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Beginnings

Last night something amazing happened. Thousands of Americans flooded into streets to publicly proclaim they want the Mueller investigation protected, and that is to say, they want corruption rooted out of federal government. This happened on the heels of the midterm election in which people voted in record numbers. I wouldn’t exactly call Democrats taking back the House of Representatives a reversal of fortune, since the Trump party controls the Senate, but Democrats now have opportunities to do damage control. People whose rights have been trampled on by the Trump party perhaps feel somewhat safer and empowered. I do. I no longer see us as a country on the same precipice as when our democratic checks and balances were not working at all. We have been living in a country at risk and it has been very frightening to a lot of people. Money is power in this country and the financial inequities are devastating in many ways. The Trump party has had and still has a lot of power; because ...
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Coup d'Etat

Today the Trump party, formerly known as the GOP, scored a big one. They violated the democratic process, flagrantly, and it was a brutal takeover, but they scored one. I can only hope there still will be justice and that justice rights wrong. No sooner was the fix in, they secreted their confirmed Supreme Court judge nominee Brett the Bart Kavanaugh into court and administered the oath. The rush to oath followed the rush to confirm. It all had an air of desperation and stealth like the Trump party was running from a crime scene, making a mad dash with hundreds of American Bar Association lawyers and leaders; hundreds of thousands of church leaders and parishioners; and millions of Americans at their heels, not to speak of journalists at major newspapers and media outlets, arguing that Brett the Bart Kavanaugh did not qualify to be seated on the Supreme Court.  Trump party members like McConnell, Grassley, Graham, Hatch, and a woman, Collins, and all the rest ran away with...
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Dr. Blasey Ford, the Trump Party, and Freedom and Truth

Freedom is everything. What is constrained, controlled, and oppressed withers and dies. Resilience is finding a way to be free every day. Today I am thinking of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. I had created a blogpost during the week she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding her allegations that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both teenagers. Now I am thinking about how casually I posted to my blog the sketch portrait and very short summary account. Now I am thinking I was relatively callous as I did. Until one actually confronts what it is to testify as she did about her trauma and post-trauma experience, in a way that is in itself traumatic, one cannot know the complexity of doing so. I have seen nothing for days in the news about Dr. Blasey Ford, and maybe it’s better that way. I have no doubt her life has been impacted in a huge way both personally and publicly, that her life will never be the same. She may be relieved to slip away to ...
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