Month: July 2020

How to tell if you're living in authoritarianism

On Tyranny Or How to Tell If You’re Living in an Authoritarian Regime and What to do about It


Reading Time: four minutes
Perhaps you’ve noticed that the rapidly rising tide of tyranny and authoritarianism is swamping all boats. Tim Snyder, author of On Tyranny, explains how to Tell if we’re living in tyranny and what to do about It.

Call Your MoC about the Bipartisan #COVID19 Relief Bill

ANNOUNCEMENT, 3 December: Contact Your Members of Congress About Passing the Bipartisan #COVID19 Relief Bill — Now with Tweets to McConnell


Reading time: less than a minute
I’ve started a page devoted to links about calling your MoC. I’ve called it “Call Your MoC.” The link is in the menu under the banner. You’ll find links to highlighted legislation, tips for calling, other suggestions, links to contact information, and a link to Indivisible.

Come on, y’al, call your MoC! Get involved in our democracy!

Call Your MoC about Stopping the Federal Police Agencies in Portland


Reading time: two minutes
We are all alarmed by the federal provocation of peaceful protesters seeking an excuse to do greater harm and seeking to intimidate by abducting people off the streets Now’s your chance to get into some good trouble by calling your MoC and social mediaing at media outlets and government officials telling them to knock it off. We all know Trump is a coward and will back down if the noise gets loud enough.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

MEME: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness


Reading time: 1 minute
Can we all agree on two things:
(1) All real live Americans are guaranteed Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; and
(2) Getting, but especially dying of, the covfefevirus would deprive us of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; and
(3) No one has a greater right to Life Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness than anyone else. We are all equal in that way.
So, wearing a mask helps us preserve the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, n’est-ce pas?

#MaskUpamerica

MEME: #MaskUpAmerica


Reading time: one minute
A picture is worth a thousand words, so a meme must speak volumes, right?

Why wouldn’t the anti-maskers wear a mask to protect us all and contain the spread of the covfefevirus? Only they know for sure, so we gotta ask them!

Get Your Vote On VOTE411 The League of Women Voters

Get Your vote On, 2020, With VOTE411


Reading time 2 minutes
Two minutes to find out how to get your vote on in 2020 and make sure the GOP doesn’t disenfranchise you and take away your right to vote. You know they are going to try and you are going to need all the help you can get. The League of Women Voters is putting on their super-heroine cap and swooping in for the rescue. Check-out their website, VOTE411

Call Your Senator about the HEROES Act

Call Your Senator about the HEROES Act


Reading time: Two minutes
Read up on why we need to support average Americans by putting cash in their pockets during this unprecedented crisis! The benefits of the CARES Act end on 31 July. A new stimulus check of $1,200.00 per adult and $600.00 per week bonus to unemployment insurance is badly needed. The senate will only have eleven days to get it done once they return from recess, 20 July. Call your senator today and everyday urging them to pass the HEROES Act without delay.

Tippitiwichet

In which I grow wildflowers and monsters, and homeschool one of them.

Several Problems Press

Analysis and journalism from the era of hate

collaboration with learners

adapt and learn together

Episodic Squalid Rants

public tantrums by a non-two-year-old

scott dagostino

a gay who just happens to be writer

beetleypete

The musings of a Londoner, now living in Norfolk

The Food Nugget

Exploring the world one bite at a time.

Mirroring the World

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