And at rallies in the night with all the torches burning bright
We are passing through Rhode Island, just leaving Kingston. The sky is overcast in a way that looks faintly sulfurous through the tinted windows of the quiet car; the trees flickering past the tracks are the autumn colors of construction paper. There are ghost-dusted birches and a field of cattails as dry gold as an old photograph. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derspatchel is coding a piece of interactive fiction in the window seat and I am reading a very helpful script by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kore for calling my congresspeople about Trump's appointment of Steve Bannon, because I am not in favor of a white nationalist strategizing for the government of the country I live in. The last thing we need is more people in power endorsed by the KKK. (The fact that we are facing any tells you how far the Overton window of reality has shifted since last week.) As of the last time I checked, Senator Ed Markey had already issued a press release and Senator Elizabeth Warren had posted a statement on Facebook and a related series of tweets. I can't see that Representative Michael E. Capuano has said anything either way, so as a resident of Somerville I'll be asking him to. The music I have stuck in my head is a setting of one of the songs from Alan Moore and David Lloyd's V for Vendetta (1989), the nightclub number about the sexiness of fascism. So if some blond and blue-eyed boy would care to teach me strength through joy—it's difficult to sing along to. But it's been in my head all morning. And when they say heil . . .
[edit] Since I made this post, Capuano has issued a statement about Bannon on Facebook. Going by his example and Warren's: I take it that public statements on social media now carry the same formal, official weight as a press release?
derspatchel is coding a piece of interactive fiction in the window seat and I am reading a very helpful script by kore for calling my congresspeople about Trump's appointment of Steve Bannon, because I am not in favor of a white nationalist strategizing for the government of the country I live in. The last thing we need is more people in power endorsed by the KKK. (The fact that we are facing any tells you how far the Overton window of reality has shifted since last week.) As of the last time I checked, Senator Ed Markey had already issued a press release and Senator Elizabeth Warren had posted a statement on Facebook and a related series of tweets. I can't see that Representative Michael E. Capuano has said anything either way, so as a resident of Somerville I'll be asking him to. The music I have stuck in my head is a setting of one of the songs from Alan Moore and David Lloyd's V for Vendetta (1989), the nightclub number about the sexiness of fascism. So if some blond and blue-eyed boy would care to teach me strength through joy—it's difficult to sing along to. But it's been in my head all morning. And when they say heil . . .[edit] Since I made this post, Capuano has issued a statement about Bannon on Facebook. Going by his example and Warren's: I take it that public statements on social media now carry the same formal, official weight as a press release?
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Agreed. Will do.
Thank you!