the pilot doesn’t deserve being gendered? the child, okay I can see having their info private. but “3 women, and child, and the pilot” just seems a lil weird
I read it as “readers know the plane must have had a pilot, so we’re going to specifically mention that the pilot was also okay”. And I would rather pilot remain a genderless word over references to “pilot” and “pilotess”, or “the male pilot / the female pilot” or some other such nonsense.
“We are working with other countries to say, ‘We want to send you some of the most despicable human beings,’” he said
Gee, I can’t imagine why countries aren’t just lining up to accept people … /S
“I thought I was voting for pro-business policies and small, targeted, and incremental tariffs that would encourage the production of strategic industries to return to the Americas,” Fuller said, adding that this is what happened under Trump’s previous term.
Ah, so you weren’t paying attention during the first term, or you have amnesia …
I usually start with The Big List of Protests, where a lot of stuff gets cross-posted. Political revolution gets the 50501 protests and some other stuff (note that the site has had connectivity issues when but protests are upcoming and we in the outside aren’t sure if that’s bandwidth issues, hardware/software limitations, or sabotage. If you see an upcoming protest that looks possible, screenshot it just in case you can’t look it up later.] Indivisible runs their own calendar (they have connections with the Democrats, so I wouldn’t use my real contact info with them unless you want you start getting mailers and begging letters), and there’s also No Voice Unheard.
50501 on reddit recently had some kind of moderator drama (idk i heard about it in passing). The original moderators have a new sub at /r/50501movement, but /r/50501 is still active and I’m not sure how many people know or care about the difference. Depending on how active it is, you may be better off using your state or regional 50501 subreddit anyway.
If you can’t make a protest, or don’t want to, you can start with Five Calls, which lists current events or upcoming votes to talk to your Congresscritters about. They suggest choosing one topic each day and making one set of calls every day, but any calls you can make are important. Apparently they’re semi-ignoring emails and letters, as so many of them can be brigaded, but they’re still paying attention to phone calls - possibly because the constant ringing is annoying. [If you end up in voicemail, try calling one of the local state offices for your Congresscritter.] If they hold one that you can get to, to go a town hall so they can see lots of angry faces.
I will note that one reason the Republicans have had so much influence over their Congresscritters is that, apparently in the past, they got 4 phone calls from Republicans for every one phone call from a Democrat. I’m not sure where the math currently stands. If you have any connection with the Congresscritter, mention that: “I worked on/volunteered for/donated to their campaign” (even if it was decades ago), etc. If not, try for some other connection: “I’ve voted for your party my entire life”, “I live in [member’s] home town/office town”, “They were wonderful and helped me with this problem years ago”, whatever you can think of.
If you are calling, this one’s important: if they do something you approve of, call or write and let them know that as well! No one’s going to like getting yelled at all the time, and we can give them both positive and negative reinforcement. So if Cory Booker or Hakeem Jeffries or anytime else does something noticable you approve of (the sit-in, the filibuster, whatever) call and thank them, even if they’re not your Congresscritter, then call your Congresscritter, tell them how impressed you were with the other guy’s actions, and ask them to support your cause-of-the-day.
There are a lot more resources out there, and many more things you can do to help, but those are the ones I’d start with.
A) Their absence was intentional.
B) They can’t anyway, because they’ve already passed a law last month saying that the entire rest of the legislative year is just one calendar day long:
House Republican leaders on Tuesday quietly moved to shield their members from having to vote on whether to end President Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, tucking language into a procedural measure that effectively removed their chamber’s ability to undo the levies. NYTimes source.
C) Fuck the entire Republican party.
D) Fuck the Democrats for not standing up to this shit.
Cheap food, served fast. It’s no longer fast it’s no longer cheap, and it’s become only borderline edible.
Or, you know high prices from low quality, slow food. I was fine paying cheap prices for food that was low quality and cheap, but I’m not paying chain restaurant prices for low quality, slow food.
Every “mistake” is a push to see what they can get away with.
And that data is going to be sold and traded to every corporation and government on the planet …
You forgot sexism. There’s a non-zero amount of people who simply will never vote for a woman.
Once you’re a billionaire, you have a helluva a lot more leeway and leverage to fight back, they’re just fucking cowards.
I remember reading some study, years ago now, that if there’s a mixed group of women and men, the women were considered “pushy” if they spoke more 1/3 of the time. There was another study where they found that male Supreme Court justices were three times as likely to interrupt a woman Supreme Court justice than they were to interrupt a male Supreme Court justice. Another one that if a man expounded on a topic, he was more often viewed as an expert sharing their knowledge, but the same thing in a woman was seen as “too aggressive”. It’s exhausting, honestly :(
Billionaires are fucking cowards.
Billionaires are fucking cowards.
You gave her a nice warm bed and now you’re stealing it?! Bad human!
For anyone who wants to read it (for as long as it remains online), you can find the latest one here.
Ah, so Russia wants to create rifts between Eastern and Western Europe, got it!
It was going to mostly crash anyway, when the ships stop coming next week, due to the tariffs.
If you’d like to pressure your Congresscritter in a less-specific but more obstructive way, tell them you’d like to see them doing more of this kind of thing.