…“It's time to reimagine security. We need significant cuts to the Pentagon budget, and for Congress to instead prioritize peacebuilding and investment in our communities.”…

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Happy Good Friday….I’m sure you are going to mass today & I hope you will pray for peace in Myanmar.

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…I hope your cabinet meeting goes well today. Will Sec. of Interior Deb Haaland be doing a land acknowledgement to start the meeting?…

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…When you fix the highways, you could use some of the military budget. Then the corporations won’t scream so much about having their taxes raised. You can explain to the Congress that back in the ‘50s, Ike rationalized the Interstate Highway System by saying it was necessary for military maneuvers….

…Did you hear about the garbage strike in Yangon? Folks are throwing their trash on the street in protest of the Tatmadaw. Those Burmese young folks are proving their abilities to organize, & they keep coming up with new ways to gum up the works…

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….Have you talked to Shalaanda Young about inflation? I’m excited to see that she’s the acting Sec. of OMB. I learned this morning that she’s known for her attention to details and her ability to promote compromise – a much better temperament than your first pick for OMB…..

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Happy Palm Sunday. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, is excited that so many people in Israel have been vaccinated that he could lead a group of worshippers on a procession from the Mount of Olives to the Old City. They even got to go into the Holy Sepulchre….

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…Even the Maha Nayaka, the committee of monk leaders, have called on the military to halt the violence & monks in the street are refusing to accept alms from soldiers. According to the CSM, this spiritual exile will weigh heavy on the troops….

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…I was surprised to see that today you are doing a virtual fundraiser for Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (KLB). I don’t remember seeing your predecessor ever doing a fund raiser for a mayor. Are you trying to make up for the fact that you didn’t appoint her to a high cabinet office?…

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…I understand that you will be having your first press conference today & your staff is nervous about it since you are a self-professed “gaffe machine.” The WP used the word, “garrulous” to describe you, which means “tiresomely talkative.” I had to look that up….

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…I’m thrilled that you will be commemorating Equal Pay day with Margaret Purce(MP) & Megan Rapinoe(MR) at the WH today. As Lindsay Crouse (LC) suggested in today’s NYT, we still have a long way to go….

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…Please consider my suggestion in yesterday’s letter to admit Rohingya refugees to the US. As I’m sure you heard, one of their camps had a terrible fire yesterday. It must be devastating for them to lose the few possessions they had, but even worse to lose any sense of security & normalcy that they may have experienced. Let’s open our doors to them….

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…& today’s NYT story about Rohingya artists in refugee camps in Bangladesh caught my attention… Artolution, funds folks to paint murals & teach kids. They promote the idea that artwork is food for the mind & provides children with a way to retain their dignity and self-worth…

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Call James Shelby, AKA Qadhafi. He’s the head of the KC Homeless Union who is arguing that $7 million is spent to benefit the unhoused & no one is consulting with the folks who are living in tents in front of town hall. … He’s bringing folks together & looking after his neighbor. We need more of that kind of thinking these days …

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…I am baffled that 14 GOP Reps voted against the House Resolution condemning the Burma coup. Rep Perry had particularly convoluted logic, calling it an “overt attempt to trap Republicans into condemning the claims of evidence of election fraud in Burma” while “perpetuating similar claims (in the Democrat’s views) of evidence in US elections.” …

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