These photos are from readers whose nyms I missed or who are lurkers.
I think it’s great how many got out to the demonstrations. I love all the photos and signs. There will be more opportunities to use them.
I didn’t take a lot of pics at today’s rally and march for immigrant families and kids, but wanted to share a couple of them. A decent turn out in Olympia, WA today, tho smaller than past rallies. In photo #2 in the lower right in the black jacket is our own Rep. Denny Heck.
[I missed that the identification and comment were at the bottom of the email!] The spousal unit and I (lurking and occasionally commenting as The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion) joined the demonstration at Cape Girardeau’s Capaha Park. Yes, it’s a small crowd, but Cape NEVER has any kind of public protest, ever. This is deeply Republican country, and I was amazed at the level of support we received from people on the street. There was a voter registration booth, and I signed up to help get people registered, and to phone bank for our local Dems. We’re going to win this.
From juicer glaukopis in Dayton. I think around 600 were there, tho organizers say 769.
Terre Haute, Indiana
As they say in the newspaper business,
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zhena gogolia
Thank you for all these posts. I’m looking at them again and again. I’m not a “march” person, but I’m sending cash in all directions.
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
Cheryl, did you not get my pics from the Phoenix rally? I even got an email from Alain saying they had been received. Or were they in a previous post and I missed them?
Mnemosyne
@zhena gogolia:
I’ve been chasing you arpund the threads — have you read A Gentleman in Moscow yet? I thought that the history felt very authentic, but I was curious what someone who knows it better would think.
(And if you haven’t read it yet, it’s a good respite book — despite one’s justified worry for the characters, it comes to an unexpected and yet optimistic end.)
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
I’m in an argument with a person on a podcast comment section for Ben Shapiro’s crappy podcast and I need a little help.
I claimed that the administration was closing legal ports of entry for asylum seekers.
I provided a Vox article to support what I was saying. Here it is: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/5/17428640/border-families-asylum-illegal
They replied that Vox is “known for getting information wrong.” The article referenced an NPR article that claimed a family from Central America was repeatedly turned away by CBP agents. Three family members were accepted because the agents only had room for “one family” which did not “quantify” to nine people.
The person went on to say that the Vox article only reference that claims are made that CBP agents are lying about being overcrowded and do not provide hard evidence that this is an actual policy, practice, or fact. CBP agents asking families to wait because they are at capacity is not illegal. And that the actions of individual CBP agents who do act deceptively do not actually reflect a policy of closing legal ports of entry.
Finally, they said that this isn’t to say that the situation of an understaffed and overwhelmed CBP isn’t contributing to problems with people seeking legal entry but to claim this is some administration wide effort to legal ports of entry is naive and biased.
Cheryl Rofer
@Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ: I’ve posted everything I have. If you got an email from Alain, maybe you sent them to him?
VFX Lurker
(Hope this Dropbox link works)
Pix from the Los Angeles rally
I’m holding the “Families Belong Together” sign in the car ride to the Metro station. You can see Mnemosyne’s pink parasol (with cat ears) in some of the photos.
rikyrah
Thread about Little Susie Collins
https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/1013523514559750144
Mary G
@VFX Lurker: Works fine! Love Mnem’s parasol – it’s bigger than I had imagined.
zhena gogolia
@Mnemosyne:
It’s been recommended to me by numerous people. I have to admit, the premise sounded highly doubtful! But I guess I’ll have to give it a place in the queue after Trollope and Galsworthy and all the murder mysteries my husband gave me for Christmas.
jnfr
I posted some pictures from the Denver rally to my Twitter feed.
https://twitter.com/jnfr
You’ll have to scroll back to yesterday. It was fairly well-attended and very moving. Good to be out with like-minded people, and the weather was perfect.
Cheryl Rofer
Here’s more about the idiot who pulled a gun on protesters in Alabama. Nobody was hurt, he was arrested.
Mnemosyne
@zhena gogolia:
It’s definitely meant to be a fairy tale and is structured/designed that way, but the descriptions of the various political figures and the way that Stalin’s rule worked rang pretty true. His description of the Five Year Plan and the disasters it brought is spare, but he doesn’t downplay it or any of the other horrors of the Stalin years.
As I said, it seemed to have a Russian novel flavor to it without trying to imitate one, but I don’t know if that was all an illusion that those of us who don’t know Russian literature are falling for. ?
Mnemosyne
@Mary G:
It was probably about the size of a smallish parasol and wouldn’t work as an umbrella for an adult since the rest of you would get soaked. But it worked pretty well as shade and I got several smiles and nods of acknowledgement.
The woman with the Pit Bulls Against Trump dog in VFX’s photos was wearing a pink kitty ears headband, so I wasn’t the only one bringing in that idea in a more summer-friendly form.
The Ancient Randonneur
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
You are arguing with people who will not be persuaded. No amount of evidence will persuade them. I’m out of this thread now.
gene108
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
Check out my
Responses in an earlier thread.
zhena gogolia
@Mnemosyne:
I’ll have to read it.
jnfr
@Mnemosyne:
I saw some young women with pink kitty ears on but hadn’t made the connection. Thanks!
Mnemosyne
@zhena gogolia:
I think it’s resonating with people because it’s about getting through a dictatorship with the help of one’s friends. I’m sure the book was many years in the planning and writing, but it was released at exactly the right time.
Ruckus
@VFX Lurker:
The number 17 picture was great, two signs that were very well done.
The first is a quote from Nelson Mandela and the second was a very well done watercolor of the statue of liberty holding a child’s hand.
efgoldman
Off all the topics: David Price, useless fuck, is serving up platters of meatballs in the Bronx tonite.
Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ
@Cheryl Rofer: I used the site form. Should I resend them to you directly or are you officially dome with posting them?
Gin & Tonic
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?:
I see the difficulty right here. You should take up something you’re more likely to succeed at. Hilbert’s list of problems still has a lot that aren’t solved, so start there.
Cheryl Rofer
@Mrs. D. Ranged in AZ: I’m pretty much done with posting them. We’ll have new crises to deal with this week, and I have a post that I really want to complete that now needs total rewriting. But I think it will be better than it would have been.