Hey, remember yestiddy?
Here's some coverage.
WPXI:
Holding “Missing” milk cartons, a couple hundred demonstrators filled Schenley Plaza in Oakland Saturday in what they called a search party for Republican Sen. Dave McCormick and Democrat Sen. John Fetterman.
They danced in blow-up chicken suits in front of a big sign reading, ‘Two chickens, Too chicken?
“They can hide but I think these are the forums we have to get them to pay attention,” said demonstrator Sam Doverspike.
And:
Several demonstrators filled the lawn, asking where McCormick and Fetterman are, calling them cowards.
WESA:
Protesters gathered in Oakland Saturday afternoon to demand an audience with Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators.
“All we want to do is have our elected officials hear us out,” said Sean Meloy, a Democratic political strategist who ran for Congress in 2022. “They're helping one of the richest senators get richer with a book tour! That's what they're doing at this time of crisis.”
The demonstration had originally been called when Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Dave McCormick were scheduled to appear together for at a ticketed book event Saturday. The event was canceled Friday, but the protest continued without them, drawing a crowd of hundreds.
Fetterman and McCormick have faced pressure from constituents to hold public town halls, as the federal government makes rapid changes to social safety net programs and federal spending. Tensions have escalated at town hall events across the country in recent weeks, with Republicans in particular facing outrage from constituents angry about the Trump administration’s policies.
Let me add by saying that, from what I could tell at the protest, this crowd was angry at Fetterman for not fighting back against the Trump regime enough.
For example, he voted to confirm of Kristi Noem, well-known puppy killer, as head of DHS.
So when Rolling Stone reports:
Ranjani Srinivasan
The day before Khalil was detained, federal immigration agents went to the apartment of Columbia University student Ranjani Srinivasan. Srinivasan, a graduate student studying architecture, had moved to the U.S. from India as a Fulbright scholar in 2016. She did not answer the door when agents arrived, as she spoke with someone from the school’s international student office about the notice she’d received that her student visa had been revoked.
A fearful Srinivasan fled to Canada, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted security footage of her with her suitcase at LaGuardia airport. “It is a privilege to be granted a visa to live & study in the United States of America,” Noem wrote on X. “When you advocate for violence and terrorism that privilege should be revoked and you should not be in this country.”
The State Department has not provided evidence backing Noem’s claims that Srinivasan, 37, was involved in activities supporting Hamas.
“I’m fearful that even the most low-level political speech or just doing what we all do — like shout into the abyss that is social media — can turn into this dystopian nightmare,” Srinivasan told The New York Times, “where somebody is calling you a terrorist sympathizer and making you, literally, fear for your life and your safety.”
Or when The NYTimes reports:
The administration has also targeted students who have been less involved. Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen and graduate student at Tufts University, was taken into federal custody on Tuesday. She had drawn the attention of a right-wing group that claims to combat antisemitism on college campuses and publicizes its findings online after helping write an opinion piece in the student newspaper criticizing the university’s response to pro-Palestinian demands.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said investigators with that agency and Immigration and Customs Enforcement “found Ozturk engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans. A visa is a privilege, not a right.” She did not offer evidence or details of that support.
A video of Ms. Ozturk’s detention, showing plainclothes agents from the Homeland Security Department detaining her as she was heading out to break her Ramadan fast with friends, has circulated widely online. “This video should shake everyone to their core,” her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai, said in a statement on Wednesday. Ms. Ozturk is being held in Louisiana.
We, Pennsylvanians, should be able to ask either of PA's senators if they're now comfortable with their vote confirming the puppy killer. How about the lack of due process here? I'll assume the MAGA/GOP senator is OK with Trump regime, but the Democrat?
WTF is that all about?
I even had an email response (email responses are always welcome - see the links to your upper right on this page). An astute reader replied:
You are much too polite. I have been lambasting Fetterman on socials like a possessed demon. I did laugh today when someone referred to him and the sainted Giselle as Uncle Fester and Morticia.
His fixation on Israel, to the exclusion of just about anything else, is bizarre. His refusal to have his staff respond to anything is inexcusable, and deciding that the best thing he can do at this perilous moment is to help a filthy rich couple who don’t live in PA sell more books is just nauseating.
If he saw the bright lights and gold toilets and senior citizen breast implants at Mar A Lago and thought wow, this is the life I’ve been dreaming of, then he needs to resign and go wallow in the MAGA filth and let PA have a real senator.
So where was John Fetterman? And why doesn't he want to face these folks? Anyone know?
