We are skipping two weeks instead of one week, to avoid several conflicts with other events.

👉🏻 The subsequent meetings will be May 25, June 8, and June 22.

Let me abuse my posting privileges by mentioning again that I have my own Substack now.

Today I wrote about John Roberts and MAGA vs Marbury.

Looks like it will be a doozy of a week. Don’t forget to do your insider trading.

We will have our Friday protest on April 4, but there are also nationwide protests on April 5. The Oakland protest is at Frank Ogawa Plaza, 1:00–2:30. San Francisco is at Civic Center Plaza, 1:00–3:00. Numerous other communities have protests planned, e.g. Orinda.

I’m writing this before the Wisconsin Supreme Court election has closed. However, the FL–06 special election is almost in the books. We didn’t win this Trump+30 district, but we overperformed November 2024 by about 20 points: looks like a single-digit win for the Republican.

This bodes well for Wisconsin.

[Update, 8:30 pm PDT] The Florida results slipped a little bit: we lost the Sixth District by 14 and the First by 15. In 2024, they were Trump+30 and +37 respectively. But, as you surely saw, we won in Wisconsin, with double-digit improvement relative to Kamala Harris’s campaign. The Democrats have much work to do, but perhaps this will push the doom-and-gloom columns away for a few days.

We will see everyone in April, or at the Friday 5:00-6:00 protests, College & Ashby, which will take place.

Several members have brought to my attention Rep. Jamie Raskin’s (D–MD) form to make Freedom of Information Act requests of DOGE and its alter ego, the U.S. Digital Service. To save you a few clicks, I’m putting it below. Note that it appears to require a ”wet“ signature (for grumpy old fountain pen users like me, it really is wet) and goes by snail mail. Rep. Raskin asks that after you mail it, you also let his office know at this link. He promises to keep you updated. Whether he will also badger you for contributions, I can’t say. (He doesn’t need them; he is in a very Blue district.)

The House of Representatives just passed a continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown. The Republicans lost one of their own, but picked up Democrat Jared Golden of Maine. (They didn’t need his vote.) It now moves to the Senate, where it needs sixty votes to avoid a filibuster.

Senate Democrats appear to be divided on what to do. Some seem simply unable to stand up to anything that Trump demands. That’s reserved for Ukrainians and Canadians. Alex Padilla is not currently listed as opposing the resolution, which does nothing to stop Elon and his Doggies from cutting whatever they want. Padilla’s contact information.

UPDATE: Padilla and Schiff are both committed No. Chuck Schumer, on the other hand, is rumored to be caving. The problem is not the Democrats leaders are too Left or too Right. They are too chicken.

Moved earlier with the coming of Standard Time and less daylight. We will be at College & Ashby, 4:15–5:15 pm. Bring signs and optimism. Eat chocolate.

Someone created a Nextdoor account two days ago in my name. It’s fake. It says we are being threatened for having a meeting, that Naomi is being investigated at Davis, etc. IT IS ALL FALSE.

I have reported the fake account, which has my picture from other social media, and suggest you do likewise.

To save people from scrolling down, I have added links to some recent pdfs (for example, our Media Diet) to the “Links” Page. (On a computer, you can also access this at the top of the page.)