Monday, January 20, 2025. Annette’s News Roundup.
Happy MLK Jr. Day.
Remember heroism and decency. Live it.
Joe is always busy.
Sample response.
My statement on President Biden's pardon:
— Harry Dunn (@libradunn1.bsky.social) 2025-01-20T13:17:12.358Z
Will these things work? Do them, and more.
From Letty Cottin Pogrebin-
OPERATION TANK THE INAUGURATION
“To tank the inauguration’s TV ratings (something the orange guy values a lot) we were advised to keep the TV on but have it on HGTV, the Food Channel, or National Geographic - any channel that IS NOT broadcasting the inauguration.
“Nielson counts the number of TVs on and what station (program) we are watching. The goal is to have as many TVs on as possible but not tuned into the inauguration - which, in turn, will suppress the inauguration ratings.”
I’m aware that Neilson only tallies the TV habits of households in which they’ve installed electronic devices that measure and transmit viewing data. Nonetheless, we have nothing to lose by the effort and if enough of us do it and talk and text about it, maybe it will reach DJT, piss him off, and thereby serve its creators’ purpose.
Lawsuits.
Sample.
Elon Musk’s DOGE to be sued within minutes of Trump inauguration
The legal status of Musk’s government waste panel will be challenged in federal court almost as soon as the president-elect is sworn in.
In a 30-page complaint obtained by The Washington Post ahead of its filing, the public interest law firm National Security Counselors says that the nongovernmental DOGE panel is breaking a 1972 law that requires advisory committees to the executive branch to follow certain rules on disclosure, hiring and other practices.
Some of the giants leading lawsuits are Democracy Forward
and Democracy Docket
From Dan Feiffer, former Senior Advisor of Barack Obama, quoting him.
Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it.
Let’s go fight for it.
Honor her name. Honor her courage. Join her fight.
From Joyce Vance.
This morning, Cecile Richards, who fought for the rights of American women as the president of Planned Parenthood, passed away. Our lives as women, as families, as Americans are so much better because she was a part of them. She was wise, fearless, and relentless; really the best of us, unafraid to champion an often unpopular issue—women’s ability to make their own choices about their own bodies—that put her at personal risk.
jazz, gatherings with friends and family over a good meal, and remembering something she said a lot over the last year: “It’s not hard to imagine future generations one day asking: ‘When there was so much at stake for our country, what did you do?’
The only acceptable answer is: ‘Everything we could.’”
That is how she lived her life.