Lisle Township Democratic Organization

"Voting is a chess move, not a Valentine." - Rebecca Solnit

AI “Deep Fakes” Are Here

The images below are AI-generated “deep fakes”. These are photographs, but deep fake videos are also being made. We will undoubtedly be seeing more and more disinformation via this route. The moral is: don’t believe any media product unless you know where it came from and trust the source. Or as your mother might have told you, “Don’t put that in your head; you don’t know where it’s been.”

Project 2025: An Authoritarian Roadmap

I have been surprised in recent conversations how many people are unaware of Project 2025. One thing that saved us from even worse consequences of President Donald Trump (I know that’s a brain-stretcher) was his general incompetence and disinterest in doing anything that involved actual work. The Right has realized this and wants to “hit the ground running” if Trump is elected again. To quote Wikipedia, Project 2025 is (bolding is mine)

a plan to reshape the Executive Branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 United States presidential election. Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit thousands to come to Washington, D.C., to replace existing employees to restructure the Executive Branch of the federal government as to further the agenda and policies of Donald Trump. The plan would perform a quick takeover of the entire U.S. federal government under a maximalist version of the unitary executive theory – a theory proposing the president of the United States have absolute power of the executive branch – upon inauguration.

This is terrifying, and while it’s exhausting to think of each succeeding general election as “existential,” it’s accurate. We are genuinely tasked with rescuing our democracy; there might be no “next time” to do better.

New Illinois Retirement Savings Program

In his October newsletter, Illinois Treasurer Michael Freirichs describes the new Illinois Secure Choice retirement savings program

that travels with the worker. The General Assembly established the program as part of a larger retirement savings law to address the retirement savings crisis in our country. Too many people forgot, or were never taught, that Social Security was designed to supplement, not replace, personal savings …

Workers are 15 times more likely to save for retirement if they can do so through payroll deductions, according to an AARP study. And there’s a need to save—23 percent of retirees rely upon Social Security for 90 percent of their retirement income.

The enrollment deadline is Nov. 1. Please see the Illinois Secure Choice page at illinoistreasurer.gov/Individuals/Secure_Choice for more information.

Nancy Staszk’s “Worlds Before Us” Featured at Woodridge Library

Artist Reception Sunday afternoon, June 25th 2-4 PM

Our own Nancy Staszak’s exhibit “Worlds Before Us” will be on display in the Art Gallery, located in the lobby, throughout June during the Woodridge Library’s regular hours of operation.

Nancy is an award-winning artist and a long-time resident of Woodridge, a retired art teacher, an avid reader who enjoys science fiction, and a gardener and hiker who enjoys nature and just about everything. She writes:

The world before us is intricate and beautiful: all of it from telephone poles and
cellular towers around us, to natural landscapes and animals present and past,
and what we imagine dinosaurs may have looked like before we were even here. There are other worlds too, in our own galaxy and beyond.

With so many different subjects and art materials to explore, it’s satisfying to
experiment and see what effects you can get and how much fun (or frustration) it can be! Paints, prints, pencil, collage — all of them offer opportunities to look
around at the world before us, to wonder, and to create an impression of it all.

Nancy hopes you will enjoy the work here and perhaps feel inspired to try your hand at some form of art too. Taking part in creation is a very human and joyful thing to do — trying something different and making mistakes, solving problems, and creating something new.

Some Election Highlights

  • No “Red Wave”!
  • Lisle Township’s Mental Health Board referendum won handily! Congratulations to all who worked so hard on this!
  • The “Workers’ Rights Amendment” has also apparently passed.
  • Representatives Foster, Casten, and Underwood all won re-election.
  • Senator Tammy Duckworth was re-elected.
  • Governor Pritzker and the entire statewide slate all won re-election.
  • Every election-denying secretary of state candidate (and most governor candidates at this point) lost. This is great news for the integrity of the next presidential election.
  • Democrats retain control of the U.S. Senate. Senator Raphael Warnock and Hershel Walker will compete in a runoff election.
  • Complete DuPage County results here: dupageresults.gov.

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