"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
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"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.
It was going to mostly crash anyway, when the ships stop coming next week, due to the tariffs.
There was a video on ?imgur? in the past couple days, I didn't know if it was real. Guy says he was a truck driver and had stopped at a weigh station. He said they asked if he could read and write English; he said yes. They gave him a piece of paper to read, which he did; they then told him to write those words down on another piece of paper, which was filled with identical words in various handwritings. He said he saw a bunch of people off to the side in handcuffs, and said that if you couldn't speak or write English, you had to pay a $5000 "fine" on the spot, and that if you couldn't pay, you were arrested on the spot and your driving license immediately suspended. There was some condition (I don't remember what it was) where the trucking company might also have to pay a $10000 "fine".
The comments discussion pointed out that, if they had had $5000 to pay the "fine", it likely would've been taken in civil forfeiture. There was also a robust discussion on whether this was real or not, trying to find other sources, which were slim and primarily referenced questionable sources.
Edit: found the video, which apparently originated on Xitter, and was originally posted last month (I only saw it a day or so ago).
Yeah, we know :( No one is going to risk buying something when the price could more than double depending solely on what date the ship happens to reach port.
No, it's not. It's a 1930's that focused on a bloc of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
Polite of you to assume they're going to care about the slave population while they live in comfort.
So, Suze Orman is a fairly well-known investment advisor. Back when marriage equality was new, she totted up that there were over 1100 benefits to getting married. I don't know what they all were, and I'm sure some of them are obscure, but still ....
I'm just going to point out that Trump has declared that the official language of the United States is English, so I'm sure he's going to put in another executive order saying there shouldn't be any translators made available.
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.