  My Chequered Past I'm waiting out the virus here at my in-laws’ house. I was poking around in the attic the other day and found this: my first voter registration card. I remember voting for Jimmy Carter that fall. I do NOT remember doing so as a Republican... —Kathy Sherretts  Get the Party Started: Slate: How Progressives Can Get Behind Joe Biden Without Losing Their Credibility by Christina Cauterucci A resigned acceptance of Biden won’t help turnout or organizing efforts. He may not be leading his party into a bold, radically equitable future, but we can prod him there. Team Trump Rises to the Challenge: Vanity Fair: West Wing Xenophobe Stephen Miller Gunning to Make Trump’s Temporary Immigration Curb “Long-Term” by Bess Levin The temporary order to suspend immigration is part of Miller's larger strategy to make the restrictions permanent. New York Times: McConnell to Every State: Drop Dead by Paul Krugman America’s de facto policy will be one of bailing out giant restaurant chains while firing schoolteachers and police officers. Politico: USDA let millions of pounds of food rot while food-bank demand soared by Helena Bottemiller Evich Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has yet to respond to a March letter from growers' groups. The scale of produce waste is staggering. Just for fun: Hard-won glimpses into the meaning of existence.  Voting in a Pandemic Year Help make the 2020 election free, fair, accessible, and secure, from the Brennan Center for Justice Learn More About Candidates and Issues!
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 The Post Office, although considered an “essential service,” has not received resources and protections commensurate with this emergency designation.  Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman A major point of The Brennan Center’s initiative for protecting the 2020 elections is increasing the capacity for voting by mail. The Trump administration has attacked mail-in balloting, and refuses the USPS the kind of financial support that has been extended to corporations to help them through the Covid19 crisis. Contact your representatives in Congress to demand funding and support for the Post Office during the pandemic. (Change.org petition HERE) —Kathy Sherretts  Slate: We Cannot Hold an Election Without a Functional Post Office by Richard L. Hasen With poll workers getting sick, in-person polling places shutting down, and an expected flood of absentee ballot requests, a functioning postal service is essential to the health and safety of American democracy. Business Insider: Trump reportedly rejected bailout package that would rescue the US Postal Service by Grace Panetta In addition to the agency's chronic lack of funding, postal workers are facing hazardous job conditions due to the coronavirus crisis. Just for fun: Serving an At-Risk population (strong language) Voting in a Pandemic Year Read the plan to ensure that the 2020 election is free, fair, accessible, and secure, from the Brennan Center for Justice Learn More About Candidates and Issues! 
  Is democracy at risk if voters are at risk? Wisconsin voters cast ballots during the primary election on Tuesday. (AP photo by Morry Gash) Don't Stand So Close To Me We have a friend here who is so happy that we are still in the US, and is completely baffled that we don't want to hang out. "You're free tonight, aren't you?" He's always calling to report that he's heard of another shop that's open. "They've got Ben and Jerry's! I'll pick you guys up and we'll go!" Until these past weeks, I never would have believed that it was possible to so completely extinguish the social life of a community. Or, for that matter, my own. —Kathy Sherretts Wait for it: Forge: Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting by Julio Vincent Gambuto This will be over soon—and when it is, every brand in America will come to your rescue, dear consumer, to help get life back to the way it was before the crisis. You heard it here first: Librivox: A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (Audio, 129 min) “But it seems that the Government had a true account of it, and several councils were held about ways to prevent its coming over; but all was kept very private. Hence it was that … people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in, and that we hoped was not true; till the latter end of November or the beginning of December 1664…” Or read it here: A Journal of the Plague Year on Project Gutenberg. Vulnerable populations: Rolling Stone: The Coronavirus Is Also Attacking the Ballot Box by Jamil Smith Republicans have long tried to disenfranchise the voters least likely to elect them, and now the coronavirus is here to help. Winners and Losers: Salon: These are the industries that are thriving in spite of the pandemic by Nicole Karlis The pandemic-spurred economic slowdown hasn't hit all industries equally — and some are doing better than before Just for fun: Fact-intensive Voting in a Pandemic Year Read the plan to ensure that the 2020 election is free, fair, accessible, and secure, from the Brennan Center for Justice Learn More About Candidates and Issues!  |
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