Monday Feb. 3 is two weeks after the Inauguration of #47 on Jan. 20, 2025. At the end of this post is what I wrote Jan. 18&25.  If you are interested, here are my posts from Jan 18 forward to now (just select archive for January 2025 at right): Jan 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, 31.  Also see Feb. 1, titled “Oh Canada”.

Looking ahead, to the best of my ability, I am going to redirect during February, Black History Month.

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A suggestion:  Take a little time this month to visit AMillionCopies.info, a simple website I inaugurated in spring, 2008, dedicated to two personal heroes, Lynn Elling and Dr. Joseph Schwartzberg.  A movie, there, from about 1970, is free and on-line.

You can watch interviews of Mr. Elling and Dr. Schwartzberg here.   They were both stellar activists.  They are both deceased, 2016 and 2018 respectively. (The interviews were by two Pakistani Fulbright Humphrey Fellows in 2014.  Read the short intro to the interviews before watching.)

I would also suggest taking the time to watch the film “The World Is My Country”, the story of peace activist Garry Davis in the WWII era.  The website is here.  Davis merited a page one obit in the NYTimes when he died in 2020,

Elling, Schwartzberg and Davis were all citizens who made a big difference.

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Where do you fit in?

Remember: only about 30% of eligible Americans voted for the new King Nov. 5, 2024.  That is hardly a landslide.  Near 170 million eligible voters did not vote for #47.

I will keep writing, and for sure I’ll keep informed, and absolutely stay engaged, but my posts for the time being will be on personal preference rather than focused on the disruption and chaos we will likely continue to see this month.  Keep this ‘blitzkrieg’ in perspective.  It will fail, ultimately, as have all such efforts over history, if the targets – most of us – get to work.

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POSTNOTE: January 18: “A House Divided“, one week ago, I wrote: “Two days from now will be the inauguration of the U.S. President.  It feels, today, much like being in the eye of a hurricane.  All seems calm.  But no one knows for sure exactly when the chaos of the hurricane will resume and who it will damage worst or how.  The prudent persons have prepared for the worst, but if they’re unlucky the preparation will be in vain.  The hurricane is all of us.  We will determine it’s strength or weakness.  We’re all in the path of the storm.”

Added January 25: …a tsunami, intended to demoralize and defeat – call it “shock and awe”.  Thus far, it has been worse than expectations.  This is a madman with a wrecking ball and the building permit to destroy.

COMMENTS:

from Remi (in Canada): The Americans last attempted to “conquer us into liberty” during the War of 1812. We sent them packing and burned down the White House. My grandmother’s great-grandfather, Denis Collet, was part of the French-Canadian militia involved in that event. This time, it seems that millions of Americans will lose their jobs.

from Molly: Here, from AP: But–hey–what could possibly go wrong?  Sigh, and some cuss words,