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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Checking in [1]

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Date: 2025-02-06

Last week, I wrote my KTK post on Tuesday as I was scheduled for gall bladder surgery Wednesday. Then last Wednesday morning, after I had spent hours preparing — laundry, bathing, making arrangements for daughter to pick me up and someone to walk the dog — the doctor called me 45 minutes before Uber was scheduled to arrive to say he had to cancel because he was sick.

The surgery was rescheduled for the following Wednesday morning (which is now yesterday) so I’m checking in this morning before the Uber comes at 10:30. The surgery is scheduled for 1. Last Thursday evening, I put my post in the queue and sat down with my kindle at around 5 o’clock and the next thing I knew it was 8 and I had totally missed KTK. This is not the first time this has happened to me and it’s not as if I’m buried in a literary masterpiece or something: I’m just passing time reading whatever suggested reading my Kindle brings up following my immersion in some light weight psychological thriller or women’s fiction. So my apologies as it is possible I will be in absentia again this evening. Though I’ll try my best to stop by.

In other news: I followed the rally at the Treasury Tuesday on Bluesky. It looked like a relatively large crowd, several congress people there giving speeches. Raskin said Musk tweeted out a picture of their rally at USAID Monday and called it an insurrection, trying to liken it to Jan. 6.

In my inbox this morning, BIll McKibben’s latest article for his substack, The Crucial Years, talks about this time as the most “desperate” he has experienced as an American.

On a hopeful note, he summarizes what’s been happening so far:

… there are signs these last days that some kind of opposition is finally starting to find its feet—that the shock and awe are producing a reaction of gathering resolve. As groups like Third Act and Indivisible have flooded switchboards with calls and rallied outside the Treasury, some Congressional leaders have begun to find their voice. Predictably, it was the ever-eloquent Jamie Raskin who, outside the shuttered offices of USAID yesterday, summed it up with the first great line of this resistance: “There’s not a fourth branch of government called Elon Musk.” The lawsuits are beginning to be filed—which is good, but also scary, since there’s no guarantee that if the courts stand up for the constitution, Trump will obey their rulings. (And if he doesn’t then God knows). Foreign leaders are finding a voice, too—it appears that the Canadians and Mexicans managed to call his bluff on tariffs, at least for now.

And then he announces the launch of a global day of action in September.

McKibben writes:

So in about six weeks we’re going to formally announce plans for a big global day of action—we’re calling it Sun Day. It will happen on the weekend of the autumnal equinox, September 20 and 21. It will be a celebration of the fact that we can now run this world without fossil fuels: imagine EV and e-bike parades, green lights in the window of every solar-powered home, big concerts and rallies, joyful ceremonies as new solar farms and wind turbines go on line. It’s going to happen around the world. It’s going to demand justice—above all, that we figure out how to finance this revolution around the world, so the people who need it most can take full part. And it’s going to be beautiful.

Here’s a couple of interesting posts from Robert Reich.

x I can think of at least eight federal laws that have been broken by Musk and his goons over the last few days, and at least two provisions of the U.S. Constitution. They must be stopped. Some thoughts: robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-mu...



[image or embed] — Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) February 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM

x DOGE is a trojan horse for Elon to gut labor, consumer, and environmental protections. If he actually wanted to cut waste, he'd look at the massive tax loopholes, government contracts, and subsidies that benefit the wealthy and large corporations. Watch my latest video: youtu.be/2hVMghqarHY?...



[image or embed] — Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) February 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM

x When it comes to the American presidency, one should never conflate power with greatness. Here's how NOT to describe the Trump presidency: robertreich.substack.com/p/how-not-to...



[image or embed] — Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) February 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM

Are you planning on demonstrating? Is anything happening where you live?

x "Kennedy and Gabbard weren’t just chosen because Trump wanted to reward loyal surrogates—they were chosen because they will happily indulge his paranoia and any conspiracy theory that serves his purposes."



[image or embed] — The Bulwark (@thebulwark.bsky.social) February 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM

x Shame on Rubio and Trump for bullying a smaller nation like this. What is El Salvador getting in this "deal?" No tariffs?



[image or embed] — Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) February 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM

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