving medical care for insufficient sexytimes. Their religion may dictate that nobody have sex unless they are married, and unless they are fertile, but there is no nationwide, Fox-News-covered movement afoot to demand that the appropriate health care remedies be given only to married and fertile people. You don't hear the Fox News talking heads going on about that.
It's only American women that get that treatment.
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