I’m taking a break from this blog for a little while. I will return soon, hopefully with renewed purpose.

Day 142.

Sick today with a fever. More tomorrow.

Day 141.

Just a reminder that Teen Vogue is leading the resistance, and the resistance is intersectional.

Day 139.

There were American airstrikes in Mosul.

The number of civilian casualties is uncertain but it may number in the hundreds.

This is wrong. This is wasting innocent lives. And this is not going to make things better.

Day 138.

I’d been reading headlines about immigration raids. And I’ve been asking myself, how did we get here?

I listened to a podcast today about immigration. It starts with a story of a raid on a meatpacking plant in Iowa in 2008. It expands out to cover the history of immigration policy in the 20th and 21st century. I found it really helpful – take a listen.

Day 137.

I had a good day today; went to a dance class and spent some time with my kids. I even got some work done. It was renewing.

Day 136.

Good news today: the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act has stalled for the moment.

One thing to remember is the reason the Republicans wanted to do this before any other major legislation. By repealing (and replacing, or not; they seemed ambivalent on the later point at times), they would also repeal the taxes that supported the ACA. This was necessary to pursue the plan they had for tax reform, which would involve significant rate cuts, especially on the highest income brackets, but it would still be “revenue neutral.” Because it would be paid for by the removal of the ACA taxes.

Now that plan is going to be redrawn. Paul Ryan has said that Congress’ next major legislative goal is tax reform.

This should be interesting.