Evening Roundup, September 25
Featuring "The Tea" with April Ryan--Live with Congressional Black Caucus Members, Jennifer Weiss Wolf, Austin Rose with Jen Rubin, Lee Drutman, Zerlina Maxwell, Azza Cohen, and Michael de Adder
The Tea w/ April LIVE with Congressional Black Caucus Members
This special edition of The Tea with April Ryan was filmed live on location from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 54th Annual Legislative Conference.
Community is as important to the fight for democracy as everything else
It has been a hell of a week for gridlock in my hometown, New York City, as global leaders convene for the 80th United Nations General Assembly—where on Monday, President Donald Trump delivered an hour-long rant calling climate change a hoax…
D.C. community members and national immigration organizations sue Trump over ICE: Austin Rose in conversation
Austin Rose, Managing Attorney at the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, joined Jen to discuss a case filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to create a class action lawsuit on behalf of people arrested and detained without probable cause by federal immigration enforcement agents (ICE) in the District of Columbia.
The Haze
I know I don’t have to tell any of you how much going on in the United States right now politically. The impact on communities who are directly targeted by the harmful policies of the second Trump administration becomes more and more real with every Executive Order that sounds more like something out of George Orwell’s 1984 than real life.
Resisting Propaganda
The imagery of National Guard troops in American cities has become propaganda that seeks to normalize having military in our streets. Azza Cohen breaks down how these images are not just pictures.
'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.'*
Michael de Adder is an award-winning editorial cartoonist. You can find him on Substack.
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If a single dollar doubles every day for 30 days, it reaches a total of over $536 million ($536,870,912) at the end of the 30th day.
So, would it follow, that a single voice that doubled everyday would become 536 million voices after 30 days? That seems doable.
How much do you want to stop His Royal Heinous and the fascist takeover of the country? Part 1 of 3
Enough that you’re willing to make a small sacrifice? Like altering your spending habits for a month or two or three? That could be all it would take to get the attention of the oligarchs (formerly known as The Robber Barons in the first Gilded Age, also The Fat Cats, The Greedy Bastards).
A brief demonstration of We, the People’s, power of the purse could persuade them to quit supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
We quit spending, except on essentials, businesses lose money, stock market goes down, Greedy Bastards pay attention to our demands.
Greedy Bastards own most of the politicians of both major parties. GBs start losing money, tell politicians to change course and do what We, the People want.
We are running out of peaceful options. The legislature and Supreme Court are controlled by HRH. He controls the executive branch, including the Military, Justice Department, FBI, ICE, the IRS. He controls all levers of power.
We, the people, still have the power of the purse. No one can control our spending, or lack of spending. When all else fails we can go on a spending strike until the business community stops supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
Economic warfare is the only thing the oligarchs, the business community will understand and act on. Call it a Surreptitious General Strike (Quiet Quitting). Go to work, do as little as possible. Stop spending money except on essentials. Quit feeding the corporate beast that supports the HRH.
Stop participating. Nearly 70% of the U.S. economy is driven by consumer spending. All of us. Hobble the economy and the stock market. Mahatma Gandhi drove the British from India by peaceful civil disobedience. We can stop the fascist takeover in the same way.
We can keep rehashing past and present atrocities until our access to the internet is taken away by the regime, or we can DO something!
Now is the time for this Peaceful Solution.
FREE: 126 PROTEST SIGNS
Punchy. Hard Hitting. Impactful.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/free-126-protest-signs?r=3m1bs