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 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.
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.
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.
Billionaires are fucking cowards.
Billionaires are fucking cowards.
You gave her a nice warm bed and now you’re stealing it?! Bad human!
Ah, so Russia wants to create rifts between Eastern and Western Europe, got it!
agriculture is facing another looming financial challenge with the recently announced SHIPS Act […] with Chinese-made vessels calling U.S. ports to be charged port fees of upwards of $1.5 million starting in the fall.
Ugh, I hate this reality so much … :(
Yeah, there’s already a video of them doing this.
The next nationwide anti-Trump administration protests are scheduled for May Day.
It’s not very widespread so that risk is low - there’s literally like 400 cases right now, in a nation of 340,000,000. But if you do happen to run across someone infectious, there’s a pretty good chance of catching it. There’s really no downside to getting a booster, so I’d say yes to the booster.
Something else to consider - and I don’t know how the vaccines played out in your country - I’ve that in the US, everyone born in or before 1957 is presumed to be immune. Americans vaccinated between 1957 and ?1969? should get a booster because the vaccine the US was using at the time was less effective. And they’re recommending that Americans vaccinated before 1990 consider getting a booster, because they had thought that one shot provided lifetime immunity, but it turns out that you needed a second shot as well. So if the vaccination program where you lived might have had one of those issues, you might consider a booster as well.
The board has condoned both him and his antics, and you’ll never be able to trust a replacement board. The company is irredeemable.
Unfortunately, his narcissism won’t stand for him fading into obscurity :(
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.
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.