Barbara Plesser

Barbara Plesser

@bgsmith.bsky.social

Senior “Policy Geek” and seemingly-utopian Visionary ! Many of us are PRIVILEGED to be alive in our Baby Boom cohort, while many others need our support and encouragement. Let’s Be There for Them ! 🌞🌞 508 693 6742 MV

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Rep. Debbie Dingell
@debbiedingell.house.gov

I talk to my constituents every week.  You know what they want? Lower costs. Healthcare they can actually afford. A government that works for them instead of the billionaire class.

Barbara Plesser
@bgsmith.bsky.social

There you have it. And, like every other human that ever lived, he is a combination of his nature ( DNA 🧬 ) AND his nurture ( traumatic early childhood experience ). But NOTHING JUSTIFIES his ACTIONS ! The above merely EXPLAINS it : Explanation vs Justification : Think on the distinction 🤔 !

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Barbara Plesser
@bgsmith.bsky.social

This most revealing Trump statement at 14 mins into Monday’s show, and the PROJECTION abt “Stupid People”, and YOUR personal experience w/ that SAME feeling, is a transcendent moment in yr journalism career, and life in general, bcs it’s a “re-creation” of an unconscious belief now made CONSCIOUS !

Barbara Plesser
@bgsmith.bsky.social

This most revealing Trump statement at 14 mins into Monday’s show, and the PROJECTION abt “Stupid People”, and YOUR personal experience w/ that SAME feeling, is a transcendent moment in yr journalism career, and life in general, bcs it’s a “re-creation” of an unconscious belief now made CONSCIOUS !

Barbara Plesser
@bgsmith.bsky.social

@lastword.msnbc.com Last night’s episode might be the Finest Ever for this program, due to L’OD’s very important and revealing comment about his “felt inferiority”, the emotional state in Alfred Adler’s very well known formulation, known as the “Inferiority Complex”.

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Barbara Plesser
@bgsmith.bsky.social

@lastword.msnbc.com Lawrence, Ali V did a fantastically clear and informative, 2 block interview yesterday with Jaime Raskin, you, Chris, etc could helpfully replay this week, on the Texas Redistricting Saga, and EXCELLENT ideas he proposed in Congress on how to transcend the current system.

Barbara Plesser
@bgsmith.bsky.social

@lastword.msnbc.com Lawrence, Ali V did a fantastically clear and informative, 2 block interview yesterday with Jaime Raskin, you, Chris, etc could helpfully replay this week, on the Texas Redistricting Saga, and EXCELLENT ideas he proposed in Congress on how to transcend the current system.

Barbara Plesser
@bgsmith.bsky.social

I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

mobilize.usOne Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No KingsAcross the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
Barbara Plesser
@bgsmith.bsky.social

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS MARTHA'S VINEYARD” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve... No Kings Event on June 14th, at “5 Corners” In Vineyard Haven, Martha’s Vineyard ! 11am ! Join us ! NO KINGS ! But QUEENS are Cool 😎 !

mobilize.usNO KINGS MARTHA'S VINEYARD · Mobilize**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...
Barbara Plesser
@bgsmith.bsky.social

www.democracynow.org/2025/3/14/jv... Excellent protest by American Jews in the Trump Tower atrium, via “Democracy Now” program, with host Amy Goodman. “NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE” is their slogan !

democracynow.org“Never Again for Anyone”: Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower Protesting Mahmoud Khalil ArrestOver 300 protesters with the group Jewish Voice for Peace flooded the lobby of Trump Tower in New York on Thursday wearing red shirts saying “Not in Our Name.” They demanded the immediate release of M...
Barbara Plesser
@bgsmith.bsky.social

@vanhollen.senate.gov “Illegal Abductions” is perfect ! NOT “Deportations” ! Great Job, Senator ! Create a “Senatorial POD”, a small GROUP of like-minded Senators, with whom to do media, so Dems of this world can see the “Conference in Action” ! Maybe 🤔 with up & coming, next gen leaders

Barbara Plesser
@bgsmith.bsky.social

This is a picture that’s worth a thousand words, IF it is fully accurate. Can anyone who is AUTHORITATIVE on the topic please confirm or refute its accuracy please ? ✡️✡️☮️☮️

Barbara Plesser
@bgsmith.bsky.social

Have you guys SEEN this 30 second “ad@ that appeared on CNN this morning, before the “Inside Politics” show ? Holy Moly ! This is TRANSFORMATIONAL ! Please REPOST, and visit their website ! ❤️🩷🧡💛

Barbara Plesser
@bgsmith.bsky.social

2 /. Continuation of above ⬆️ post . . . then let us know THAT ! We KNOW that there is a massive shakeup going on with Comcast and MSN, but the audience MUST be booming with Trump 2.0 going BONKERS on us ! WE RESPECT YOUR PRIVACY, and we NEED your UNIQUE VOICE to stay WITH US ! 🫨🫨😮‍💨😮‍💨😵‍💫😵‍💫🧐🧐🧐