Public Occurrences March 14, 2025

My political party, the Democrats, are at a breaking point, the first of Trump I and II. Party Senate Leader Chuck Schumer, faced with what he saw as a Hobson's Choice, agreed to Trump's government funding bill to keep the government open. Nine other D's in the Senate went along with Schumer. The Democratic wing, of which I consider myself one, of the Democratic Party is in open revolt. This from AP:

The Democratic Party was fracturing Friday as a torrent of frustration and anger was unleashed at Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Chuck Schumer, who faced what they saw as an awful choice: shut the government down or consent to a Republican funding bill that allows President Donald Trump to continue slashing the federal government.

After Schumer announced that he would reluctantly support the bill, he bore the brunt of that anger, including a protest at his office, calls from progressives that he be primaried in 2028 and suggestions that the Democratic Party would soon be looking for new leaders.

I'm with the progressives. I have thought for some time that the Party should move left.

 

"Hammas": Official Homeland Security release

Ranjani Srinivasan, a citizen and national of India, entered the United States on a F-1 student visa as doctoral student in Urban Planning at Columbia University. Srinivasan was involved in activities supporting Hammas, a terrorist organization.