Did you ever get the feeling that you need Toto to pull back the curtain, because this scene in the movie looks phony?
Consider for a moment Trump's order: PROTECTING THE NATION FROM FOREIGN TERRORIST ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES
Yeh, about that.
Read about Steve Bannon: He Runs America Now
He says he wants to bring the system down and replace it with an economic system related to jobs and rebuilding the infrastructure. Sounds a bit like Bernie to me.
Yesterday, South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard pledged to veto a discriminatory bill that would restrict transgender students from accessing locker rooms and facilities that match their gender identity.
SB 115 was introduced this week even though Daugaard vetoed a similar bill last spring.
There's been much made of Ban on admitting individuals from seven countries imposed by Trump's executive order. What hasn't been discussed much is how that list, which covers Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, was compiled. The text of the executive order itself doesn't specifically name the countries. It refers only to US law.
I believe in direct action for every injustice there is a protest. There are very few ways to be heard above the din but getting out on the streets is one that still works.
The election of Trump seems to have reawakened the willingness of Americans to get out there and be heard.
NYT developing
A federal judge in Brooklyn issued an emergency stay of part of President Trump’s executive order on immigration, ruling that sending refugees and others back would cause “irreparable harm.”
So okay the protesters didn't show up when militias armed by the Pentagon fought those armed by the CIA. Isn't stuff like that the reason they're refugees in the first place? Better late than never, I guess.
James Marc Leas is a patent attorney and a past co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild Palestine Subcommittee. On January 25, 2017, he posted The Supreme Court Supplied a Blueprint to Overcome "Citizens United" -- We Just Need to Use It. Perhaps not the best title, because we really don't expect anything decent to come out of SCOTUS.
Got a cryptic text from a friend asking if I knew anybody who "could shut JFK down," and thought, that was weird. But then another responded to an invitation I sent out about a show I'm playing in Times Sq tonight that she was instead off to JFK for the protest. Huh, what's going on, I thought?
President Trump may be trying to silence the clean energy industry, but he's too late because it's already making lots of noise.
In jobs creation:
