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Roses Review
Curated bits for our fight for democracy Week 8: March 9 - 15, 2025
What would JFK do?
She gets my vote!
C’s the Moment
It is a time for courage … for creativity … for coming together in community.
“It
takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.”
― Marion Woodman
80-year-old Vietnam-era veteran Richard Hobcraft Allan III locked himself to a sign post outside the White House Monday morning to protest cuts to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. 2
Explain me this:
• A man with bankruptciesmultiple and losses in court is considered a good businessman?
• A man of many women and few churches is considered a gift from God?
• A man who mocks veterans and the handicapped is considered a good person?
• A man who lies over 30 thousand times is re-elected president?
This is fighting back! A bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This is what it’s going to take … working together, being creative, protecting each other and our American way of life.
Michael de Adder, @deadder.bsky.social
Why would billionairea need to cozy up to a corrupt leader?
Because
there’s never enough … never enough money … never enough power … to make some people feel
good about themselves.
The Trump administration is deeply corrupt …
Thank you, Senator Murphy!
Share freely!
“This is how democracies die,”
— Senator Chris Murphy
Murphy laid out more than 20 examples of blatant corruption from just the first six weeks of the Trump presidency, including:
1. The launch of Trump’s meme coin, enabling anyone seeking to influence the administration to privately funnel money directly to the president.
2. The gutting and manipulation of watchdog agencies like the NLRB, CFPB, and OSHA to benefit Elon Musk, the billionaires in Trump’s cabinet, and other elites.
3. The Eric Adams quid pro quo and the weaponization of the DOJ to reinforce a system of political retribution and favoritism.
4. The use of government contracts and stock deals to reward Trump’s allies, enriching them through taxpayer-funded opportunities and further consolidating political power.
“This is how democracies die,” Murphy continued. “Democracies die when the very powerful people steal from us so regularly, so openly, so unapologetically, that we come to believe that it's normal. click for full article
Informative video: Canadians seem to have a better grasp on the coup than we do.
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The Market: Trump versus Biden
He’s trying to tell us it’s just a “transition” while his hit man is wrecking our systems.
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Share freely! We are all in this together.
There are only 813 billionaires in the US … and not all of them are part of the coup. Let’s take care of each other and ourselves.
One
idea we probablythoughthaven’t
of.
What kind of a leader insults a best friend to the point where they don’t want to hang out anymore?
Patterns
A HERO RISES
We should have had a ticker-tape parade for Rep. Al Green. (D-Tx) … who will be forever one of our HEROES while we wonder about Schumer.
His move to dismantle the Education Department is merely the latest example of initiatives that Americans seem to strongly oppose.
• Around 70 percent of Americans opposed the administration’s move to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” (Ipsos and Marquette University Law School)
• 70 percent opposed dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Ipsos)
• 62 percent in one poll and 74 percent in another opposed Trump’s plan to take control of Gaza (Quinnipiac University and Ipsos)
• 67 percent opposed freezing funds for public health agencies (Ipsos)
• As many as 65 percent opposed trying to take the Panama Canal (Marquette)
• 64 percent opposed his 25 percent tariffs on goods from Canada (Post-Ipsos)
• 60 percent in one poll and 64 percent in another opposed trying to make Canada the 51st state (Economist-YouGov and Reuters-Ipsos)
• 59 percent opposed his 25 percent tariffs on goods from Mexico (Post-Ipsos)
• 58 percent and 59 percent in two polls opposed dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development (Ipsos and Washington Post-Ipsos)
• 58 percent opposed laying off large numbers of government workers (Post-Ipsos)
Most of us do not support what he’s doing. We are the majority. Speak out … Resist! Vote!
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Here are 10 MORE ideas to choose from:
11. Question the media.
12. Hold the media accountable. 13. Fight misinformation with facts and science. 14. Stop using social media sites that refuse to protect you from misinformation or attacks based on who you are.
15. If you are going to stay on social media sites that refuse to protect you from misinformation or attacks based on who you are, use them to share facts and uplift communities who are also resisting. 16. Block trolls, bots and individuals who are looking to drag you into futile fights or otherwise suck your time, energy and sanity.
17. Support unions.
18. Refuse to cross picket lines or shop at anti-union companies. 19. Support mutual aid organizations. 20. Find joy wherever you can and make joy whenever you can’t find it. They want us to be scared and miserable, so any chance or choice to be otherwise is truly a radical act.
AOC and Bernie are both doing town halls that are attracting crowds of people struggling to figure out these strange political times.
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@jwycoff.bsky.social
These are strange times … join together and stay safe.
