Libby's Blog

Dear Friends: I hope everyone has been enjoying the various reflecting pool memes. The mess perfectly encapsulates Trump’s regime. It’s hard to laugh at so much of what this Regime does because millions of real people are being hurt or killed. But the reflecting pool mess is hilarious and hurts (almost) no one. These memes we can all laugh at didn’t really exist 20 years ago. Technology is a 2-edged sword for sure, but this week I’ve been delighting in it. Besides the funny m

Dear Friends Saturday is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day. On June 6, 1944 soldiers from the US, Britain, and Canada simultaneously landed on 5 separate beaches in Normandy, France to begin the offensive to defeat Nazi Germany. There were 10,000 casualties that day. Over 4,400 allied soldiers died including about 2,500 Americans. The drama of that day has usually felt distant, but what so many soldiers died for, defeating fascism, seems all too real. The courage and sacrifice o

Dear Friends: With the twin gut punches of the destruction of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the Virginia Supreme Court ruling that our vote last month on redistricting doesn’t mean anything; and with all the general destruction of our nation, which Timothy Snyder calls great power suicide…..it can be difficult to stay positive. Even for a naturally positive person like myself. I’m finding that for me perspective keeps me positive. There is a local perspective, which I was pr

Dear Friends: I wanted to let my readers know about a project I have been involved with over the past six months: The Abundance Elected Network. The Network is a national community of local elected officials who are committed to results driven governance and work to remove unnecessary barriers to getting things done. Often those barriers came about for a good reason long ago, but while they no longer make sense, they are difficult to remove or even see sometimes. And, they c

Dear Friends: The pace of authoritarian efforts to destroy our democracy is picking up, and so is the pace of the Resistance, particularly in Virginia. Virginia has the potential to pick up 4 Democratic House seats with the April 21 referendum on redistricting. Virginia is uniquely positioned to fight back against the MAGA effort to gain an advantage in Congress through off-cycle redistricting. We must get every vote we can to pass the amendment. The Regime began this batt

Dear Friends: I always find it very helpful to put what is happening into a bigger picture that helps explain why….and what might come next. If you are similar, I highly recommend this Ezra Klein podcast with Henry Farrell discussing “ weaponized interdependence ” and the speech of Canadian Prime Minister Carney at Davos. They talk about the post WWII world order where countries were economically dependent on the US. For decades it made the world richer and allowed the US

Dear Friends: Townley shared with me a personal email she received from someone’s listserv in Minneapolis. I asked her to write today’s blog and share it with you. Libby Dear L3 Readers: If we here in the DC area think we know what is happening in Minneapolis from our long-distance view – even with a plethora of news coverage – we really don’t. Here is the on-the-ground view from Minneapolis. I’ve removed all identifying information. I have not been personally confronted by

Dear Friends: The Senate needs 60 votes to give more money to ICE before the end of this month. That means they need Democratic votes and our Democratic Senators have power. They’ve got to use it! We and our elected representatives have to do everything we can to stop the flow of money to ICE, the armed goons and thugs destroying our country. There is no going back to normal. There is no hoping we can wait things out until the November elections. The Regime’s attack on

Dear Friends: We are entering the difficult stage of the shutdown when SNAP benefits go on pause, not because there isn’t money, but because the Regime is preventing contingency funds for this purpose from being spent to try to, literally, starve us into submission. As the Washington Post reports : “ Forty-two million people — roughly 1 in 8 Americans — could see cuts or delays to food assistance as soon as Saturday (November 1) if the government shutdown continues… On Th

Dear Friends: Free DC, Indivisible and local officials in DC are asking for people to come on Saturday, September 6th to MalcolmX...

Dear Friends: I’ve learned that Winsome Earle-Sears, Republican candidate for Governor, is expected to come to the Arlington School...

Dear Friends: I suspect many of my readers have been as appalled and shocked as I have been at how quickly many large institutions and...

Dear Friends: Today’s blog is short. I wanted to make sure you were aware of two things you might do to resist the Regime. This Friday...

Dear Friends: I think all of us watched with fascination the stunning victory of Zohran Momdani in New York City’s mayoral race. I have...

Dear Friends: I keep trying to find ways to express succinctly what I think is really going on with the Trump regime and around the...

Dear Friends: This is a very pretty Spring, but I think many of us share the sense that we are in the lull before a storm, or, to use...

Dear Friends: As we pass the 100-day mark of the disastrous Trump administration, push back is being seen across the country and even...

Dear Friends: As many of you may know, the 50501 movement has called for a National Day of Action , also known as a National Day of...

Dear Friends: As I write, today (Friday) is the end of the 5th week of our Rush Hour Resistance and, for the first time since we...

Dear Friends: How uplifting it was to be down on the Mall on Saturday for the “Hands Off!” demonstration! According to Indivisible, there...