5 Takeaways From DC’s Organized Resistance to Trump’s Military Occupation
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
What Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg all have in common.
Now is the time to start showing up, making connections, and organizing in your community.
As Musk attempts to take apart the Federal government piece by piece, we’re all about to get educated about what the Federal government does and how it impacts everything from healthcare to public education.
One cohort promises revenge and almost certainly ensures more political violence in Trump’s name. The other has taken a wrecking ball to the federal government, risking the reliability of every service Americans rely on daily.
This reality limits Trump’s political capital and will be limited further should voters do the usual course correction in the next midterm elections.
Our elected officials need to know what their constituents expect, and that we’ll have their backs when shit hits the fan.
The brief does an incredible job outlining how Trump and his cronies wielded targeted harassment, threats, and incitement to violence strategically all through their attempt to overthrow the election.
Considering how David Rubin, Tim Pool, and Benny Johnson loved to denounce and mock the idea of Russian interference in American politics as the “Russia Hoax,” it’s incredibly entertaining to watch them all describe themselves as victims of a Russian influence operation.
“I would like to know if the Bucks County Intermediate Unit, the other school districts in Pennsylvania and in Bucks County, might be interested in starting a class action lawsuit against the state for the calculable amount of money that we are losing as a school district ‘cause it’s going to blow up everybody’s budget,” Centennial School District Board Member Michael Hartline.
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.