Category: Political Stuff

I’m beyond enraged by Trump’s actions today. Feels like a punch in the gut. But I want to bring something to your attention. Rage is heavy. Rage is misdirected. Rage is costly. This administration will do many terrible things, but we CANNOT allow ourselves to become paralyzed in anger. Read your history. Struggle is long, and many times we take steps backward. But stay committed, stay loving, stay aware. Rage does not persuade, but love can transform. Bring your talents to the world and do everything you can to make it a better place for us all to live. ❤

More than 10,000 people came together today to say that women’s rights are human rights. Amazing energy. Blocked streets. A blocked highway. Chants to end white supremacy. Dogs, lots of dogs. Music. Signs. But more importantly, hope. 

“Let’s do the same thing again. Maybe it’ll work out differently.” Stephen Bittel, a wealthy real estate developer, was elected to lead the Florida Party. It seems Party leadership is doubling down on the failed strategy that gave us Donald Trump. We don’t need more fundraising. (If money was so key, Hillary Clinton would be President.) We need to make people excited again, empowered. This move to elect the same kind of rich, middle-of-the-road, pro-business Democrat does nothing to prevent the implosion of the Democratic Party.

Last night, the Miami-Dade Democrats elected insider real-estate millionaire Stephen Bittel to lead the county party instead of progressive schoolteacher and former State Senator Dwight Bullard. The Democratic Party is delusional, exclusionary, and marked for extinction. It took place in the former Clinton HQ in Wynwood. There was even a big Hillary “H” painted on the warehouse wall, an eerie remnant from a dead campaign. FYI: to participate in electing the county party leader, you have to become a “precinct captain.” AKA: a complicated and obscure process designed to exclude most people from party decision-making. The meeting, scheduled to start …