The suggestion for the question to put to would be representatives and leaders is exactly what speaks to people about No Kings.
Tag: elected representatives
Surveillance tech companies are doing secretive government contracts with public officials who are avoiding public input.
The parallels with the secrecy with tech industry data center projects are uncanny.
The pressure on elected officials about vaccines must come from constituents in their districts.
I believe the only answer here is that the congresspeople and senators all get unimaginable pressure.
I’m sending postcards to elected reps asking them if they’ve signed NDAs.
Elected officials shouldn’t be allowed to sign nondisclosure agreements.
Because of course Rob Bresnahan bought his own private helicopter.
But what does he know about the transportation the rest of us use I wonder?
Rejecting data center inevitability in Tucson Arizona.
How Tucson fought back against Big Tech What an Amazon data center in the desert says about our economy Justin Stofferahn Aug 10, 2025 – You’re Probably Getting Screwed One of the political challenges decades of unchecked economic consolidation creates is a sense of inevitability. We might all be getting screwed in the second Gilded […]
PA Gov. Shapiro to summit with Trump and Dave McCormick, to push power plants motivated by AI hype fabricated demand and to shut out locals from what happens in our neighborhoods.
These boondoggles to build the data centers for the AI investment bubble seems at its root a reason to keep burning more fossil fuels.
Vaccine uptake is down because vaccine disinformation is well-funded.
There’s no mystery here. Vaccine uptake declined after the start of the pandemic because anti-vax disinformation went mainstream and financial interests against public health protections minimized the threat of covid
By law all sorts of things aren’t supposed to happen.
“By law, Social Security cannot be touched in the budget reconciliation process.”
Weird constituent treatment by Tennessee Republican.
The story that Kristi Burke tells about Rep Diana Harsbarger’s staff constituent contacts is just so outside what could be considered or should be considered normal.
PA State Rep Abigail Salisbury speaks about the harms of RFKJr’s remarks on autism.
Salisbury: Defending Those on the Spectrum – Pa. House Video Apr 23, 2025 Listen to Pennsylvania House of Representatives state Rep Abigail Salisbury explain the harm of RFKJr remarks. Abigail Salisbury is the 2nd (known) autistic member of the Pa. House. Rep Salisbury also gives a good history lesson as well as a personal history. […]
Not representative democracy material.
I don’t even feel like I have a way for redress when it comes to Harrisburg. The bar has to be set higher than merely not horrendous.
VACCINATION IS POPULAR. It is certainly worth it to keep up the pressure in favour of vaccines.
Keep telling the people in elected positions at all levels of government.
Pennsylvania House moves to protect ACA provisions.
I’ve been asking my state reps what they’re going to do to try to mitigate things in Pennsylvania against the onslaught of the maga-doge admin, and there’s some movement.
Rep Rob Bresnahan’s Tele Town Hall, PA-08
The tele town hall recording is available on Facebook
Republican Rep. Rich McCormick in Georgia says health should be handled by AI.
A GOP congressperson in Georgia, who identified himself as a doctor, actually said that the massive firings and downsizing of healthcare and public health workers at the CDC are justified because those people can be replaced by chatbots.
Rob Bresnahan’s comms director defamed constituents in order to make excuses for not having a public town hall in the district.
Indivisible’s Ezra Levin has pointed out that Republicans will do tele town halls because then they can tightly control who can speak. So of course: U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan has announced he’s holding a “Telephone Town Hall”
What the heck is wrong with Dave Mccormick?
I thought this guy was supposed to be the straight-laced finance business mogul guy. But he sent me this in a letter to probably in reply to one of my complaints about the Elon Musk ransacking. SENATOR DAVE MCCORMICK (R-PA): President Trump promised to shake up Washington and rein in the federal bureaucracy. With our […]
Rob Bresnahan is being called on the carpet by constituents on Medicaid vote.
I sent him a postcard with a jellyfish, and I have more jellyfish postcards reserved just for him.
Community leaders need pressure from below to counter pressure from authoritarianism above them.
I sent emails to my local school board and it wasn’t a resounding reassurance I got in response.
NDAs are a persistent problem, used often to cover up wrongdoing.
“the plaintiff and the defendant working cooperatively to use that to transfer funds legally, totally legally, and to then lock that fund transfer behind an NDA”