The Protest Marches Begin...

[Scooter]

Something I saw posted on FB:

Some good news:
For everyone who DID something, small or big, your efforts have been successful. Because of you:
1. Federal hiring freeze is reversed for VA (Veteran Affairs).
2. Court order Partial stay of the immigration ban for those with valid visas.
3. Green card holders can get back in country.
4. Uber pledges $3M and immigration lawyers for its drivers after #DeleteUber trends on Twitter.
5. Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) enrollment ads are still going to air.
6. The ACLU raised 24M over the weekend (normally 3-4Mil/year).
7. HHS, EPA, USDA gag order lifted.
8. EPA climate data no longer scrubbed from website.
9. More people of different career/religious/economic/race backgrounds are considering running for political office than ever before.
10. MOST importantly, since we live in a participatory democracy, the people are engaged.
11. obama's protections for lgbt workers will remain intact (for now)
While more is needed, sometimes you have to celebrate your wins.
Stay vigilant, but also take self care seriously. Activist burnout is a thing. Marathon, don't sprint.
#resist
#resistanceisbeautiful

[BoSoxGal]

[Guinevere]

That is a truly hideous looking building...

A really good example of Stalin-era "Socialist Realist architecture"...(A lot of buildings in Pyongyang look just like it...)

Then there is this one in Boston, referred to as the Corduroy Building (based on the texturing of the outside concrete). They style is referred to as "brutalism." They ain't kidding. Brutal on the senses. And now, 50 years later, the building is even worse -- a crumbling dump.



And Boston City Hall (total fail):



I never understood why such a historic and beautiful city would construct such monstrosities deep in its heart.

[RayThom]

... I never understood why such a historic and beautiful city would construct such monstrosities deep in its heart.

One word: POLITICS

[oldr_n_wsr]

I think someone had the blueprints upside down.

[Scooter]

Progressive activism takes its toll on congressional Republicans

There’s all kinds of compelling evidence that progressive activism, spurred by Donald Trump’s election, is stiffening Democratic spines on Capitol Hill. At the same time, it’s starting to have the opposite effect on their Republican colleagues.

House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-Texas), for example, scheduled an event in his district two weeks ago to discuss the Affordable Care Act, and he seemed eager to limit the audience to his allies. The gathering was held at a local Chamber of Commerce headquarters, it wasn’t announced to the public, and the congressman’s office said the point of the event was to hear from constituents facing “rising costs and loss of coverage and choice” because of “Obamacare.”

As the Houston Chronicle reported, dozens of “skeptical and at times testy” locals showed up to express their vocal support for the health care reform law.

There’s a lot of this going around. Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) recently snuck out the back of a library in order to steer clear of constituents who wanted to tell him not to take away their insurance. Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) faced a similar reaction during a town-hall event in Grand Rapids. TPM had a related report today out of Illinois.

Rep. Peter Roskam’s (R-IL) office cancelled a meeting with constituents about Obamacare on Wednesday when a staffer for the congressman learned that a reporter was present, according to the Aurora Beacon-News.

Constituent Sandra Alexander told the Beacon-News that she arranged the meeting about the Affordable Care Act with Roskam’s staff ahead of time and informed them that she would be bringing along a small group.

But staffers cancelled the meeting before it could begin, ostensibly because there were members of the media present.

In Virginia, meanwhile, Politico reports that Rep. Barbara Comstock (R) “stood up constituents over the weekend who attended two townhalls with questions about an Obamacare repeal and the Trump Administration’s travel ban.”

And speaking of Virginia Republicans, the Huffington Post reported this week:

Rep. David Brat (R-Va.) is feeling pressure from women in his district over Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

“Since Obamacare and these issues have come up, the women are in my grill no matter where I go,” Brat said to laughter at a private event on Saturday, according to a video posted to Facebook. “They come up and say, ‘When’s your next town hall?’ And believe me, it’s not to give positive input.”

He asked the audience to mobilize because “we’re getting hammered.”

A Bloomberg Politics report talked to another House Republican two weeks ago who said his constituents “are freaking out” because they’re afraid Congress is poised to take away their health benefits.

The message to activists rallying in support of health-care benefits couldn’t be much clearer: what you’re doing is working.

[Lord Jim]

For the third weekend in a row since he assumed the Presidency, another wave of anti-Trump rallies and marches are sweeping the globe...

First in Australia, then Indonesia, then London...

Now they're getting geared up on the East Coast of the US...(including one in front of his compound at Mar-a-Lago...)

One thing he's proven to be right about...

Nobody brings out the crowds like Donald Trump...

[Gob]

The Cornish join in...

[Lord Jim]

If he keeps going like he's been going, we may reach the point where there is a protest against Trump going on somewhere in the world, 24/7...

[RayThom]

And the man behind the curtain showed up in Philly again today. I hope he's done for a while. We're a sanctuary city -- we don't need him here.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/real ... urday.html

[Bicycle Bill]

Where were all these protests and dissatisfied people back in October and November?
Oh, that's right. More people DID vote against Trump than voted FOR him.

• Votes for Trump                                                      62,979,636
  ———————————————————————————————————————
  All Votes FOR Trump                                               62,979,636
  
  Votes for Clinton                                                     65,844,610
  Votes for Johnson                                                      4,042,291
  Votes for Stein                                                          1,207,141
  Votes for all other 3rd party candidates                     2,554,781
  ———————————————————————————————————————
  All Votes AGAINST Trump                                       73,648,823

-"BB"-