Hello everyone! I’m Rebecca,living in theSF Bay Area, where I work as a corporate event planner in the med device space. Just looking to broaden my mind and meet like minded folks who are interested in discussion.
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Hi, I’m Viv, I’m Australian and I’m here because (a) the man stumbling around the White House right now is bloody terrifying; and (b) I’m an old fart who misses what USENet used to be (yes, even the modem dial-up tone), and this looks like an interesting community built on a platform I might like to tinker with myself at some point. Lapsed blogger, freelance web tinkerer, politragic.
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Hi, I’m Kara from Connecticut. I’m a work at home mom of four. I’m here because our president is crazy and dangerous. Sometimes the outrageousness of his daily assault on everything decent in the world makes me feel like I’m living in some horrible parallel universe. I’m here to connect with people who can WTF with me.
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Hi Kimberly! I’m a retired public school teacher from Illinois who is very concerned about the messages from the White House and the silence from many in Congress. I joined “Indivisible” a few months ago and find their daily and weekly lists of what to do very helpful. I’ve also been forwarding their lists to many friends who tell me they’re grateful for the information.
I feel that the Democrats need a strong leader to rally behind. I’m not sure who will fill that role. Getting candidates elected is absolutely an important focus, however, we still need to communicate clearly with any candidate to make sure they understand what is important to us.
I don’t have any suggestions for a mission statement, but a friend sent me this quote that I’m holding onto dearly as we move forward:
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead
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Hi Matt - thanks for your newsletter and this group!
I cofounded an Indivisible group for district CA-37 - we have over 400 members now and it feels good to be doing something about the current sad state of things.
http://www.indivisibleca37.org
Our group admins use many sources to stay up to date and recommend actions for our group, and your newsletter is a very helpful one to us! Thanks again. #resist
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Hi, I’m Sonny. I’m in the Chicago area. I help my clients with their digital marketing. Social media, build websites, blah, blah. Most of them pay. But I tend to support causes pro bono. When I attended our first North Shore Indivisible organizational meeting, I accepted the “clip board” for social media. OMG, what have I done? Anyway, in a short time we implemented our online presence and focus on helping people turn hand wringing into actionable tasks. We are in a swing district, Illinois 10th, and currently have a progressive Democratic representative. While our main effort is to insure our representative’s re-election, we are working to build a big tent and engage more people who are focused on specific issues.
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Yay! Thanks for the reply and nice to be in touch with another Indivisible! We have the amazing Karen Bass as our rep, and i just read about Alan Lowenthal - he sounds great too. We are so lucky!
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HI my name is Denise I live on the central coast of California. I am a 50
something yr. old mother of two and grandmother of 3. I am opinionated at times and can be a little rough around the edges I love WTFJHT thanks Matt for my daily fix on whats happening in our nations capital. I am just an ordinary citizen I have no college degree I am just a wage earner who finds what is going on in the White House very disturbing. I know I’m not alone and my question today is why does everyone just turn their heads and look the other way since when is ok to behave in such way and say the most ridiculous things and what about all the fake facts he tells about himself or his crowds of supporters. This has gotten way out of control and I am concerned about health care. the environment and the middle class citizens like myself. i think we live in the best place on the planet wouldn;t want to live anywhere else but that hasn’t stopped me from getting my passport just in case. Nothing good will come of this administration if changes are not made sooner than later.
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We are! Especially because we are adjacent to almost all 4 of those key OC districts with Republican Reps but went for Clinton!
Hi everyone,
My name is Jason, I’m a senior interactive producer at a tech company in Silicon Valley, but more importantly I am a very concerned citizen of this country.
WTFJHT has been a invaluable source of information and I hope to find ways to contribute in the future.
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Welcome @Sonny!
Do you guys have a Facebook page? I would love to follow, always looking for new ideas for our Indivisible group here in CA!
Hi I recently joined the forum and have been getting the WTF emails for a while. I am a 63 year old retired psychiatrist. I am very involved in the Hoosier (indiana) Sierra Club and the Indiana Forest Alliance. I help admin the BRCA sisterhood (online FB support network for folks with genetic predisposition to cancers) and I recently began teaching adult non-swimmers to swim. I gave up on TV news a while ago and rely on following trusted reporters in Twitter and the WTF emails…the rest is way too noisy. I am what Malcolm Gladwell coined a “connector” and derive great joy from putting folks together to do good work. Thanks Matt for the emails, they help me stay grounded without getting too overwhelmed. Lori
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Indiana represent! 
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We should meet up
For Java in Indy soon!
Born and raised there, but sadly moved away a few months ago or I’d be all about a pint of Bulldog Brown at Scotty’s lol. Man I miss that place.
I can’t find your original post to see where you live now. I have been here ten years and finally love the place. It took a while. I was in Nashville TN 30 years before here, and was born, raised and educated in Michigan. I forgot to say that I am trying to support Physicians for. national Health Plan via donations, social media/education etc. Also a trivia point is I knew Tony Schwartz in college as he roomed w my cousin at UofMIch for two years. I followed his writing career but lost track after about a decade and only vaguely remember that he ghost wrote Art of the Deal. He is an interesting and very bright fellow who feels bad that he contributed to the fame of DT as he never dreamed in a zillion years that he would end up prez. He tried to warn everyone at the risk of libel threats from the Donald. Eventually he tried to stop opining about Trump after his interview in the New Yorker so he could do his own work but he now is back on Twitter and if any of you are on there, he is a good one to follow.
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Hi there,
I’m Susan and I’m Canadian but I’m obsessing about what the fuck is happening down there so I follow Matt’s updates every day. I’m a therapist by trade and the only good thing about this s%#* show is it increases my client load. I’d gladly give that up. Love what you are doing Matt. Keep faith.
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