Weekly Check In March 12

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Housekeeping
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April 15: Tax Day March
April 22: March for Science

News to know
Confirmation Hearings
Secretaryof Labor: Alex Acosta

Immigration / Dreamers
Update on Dreamers and the Muslim Ban

Healthcare
Link Roundup: on the Republicans Healthcare bill
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Get Educated
Link Roundup: Republicans vote to get rid of fair pay and safe workplace rules, tax hikes in Kansas, vulnerable democrats, science on opioids, detransitioning trans people in Wisconsin
Link Roundup: flippable state governments, healthcare, in memory of Sandra Bland, restrictive voting laws, anti-Trump resistance, ACLU grassroots
Trump Trackers - following up on regulatory and administration changes

How is everyone doing out there?

Poll #18085 This week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

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called my one senator
7 (53.8%)

called my other senator
5 (38.5%)

called my representative
3 (23.1%)

called my state representatives
0 (0.0%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

sent a letter/email/postcard
7 (53.8%)

donated money to a cause
7 (53.8%)

went to an in person activist group
5 (38.5%)

participated in an online training/call
3 (23.1%)

went to a protest
4 (30.8%)

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signed up for daily action alerts
3 (27.3%)

took care or myself
6 (54.5%)

committed to action in the coming week
5 (45.5%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
1 (9.1%)

did something else
5 (45.5%)

Comments

[sathari]

I'm cackling at unholy experiments with Nixon's cells. And, yeah, seriously, this man does indeed make Nixon look good. Hell, I've had kind words for GWB in the past few days, and I've been known to call his administration "Bushreich." Must the Republican Party keep lowering the bar for itself? (Also, there is something downright Kafkaesque about the fact that someone mentored by a good buddy of Joe McCarthy's now has ties to Russia. Like, we could probably replace fossil fuels with the energy from a turbine powered by the spinning that McCarthy is doing in his grave.)

And, yeah on the tactics--- though honestly, I've been doing a little general historical poking, and frankly I'm increasingly convinced that it's less that those tactics belong to the Tea Party and more that that's just kind of what Americans are supposed to be doing with our elected officials in general--- politics is sort of supposed to be, if not our favorite fandom, then at least second-favorite (or our favorite hatedom, depending ;) ). Because when you get down to it, we've done rather a lot of this sort of thing in our history, clear back to the nation's founding.

[executrix]

Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, and there used to be a lot more gestures toward respect and collegiality. I mean, Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland was "let's all cooperate and be friends!" tantamount to bringing a plastic butter spreader to a gunfight. With somebody who hunts rabbits with an assault rifle. And the Republicans didn't even come up with some bogus reason for not confirming him, they wouldn't even vote.