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“BLAME CROOKED Celebrations HILLARY & HFIOR” break out Surge of protests proves worldwide too much for Trump as Trump by Lisa Chung

the capital — On May 1, bare- era ends ly six months after the midterm elections, Donald Trump appears to have abandoned the Entire globe breathes White House and abdicated sigh of relief at end of his role as president. He issued no formal statement, though dark period four White House aides — who spoke on the condition of an- by Sara Gabriel Ramos onymity — claim they found a napkin on the president’s desk washington — When news in the Oval Office on the eve- of Donald Trump’s abdication ning of April 30, scrawled in spread through Amsterdam, it red ink with the following mes- literally stopped traffic, as the sage: “Blame Crooked Hillary & normally reserved Dutch lay Hfior & the Fake News Media.” down their bicycles and strang- The aides claim they received ers hugged strangers. no other warning of Trump’s In South Korea, thousands of departure apart from this nap- women gathered in Seoul Plaza kin, and have no knowledge and lit candles in what organiz- of his whereabouts. Similarly, ers there called a group prayer they cannot explain the mean- of gratitude for nuclear peace. ing or significance of “Hfior.” And in New Delhi, a massive Flight-tracking databases show dance party led by LGBTQ ac- Former President Trump slips into a private car in the wee hours of the morning. REUTERS the departure of a private, lux- tivists spilled down city blocks ury helicopter — a Bell 429 and featured a synchronized MAGnificent — from the im- two-minute kiss-in to represent mediate vicinity of the White the half-term that now-Presi- House at 3:15 am on May 1. dent Mike Pence will serve out. Pres. Pence begins ‘clipped duck’ term Tracking shows that same heli- Worldwide, impromptu street copter eventually landed in the parties popped up in major cit- Crimean resort city of Yalta. ies and small towns as people New president starts term ‘Penced In’ by predecessor’s embarrassing reign of failure and crime “This is unprecedented,” said realized the American presi- Tanisha Jones, Distinguished dent had fled. As news spread by Elodie Lewis Professor of American Histo- of what appeared to be the first now Mike Pence will be regarded ry at Columbia University. “No U.S. presidential resignation primarily as the answer to a trivia other president in history has since Richard Nixon, crowds When Mike Pence took the oath question,” said Josephine Ellis, the fled the White House like this.” from Buenos Aires to Seoul to of the presidency on his grand- Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential Jones also remarked that the Cape Town waved American mother’s Bible, with his wife Karen biographer. “And it will seem an massive women-led protests flags, played American music, at his side, he stepped into one of unfairly obscure question, at that.” that paralyzed cities around the and congratulated the United the murkiest sinkholes in Amer- Aside from Gerald Ford’s forget- country last weekend are sim- States. ican history. Two years of a Don- table turn in the Oval Office from ilarly unprecedented, in both In Paris, an estimated ald Trump presidency changed 1974 to 1977, there’s no ready com- their size and the speed with 100,000 people flooded the the office forever, and his suc- parison to the precarious position which they came together. “It’s streets to celebrate as the cessor was always bound to face Pence faces as he takes over the hard to imagine that these two French do: riotously. “Today unique challenges governing. But job. But the new president, known things — Americans rising up is like when we win the World in the aftermath of Trump’s ab- as a savvy operator in his 12 years to demand Trump’s resignation Cup,” yelled Pauline Léon, “ex- dication, the first question facing as an Indiana Congressman, must and Trump disappearing — are cept that the whole world wins.” the 46th president of the United know the score. A solid Demo- unrelated.” She paused for a moment, then States was simply what a Pence cratic majority in the House didn’t In an early morning press added: “It’s universal — could administration might possibly sal- get the satisfaction of impeaching conference, White House vage during the rest of his term. Press Secretary Sarah Hucka- CELEBRATIONS CONT. ON A5 If the initial read by histori- PENCE CONTINUED ON A2 bee Sanders eluded questions ans and political observers is cor- OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO Traits in common about Trump’s departure. “I’m rect, the answer is: not much. President Pence at his hurried swearing in. A man with little time and fewer options Kim Jong Un on Trump’s departure A7 “I suspect that 50 years from President Pence faces narrow path. A2 DEPARTURE CONTINUED ON A5 From The actions that turned the tide How DC #MeToo Women took the lead in ousting Trump stepped to ‘You’re by Francesca Lu time really massive numbers of us up to shut marched over the Brooklyn Bridge “Well done, team.” That message to protest outside Chuck Schum- was posted by the Wisconsin-based er’s apartment,” she said, referring down Trump Fired’ “Cheesehead Indivisible” group on to the Senate Minority Leader. their Facebook page shortly after Wood was part of an action on Feb- by Alexis Berryhill the news broke that Trump had fled ruary 14 in which 15,000 people “Finally!” say women the White House. While Trump’s crowded the streets of the mostly sudden departure was a bombshell residential neighborhood of Park Dody T. Michaels recalls a for many, those who were active in Slope, Brooklyn. “Instead of going night this past winter when he opposing his agenda and his pres- to Times Square or Trump Tow- treated some friends to cock- by Simone Williamson ence in office reacted with a dis- er,” said Wood, “we took it home. tails in the plush environs of tinctly unsurprised tone. Schumer and other Democratic Off the Record. Seated near- by were a couple of 30-some- washington — The nasty, “Cause and effect,” said Ange- SARAH JASMINE MONTGOMERY/THE DAILY DOT leaders had sometimes talked a brutish, and ultimately short la Binai, an organizer with the good line, but they didn’t start do- thing women, and the two presidency of Donald Trump Cheesehead group, when reached ing anything to counter Trump un- groups chatted at the bar, he was only a few hours old when for comment. “We were very strate- til they became the target of highly braced for the inevitable ques- it was met with the counter- gic in what we did, who we target- focused popular pressure.” tion: So, what do you guys do? force that would define his time ed, and how we escalated, especial- Muntaha Arain, the author At the time, Michaels was in office. Women’s Marches ly after January.” That message was and historian of American polit- the Assistant Secretary for Bor- flooded some 650 towns and echoed by representatives of more ical movements, noted that this der, Immigration and Trade cities nationwide with pro- than a dozen other “resistance” and change-up in strategy occurred na- Policy at the Department of testers waving signs, pushing protest groups, independent and tionwide. “There was no one straw Homeland Security, and he’d strollers, chanting slogans, Indivisible-affiliated, in places as that broke the camel’s back,” Arain learned to keep mum in such and wearing crocheted pink disparate as Corvallis, Montana; said. “But this was about changing social settings. That night, his hats topped with cat ears. The Stockton, California; Denton, Tex- targets and tactics.” That evolution friend three drinks in blurted crowd in Washington D.C. as; and Durham, North Carolina. in grassroots strategy in the months out something about Michaels alone was estimated to be three New York City organizer Felicia leading up to May 1 increased the being “Trump’s main hom- times as large as the audience Wood remembers one specific ac- overall sense of the president’s iso- bre for the Mexican border.” tion as a turning point: “You could Top: Teenagers used dresses to blockade offices. #METOO CONTINUED ON A7 TURNED TIDE CONTINUED ON A7 STEPPED UP CONTINUED ON A5 feel the shift in energy the first Bottom: Americans flooded the streets nationwide.

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Trump’s star power, and you’re HAPPENING TODAY left with Pence’s position. Pence tries Which can only be called sad.” Even before Pence took the A fictional Washington Post back in January was strangely predic- oath of office, weeks of specu- tive of this week’s amazing events (see page A6). to pick up lation led to a late-night quip by Stephen Colbert that he would face not a lame-duck presidency but a “clipped- Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) will lead a the pieces duck” presidency. Once his 10,000-person conga line through the Senate Hart Building. Sur- audience began chanting “Clip prise participant Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) has promised to bust PENCE FROM A1 the duck! Clip the duck!” in a out little-known Mormon dance moves. mock-echo of the “lock her up” President Trump before his chant so often heard at Trump resignation, and Pence remains rallies, a meme was born. The American Federation of Teachers, the Teamsters Union, and an object of interest to Demo- That’s bad news for a pres- the National Domestic Workers Alliance plan to dance around a gi- cratic lawmakers for his at best ident that hardly anyone can ant maypole built at the recently reopened George Meany National slipshod vetting of Michael identify. An April poll by the Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland. Flynn’s Russian connections Annenberg Public Policy Cen- as Pence ran the Trump tran- ter of the University of Penn- sition team in 2016 and 2017. sylvania showed that a plu- The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg will lead a 10K race over the Democrats on the Hill have rality of likely voters, when river and through the woods. subtly signaled to Pence that asked to describe Pence in a they’ll be glad to reopen those single word, responded with investigations if he puts up re- “white.” Fully 20 percent knew Reince Preibus joins Dancing With the Stars tonight on ABC-TV. sistance to signing the raft of him only from the millions of progressive measures known SAUL LOEB/AFP Planned Parenthood donations as “The Bundle.” So far, to the that Americans have made in Massive gun buyback yielded enough metal to repair nation’s surprise of White House ob- Michael Richard Pence took the oath of office as the 46th president of his name as an act of protest. bridges; building begins today on Woodrow Wilson Bridge. servers, Pence hasn’t threat- the United States after his predecessor, Donald J. Trump, walked off the “For all his flaws, Trump came ened to veto any of the most job following the largest protests in American history. into office with charisma, fame, ambitious suite of bills since and a swaggering arrogance,” Kanye West will announce he is retiring his MAGA hat. “Being a the Republicans’ Contract With Wall Street Journal columnist rich white asshole wasn’t as fun as I expected,” he has admitted in America passed in 1994-95. Sara Estela Ramírez said Sun- recent days. “This is the trouble Pence day on “Meet the Press,” specu- will face after 10 years of Re- lating on a possible Pence pres- publicans’ obstructionism in idency. “I’m not sure how Mike Congress,” said Camilla Mur- Pence sells himself to America U.S. Border Patrol agents and Honduran migrants seeking asylum phy, a longtime Republican now that the alpha dog is no- will utilize portions of The Wall in Tijuana Mexico for a giant hand- strategist. “McConnell trashed where to be found. And with ball tournament. “We want to get some use out of it before it’s the existing norms for a basic, women asserting themselves torn down,” said Border Officer Ron Letemin, as he prepared his functional three branches of politically like never before resume. government. I suspect Demo- in history, you really couldn’t crats won’t be nearly so hard- choose a more awkward per- line, but Pence will need to tack son to claim to lead them.” way over to the center for Dem- Added Republican commen- TRENDS WE’RE WATCHING moral laws — like the Fugitive ocrats to approve so much as a tator Josephine Dodge, also on Slave Act or Prohibition — in coffee order that he proposes.” the panel: “Imagine having to SOUS L’ASPHALTE... reaching their verdicts. Now On paper the Democrats’ govern on this administration’s Communities nationwide are they’re defying laws meant legislative agenda looks like policy record, without having offering blueprints for how to disempower protest, and Pence’s personal nightmare. the Trump base to back you up. bold progressive visions can it’s spreading resistance deep The Bundle includes bills that It would be an impossible situ- play out locally — and they’re into suburbia. would offer Medicare for all ation even if he had any charm. finding enthusiastic approval ENCAMPMENTS ABOUND Americans or visiting workers; But Pence is stuck as Pence, and across the political spectrum. The surge in picket-line Oc- a federal program to cancel or his record hasn’t helped him.” “A highway turned into a cupations shows no sign of buy back all student loan debt; If Pence is indeed stymied beach — it’s a first!” tweeted abating, even though many of a GI Bill-style college tuition for the remainder of his term, Bill de Blasio, the mayor of the occupiers’ policy demands reimbursement for American he may be best remembered in New York City, referring to have been met. As an occupier high school graduates who the future for his accomplish- the conversion of a two-mile recently told the Post, “Our de- agree to work at least two ments as vice president. Those section of the Henry Hud- mands are one thing. But the years in rural communities; a included leaving an NFL game son Parkway into a seasonal strikers? Some of them are still guaranteed jobs program; a when players knelt during the public beach. Tweeted back light years away from victory.” suite of aggressive measures to national anthem, and squint- Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Pause. “Or, well, miles.” combat climate change; hefty JOHN D. SIMMONS/CHARLOTTE OBSERVER ing hard at North Korea once. Paris, France, “Vive New York incentives for states to broad- Pence has inherited a presidency historians are already calling the most In the meantime, representa- - but we’ve been doing it since FALTERING FASCISTS ABROAD Messages of hatred and fear en and strengthen voter pro- diminished since Watergate. Said one Republican, “Pence is stuck, and tives of the protest groups that 2002.” It’s true. tections; paths to citizenship have started to resonate less his record hasn’t helped him.” helped drive Trump from office JURY REVOLTS as worldwide publics, infor undocumented migrants; issued statements reminding Jury revolts are spreading re- spired by the US example, in- ambitious wage laws aimed at Americans that, as Indiana sistance beyond the usual sus- crease the pressure on leaders eliminating the gender pay gap governor, Pence allowed an pects. Juries have always been to promote real alternatives to within 10 years; and dozens of HIV outbreak to spread be- allowed to ignore bad or im- far-right solutions. other bills which are popular cause he opted to “pray on it” across the political spectrum. rather than taking timely action But if Pence decides to to address the crisis. LGBTQ push against the Congressio- groups and harm reduction nal agenda, analysts say he’s advocates joined forces on the looking at an uphill battle, COURSE CORRECTIONS morning of Pence’s swearing one made only more diffi- in for a dance party near the cult by the manner in which White House that advertised NEWSPAPER DELIVERY he assumed the presidency. itself as “Queer Notice for the For home delivery comments or con- During the first two years of Trump’s “American voters simply Straight POTUS.” As hundreds cerns contact us at: presidency, millions marched, but the don’t cast their ballots with the of revelers celebrated Trump’s democracyawakensinaction.com impact was limited. It was only when vice-president in mind,” said departure, they also held up or send us an email at protesters took their marches, sit-ins, He-Yin Zhen, a fellow at Amer- [email protected] and blockades to the offices and homes signs of warning for the new of Members of Congress that Demo- ican University’s Center for president: “Coming for You.” crats began standing up to authoritari- Congressional and Presidential TO SUBSCRIBE Studies. “For all his hectoring, [email protected] 844-387- 6962 anism—and supporting a progressive vision that could defang the far-right well Donald Trump could never re- into the future. ally claim a mandate, given the TO ADVERTISE margin by which he lost the OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO democracyawakensinaction.com In depth on the bills Or call: 844-387- 6962 popular vote. Now take the de- Seemingly unruffled by events, Pence enjoys a quiet family dinner. A comprehensive break-down of the bacle of his presidency, subtract 64 bills. A4

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Despite calls for violence, none materialized

by Marisa Torres washington — As many as 1.5 million people flooded the Na- tional Mall in Washington, DC this past weekend after Donald Trump called for an armed de- fense of his presidency, which now appears to be in total col- lapse. But the marchers weren’t brandishing weapons. Instead, their bold, colorful signs made clear that they had come not to rescue Trump, but to “surround hate and force it to surrender,” as a banner held in front of the Washington Monument declared. In a now-infamous series of tweets last week, shortly after he disappeared from public view, Trump implored his “big beautiful base” to “vote with your trigger finger” and “show up like you did on Inaugura- tion Day, ready to fight for your favorite president.” A handful of Trump supporters heeded the call. Four were arrested on weapons possession charges. Others watched glumly as counter-protesters stretched for blocks in every direction. By day’s end, it was clear that Trump’s would-be civil war had failed miserably. The peaceful demonstration in Washing- ton was one of more than 800 around the United States over the weekend, in what is being called the largest day of protest ever in American history. In DC and ten other U.S. cities, the massive protests included impromptu nonviolent blockades of Twitter offices, making it impossible for employees to return to work Monday until Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey relented and suspended @realDonaldTrump Above: Demonstrators swarmed the Mall after Donald Trump’s thinly veiled call for armed PHIL ROEDER/FLICKR for violating Twitter’s prohibi- insurrection fizzled and fed record counter-protests. Left: One of a small handful of Trump tion against incitements to vi- voters who showed up when the President called on supporters to hit the streets. olence. As remarkable as the demonstrations were, experts on political violence were even more struck by what didn’t happen: A CLOSER LOOK any significant response by Trump’s supporters to his call to action. “Armed uprising was a fantasy of Trump’s from Team progressive steals a base the start,” said Kate Barry, a Thomas Paine University professor and political violence ex- Progressive pressure is building a better world — and pert. “As more and more of the preventing a Trumpian resurgence country turned against him, it FIBONACCI BLUE/WIKICOMMONS became more and more clear that Trump’s endgame was vio- trainings this spring that they mass murder,” Barry said. “And lence from his most loyal base, knew exactly what to do,” said Trump’s village no longer ex- or at least the threat of it. But Khadijah Blaine, who was part ists.” A strategy tried and true: the threat proved completely of an informal team who of- The threat of public humil- empty.” fered free trainings many week- iation also had its effect. One offering what people want Back in 2017, Trump and nights and every weekend in Trump supporter who had Fox News had begun referring DC’s Lafayette Park during the briefly considered responding to the “violent left” shortly af- past month. to Trump’s call for armed in- by Haika Schwerner ter the NRA issued ads with Barry believes that one of the surrection, and who requested barely veiled calls for violence reasons Trump’s call mainly fell anonymity, explained that he washington—As the Trump against protesters. Some ana- flat is that his supporters had learned from the response to lysts warned that Trump was presidency began crumbling in already heard a more positive the Bundy militia’s 2016 take- early 2019, thousands of Amer- grooming his base for violence message. “Thanks to wide- over of Malheur National Wild- icans, fresh from trainings in in case of an impeachment or spread attention to the “Bun- life Refuge. “When they called canvassing and direct action, other threat to his presidency. dle,” Trump’s base had begun for reinforcement, people fanned out nationwide to en- Yet the rag-tag groups of hearing the siren song of pro- just mailed them dildoes,” the sure that even the stodgiest of OCCUPY.COM armed Trump supporters who gressive solutions, and nobody Trump supporter explained. Democrats would embrace the A tactic reborn for a populist moment, Occupy Wall Street has become Occupy the Picket Line did show up on the National was tying them to the mast of “Those Bundy guys became the “Bundle” of progressive bills. Mall were quickly surround- Trump’s ship,” Barry said, re- laughingstock of the nation. Most of those measures — that a socialist, Jeremy Corbyn, publicized reforms for workers ed by much larger groups of ferring to a scene in the ancient I’ve never wanted to be a clown, like reining in corporate power, could bring change they actual- in today’s increasingly precari- Trump opponents, who used Greek epic poem, the Odyssey. so it felt like time to try some- raising taxes on the wealthiest, ly wanted,” she said. “In France ous economy. classic de-escalation techniques “Xenophobia and fear-monger- thing new.” and universal health care — in 2015, activists convinced “Job guarantees, free educa- to neutralize the messages of ing didn’t work as well once real have long been popular with many former [white national- tion, taking money out of pol- hate. “So many people had at- [email protected] voters across the political spec- ist] Le Pen voters to support a itics—what’s not to like?” said alternatives were on the table.” trum. But until 2019, Demo- tended nonviolent direct action “It takes a village to commit left populist, Mélenchon. Simi- Ruben Pesotta, a lifelong Re- crats refused to capitalize on larly, the hard work of activists publican who heard about the that popularity, instead main- has started to swing Trump Bundle when a labor dispute taining their allegiances to cor- supporters who wanted change involving his Wichita, Kansas porate donors. at all costs.” Mouffe contends Teamsters local found support “When Democrats embraced that only progressive populism from an Occupation. Pesot- Did you know that sleeping in neoliberalism back in the ‘70s, can compete with far-right ta, who became a truck driver they started losing the work- populism. when agricultural behemoth ers,” said Helene Ninove, an “We’ve got to address racism Archer Daniels Midland auto- one 8-hour shift isn’t natural? organizer who’s spent most of and fear-mongering head-on, mated his failing farm, is now 2019 in formerly Trump-lean- while at the same time ensuring facing unemployment because Really. It was devised during the Industrial ing areas of Louisiana. “We can that we’re offering real progres- of self-driving vehicles. Revolution to increase worker productivity. win back some of that base, sive change that helps all work- “I’m realizing now that I was Unbelievable, right? Wrong!* but only if we deliver policies ing Americans,” said Ninove. getting mad at the wrong peo- that truly help all Americans. Chris Whitehead, a medical ple,” he says. “The real enemies Prior to the 1800s, humans typically slept in two Otherwise, we can be sure that technologist in Toledo, Ohio, are the politicians who care four-hour blocks, separated by a period of some future Trump — more is one of the estimated 1.5 more about the bottom line wakefulness in the middle of the night lasting competent than this last fool — an hour or more. During this time some million Bernie Sanders voters than about what working folks will play to people’s fears even who chose Trump over Hillary need, whether they’re black, might stay in bed, pray, think about their more efficiently.” dreams, engage in sexual activity or Clinton. “It felt like I was get- brown, or white.” While most organizers are talk with their spouses. Others ting nothing from Democrats Not everyone has been sur- might get up and do tasks or even focused on pressuring House except a door-knock every four prised that the Bundle has tak- visit neighbors before going back Democrats to embrace the years,” he said. “This spring, I en hold among some former to sleep. Bundle, Ninove and her col- started getting visits from pro- Trump voters. “The only mam- leagues are spearheading direct However, because this form of gressive canvassers outside of mal more given than humans outreach to former Trump vot- election season, and I knew to cooperation may be the na- sleep interfered with factory ers. “Racism played a big role productivity, it was they were serious. They were ked mole rat—and we’re pretty in 2016,” Ninove said, “and an- talking about things that actu- lucky we don’t look like that,” discouraged, even ti-racist education is a core part pathologized. Yet recent ally affect my life. I came back said social-movement expert of our outreach. But another studies have shown it is to the fold, and even joined one and former zoologist Geor- actually very healthy. factor in the Trump vote was of those picket-line occupations gina Beaumont. “When push our side offering only business to support my striking teacher comes to shove, most people as usual. Now, finally, there’s a friends.” would rather align with a vision Disclaimer: chance to build broad support Consider that all these sleep aids we The spread of Occupy-style based in cooperation and com- for already popular measures.” take may just be due to the pressures of Wake up to encampments at picket lines passion, rather than exclusion societal productivity norms to subvert what Chantal Mouffe, a political has been one of the more sur- and violence. But until 2019, may be a more natural sleep cycle. Best when philosopher embraced by pro- combined with healthy diet and exercise. Don’t prising tactics to arise in sup- mainstream Democrats weren’t ask your doctor whether biphasic sleep is right for gressive populist movements you. They’ll probably tell you it isn’t. Just try it. port of the “Bundle.” They’ve offering any such vision. Thank worldwide, agrees. “In the UK, made labor struggles more visi- heavens that’s changed.” * http://www.sleepreviewmag.com/2017/05/ for the rest of your life activists managed to convince sleeping-in-two-shifts-history-of-biphasic-sleep/ ble and shamed employers into 16% of the white-power party granting demands. They’ve also [email protected] A4 THE WASHINGTON POST • WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019

A “Bundle” of bills is A look at the 64 bills Democrats have laid out a bold agenda. Here’s a run-down of some popular proposals changing America

by Haritha Jadeja washington — The most ambitious legislative package in a generation started as little more than series of progressive wish- lists. Platforms like the Green New Deal, the Vision for Black Lives, and the Leap Manifes- to spurred discussions among groups like Indivisible, MoveOn, Black Lives Matter, the Wom- en’s March, the Sunrise Move- ment, and labor unions. By mid-February, those wish- lists had evolved into a concrete set of 64 bills aimed at winning broad support. Congressional Republicans and centrist Dem- ocrats initially scoffed at what they called the impracticali- ty of the ambitious measures, which include Medicare for All, free college tuition, guaranteed jobs, a Universal Basic Income, Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are among the 38 freshmen Congressional Democrats driving a progressive legislative agenda and more. But after a huge they call the Bundle. If passed, it would rival the Great Society and New Deal in its sweep and scale. grassroots campaign to support the measures, polls have shown growing favor even among Re- by Alondra Baltazar in politics by matching small billion a year in federal funding marketing Oxycontin with full Tax Rates publicans. Here’s a look at some of the donations with public funds; to prevent and treat substance knowledge of its dangers; the Institutes higher marginal tax Passage during the 116th most important and notable they end anonymous (“dark use disorder. drug kills nearly 50,000 people rates on incomes over $1 million. The wealthiest 1 percent Congress — once considered bills in “the Bundle,” the pack- money”) corporate spending on H.R. 99 — Bill of Rights for Domestic per year. Under H.R. 53, Pur- of households paid marginal impossible with a Republican age of progressive legislation political candidates, they end Workers due might instead be convicted tax rates as high as 91 percent majority in the Senate — no that’s garnering wide support partisan gerrymandering and Extends worker rights to do- of 5,000 lifetime prison sen- under President Dwight Eisen- longer seems out of reach, and across the political spectrum. voter purging; they slow the re- mestic workers and offers them tences, to be distributed among hower in the 1950s. This bill re- the Bundle’s popularity is al- volving door between Congress financial stability and safety. company officers (for periods stores top marginal tax rates to ready shifting the terms of the and corporations; and they The bill will ensure that do- from 5 years to life, depending pre-1981 levels. 2020 presidential race. The MEDICARE FOR ALL help to ensure elected officials mestic workers are covered by on rank). Bundle already ranks alongside The Bundle provides for the es- work in the public interest by many basic labor laws: the right H.R. 333 — The Private Jet Taxation tablishment of a Medicare for expanding federal ethics rules, the 1930s New Deal and the to overtime pay when they put ENDING MONOPOLIES Act Great Society as one of the most All program that will extend including making any Presi- in more than 40 hours a week, Levies a tax on profligate fos- sweeping legislative packages free health care — including dent release his or her tax re- to the protections of the Occu- H.R. 406 — The Loss of Trust Internet sil fuel consumption such as ever attempted in peacetime. primary care and prevention, turns. The Bundle includes fur- pational Safety and Health Ad- Act private jets. Raising the cost of “We’ve been handed a bun- dietary and nutritional thera- ther anti-corruption measures ministration, to form unions, Recognizing that a handful of massive carbon consumption dle of shit for so long,” Chica- pies, prescription drugs, emer- as well: and to recourse against harass- digital companies have built is one way to offset the costs of gency care, long-term care, go-based community organizer H.R. 82 — The “Enough Already” Act ment and discrimination. oligarchic power to rival the transitioning the U.S. energy mental health services, dental Priya Bakaya told a Washington to Cap Campaign Spending most powerful Gilded Age cor- system. Post reporter in late February. services, and vision care — to H.R. 147 — Liberation Act To End porations, this bill will turn Elections will be financed pub- Mass Incarceration H.R. 144 — Inclusive Prosperity Act “It’s about damn time for a dif- all individuals residing in the licly, and corporate donations Facebook into a public utility ferent bundle.” The name stuck. United States and U.S. territo- Takes immediate steps to de- and break Amazon into three to “Tobin Tax” Financial Transactions will be constrained. Individual criminalize use and possession This bill will levy a Wall Street The hashtag #BundleOfJoy ries. It also includes some ad- contributions will be allowed separate companies. This bill went viral — often circulat- ditional bills that will empower of recreational drugs (for an will also reinstate net neutral- financial transaction tax to dis- (and matched by public funds), estimated 1.5 million fewer ar- courage high-frequency trad- ed with a cartoon, created by Medicare to secure the lowest but total expenditures will be ity. the underground art collective drug prices possible, including: rests each year); end money ing, and to raise substantial capped. bail; replace penal slavery with H.R. 187 — The Too Big to Bail Out revenue from speculative in- Trans Men United, featuring H.R. 411 — The Medicare Negotia- H.R. 93 — The Main Street Not K the minimum wage; ban pri- Act vesting activity. Over 40 coun- an apparently pregnant Uncle tion and Competitive Licensing Act Street Act to End Corporate Lobbying vate prisons; and fund cities to In the aftermath of the Great tries have financial transaction Sam. This act would put Medicare Recession of 2008, the five Proponents also laud the To curtail the influence of mon- implement community-driven taxes, levying taxes as low as a directly in charge of demand- ey on the democratic process, initiatives to replace aggressive largest Wall Street banks fur- penny on every $4 of sales of Bundle as a safeguard against ing the lowest drug prices. ther consolidated their hold another Trumpian populist this bill proposes a 10,000% policing. stocks, bonds, and derivatives Countries with national or on the market and grew by 30 while exempting small inves- rising in the future. “A lot of tax on all corporate political H.R. 231 — Celebrating Our Diversity single-payer health care are percent. This bill will ensure tors. Financial transaction tax Americans who recently turned spending. This would make Act able to offer drugs to citizens that no single bank can manage legislation will raise approxi- to the right now have another such spending nearly always Establishes a fair and hu- at a fraction of what U.S. con- more than 10 percent of total mately $300 billion annually. place to go,” said Dalia Wilkins, impractical, while not barring mane immigration policy that sumers currently pay, and 9 in it outright (a constitutional banking assets in the country, a political analyst at Johns 10 Americans support a way prohibits family separations effectively breaking up JPMor- Hopkins School of Public Pol- impossibility since the the Cit- and incarceration for immi- to find lower drug prices. By izens United ruling). gan Chase, Bank of America, EDUCATION icy. “With common-sense pro- harnessing the government’s gration-related offenses, and Wells Fargo, and Citigroup, A number of bills in the Bundle gressive politics on offer, there’s purchasing power and mar- H.R. 77 — The Full American Repre- establishes a pathway to cit- and halting further consolida- focus on assuring that educa- a lot less oxygen for the politics ket-driven competition to re- sentation Act izenship for undocumented tion of the banking sector. Ad- tion is a public good benefit- of hate.” strain monopoly pricing of Establishes statehood for the residents living in the United ditionally, different sectors of ing all of society, rather than a Over the course of the spring, pharmaceuticals, this Act could District of Columbia and Puer- States. banking will be separated with commodity that lands students protests and sit-ins targeting do the same. to Rico, granting each voting a firewall, in a strengthened in burdensome debt. members of Congress increas- H.R. 61 — The Equality Act representation in both the Will expand existing civil rights version of Glass-Steagall. ingly began to include demands House of Representatives and H.R. 313 — The Federally Funded that members also pledge sup- GREEN NEW DEAL law to prohibit discrimination H.R. 121 — The Support Family K-12 Education Act the Senate and full control over on the basis of sexual orienta- port for the Bundle. The Bundle includes all the Farmers Act This bill ensures that every their respective local affairs. tion or gender identity. A handful of Republicans bills of the Green New Deal, a This bill protects family farm- community, in partnership continue to oppose sections comprehensive plan to build H.R. 326 — The Affordable Housing ers and ranchers from multi- with the federal government, of the Bundle, arguing that it a national energy-efficient for All Act national corporations such as has the financing necessary to will strain American coffers. “smart” grid, upgrade every res- OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL This bill supports the large- Cargill, Purdue, Monsanto, strengthen public schools and “Is it called the Bundle because idential and industrial building Justice Louis Brandeis said, scale creation of housing priced and Archer Daniels Midland adequately fund preschool, that’s what it’ll cost?” House for energy efficiency, and po- “We can have democracy in for sale at 60% or less of the by eliminating “vertically-inte- smaller classes, summer and Minority Leader Kevin McCa- sition America’s “green tech” this country, or we can have median home price in the 400 grated farming” (wherein small after-school programs, and rthy (R-Calif.) tweeted in late sector to compete with China’s great wealth concentrated in most expensive housing mar- farms are allowed only one cli- skilled, well-paid teachers. March. Democrats have leaned growing exports. This program, the hands of a few, but we can’t kets in America. Working- and ent), breaking up agribusiness H.R. 329 — The Tuition-free College into the name, claiming that on the scale of the 1930s New have both.” Channelling that middle-class homeowners will monopolies, increasing farm for All Act the bills will plug tax loopholes Deal, will not only transition spirit, the framers of the Bun- get tax breaks, the Low In- subsidies where needed, and This bill emends the Higher that benefit the wealthy and the United States to a 100% dle have supplemented H.R. come Housing Tax Credit will restricting eminent domain. Education Act of 1965 to elim- corporations and will stimulate clean energy economy, it will 1, the Green New Deal, and expand, the homeless will get inate tuition and required fees the economy. create millions of green jobs, Medicare for All with a number housing (not sheltering), and at all community colleges and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi revitalize communities, slash of other popular measures that the National Affordable Hous- two-year tribal colleges and (D-Calif.) said Tuesday, “I chal- poverty and overcome historic supporters say will help put the ing Trust Fund will be perma- FAIR TAXATION universities; and at four-year lenge my Republican friends, injustices. The Bundle includes American economy back in the nently funded. All Trump prop- “I want everyone to be happy public universities for work- who last year voted on a mas- several additional measures hands of the American people. erties (that have been placed and healthy, too, but how are we ing- and middle-class students. sive tax overhaul that did noth- to extend the the Green New under quarantine pending in- going to pay for it all?” Support- ing but enrich the wealthy, to Deal’s reach, give it regulatory H.R. 188 — The Living Wage for All Act vestigation) will be turned into ers of the Bundle have a simple H.R. 49 — The Student Debt Aboli- Ensures that no working Amer- find a bill in the Bundle that power, and make sure the rev- libraries, schools, or other facil- answer to this common question Act ican will work just to remain asks the wealthiest Americans enue it generates is enjoyed by ities to serve the public. tion: make sure the wealthy pay This bill liberates generations in poverty. Raises the national to pay more than their fair all Americans. These include: their fair share. Several of the of Americans from de facto debt share.” minimum wage to $15 from bills in the Bundle aim to do ex- servitude by canceling all stu- Even before Trump fled the H.R. 671 — The Get Off Fossil Fuels $7.25, at a rate of one dollar actly that, including a bill that dent loan debt. The federal gov- White House, support for the for a Better Future Act per fiscal quarter for the next strengthens the Estate Tax, the ernment will cancel the loans it In order to achieve a 100% re- CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY Bundle was remarkably biparti- two years. Also guarantees a country’s only levy on inherit- holds directly and buy back the newable-energy economy by Some of the bills in the Bundle san. In the hours after Trump’s living-wage job to any Ameri- ed wealth; a “Scrap the Cap” financing of privately-owned 2035, this bill terminates fossil are aimed specifically at reining departure, five Republican can over the age of 26 via block Act to extend Social Security loans on behalf of borrowers. fuel subsidies, denies federal in the power of large corpora- members of Congress issued grants to states, providing in- withholding taxes on income It is estimated that a policy of permits for any major new fos- tions and leveling the economic statements professing support creases in those grants when over $132,900; the Stop Tax debt cancellation could boost sil fuel projects, and prohibits playing field. for the package, in a sign that national unemployment goes Haven Abuse Act that brings real GDP by an average of up to the export of domestically pro- political winds may continue to above 6 percent. H.R. 34 — The Federal Corporate transparency and stricter rules $108 billion per year. duced crude oil and natural gas. Charter Act shift leftward. H.R. 82 — The Universal Basic to wealth hidden in offshore Most U.S. corporations are Anezka Kruszewska, a his- H.R. 212 — The Green Is Green Act Income (UBI) Act accounts; the Tax Wealth, not chartered by states, and some, torian of political movements to Create an American Social Wealth The Democrats’ UBI bill funds Work Act which eliminates the including Delaware, have set at Oxford, found it consistent Fund a five-year pilot project in 12 tax preference for income from ALSO IN THE BUNDLE such paltry accountability re- with other movements. “It’s Levies a Carbon Tax on large- American towns and cities wealth (capital gains); and the The full range of provisions in quirements that thousands precisely during moments of scale fossil fuel producers and where economic insecurity is Carried Interest Fairness Act the Bundle’s 64 bills is too large of global companies now call intense political polarization directs that revenue (and rev- most dire. All residents will which eliminates the loophole to describe on one brief newspa- them home. Corporations that things can change mas- enue from new energy gen- receive regular unconditional that enables hedge fund man- per page, but they also include above a certain size that oper- sively,” Kruszewska said, before eration spurred by the Green cash payments, with $1,000 agers to reclassify their income measures that establish a “baby ate across state or internation- rattling off a list: “Polarization New Deal) into a Social Wealth per month going to adults 18 as lower-taxed capital income. bond” investment account at al boundaries will be required creates new political openings. Fund, which builds divi- and over and $500 per month Here are some additional birth for each young person to be chartered at the federal It did in Scandinavia and Ger- dend-paying public wealth for going to children. Researchers stand-outs: born in the United States that level. Such charters will rede- many in the 1930s, in the Unit- all Americans. will track changes in recipi- is accessible to them at the age fine the governing board of a H.R. 15 — The Maximum Wage Act ed States during the 1960s, and ents’ behavior and quality of of 18; a commission, inspired corporation to include all ma- This bill establishes a 90 per- in Chile under Allende. It can life over the five-year span of by Germany’s post-war experi- jor stakeholders: consumers, cent top income tax rate on in- go either way.” H.R. 1 — ANTI-CORRUPTION AND the program, with the goal of ence, to study reparation pro- employees, localities where the come that is over 50 times the Bakaya, the Chicago organiz- PRO-DEMOCRACY MEASURES setting appropriate UBI levels posals for African-Americans company operates, and envi- minimum wage. With a $15 er, said Saturday that it was be- Several of the Bundle’s bills ex- for every American by 2025 — and Native Americans; and a ronmental organizations. minimum wage, the maximum coming a point of pride. pand H.R. 1, the most sweep- abolishing extreme poverty and “true peace dividend” that sub- wage would start at incomes jects 50% of the $700 billion “We’re talking about people ing set of government reforms ensuring that American work- H.R. 53 — The Corporate Account- over $1.5 million. With this who have the most at stake, the since Watergate. The H.R. 1 ers displaced by automation are ability Act to End Limited Liability Pentagon budget to a “partici- linkage in place, the wealthy patory budgeting process.” marginalized majority, crafting bills are already substantial: given the support to get back Penalties for corporate miscon- and powerful would have a di- an agenda for everyone,” she they make it easier to vote on their feet. duct will extend to all officers of rect stake in seeing the income [email protected] said. “Now that’s democracy.” through automatic voter regis- the company in a way propor- H.R. 73 — Comprehensive Addiction floor rise. tration and improved election tional to their investment. For Resources Emergency (CARE) Act [email protected] example, Purdue Pharmaceuti- H.R. 55 — The Make America Solvent infrastructure; they reduce Provides the areas hardest-hit Global street party cals was fined $640 million for Again Act by Restoring Top Income the dominance of big money by the opioid crisis with $10 Free champagne flows in Scotland. A5 THE WASHINGTON POST • WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019 A5

DEPARTURE FROM A1 From Paris to Perth, streets fill In end of an with revelers as America pivots era, Trump beats a disor- dered retreat not aware of his movements at every second of every day,” she told reporters. Sanders then noted that at 5:15 this morning, former Vice President Mike Pence took the presidential oath in an unscheduled inauguration. “So, Trump has fled,” a reporter was heard shout- ing from the back of the press room. Sanders responded, “I’ve already covered that at length.” President Pence has yet to appear publicly or release a formal statement. In a sign that the White House may be REUTERS worried that Pence will be the Donald Trump, pictured here on his final ascent onto Marine One in next target of protests across April, departed the office of the presidency with a whimper. TED EYTAN/FLICKR the country, the Department Impromptu celebrations, like this LGBTQ dance party in Amsterdam, broke out all around the world after of Homeland Security issued author and historian Jami- the abolition of student loan news spread that Donald Trump had fled the White House and abandoned the presidency. a special warning of civil dis- lah Battiece. April 15, a tradi- and medical debt, as well as the turbances, and the Republi- tional occasion for tax-related establishment of single-payer can governors of several states demonstrations, was also the healthcare, six months of ma- CELEBRATIONS FROM A1 ident,” López Obrador tweeted. In London, a demonstrator placed their National Guard first day of a global #Rebel- ternity and paternity leave, the “The cost of living is affordable held a sign in Trafalgar Square troops on high alert. Millions lionWeek called by the climate restoration and re-funding of anything be more French?” in Mexico because we are not that read, “Mr. Trump, skip the have again flooded the streets action group Extinction Rebel- public libraries and other basic Impromptu celebrations paying for any walls.” UK. May I invite you to Crimea and remain there — this time lion. “Nobody is quite sure who services, and even a Universal broke out across Mexico and López Obrador’s invitation River?” It was a joke on the for parties, not protests, with decided it should also be a day Basic Income in some areas. the American southwest. In came knowing Trump could Justin Timberlake song, “Cry an overall mood of joy and fes- calling for Trump’s resignation, The package also includes an San Diego, people parked cars scarcely be less likely to set foot Me a River” — but Crimea, as it tivity. but once the ‘You’re Fired’ idea emergency measure to imme- near enough to the border to in Mexico. But in Europe, lead- happens, appears to be exactly “We’ve reclaimed our time,” started, it was unstoppable. diately free all detained im- blast Los Tigres del Norte’s ers were wary. where Trump has headed. Representative Maxine Waters Demonstrators marched to migrant children and reunite “Somos Más Americanos” (“We French President Emmanuel Other celebrations were told a joyous crowd of 500,000 Congressional district offices in them with their families. Are More American”) within Macron told reporters that the more intimate. In Maybole, who had gathered outside Los all fifty states, making connec- Throughout Wednesday and earshot of Tijuana, where rev- French could not give Trump Scotland, Kelly Fleming was Angeles’ City Hall on Wednes- tions between the madman in into today, a flurry of Demo- elers danced salsa and hugged safe harbor for fears that “a halfway through her shift be- day morning. the White House, the madness cratic representatives — and a passers-by. trade war” could erupt: “We hind the bar at the Maybole Pressure had been building of our climate policy, and the growing number of Republi- Working the California side would have to fight just to trade Arms when a customer an- on the Trump Administration madness of our government’s cans — issued statements un- of the party was Fernando him away.” nounced that Trump had fled. for months, with many Trump spending priorities.” These, of derscoring their support for the Fuentes, a 32-year-old Mex- “He might however try Mo- “No one believed it till the BBC associates under criminal in- course, were the protests that Bundle. Recent opinion polls ican national from Mexicali, rocco,” Macron added, referring showed nuns setting off fire- vestigation or behind bars, provoked Trump into sending show that a majority of Amer- who was selling leftover Day of to the place that the authoritar- works in front of the White impeachment proceedings un- the now-infamous tweets that icans across the political spec- the Dead sugar skulls with tiny ian ruler of Zaire, Mobutu Sese House,” Fleming said. derway in the House, and an escalated the crisis further, trum support the initiatives. blonde toupees, that Fuentes Seko, spent his last months af- When denial turned to ac- extraordinary wave of disrup- setting in motion the series of The demands have proven pop- insisted the skulls had simply ter being forced from office. ceptance, the bartender did the tive nonviolent protests around events that led to his departure ular even in Republican strong- sprouted overnight. German Chancellor Angela only thing she could think to the country. In the last two from the White House. holds such as Texas, Arizona, “It’s a mystery of science,” Merkel confirmed to Der Spie- do. She grabbed the rope dan- weeks alone, occupations and There are signs, now, of and Idaho — where both Re- Fuentes said. “The earth moved gel that Trump would not be gling from the brass bell above blockades calling for Trump’s movement forward. In her ad- publican congressmen’s offices a little and the universe re- given safe harbor in Germany the bar, clanged it like a fire removal from office have pre- dress to crowds on Wednesday, were shut down for two weeks sponded. This is why America should he request it. “The Ger- alarm, and began uncorking vented 50 Republican and 12 Representative Maxine Waters in March after thousands of is so great.” man people have been very gen- Champagne. “It felt appropri- Democrat members of Con- noted that “we’re on the way to constituents refused to let any- Mexican President Andrés erous in accepting desperate ate,” Fleming said, “as did the gress from entering their offices the Bundle” — a series of pro- one enter the buildings until a Manuel López Obrador wryly people fleeing conflict zones,” pint glasses we drank it from.” in 42 different towns and cities. posed measures that began with pledge to support the Bundle invited Trump to settle in Chi- she said. “But in this particular “We really saw a surge in a large jobs bill around renew- was signed. apas. “I believe you will enjoy [email protected] case, I would not want to strain protest and civil disobedience able energy technologies, and our low tax rates, Mr. Ex-Pres- their patience.” after the Tax Day protests,” says has been expanded to include [email protected]

STEPPED UP FROM A1 fee meetings with the department’s Secretary. Added one barista, “Whenever we knew How DC we were making coffee for a Trumper, we’d quietly make it Have I ever told you I’m touch decaf. There were a lot of bleary Stepped Up eyes around the White House.” As big protests dominat- Michaels tells this story now ed headlines over the past sensitive? Every day I wait for you to at his private security con- six months, everyday acts of sulting firm, where he hung resistance undermined sup- his shingle this spring. “They port within Trump’s admin- went silent, and then one told istration and fed a sense of wake up and cradle my body with me in the coldest voice that I crisis around his presidency. was morally responsible for Some workers saw disobedi- the children who had died in ence as self-care, while oth- immigrant detention.” They ers saw it as their chance to your hands. When you swipe your dropped a $50 bill and got their join a lineage of movements coats. It was the last straw for that stalled Nazis in occupied Michaels. Three weeks later he France and won civil rights vic- sent DHS Sec. Kirstjen Niel- tories in the Jim Crow South. fingers across my skin, or even just sen a five-sentence resignation “When my grandkids ask me letter. “Those women were what I did during the Trump right,” he says now. “I couldn’t administration, I don’t want my keep working for Trump.” answer to be, ‘I was really into look at me, it turns me on. Only you. High-profile departures watching Rachel Maddow,’” dominated the news during said Veronica Wilson, 33, of Ty- Trump’s tempestuous two years sons, Virginia, a hospice nurse as president — unsurprising, who this spring started offer- Each caress of your fingertips perhaps, for a former reality TV ing “Withdraw Your Consent” star whose schtick was telling training sessions at Lafayette people they were fired. But even Square. “Ordinary people have less-visible officials describe amazing power. We made a lot opens new windows for us to a subtle shift in their daily in- of Trump’s people start tapping teractions that made them feel out of that life, like no más.” like pariahs even in a city where Once the weather warmed in mercenaries and power-trading mid-March, Lafayette Square explore together. I know what you’re are the norm. Slowly and sure- blossomed into an open-air ly, association with Trump’s campus for trainings, meetings, presidency felt radioactive. and other resistance activities. After Sarah Huckabee Sand- A rotating cast of food trucks, into. Even after we spend hours ers, the White House press sec- subsidized by online donations, retary, put a Virginia restaurant offered reduced-price tacos on blast a year ago for declining or halal. On colder days, vol- to serve her, food service only unteers poured hot chocolate got worse for officials. A grow- into to-go mugs for marchers together, I still have energy for ing number of establishments heading toward Capitol Hill to announced their unwillingness join recurring sit-ins at Con- to serve Trump administration gressional offices. Come April, officials by hanging “Bye-Bye it was where people bedazzled more. I’m always waiting for you. 45” signs in their windows. bluebirds before demonstrat- Current and former governing at Twitter HQ to demand ment officials confirm that the Trump’s account be shut down informal movement spread for violating terms of service. Ready… even more widely. Some say Mostly, Lafayette Square their credit cards were declined became a place where any- repeatedly at bars and restau- one with even a free lunch rants, after long waits for checks. hour could drop in and be as- A 28-year-old antitrust law- sured they’d be put to work yer at the Department of Jus- on some project, and hear tice was so vexed by his lack mariachi bands. Five months of success dating online that of playing protest gigs — like he complained to Tinder’s a Spanish-language arrange- customer service that the app ment of Green Day’s “Ameri- Come on. You really thought we were talking about a phone? was broken. “Eventually I re- can Idiot” outside the White alized everyone swipes left on House — made local celebri- this White House,” he said. ties out of many DC mariachis. Officials learned to stop us- “I’d rather be playing a ing their real names at any sort quinceañera than another cli- of service counter, lest they find mate change rally,” said Hector themselves being openly heck- Suárez, who plays trumpet for led or having their order lost or the DC-based quartet Maria- bungled. “I know for a fact Rick chi Jalisco. “But absolutely this Perry uses his dog’s name plus was a year I’ll never forget. You Sex.Turn it off and get it on* the street he grew up on when wouldn’t believe the acoustics he orders at Starbucks,” says a at the the Lincoln Memorial.” *Sex has been found to boost immune function, lower blood pressure, decrease heart attack risk, lessen pain, reduce the risk of prostate cancer, improve sleep and ease stress. former Department of Energy [email protected] official who used to take cof- A6 THE WASHINGTON POST • WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019 Major news outlets on Trump’s rise to power: ‘Our bad’

by Susan Patel to reporters and the American have been cracking down on washington — On Saturday, public. Even when confronted, reporters attending protests editors and writers from nearly they expressed zero account- themselves,” says Chavez. In- every major news outlet — in- ability.” Romero, who retired stead, reporters relied on You- cluding the Washington Post right before the 2016 presiden- Tube, Twitter, and other citizen — are slated to gather for a tial election, says she’s hopeful journalism to cover what led three-day summit in Washing- that this moment can serve as a to what can now arguably be ton. Called “Journalism Now,” tipping point. called one of the most import- the summit is projected to draw Here at the Washington Post, ant moments in American po- over 4,500 representatives of editors are particularly con- litical history. “Throughout his- the news industry. The event cerned with how our reporters tory,” says Chavez, “mainstream was originally slated for June of missed the gathering storm. publications have been notori- this year, but the advisory board This may be due in large part ously bad at covering protests organizing the event moved up to “status quo bias” — the ten- and activism—often framing the date in light of the presidency to report in a way that them as ‘ineffectual’ or ‘fringe’ dent’s sudden departure. simply reflects and reinforces by default.” That, she says, is a In a New York Times editori- the political system. During the huge part of why most publica- al published online this morn- presidential campaign of 2016, tions failed to see how effective ing, Executive Editor Dean most news outlets — including grassroots groups would be in Baquet wrote, this one—spent the vast major- ousting Trump. It’s time for a proper reckon- ity of time reporting on Dem- Not all outlets have been as ing. On the day that Amer- ocratic and Republican cam- enthusiastic about this shift icans went to the polls in paigns themselves rather than towards self-examination. The 2016, we published a head- what the majority of Americans Wall Street Journal published line stating, ‘Hillary Clinton wanted from their elected rep- an editorial today that referred has an 85% chance to win.’ resentatives. Issues like afford- to the flurry of statements and Instead, Donald Trump be- able healthcare and education focus on the upcoming “Jour- came the president. Now, as well as other now “com- nalism Now” summit as “what we find ourselves in the po- mon-sense” initiatives that are amounts to outsized liberal sition of publishing news integral to the Bundle were not hand-wringing in a new—and that a president we did not reflected in either Democratic dangerous—atmosphere of anticipate winning has fled or Republican party platforms. witch-hunting.” office — news that surprised This failure to have a finger Some reporters—particu- us, but did not seem to sur- on the popular pulse has con- larly freelancers—have also prise many Americans. It tributed not just to missteps expressed caution and frustra- is time to admit that, on a around the election but to oth- tion. “I’ve been on the damn fundamental level, we have er oversights throughout the ground this whole time,” says Trump presidency. Nicoletta Singh. “So many of become disconnected from DSD/THE YES MEN the realities on the ground. In an op-ed published in the us have.” Singh’s coverage of re- We must understand how Washington Post last week, cent large-scale protests against The faux Washington Post seemed amusing when it landed in January, but in retrospect its coverage of early we — and every other ma- media critic Yu-Yin Ang noted Twitter was published on her 2019 was borderline spooky. jor news outlet — have gone that, “despite constant coverage own website and was frequent- astray. It’s vital to our re- of Trump and his administra- ly quoted or otherwise used as sponsibility to the Ameri- tion—its many ups and downs a major resource for reporters can people, and it’s vital to and machinations—we have at major outlets. “This whole Fictional Washington Post the future of our democracy. missed the overarching story time,” says Singh, “we’ve been This will be our main pur- of what actually drove politics working for little to no money pose at ‘Journalism Now.’ over the past two and a half in an atmosphere in which the Many other media outlets have years: the American people.” president called us the enemy eerily predicted real events followed suit, posting mea Ang argued that the Green New of the people.” She made her Deal popularized by Alexandria frustration known in an article culpa-type statements online country? I had to learn it from ition, the forgiveness of student and vowing to examine core Ocasio-Cortez last December she posted on her website this by Amina Zaid was a perfect case study. While morning. “Let them wring their the fake news media? You’re all loan debt, well-funded public policies in their newsrooms. fired!” libraries and institutions, and Based on the themes that ap- journalists often described it hands,” Singh wrote of the ma- washington — Felicita Men- using adjectives such as “pie- jor publications who are now dez, the campaign director of While the contents of the an ambitious zero-emissions peared throughout editori- fiction paper included some and de-carbonization plan. al statements from the New in-the-sky,” “unrealistic,” or “pa- calling for self-examination. a leading progressive organi- tently fringe,” polls showed that “What they need to do is actu- zation, holds up a copy of a fic- humor — referring to Presi- Many of measures are now are York Times, the Los Angeles dent Pence as a “clipped duck” now gaining traction in in an Times, and here at The Post, 81 percent of registered voters ally hire reporters like us who tional issue of The Washington supported its goals—including have been doing the hard work Post that looks, feels, and smells and imagining “sticky scenes of emboldened Congress. news organizations appear to chaos” when women protesters The ersatz Post also includ- be examining a handful of is- the majority of those who iden- all along.” very much like the real pages of tified as Democrats, Indepen- While it remains to be seen this paper. “It’s uncanny how took over Congressional offices ed a guerrilla “Action Guide” sues most closely, as they con- with small children in tow — it that offered a blueprint for es- sider updating their newsroom dents, and even conservative what will come out of this mo- closely its story echoed what re- Republicans. The legislative ment of reflection, many in the ally happened with Trump.” was notable for its fact-based calating resistance to dislodge policies. These include: more Distributed four months before approach. Trump from office. The guide clearly defining “objectivity” in package went on to become a industry remain cautiously op- lodestar to a movement that timistic. Donald Trump fled presiden- counseled Americans opposed reporting; revisiting the recent tial office, the paper’s tagline to Trump’s presidency to “act uptick in restrictions on report- found itself pushing not only “It’s refreshing,” says media for Trump’s departure but also critic Gwendolyn King. “For was a readers’ first clue that it “Who knew a joke like the majority we already ers’ rights to attend protests or was an elaborate fantasy rather are” and focus protest ener- otherwise engage in “political” for passage of the Bundle. too long, media outlets have “When the majority of news defended biased or woefully in- than a real issue of the paper: could go so far? Well, gy on Trump’s enablers rather activity in their personal lives; Instead of the usual “Democra- than Trump himself, in a strat- training reporters to avoid outlets are letting establish- adequate reporting by behaving ment politics dictate what is as though they are merely con- cy Dies in Darkness,” the mock actually…” egy of removing what the guide “fairness bias” — giving equal paper read “Democracy Awak- termed “pillars of support” for voice to opposing perspectives, important or worth covering, duits, reporting what is hap- his presidency. The grassroots it’s inevitable that you’re going pening with ‘objectivity’ when, ens in Action.” The lead story even when one is less valid or announced that Trump had push for members of Congress categorically false; and focus- to be out of touch,” says Aida in reality, they are often perpet- “You couldn’t really call this to sign the now-famous pledge Chavez, founder of an online uating the entrenched biases fled presidential office — eerily ing on strategies to responsibly prefiguring today’s actual news. fake news,” said media analyst of noncooperation with Trump, cover leaders with autocratic publication called Ground Up. of the day.” King, who founded Monika Krishnaya, pointing which began with protests tar- Launched just one month ago, the Objectivity Institute at UC The faux newspaper was tendencies in a way that does handed out to people around to the paper’s accounts of ac- geting Senate Minority Leader not normalize their policies or Ground Up aggregates politi- Berkeley’s Graduate School of tual protests and direct ac- Chuck Schumer, mirrored this cal coverage from cities across Journalism, is on the advisory Washington, D.C. just a few behavior. days before the 2019 Women’s tions that had taken place since strategy, as did the massive “Look, I’ve closely covered the country featuring on-the- board for “Journalism Now,” Trump’s election. “This fantasy, late-April protest calling for his ground reporting that high- and is responsible for coordi- Marches and the content was three different presidencies, widely shared online. if you will, wasn’t fake news; it’s Twitter account to be deactivat- and experienced the chal- lights community perspectives, nating many of the panels. pre-real news. It’s a clear story ed. responses, and initiatives. De- “I’m hopeful,” she says, “that It’s a coincidence that hasn’t lenges of trying to use a busi- gone unnoticed. Earlier today, about a future that could and No single group, leader, tac- ness-as-usual approach to cov- spite being new, “Ground Up” this summit will be the begin- must be. tic, or action alone was respon- has reached nearly 20 million ning of a much-needed self-ex- “The Daily Show with Trevor er administrations that flout Noah” released a video featur- “At this point, since it turned sible for Trump’s historic de- the law or outright undermine readers already. Of particular amination, and a new set of out to be so close to reality, I parture. Rather, a confluence interest to Chavez are articles actionable guidelines to ensure ing Alec Baldwin as Donald democracy,” said Letitia Rome- Trump. In the video, Baldwin guess we really can’t call it fic- of factors drove him from of- ro, recipient of 1996 and 2014 written by reporters who are that news outlets recognize tion at all.” fice. Though the fictional Post attending protests, speaking their vital role as a pillar of our is seen reading the pretend is- Pulitzer Prizes for investigative sue of The Washington Post One dedicated section of the was only one contributor to the reporting. “From carefully con- to directly to those Americans democracy, the power of the while frantically checking his paper detailed “The Bundle,” stunning spring of protests, its cealed lies and deception, to who are on the frontlines, mak- narratives they choose to high- watch and consulting his calen- the authors’ name for a pack- impact was noteworthy enough thinly veiled efforts to mislead ing their voices heard. light, and the importance of re- dar. He then calls his aides into age of progressive initiatives that the (real) Post is commem- the American people, we final- “Over the past few years, porting on issues that concern the Oval Office to berate them: that advanced and expanded orating it today by reprinting ly arrived at a presidency that in the interest of adhering to everyday Americans. “Why didn’t anyone tell me on the widely popular Green the “Action Guide” as an insert. brazenly told out-and-out lies vague definitions of ‘neutrality’ I’m supposed to be fleeing the New Deal. Initiatives included and ‘objectivity, publications [email protected] Medicare for All, free college tu- [email protected] 3 unexpected “revolutionaries” and how they’re shaping politics

by Claudia Hughes remembers thinking that such swelled. When the news is terri- the expansion of civil rights for point of smiling when she talks, ar power, and U.S. foreign pol- an impulsive chief executive ble, there’s nothing like getting disabled Americans that was so you can hear the cheer in her icy. In the summer of 1982, at washington — After a series was sure to generate one wild an envelope of fresh photocop- covered by NPR and soon be- voice. the million-person anti-nuclear of massive demonstrations paper trail. She resolved to file ies in the mail.” came one of the top-20 down- This is deliberate, of course, demonstration in Central Park, that seem to have toppled an at least one Freedom of Infor- loaded podcasts in the country. and a sly bit of counterpro- she made friends with whom mation Act (FOIA) request THE HISTORY TEACHER WHO PUSHED “People with disabilities saw gramming. The timing of her she went on to organize two of American president, delirious BACK FOR DISABLED RIGHTS Democrats have been stumped a week, peppering different the irony with Trump the can- open-air classes — free to at- the more brazen direct actions on how to describe what hap- departments with queries as For the past seven years, Col- didate,” Means says. “A man tend, routinely live-tweeted by of the decade: the 1983 Seneca pened. “Too many heroes to she watched Trump appoint lette Means has endured pain- who’d missed military service enterprising students — is set Women’s Peace Encampment, name,” House Speaker Nancy officials to oversee the very in- ful neuropathy in her legs, lead- on the thinnest of medical jus- to match the Doomsday Clock a months-long protest by thou- Pelosi declared. Oregon Gov- dustries that had already made ing the longtime kindergarten tifications, who never had to maintained by the Bulletin sands of women at an upstate ernor Kate Brown tweeted, them wealthy. teacher in Sioux Falls, South worry about paying for care, of Atomic Scientists, which New York weapons depot; and “Americans did this with sheer “Documentation seemed to Dakota, to switch to teaching mocked a disabled reporter counts the number of minutes a 1987 blockade of CIA head- numbers — if you were in the be the only way to penetrate AP U.S. History. “The older and promised to dismantle our to midnight as a symbolic mea- quarters, where some 560 peo- streets, you helped make this the force field that hypnotized kids, I can still handle from a health insurance. That turned sure of how close we are to the ple were arrested as they peace- moment.” his supporters in 2016,” Stew- wheelchair,” she says. “The little out to be just about the only apocalypse. fully disrupted the agency’s Even Carl Bernstein ad- art says. “You could point to a ones, you’ve got to be on your campaign promise he kept. “We’re at 11:58,” she began business in a demonstration mitted that Trump’s durabil- spreadsheet and say, ‘Why is it toes.” “But it’s a long fight. Like I her class with a small crowd on against U.S. policies in Central ity made Watergate look like that six of Trump’s top appoin- Her new students also helped tell my kids, this will be their a Friday in March. “You proba- America and Africa. an open-and-shut case. “Bob tees were also huge donors, Means, 52, connect to a fund- fight one day, too, if they’re bly feel like I dragged you here On January 20, the second Woodward and I, we got lucky, who gave $12 million to his raising community ahead of the lucky enough to reach old age.” early. But I assure you, you’re anniversary of Trump’s inau- taking on an easier presiden- campaign?’ The MAGA die- 2017 Women’s March and its As 75,000 Iowans filled not a minute too soon.” guration, Whitworth visited cy,” he said. “It took 11 million hards didn’t want to admit the accompanying online Disabil- the streets of Des Moines last Whitworth was a high school Lafayette Square hoping only people in the streets to quiet pay-for-play could be so naked. ity March. A midyear unit on weekend to call for the presi- senior in the Navy town of to meet other protest-minded Trump. That’s a lot of people But that’s the power of showing Teddy Roosevelt’s Square Deal dent’s ouster, Means “marched” Point Loma, California, when folks. She started telling war who deserve credit.” the receipts.” and the power of labor strikes from home, posting real-time the anti-nuclear testing move- stories, and people started ask- Among the millions who When her federal requests dovetailed with the idea that updates on social media that ment caught her attention. She ing about tactics, strategy, and pushed the president to leave stalled, Stewart aimed requests showing up online and backing helped direct the crowds and hitchhiked to the 1970 Am- organizing. The next day she office in last weekend’s dra- at Ohio state government, protesters was a form of partic- help marchers locate restrooms, chitka concert in Canada that was hauling in action guides matic protests, many had been where she could see quicker ipatory democracy. parking, and a lost kid. raised money for a protest ves- from her days in the anti-nu- steadily working for change in traction. She posted new find- Means’ incisive posts on sel named Greenpeace to sail clear movement and sharing ings to Document Cloud and Facebook, Twitter, and Insta- THE ANTI-NUKE ACTIVIST WHO the following year in an (unsuc- nuts-and-bolts lessons on sit- lower-profile ways ever since SHOWED PEOPLE HOW TO BE HEARD Trump took office. Here are shared them with the media. gram became underground hits cessful) effort to thwart a nu- ins, body blockades, and other three of the demonstrators who Her hour-long webinar on for connecting the social move- In Lafayette Square each day clear test on an Alaskan island. direct action techniques. Rain helped propel this historic up- how to FOIA documents in ments of the past to the fight to this spring, at exactly two min- “My friends thought our trip or shine, she became a fixture rising, and the many voices and Ohio has garnered more than protect Medicaid, which pays utes before noon, Judy Whit- to Vancouver was to see Joni in the park all spring. forces that made it happen. 50,000 views on YouTube since for more than half of Ameri- worth held what she likes to call Mitchell and James Taylor,” she Whitworth draws the same it was posted in February, and cans’ long-term in-home med- a seminar on saving the world. says. “Instead, they got to hear lesson from the effort to dis- THE LAW STUDENT WHO MADE IN- inspired at least two dozen im- ical services. Means connect- The spindly 68-year-old, a re- me carry on about the Nixon lodge Trump that she did from FORMATION FREE, FOR YOUR SANITY itators to create similar guides ed with ADAPT, a grassroots tired master electrician from administration.” her anti-nuclear organizing: Imani Stewart was a law stu- for other states. group that for the past 40 years Atlanta, speaks with a sonorous She moved east for college “You must fight audacity with dent at Case Western Reserve “I did it for my own peace has lobbied government and alto honed over years of mak- and for work. The Three Mile audacity. The Trump cabal was when Donald Trump was of mind,” Stewart says. “We corporations to expand rights ing herself heard at job sites. Island nuclear accident revived so brazen, it called for a brazen inaugurated. Now a first-year started using the hashtag and access for people with When addressing the groups her interest in protests and led response.” #FOIAsanity as an in-joke, but disabilities. In March, from who come to the park for her her to make connections be- labor lawyer at a firm in Co- [email protected] lumbus, Ohio, the 27-year-old as this network grew, it really her school’s media lab, she training sessions on nonviolent tween nuclear weapons, nucle- launched a lo-fi podcast about political action, she makes a THE WASHINGTON POST • WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019 A7

TURNED TIDE FROM A1 rum, withholding consent, and filibustering to “throw sand in the gears of this rogue admin- World istration” and “stand up for the Months policies Americans really want.” Schumer initially ignored the protesters, likely not wanting leaders to be held responsible for ar- of endless resting women with small children. But pressure mounted as each of the nine offices became react protest led sticky zones of chaos, making it Associated Press impossible for Schumer — or his staffers — to get work done. independence square — As “There were people dropping by the news of Trump’s hasty de- to ouster around the clock with tamales, parture ricocheted across the lasagnas, and juice boxes for globe, reactions from world lation, even as Trump’s mount- the protesters,” said one staffer. leaders reflected a mix of con- ing legal troubles and impeach- “Babies kept drooling on our fusion, studied calm, and, in ment proceedings in the House keyboards and there were half- some cases, outright glee. None upped the pressure on the chewed Cheerios and dirty dia- seemed more disoriented than White House. pers everywhere.” After 10 days British Prime Minister Theresa “Protesters really focused of occupation, Schumer be- May, who summoned the US their pressure on the peo- came the first lawmaker to sign Ambassador to 10 Downing ple and institutions that were the pledge, though sit-ins re- Street to assure him that “the normalizing Trump, either by sumed periodically throughout ‘special relationship’ between actively propping up his ad- the spring when protesters felt JORGE SANHUEZA-LYON/KUT NEWS our two countries will always ministration or failing to take he wasn’t following through. remain special, no matter how bold stands to oppose him,” The protests spread virally, Protesters dressed in brightly colored quinceañera dresses get in formation, preparing to blockade a govern- special the occupant of the Arain said. “Demonstrators with different groups taking ment building with a “wall of floof.” White House.” also proved increasingly willing the lead in different commu- While May might have been to engage in nonviolent direct nities, much like the first wave seeking to calm jittery markets action, which contributed to of Women’s Marches that of Congress to impede Trump’s Trump’s resignation. Disman- Trump’s “88” message with by invoking the continuity of creating a sense of crisis around took place in more than 650 agenda and rally around pro- tling the blockade took almost signs that read “86 45.” On close ties between the Unit- Trump’s presidency.” communities in the day after gressive legislation. The guide a full day, which was covered April 22, Trump posted the ed Kingdom and the United That was evident in the Trump’s 2017 inauguration. No framed demands for ambitious breathlessly across cable news. fateful Tweets calling for his States, opposition Labor lead- surge of smaller protests that single organization spearhead- goals like Medicare for All — Aerial and on-the-ground foot- “big beautiful base” to “vote er Jeremy Corbyn’s response occurred across the country. ed these nationwide protests, or, for that matter, Trump’s age of the ensuing arrests and with your trigger finger.” struck a different note. “The Groups of one to four dozen but by April 1, every major pro- impeachment — as agenda-set- aggressive treatment of some of Resistance groups including people can carry you into pow- people — primarily women gressive network and group had ting rather than quixotic or the teens led Trump’s approval Indivisible and the Women’s er; the people can drive you out, — regularly marched to Con- thrown their weight behind the unrealistic, emboldening the rating to drop to an unprece- March had already planned too,” Corbyn said in a one-sen- gress members’ local offices to Sippy Cup actions, mobilizing grassroots resistance. “It ex- dented low. April 27-28 as a weekend of tence statement issued this demand support for the ongo- their members either to join panded our sense of what was The momentum kept build- citizen lobbying for the Bundle morning. ing impeachment proceedings the sit-ins or to support them possible,” Binai, the Wisconsin ing. Nationwide protests broke and for Trump’s impeachment. President Emmanuel Ma- and noncooperation with the with supplies and picket lines activist, said out April 15, which was both After the tweets, MoveOn acti- cron of France, freshly chas- Trump administration. Sena- outside. Organizers also cited a guer- Tax Day and a day that the glob- vated its Crisis Response Net- tened by a wave of mass protest tor Schumer was the first tar- By mid-April, nearly half rilla action guide that was al Extinction Rebellion move- work, calling for “all hands on that began in late 2018, pub- get. On March 1, coordinated of the nation’s Congressional slipped into The Washington ment had already named as the deck” for the weekend protests. lished an early-morning tweet: groups of women marched to district offices, including most Post the week before the 2019 beginning of a #RebellionWeek Many Americans who had, up “L’etat ce n’est pas moi — ni all nine of his offices, in Wash- Democrats’ offices, had been Women’s Marches. The guide of climate-crisis actions. The until this point, sat on the side- toi, monsieur Trump.” As of ington D.C. and throughout directly disrupted by protests drew on writings and strategies “You’re Fired!” protests drew lines turned out for what ap- press time there had been more New York state, carrying signs at least once. In Texas and Ar- from past nonviolent resistance huge turnouts from the wide pears to be the largest weekend than 1.5 million retweets, many that read “Give a F*ck, Chuck!” izona, groups of young wom- movements, encouraging orga- array of movements that had of protest ever in American his- featuring the hashtag #Gilets- Over the next several weeks, en blockaded the entrances to nizers around the country to fo- been mobilizing against Trump tory. Estimates suggest that as Jaunes and the refrain, “L’etat as calls for “the Bundle” gath- several Congressional district cus on Trump’s active and tacit for two years and from many many as 11 million Americans c’est nous!” ered support across the political offices by standing side-by-side supporters rather than Trump who hadn’t yet marched — in- participated in the demonstra- Beijing reacted to Trump’s spectrum, the marches evolved in colorful quinceañera dress- himself. Other sections encour- cluding a number of fed-up tions, which took place in more departure with a notable lack of into occupations, mostly tar- es, creating a veritable wall of aged people who had already former Trump voters. Some 3 than 800 towns and cities. surprise. The People’s Daily, the geting Democrats. The women floof that couldn’t be breached marched and rallied to consid- million protesters mobilized Many localities were effectively official newspaper of the Chi- who had coordinated regular without arresting the demon- er using tactics like sit-ins and in over 400 cities and towns paralyzed by the huge peaceful nese Communist Party, includ- protests at Schumer’s offices strators. blockades to escalate pressure. across the country, typically protests. ed a statement from the office again led the way. On March 8, No member of Congress Some of the highest-profile gathering in a central square The next day, on April 29, of China’s president and para- International Women’s Day, the would go on the record to say disruptions were creative spin- or plaza and then marching to an outraged Twitter employee, mount leader, Xi Jinping: “We women — many accompanied they had been swayed by these offs of the approaches recom- the offices of their elected rep- who still has not been iden- have planned for this eventual- by their infants and toddlers protests, but when one elected mended in the two playbooks. resentatives. Chants included, tified, deactivated both the ity, of course. We congratulate — marched to Schumer’s offic- official was asked to comment For instance, photos from all “You fire him, or we’ll fire you.” @realDonaldTrump and President Pence and look for- es and staged occupations that on whether the protests had 17 Trump-owned golf courses Alarmed by the protests, @POTUS accounts. Twitter ward to working with him on came to be known as the “Sip- influenced her decision first to — including those in Ireland, Trump took to Twitter on April CEO Jack Dorsey initially re- critical issues like trade deficits py Cup Sit-ins.” They refused support the Bundle and then Dubai, and Scotland — went vi- 17 with a message to his released a statement that the as China continues its peaceful to leave until Schumer signed to participate in the filibusters ral on March 18; the word “RE- maining supporters: “We only company would reinstate the rise to dominant superpower.” a pledge to “support the will of that paralyzed business in the SIGN” had been etched into have 88 hours. Defend our accounts, but a crowd estimat- In North Korea, Kim Jong- the majority of Americans and Senate during large parts of their golf greens. The culprits, country from mob rule.” The ed at 5,000 barricaded the en- un had a similarly bracing rally Democrats to support an April, she replied, on condition who were never identified, use of “88” was widely under- trances to the company’s San message. In an official briefing, ambitious progressive vision, as of anonymity, “Duh.” posted an anonymous commu- stood to be a reference to the Francisco headquarters. Police Kim suggested it was “too bad well as block any legislation or Organizers said they took nique explaining that they had neo-Nazi shorthand for “Heil refused to arrest the demon- Trump did not know how to appointment by the occupant inspiration from two action used white vinegar, a natural Hitler.” Twitter users called on strators, and after 24 hours, hold on to power the way a real of the White House that might guides published after the mid- and fast-acting grass killer. Twitter to take down the pres- Dorsey tweeted that the presi- leader must.” limit the rights, privileges, and term elections. “Indivisible on Two days later, a group of over ident’s account, but the com- dent’s account was shut down In Saudi Arabia, Crown resources afforded to margin- Offense,” released on Novem- 450 teenagers affiliated with pany remained silent on the until further notice for violat- Prince Mohammed bin Salman alized Americans.” The pledge, ber 18, 2018 by the nationwide the Parkland, Florida #Never- matter. ing the site’s terms of service. appeared visibly shaken at a circulated online and later network that played a key role Again movement encircled the In response, demonstrations @realDonaldTrump went si- hastily convened press confer- adopted by countless groups in spurring grassroots Congres- White House and locked them- broke out outside Twitter’s lent and, soon after, so did the ence. Avoiding any mention of across the country, asked elect- sional advocacy during Trump’s selves to each other and to the 11 U.S. offices, with several real Donald Trump. Trump, he instead directly re- ed officials to commit to using time in office, provided strat- fence using chains, PVC pipe, evolving into nonviolent block- [email protected] minded President Pence of the tactics such as denying quo- egies for pressuring members and other hardware, calling for ades. Protesters responded to close ties between Saudi Arabia and the United States and the importance of moving forward #METOO FROM A1 Democrats picked up 40 seats with business deals “that are in the House. Women candi- mutually beneficial to both of dates accounted for more than our countries” before shrug- Women led 60 percent of the House dis- ging and walking away from tricts that Democrats flipped. the dais. “It’s not often you see a pro- Israeli Prime Minister Benja- the way test movement produce such min Netanyahu, himself under huge electoral gains so quickly,” several corruption investiga- for Trump’s inauguration. said Takema Berry, a Universi- tions, was preparing to read a After some men publicly ty of Miami law professor and brief statement mourning the wondered whether they were city commissioner in Coral Ga- loss of a staunch ally, when he invited to join, the sight of 4 bles, Florida. “But that’s part of was caught on a hot mic saying million women, men, and chil- what has made this resistance (in English) “Shit! Shit! Shit!” dren packing American streets so distinctive: it’s both angry By contrast, the silence from quickly answered the question. and pragmatic. It may some- Vladimir Putin has been the More than 1 percent of the U.S. day rank with other women-led most tantalizing news of the population participated in the movements like suffrage, labor, day. Overnight odds sprung marches, the single largest day and abolition, that transformed up in London betting shops on of action in the nation’s his- America’s fundamental social how long the Russian president tory. Yet even those demon- contract.” would go without formally ac- strations were dwarfed by the The beginning of 2019 saw knowledging Trump’s depar- massive protests last Saturday, a Democratically controlled ture. The most popular option, DAMIAN DOVARGANES/AP House offering the first formal “never,” was drawing 4-to-1 on what was to mark Trump’s #MeToo marches built momentum against Donald Trump’s apparent impunity. final weekend in office. At least check on Trump’s power since odds. 11 million people marched women. It catalyzed an effort the country really leverage their Jones the first Democrat to rep- he’d assumed office. Faced with An official communique post- through and occupied Ameri- that hastened his exit.” power in these actions,” said resent Alabama in the Senate a tactician as practiced as Nan- ed on the website of the Russian can cities with music, speech- The marches of January 21, Sulma Gallardo, an activist since 1996, nudging him past cy Pelosi, the veteran Speaker Foreign Ministry read, simply, es, signs, and chants such as 2017, established a precedent and Indiana University sociol- an opponent credibly accused of the House, Trump seemed “We are no fans of asylum seek- the call and response between of sustained pushback against ogy professor. “It frankly dis- of sexual assault. deflated and withdrawn all ers, on principle, but welcome, women and men, My body, my Trump from America at large, armed Trump. He’s always been A year later, the movement winter. Then, on March 8, In- President Trump!” In a leafy choice! / Her body, her choice! but especially from women. threatened by women, and sort met a setback. The Senate ternational Women’s Day, dem- suburb of Sebastopol, capital of The counter-Trump move- Studies found that more than of blusters through his fragile confirmed Brett Kavanaugh onstrators began clogging New the Republic of Crimea force- ment would not be made only half the marchers in the next idea of masculinity. You could to the Supreme Court despite York Senator Chuck Schumer’s fully annexed from Ukraine in of women. But they would lead two large protests — the Peo- see it get under his skin as he Christine Blasey Ford’s searing nine offices with so-called Sip- 2014, workmen were seen ap- it, as surely as they propelled ple’s Climate March and the lashed out against Maxine Wa- testimony to the Senate judi- py Cup Sit-Ins, whereby entire plying metallic gold paint to a past American movements for March on Science — were ters, Stormy Daniels, Kirsten ciary committee that Kava- families, kids and all, held a Soviet-era dacha expected to be universal suffrage, for labor women. And a survey that year Gillibrand, and just about ev- naugh tried to rape her when borderline festive occupation, offered to Trump as he awaits protections, and for civil rights. of calls to Congress found that ery other woman not named they were teenagers. Kavana- echoing the “play date” family indictment from the Depart- And whether he realized it or women’s phone calls outnum- Ivanka.” ugh and his backers responded separation protests of the pre- ment of Justice. The Intercept not, that put Trump on the re- bered men’s by a 6-to-1 margin. The rising anger of the wom- with indignant rage. Women vious summer. obtained and published an in- ceiving end of a harsh histori- It was as if watching a women’s movement only grew after meanwhile took to the halls of Ten days of sit-ins won a teroffice memo of the FSB (the cal truth. Women-led uprisings an presidential candidate win 3 the New York Times in Octo- Congress, pleading to lawmak- pledge from Schumer to sup- KGB’s successor) that includ- throughout history — includ- million more votes than her op- ber 2017 broke the long-buried ers face-to-face with stories of port the “Bundle” of progressive ed the line, “Operation Friend ing the 1789 women’s march on ponent reminded women that story of Hollywood producer their own assaults. More than legislation while thwarting any Turkey concluded.” Versailles that helped to spark they, in fact, are the majority. Harvey Weinstein’s serial ha- 1,200 demonstrators were ar- of Trump’s actions that would Recently-sworn-in President the French Revolution, and the On the first anniversary of rassment, assault, and coercion rested in a series of sit-ins and harm vulnerable Americans. Pence has yet to issue an official 1917 International Women’s Trump’s inauguration, millions of women. Using the hashtag hearing disruptions, presaging “I’ve been a Senator for a lot of statement on foreign policy — Day March that helped bring of protesters again gathered #MeToo, echoing the phrase the women-led direct actions years,” he said in announcing or, for that matter, to do any- about the abdication of Russian in cities around the country to coined by movement founder that would later hound Trump the pledge. “But I’d never tru- thing whatsoever. In the third Tsar Nicholas II — often have reprise the Women’s March. Tarana Burke, women shared from office. ly arrived until my daughter of three chaotic press confer- tectonic consequences, up to Some 200,000 marched in their own stories of abuses in Through it all, polls showed called me this morning to say, ences today, White House Press and including regime change. New York; another 300,000 and out of their workplaces. that more Americans believed and I quote, ‘Welcome to the Secretary Sarah Huckabee “So often the difficulty in in Chicago. In Los Angeles, the The resulting firestorm unseat- Ford, and when Kavanaugh sisterhood, dad.’” Sanders answered a reporter’s mobilizing a bloc of people as crowd of 600,000 made voter ed dozens of accused men from took the bench, he had a net Not long after that, the question about Pence’s plans heterogeneous as women is registration a theme of their powerful positions in media, fi- negative rating among voters. 11-million-strong protests by saying that the incoming lack of consensus,” said Frieda action. In Palm Beach County, nance, education, and politics. Even as conservatives claimed swept away a president. Histo- President “intends to keep as Campos, a University of Hawaii Florida, a few hundred turned Even as the president suf- the moment as a culture war ry will show that Trump quit. It low a profile as possible,” be- historian of women’s move- out to roast the president near fered little consequence for his victory and predicted indignant will also show that women had fore realizing the strangeness of ments. “You see that in America his Mar-a-Lago compound, own accusations of sexual as- voters would turn out to avenge effectively given him a pink slip what she had just said. “That’s today — plenty of women still including a group of women sault from 20 women, his im- Kavanaugh’s good name, the his first day on the job. because our new President is who arrived in white bonnets a humble man, a man of God, voted for Trump. But a wide punity only energized his oppo- loss stiffened the Trump op- [email protected] consensus emerged early on and red cloaks, à la “The Hand- sition. In December 2017, the position. Thanks in part to and in no position to govern, I that Trump was a threat to all maid’s Tale.” overwhelming support of black grassroots get-out-the-vote op- mean before asking God. Next “We’ve seen women across women voters made Doug erations anchored by women, question.” A8 THE WASHINGTON POST • WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2019

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What has happened to our country over ers of lives. They should be incarcerated for the past two years? What has happened to law their crimes. They must serve as examples so and order, to the institutions we all trusted to that others will think long and hard before safeguard our rights and freedoms, the institu- committing a crime or an act of self-serving tions which had the power under the law to treason. Yes, Americans, I want to hate these help us in times of danger, keep us safe from traitors and I always will. I am not looking to those who would prey on innocent lives to psychoanalyze or understand them, I am look- fulfill some distorted inner need? What has ing to punish them. If the punishment is happened to the respect for each other, the strong, the attacks on innocent people will fear of retribution by the courts, society and stop. I recently watched a newscast trying to the police for those who break the law, who explain the “anger in these old white men.” wantonly trespass on the rights of others? We no longer want to understand their anger. What has happened is the complete break- We want them to understand our anger. We down of life as we knew it. want them to be afraid. Many American families — White, Black, How can our great society tolerate the Hispanic and Asian — have had to give up the continued brutalization of its citizens by dream of a better life for their children, of a crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that happy retirement, of enough leisure time to their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN spend Saturday at the park, ride a bike at ATTACK ON OUR DEMOCRACY BEGINS! dawn, or just sit on their stoops — given them We miss the feeling, already long in the up as hostages to a world ruled by the law of past, when democracy felt secure and politi- the jungle, as the wealthy elites wantonly lay cians stood up for all of the people, without waste our democracy, dispensing their own regard to their wealth. vicious brand of twisted greed on whatever Let us take back the power we've handed and whomever they encounter. At what point over to politicians who've used it to take more did we cross the line from the fine and noble and more of our wealth. Let us unshackle pursuit of freedom to the reckless and danger- ourselves from the chant of “there is no alter- ously permissive atmosphere which allows the native,” which the wealthiest use to justify a wealthiest criminals to destroy social programs system in which they and their friends enjoy and environmental regulations, then laugh at stratospheric success, while countless millions the suffering that they've caused? And why do suffer. We must cease our continuous toler- they laugh? They laugh because they know that ance for the criminal in the White House. Give even as their victims suffer, they remain free America back to the citizens and immigrants to destroy what remains of democracy — and who have earned the right to be Americans. yet face no great personal risk to themselves. Send a message loud and clear to those who Some people have stated that hate and would deceive our people and terrorize this rancor should be removed from our hearts. I country — BRING BACK JUSTICE AND do not think so. I want to hate these destroy- BRING BACK DEMOCRACY!

The Human Race No apologies to Donald J. Trump