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Tag: letters to reps
Deregulation is another way of saying buyer beware.
I’ve also heard it said a few times that it should just be called “re-regulation” because in fact what so-called deregulation does is just switch the regulation from protecting consumers to protecting bad actors.
Tax prep company lobbying to get Donald Trump to kill IRS Direct File.
Nearly 30 House Republicans are asking President-elect Donald Trump to stop the IRS free tax filing service, Direct File, on day one of his new administration.
AI search is not a search engine, it’s just dysfunctional.
We should not be forced to use this stuff in order to access information on the internet.
Tiktok is dead, long live tiktok.
All the platforms with their black box manipulative algorithms are problematic.
Elected representatives care about what their constituents say.
No matter the issue, you are always best off contacting your own elected representatives.
Your voice does matter.
Though it may seem that things will keep going, and Trump nominees will pass into the administration, it’s still important to register their unpopularity with your elected officials so that this is at the forefront of their understanding — that there is widespread opposition.
Hospitals respond to disease outbreaks instead of preventing them.
An “uptick” is what they call it when half the staff at any job has been out sick during the last month or so.
Legislation against municipal mask bans introduced by President pro tempore of the Massachusetts Senate.
Massachusetts state Senator Will Brownsberger, Democrat from Boston, introduced a bill that would prohibit municipalities and boards of health from enacting mask bans that include banning “protective or medical use” of wearing masks in public.
Even Trump voters didn’t sign up for invading Greenland, right?
The whole Greenland thing should be dropped. Nobody voted for this.
Far from being satisfied, winning just emboldens the violent Trumpies.
The idea that you can satiate people determined to create havoc and harm is ridiculous on its face. In the wake of the election in 2016 I witnessed harassment myself almost immediately.
Mike Johnson immediately introduces misinformation into the new Congress.
Mike Johnson read some kind of supposedly inspirational prayer upon being elected House speaker, but he inappropriately tried to claim that it was written by Thomas Jefferson, the historic figure so notoriously non-religious that he actually made a version of The Holy Bible that omitted all the miracles…
Net neutrality rules struck down by activist federal court that maybe doesn’t like the fact that presidents change at intervals???
The federal court wants to decide on this, and decided it doesn’t like “vacillations” that happen at the FCC because of… democratic elections.
Letters to reps.
each person who writes really makes a larger difference than you might expect
It’s hard to convince people, but they can be nudged.
We need regulatory incentives for doctors to explain the benefits of vaccination to patients.
Trickle down economics – the trick tycoons just can’t pull off.
The “bringing the jobs” stuff is insulting people into early graves, but the power consumption inequality may be what finishes off a lot of humans.
Tech tycoons want to hog the power of dedicated power plants from the communities impacted by them.
I don’t think power plants should ever exist solely to provide power to some tech company.
Law enforcement memento mori.
Why are law enforcement agencies allowed to use grim memento mori themed swag for their “task forces”?
The woke-washing of right-wingers in opposition to public health.
Spare me arguments that someone against public health is going to solve public health issues.
The same problems continue no matter the platform.
Is it a fresh start for you and me, or for engagement clout chasing influencers making money off our attention?
Congress needs to ensure telehealth access continues for Medicare patients.
Congress needs to ensure telehealth access continues for patients.
“Behind the scenes” hopium peddling needs to stop.
Savior syndrome, normalcy bias, and apocalyptic hopium, it’s all a bamboozle.