Thursday, December 01, 2016

I'm fighting as fast and as hard as I can. Are you with me?

UPDATE 3 December 2016:
From https://electoralcollegepetition.com/16-days-left/#gs.ulDA6Ic,
TAKE ACTION to convince the Electoral College to vote their consciences and put Hillary in the White House!!!!!
SIGN UP where it says "TAKE ACTION"
DO IT TODAY--GET INVOLVED NOW!!!!!

16 Days Left: An Action Plan to Stop Donald Trump

When I started this petition we were already in the homestretch.
Now there are only 16 days left until the Electoral option is off the table.

Over the next 16 days, we are going to give this campaign everything we’ve got … and WE NEED YOUR HELP.

Our strategy has five main elements:
  1. Promote awareness of the petition via social media and mass media coverage
  2. Publish an open letter to the Electors signed by a broad coalition of Americans to be published in newspapers across the country
  3. Initiate individual contact with specific Electors by carefully chosen individuals and group representatives
  4. Organize and direct grassroots action, including phone banking and letter-writing
  5. Coordinate and promote protests in state capitals on December 19
Here’s how you can help:

KEEP THE PETITION GROWING

Social media: Keep sharing the petition! Only a small percentage of your friends see it each time you share, and most people have still not heard about it. Don’t just post links … take time to explain to your friends and family why it’s so important that they sign and support this effort. Find articles and images to share here … you can also submit relevant news articles and submit your own images here.
You can also watch and share this video we made about the petition:


Mass media: We are pushing every possible outlet to cover this story. It isn’t easy! Most mass media have moved on and are focusing on light holiday-season programming. You can help keep the petition in the public’s consciousness by contacting TV stations, reporters, and bloggers and asking them to cover this story. If you work in the media and can help us with any coverage, please contact us ASAP.

SUPPORT OUR OPEN LETTER

On December 13, we will be publishing an open letter to Electors in full-page newspapers ads across the country. It’s an expensive endeavor and the majority of our GoFundMe funds will be spent on this. Your support makes it possible for us to reach even more outlets. Donate to our campaign here.

TAKE ACTIONtake-action-now

We have created an Action Toolkit to help our volunteers – more than 12,000! – take action. We need to keep the pressure on, so please sign up and join our efforts. We give you all the tools and information you need, and you can log your actions so we can track our impact.
Click here to start taking action to help stop Donald Trump.

TALKING TO ELECTORS

We want to be clear on this point: We are asking you to NOT contact the Electors directly. They are private citizens who are not set up to manage massive public communication, and many Electors have reported being harassed and feeling threatened.
We are working with a broad coalition of like-minded groups, including the Hamilton Electors, to contacted selected Electors and have individual conversations about why they should vote their conscience.
We do need more Republicans involved in this action. If you are a Republican in one of the states Trump won, please contact us.

PROTEST ON DECEMBER 19

On December 19, Electors will gather in each state capitals to cast their final ballot.  It’s important to have a visible presence that day as they prepare to cast ballots, to remind them of their Constitutional obligation and maybe even give them the courage to do the right thing.
We are focusing on December 19, but there are many demonstrations being planned earlier, both in state capitals and elsewhere around the country, and we are supportive of those actions.
View our continually growing calendar of protests here.

GIVING IT ALL WE’VE GOT

For the next 16 days, we are going to do everything we can to educate Americans about the Electoral College, and work to fight back against reactionary politics.
Thank you for your continued support,
Daniel and the ECP team







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THIS IS NOT NORMAL
NEVER LET IT BECOME NORMAL
EVER!     

DON'T GIVE UP
DON'T GIVE IN
STAY ANGRY
trump voters stayed angry for eight years,
which is why we are having this conversation.

Until further notice, the purpose of this blog is to provide tools to help protect and preserve our rights, our liberties, and our country from the wrinkled fat orange clusterfuck that is Donald "acorn dick LOSER" trump. As I track down more information, I will continue to refine these tools.

I've moved the full to-do list, including all the vendors to boycott, to the bottom of the post for your comfort and convenience.

If you value my work, please support me on Patreon: just point your browser to https://www.patreon.com/ and type "Dot Calm's shadow" into the search box at the top--thank you! Even a dollar a month from 20 people would really help right now--it would cover part of my Internet. Show me that there's more out there than just a lonely chorus of crickets!

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Greetings, fellow Dot Calm Readers, Freedom Fighters, and Truth Crusaders!

Faithful friends, we sure have our work cut out for us here in The Resistance.

The black cloud of four interminable years of democracy-destroying, corruption-spreading, hate-and-fear-mongering, outright lying, and thievery on the grandest scale on the planet as embodied by Donald John trump looms large overhead, overwhelming in its implication and reach.

But be of stout heart--there is much to do, and we are the ones we've been waiting for. If we all work together, we can fight this puckered orange menace.

And fight we must!

I believe that, in a video I saw recently, it was "Our Revolution" board chair, Larry Cohen, who remarked to Thom Hartmann that Republican control of the House and Senate means that there may be little to nothing Democrats can do to stop trump, especially if the Republicans get rid of the filibuster. If that happens, the man said, we must work locally to set up sanctuaries to protect our brothers and sisters under attack from the trump administration and its minions in the House and Senate. And that, my faithful friends, is going to be a long, hard, expensive, and painful slawg, and we'll all have to sacrifice to make it happen--to protect ourselves and each other from the vultures that the trump voters elected. On the other hand, grassroots local organizing and activism will only make us and our communities stronger and help our cause long term, since it will show the trump voters who's really on their side working for them--and it ain't all the Goldman Sachs people trump wants to install in his administration. Note to self: I'll hafta ask my Tea Party Christian chump friend how he likes all of trump's Goldman Sachs swamp-insider picks. Hum, I thought he didn't like Wall Street. I thought he didn't like the idea of deregulating Wall Street. Hum.

Fortunately, there are little glimmers of good news.

One is that Bernie Sanders is letting his firebrand flag fly--keep your eyes and ears open, boyz 'n' girlz, for signs and signals from his team telling us how and when to organize. It's coming!

Another fun little piece of news is that Kellogg's pulled its advertising from Breitbart, stating that Breitbart's "values" do not comport with Kellogg's. Yay! In honor of Kellogg's decision, I went and bought me a great big box of Frosted Flakes--they're G-R-R-R-REAT!--and then I went onto Kellogg's website to thank them and tell them why I'm making a point to buy their products.

When I find who else is dumping Breitbart and thwarting trump, I'll add the list to the "WTF: TDL" at the bottom of the post so we can all vote with our wallets. Don't forget to check out the "WTF: TDL" --I update it every time I post.

Don't forget to read Dot Calm's shadow's favorite independent sources of news and information:

Daily Kos
AlterNet
 
Peas, friends. I can't say we'll all get through this somehow--because we may not. Some of us will not survive trump's war on the poor...some of us will not survive trump's rabid supporters or militarized police state...some of us may be sent to abroad to fight to protect trump's brittle ego...some of us will languish and die once we're knocked off our health insurance, our Social Security, our Medicare...some of us won't survive the pregnancies we are forced to carry to term...some of us will die in floods, fires, landslides, and other disasters caused by global warming as exacerbated by trump. So I can't say in good faith that it will all be alright or that I'll see ya on the flip side in four years. What I can say is, for the love of FSM, KEEP FIGHTING...KEEP THE FAITH...and seek joy wherever you can find it. Take care of yourselves and everyone you know...and everyone you don't know...for me. Trust me--you're worth it! And go pour yourself a freakin' Fireball already, will ya? Gawd, I am soooo ready for a good snort...!
  
- Dot Calm's shadow

Consider the preemptive Blogger phuqued-up phormatting disclaimer to be in effect. Grrr.
-- Dot Calm's shadow

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Choo Choo Time Headlines
    
Vox: The Trump conflicts of interest we can see are just the tip of the iceberg
...All over the world, there are businesses and buildings with chump's name on them. And any one of them can blackmail, bribe, or manipulate the chump by tweaking his dainty, brittle ego on Twitter....
    
Vox: Make the Electoral College great again: let "conscientious electors" do their jobs
    
Vox: A federal ethics office is sarcastically "congratulating" Trump over his conflict-of-interest plan
...Hilarious! They're trying to shame chump into doing the right thing. Too bad chump is impervious to shame.
    
Vox: Texas will now require aborted fetuses to be cremated or buried
...Attention, ladies! Time to send the Texas legislature all your used tampons and pads--just tell them you can't afford the time or money to cremate or bury them yourself! And if they succeed in forcing you to complete an unwanted pregnancy, then just drop off your little bundle of joy at their nearest office--since they took responsibility for your reproductive decisions, they've earned responsibility for the outcome!
    
Vox: Nancy Pelosi's victory shows House Democrats don't think they need to change to win
...Really interesting read. The article points out that, hey, Hillary won the popular vote by over 2.25 million votes with increased turnout over past recent elections. House and Senate candidates also did well but were stymied by gerrymandering and vote suppression. Did you know that Hillary outperformed more populist down-ballot candidates like Russ Feingold? I was shocked, shocked I tell you. So, those establishment Dems who don't think the Party needs to change may just have a point. My only problem with that notion is that we were completely shut out of governance when we had the better candidates and the better ideas. To me, that means that something hasta change, and quick! Is it just our messaging...? I'm sure that some good bottom-up, grassroots organizing will help. GET INVOLVED!
    
Vox: The Pakistani government released a readout of its call with Trump. It's magical.
...Yup, you read it here, folks--chump loudly and repeatedly reviled Pakistan on the campaign trail, but now that they said something nice about him, he lurves them almost as much as he lurves PEWtin. And we thot we were laughing-stocks when chimpie was in office...! I wonder what would happen if I were to meet chump and, over time, alternately insult and propitiate him....
    
Vox: The true story of America's sky-high prescription drug prices
...In other words, we're skrooed! Actually, it's a balance between whether we pay less for drugs and have less innovation or whether we eat the cost of innovation by paying higher drug prices. But I thot that it was the government, not the drug companies, funding most of the research...! I remember when AARP handed chimpie that Medicare concession, disallowing the government from negotiating lower prescription drug prices for seniors. I vowed that day never to join AARP because, to me, they sold out America's seniors. Ya know what? If they had let Medicare negotiate lower drug prices, there's a good chance that Dot Calm would have been alive and well today because she would have been able to get her Copaxone for her MS. Fucking greedy pharma-bro bastards. Fucking greedy sadistic chimp.
    
Vox: Everything mattered: lessons from 2016's bizarre presidential election
...Informative if depressing read. Ugh--I still can't believe we're in this gawd-awful sitch. FML.
    
Foreign Policy: 10 Ways to Tell if Your President Is a Dictator
...Yup--chump fits the bill nearly across the board, and he hasn't even been inaugurated yet!
    
POLITICO: I Voted for Hillary. And Now I'm Going to Write for Breitbart.
...Now this is really interesting. The author thinks that engaging in persuasion of the other side might actually be productive. I doubt it, but I sure hope I'm wrong!
    
POLITICO: Why We Shouldn't Worry About Giuliani's Ties to an Iranian Resistance Group
...The Iranian resistance group in question--which has bipartisan support in this country--actually sounds awesome. They are more advanced than the United States in that they want to establish "a democratic, non-nuclear, secular" state "at peace with its neighbors with gender equality and a ban on capital punishment." That's a LOT more progressive than we even pretend to be!
    
POLITICO: Trump's Claims About Illegal Votes Are Nonsense. I Debunked the Study He Cites as 'Evidence.'
    
Vox: CIA Director John Brennan tells the BBC that Trump's ideas are terrible
...It's unusual for a sitting CIA director to denounce a president elect, but chump is unusual and gawd-awful enough to deserve it...so the dressing-down comes as no surprise to real experts in the field...or, in fact, anyone with at least two firing neurons between his or her earz.
    
Vox: A Wisconsin court case may be the last best hope to fix gerrymandering
...It's a slim chance, but it's all we got. *sigh*
    
Vox: Not sure how to deal with a Trump presidency? Ask Mexicans.
...Stay tuned for the Mexicans' answers. Of course, we know how Mexicans deal with chump--lots and lots of ugly fat wrinkled piñatas!
    
Vox: Spitting landed an HIV-positive man in prison for 35 years. Spitting doesn't transmit HIV.
    
Vox: Green Party candidate Jill Stein got more votes than Trump's victory margin in 3 key states
...So much for chump's mandate. You know who has a mandate? Hillary and the Dems!
    
Vox: How Obama could make it much harder for Trump to build his "Muslim registry"
...Get busy, O'Bama! And get busy calling and bugging O'Bama, friends!
    
Vox: Donald Trump and the Indiana Carrier factory, explained
...Thom Hartmann gives a better explanation, but it's wrapped in a Russia Today YouTube video, and I'd rather not promulgate Russia Today--PEWtin's propaganda--unless it's the only explanation I can find for something important. In this case, the useful explanation was followed by a bunch of self-aggrandizement for RT, which was followed by a discussion with a panel that included some right-wing nut jobs who were incapable of even pretending to be civil. Eww. I'll try to hunt down a non-polluted version of the segment and post it next time.
    
Vox: The Carrier deal shows a big problem with Trump's approach to the presidency
...Um, you mean aside from the obvious problems?!?? Like, aside from the fact that chump is crowing about small, contrived "successes" he didn't even campaign on (i.e., no tariffs were involved in this "deal"--just penis pence's state's "rainy day" fund) that come at YUGE costs to the taxpayers because chump either has his own PR agenda or st00pitly submits to corporate blackmail?
       
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Democracy Now!, Daily Kos, and AlterNet Headlines
    

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President-elect Donald Trump has announced a handful of new Cabinet picks with deep ties to Wall Street. On Tuesday, he named Steven Mnuchin to be Treasury ... Read More →

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Amnesty International is calling on the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the violent police crackdown against Native American water protectors and their ... Read More →

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As much of the United States prepares to mark Thanksgiving this weekend, many Native Americans will gather in Plymouth to commemorate the 47th National ... Read More →

As President-elect Donald Trump's victory and early Cabinet picks embolden white supremacists and threaten reproductive rights, we speak with Katherine ... Read More →

As the United Nations says nearly 1 million Syrians are living under siege and the last remaining hospitals in eastern Aleppo have been destroyed, we speak with ... Read More →

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We feature a surprise address by Senator Bernie Sanders outside the White House on Tuesday during a global day of action against the Dakota Access pipeline ... Read More →

Actions were held in hundreds of cities worldwide Tuesday to protest the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline. Many protests targeted the offices of the U.S. ... Read More →

In an update on police treatment of activists at the Standing Rock standoff, Tara Houska, national campaigns director for Honor the Earth, describes how ... Read More →

We discuss the negative impact oil pipelines have on water and the climate with Regional Chief Kevin Hart of the Assembly of First Nations, Manitoba, who is ... Read More →

"Bernie Sanders absolutely would have beaten Donald Trump," says economist Jeffrey Sachs. When asked if the Democratic Party handed the country to Donald ... Read More →

As Democracy Now! broadcasts from the United Nations climate summit in Marrakech, Morocco, the U.S. special envoy on climate change, Jonathan ... Read More →

A federal judge in Eugene, Oregon, has just ruled that 21 young Americans can proceed to trial in a suit against the Obama administration. The suit alleges that the ... Read More →

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The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads the popular vote by hundreds of thousands of ballots, but she lost the Electoral College ... Read More →

As protests against President-elect Trump continued for a third night in cities across the United States, there are increasing reports of threats against Latinos, Muslims, ... Read More →

By now, global markets have rebounded after plummeting upon the news of Trump's victory. Stocks of some companies surged, including the largest private ... Read More →

"Fewer people voted in this election than voted in 2012," notes Juan González, journalist and Democracy Now! co-host, but he argues that data from Latino Decisions ... Read More →

Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre on November 12, 1991. Journalists Allan Nairn and Amy Goodman were there when Indonesian ... Read More →

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  • GOP suddenly a wee bit nervous about privatizing Medicare?


  • Hedge fund manager 'takes glee' over how Donald Trump conned his voters


  • Bernie Sanders goes all in on Trump's Health Secretary choice, calls Trump's campaign 'just lies'


  • Sign the petition: Elect the president by national popular vote


  • Trump's Carrier deal doesn't look so good if you read past the headlines


  • White House trolls Trump on his Carrier job-saving 'deal:' Now do it 804 more times!


  • Trump Effect: Latino man punched from behind—'This is for Donald Trump!'


  • Court orders North Carolina to redraw its legislative districts and hold 2017 special elections


  • Warren: Trump's pick for treasury secretary is 'the Forrest Gump of the financial crisis'


  • Mnuchin the predator; Bill O'Reilly's apologia; too many generals?


  • Like the Daily Kos Recommended email? Chip in $1 to support the team that brings progressive news to your inbox every day.


  • The Office of Government Ethics is messaging Trump on his 'total' divestiture ... via Twitter?


  • Trump's packing his cabinet with A++ homophobes


  • In a nod to the working man, Team Trump offers donors an inauguration package for only $1,000,000


  • Cassini to begin death defying moves near Saturn's rings


  • Jeff Sessions: Protections for disabled kids are ruining America's schools


  • Charlotte police acted lawfully when they killed Keith Scott, DA says

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  • Morons who voted for Republicans now worry they will take away their health care—as promised


  • Please stop doing this very annoying thing


  • Televangelist says Donald Trump is exactly like all of Jesus' disciples—all of them


  • Like the Daily Kos Recommended email? Chip in $1 to support the team that brings progressive news to your inbox every day.


  • Trouble in white racist paradise as 'alt-right' shows its true color


  • Advertisers are fleeing Breitbart as Kellogg joins the exodus


  • Republican Oversight Committee chair mysteriously loses his interest in investigations


  • Cartoon: Crude awakening at Standing Rock


  • Trump to make major announcement ... that he's going to pretend his children can run a blind trust


  • Legal expert on Trump DC hotel: 'GSA must end its lease arrangement with President-elect Trump now'


  • Sign the petition: Elect the president by national popular vote


  • Trump's potential Homeland Security chief wants to ship a million American citizens to Gitmo


  • Trump's pick for attorney general: Protections for disabled kids are ruining America's schools


  • Cartoon: Transition trial balloons


  • Donald Trump tweets a new attack on the First Amendment, threatens exile for flag burners


  • In a nod to the working man, Team Trump offers donors an inauguration package for only $1,000,000


  • Policy, not just politics, is screwing us all

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    By Kali Holloway, AlterNet
    Saving just half the jobs while giving a huge corporate tax break is not going to help American workers. READ MORE»


    By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet
    The media found out about this congratulatory phone call and full reversal in a rather unusual way. READ MORE»


    By Michael Arria, AlterNet
    The woman's lawyer calls the action "criminal." READ MORE»


    By Amanda Marcotte, Salon
    Conservatives in the state want to make sure women are punished for failing to give birth. READ MORE»


    By Kali Holloway, AlterNet
    Hey, they read it on their Facebook feeds. READ MORE»


    By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet
    "Black Lives Matter can't be the new KKK—the KKK is still around." READ MORE»


    By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet
    "The ‘billionaire of the people’ ordered young garlic soup with thyme and sautéed frog legs," Colbert said of Trump's dinner with Romney at Jean Georges.  READ MORE»


    By Elizabeth Preza, Raw Story
    Brandon Hall faces up to five years in prison for signing other people’s names in support of a 2012 judicial candidate.  READ MORE»


    By Jaya Priya Reinhalter, AlterNet
    Now is a vital time to reflect on the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. READ MORE»
         
    By Kali Holloway, AlterNet
    History proves that idea has never been true.  READ MORE»


    By Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect
    His election is "an extinction-level event for American labor." READ MORE»


    By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
    Wisconsin GOP claims Greens and Clinton are colluding.  READ MORE»


    By Kylie Cheung, The Frisky
    “A lot has been made about the white working class. I think we’d better take a look at the working class of all colors." READ MORE»


    By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet
    Let's give Trump his 5,000th chance. READ MORE»


    By Phillip Smith, AlterNet
    Barack Obama has already commuted the sentences of more prisoners than the last 11 presidents combined. But there is still a backlog of thousands.  READ MORE»


    By Laura Flanders, The F Word
    What history can teach us about Trump's rise. READ MORE»


    By Vijay Prashad, AlterNet
    The fall of Aleppo and the collapse of diplomacy point to a new and probably dark future for the country. READ MORE»


    By Carrie Weisman, AlterNet
    Women in the porn industry are fighting the forces of sexism, racism and homophobia, one dirty film at a time.  READ MORE»


    By Tom Tomorrow, AlterNet
    Making America safe for white supremacists again. READ MORE»


    By Richard Eskow, Blog for Our Future
    Figures like Sanders, Ellison, and Elizabeth Warren embody both the ideas and the integrity Democrats will need to mobilize their base and win back lost voters. READ MORE»


    By Victoria McNally, Revelist
    They're not the only ones to demonstrate the value of this controversial action protected by the First Amendment. READ MORE»


    By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet
    There is no evidence that the officer's taser was ever in the victim's hands. READ MORE»


    By Travis Gettys, Raw Story
    High schoolers take down Martin Shkreli.  READ MORE»
         
    By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet
    Sanders says Trump is "delusional."  READ MORE»


    By Jim Hightower, AlterNet
    The billionaire brothers are training political puppets to push their hateful agenda. READ MORE»


    By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
    Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin by less than 30,000 votes out of 2.8 million cast. READ MORE»


    By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet
    Drain the swamp? Not with Steven Mnuchin. READ MORE»


    By Brian Kahn, Climate Central
    It’s unclear if the Southeast will become wetter or drier due to climate change—and that will have a big influence on future wildfire activity. READ MORE»


    By Matthew Sheffield, Salon
    Americans are abandoning TV news en masse, but our next president is about to make it more relevant than ever. READ MORE»


    By Mark Sumner, DailyKos
    Just because a country becomes a liberal democracy doesn't mean it will stay that way.  READ MORE»


    By Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
    It's the comedy America deserves—but maybe not the one it needs right now. READ MORE»


    By Tom Boggioni, Raw Story
    Keillor was “impressed by the sheer variety of their profanity.” READ MORE»


    By Matt Bors, AlterNet
    They may be in captivity, but they can't stop arguing over whether Bernie was better. READ MORE»
        
    By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
    Wisconsin judge likes hand counts, but won't order it under state law. READ MORE»


    By Dr. Galen Buckwalter, AlterNet
    The life spans of middle-aged white men are taking a nose dive. READ MORE»


    By Grace Guarnieri, Salon
    Trump's potential DHS pick wants to imprison possibly 1 million at Gitmo and doesn't believe there is any police brutality. READ MORE»


    By George Michael, The Conversation
    The so-called "alt-right" is likely to grow, gaining a firmer foothold in American politics. READ MORE»


    By Lorraine Chow, AlterNet
    Turns out, there is such a thing as too much cheese. READ MORE»


    By Brendan Gauthier, Salon
    For all his talk about draining the swamp, there sure will be a lot of Koch confidants in Trump's Cabinet. READ MORE»


    By Alexandra Rosenmann, AlterNet
    Trump University playbook: "If they complain about the price, remind them that Trump is the best." READ MORE»


    By Zain Raza, Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky's Official Site
    Roosevelt once described Mussolini as "that admirable Italian gentleman."  READ MORE»


    By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch
    Time to abandon our imperial adventures. READ MORE»


    By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
    The mainstream media largely ignored Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign. READ MORE»


    By Michael Arria, AlterNet
    Elaine Chao's family runs a global shipping business and she is also Mitch McConnell's wife. How cozy is that!  READ MORE»


    By Travis Gettys, Raw Story
    Eight in 10 respondents said they were anxious and concerned for their students, especially black, Muslim and LGBT children and teens. READ MORE»


    By Paul Armentano, NORML
    Elected officials try to undo the one bright spot of November 8th. READ MORE»


    By Donna Kaz, Skyhorse Publishing
    A rare look from inside the famous feminist activist group. READ MORE»


    By Jeff Fox, State of the Net
    Feeling helpless? This might help. READ MORE»
         
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    Keith Olbermann, rebuking the vacuum of vapid media, takes the reins of The Resistance and replies to chump's ABNORMAL behavior when no one else will...in this case, addressing every line of chump's "Pettysburg Address"


    AronRa's video on Standing Rock gives more information in one place than you'll ever hear in the corporate media


    Thom Hartmann has an extremely informative conversation on chump, how he could succeed, and why he will likely fail

     
    chump's cabinet is a basket of deplorables










    chump sidles away from his campaign promise to torture--now I know my Tea Party Christian friend, who lurves torture for the sake of it (it is biblical, you know!) will be disappointed in his fat wrinkled ugly orange messiah....




    Man, I am lovin' me some Trevor Noah!!!!!




    'Til next time, check out these great channels:
    ...or, if you just want something mindless and fun, try Tested
      
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    WTF: TDL
    (Welcome To the Fight: To-Do List)

    Action List

    PROTECT yourself financially and reproductively.

    1. If you need a loan, get it NOW--rates have already gone up; they went up at least three times between the election and the end of last week. MOVE your retirement out of the stock market and into a stable fund that is guaranteed NOT to lose your principal--if you're not risk averse, keep your money in stocks until after the inauguration...but move it out ASAP afterward because, once chump and the Rethuglikkkants deregulate Wall Street, we are in for a bust that makes chimp's Great Recession look like O'Bama's recovery.

    2. If you're a woman of reproductive age or a man who knows and loves women of reproductive age, stock up on as much "Plan B" (the "morning after" pill) as you can afford NOW. Plan to take one pill either immediately after unprotected sex or the morning after unprotected sex, and plan to take another pill 24 hours later. No matter what else you do, STOCK UP NOW on Plan B because even the best contraceptives fail, and you won't be able to get an abortion once chump and the Rethuglikkkants take over.

    3. If you're a woman of reproductive age and don't already have an IUD or contraceptive implant, get yours NOW. Mirena has progestin, not estrogen, and can reduce your period; the copper ones without hormones (like Paragard) can cause cramping and heavy bleeding that doesn't go away until the device is removed (think having the second day of your period for a year at a clip). Of these two IUDs, women seem to prefer Mirena, but the device can still fall out. Cosmopolitan has a great discussion on these and other IUDs, what's involved with getting one (not a big deal, but you'll bleed for at least a week afterward), what's involved with having one removed (also not a big deal, but you'll bleed for at least a week after). "Managing Contraception" has an article on Mirena (not scary). If I were you, I'd skip the Skyla--it only lasts 3 years, so you wouldn't even be done with the orange fuckwad's first term if you get one. Planned Parenthood has a video about contraceptive implants and great information about all forms of contraception. And if you think you might need a do-it-yourself abortion some time in the future, go talk to Planned Parenthood NOW and see if you can stock up on mifepristone now--the options for DIY abortions at home using substances like vitamin C seem promising to desperate women but don't have any scientific backing. You can also try womenonwaves.org and womenonweb.org.

    Now, make your daily calls and do the rest...

    DAILY CALLS!

    CALL your U.S. Senators and Representatives DAILY at their LOCAL offices. SHOW UP in person if you can. Call each day with ONE issue--and KEEP CALLING. The staffers track your calls by issue, so don't give in to the temptation of giving them the whole laundry list all at once. Here is our list of demands:

    0. Call your members of Congress now to ask them to denounce Stephen Bannon. And Jeff Sessions, and Mike Flynn, and Mike Pompeo, and MORON Ebell, and the rest of them. Just call and tell your elected representatives to denounce and block ALL of trump's appointments because they're all reality-denying bigots who hate so many actual Americans that they are unfit to serve all Americans.

    1. DEMAND they support Barbara Boxer's bill to ABOLISH the Electoral College--popular vote only. DEMAND paper ballots only, and DEMAND audit trails be published in local papers. DEMAND they LET ALL Americans vote (undo voter roll purges and other Black voter suppression) and MAKE Election Day a national holiday for all. And STOP gerrymandering.

    2. FIGHT trump's personnel appointments and FILIBUSTER ALL trump's SCOTUS appointments. Supporting Citizens United or opposing the rights of women, immigrants, non-whites, non-Christians, LGBTQ+, and the poor are UNACCEPTABLE. This is NON-NEGOTIABLE.

    3. DEMAND trump's impeachment--DEMAND he be investigated NOW for corruption and conflict of interest. DEMAND to see his taxes. trump has already committed impeachable offenses, so DEMAND that he be held accountable NOW.

    4. REMIND them THEY'RE FIRED if they don't obstruct, obstruct, obstruct trump and the Republicans from Day 1. If they resist, REMIND them that Hillary WON the popular vote by over 2.25 million and climbing.

    5. DEMAND restoration of the Fairness Doctrine--DEMAND fair, fact-based, accurate media free from the false equivalencies and unchecked free coverage that foisted trump on us.

    CALL President Obama every day:
     
    1. DEMAND a SPECIAL PROSECUTOR to investigate FBI director James Comey and Donald trump for interfering with the election.
     
    2. DEMAND the Army Corps of Engineers go to Flint to dig up and replace all the poisoned pipes.
     
    3. PARDON Edward Snowden and consider pardoning Hillary Clinton--even though she's innocent--to stop the Republican witch hunts, especially since one of trump's campaign promises was to jail her: Republicans hate her so much that, if she'd as so much as farted, Republicans would have had her in jail faster than Martha Stewart. The fact that Hillary isn't in jail is proof positive that she's innocent, which is proof positive that the Republicans will keep coming at her.
       
    4. STOP DAPL. DOJ MUST investigate the atrocities being committed against peaceful, non-violent water protectors who just want clean water and tribal sovereignty over their own lands. MAKE Standing Rock a national monument. The US Army Corps of Engineers MUST revoke all permits to build DAPL. STOP the construction NOW, PERMANENTLY.

    5. DEMAND that NSEERS be dismantled to make it harder for chump to set up his Muslim registry.

    AND THE REST!!

    SIGN UP for daily headlines from Daily Kos, AlterNet, and "Democracy Now!" SIGN petitions. ATTEND town halls and protests. Jeremy Scahill's publication "The Intercept" is another high-quality resource of investigative reporting you'd be hard pressed to find elsewhere. GET INFORMED and GET INVOLVED!

    If or when trump really does set up his Muslim registry, SIGN UP! Trevor Noah suggested this to be funny, but it's gone viral because the racist bigoted assholes can't deport us all, now can they? If I can do it as a proud anti-theist atheist, then so can you as whatever religion or lack thereof that you are. Keystone Progress has a page where you can pledge to sign up: Pledge to register as a Muslim if Trump creates a registry.

    VOLUNTEER for and DONATE to all the organizations that D. LOSER trump is targeting. Get on their mailing lists and donate as much time and money as you can to Planned Parenthood, NRDC, American Civil Liberties Union, and causes that matter to you. Change your cell phone carrier to CREDO, which is a Sprint re-seller that supports blue causes. Planned Parenthood is especially important to support right now--women will die if we don't. You can also donate to WomenOnWeb, who help women get safe abortions online.

    ORGANIZE to TAKE OVER the Democratic Party: FIGHT trump and the Republicans, CLEAN UP Democratic Party failures, WIN the midterms, and apologize to Bernie and America for failing.

    PROTEST all media that inflicted trump on us--BOYCOTT their advertisers and TELL them why. This includes FUX Noise.

    GRAB the pussy-in-thief by the wallet: BOYCOTT businesses that sell trump products and TELL them why.

    *****

    Boycott List

    Here's a twofer: let's save our money for when dump tanks the economy and grab the trumpussy grabber-in-thief where it hurts most--by his wallet!

    Want to boycott trump? There's an app for that!

    And here's a list of trump companies.

    There's also a spreadsheet of trump supporters and vendors that carry trump merch that includes the vendors below.
    Don't forget New Balance, who praised and supported trump: 1 (800) 595-9138.

    Here's the list from Mindy Fischer, featuring 28 vendors that sell trump merchandise. BOYCOTT them all and TELL them why!

    6pm
    Contact info: (888) 676-2660, HQ- (702) 943-7777
    cs@6pm.com

    Amazon
    Contact info: (888) 280-4331 HQ- (206) 266-1000
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/general-questions.html?skip=true

    Belk
    Contact info: (866) 235-5443 HQ- (704) 357-1000
    http://www.belkfeedback.com/(X(1)S(sbbxm3z11e1guxbtctk2wdkc))/Index.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

    Bloomingdale's
    Contact info: (800) 777-0000 HQ- (212) 705-2000
    http://survey.medallia.com/?blm-tuwyt-com

    Bluefly
    Contact info: (877) 258-3359 HQ- (212) 944-8000
    flyrep@bluefly.com

    The Bon-Ton
    Contact info: (800) 233-7626 HQ- (800) 937-5449
    http://investors.bonton.com/contactus.cfm

    Bed Bath and Beyond
    Contact info: (800) 462-3966 HQ- (908) 688-0888
    https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/selfservice/ContactUs?…

    Burlington Coat Factory
    Contact info: (855) 355-2875 HQ- (609) 387-7800
    http://www.burlingtoncoatfactory.com/contactus.aspx

    Carson's
    Contact info: (800) 945-4438 HQ- (317) 971-6200
    http://investors.bonton.com/contactus.cfm

    Century 21 department store
    Contact info: (877) 350-2121 HQ- (888) 221-2551
    https://www.c21stores.com/contact

    Dillard's
    Contact info: (800) 345-5273 HQ- (501) 376-5200
    http://www.dillards.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ContactUs

    DSW Shoes
    Contact info: (866) 379-7463 HQ- (614) 237-7100
    http://www.dsw.com/dsw_shoes/customer_service/send_email.jsp

    Hudson’s Bay
    Contact info: (800) 521-2364 HQ- (800) 521-2364
    https://www.thebay.com/webapp/wcs/stores…

    HSN
    Contact info: (800) 284-3900 HQ- (727) 872-1000
    https://www.hsn.com/cs/email_us/default.aspx

    Jet
    Contact Info: (855) 538-4323 HQ- (844) 538-2255
    help@jet.com

    Lord & Taylor
    Contact info: (800) 223-7440 HQ- (212) 391-3344
    https://www.lordandtaylor.com/webapp/wcs/stores…

    Macy’s
    Contact info: (800) 289-6229 HQ- (513) 579-7000
    http://survey.medallia.com/?mcy-tuwyt-com

    Marshalls and TJ Maxx
    Contact info: (888) 627-7425 HQ- (508) 390-1000
    https://www.marshallsonline.com/contact-us

    Neiman Marcus
    Contact info: (888) 888-4757 HQ- (562) 463-9333
    https://www.neimanmarcus.com/assistance/contactUs.jsp

    Nordstrom
    Contact info: (888) 282-6060 HQ- (206) 628-2111
    https://nordstrom.custhelp.com/app/ask/incidents.c$sent_queueid/12

    Overstock.com
    Contact info: (800) 843-2446 HQ- (801) 947-3100
    https://help.overstock.com/app/ask

    Perfumania
    Contact info: (866) 557-2368 HQ- (800) 228-3489
    http://perfumaniaholdings.com/contact

    Saks Off Fifth
    Contact info: (877) 551-7257 HQ- (212) 320-4700
    https://www.saksoff5th.com/contactus

    Stein Mart
    Contact info: (888) 783-4662 HQ- (904) 346-1500
    http://ir.steinmart.com/contactus.cfm

    Wayfair
    Contact info: (866) 263-8325 HQ- (617) 532-6100
    https://www.wayfair.com/help/faq.php

    Winners
    Contact info: (514) 788 4949 HQ- (905) 405-8000
    https://www.winners.ca/en/contact

    Zappos
    Contact info: (800) 927-7671 HQ- (702) 943-7777
    https://secure-www.zappos.com/contact

    Zulily
    Contact info: (877) 779-5615 HQ- (206) 724-0500
    http://www.zulily.com/contacts

    OK, friends--let's get busy!