A Little About Me
A busy and satisfying day. I started at 7am by phone banking with Indivisible Yolo. Indivisible is getting quite a bit of traction nationally. I will become more connected to them. They seem to be a good, well-organized opposition organization.
Then, I had my first customer in my pants shortening mission. Because I spend most of my time in a wheel chair I see most people from the vantage point of a very short person and thus, I can see how many of the residents here on the farm need to have their pants shortened. And it turns out I enjoy shortening pants! It gives me a silly feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction to offer this service for free and it gives me subtle access to try to move them to political action.
Then, I had three hours of my OLLI memoir class, followed by dinner with my bridge buddies. Finally, at 7:00 I went to a Board meeting of the Residents Association where I presented and defended my proposal to an Atria Vice President for improvements to our dining experience. It was enthusiastically received and approved. It will now go forward the the VP at an in-person meeting on February 4 and it will be mailed to the Ombudsman, Randy Dinning. (Dining/Dinning, HA!)
And now at nearly 11 o'clock, I'm trying to get a post together.
Family:
In family news, Valery will be performing with her tai chi group in April. They will do a routine that involves movement with canes and she has chosen to Grandma's (GG's) cane. I think that is so lovely!
And Sam (not quite family) has received one of Trump's buy-out offers. He says if he could trust it, he would sign today. He is currently in Islamabad and his family is in McKinleyville.
Politics:
I called Senators Schiff, Padilla, and Representative Thompson today to block confirmation of Patel, Kennedy, and Gabbard and to thank Thompson for opposing Laken- Riley even though it passed, And I passed out 10 scripts to get other folks to call as well.
I also wrote a half dozen scripts on hot political issues for post card advocacy writing at church this past Sunday. The local Presbyterian church will also write post cards using my scripts.
Tomorrow Confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy for Secretary of Health and Human Services comes before the Senate. He is a nutcase and conspiracy theorist with racist leanings. If confirmed he would head NIH, CDC, FDDA, Medicare and Medicaid. He is an anti-vaxxer who is personally responsible for more than 200 child deaths from measles in Samoa, Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard are also up for approval this week. All would be disaster!
And he fired all the inspectors general - the watchdogs of Federal agencies. Of course he did.
Today was totally nuts in Trumplalaland. He declared all federal funding related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal funds. Never thinking he was cutting off funds for Federal programs including all foreign aid, all grants including Pell grants, Medicaid, Headstart, Veteran Suicide, infrastructure building, etc. Chaos reined and rained and reigned. He would probably lose at least 40% of his base by such action.
He offered 2,000,000 Federal workers incentives to resign. He hasn't rescinded that yet.
Lest we forget - here are the folks Trump has pardoned.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/democrats-lost-border-debate-immigration-trump-miller?r=epscg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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