Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

[politics again] At various points during last night's rally, I found myself muttering "hasn't he heard of Andrew Jackson?" (without diminishing the importance of this constitutional crisis, Trump isn't the first president to do what he wanted, Constitution or courts be damned), "the audience has done the reading" (response to "I don't remember what") and "that's obscure" ("does anyone here remember Bella Abzug?"). I may have been the only person who shouted "yes" on the last one, since Abzug (a feminist New York politician from the 1960s and '70s) was from New York, not Boston.

I don't think the U.S. constitution is perfect, or the best system in the world today: but democracy and justice are both worth fighting for.

Middlesex County DA Marian Ryan (who I voted against in the primary) talked about the importance of prosecutors not being answerable to other politicians, only the voters; I also give her points for saying things like "at its best" this is how a prosecutor's office works, rather than claiming perfection. I think she was the only elected official to speak at the Boston rally last night; if there was going to be one, a DA is a good choice. I wonder vaguely where Maura Healey (the state attorney general) and the Suffolk County DA (which includes Boston) were, but this was organized on short notice, and Healey at least has been publicly objecting to Whitaker, and Trump's selection of him.