Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

electric_blue68

electric_blue68's Journal
electric_blue68's Journal
January 6, 2023

So How Did You Hear about Jan 6 if you were at an office job, working from home, retired (@ home)?..

Did you happen to be in DU as news was reported. Or did someone text, or phone you?


My getting up routine included/es since I got a smartphone (vs replacing a basic cellphone) for Covid shutdown March 2020, but no TV (need to get one again at some point) was/is checking e-mail, going on FB for family, friends, and interest groups.

In between those two I usually check DU.
I might have gone to sleep extremely late like 4AM+ (now, I have been a night owl but even that is extremely late for me) bc I didn't wake up till till after 2PM.

I hadn't turned my radio before I got on DU which by like 2:15P they'd already fought the Capital Police, breeched the barricades, and were inside! I was like WTF?! Obviously (luckily) missing drumphf's exhortations, while at the same time the insurrectionists had already gotten past the police.

So I woke up close to the middle of it.
Instant Sense of Surealness as I now watched!

But a bunch of you might have had a TV, or radio as part of your routine. Others might have been checking in in general on DU.
Did you watch as news reports broke in - if earlier with an increasing sense of incredulity, surrealness as they attacked the barricades/police? Climb the 'effing walls? Infuriation, etc?

Even having seen some of it Live - the earlier parts I caught later; but damn if it still feels "unreal" at times. Which makes sense in a way.

January 5, 2023

Made my phone Call to Sen Schumer's DC Office to...

ask him to when going on radio, TV talk shows, or holding a Press Conference with other top Senators - that while he's not a Representative what's going n in The House could eventually effect bc of the debt ceilingng; they'd be threatened cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps etc. People rely on all these, Dems need to be sounding the alarm more!

Go Dems!
Here's Sen Schumer's

1-202-224-6542




(I always get nervous doing this, but I hardly stumbled at all this time)

January 1, 2023

Got my Times Square YT on. 👍 Happy Almost New Year, DU'rs

Hearing fireworks out my window

Profile Information

Name: Catherine
Gender: Female
Hometown: NYC
Home country: USA
Current location: same
Member since: Sat Jun 6, 2020, 09:10 PM
Number of posts: 14,891

About electric_blue68

flaming liberal! :D Possibly progressive in some areas (not sure where the ?line is if there is one) Think FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Wellstone, Ted Kennedy. Artist (Fine [drawing, getting back to painting, digital(!) art, artist books (where various book forms are used to make an art piece), assemblage sculpture] & Commercial [graphic, design, traditional pu & m, some illustration] , Crafter (unique wire jewelry, yarn work, occasional other crafts), Photographer. Loves the pursuits above, my city, cities, piblic parks & gardens, the deep countryside (been in the high desert of AZ, and up in The Rockies), nature, music, reading, cultures from around the world, space & earth sciences, science fiction, some history, food [:D].
Latest Discussions»electric_blue68's Journal