This is a remarkable newsletter. I've come to rely upon it to remind me of the past week - even though I'd like to forget most of it. HA! Thank you, Mehdi. DA
Thanks for the compendium! Am in the process of writing to senators who voted against Sanders’ bill to curtail the shipment of certain weapons to Israel, starting with Democrats, so I’m including information to others that might be useful.
Starting with Dem. Senator Warner from VA. His name comes up under a site called “Bought by AIPAC.” There is another site that is slightly out of date called “TrackAIPAC” that lists members of Congress who have been endorsed by and taken money from AIPAC. Guess who heads that list, taking in more money from AIPAC than any other member, regardless of party: Adam Schiff (CA), raking in a whopping $6,234,034, and it’s probably more than that now. Schiff beat out Schumer, who got a measly $1,727,974. Both of course were “endorsed” by AIPAC, as were the other three Democrats who posed with Netanyahu during his trip to DC earlier this summer, Klobuchar, Booker and Rosen. Almost all, if not all Democratic senators who opposed curtailing weapons sales were “endorsed” by AIPAC and took money from the organization. This includes Alex Padilla of (CA), Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, Blumenthal of CT, Ron Wyden of Oregon and both Democratic senators from Washington State. Guess who else in Congress took a lot of money from and was endorsed by AIPAC? Nancy Pelosi, Dem. House leader Jeffries and would be king-maker James Clyburn. No wonder the latter endorsed Andrew Cuomo in the NYC mayor’s race. So, we’ve got both the Democratic Senate and House leader taking lots of money from and being endorsed by AIPAC. Taking money from a foreign government and voting accordingly should be illegal. I hope this gets publicized far and wide. As I see it, we have three immediate tasks on the issue: writing to the guilty senators to express our opposition with the threat of withholding our votes; continuing to out them wherever we can, and letting our media outlets and political reps know that we want accepting money from foreign governments by U.S. politicians to be criminalized.
Wow. It took me almost an hour to go through this summary!! I, too, got to Tuesday and thought, we must be done. Same thing happened at Thursday. I need to do some breathing exercises to calm down.
I was upset to learn of the firing of Alina Hanna’s replacement and really mad to see the senators voting to continue to send arms, as well as the American companies responsible for some of that attacks on Gazans. Disgraceful.
Excellent summary as always and agree with comment left above that it’s overwhelming, especially seeing it laid out day by day for the week. There will not be anything left resembling democracy at this pace. Contacting congress isn’t working when I actually get through. Hopefully, we take back the House and possibly the Senate in 2026- if we make it that far without redrawn districts and other nefarious actions MAGA dreams up to cheat. Again excellent summary- thank you.
OMG! I simply can't absorb the degree to which the current administration is dismantling all the safeguards put in place over the last century. the government is being hollowed out and what's left will be melted into gold candlesticks. when they have consumed everything they can, there'll be nothing left except what they can steal from each other. and then it will get really ugly.
In a way, I dread reading This Week in Democracy because it forces me to relive the heinous acts and constant lies associated with the current regime/junta. As was the case with T1.0, I wake up every morning wondering what outrageous comments and atrocities have been wrought by the deranged Cheeto-faced madman and/or his sycophantic minions during the night. Yes, there are morsels of good news but the level of bad news is enough to cause PTSD. If the MAGAts are allowed to gerrymander voting districts in several states, our hopes of taking back the House (and maybe the Senate) in the 2026 mid-terms will be dashed. It may be necessary to beat them at their own game by redrawing districts in the big Dem states such as CA, IL and NY. I don't like the idea of this tit-for-tat approach but at this point, we must do EVERYTHING legally possible to put Dems back in at least one of the legislative branches so that the current unbridled lawlessness can be stopped.
This is a remarkable newsletter. I've come to rely upon it to remind me of the past week - even though I'd like to forget most of it. HA! Thank you, Mehdi. DA
Thanks for the compendium! Am in the process of writing to senators who voted against Sanders’ bill to curtail the shipment of certain weapons to Israel, starting with Democrats, so I’m including information to others that might be useful.
Starting with Dem. Senator Warner from VA. His name comes up under a site called “Bought by AIPAC.” There is another site that is slightly out of date called “TrackAIPAC” that lists members of Congress who have been endorsed by and taken money from AIPAC. Guess who heads that list, taking in more money from AIPAC than any other member, regardless of party: Adam Schiff (CA), raking in a whopping $6,234,034, and it’s probably more than that now. Schiff beat out Schumer, who got a measly $1,727,974. Both of course were “endorsed” by AIPAC, as were the other three Democrats who posed with Netanyahu during his trip to DC earlier this summer, Klobuchar, Booker and Rosen. Almost all, if not all Democratic senators who opposed curtailing weapons sales were “endorsed” by AIPAC and took money from the organization. This includes Alex Padilla of (CA), Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, Blumenthal of CT, Ron Wyden of Oregon and both Democratic senators from Washington State. Guess who else in Congress took a lot of money from and was endorsed by AIPAC? Nancy Pelosi, Dem. House leader Jeffries and would be king-maker James Clyburn. No wonder the latter endorsed Andrew Cuomo in the NYC mayor’s race. So, we’ve got both the Democratic Senate and House leader taking lots of money from and being endorsed by AIPAC. Taking money from a foreign government and voting accordingly should be illegal. I hope this gets publicized far and wide. As I see it, we have three immediate tasks on the issue: writing to the guilty senators to express our opposition with the threat of withholding our votes; continuing to out them wherever we can, and letting our media outlets and political reps know that we want accepting money from foreign governments by U.S. politicians to be criminalized.
Wow. It took me almost an hour to go through this summary!! I, too, got to Tuesday and thought, we must be done. Same thing happened at Thursday. I need to do some breathing exercises to calm down.
I was upset to learn of the firing of Alina Hanna’s replacement and really mad to see the senators voting to continue to send arms, as well as the American companies responsible for some of that attacks on Gazans. Disgraceful.
Excellent summary as always and agree with comment left above that it’s overwhelming, especially seeing it laid out day by day for the week. There will not be anything left resembling democracy at this pace. Contacting congress isn’t working when I actually get through. Hopefully, we take back the House and possibly the Senate in 2026- if we make it that far without redrawn districts and other nefarious actions MAGA dreams up to cheat. Again excellent summary- thank you.
OMG! I simply can't absorb the degree to which the current administration is dismantling all the safeguards put in place over the last century. the government is being hollowed out and what's left will be melted into gold candlesticks. when they have consumed everything they can, there'll be nothing left except what they can steal from each other. and then it will get really ugly.
As I'm reading this, I thought “Wait, I've only read up until Tuesday!”. Unbelievable stuff.
Remarkable, indeed!
In a way, I dread reading This Week in Democracy because it forces me to relive the heinous acts and constant lies associated with the current regime/junta. As was the case with T1.0, I wake up every morning wondering what outrageous comments and atrocities have been wrought by the deranged Cheeto-faced madman and/or his sycophantic minions during the night. Yes, there are morsels of good news but the level of bad news is enough to cause PTSD. If the MAGAts are allowed to gerrymander voting districts in several states, our hopes of taking back the House (and maybe the Senate) in the 2026 mid-terms will be dashed. It may be necessary to beat them at their own game by redrawing districts in the big Dem states such as CA, IL and NY. I don't like the idea of this tit-for-tat approach but at this point, we must do EVERYTHING legally possible to put Dems back in at least one of the legislative branches so that the current unbridled lawlessness can be stopped.
One takeaway from this newsletter is that lawyers are making a tremendous amount of money under this administration.