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Retired educator. Pro-science, pro-vaccination, pro-kids/grandkids, pro-America. People are predictable but we underestimate other variables. Emily Carr fan. The artwork is hers. War Canoes, Alert Bay, 1912
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If Hegseth is not fired, it means Trump will do the Insurrection Act. If he is fired we may get a reprieve. He was hired because he will do what the generals and Esper would not.

Is the DOD, like, important? All those America-loving GOP senators wouldn’t sign off on a cheap, liquor-soaked knockoff SECDEF if it were, right?

The great @hcrichardson.bsky.social from her speech on the 250th anniversary of the lighting of the lanterns in Boston’s Old North Church. Read this excerpt to the end and you will be rewarded. Read it aloud and it gets better. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-18-2...

youtu.be/ySEkuf94my4?...

I guess PBS is the resistance. Good for them.

Numbers count. If you are going to a protest this weekend, go door-to-door and invite the neighbors. Make a sign and go to the protest site on Friday or Sat morning before the protest and advertise it. People do not know it is happening.

“To reach legion-level before the apocalypse” Yes, the Musk baby legion texts are weird, but that is not the important take away. The important piece is the word “apocalypse”. Musk believes in climate change and that the world is ending so he will not fight to preserve current America.

Beyond flying in the face of the Constitution and global human rights, just imagine what grift Trump is cooking up with a series of concentration camp with the dictator of El Salvador.

This WH meeting with Bukele is a pivot point in American history. We need to recognize and react. Go to the busiest 4-way stop or pedestrian area in your town. We need to get in people’s faces that it is not a day to ignore.