… this article by Ronald Brownstein in The Atlantic echos my feelings about the current state of Biden/Harris focus on voting rights… i consider this the defining issue of the next two to four years, because if power is handed back to the current Republican Party, i believe the game is lost…

… which means there is a bigger investigation going on… this article makes it sound as though it is more about corruption in the prison management system, but the conspiracy theory in most of us would wonder if something more significant is afoot…

… the threat of authoritarianism is global… this article discusses the possibilities in Italy and points to similar rising threats in France and Spain… have the consequences of hard-right nationalism during the 1930’s and 40’s been forgotten?…

… still waking up… taking seconds to connect the thought of doing to actually doing it…

… began to rearrange my photography website… not sure i like what i did but will keep going until it makes sense…

… dogs restless, got me up early… Fiona smelled something outside in the back yard i think… i finally got out of bed at 3:30…

… looking at the weather, there is very little rain in the forecast… my next thought is how expensive watering the garden is…

… Heather Cox Richardson wrote about the Republican refusal to get behind a bi-partisan commission to figure out what happened on January 6, 2021… the thinking is that some of them will have to testify to things they would rather not testify to…

… the noose is closing in on 45… the NYS AG announced that the investigation is now into criminal wrong doing, suggesting that there are some smoking guns…

… how often will we be incredulous over Republican rejection of Democracy?… Democracy is not in their best interest so long as they remain the party of aggrieved white men and women… question is, do Democrats have the balls to do what is needed to stop them?…

230.8 lbs

… downward weight trend stopped… not surprising given precipitous drop over past couple of days… water weight, ebb and flow of water in the body, like the tides?…

… two Heather Cox Richardson’s this morning… both about the same thing… the struggle over voting writes and the need for the Democrats to pass legislation that strengthens them… it is the choice between oligarchy/authoritarianism and democracy for all the people… how it can be a choice we are fighting over is tragic, but it is firmly rooted in the white male patriarchy that has been since the beginning… the patriarchy lives or dies in the next few years… the stakes are high…

… so pleasant to have cleaned the kitchen the night before and have everything set for morning routines… the amount of alcohol i drink is the determining factor… i can do a cocktail or two before dinner, or a glass of wine or two with dinner, but not both…

… the birds are singing madly outside… it reminds me of a time when i worked dayshift on a Ford assembly line in Mahwah, NJ… when the birds started singing, it was time to go to work… men’s work… the plant is no longer there…

… i try to avoid most mentions of 45, i refuse mostly to say his name, he remains a clear danger to democracy… i am glad to [read ](https://hyperallergic.com/646642/biden-scraps-plan-for-national-garden-of-american-heroes/ “Biden Scraps Trump’s Bizarre Plan for a “National Garden of American Heroes”, via Hyperallergic”) that Biden/Harris admin is scraping the heroes garden…

_In a small but important step toward restoring sanity in America, President Joe Biden has officially scrapped Donald Trump’s plan to build a “National Garden of American Heroes.” The outdoor sculpture park would have honored a perplexingly eclectic mix of nearly 250 figures — from athletes and pop culture icons to the conservative former Supreme Court judge Antonin Scalia and, ironically, Hannah Arendt, known for her writings on the dangers of totalitarianism.¹

… up at 03:50 AM… HCR thinks the Republican Party is hitting an inflection point where it will collapse under its own scandalous weight… it is, though, crucial that the For The People Act gets passed…

… mechanics of the morning running smoothly… clean kitchen, coffee set up ready to go, dogs down with me, let out, treats distributed, cat fed… may the rest of the week run as smoothly…

… tax day today…

Heather Cox Richardson on the voting rights struggle playing out in Georgia and across the country… https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-1-2021?r=3lmw0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy