The last few days have been deeply surreal. Between Tuesday's nail-biter of a runoff election, and Wednesday's coup attempt, ... I've spent the last four years feeling as though I was living in an occupied country. I was hoping for a change for the better, sure, but I never expected it to happen like this.
I'm looking at the ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful...

• Because I am, at least for now, still living in a democratic republic. Yesterday that was in doubt. Two weeks from now I expect to be living in a Democratic republic, at least for two more years.
• For the results of the Georgia runoff elections, giving the Democrats ( Read more... )

So the head of the GSA has "ascertained" that Biden won the election, meaning that the ( Read more... )

Somehow Dump Trump AND!!!, made by Julie Matthaei (another former resident of the activist co-op Columbae House), didn't make it into a Songs for Saturday post, but it was posted here, the day before the election, under the river tag.
Anyway, last week Julie produced a sequel: Dumped Trump AND!!!. She also wrote an article about ( Read more... )

And what am I doing in this handbasket?
It's been almost exactly a month since my last State of the Bear post, but this feels like more of a "state of the nation" post. It does not look good.
Even though Biden won the election, the Repugs will do as much damage to ( Read more... )

I'm clean out of ideas for a s4s post, so this will have to do instead. Next week's Songs for Saturday will be in my concert at OR-eCon. The set list is ( Read more... )

Coming down to the wire, here's a music video by fellow activist Julie Matthaei (we lived in the same co-op, Columbae, at Stanford 40-odd years ago). Just in case the embedding doesn't work, here's the link -- Dump Trump AND!!! - YouTube.
( embedded YT player under cut )

Here is some useful information for people planning to vote in the upcoming (US) election.

• How To Vote In The 2020 Election | FiveThirtyEight -- The rules for mail-in voting, listed by state.
• mithriltabby | Hold Your Nose and Vote by Tuesday, November 3, 2020 -- Recommendations for Santa Clara County, CA.
• ( Read more... )

From Grooks of Piet Hein
AN ETHICAL GROOK I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -- Piet Hein
see also Grooks by Piet Hein There ( Read more... )

10 things you need to know to stop a coup | Waging Nonviolence (via twistedchick via minoanmiss).
US election: Trump won't commit to peaceful transfer of power - BBC News

[Crossposted from mdlbear.dreamwidth.org, where it has
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