[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues Group this Sunday

Ted Goertzel tedgoertzel at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 15:37:08 CDT 2025


The Today’s Issues group will meet this Sunday, August 24, 9:30 to 10:50
am, to discuss recent events.  No reading is required, but here are some
articles you might find interesting.


   -

   The Trump/Putin and Trump/Zelenskyy and European Leaders discussions
   about Ukraine.  Tom Friedman, Ukraine Diplomacy Reveals how UnAmerican
   Trump i
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_zykOXdG2Q2pbgp9y3rRbrKbiimYfD9myl4x12UGmm4/edit?usp=sharing>s.
   Also: Bret Stephens, Trump Just Reminded Me While I’m Still a Neocon
   <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/trump-israel-ukraine-zelensky.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f08.CNus.ZugpGP1EvBIe&smid=url-share>
   .
   -

   The decline of the Democratic Party and Sherrod Brown’s announcement
   that he’s running for the Senate.  Reading: The Democratic Party Faces a
   Voter Registration Crisis:
   <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f08.olU5.DQOBaiAD9yLn&smid=url-share>
   The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box, a new analysis shows.
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   Trump’s ongoing abuse of presidential power.  Reading: One Sentence in
   the Constitution is Causing America Huge Problems
   <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/trump-constitution-unitary-executive.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f08.eiS4.CGQRIfmUWE-u&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare>.
   To give away the punch line, Here is the key sentence: “The executive power
   shall be vested in a president of the United States of America.” That
   sentence immediately raises two questions: What is executive power? And
   crucially, what are its limits?


The Today’s Issues discussion group meets on occasional Sunday mornings at
9:30  in the parlor of the Religious Education building next to the
Unitarian Universalist Church at 232 Third St. in Marietta or you can join
us on Zoom.

Click on this link if you wish to join the discussion on Zoom.

https://zoom.us/j/92505235702?pwd=RmUyN1FOUjhBVHRYSDBWY2dUZWxFQT0
<https://zoom.us/j/92505235702?pwd=RmUyN1FOUjhBVHRYSDBWY2dUZWxFQT09>
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